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Violence against Orthodox Jews: who are the perps?

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The recent increase in anti-Semitic attacks in cities and suburbs in New York and New Jersey perplex the left because it’s hard for them to place in the correct category. Hard, but certainly not impossible – where there’s a will there’s a way:

In American society there is generally only place for one kind of racism. There are far-right white supremacists and everyone else. This Manichean worldview of antisemitism and racism means we are only comfortable with one type of perpetrator. An angry white man…

In the wake of all the attacks in New York against Jews, culminating in the shooting attack at the kosher market, it became difficult to ignore the rising tide. But there is discomfort in looking at the depth of the perpetrators. The comfort society has with expecting perpetrators to be “far-right” and “white” even led Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to blame “white supremacy” for the Jersey City attack. Her tweet was deleted. When it wasn’t white supremacy and there was no one to condemn, it didn’t fit the narrative and was less important.

But the hatred of Jews and almost daily attacks in New York City and surrounding areas doesn’t come from thin air. It is motivated by a very clear ideology that has been appeased and tolerated in the name of tolerance of hatred. Almost every day in Brooklyn Jews are attacked. When this happened in the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire it was called a pogrom…

Hatred of Jews spans the white supremacist far right and the black supremacist far right and milieus in between. The difference is that society condemns and confronts comments by the white supremacists…When dealing with the wider world of antisemitism in the US, that crosses racial lines, it is more difficult to confront. In the US, since it is difficult to accept that minorities might also be racist, the elephant in the room of black antisemitism is not mentioned. Too often, African American officials make openly antisemitic statements without fear of reaction. A school board member attacked “brutes of the Jewish community” after the Jersey City attack.

And so of course when black and/or Hispanic people attack people who are visibly Jewish (who tend to wear identifying garments), it is Trump’s fault. Of course it is:

The Washington Post on Sunday cited Trump’s critics in its report on the stabbings:

“Some House Democrats singled out the president for criticism, arguing that he has been insufficiently clear in denouncing anti-Semitism and has frequently perpetuated offensive stereotypes about Jewish people”…

The article named one Democrat who blamed Trump directly: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), another frequent critic of Trump, shared a tweet by a New York-based comedian who argued that the Monsey attack followed “3 years of anti-semitism from the Trump Administration.”…

Washington Post correspondent and reporter for other leftwing media Mairav Zonszein said she held the White House “directly responsible” for the rise of antisemitism:

Here is one of the comments I saw at the WaPo:

So the left blames a pro Jewish zionist for attacks by democrat minorities on Jewish Republican supporters,too funny. Maybe the orthodox are being targeted for voting 90% for Trump in 2016.

You better believe that if these latest attacks had actually been committed by white supremacists – or even just white people – we’d be hearing (and seeing) a great deal about that. But because there are a great many black or Hispanic perpetrators involved, that isn’t such a big part of the story when it’s the MSM on the left doing the reporting.

Case in point: CNN manages to list a whole bunch of these recent crimes without mentioning the race of the perpetrators except one time (and that involved one of the more minor incidents, one of a threat that wasn’t carried out). If you want to see an example of differential coverage, look at how the left-leaning NY Daily News covers one of the perpetrators, Ayana Logan, versus how the right-leaning NY Post deals with the same story.

It’s no secret to people who study these things that for a long time the black community has had spokespeople who spread anti-Semitism:

The year 2018 has thus far been toxic for black-Jewish relations. In February, Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory attended the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) annual “Saviours’ Day” gathering, where sect leader Louis Farrakhan delivered a characteristic anti-Semitic tirade. “When you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door,” Farrakhan declared. “White folks are going down, and Satan is going down, and Farrakhan by God’s grace has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew—and I’m here to say, your time is up.” For good measure, Farrakhan also claimed that Jews control the FBI as well as Mexico, and he repeated a relatively new conspiracy theory, the “Pot Plot,” alleging that Jews promote homosexuality among black men through the distribution of a special form of marijuana.

Farrakhan’s been spewing this sort of hatred for many decades.

And others have also purposely stirred up not just anti-Semitism but violence against Jews; now-elder “statesman” Al Sharpton comes to mind, and well as the Crown Heights riot that took place almost thirty years ago (no doubt that violence against Orthodox Jews was Trump’s fault, too):

The riots began on August 19, 1991, after two children of Guyanese immigrants were accidentally struck by one of the cars in the motorcade of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of Chabad, a Jewish religious movement. One child died and the second was severely injured.

In the wake of the fatal accident, some black youths attacked several Jews on the street, seriously injuring several and fatally injuring an Orthodox Jewish student from Australia. Two weeks after the riot, a non-Jewish man was killed by a group of black men; some believed that the victim had been mistaken for a Jew.

For three days following the accident, numerous African Americans and Caribbean Americans of the neighborhood, joined by growing numbers of non-residents, rioted in Crown Heights. In the rioting of the ensuing three days, according to Edward Shapiro, many of the rioters “did not even live in Crown Heights.”…

During the riots, Jews were injured, stores were looted, and cars and homes were damaged. The rioters identified Jewish homes by the mezuzot affixed to the front doors.

An additional 350 police officers were added to the regular duty roster on August 20 and were assigned to Crown Heights in an attempt to quell the rioting. After episodes of rock- and bottle-throwing involving hundreds of blacks and Jews, and after groups of blacks marched through Crown Heights chanting “No Justice, No Peace!”, “Death to the Jews!”, and “Whose streets? Our streets!”, an additional 1,200 police officers were sent to confront rioters in Crown Heights.

On the third day of the disturbances, Al Sharpton and Sonny Carson led a march. The marchers proceeded through Crown Heights carrying antisemitic signs and burning an Israeli flag. Rioters threw bricks and bottles at police; shots were fired at police and police cars were pelted and overturned, including the Police Commissioner’s car.

More history from the 1990s:

In a 1992 essay for the New York Times, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. described anti-Semitism among African Americans as “a weapon in the raging battle of who will speak for black America: those who have sought common cause with others, or those who preach a barricaded withdrawal into racial authenticity.” Anti-Semitism, in other words, is a tool used by political entrepreneurs in a continuation of the internecine fight for black authority. This fight initially pitted mainstream, philo-Semitic, consensus-seeking leaders such as Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin against radical, separatist, black-nationalist figures of varying ideological (and religious) stripes. While it may be accurate to blame individual opportunists or would-be leaders for these controversies, it is nonetheless a dispiriting commentary on the political potency of anti-Semitism within black communities that such tactics often work (just witness the career of Al Sharpton). Attitudinal surveys conducted by the ADL consistently show that African Americans harbor “anti-Semitic proclivities” at a rate significantly higher than the general population (23 percent and 14 percent respectively in 2016).

The recent attackers of Orthodox Jews have varied motives, some of which we don’t know. The Black Hebrew Israelites (neither Hebrew nor Israelites) who were named the perps in the Jersey City murders appear to be political actors, whereas some of the individual perpetrators may be mentally ill. But the atmosphere of hatred in which they’ve been immersed has been created by race-baiting opportunists whose meat-and-potatoes is Jew-hatred, and who encourage the resentments of class and race inherent in the situation. And Donald Trump is nowhere to be seen among them.

[NOTE: Read more here:

…[T]here is also a race element to these attacks against Jews that has made the racial-hierarchy-obsessed left struggle to address the problem with any teeth. The vast majority of hate crimes committed against Jews in New York City have been carried out by people of color, and early reports alleging the identity of the recent murderer reveal the current attack may be no exception. This pattern presents a true problem for the left. As my colleague David Marcus has written, “The notion that hatred is harbored by some in the black community towards Jews does not comport with their hierarchies of oppression.” And indeed, the left, in all its racial obsession, has picked favorites. And they didn’t choose the Jews.

Following De Blasio’s announcement a few days ago that he would be increasing police presence in Jewish areas, leftists rushed to Twitter, condemning the move, alleging that heightened security for Jews marginalized people of color. But this reaction reveals the precise poison of identity politics. There is a hierarchy of victimhood established within the Marxist framework of identity politics, and according to the sheepish left, Jews do not rank high enough on the victimhood totem pole to deserve increased protections, when compared to other minorities.

Actually, Jews don’t rank at all on the victimhood totem pole of the left, unless the perpetrators are white supremacists. Otherwise, Jews are the opressors.

Also, de Blasio gets into the act.]

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Violence against Orthodox Jews: who are the perps? — 54 Comments

  1. This phenomenon has been known for some time now. Some people (not just The Usual Suspects) feel an urge to hate someone. Black/Jewish mutual hatred has been a feature of New York City environment for a long time.
    Not surprising that it pops up from time to time – it relieves some mental pressure.

  2. There are without doubt some white Jew-haters in this country. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter comes to mind. I object to calling them “right wing” because that implies a non-existent connection to mainstream conservative opinion.
    The recent spate of attacks on Jews in the NY/NJ metro area has been perpetrated in large part by blacks, however. It’s ludicrous to blame this on Trump, who is neither a white racist nor a Jew-hater.

    I have read online some speculation that the Hanukkah knifeman had recently converted to Islam, but I cannot find any confirmation of that. Has anyone seen such a report, and is it from a credible source?

  3. Good Ole Charlie:

    “Mutual hatred”? Like ye olde “cycle of violence”?

    I missed the report of all those Orthodox Jews sucker-punching and stabbing black people in NY.

  4. “Who are the perps?”

    Isn’t that the wrong question? That is, in the Leftists’ constellation of possible questions, isn’t the proper question: “Why are those Jews harming themselves like that?”

  5. So many questions. Trump, whose daughter converted when she married a Jew, is responsible for blacks and Hispanics attacking Jews? And the orangemanbad also had the audacity to move our embassy to Jerusalem promoting more violence against Jews? This makes me wonder how far down the rabbit hole the leftists will go?

  8. The attack in Monsey has for reasons I cannot decipher caused many writers (news organizations) to speak of “stabs” and “stabbing(s)”. This is plainly nuts.

    One does not “stab” with a machete, which is by most all accounts what the attacker wielded. Indeed, the youngish Hasidic fellow who fought the attacker off with a coffee table said the attacker was “swinging”. One hacks with a machete.

    Perhaps the news writers prefer the “cleaner” image of stabbing to that of hacking, but this is, nevertheless, incoherent.

  10. Bring it up at a family gathering and watch my liberal relatives scatter like I’d cut a massive wet one after Taco Tuesday.

  11. sdferr:

    I’ve read that it was a machete and I’ve read it was a very long knife, which I would think would be almost a sword.

    As an example of a description of the latter type, see this: “The attacker pulled out a knife that was ‘almost like a broomstick,’ said Aron Kohn, who attended the Hanukkah celebration.”

    Seems to have been a somewhat unconventional weapon.

    Also, one victim had a skull fracture. Could not have been inflicted with a knife – perhaps he got it when he fell after being stabbed or hacked?

  12. Skull fracture can come from being struck by the edge of the blade or the spine or end.

    “Hatred of Jews spans the white supremacist far-right and the black supremacist far-right and milieus in between.”

    That sort of includes, well, everybody. Except of course those of the Left who never ever do any of this.

  13. “I missed the report of all those Orthodox Jews sucker-punching and stabbing black people in NY.”

    None of the violence, of course, but I clearly recall the orthodox Jews of Williamsburg not being shy about expressing a hatred of the blacks in the projects nearby.

    Like the man say, “Diversity + closeness=war”

  14. One witness said “it looked like an umbrella before he took the cloth off”. Imma go with machete.

  15. Woman Charged With Hate Crime After Slapping 3 Jewish Women in the Face: Police

    and they let her out and she slapped another person!!!!
    Many news outlets refuse to show you her face, others have no problem

    Suspect accused of attacking Jewish women released without bail
    https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/suspect-accused-of-attacking-jewish-women-released-without-bail/

    The woman accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women in the face and yelling, “F–k you, Jews!” was released without bail Saturday amid a spate of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the Big Apple.

    Tiffany Harris, of Flatbush, was charged with misdemeanor assault Kings County Criminal Court Saturday morning and released without bail — though Judge Laura Johnson ordered her not to go near the victims.

    Harris, 30, allegedly approached three women, ages 22, 26, and 31, near Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue early Friday, then slapped them and barked the offensive expletive, cops said.

    and

    Steven Jorge, 28, of Miami allegedly shouted, “F-?-k you, Jew bastard!” as he punched and kicked a 65-year-old Jewish man who was wearing a yarmulke.

    That night, in Williamsburg, two Jewish boys were attacked by two teens who punched the younger boy in the stomach.

    Early Tuesday, a group of people hurled anti-Semitic slurs at a 25-year-old Jewish man outside 332 Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.

    Later Tuesday, a 56-year-old Jewish man was punched from behind by a group of people on Union Street in Crown Heights.

    Early Wednesday, a 40-year-old Jewish man was punched in the chin by a stranger.

    On Thursday afternoon, Ayana Logan, 42, identified as homeless by police, allegedly approached a 34-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son on Avenue U in Gravesend yelling, “You f-?-king Jew, the end is coming for you!” and hit the mom with her bag.

    Early Friday at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, Tiffany Harris, 30, of Flatbush allegedly slapped three women in the face and barked, “F-?-k you, Jews!” The victims, ages 22, 26 and 31, were not seriously injured.

    Depending on which prophet you listen to, it isnt good

    However, the people being attacked have supported the political party that follows one prophet (Engels), and gives leeway to the other (Muhammad)….

    They also favored diversity once they were a protected class, ignoring that there is no sticker for the forehead and clothing that would denote one as friend of the left, and all it holds dear and the unprotected class… (yarmulke doesn’t cut it i guess)

    I guess in the versions they teach in colleges, this is just not possible… but if anyone reads a lot of the lefts materials, this was ALWAYS in the cards, mostly because of the failure of that culture to give in to being changed… this teaching even includes lots of apologetic twisting the plain truth into something else so that it would not apply, is considered a misread, etc..

    “On the Jewish Question” is a work by Karl Marx, written in 1843, and first published in Paris in 1844 under the German title “Zur Judenfrage” in the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher. It was one of Marx’s first attempts to develop what would later be called the materialist conception of history.
    [snip]
    Bauer argued that Jews could achieve political emancipation only by relinquishing their particular religious consciousness, since political emancipation requires a secular state, which he assumes does not leave any “space” for social identities such as religion. According to Bauer, such religious demands are incompatible with the idea of the “Rights of Man”. True political emancipation, for Bauer, requires the abolition of religion.
    [snip]
    Marx moves beyond the question of religious freedom to his real concern with Bauer’s analysis of “political emancipation”. Marx concludes that while individuals can be “spiritually” and “politically” free in a secular state, they can still be bound to material constraints on freedom by economic inequality, an assumption that would later form the basis of his critiques of capitalism.

    this last part wrongly equates their target with the invention of capitalism and trading, and that implies you cant get rid of one without getting rid of the other..

    Marx’s essay, On the Jewish Question, originally published in 1844 contains the following:
    What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

    If they are not ignoring such expressions, apologists for Marx will even try and whitewash them.

    from “The Russian Loan”

    Thus we find every tyrant backed by a Jew, as is every pope by a Jesuit. In truth, the cravings of oppressors would be hopeless, and the practicability of war out of the question, if there were not an army of Jesuits to smother thought and a handful of Jews to ransack pockets.

    … the real work is done by the Jews, and can only be done by them, as they monopolize the machinery of the loanmongering mysteries by concentrating their energies upon the barter trade in securities… Here and there and everywhere that a little capital courts investment, there is ever one of these little Jews ready to make a little suggestion or place a little bit of a loan. The smartest highwayman in the Abruzzi is not better posted up about the locale of the hard cash in a traveler’s valise or pocket than those Jews about any loose capital in the hands of a trader… The language spoken smells strongly of Babel, and the perfume which otherwise pervades the place is by no means of a choice kind.

    … Thus do these loans, which are a curse to the people, a ruin to the holders, and a danger to the governments, become a blessing to the houses of the children of Judah. This Jew organization of loan-mongers is as dangerous to the people as the aristocratic organization of landowners… The fortunes amassed by these loan-mongers are immense, but the wrongs and sufferings thus entailed on the people and the encouragement thus afforded to their oppressors still remain to be told.

    … The fact that 1855 years ago Christ drove the Jewish moneychangers out of the temple, and that the moneychangers of our age enlisted on the side of tyranny happen again chiefly to be Jews, is perhaps no more than a historical coincidence. The loan-mongering Jews of Europe do only on a larger and more obnoxious scale what many others do on one smaller and less significant. But it is only because the Jews are so strong that it is timely and expedient to expose and stigmatize their organization.

    everything must change, but their thing cant change…
    the thing that doesn’t change, everything else becomes…

    in another 10 years, it will be real interesting as the current crop of social justice (remember Father Coughlin?), comes out and there is already a small faction waiting for them..

    as predictable as the sun rising if the goal was Marxist.. (and Engels).

  16. Neo, this sounds like a repeat performance of a post on your old blog, in which you observed that the Republicans’ attitude towards the Jews was “Fuck the Jews; they’ll never vote for us” and the Democrats’ was “Fuck the Jews; they’ll vote for us anyway,” and observed that the common element was “Fuck the Jews.” I looked around for archives from your old blog, butt was unsuccessful. Are all the old posts gone!?

  17. Paul Snively:

    I don’t recall the post you’re talking about, but all my old posts are right here on this blog. There’s a search bar (on desktops it’s at the top right and on tablets and phones it’s towards the bottom center if you scroll down) that can help locate something if you can think of a word or a term that will point you to it. There’s also a drop down menu for archives, on the right sidebar, or at the bottom (on phones, etc.) if you scroll down almost to the end. But to use that, you have to know the approximate date you’re looking for.

    But all the old posts are here now.

  18. Truth Bomb: Former Democratic Politician Says Anti-Semitism in NY Comes From the Left
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/12/29/former-democratic-politician-says-antisemitism-is-coming-from-the-left-n2558658

    New York’s ‘Bail Reform’ Is Having Detrimental Impacts, Especially on the Jewish Community
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/12/29/new-yorks-bail-reform-is-having-detrimental-impacts-especially-on-the-jewish-community-n2558650

  19. Artfldgr:

    You write:

    …the people being attacked have supported the political party that follows one prophet (Engels), and gives leeway to the other (Muhammad)….

    They also favored diversity once they were a protected class…

    The people being attacked are Orthodox Jews, mostly Chasidim.

    They are not on the political left at all; they are on the right. They are not Marixists or leftists or even Democrats. They are mostly Trump supporters.

  20. Regardless of who the perps are, there is one truth that is beyond debate… it’s Trump’s fault.

  21. Gerard Vanderleun:

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the Orthodox Jews of Williamsburg were not overly fond of people who were harassing them.

    Also, were these personal conversations you had with the Orthodox of Williamsburg? How many of them? Or were they quotes in the paper?

    I was responding to this comment:

    “Some people (not just The Usual Suspects) feel an urge to hate someone. Black/Jewish mutual hatred has been a feature of New York City environment for a long time.”

    The implication is that Jews hate blacks, blacks hate Jews, because they just “feel an urge to hate someone.” An equivalence.

  22. i wasnt speaking of dividing up the nation… to do that one could make any point ridiculous… as your doing… Or as a group all of them would be the Haredi as Chasidim are a subgroup of the Haredi. and the Haredi in education are quite the leftists not conservative!!!

    its not so easy to know…especially going back as they were a group mostly ignored (as put forth in many articles about himmelfarb and howwe did research – see “Borough Park Was a Red State”: Trump and the Haredi Vote

    According to an Anti-Defamation League survey conducted in Oct. 2013, only eight percent of whites were found to hold antisemitic views, while 36 percent of hispanics born outside the United States and 14 percent of hispanics born inside the United States harbored such beliefs. The ADL survey also found that a much higher percentage of African Americans, 22 percent, held antisemitic views when compared to whites.

    The ADL summarized in 2013, that “Hispanics, combined with African Americans (12 percent), now comprise 27 percent of the American population, a number that is sure to grow in the coming years. This population increase of the most anti-Semitic cohorts also means that it will be an ongoing challenge to reduce overall anti-Semitic propensities.”

    and back to neo, Mosaic magazine covered this issue of voting

    To this day, and despite the party’s growing coldness toward the state of Israel—and the Republicans’ contrasting warmth—American Jews have barely budged from their Democratic allegiances, most recently giving fully 70 percent of their vote to Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential election, just about the same number they gave to Barack Obama in 2012 (though below the 78 percent they gave him in 2008)
    [snip]
    Especially in the aftermath of November’s presidential balloting, a number of observers pointed to the voting patterns of, specifically, Orthodox Jews—a group that, according to the Pew Report, identifies with Republicans over Democrats by a margin of two to one. It is true that Orthodox Jews constitute a mere 10 percent of the American Jewish population, but because of their significantly higher fertility, especially when contrasted with the below-replacement birthrates among other, larger sectors of the community, they are on pace to double their share every generation.

    So while the haredi are now a more solid republican voting group, they are only 10% of the population of those who are Jewish…

    and the Satmar section still votes democrat

    the Satmar pattern follows a pre-existing trend among ?aredim of the non-?asidic or “yeshivish” variety. Thus, during the 2009 gubernatorial election in New Jersey, the religious leadership in Lakewood, home of the largest yeshiva in the country, endorsed the Democrat Jon Corzine over the Republican Chris Christie. Much to the surprise of observers, Lakewood’s ?aredi residents ignored their rabbis and voted for Christie instead.

    current efforts of the Satmar are to get the kids to convince the parents..
    and they are quite well organized and quite busy at this.
    which group will prevail? who knows… most dont even know this exists!!!!!!

  23. I have some liberal friends and relations on Facebook. Some are in NYC.
    They were all over Smollett and the Covington kids. Oh, boy. Should have seen them.
    This business….crickets.

  24. I suspect that antisemitic blacks view Jews as a vulnerable ‘white’ ethnicity. If so, black antisemitism is a ‘safe’ form of “get whitey”.
    It will continue as long as there is not consequential deterrence.

    Orthodox Jews simply stand out as ‘jewish’, as does any Jew wearing the Star of David and/or a yarmulke.

    The Left knows that racism exists in every race but pretending it to be limited to the white race serves their agenda.

  25. Obama famously chummed around with Farrakhan around the time of his first presidential election and photos were taken. Then a sizeable sum was paid to the photographer to keep the photos out of circulation until Obama’s presidency was over.

    Neo’s last link (thelibertarianrepublic) references an Ed Henry interview with mayor de Blasé. Here is a piece with a video of the interview where the new zero bail system was already being implemented, ahead of schedule, to let repeat assaulter of Jews, Tiffany Harris, out on zero bail.

    Elsewhere (I found it) I read that this new system in NYC not only implements a zero bail process but also awards these charged people with two debit cards with $25 each (weird, why not one with $50?), a free metro (subway) card, and a cheap cell phone. Talk about incentivizing crime! And a burner phone? Do you suppose that they record the phone and sim numbers of those phones before they hand them out?

  26. why should I be surprised that someone whose real name ist Warren Wilhelm II would be anti-semitic?

  27. Personal conversations, conversations online (the Well when it was much less leftoid), and conversations overheard in various bakeries in old orthodox Willilamsburg before it was hipsterized. Plus, I think, overhearing a family table behind me in Juniors of Brooklyn.

    “The people being attacked are Orthodox Jews, mostly Chasidim.”

    Usually starts off that way since the targets are easy to identify. It doesn’t end with the easy targets.

  29. The Jews have a reputation for being intelligent. I have worked with Jewish engineers and they are indeed very intelligent. Can somebody tell me why they overwhelmingly vote democrat? How is that intelligent? I joke that inside every democrat is a national socialist waiting to get out.

  30. As for “The implication is that Jews hate blacks, blacks hate Jews, because they just “feel an urge to hate someone.” An equivalence.”

    I don’t mean to give that impression. My impression was they hated them for many reasons experienced over the years. In the 90s when I lived in the Heights, blacks from the projects pretty much dominated neighborhoods around downtown Brooklyn from the main shopping mall to the east of town center along outer Atlantic just past the Muslim zone and into the projects.

    The mall at that time was sketchy if you went there in the day and at night there was only one old-time steak house just inside the black controlled line that you could get to… but you liked it better if you got there and left in a cab.

    It just all had that dangerous vibe all the time. In the seven or eight years I lived in Brooklyn Heights I saw three violent purse snatching from my windows in which the black guy would punch the woman, grab the purse, and strart sprinting toweard the east side of the Brooklyn Plaze\a where he could just fade into the general population.

  33. Artfldgr: “New York’s ‘Bail Reform’ Is Having Detrimental Impacts”

    The “no bail” thing snuck up on me. On the Left Coast, govts are decriminalizing theft. Breakins, porch piracy and the like are exploding. But the NY law… holy cow! There’s 4 pages of crimes for which there shall be no bail required. Regardless of previous record, existing bench warrants and so on,

    Do consider scrolling through the list.
    http://www.queensda.org/ror_maps/New%20Bail%20Laws%202020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR15iM7qiNxlFhfIFcC4j-rTpbeDoUUOb6JKouc5qwuf1JDrjsk

    I got this link via email from a person I trust. But if it is “fake news”, I’ll be grateful to learn it

  34. Maybe this is what Paul remembered 😉
    Paul Snively on March 30, 2010 at 2:34 pm said:
    Clowns to the Left of me, jokers to the Right, here I am, stuck in the middle with Jews. ?

    Mrs Whatsit on March 30, 2010 at 2:59 pm said:
    Paul Snively has already won the thread — not to mention caused that doggoned song to get stuck in my head for who knows how long.
    * * *
    Interesting discussion back there, but I think this may be the most relevant one nine years later (note: the Jewish Democrats appear not to have learned anything cogent during that interval about their preferred pary):

    https://www.thenewneo.com/2010/03/30/the-common-denominator/#comment-153038
    Daniel in Brookline on March 31, 2010 at 12:39 pm said:
    The question of why American Jews are so consistently liberal is a very interesting one.

    One possible answer, which I don’t believe has been addressed yet in this thread, is the very strong Jewish cultural tradition toward education, toward social justice, and toward charity. The aforementioned TIKKUN is named after tikkun olam, literally “fixing the world”, which is usually taken to mean “doing your part to make the world a better place”; this is something Jews expect other Jews (and themselves) to do. Charity (called tzedakah in Hebrew, from the same root as the Hebrew word for “justice”), is likewise expected; in fact, it’s an obligation, a mitzvah.

    Put all this together, exaggerate it a bit for stereotype’s sake, and you get an interesting image: the egghead academic who is obsessed with giving to charity and agitating to improve the world. (Does this sound familiar?)

    The Jewish trend toward political conservatism, in my humble opinion, goes against the grain, and is largely in response to oppression — when Jews needed to worry less about fixing the world and more about their own personal survival. I’d wager that many conservative American Jews today would give a similar reason for their conservatism — that liberalism is nice, but that the dangers are just too great to be able to afford niceness.

    “The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my lucky stars I belong to it.” — Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

  35. Also this comment, substituting whatever Democrat constituency you wish for the “Angry black woman.”

    https://www.thenewneo.com/2010/03/30/the-common-denominator/#comment-152916
    Bill West on March 30, 2010 at 5:53 pm said:
    I am reminded of an exchange in the movie Bullworth with Warren Beatty, playing a liberal senator. He demonstrates the contempt with which the Democrats take for granted their loyal constituencies.

    Angry black woman: Are you sayin’ the Democratic Party don’t care about the African-American community?

    Bullworth: Isn’t that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade!

  36. I was unaware of Hispanic anti-Semitism. It seems when I read of attacks on American Jews, the perps are always Muslim or black.

    I’m reminded of an old Kingston Trio ditty, not that I think all hatred is equivalent. I found it hilarious as a child:

    The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
    The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
    Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
    And I don’t like anybody very much!!

    But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
    For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
    And we know for certain that some lovely day
    Someone will set the spark off
    And we will all be blown away!!

    “Kingston Trio — The Merry Minuet”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUh5OaiADc

  37. AesopFan: I recommend the films, “Bulworth” and “Primary Colors,” to any conservative who wishes to understand how Democrats understand themselves. Not that conservatives will be persuaded, but to get the emotional roots, which are deep, of Democrats.

    Your “Daniel in Brookline” excerpt is quite on the mark.

    The Jewish trend toward political conservatism, in my humble opinion, goes against the grain…

    Is Daniel still around?

  38. The key to understanding today’s Democrats IMO is they have imprinted, first- or second-hand, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War protests and Watergate as the templates for all things political.

    Everything today is just a rerun of those historical events, as we see or have seen with the transgender movement, the Iraq War and the Trump impeachment.

    Democrats can’t imagine not having the moral high ground. They believe that America must yield to their certainty, if only they hold to their course and double-down as necessary.

  39. The Democrats have pushed the branding of Republicans as racist since the 1960’s. That’s 60 years. Sometimes it seems that Republicans start every political conversation with some version of, “I’m not a racist.”
    How long have Jews been branded as “money worshipping”? Shylock first appeared in 1596. And the stereotype is older than that. So rather than 60 years, that’s at least 600 years of being branded as something, that in their hearts, they know they are not. So Jews, as a reflex, join the movements that claim to be the antithesis of “money worshiping”.

  40. The Left knows that racism exists in every race but pretending it to be limited to the white race serves their agenda.

    Yes. The Obama administration weaponized black racism as a means of getting out the vote. Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are just two examples. The current push to equal outcomes in schools and colleges is another. Stanford now has a black STEM program. Chiefly Physics but more is coming. Discipline in schools is now by racial standards. Black students who disrupt class are not to be punished. California is proudly carrying on the Obama policies as 200,000 net emigrants leave the state per year,

    I first encountered black anti-Semitism as a child. I had a black nursemaid growing up. She was very anti-Jewish. I think it was the experience of blacks living in neighborhoods where all the stores were owned by Jews. They felt cheated, somehow. In Los Angeles the same phenomenon is occurring with Koreans who own lots of small stores in black areas.

    How long have Jews been branded as “money worshipping”?

    This is discussed in the book, The 10,000 Year Explosion” which has a chapter on the evolutionary pressures on the Jews of Europe who were denied all occupations but money lending. The authors attribute both the higher IQ and the fatal genetic diseases, like Tay Sachs, to this pressure.

    Amusingly, Bret Stephens, the never Trump NYT columnist got slapped down for mentioning Jews and IQ in a column last week.

  43. Ha, yeah, sure, machete.

    And who would ever doubt that a very pointy gladius could stab? Yes, exactly: no-one.

  44. ““Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data.”
    To point out the obvious, IQ is just a test score so nobody actually has an IQ. That should make the NYT happy.

  45. and according to the sheepish left, Jews do not rank high enough on the victimhood totem pole to deserve increased protections, when compared to other minorities.

    Among other things, Jews are not the cause of their own problems.

    If Jews were assaulting other Jews, there’d be far less support for additional police protection.

    :-/

  47. Can somebody tell me why they overwhelmingly vote democrat? How is that intelligent?

    thats easy..
    smart kind people see how one can work together and how one makes sacrifices and has self control… then like academics they project this out to the world… i met so many academics with this attitude it boggled the mind how unreal they thought…

    in our theories of mind, we often think others are like us… the few who know better usually got some arse kicking and other evidence, of which even tv news of heinious crimes has one thinking they must be broke, not made that way

    these people forget that they are so good and favored for what htey do, they are like house slaves compared to field slaves… they dont see slavery as bad as the ones picking crops and getting whipped…

    and since society wants stuff from them, it denies them wealth, but makes them comfortable in ways like security, consistency, etc… they project this to the orderly system they are a part of and thing such a system imposed on all of society would be great…

    took years to shake my doc friend out of that..
    mostly he was shooken out by the difference in how they treated me
    a person he valued for brains and ability, but they did not for my skills were less in the upstairs research area (thanks feminists) and more of the worker kind… he was quite upset how they would torture me to get stuff rather than be nice, and would ignore any contribution, no matter how good, as it wasnt from anyone they wanted anything from other than what they wanted from that type of person

    woke him up good
    but by that time, my chip was shelved and he retired
    so the world will never have a desktop chip capable of searching genetic data and sorting it all out in seconds rather than hours. [and proven mathematically faster than anything they could ever make on an FPGA]

    i wait now to be homeless this coming year.. and lose my wife and family

  49. om-I’ve been listening to the McLean song this week-end (courtesy of PowerLine).
    Very powerful.

    huxley – thanks for the movie recommendations.
    I don’t think I have the stomach to sit through that many hours of Democrat posturing.

    Mike K – how long will the rest of California consent to be subject to the coastal crazies?

    Artfldgr – thanks for your historical posts, and insights on the nitty-gritty of life in so many areas. May things go better than you expect this year!

    Happy New Year to all.

  50. This is a good op-ed by a strict Orthodox Jew. He suggests that treating strict Jews as people, just like anyone else, would improve things a lot. Indeed:

    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-why-jews-now-walk-in-fear-20191231-s5i77ilsnvhjblj2rjhiqezalu-story.html

    I do have a question. I don’t live where I’m likely to meet a strict Orthodox Jew walking on the sidewalk or shopping in the store. However, there is a Chabad synagogue and school not too far away, so it could happen. I am a polite type in public. If I meet an Orthodox Jewish man, do I shake his hand? With some Hindus and Muslims, I wouldn’t, so as not to offend the man, whose beliefs prohibit touching women not in his family. Is that the case here?

  53. huxley on December 30, 2019 at 11:51 pm said:
    I was unaware of Hispanic anti-Semitism. It seems when I read of attacks on American Jews, the perps are always Muslim or black.

    I’m reminded of an old Kingston Trio ditty, not that I think all hatred is equivalent.
    * * *
    Music doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

    National Brotherhood Week by Tom Lehrer

    One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week.
    This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes.
    One of my favorites is National Make-Fun-Of-The-Handicapped Week,
    which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know.
    During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged
    to drive home the message of brotherhood – this year, for example,
    on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you
    an idea of how effective the whole thing is.

    I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another,
    and I know there are people in the world who do not love
    their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that!
    Here’s a song about National Brotherhood Week:

    Oh, the white folks
    hate the black folks.
    And the black folks,
    hate the white folks
    To hate all but the right folks
    is an old established rule
    But during…
    National Brotherhood Week
    National Brotherhood Week
    Lena Horn and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek, it’s
    fun to eulogize the
    people you despise
    as long you don’t let them in your school.

    Oh, the poor folks, hate the rich folks
    and the rich folks hate the poor folks.
    All of my folks hate all of your folks.
    It’s American as apple pie.
    But during…
    National Brotherhood Week
    National Brotherhood Week
    New Yorkers Love the Puerto Ricans ’cause it’s very chique
    Stand up and shake the hand of
    someone you can’t stand
    you can tolerate him if you try.

    Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics
    and the Catholics hate the Protestants
    and the Hindus hate the Muslims
    and everybody hates the Jews, but during
    National Brotherhood Week
    National Brotherhood Week its
    national everyone smile at
    one another-hood week, be
    nice to people who are
    inferior to you; it’s only for a week so have no fear —
    be grateful that it doesn’t last all year.

    Source: Musixmatch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY

  54. First there’s some bad news.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/jewish-man-anti-semitic-brooklyn-new-york-city

    Two female attackers yelled “F— you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews” at a Brooklyn man before shoving him to the ground when he tried to film their anti-Semitic screed, law enforcement sources and witnesses said Wednesday.

    The two African American women approached the 22-year-old Hasidic victim in Broadway Triangle where they began taunting him with anti-Semitic slurs, the law enforcement source said.

    The first woman began yelling at the victim before the second woman grabbed his cell phone, broke it in half and threw it to the ground, the source said.

    Then there’s some good news.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/jews-talmud-anti-semitic-attacks-meadowlands

    More than 90,000 Jews braved the cold at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey Wednesday to celebrate the historic completion of the study of the entire Talmud, sending a strong message of resilience days after a stabbing in a New York rabbi’s home left five people wounded.

    The Siyum HaShas celebrates the study of the Talmud, which is said to be among the most challenging religious texts in the world. The book, comprised of 2,711 double-sides pages, takes seven-and-a-half years to complete, with one page read per day. Jewish communities across the globe eagerly anticipate and celebrate completing the study.
    …
    “I think the massive turnout sends a powerful message to the rest of the world that we will not be intimidated,” one attendee told Fox News.
    Another attendee, who traveled from Philidelphia to celebrate the Talmud, said he felt an obligation to attend this year’s event in light of the rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

    “We are gathering to celebrate the Talmud because it is the source of our strength,” he said.

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