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The problem with most leadership is that it begins by standing up to the elites and then, over time, becomes part of the elitist's.
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The urgent need for Jewish leadership
It's time Jews told their diaspora leaders to wake up
By Melanie Phillips
Bar Kochba revolt; Arthur Szyk, 1894-1951
Diaspora Jews worry about how to deal with the current tsunami of antisemitism that is washing through the world.
They also worry about how to deal with the anti-Zionism and demonisation of Israel that are now the default position for “progressives” in the west.
Most painful of all, they observe with horror that Jews themselves are increasingly involved in the onslaught against Israel.
However, there’s a problem that’s even more fundamental to the wellbeing of the Jewish people. It’s that diaspora Jews are increasingly turning away from and even against Judaism itself.
Throughout the diaspora, Jewish communities are dwindling in number as assimilation takes its toll. Nowhere is this more acute in America, where it takes a particularly baleful form.
Many American Jews haven’t just become detached from Judaism. They have embraced the sectarian ideologies of “social justice” that are in fact inimical to Judaism — but which they nevertheless tell themselves are Jewish values.
They call these “tikkun olam”, claiming they accord with the Jewish concept of repairing the world. In fact, they profoundly distort “tikkun olam,” which is premised on the belief in God that these liberal Jews generally dismiss as irrelevant or an impediment to social progress.
Core Jewish principles involve putting others’ interests before your own, respecting every human being and observing moral codes based on right and wrong. By contrast, the social justice agenda places the individual at the centre of existence so that objective truths are replaced by subjective opinions, feelings trump moral codes and duties are replaced by rights.
Britain’s Jewish community, which is dwindling more gently, is different. Although many British Jews are socially liberal, they have never claimed the social justice agenda as a Jewish moral code. In general elections, moreover, the majority actually vote Conservative.
This is even though most British Jews who arrived from eastern Europe in the early twentieth century brought with them, just like their American cousins, a deep attachment to labour movement and even communist politics.
And just as American Jews came to identify the Republican party with antisemitism, British Jews formerly regarded the Conservative party as prejudiced against Jews while Labour was seen for decades as their natural home.
So why the difference over Jewish values? Maybe the reason is that, despite the antisemitism that always bubbles below the surface in any western society, America was a salad of cultures and ethnicities.
Unlike Britain, whose indigenous and ancient culture meant that — however assimilated Jews became — they always felt themselves at some level to be outsiders, American Jews believed they were as American as anyone else.
Since the essence of Jewish identity is to be distinct from everyone else, this laid the groundwork for an existential conflict between Jewishness and Americanness. For the majority, this would only be resolved by hollowing out their Jewishness into a cosmetic but meaningless shell.
I discussed this neuralgic issue on this week’s JNS podcast with Rabbi Cary Kozberg, a Reform rabbi who has broken with the Reform movement over what he considers to be its embrace of the anti-Jewish values of the social justice agenda.
Although Conservative Judaism now marches to a similar tune, Kozberg believes that the onslaught on Jewish principles has been driven by Reform.
What worries him so much is that we’ve seen all this before.
Around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, Greek culture — or Hellenism — attracted many Jews tempted by the opportunity to embrace hedonism and pagan decadence. Worse still, this caused divisions between Jews that fatally weakened the community and made it vulnerable to its external enemies who wanted the Jewish people gone.
Kozberg’s deepest fear is that American Jews are repeating this baleful history. The tragedy is that they don’t realise it because they don’t actually know the history of their own people.
This ignorance isn't confined to progressive Jews. Among the young, even those who come from orthodox backgrounds and have been through Jewish day schools and Jewish camps and so on are often astonishingly ignorant of what is necessary to keep the generational Jewish show on the road.
They tend to be taught from a narrow template of rabbinical texts and halachic ordinances. Whether orthodox or progressive, the young aren’t generally taught much Jewish history, nor how Jewish moral principles can enrich their own personal lives and help surmount the pressures of modern existence.
They aren’t taught that Jewish precepts are absolutely foundational to western values such as freedom, compassion and even rationality.
They aren’t taught why the Jewish emphasis on making distinctions between things is so vital to a moral sense, and how this runs directly counter to prevailing secular orthodoxies of equity and non-discrimination.
They aren’t taught about the importance and centrality of Jewish uniqueness, and that what drives certain Jews to turn against the Jewish people is their anxiety to erase that uniqueness from their identity and sign up instead to the prevailing consensus.
They aren’t taught that Judaism is joyous and life-enhancing, so that it can make their own lives more satisfying and optimistic.
In short, young diaspora Jews are taught precious little about what has kept Jews together as a people despite overwhelming pressures, and why this is so valuable and important for these young Jews themselves.
Two things need to change if the Jewish people is properly to defend itself. Jews need to be taught better about their own people, culture and history. And there needs to be a more effective strategy to fight their enemies by getting off the defensive back foot and onto a pro-active and aggressive front foot.
Precious little of this is done at present because the diaspora leadership is woefully inadequate: timid, servile and anxious to fit in.
In Britain, Jewish leaders publicly fought the far-left Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn because they felt safe in the knowledge that most people in the country reviled him as a dangerous extremist.
But they refuse to fight Muslim antisemitism for fear of being called “Islamophobic”. Nor will they declare the demonstrable legitimacy of Israeli residency in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria — not least because so many of these leaders are ignorant of this themselves.
In America, Jews are increasingly living in a state of siege. Jews have been murdered in Pittsburgh, San Diego and Jersey City. Visibly Jewish pedestrians are beaten regularly in the streets of American cities and towns.
Jewish students are bullied and harassed on campus. The Democratic party exhibits either indifference to all this or even tolerates the virulent anti-Jewish prejudice in “The Squad” of congresswomen.
American Jewish leaders either lend support to such people and their ideologies, or else behave like rabbits frozen in the headlights. Now a grassroots movement has just launched to hold their feet to the fire
The Jewish Leadership Project has a ten-point “action list” to mobilise a more effective Jewish defence. It demands that major Jewish organisations “cease subordinating the safety and welfare of the Jewish-American community to partisan ideology”.
The project’s co-founder, Avi Goldwasser, said: “Many once-venerable Jewish organisations have primarily become front groups for progressive political interests. The significant danger the Jewish community faces today is an indictment of these institutions and their leadership.”
All over the west, people have been left left demoralised and disillusioned by an entire political establishment that appears determined to send western civilisation off the edge of the cliff.
They’ve been rising up against this using whatever opportunities come their way. In Britain, it was Brexit; in America, it was the election of former president Donald Trump.
It’s time the Jewish people told their own diaspora leaders “enough is enough”, and demand they start properly to defend the Jewish people rather than their own exalted positions.
Jewish News Syndicate
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Radicals, who hate and want to defeat this country, take the long road. They cannot do so from without so focus doing so from within. They know teaching the next generation is their best hope because, as we say ourselves, a nation divided cannot stand and with an increasing illegal and questionable population we become more unstable and vulnerable as a nation.
They know by targeting the young their influence has more impact and success. This is why Soros' focus has been on obscure AG elections. Select the "softest -underbelly."
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Why Biden is in the camp that hates Israel:
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Breitbart - ZOA: Biden Joins Obama & Carter as One of ‘Most Hostile Presidents Toward Israel’
By Joshua Klein
(JULY 19, 2022 / BREITBART) President Joe Biden is one of the “most hostile presidents toward Israel,” according to Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein, who blasted the U.S. president’s receiving a major award from Israel during his stay in the Middle East in light of his numerous policies undermining Israel’s sovereignty and security, including the distribution of hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars that will go towards aiding and abetting Palestinian terror.
Following the president’s visit to Israel last week, the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization released an exclusive statement to Breitbart News addressing Biden’s reception in the Jewish state as well as his failed foreign policies in the region.
“Last week, Israel wrongly gave President Biden a major award, the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor, for his great lifetime ‘friendship’ with Israel,” Klein said. “But Biden has joined the ranks of former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter as one of the most hostile American presidents toward Israel.”
Klein also recalled the president’s history of anti-Israel positions.
“Early in his career, Biden regularly threatened to end aid to Israel if it built Jewish homes in eastern Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria, and had even issued public condemnations for any subsequent construction in those locations,” he said.
“Biden also regularly voted for anti-Israel nominees to important posts,” he added.
He then panned the president for pushing the Jewish state to accept a Palestinian state based on “suicidal” conditions.
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Trump is loyal only to himself. This is the risk facing The GOP. If he loves the nation, as he professes, he will fall on his own sword. Ain't likely to happen. As certain new companies have come to be known, he is a disrupter.
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Opinion Trump’s GOP support is falling. He’d better hope for a crowded field in 2024.
By Marc A. Thiessen
Former president Donald Trump on July 9 in Anchorage. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Former president Donald Trump says he has made a decision about whether to run in 2024, though he won’t say when he will announce it. But he warns that if he does run, there will be a “backlash” against anyone who challenges him for the nomination. “People want me to run,” he says.
Fewer and fewer. In October 2021, a Quinnipiac University poll found that an overwhelming 78 percent of Republicans said they wanted to see Trump run in 2024. By February, that share had slipped to 69 percent in a CBS News-YouGov poll. In June, it was down to 53 percent, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll. And last week, a New York Times-Siena College poll found that just 49 percent of Republicans say they would support Trump for a third nomination, while a 51 percent majority wants someone else.
That is a 29-point decline over the past nine months. Trump still has more support than any potential challenger, but more and more Republicans are considering alternatives for 2024.
What’s going on? For one thing, Trump is focused on the wrong things, such as seeking revenge against those he feels betrayed him after the 2020 election. Most Republicans don’t share his lust for vengeance. The CBS-YouGov poll found that 66 percent approve of Vice President Mike Pence’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, while just 34 percent agree with Trump that Pence should have obstructed Congress from certifying the election. Only 42 percent want to support primary opponents for those who were “disloyal” to Trump while a 48 percent plurality say that we should “accept those members’ views within the party.” Trump is still spending time on re-litigating the 2020 election, while most Republicans are focused on the serial disasters that President Biden has unleashed on the country since the 2020 election.
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Second, there is growing concern that Trump may be the only Republican who could lose to Biden in 2024. Biden is the most unpopular president since Harry S. Truman. His approval rating in the New York Times-Siena poll is just 33 percent. Yet that same poll shows Biden beating Trump in a 2024 rematch, 44 percent to 41 percent. Meanwhile, the RealClearPolitics average shows Trump leading Biden by just 2.5 points. The fact that Trump is either losing or statistically tied with a president who is failing so badly even the majority of Democrats don’t want him to run again should be a major red flag for the GOP.
None of this means Trump can’t win the nomination. In 2016, Trump won the New Hampshire primary with just 35 percent of the vote and then won South Carolina with just 32.5 percent. Indeed, he never broke 50 percent in any GOP primary until New York on April 19 — by which time the field had cleared of all but two opponents, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich. He won the 2016 nomination by prevailing over a divided field with the support of about one-third of Republican primary voters. He could do so again in 2024.
Indeed, we can see this phenomenon playing out again with Trump endorsements in the 2022 midterms. In Ohio, Trump’s imprimatur put J.D. Vance over the top in the Republican Senate primary. But Vance won with 32 percent of the vote — which means 68 percent of Ohio Republicans voted for someone other than Trump’s candidate. Indeed, Vance already had 10 percent support before Trump endorsed him, so Trump’s endorsement moved about two in 10 Republican voters — enough to prevail in a crowded field but only a small fraction of the GOP electorate.
The same is true in Pennsylvania, where Trump’s endorsement helped Mehmet Oz squeeze out a narrow victory over David McCormick. Oz won with 31 percent of the vote, which means 69 percent of Republicans did not follow Trump’s lead. And Oz already had 16 percent support when Trump endorsed him, which means Trump’s endorsement helped deliver just 15 percent of Republican primary voters.
In the Georgia governor’s race, by contrast, Trump’s handpicked candidate — former U.S. senator David Perdue — was trounced by Gov. Brian Kemp (R) 74 to 22 percent. As in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Trump’s endorsement moved about two in 10 GOP voters — or less. But unlike in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Trump’s endorsed candidate faced a single credible opponent, not a crowded field, and lost.
What this suggests is that if Trump again faces a divided field, with a dozen or more major candidates, he will likely prevail. Indeed, rather than trying to dissuade other Republicans from challenging him for the nomination, Trump should hope for a crowded field — which would allow him to win with a plurality of GOP voters. And for the Republican majority who want someone else as their standard-bearer, they will need to rally around a single candidate, or see Trump prevail.
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It is sad but neither candidate to become a US The Senator from Georgia are qualified to occupy the office.
My own candidate, Latham Saddler, was imminently qualified based on education, military service (SEAL,) accomplishments in highly sensitive jobs (Intelligence), and was A White House Fellow ( I served as a Member of The Commission). However Latham had little public recognition yet, whenever he spoke he won the audience over. I knew, when I supported him his odds were totally against him but I am always willing to back losers who are true winners.
We are have been electing popular incompetents for decades. A bar tender on one of the critical committees, a lunatic, Maxine Waters, is chairman of one of the key committees in The House, a senile president and an equally incompetent V.P and I have just begun.
America is full of competent potential candidates for public office but they do not serve because they do not want their reputations destroyed by a worthless and biased media and engage in politics at a period of such contentiousness.
Finally:
If you believe there is no concerted effort by ideologues, with communist leanings, actively engaged in seeking to destroy our republic then you are asleep at the switch. They operate behind the screen, are funded by our adversaries, are radical and have penetrated every institution in our nation.
If we do not change what is happening and take swift measures against these traitors we will lose what we have enjoyed for nearly 3 centuries - a variety of freedoms unlike any ever experienced in the world history.
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