Right-wing Conservative Rag Conflates Jewish Liberals and Neturei Karte
November 14, 2008 Far-left, Liberal Judaism, Liberalism Eli Valley
Eli Valley is racking up the hate for his new comic in the Forward. But some of the enraged denunciations are just plain bizarre.
Ed Lasky writes in his essay, “A Challenge to the Liberal Jewish Community,” in the American Thinker that,
Rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community were in the forefront of criticizing “smears” against Barack Obama during the recent campaign. These comments concerned not only his heritage but also those people he chose to associate with and support-among them, Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr. and Rashid Khalidi. These leaders have also been engaged in outreach efforts towards Muslims – some have even broken bread with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denies the Holocaust and whose regimes sponsors anti-Semitism around the world.
Oh, really? The Jews For Obama and the NJDC…these people broke bread with Ahmedinijad?
Which Reform temple do you think they attend? I personally suspect Temple Rodeph Shalom is affiliated with these guys. Don’t they have that “Classical Reform” look about them?
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Just scanned through the comments on the Forward’s site, and I must say I’m appalled by the lack of knowledge of the development and theology of American Evangelicalism that many commenters display. Also, likening the comic to “The Protocols the Learnt Elders of Zion” hardly bespeaks any profound insight into the editorial and effective history of “The Protocols”, let alone into the different literary categories.
Whether EV’s [satirical] comic was right-on-point or over-the-top is subjective, but to base one’s views foremostly on assumption and a p-c self-concept rather than easily available encyclopaedical facts is anything but objective either.
Actually lots of Jewish leftists (including rabbis) support breaking bread with Ahmadinejad and some have already undertaken “peace” missions there. Leftists and Jewish leftists were also pleased with the prevention of a bipartisan showing at the anti-nuclear-Iran rally at the UN in September.
Noting the connection between them and Neturei Karta is not far off at all. The underlying belief structures are fairly similar.
Eric, her decision was hardly an example of the mainstream liberal Jewish community,there were not “lots” of Jews who met with Ahmadinejad, and the reasons offered were anyway a very different reason than NK. Gottleib explained,
“I wanted to isolate him but not insult him. It’s tricky. It’s a fine line … because I wanted to keep the channels open.”
That is quite different meeting with this guy to offer support for the destruction of the Jewish state.
However, though I personally am not against negotiations, I do not think this is something that rabbis or Jewish leftists should be acting unilaterally. This is a decision that the American administration should be making. Not Jewish clergy.
This woman is indeed an irresponsible person.
Eric nabbed ya good, DK, because as you WELL know, Neturei Karta is no more representative of haredim on the question of this bread-breaking than “Rabbi” Lynn Gottlieb is of left-wing Jews… and probably considerably less so.
No, Ron, not if his point was to defend Lasksy.
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