Trump and the Attack of the “Progressive” Jews… by Gerald A. Honigman
Progressive Hebrews promote the national liberation movements of all victims of imperialism and oppression…as long as those folks are not the world’s longest surviving victims of imperial conquest and oppression—Jews.
They absolutely love Tikun Olam—healing the world—as long as Jews, as JEWS, aren’t included. And as if believing Jews have not been in the forefront of such endeavors for millennia. The latter are expected to simply remain G_d’s Suffering Servant—as the Bible called Israel. With the above in mind, now let’s proceed…
A good friend asked me if I ever asked folks like “Progessive” professors—especially Jewish ones—why they oppose such things as President Trump’s potentially very positive decision to issue a new Executive Order on December 12th regarding aiding and abetting antisemitism, in all of its overt and camouflaged forms, in academia. The following is a result of that conversation…
President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on December 12, 2019 which has the potential, if properly enforced, to change “business-as-usual” on too many campuses these days. Unfortunately, this subject brings back very bad memories from my own doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs—which have been written about elsewhere.
Fast forward to President Trump’s new Executive Order…
No sooner than the ink dried, “Progressive” Hebrews condemned it. They did likewise when President Trump recognized the same city that King David purchased for his capital 3,000 years ago—before most other peoples made their historical debuts—as the capital of the sole, resurrected Jewish State…Jerusalem. And then failed to ask them permission to move America’s embassy there as well.
Trump’s subsequent decisions about the Golan Heights, used by Syria for decades to blast Israeli farmers below; defunding the pay-to-slay alleged “moderates“ of Mahmoud Abbas’s PA/PLO/Fatah; defunding the Jew-hate promoting UNRWA; and so forth, angered these nauseating excuses for Jews as well…whatever their phony, lame reasoning has been.
My new, dear friend Allen then asked me why I thought these folks really felt this way—in academia or elsewhere. So, please strap yourselves in for my response…
Communism is a post-nationalist ideology.
While many sins have been committed in the name of nationalism, like it or not, Jews were forced to embrace it since their historical attempts to be accepted in others’ lands usually had tragic results. The pre-Herzl, Russian Jewish physician, Leo Pinkser, spelled this out hauntingly in his treatise, “Auto-Emancipation…”
Leftist movements regard Jewish National—Zionism—as reactionary.
Hence, Zionism emerged successful just at a time when post-national Socialist and Communist movements were arising.
While religious Jews saw G_d’s long-awaited Prophetic Hand in Israel’s rebirth, many other, more secular Jews embraced these ideologies. They had the potential to serve as protective umbrellas under and within which oppressed minorities—especially Christianity’s “deicide people”—could blend.
For Jews, however, this turned out to be a pipe dream.
Stalin, the Communist, wound up slaughtering those non-Jew, Jews anyway.
So, whether they were murdered and otherwise victimized proto-nationalist Czarist Russia, or in Soviet atheist Commieland…they were still simply DIRTY JEWS.
Comprenden mis amigos?
Progressive Jews are appalled by Jewish Jews. The latter remind them and the Gentiles that Jews are a distinct people—something used too often in the past to demonize, ghettoize, dehumanize, and massacre them. Since Napoleon freed them from the ghetto, a return to such existence had always been a nightmare. The birth of the Reform Movement in Judaism was itself a reaction to this, with the latter even proposing changing the Sabbath to Sunday to avoid the perception of Jewish uniqueness.
The Lefties don’t want to be reminded about who they are…like German Jewish WWI vets proclaiming their German loyalties and showing laughing Nazis their war medals before being sent off to the gas chambers and ovens of Auschwitz.
While the above does not tell the entire story about why too many Jews oppose President Trump’s fair and favorable actions towards Israel and the Jewish people, it does go far in explaining much of it.
We tragically live in an age when increasing world-wide antisemitism is accompanied by cowardly Hebrews who aid and abet such actions themselves.
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