tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post8229796959543124502..comments2023-10-26T06:29:39.824-07:00Comments on The Magnes Zionist: One Elderly Jew's Passionate Support of ObamaJerry Haberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173892714754718716noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-43466481636925334382008-08-04T20:53:00.000-07:002008-08-04T20:53:00.000-07:00I was very friendly with a group of young blacks, ...I was very friendly with a group of young blacks, so much so that they asked me to be a counselor of their group. I said, "But I am not like you." They said, "It don't matter, Bernie, we like you<BR/>We can ALL learn from these magic words "It doesn't matter, we like you. Thanks for sharing. Aimee turned me on to your blog. TksChuck kuhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01327722853942801778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-4534540335147889212008-05-26T20:29:00.000-07:002008-05-26T20:29:00.000-07:00Jerry - Your father is one enlightened dude. I en...Jerry - <BR/><BR/>Your father is one enlightened dude. I enjoyed the post.Joe Manekinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04068628197191676490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-28067557636506347192008-05-23T13:04:00.000-07:002008-05-23T13:04:00.000-07:00When I study the history and development of the Am...When I study the history and development of the American Jewish community, I have the impression it was gradually hi-jacked.<BR/><BR/>By leaving E. Europe, Yiddish immigrants to the USA consciously or unconsciously renounced the extremist <I>voelkisch</I> racist politics of E. Europe.<BR/><BR/>Even though I can find all sorts of opportunistic reasons for American Jewish support of <BR/><BR/>* civil rights, <BR/>* the labor movement, and <BR/>* other progressive causes, <BR/><BR/>in some sense the motivations were irrelevant because the ultimate results could have provided much more than narrow ethnic benefits.<BR/><BR/>Yet since the transplantation of the Zionist movement to the USA from Eastern Europe, there seems to be a gradual Jewish group mental subversion that is apparent in the Zionization <BR/><BR/>* of American Reform Judaism, <BR/>* of the Jewish labor movement, <BR/>* of Jewish philanthropy and <BR/>* of Jewish civil rights efforts <BR/><BR/>thanks to the efforts of communal leaders like Abba Hillel Silver, Abraham Cahan, and Felix Warburg.<BR/><BR/>In order to create a mechanism to control US discourse Israel advocates had to bring American Jews back to the nineteenth century racist mentality.<BR/><BR/>When your father talks about his support of the NAACP, I have the impression of a certain incompleteness of the Zionist indoctrination and of the existence in the past of a different direction that the American Jewish community might have taken.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the indoctrination of younger pro-Israel Jews seems far more complete and bullet-proof. Like the Neocon leadership, they know they are right.Joachim Martillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00121944171459090792noreply@blogger.com