Some Jews Always Are Eager to Abet Jew-Haters

One of the tragic realities of Jewish life is that there never has been a shortage of our own people eager to co-operate with Jew haters.

With scarcely an exception, they comport to a single narrow profile. They are secular, typically deeply involved politically, on the left, and for reasons that are almost always evident, they feel resentful and disenfranchised as Jews. Commonly, this has occurred because they were raised in one of two types of Jewish homes:

Secular, where they went to synagogue one or two days a year, and Judaism never was meaningful to them or

Stiffly religious, where synagogue attendance and adherence to both relevant and arcane rules was imposed without accompanying education. “You will do this”. When they reach adulthood, they flee into the desert of secularism or anti-Jewish activity because the “whys” of Judaism never were explicated.

Frequently out of guilt rather than genuine commitment, these two kinds of Jews will converge and drift into vaguely Jewish organizations that, intentionally or not, damage the Jewish people.

I have not seen it reported in any newspaper that on Jan. 21, 54 Democratic members of Congress — many usual suspects among them — sent a detailed letter to President Obama, urging him to get tough with Israel and bring relief to the suffering 1.5 million “virtually imprisoned” residents of the Gaza Strip. Israel must be punished for its offensive against Gaza 13 months ago, they say.

Such an outrageous characterization of Gaza is a lie comparable in scope to the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

To most reasonable people in the world, it is self-evident that the so-called imprisonment of Gazans is entirely self-imposed.

The odious letter is the brainchild, we are told, of U.S. Rep Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to Congress, and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, a proud, open-faced Jew-hater from Washington state.

Impetus for the letter springs from a conviction of the undersigned that Israel has not yet paid a sufficient price for staging a several-week offensive against the thousands of terrorist nests in Gaza in response to years of rocket firings from Gaza into the Land of Israel.

Not one Jew lives in Gaza.

But the Hamas terrorists who control the rat-hole Gaza has become and their enablers blame Israel for their carefully-scripted, cleverly staged woes.

As I said earlier, you do not have to conduct an ambitious hunt to find Jews willing to publicly hammer fellow Jews, to show Gentiles what morally fair giants they are.

The letter reprinted below was quietly — but rigorously — supported by two despicable, ostensibly “Jewish: organizations:

• J Street, a two-year-old PAC described as a “peace-seeking” group that has the courage to do what its opposite number, the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, does not — rebuke Israel when needed, harshly if necessary, on the world stage where all can see and cheer.

• Americans for Peace Now, another cowardly group of “human rights” activists that loves to slingshot fellow Jews.

Among the signees are 11 members of the California House delegation, including the wretched Big Noise from Nowhere in Particular, Diane Watson, who, mercifully, announced her retirement yesterday. Most of the Californians are so far to the political left they should fall into the ocean. We can only hope.

Here is an apparently complete list of co-sponsoring groups:

J Street, The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), The American Near East Refugee Association (ANERA), The Methodist Church, Americans for Peace Now, The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and Rabbis for Human Rights.

And finally, here is the letter:

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

The unabated suffering of Gazan civilians highlights the urgency of reaching a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we ask you to press for immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza as an urgent component of your broader Middle East peace efforts. The current blockade has severely impeded the ability of aid agencies to do their work to relieve suffering, and we ask that you advocate for immediate improvements for Gaza in the following areas:

* Movement of people, especially students, the ill, aid workers, journalists, and those with family concerns, into and out of Gaza;

* Publication and review of the list of items prohibited to the people of Gaza.

Winter is arriving and the needs of the people grow ever more pressing. For example, the ban on building materials is preventing the reconstruction of thousands of innocent families’ damaged homes. There is also a concern that unrepaired sewage treatment plants will overflow and damage surrounding property and water resources.

Virginia
Glenn Nye