Larry Auster’s Question on Progress By Pesach’s Jewishness
March 12, 2009 Immigration, Judaism Progress By Pesach, View From The Right
Lawrence Auster, a Christian conservative of Jewish descent, asks on View From the Right,
A reader says that I am unfairly blaming Jews for the open-borders position promoted by well-known Jewish organizations which he says are not real Jewish organizations but liberal groups dishonestly calling themselves Jewish. I reply that he’s doing vis a vis liberal Jews what Islam apologists do vis a vis extremist Musims, claming that the extremists are not “real” Muslims.
The answer is yes and no. Progress By Pesach indeed is an American Jewish movement, because it is endorsed by the mainstream Jewish establishment. There is no way around this at this time. This is fact.
However, there is an important difference with the Muslims, and an internal contradicton as well. The Jewish state of Israel herself is NOT interpreting the Torah to mean open borders, or more accurately, amnesty, to illegal aliens. If it stopped there, then you would have the Jewish state at odds with the center of the Diaspora, and that alone would suggest that indeed, there is good reason to trust that this is quite a different situation than if, say, Muslim apologists claim “real” Islam dictates that shoplifters should receive community service and psychological counseling, while Saudi Arabia says they should have their hand chopped off.
But the situation is not even that.
More telling, the vast majority of mainstream Jewish organizations claiming that the Torah dictates such policies to the Jews to advocate “a path to citizenship” to illegals do not claim such interpretations are mandatory for the State of Israel.
Hmm….
The real question is, Mr. Auster, if these mainstream Jewish groups are so sure of their Torah interpretation…why aren’t they pressuring Israel as well?
The best answer I can come up with is that they themselves don’t really believe that this is, in fact, the only, or even best, possible interpretation for “Loving The Stranger,” and therefore they themselves don’t believe this is actually Judaism.
Therefore, the question is not on we few outspoken affiliated Jews who dispute that this is a correct interpretation of the commandment to “Love the Stranger,” but rather, a question on the majority of American Jewish ogranizations who do claim to a Biblical mandate to love The Stranger as defined by amnesty and an end to raids. Yet strangely, they do not seem concerned AT ALL that Israel is actively declining to do so.
So the real question is on their inconsistency. Only when this question is resolved do you arrive at the real question. Because the question is not whether or not they are Jewish. They most certainly are. The question is if even these Jewish machers themselves believe this interpretation is Judaism. Because even they do not appear to seriously believe that, or they would be up in arms over Israel’s strangers. The only ones who really seem to believe consistently are the far-Left.
And we all know that they have a propensity for crafting some very dubious interpretations about what it means to “love the stranger.”
5 comments
The implication seems to be that the US (unlike Israel) is not a real nation-it’s more like a public conveyance (bristling with arms) with the ceremonial trappings of nationhood.
You’re exactly right on this one. Israel doesn’t even give people who are affiliated with various sects of Judaism the benefit of the doubt as far as aliyah goes – much less non-Jews. It’s ludicrous to suggest this sort of double standard is acceptable – one set of rules for Israel and another for the rest of the world. If Israel has a national interest in keeping secure borders and controlled immigration then surely the US also does. And you don’t see Saudi Arabia just letting anyone walk in, either – it’s illegal to be any other religion than Muslim there, period. That’s real, bona-fide apartheid, and yet nobody complains about it out loud – wonder why?
I have to agree with Auster – I am Jewish and I am a zionist and I have to say that the Jews of America are forcing on the USA a policy that they would not dream of forcing on Israel
Think of the low IQ future that the USA is rapidly heading for, all due to the immigration policies of the Jews with political power here in America
look at Jews’ own behaviour when they had the chance to raise the IQ of the Jewish community – whenever Jews have the chance they rush to raise the IQ of the next generation
In Russia, a huge percentage of the jewish young men were killed in World War two. An equally huge percentage of the christian young men were killed. When the Jewish young men came back home, they had their pick of huge numbers of jewish young women. Overwhelmingly, the elders of the Jewish community pushed the Jewish young men to marry the jewish young women with the highest IQ – result – the generation of jews born in russia from 1946 – 1960 had particularly high IQs. The Jewish community took steps to increase the IQ level of the next generation
When the christian young men came back home to Russia the elders of the Christian community never told them to consider IQ in a wife. as a result the christian young men returning from the war generally picked the most beautiful women and married them. Therefore the IQ of the next generation of christians did not go up but the beauty certainly did.
You see the results in Russia today – our fellow jews there are not particularly good looking but are exceptionally smart. Jews make up a tiny tiny portion of the Russian population but make up more than 60% of the billionaires
As you can tell, I think the elders of the Jewish community did the smart thing and the elders of the christian community did the dumb thing by allowing this pattern of marriage among the survivors of the war.
But now look at the USA – the Jewish democrats and Jewish republicans are 100% united in encouraging massive massive immigration of people who have low IQs and whose children and grandchildren will have low IQs. The future of America is a future of rapidly falling IQs, and it truly is the fault of our fellow jews (in both political parties)
Now the anti semites who see this happening attribute it to some malice, they think that American Jews are deliberately trying to drive down the IQ of America. I just don’t agree. I see it as misguided altruism, I see American Jews as having noble, caring intentions. But the road to hell for America is paved by the good intentions of our fellow Jews. Our country (America) is going down the drain, and all of us, as Jews, should feel ashamed
Here is an article from the Jerusalem Post on the Israelis cutting back on foreign workers, and retraining unemployed Israelis to do the “jobs that Israelis won’t do”. Will the sponsors of Progress by Pesach protest this injustice to the stranger?
Gov’t looks to cut back on foreign workers to help unemployment
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S.....2FShowFull
Israel doesn’t even give people who are affiliated with various sects of Judaism the benefit of the doubt as far as aliyah goes
Wait – what? As far as I know, the only “sect” of Judaism that gets grief from Israeli authorities re: aliyah is the Messianic – and that’s because it isn’t a sect of Judaism.
Yes, the Rabbinate questions the validity of non-Orthodox conversions – a policy I am not defending – but no Orthodox rabbi, to my knowledge, tells a Conservative or Reform Jew, “You aren’t a Jew, so you don’t automatically get citizenship.”
Leave a Comment