The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer: Jewish Trump Voters Must Be Shunned

Dave Sussman
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As a Jew who usually finds it hard to be offended by idiotic, emoting leftists spewing irrational assertions, this may be one of the vilest, most deranged and dangerous things I have read. The Atlantic’s columnist Franklin Foer (former editor of The New Republic) essentially casts blame for the Pittsburgh horror on Conservative Jews.

In Donald Trump’s abhorrence for globalism and in his inability to smack down David Duke, it was easy to hear the ominous chords of history, to see how he was activating dormant hatreds with his conspiratorial tropes.

This is a President that fulfilled his promise to move the American Embassy to Israel’s capital, Jeruselum. This is a President that has reversed Obama’s capitulation on the Iranian regime who’s mullahs refuse to accept Israel as a legitimate nation and continually call for Jews to be pushed out to sea. This is a President who has a Jewish daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren. A man who prayed at the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish spot on earth.

Of course, this was not every corner of the Jewish community. After the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Gary Cohn couldn’t bring himself to resign from his job. After Squirrel Hill, Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson will likely stand their ground.

To equate white supremacists and their horrific, hateful action to President Trump’s words is the act of desperate politicos who will use their own warped perception as proof of what is in Trump’s heart. We don’t just see this in the formerly thoughtful pages of The Atlantic, but across much of the mainstream media where talking-heads have become cheerleaders against 50 percent of their own country.

Leftists already decided in 2015 this President was a racist, homophobic anti-semite. No matter how many times Trump condemns hate, no matter how many ways Trump said he has nothing to do with lunatics like David Duke or believes in any of their rhetoric, the Left will perpetuate their false narrative.

Up until this paragraph, Foer was repeating irresponsible Leftist talking points which most on the right barely even register anymore.

Until this:

Any strategy for enhancing the security of American Jewry should involve shunning Trump’s Jewish enablers. Their money should be refused, their presence in synagogues not welcome. They have placed their community in danger.

What Foer is saying is that Jews must now be held to a litmus test: Vote for this President and you shall be cast out of our Jewish community.

Foer has determined himself, and those he agrees with, as the arbiters of who can remain a practicing Jew in good standing permitted to enter our houses of worship.

This is contemptuous and abhorrent. It’s not what Judaism believes, neither religiously and culturally.

Franklin Foer has taken the horror of Squirrel Hill (a synagogue only a few miles from the synagogue where I was married in 1997) and used that to confirm his worldview; That this anti-globalist has awakened and radicalized anti-semites and others intent on committing deranged actions. That the blood of Squirrel Hill is on this President’s hands.

Cowardly keyboard warriors like Foer are far more dangerous to Judaism than what we just witnessed in Pittsburgh. The heinous acts of the killer are now being used against other Jews who support the duly elected leader Foer and his like-minded thinkers hate.

This line of thinking is not dissimilar to collaborating with the Nazis in WW2 if Foer disagreed with the Jewish leader of his own ghetto.

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  1. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    6:42 AM EDT ⋅ Oct 31, 2018

    Kevin Schulte (View Comment):

    Shunning, breaking financially, then tossing into the void is a short step to a gulag.

    After everyone Mr. Foer hated was tossed in, his friends on the left would toss him in, next.

    Useful fool is he.

    History is rhyming:

    A Yevsektsiyawas a Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party. These sections were established in fall of 1918 with consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry communist revolution to the Jewish masses….

    The stated mission of these sections was the “destruction of traditional Jewish life, the Zionist movement, and Hebrew culture”. The Yevsektsiya sought to draw Jewish workers into the revolutionary organisations; chairman Semyon Dimanstein, at the first conference in October 1918, pointed out that, “when the October revolution came, the Jewish workers had remained totally passive … and a large part of them were even against the revolution. The revolution did not reach the Jewish street….”.

    History

    [Snip]

    The Yevsektsiya deemed Russian Zionist organisations to be counter-revolutionary, and agitated for them to be shut down. Delegates to a Zionist congress in March 1919 complained at administrative harassment of their activities – not from government agencies, but from Jewish communists. At the Yevsektsiya’s second conference in July 1919, it demanded that the Zionist organisations be dissolved. After an appeal from the Zionists, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree in that the Zionist organisation was not counter-revolutionary and its activities should not be disrupted. The campaign continued, however. In 1920, the first All-Russian Zionist Congress was disrupted by members of the Cheka and a female representative of the Yevsektsiya. At its third conference in July 1921, the Yevsektsiya demanded the “total liquidation” of Zionism.

    According to Richard Pipes, “in time, every Jewish cultural and social organization came under assault”. Acting together with local Soviet authorities, Evsektsii organized seizures of synagogues in Gomel, Minsk and Kharkov, which were subsequently converted to clubs or Communist centers. They particularly fought against the efforts of the sixth Chabad Rabbi R’ Yosef Yitchak Schnersohn who urged his Chasidim to resist to their last drop of blood attempts to uproot religion which went against Communist ideology, causing many of them to be arrested and sometimes killed, eventually causing the arrest of the Rebbe himself in 1927.

    The Yevsektsiya attempted to use its influence to cut off state funds to Habima Theatre, branding it counter-revolutionary. The theatre left Russia to go on tour in 1926, before settling in Mandatory Palestine in 1928 to become Israel’s national theatre.

    The Yevsektsii were disbanded as no longer needed in 1929. Many leading members perished in the Great Purge. Chairman Dimanstein was arrested in 1938 and executed. He was rehabilitated posthumously in 1955, two years after the death of Joseph Stalin.

    In 2017,

    Bhaskar Sunkara, a former DSA vice chair and Jacobin Magazine publisher, ran a GoFundMe fundraiser to “Internationalize the DSA Convention”.

    It is an irrelevant coincidence that

    … The fundraiser’s banner included the Soviet flag waving from a rifle barrel.

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  2. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    12:45 PM EDT ⋅ Nov 1, 2018

    Justin Hertog (View Comment):

    Foer is very naive if he takes Bowers’s words at face value. Bowers is one of those people who would have signed-up for the SS to murder Jews in Nazi Germany. Had Bowers lived in Germany in the 1930s, he would have had a government job killing Jews. He’s an anti-Semite with a genocidal ideology. Plain and simple. Bowers may have hated the synagogue’s work with HIAS, but it’s a distraction if you think that’s what set him off. Bowers is a Nazi. What I’m saying is this: forget HIAS. HIAS a pretext. Bowers is a Nazi.

    It’s Foer’s attachment to what the mass murderer misleadingly wrote on Facebook that leads him to cheaply point the finger at Jews who happen to disagree with his policy preferences on the matter of immigration, and to suggest that the President, who intends to secure the border in order to protect the United States and to fulfill his Constitutional oath to do the same, is somehow to blame for “activating [Bowers’s] dormant hatreds.”

    How cheap moral superiority is these days.

    I hope this doesn’t make you start to feel even wore but an actual headline from the National Review’s website today states this:

    The Pittsburgh Massacre Wasn’t Trump’s Fault, but He’s Not Helping

    See how clever they are? I don’t remember this kind of thing regarding any other President in my lifetime. No publication ever wrote: “LBJ (or Nixon) didn’t create the rioting in Detroit, but they aren’t helping either.”

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  3. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    1:13 PM EDT ⋅ Nov 1, 2018

    CarolJoy (View Comment):

    Justin Hertog (View Comment):

    Foer is very naive if he takes Bowers’s words at face value. Bowers is one of those people who would have signed-up for the SS to murder Jews in Nazi Germany. Had Bowers lived in Germany in the 1930s, he would have had a government job killing Jews. He’s an anti-Semite with a genocidal ideology. Plain and simple. Bowers may have hated the synagogue’s work with HIAS, but it’s a distraction if you think that’s what set him off. Bowers is a Nazi. What I’m saying is this: forget HIAS. HIAS a pretext. Bowers is a Nazi.

    It’s Foer’s attachment to what the mass murderer misleadingly wrote on Facebook that leads him to cheaply point the finger at Jews who happen to disagree with his policy preferences on the matter of immigration, and to suggest that the President, who intends to secure the border in order to protect the United States and to fulfill his Constitutional oath to do the same, is somehow to blame for “activating [Bowers’s] dormant hatreds.”

    How cheap moral superiority is these days.

    I hope this doesn’t make you start to feel even wore but an actual headline from the National Review’s website today states this:

    The Pittsburgh Massacre Wasn’t Trump’s Fault, but He’s Not Helping

    See how clever they are? I don’t remember this kind of thing regarding any other President in my lifetime. No publication ever wrote: “LBJ (or Nixon) didn’t create the rioting in Detroit, but they aren’t helping either.”

    NR is helping, but… who is it helping?

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