I became your enemy because I tell you the truth
“You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time,
but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” A. Lincoln
By pushing a progressive Liberal agenda, establishment Jewish organizations like the ADL have put the Jewish community m a precarious position. Conservative Americans are justified in crying out against the progressive agenda such as trans indoctrination in the public schools and pervasive online restrictions on freedom of speech. But what are they to think when the ADL, a mainstream Jewish communal organization is leading the way on the opposing side? Is the Jewish community the enemy of traditional values? Thanks to Jews like Greenblatt, it sure looks like it.
Let’s talk about this problem. Merrick Garland, Anthony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, Rochelle Walensky, George Soros, Larry Fink, Mark Zuckerberg, Rachel Levine, Janet Yellen, Adam Schiff, and Jamie Raskin – to name only a few examples – are all Jewish. All are in positions of significant power and are openly enemies of the Right. All hold or have served in positions which they have used to harm the well-being of conservative Americans and the cause of freedom worldwide. I am not claiming that the people in this list are malicious or that all are guilty of criminal activity. But that is exactly the point. My issue is that the ideology that animates their decisions is antithetical to what I believe in as a traditional Orthodox Jew. I fight against what they stand for. Does that make me an anti-semite?
In Judaism, there is a concept called chilul Hashem, literally, desecration of the Name of God. This term is used to describe, among other things, any time a Jew behaves in a way that brings shame to the Jewish community and causes Jews and Judaism to look bad in the eyes of outsiders. The reason this is an apt description is that the purpose of the Jewish people, going all the way back to Sinai and God’s covenant with Abraham, is to be a kingdom of priests and holy nation (Ex. 19:3). In other words, we are called to teach the world about God and the values He wants from humanity. That is our mission. Jews like those I listed above, do just the opposite. Rather than promoting God’s values, they desecrate them. And by pushing the extreme progressive agenda opposed by most Americans, rather than fighting anti-semitism, they encourage it.
It’s time for Orthodox Jews to correct this state of affairs by declaring loudly and clearly that groups like the ADL and Jews like Soros, Levine, and Schiff do not represent us. We must make it clear that we want nothing to do with their agenda, that we, alongside our Christian allies, are fighting them every step of the way.
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki is cohost of Israel365 News’s Shoulder to Shoulder podcast and a weekly contributor to Israel36
All it takes for Evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing
Michael Loyman