Jewish Division in the Face of Anti-Semitism

Hat tip JJ


Boston-based Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) has an article in the Jerusalem Post outlining the divisions within the American Jewish community when it comes to anti-Semitism.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=338947

I have met Jacobs and agree with his assessment. Locally here in Orange County, the ADL has been missing in action when it comes to the problems on the UC Irvine campus. The Orange County Jewish Federation has been an obstacle to all our efforts to bring public awareness to the UCI problems. Hillel has generally declined to get involved. In Jacobs' own case, he has been excoriated by Boston Jewish leadership when he tried to bring attention to the radical connections of the Islamic Cultural center of Roxbury. Then came the Boston attack at the hands of the Brothers Tsarnaev, who sprang from the Roxbury mosque's sister mosque in Cambridge. Similarly, efforts by APT to protest Saudi-funded anti-Israel textbooks in Newton, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) have been countered by ADL.

Jacobs also refers to several liberal Christian churches who have aligned themselves with the anti-Israel forces. Among them I could mention the Presbyterian Church USA and its connection with Sabeel, and local churches like the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. They are all covered in shame at a time when Christians and Jews should be linking arms.

But it is not just Christians. The foes of Israel have shrewdly managed to enlist radical leftist Jews, like Jewish Voice for Peace and individuals like Norman Finkelstein, Hedy Epstein, and so many other misguided folks.

Should, God forbid, that second Holocaust ever occur, there will be many Jews who will have blood on their hands for their refusal to stand up for their co-religionists.