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and the Jews"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\"Good evening to the thousands of you who are joining us from around the country,\" Doug Emhoff, the Hollywood lawyer serving as Kamala's husband, intoned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sign language interpreter on the small box next to him spread her arms in what was either an attempt to 'sign' Passover or a gesture of disbelief and contempt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s809\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"467\" data-original-width=\"809\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s320\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe \"People's Seder\" was about to begin with its apostrophe in the right place and heart in the wrong place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the Biden White House rushes to enable Iran's nuclear program and the modern day pharaonic mullahs plotting, like the original, to wipe out the Jews, it put on a \"People's Seder\" to distract American Jews from its complicity in the latest acts of terror from Iran to Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People's Seder sounds like a Berkeley commune. A day before the eve of Passover, the administration’s second virtual seder served no function except to give Emhoff something to do. Perhaps knowing that, Emhoff claimed, with a mostly straight face, that he had traveled the country hearing from people “how much last year’s virtual seder had meant to them”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff made no mention of the over a dozen Israelis recently killed in terror attacks. Neither, seemingly, did so many of the speakers who rambled on about the importance of “empathy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpathy applies to everyone except the Israeli Jews mourning their dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, to Emhoff, proved to be about Ukraine, about the pandemic, and “protecting democracy”. Maybe Emhoff can tell me which democratic process elected Moses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen a particularly haggard Biden, looking awkwardly at things off camera, boasted that this was the “first time in three years that families sit around the seder table.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat might be true in Washington D.C., but it certainly isn’t true in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden then declared that during Passover, his hearts were “with the people of Ukraine”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe camera cut to the White House's bewildered Jewish liaison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, so far, was about Ukraine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe previous seder, featuring \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/kamalas-husband-hosts-virtual-passover-hell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean anti-Israel activist\u003C\/a\u003E, was apparently so popular that Emhoff decided to recycle his shtick about “gelatinous gefilte fish” from last year. Then he declared that “ever since I was a kid, I have been inspired by the story of Exodus.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, who could forget the time Moses went back to Egypt, married Pharaoh’s sister, and settled down to the business of assisting in the genocide of the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff’s presentation was followed by a long list of speakers eager to delve into Passover as a metaphor and uninterested in it as a substantial reality. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was Andrew Rehfeld, the first \"non-rabbinic\" head of the Reform Movement's Hebrew Union College seminary, who had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.rehfeld\/posts\/10101606531280262\"\u003Edefended\u003C\/a\u003E BDS supporters against claims of antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Some students have been attracted to the BDS movement because of their love of Israel, and their repugnance of what they see as its unjust treatment of Palestinians,\" Rehfeld had argued. \"BDS is not the answer.  But that does not mean that their concerns are without merit.\"  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERehfeld appeared with a large placard behind him declaring, \"Another Jew for LGBTQ Equality\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe non-rabbinic head of a movement that denies the existence of the G-d of the Torah made no mention of the Creator of the Universe, but spoke about “bullying” and “civil society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was followed by J Street’s Deborah Lipstadt, who talked about Ukraine, and Jeopardy host Mayim Bialik who… also talked about Ukraine. An ignorant viewer might have concluded that in the Bible, the Jews had left Ukraine, rather than Egypt. After a brief interjection by an Orthodox Rabbi who actually had a seder plate on display, next up was Afroculinaria's Michael W. Twitty, a black gay social justice chef who had previously accused Israel of racism.and who explained that in his seder molasses \"represented the transatlantic slave trade.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDayenu!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder was dedicated to philosophical abstractions that erased Jews and negated the fundamental truths of the Passover story. Attaching the \"People's\" to something is a negation. That's why the various democratic people's republics were anything but and why the People's Seder isn't a seder, or at least not a Jewish one, but a People’s Republic of Seder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess than two minutes into his virtual farce, Emhoff had declared that \"even though the Exodus tells the story of a particular people, its message is universal.\" Everything about Judaism to secularists is universal, and nothing is particular or relevant to the actual Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt would be dangerous to focus on the particular people currently being killed once again in their own country because Emhoff’s wife’s boss chooses to stand with Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the People’s Seder was done, Ambassador Tom Nides, who had been caught \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/bidens-israel-ambassador-tells-bds-group-he-wants-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epraising a BDS group \u003C\/a\u003Eand boasting of trying to keep Jews out of Jerusalem, issued a press release in English, Arabic, and Hebrew (in that order) which urged “Jews, Muslims and Christians” (also in that order) to avoid \"actions that further escalate tensions\" during \"this sacred holiday period\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would include concluding the seder with the traditional call, “Next Year in Jerusalem”, signifying a return to a city that Biden and Nides deny is Jewish and want to keep Jews out of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides, Emhoff, and other administration enablers of Jewish descent, erase Jews from Passover and Jerusalem, and replace the real people and their history with social justice abstractions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart of the problem is that Emhoff, like your average leftist of Jewish ancestry knows as much about Judaism as I do about dating Kamala. And cares just as little. Stripping Judaism of its particularism appears liberating to someone like Emhoff because it also frees him of what he and his family see as a limitation on their identities and their potential social aspirations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder is not a Jewish people’s seder because that’s the last thing Emhoff wants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberation to lefties of Jewish descent means the ability to be less Jewish. That is at odds with the message of Passover and of Judaism which is that liberation comes from being more Jewish. The Jews who had tried to fit into Pharaoh’s tyranny had become slaves, while the slaves who defied an empire by conducting a seder that mocked Egyptian beliefs were set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversalism is enslaving while particularism is liberating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Passover seder’s message, with its careful recreation of the particular experiences, sensory, emotional, and intellectual, of Egyptian slavery and liberation, is a painstaking excercise in particularism. The People’s Seder, like virtually all lefty religious practices, is an equally painstaking exercise in rejecting the particular for the universal by turning the events into metaphors that can be glibly made to mean anything as long as it’s unrelated to the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all very well to turn the story of Passover into a metaphor, but Moses didn’t arrive to talk to Pharaoh about abstractions like empathy and emotional growth, but with a simple message.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Let My People Go.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder claims to be about liberation, but actually enslaves. It rejects “the four languages of liberation” whose four steps \"I will take you out\", \"I will save you\", \"I will redeem you\" and \"I will take you\" develop it as relationship between G-d and the Jewish people, to universalize it into hollow self-help empowerment in which there is no relationship with G-d.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead there is a relationship with the leftist deity of government all too familiar to Pharaoh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorshipping government isn’t liberation, it’s slavery.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8797522244073251115\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html","title":"The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4223043091195900530"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-10T04:11:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-10T04:11:39.080-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ADL"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Soros"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ADL Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EObama's career of political activism began in some ways when he met Eileen Hershenov. He graduated from Columbia University, and as David Remnick put it, \"got it into his head to become a community organizer.\" After a brief stint actually working for a living, he answered an ad and joined Ralph Nader's left-wing New York Public Interest Research Group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s1608\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHis supervisor at the time, Eileen Hershenov, describes having \"some really engaged conversations about models of organizing\". After a year, Hershenov pleaded with him to stay, \"I asked him if it would help if I got on my knees and begged--and so I did,\" but Obama moved on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo did Hershenov who went on to become the general counsel for the Open Society Foundations, serving \"as chief legal officer for one of the nation’s largest private foundations and for the global network of 40 foreign affiliates founded by financier\/philanthropist George Soros.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHacked emails from the Open Society Foundations show that it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/hacked-soros-e-mails-reveal-plans-to-fight-israels-racist-policies-464149\"\u003Ebragged\u003C\/a\u003E of its successes in “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums. By then Hershenov was no longer affiliated with the Soros network, but she appears to be unrepentant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, she “oversees” the ADL’s  “policy, program and civil rights work” as the former Jewish organization’s Senior Vice President for Democracy Initiatives. Hershenov was a recent hire who was brought on board during the Jonathan Greenblatt era. Greenblatt, the ADL’s new leader, was a veteran of the Obama administration who has been accused of jettisoning its focus on the Jewish community and Israel in favor of playing the identity politics of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo single executive may embody the new ADL better than Hershenov who mentored Obama when he was just starting out and proudly worked for George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I think I never really understood before as well as I do now that the fight for an open society will never ever end. Kudos to my former boss, George Soros,” she recently declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, Hershenov “oversees ADL’s civil rights team, its government relations and community engagement team, the Silicon Valley-based Center for Technology and Society” as well as \"the Civil Society Fellowship (a partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute).\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/organizations\/aspen-institute-ai\"\u003EAspen Institute\u003C\/a\u003E has received significant support from Soros. The Center for Technology and Society \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eis funded by\u003C\/a\u003E Pierre Omidyar, the Franco-Persian eBay founder who also funds The Intercept which regularly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Egushes defenses for antisemitism\u003C\/a\u003E and terrorism against Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's Center of Technology and Society board of tech experts\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/avaaz\/\"\u003E include\u003C\/a\u003E Eli Pariser, the board president of MoveOn and a co-founder of Avaaz. Avaaz, which is also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/reports\/19\/\"\u003ESoros backed\u003C\/a\u003E, promoted BDS and teamed up with JVP: an anti-Israel hate group that hosted a murderous terrorist, and an anti-Israel activist who claimed that Jews drank Christian blood and republished a bizarre claim that “the Zionists who created Israel and still run it are descended from the Khazars.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the sort of thing that any Jewish organization or any civil rights group concerned with antisemitism ought to be condemning, instead of collaborating with and rewarding. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the old ADL, flawed as it was, is largely defunct. Like so much of the old liberal institutional infrastructure, it's being sucked into the black hole money machines of billionaire activists like Soros and Omidyar who have destroyed liberalism and replaced it with their radical politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why Eileen Hershenov, who boasts of working for Soros, a lead funder of anti-Israel groups, who has blamed antisemitism on Jews, is now in a key position at a group fighting antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least on paper. The ADL spends more time on everything else, including defending Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If your favorite politician is attacking George Soros,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL boss warned at the former Jewish group’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adls-soros-hamas-and-hitler-anti-israel-conference-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ENever is Now 2018\u003C\/a\u003E conference, “you must stand up and tell them to stop. And do so even if they profess love for Israel up and down.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only the ADL defended Jews and Israel half as vigorously as it defends George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce upon a time the ADL had condemned Soros’ antisemitism. When Soros blamed antisemitism on Jews, Abe Foxman, the ADL’s former leader, had denounced Soros' comments as \"absolutely obscene.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut at the new ADL, you are expected to pledge allegiance to Soros and to place him above the Jewish community or the Jewish state. The ADL has more pages defending Soros than it does defending Jewish students facing leftist and Islamist antisemitism on college campuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Hershenov.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's partnership with the Aspen Society has produced the Civil Society Fellowship whose fellows include Julie McCarthy, a leader in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program, the Open Society Foundation’s Fiscal Governance Program, and the Open Society Foundations’ Revenue Watch Program. Another Soros network retread, Danielle Keats Citron, who serves as a board member for the Center on Technology and Society and on the ADL's Task Force on Hate Speech \u0026amp; Journalism had reviewed grants for the Open Society Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenblatt, the head of the ADL, had come through the Aspen Institute where he founded the Impact Economy Initiative. Soros is an\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/publication\/george-soross-two-left-hands\/\"\u003E Aspen backer\u003C\/a\u003E, but the specific initiative was backed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Greenblatt’s wife, Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute which used to be a centerpiece of the Arab Lobby’s anti-Israel push. (Due to the Abraham Accords, the MEI is still hostile, but somewhat less so.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unsurprising that Greenblatt and his allies are remaking the ADL into just another of the interchangeable leftist groups looking for handouts from Soros, Omidyar, the Rockefellers, Buffets, Gates and others that have hijacked and are controlling American politics and society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitutional capture is an ongoing process. Greenblatt joined the ADL in 2014. Hershenov came on board in 2018. The recent \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/01\/adl-hires-director-jewish-outreach-who-hates-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Econtroversial hiring of Tema Smith\u003C\/a\u003E as Director of Jewish Outreach, despite tweeting, \"Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism\", and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/adl-definition-of-racism-that-specifies-discrimination-by-white-people-comes-under-fire-3Ejg3YgPZLLmZsjGKlCeTV\"\u003Eredefinition of racism \u003C\/a\u003Eto exclude Jews are just the latest in a series of ADL betrayals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the ADL bemoans conspiracy theories about Soros (much more so than conspiracy theories about Israel or Jews) there is no denying the fact that what used to be an open society is closing in no small part due to his Open Society networks. Soros is not alone in this regard, he is one of a number of wealthy men of various ethnicities and backgrounds who have managed to centralize public policy through chains of non-profits in much the same way that tech industry monopolies like Amazon and Google have centralized our culture and economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s happening to the ADL is what has happened to countless Jewish, Christian and non-sectarian organizations that were once liberal and are now just leftist fronts. What the Soviet Union failed to accomplish in its infiltrations, two generations of activists backed by powerful and wealthy men have done by turning every liberal group into the same front.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ACLU no longer believes in free speech, the Sierra Club no longer favors limiting immigration to protect the environment, Planned Parenthood casually tosses aside its founder, and the ADL no longer defends Jewish civil rights. Indeed Hershenov condemned the Supreme Court for intervening in Gov. Cuomo’s persecution of Jews and Christians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe vast majority of former liberal groups all say the same things and have interlinked leaderships. The only difference between them is which side of the street they’re working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same convoluted road that saw Hershenov and Obama briefly intersect before going through Soros, that saw the top ADL executive work for Soros and then for an Obama administration member is no coincidence. The Left looks big, but it’s actually very small. The massive numbers of organizations with their own letterheads, sites, and petitions belie how much money is spent manufacturing these organizational illusions of political scale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is a massive political potemkin village. The ADL is now just another false front staffed by radicals, detached from its original purpose, and existing only to serve a common agenda of manufacturing the myth that a small leftist elite should be able to speak for all Americans.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4223043091195900530\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html","title":"ADL Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4496137467401668650"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-17T20:01:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-17T20:01:37.660-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Texas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UK"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAs far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists had plotted to take \"foreign Jews\" hostage to trade for ‘Lady Al Qaeda’. In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s1600\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack home, the Blackburn Muslim Community page announced that \"Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world\" and prayed that Allah \"bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BMC page had previously promoted a “charity” event to raise money for “Palestinians” by the Human Relief Foundation, which had been banned by Israel over its\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6728\/ngo-links-to-middle-east-terror\"\u003E ties to Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe town has produced no shortage of Jihadists, including the youngest terrorist in the UK, as well as a number of Jihadis who traveled to join ISIS, an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid, and a terrorist who played a key role in an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1374130.the-al-qaeda-look-out-blackburn\/\"\u003EAl Qaeda plot \u003C\/a\u003Ethat targeted New York and D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlackburn is one of the most segregated towns in the country and has been described as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/e\/\"\u003Ea “no-go zone”\u003C\/a\u003E. The area that produced the Temple Terrorist has one of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9648477\/Author-visited-Muslim-mosques-Britain-reveals-no-areas-white-men.html\"\u003E highest Muslim population\u003C\/a\u003Es outside of London and some claim that flying the English flag has been effectively outlawed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe setting couldn’t be any better for the media to whitewash the murderous terrorist with the familiar excuses that he was the victim of failed integration in the United Kingdom. His family, in an even more familiar excuse, is claiming that he “was suffering from mental health issues”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat, along with the claim by FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno that the terrorist, \"was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community\", is becoming the very familiar narrative for covering up the latest Muslim terror attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut antisemitism, like Islamism, was part of the air that Faisal Akram breathed in Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalim Mulla, Blackburn's former mayor and current Labour councilor, claimed that Israel was behind ISIS and school shootings in America. Last year, four Muslim men from Blackburn took part in a \"Palestinian\" convoy while shouting, \"F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters and show your support for Palestine. Rape their daughters and we have to send a message like that. Please do it for the poor children in Gaza.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESiddiqui aka Lady Al Qaeda, on whose behalf the Texas synagogue attack took place, was married to the nephew of 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and had assorted recipes for mass murder in her possession when she was captured. Despite graduating from Brandeis, a formerly Jewish university, she demanded at her trial that jurors undergo DNA tests to prove that they are not Jewish. And the Aafia Foundation posted bizarre antisemitic rants about the \"degree of poisonous venum (sic) within the heart of American mainstream jewry\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hatred of Jews, like the hatred of all non-Muslims, is a crucial motive for Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Blackburn is a miserable place, the tale of the Akram family may reveal why. The official family statement by the terrorist’s brother, Gulbar Akram, claims that \"although my brother was suffering from mental health issues we were confident that he would not harm the hostages\" and denied that the FBI had rescued the hostages from being killed by his brother. \"Don’t believe the bull#### in the media they were released from the fire exit and Not rescued.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Blackburn Community message describes the terrorist as having brothers named \"Gulbar\", “Malik” and the \"Late Gulzameer Akram\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo brothers named Gulbar Akram and Gulzameer Akram in Blackburn had been locked up \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5795467.brothers-jailed-360-000-car-crime\/\"\u003Eover\u003C\/a\u003E stolen cars. Another time, a Blackburn resident named Gulbar Akram almost \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5937249.mans-nose-almost-sliced-off\/\"\u003Ehad his nose\u003C\/a\u003E sliced off. A Gulzameer Akram \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1954164.170-000-cash-factory-based-terrace-house\/\"\u003Eran a\u003C\/a\u003E massive counterfeiting operation from a Blackburn home. A Malik Akram was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/18335578.man-38-jailed-following-girl-blackburn-college-ask-phone-number\/\"\u003Elocked up\u003C\/a\u003E for harassing girls. Were all of them members of the same clan?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best way to cover up a terrorist attack is to shift the context. And that’s what they’re doing. But it’s important to dig into the true context to understand the true origins of the Texas attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his book, Among the Mosques, ex-Islamist Ed Husain described Blackburn as “another global hub for the Deobandis and the Tableeghi Jamaat” where the mosques pray for the destruction of the enemies of Islam and texts declare that “there can be no reconciliation between Islam and democracy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Deobandis, who control many of the mosques in Blackburn, originated the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAafia Siddiqui, better known as 'Lady Al Qaeda', is a Deobandi, the terrorist on whose behalf Faisal Akram took a synagogue hostage, and a popular cause with Pakistanis. A few years ago the Pakistani Senate had even named the Islamic terrorist, the “Daughter of the Nation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndian Mujahideen co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal had plotted to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/islamic-terrorists-previously-discussed-trading-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Etake Jews hostage\u003C\/a\u003E a decade ago in order to force 'Lady Al Qaeda's release. British Muslim “charities” were a major source of funding to the Jihadist group as they are for many Pakistani Jihadist enterprises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile much has been made of the advocacy on behalf of Siddiqui by CAIR and other Islamist colonists in America, top Muslim politicians in the UK also vocally demanded her release, including Lord Nazir Ahmed and Lord Altaf Sheikh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Husain visited Blackburn, he warned that, \"it is clear that a caliphist subculture thrives here, a separate world from the rest of British society.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETableeghi Jamaat, whose mosques are known as \"breeding grounds\" for Jihad, is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/686\/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions\"\u003Eclosely intertwined with Pakistani Islamism\u003C\/a\u003E and vectored Islamic terrorism. Quite a number have joined Al Qaeda. It is no coincidence that so many Islamic terrorists have come out of Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor is it a coincidence that the latest Islamic terrorist attack on America originated there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal Akram traveled to Texas, where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ sleeps at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth. He was one of many Muslim pilgrims seeking to extricate her. Just last fall, the Dallas-Forth Worth CAIR and the Pakistani terror regime claimed that Aafia Siddiqui had been assaulted in U.S. custody in the latest effort of many on behalf of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal’s target, a progressive Reform Temple which happened to carry the traditional name of Congregation Beth Israel despite its social justice activist clergyman’s hostility to Israel, was ideally selected to fit Muslim antisemitic obsessions with both Israel and Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe antisemitic rants, the hostage crisis, and the rapid cover-up are all regular features of life for Jews in Europe. Changing demographics are making them a new reality for American Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny American city or town can become the new Blackburn. That’s the harsh lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPakistani antisemitism and obscure Jihadist movements are not local issues, they are global threats. The poison nurtured in a declining British post-industrial town blew up in Texas. We are all interconnected, and that interconnectedness has made the Jihad into a global enterprise. Ideas, tactics, and organizations that once took centuries to colonize the world can travel around it at the speed of the internet and a terror plot can happen at the speed of a jet plane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can either police our borders, control our immigration, and build walls around our nations, or we must be resigned to being hunted, stalked, and killed anywhere and at any given moment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Blackburn, Muslims anticipate the Texas Jihadist ascending to the “highest ranks of Paradise\" where he will enjoy the company of 72 virgins. More Muslims from Blackburn, marinating in the same hatred for America, for Jews, and for anyone unlike them, will follow in his footsteps.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4496137467401668650\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html","title":"Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2398945047605178179"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-30T06:34:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-30T06:34:00.499-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Fire Burns"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The circle of men whirls around the fire, hand in hand, hand catching hand, drawing in newcomers into the ring that races around and around in the growing darkness. A melody thumps through the speakers teetering unevenly with the bass, the sound is both old and new, a mix of the past and the present, like the participants in the dance, the traditional garments mixing with jeans and t-shirts until it is all a blur.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CEz13L48kFE\/T68kPo1638I\/AAAAAAAAGS4\/BJdtPHVps7E\/s1600\/miron1.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CEz13L48kFE\/T68kPo1638I\/AAAAAAAAGS4\/BJdtPHVps7E\/s320\/miron1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt is Lag BaOmer, an obscure holiday to most, even to those who come to the fires. The remnants of the Jewish Revolt against the might of the Roman Empire are remembered as days of deprivation in memory of the thousands of students dying in the war, until the thirty-third day of the Biblical Omer, part of the way between Passover and Shavuot, the day when Jerusalem was liberated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeprived of music for weeks, it rolls back in waves through speakers, from horns blown by children and a makeshift drum echoing an ancient celebration when men danced around fires and shot arrows into the air. The fires and bows have remained a part of Lag BaOmer, even when hardly anyone remembers the true reason for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new Yom Yerushalayim, the day of the liberation of the city, is coming up soon,\u0026nbsp; but the old Yom Yerushalaim, came thousands of years ago and ten days before it on the calendar. Time is a wheel, and, like a circle, everything comes around again. Hands pulling on hands, years pulling on years, on and on like the orbits of planets and stars. The Divine Hand of G-d pulls us along, and we pull each other in the dance of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe circle speeds up, men racing faster and faster, the children left behind, as the flames sputter and night falls. The rebellion, although bravely fought, failed, and Jerusalem fell again, and then Betar. The joy of the celebration turned to ashes, but, even in the shadow of the empire, their spirit endured. The stories were changed a little, the rebellion encoded into a story of Rabbi Akiva, the pivotal scholarly figure in the war, and of his students who perished because they had not been able to get along with one another. The failure of unity had been the underlying reason for the Roman conquest and the Jewish defeats. It is the ancient lesson still unlearned that the circle of the dance teaches us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELag BaOmer is not the first Jewish story of physically and spiritual heroism to be encoded for fear of the enemy. There is much that we know, without knowing what it truly means, messages from the past, that exist only as echoes reminding us of our purpose. Few of those in the circle passing around the flame know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration. Thousands of years later the echo of a fierce joy, the pride of a people emerging out of a momentary darkness in a burst of wild energy, is still here. Though the details are forgotten, the joy endures, the song is sung and the fire still burns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the darkness, there is nothing but the fire and the dark shapes racing around it, leaping with the guttering flames. A teenager pours oil on the flames and they rise higher and higher. A new song begins but they are all the same song. Even the new songs are old. The music changes, but the words remain the same. Arms rise and fall, feet kick and the participants run around the fire only to end up right back where they began.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECodemaking is a dangerous business, for the keys to the code can be forgotten. In Spain and in the American Southwest there are men and women who keep odd rituals, but who no longer remember that the reason they keep them is because they are descended from Jewish Conversos. They have lost the most important part of the code, the part that explains everything. The men dancing around the fire have not lost that. They may not remember the liberation of Jerusalem, but their feet remember it, their arms remember it, their hearts remember it and most of all they remember who they are. They retain the key to the entire code. They remember that they are Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt all began with fire. Avraham was cast into the fire and emerged alive from the flames. Then Chananya, Mishael and Azariah. And then millions more turning to ash in the ovens only to rise again in a new generation. \"Is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire,\" G-d asks Satan in the vision of the Prophet Zechariah. \"But who may abide the day of his coming?\" the Prophet Malachi says.\"And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-7uKdzBurEbc\/T68kTfNhGeI\/AAAAAAAAGTA\/igSxK86DdEY\/s1600\/Lag+B%27Omer7.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-7uKdzBurEbc\/T68kTfNhGeI\/AAAAAAAAGTA\/igSxK86DdEY\/s320\/Lag+B'Omer7.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA piece of heavy wood chars, bright sparks rising into the night air. It is cool outside the ring of fire, but here it is painfully hot, the air thick with heat. The children gaze wonderingly at the sparks, flying up like tiny stars, their eyes recording the memory with a purer fidelity than any of the cameras outside the circle. Their minds will record the memory of the light, the feel of it on their skin and the awe of seeing something new for the first time. They will remember the circle and the fire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe story of Moloch is the tale of men who worshiped the fire with the bodies of their children. But the children who race around the margins of this fire are the survivors of the servants of Moloch who tried to thrust their grandfathers and great-grandfathers into the flames. They will grow running around the flames from those who wish to thrust them into the fire, to burn away all that they are. Some will die, killed by Muslim terrorists or by other modern day servants of Moloch, but others will survive, and one day their children will race around the flames, defying the worshipers of fire, the worshipers of death, to do their worst to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fire blazes up, tongues of flame darting toward us like the tongues of lions. This is the race we run around the flames that always burn, whether we see them or not. Year after year, generation after generation, and century after century, the fire burns, but we go on and no matter how many of us burn, we continue running the race with the flames, outpacing it, outlasting it and outliving it. No matter how many of us die, we still live.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Talmudic recollection bemoans the Zoroastrian persecutions of the Jews. The notion today is as quaint as Assyrian chariots and Roman legions. The day will come when the Islamic persecutions are as obscure and laughable. When all the desert sands have covered over Mecca and the might and power of Islam are one with Assyria and Rome, with ancient pagan religions that have come and gone, blazing brightly like the flames, only to go out into the darkness, the dance will continue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe men slow their steps, an ancient movement that the first wave of settlers to the Holy Land instinctively recreated. Dancing is a key that unlocks secret knowledge, that opens up buried memories, that turns the wheel of time back until it all becomes a circle that comes alive when it is closed. Despite the tremendous variations in customs and appearances, they have all unlocked the code of the circle, the hand to hand connection, the knowledge that whatever else we must go on. That the Jewish people must live.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bar Kochba revolt was not the last time that Jews fought to liberate their land. It was not the last time that the gates of Jerusalem were thrown open to a Jewish army. The liberation of Jerusalem in 1967 was the fulfillment of a struggle that had been going on for nearly two thousand years, as empires and caliphates had claimed the land, planted their spears and rifles over its barren hills, and enforced their laws upon it. And if Jerusalem falls again, if Masada falls again, if we fall into the fire, then we will rise out of it again, less in number, less in memory, but still a circle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFresh from battle, the soldiers danced around the flames. They had defeated the legions of Rome, without any special training and with poor equipment, they had beaten the greatest army in the world. They had survived the flames and in an explosion of joy, they raced around the celebratory fires, tasting the momentary immortality of battle. Their names are forgotten, lost to memory. Lag BaOmer is associated now with two of Rome's scholarly opponents, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who passed on the teachings and traditions that kept the circle intact even in the fire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tv6SrbQt6cY\/T68kWLUTOzI\/AAAAAAAAGTI\/9sa-ICRHxk8\/s1600\/f100501ns01-635x357.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"179\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tv6SrbQt6cY\/T68kWLUTOzI\/AAAAAAAAGTI\/9sa-ICRHxk8\/s320\/f100501ns01-635x357.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWars are won and lost all the time. No victory, however significant, endures forever. There is no immortality in the victories of the flesh, only in the triumphs of the spirit. For all our losses, this circle is a victory, an ancient celebration of a spiritual triumph kept secret in the face of the enemy. The circle of clasped hands reminds us that against the dead hand of history, we have a Living Hand that guides us even in our darkest hours, in the smoke and flame, in the ash and fire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Know that your descendants will be strangers in a land not their own,\" G-d tells Avraham, as the sun goes down, and amid a thick darkness, a smoking furnace and a flaming torches passes between the parted pieces of the covenant. There is smoke and fire, a thick darkness, but as each hand in the circle clasps another, the pieces are joined together into one. The unity will not last. But it is a reminder of who we can be and who we should be when we join together. A reminder of the covenant with G-d and with one another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe dance is difficult, not because it is hard to learn or do, but because it is tiring. Some fall out of the circle, but others join in. It is a mistake to dwell too much on how many come and how many go. To count the losses, while overlooking the gains. We were never meant to be a numerous people, to swell to an empire, rotten with corruption, choking on its own grossness, until it dies. It is easier to win the race with the flames when you are small and light on your feet. Some tire of the race and leave, and fall into the flames or the darkness and are gone. But we go on. We always go on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2398945047605178179\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/the-fire-burns.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2398945047605178179"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2398945047605178179"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/the-fire-burns.html","title":"The Fire Burns"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CEz13L48kFE\/T68kPo1638I\/AAAAAAAAGS4\/BJdtPHVps7E\/s72-c\/miron1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3582469782822382065"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-21T04:47:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-21T04:47:00.380-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Criticizing BLM is Unforgivable, Killing Jews is Understandable"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2019, Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old girl who had been hiking in Israel with her father and brother, was blown up by a bomb. Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, who ran a charity that handed out clothes and food to the poor, had enough time \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/teenage-girls-murder-shows-what-loyal-and-disloyal-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eto kiss Rina on the forehead\u003C\/a\u003E, before she died.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s676\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"449\" data-original-width=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\"I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust,\" the Rabbi at her gravesite chanted the words of Psalm 91. \"Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbdel Razeq Farraj, who was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngo-officials-alleged-terror-activities-arrests-and-affiliations\/\"\u003E indicted\u003C\/a\u003E for authorizing the attack, had been named as a career PFLP terrorist who had served 6 years in prison and had been arrested six times. The year that Rina was murdered, Farraj\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/funder\/new_israel_fund\/\"\u003E took part in an Adalah youth even\u003C\/a\u003Et in partnership with a PFLP affiliate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdalah is one of the anti-Israel hate groups funded by the New Israel Fund (NIF).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/adalah\/\"\u003Ean NGO Monitor report\u003C\/a\u003E, the NIF has directed $720,481 to Adalah. George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, who has also funded J Street, is another major donor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast fall, Beth Badik, a J Street supporter who serves on the regional committee for the anti-Israel NIF, and Barbara Penzner, a Reconstructionist cleric who had signed a J Street petition opposing a ban on BDS and another calling for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bokertov.typepad.com\/btb\/2006\/03\/is_your_rabbi_o.html\"\u003Eengagement\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jweekly.com\/2006\/03\/24\/u-s-shouldn-t-give-one-dime-to-a-terrorist-government\/\"\u003Ea terrorist government\u003C\/a\u003E, demanded that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston kick out the ZOA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zionist Organization of America is the country’s leading pro-Israel group so Badik and Penzner’s animosity toward it and to Morton Klein, its unapologetically pro-Israel leader, was understandable. The anti-Israel Left had spent generations trying to seize control of the organizational establishment of the Jewish community in order to cut off support to Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they didn’t have far to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBadik, who is a supporter of one anti-Israel group and affiliated with another, also sits on the  JCRC of Boston's Israel \u0026amp; Global Jewry Committee. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was bizarre was the accusation in Badik and Penzner’s op-ed, “We’re Calling for ZOA to Be Kicked out of Boston’s JCRC”, the petition backed by J Street, the NIF, and a number of other anti-Israel groups, and the JCRC’s final response affirming the bizarre accusation that Morton Klein, the son of Holocaust survivors, was supporting white supremacists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir evidence was that Klein (pictured above) has called Black Lives Matter “a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence promoting, dangerous Soros funded extremist group of haters” and correctly noted that its ranks are “filled with hatred against Jewish people.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only had the Boston JCRC and Jewish organizations failed to condemn the BLM riots which had vandalized synagogues and assaulted Jews, especially in\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/farrakhan-supporter-led-la-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E the Fairfax Pogrom in Los Angeles\u003C\/a\u003E, but they had decided to treat criticism of the black supremacist hate group as racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Boston JCRC had any standards, it’s the anti-Israel organizations calling for ZOA’s removal which should have been condemned and kicked out of any Jewish community alliance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeginning with J Street.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Ilhan Omar had attended J Street’s gala dinner and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/ilhan-omar-praises-breaking-the-silence-exhibit-on-occupation-in-hebron-606162\"\u003Epraised an exhibit \u003C\/a\u003Esmearing Israel. It’s chosen to honor Jimmy Carter who had falsely accused Israel of being an apartheid state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the anti-Israel groups were attacking the ZOA for opposing BLM, neither they nor the Boston JCRC seemed particularly interested in actually defending Jews against antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anti-ZOA petition was obsessed with social justice, election integrity, and the other shibboleths of a leftist establishment that is incapable of actually talking about Jewish issues as an end, not a means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJ Street, which was behind the petition, had defended Rep. Ilhan Omar, even as ZOA and Klein had condemned her antisemitic tweets. Just as J Street has called for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thejewishadvocate.com\/articles\/j-streets-hamas-challenge\/\"\u003Emaking a dea\u003C\/a\u003El with Hamas. The J Street campaign to oust the ZOA attacked it for condemning George Soros while neglecting to mention that Soros had been a major funder of the anti-Israel organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf JCRC Boston and J Street consider Klein’s statements provocative, what of Soros’ belief that the \"resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe\" is caused by Israel and that the “attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby’s success in suppressing divergent views.” What are these except typical antisemitic tropes and defenses of antisemitism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHas J Street ever \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/12\/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebeen asked\u003C\/a\u003E to condemn these statements by its own backer?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if “rhetoric that has been associated with antisemitic tropes” is a cause for expulsion, then how can the Boston JCRC justify letting any Soros-funded group remain in its umbrella group?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it gets worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Boston Workmen’s Circle, one of the groups petitioning to kick the ZOA out, proudly notes in its own literature that members of the Workmen’s Circle included Communists and that “The first member expelled from the Workmen’s Circle was kicked out in 1901 for working on behalf of the Republican Party.” A member of the group recently wrote an angry open letter to Chelsea Clinton celebrating the fact that one of her heroines was a Marxist and a Communist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though the Communists killed countless Jews and ethnically cleansed the Jewish communities under their rule, forcibly closing synagogues, imprisoning and killing Rabbis, and banning the entire Hebrew language, that doesn’t get you condemned by the JCRC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BWC even held \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/circleboston.org\/category\/tags\/young-adults?page=1\"\u003Ean event\u003C\/a\u003E featuring \"longtime BWC member \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/professor\/Alice_Rothchild\"\u003EAlice Rothchild\u003C\/a\u003E\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERothchild is a radical anti-Israel activist who is a member of the anti-Israel JVP BDS hate group that was considered too extreme even for the Boston JCRC. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERothchild has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/professor\/Alice_Rothchild\"\u003Edescribed herself\u003C\/a\u003E as a \"self-hating Jew\", falsely claimed that “the anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that can now be found in Muslim countries began almost entirely with the founding of the State of Israel\", and posted on an antisemitic site that, “If I believed in a wrathful God, I might wonder why the Jewish National Fund forests were burning?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Hamas has produced horrific suicide bombers and incredible social service agencies building schools and hospitals and caring for the forgotten population. Hamas grew out of a response to Israeli oppression during the First Intifada,\" Rothchild was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/terra-incognita-no-neo-colonialism-for-gaza-strip-444883\"\u003Equoted as\u003C\/a\u003E saying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the JCRC, uplifting the voices of the worst sorts of deranged antisemitism from the Left isn’t a problem, but Morton Klein condemning BLM, Soros, and other Jewhaters is a crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Badik and Penzner op-ed argued that failing to kick out the ZOA would “convey an astonishing lack of empathy, decency and basic compassion, for people of color, for immigrants and Muslims”. The only astonishing thing here is the utter lack of interest in Jewish interests by leftist activists who claim to be Jewish and even more falsely to speak on behalf of Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere is their basic compassion, their empathy and decency toward the Jewish synagogues and small businesses hatefully assaulted by Black Lives Matter rioters, and for the Jews of Israel living under the shadow of Islamic terrorism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New Israel Fund, in which Badik plays a role, and which is one of the leftist groups that demanded the expulsion of the ZOA, has funded BDS organizations and groups linked to terrorism. The lack of basic compassion, empathy, and decency that is required to be a member of the New Israel Fund is astonishing. As is the disinterest from the Boston JCRC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriticizing Black Lives Matter is unforgivable no matter how many synagogues they trash, but Jewish lives are worthless to organizations with ‘Jewish’ in their names, but not their hearts.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3582469782822382065\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/criticizing-blm-is-unforgivable-killing.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3582469782822382065"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3582469782822382065"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/criticizing-blm-is-unforgivable-killing.html","title":"Criticizing BLM is Unforgivable, Killing Jews is Understandable"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}}]}});