{"id":120373,"date":"2018-02-05T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120373"},"modified":"2023-06-16T04:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:01:36","slug":"white-nationalism-is-spreading-in-the-orthodox-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120373","title":{"rendered":"White Nationalism Is Spreading In The Orthodox Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v2ryudt\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2ryudt\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2ryudt\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/luke-ford-666431593\/white-nationalism-is-spreading-in-the-orthodox-community\">Listen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/393514\/white-nationalism-is-spreading-in-the-orthodox-community\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Main\">Anti-Trump activist Elad Nahori writes for the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Something disturbing has been happening in the Orthodox world. White Nationalist language is infiltrating our public spaces. It\u2019s happening in our shuls, in our communities, in our schools, and of course, online. And those of us who see it are looking on in increasing horror.<\/p>\n<p>There was always some racism in our communities, of course; we\u2019d begun to address it around the time Barack Obama was elected president, when calling black people \u201cshvartze\u201d \u2014 a derogatory term for a black person in Yiddish \u2014 finally started to become taboo.<\/p>\n<p>But what we\u2019re seeing now is new. It\u2019s different. It\u2019s not just plain racism, or hatred and judgment of a group of people because of their skin pigment. Rather, what I and others have been noticing in our communities is the emergence of a philosophy, one that the Trump era is increasingly bringing into stark relief.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the philosophy of white nationalism that justifies racism, and it\u2019s spreading like a virus among many Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago, you might hear the word \u201cschvartze\u201d in shul. But you wouldn\u2019t hear justifications for deporting black people to Africa. Today, you probably won\u2019t hear a racial slur, at least, not without some sheepishness. But you will hear talking points that you could find on David Duke\u2019s Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, a significant group of Jews have moved from casual racism to an embrace of all-but-the-anti-Semitic aspects of modern white nationalist philosophy, with many of the assumptions and talking points that go with it.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump reportedly called Haiti and other countries in Africa \u201cshithole\u201d countries. The white nationalists crowed. \u201cI must come to the defense of #Haiti!\u201d tweeted Richard Spencer, a leader of the nativist \u201calt-right.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a potentially beautiful and productive country. The problem is that it\u2019s filled with shithole people. If the French dominated, they could make it great again.\u201d David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan was also thrilled. \u201cTrump spoke Blunt, hard truth that makes PERFECT TRUTH!\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>But they were far from alone. When I posted my dismay about Trump\u2019s \u201cshithole\u201d comment on my Facebook page, I was amazed at how similar many of the pro-Trump Orthodox Jews I knew sounded compared to Spencer, Duke, and Trump himself.<br \/>\nAs one argued, \u201cOption A: El Salvador isn\u2019t a \u2018shithole,\u2019 so they don\u2019t need 17 years of Temporary Protected Status, and migrants from there should be sent home immediately. Option B: El Salvador is, in fact, a \u2018shithole.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Orthodox friend, who had left South Africa for Israel, remarked, \u201cI\u2019m so glad I emigrated from a shithole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And another frum Jew wrote, \u201cSo, how many snowflakes would like to move to Haiti?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I facetiously wondered if that commenter also believed in \u201cwhite genocide\u201d (a term popular in the white nationalist community), the person responded: \u201cI have no idea what you are talking about. I don\u2019t know any white supremacists, so I don\u2019t know what they \u2018sound like\u2019. By \u201cgenocide\u201d do you mean blacks murdering white farmers in South Africa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just in my own orbit, either. Soon I heard from friends, liberal Orthodox Jews like me, who listened in horror as online comments were repeated in synagogue on Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p>And it always boiled down to the same rationalizations, those used by Spencer and Duke: Haiti and Africa are indeed shitholes, and Trump was right not to want people from those countries.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned from Trump\u2019s \u201cshithole\u201d comment was that the President\u2019s dog whistles aren\u2019t only being heard by the \u201calt-right\u201d anymore. That countries dominated by blacks are shitholes was the broad consensus, it seemed to me that weekend. Despite the concerns about Trump\u2019s \u201ccrass\u201d wording, far too many Orthodox Jews agreed with the content.<\/p>\n<p>Was it the majority of the Orthodox world? Doubtful. But was it a portion large enough to be concerned about? Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>And those who didn\u2019t openly agree with the racist rhetoric remained silent, choosing to celebrate the naming of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, or the release of Sholom Rubashkin, rather than call out the racism in their midst.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, our leaders maintained a stiff silence. While the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Reform movement spoke out stridently and bravely against Trump\u2019s words, there has not been one word from the Orthodox Union or any Orthodox groups. They are no doubt afraid of the backlash of these extremists, as when Alex Rapoport\u2019s Masbia, a soup kitchen run by an anti-Trump Hasidic Jew, lost donors when he protested the Muslim ban.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn\u2019t the first time. Since a majority of Orthodox Jews voted for Trump, they are the only group in the U.S. reporting growing approval ratings of Trump \u2014 up to 71%, according to the AJC. So approving are they that immediately following the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia and Trump\u2019s subsequent defense of white supremacists with the claim that some neo-Nazis are \u201cfine people\u201d, there was the same deafening silence from Orthodox leadership, at least at first, the same defenses, and the same parroting of white nationalist talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the article entitled \u201cI\u2019m an Orthodox Jew in Israel but liberals have become so deranged with hypocrisy, I\u2019m actually standing with the KKK on Charlottesville\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>While an outlier in its framing, this author put into words what many in his community were feeling: Ultimately, even the KKK may not be as bad as the liberal world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen. Anti-Trump activist Elad Nahori writes for the Forward: Something disturbing has been happening in the Orthodox world. 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