{"id":60461,"date":"2014-11-20T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60461"},"modified":"2023-09-17T05:16:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:16:01","slug":"friends-of-the-idf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60461","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the IDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, a secular Jewish friend went to a Friends of the IDF<\/a> banquet and was given a green cloth yarmulke with “FIDF” on it. My friend doesn’t wear a yarmulke so he gave it to me. I started wearing it every day.<\/p>\n

Then a few months ago, I hung out with some nationalists and when we were headed to a gathering, a leader in the movement asked me about my “FIDF” yarmulke. I explained what it stood for. He said, “That might not go over well with some people tonight.”<\/p>\n

I was stunned. It had never occurred to me that wearing a little hat boosting the military of a foreign power might not be a good thing to do. I was so ethno-centric as an Orthodox Jew that I was blind.<\/p>\n

So then I asked myself, “How would I feel if someone in the United States wore a cap to work boasting he was a friend of Putin’s nuclear forces or a friend of China’s military or a friend of Mexico’s military?” I quickly saw that I wouldn’t like it. <\/p>\n

In America today, you don’t lose the approval of the ruling class by being too Jewish or too black or too Chinese. You only lose it by being too white. <\/p>\n

I’ve stopped wearing this yarmulke. Never again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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