Watch the words. For honest people, they have meaning.
But as soon as words are discovered to hide the opposite of what they claim, they will be upgraded to try and hide anew the hidden intentions. That’s a constant in Antisemitism: continuously morphing the appearance of the same hatred.
We must not mince words. Only integrity and clarity can defeat the lies and myths about Jews.
Jews
Why does their group name JAS profile them as Jews? Why not as conservatives (CAS) or USers (UAS)?
Clearly, it’s named like this to give a kosher stamp to Gentiles also agitating against Soros. Every self-respecting Antisemite has Jewish friends to prove their saintliness. Even the present butchers of Iran.
I wouldn’t call the JAS duo self-hating Jews because that puts too much blame on them. After all, they too are oppressed as Jews, and we don’t blame the victim. Many Jews outside of Israel are still too terrified to acknowledge the hatred. They are naive against their own best judgment.
The only substantial claim on their website is this is not Antisemitic. Oy Way when you need to explain you’re not Antisemitic.
Writing about the trial, conviction, and aftermath of Ponzi schemer Madoff, no one needed to explain it was not Jew-hatred!
The worst is that they don’t distance themselves from wicked Gentiles Against Soros. Musk even calls Soros a hater of humanity. ‘I know him.’ That is a code for Untermensch, someone supposedly sub-human.
Soros
Why Soros? Almost all US Jews are progressive. Why pick on a rare super-rich one? Simple. That’s what Antisemites do. They used to pick on ‘the Rothschilds,’ but that’s exposed as Jew-hatred, so they altered the word.
Even if he funds many left-wing causes, the fact finders leaving out the dozens of right-wing US political philanthropists is obviously biased.
Soros is problematized to distract from trouble by the ilk of Musk.
Jewish Conservatives
The concept of ‘Jewish conservatives’ is like ‘violent pacifists.’ Jewish culture and its religion push toward standing with the powerless. As a religious Jewish entrepreneurial friend of mine once said to another friend: ‘My Judaism puts a limit on how much I can be a capitalist.’
We try to conserve our stance, but that ‘forces’ us to be progressives.
The JAS’s self-identification as conservatives proves that they left the whole wide spectrum of Jewish lifestyles and assimilated and huddle with unhumble Gentiles. (Soon, I hope to publish a lengthy post of religious Jews pretending to fully agree with Gentile Monotheists.)
A Jewish-American friend of mine sees it differently. He says: Antisemitism of the left pushes the Jewish left back into isolation, away from Gentiles, including those who need solidarity.
Both visions have in common that Jews will only stop being their generous selves (and thus turn conservative) from intimidation by bad Gentiles.
Nothing wrong with Jewish-Gentile cooperation, as long as the Jews can be Jews—and not the ones to approve of unkosher Gentile choices.
Transphobic
Tell me who your enemies are and you show who you are.
Musk greatly fueled the Let’s Hate the Jewish Soros movement on top of having become a major spreader of Jew-hatred. In related racism, he just now pushed a transphobic clip.
Transgenders are among the weakest in society. The cowards that bigots are always attack the weakest first.
That looks dishonorable but they justify their vile bloodthirst by portraying the victims as powerful, evil conspirators and themselves as their victims. Hitler as victim of ‘the Jews.’ In hatred, there is nothing new under the sun.
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Chronologically, his most influential teachers are his parents, Nico (natan) van Zuiden and Betty (beisye) Nieweg, Wim Kan, Mozart, Harvey Jackins, Marshal Rosenberg, Reb Shlomo Carlebach, and, lehavdil bein chayim lechayim, Rabbi Dr. Natan Lopes Cardozo, Rav Zev Leff, and Rav Meir Lubin. This short list doesn't mean to disrespect others who taught him a lot or a little. One of his rabbis calls him Mr. Innovation [Ish haChidushim]. Yet, his originalities seem to root deeply in traditional Judaism, though they may grow in unexpected directions. In fact, he claims he's modernizing nothing. Rather, mainly basing himself on the basic Hebrew Torah text, he tries to rediscover classical Jewish thought almost lost in thousands of years of stifling Gentile domination and Jewish assimilation. (He pleads for a close reading of the Torah instead of going by rough assumptions of what it would probably mean and before fleeing to Commentaries.) This, in all aspects of life, but prominently in the areas of Free Will, Activism, Homosexuality for men, and Redemption. *
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