Jewish American leftists pandering to Islamo-fascists and BDS anti-Israel thugs; Israeli left-wing politicians coddling radical Arab nationalists sitting in the Israeli Knesset who deny Jews the right to political self-determination i.e. the State of Israel; these are just a couple examples of the ugly hypocritical and dangerous dark-side of Jewish self-hatred and faithlessness.
The Jewish self-hating left both in America and Israel have made an uproar recently condemning Netanyahu and Likud for encouraging the unification of several right-wing religious parties (so as to not loose votes to the center-left) and including within it Otzma Yehudit an ultra-nationalist (that means strongly pro-Jewish and pro-Israel) religious party.
Its gotten so outrageous that even Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) saw the hypocrisy and recently felt the need to push back. If we want to see a Knesset without any radical representatives we need to start with Balad an Arab nationalist party whose former MK Basel Ghattas is sitting in prison for aiding terrorists and then theres Hanin Zoabi of Mavimara fame the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla" in 2010 whom we dont even need to discuss...We need to decide whether the Knesset is open to everyone who has a voter base which sends him to the Knesset or if we need to put boundaries. If and when we decide to put up boundaries Ill be ready to continue the discussion about the radical Jewish right but right now the situation is that Balad which doesnt recognize the State of Israel is part of the Knesset."
In this light lets look at the lessons of this weeks Torah reading Vayakhel.
We find Moses telling the Jewish people that G-d has chosen Betzalel ben (son of) Uri ben Chur to lead the craftsmen in building the desert Tabernacle. G-d has filled him with spirit wisdom insight and knowledge (Exodus 35:30-31).
Why does the Torah give his grandfathers name? Who was Chur? Lets take a look at him. The first time we find Chur hes helping Aaron hold up Moses arms during the battle against Amalek (the embodiment of atheism) in Exodus 17:8-13. The battle against Amalek symbolizes the battle of the Jewish peoples faith in their destiny against surrender and assimilation.
The Rabbis tell us it was Chur a man of spirit who stood up to protest worshiping the Golden Calf and was killed by the faithless mob who had despaired of Moses return (Leviticus Rabbah 10:3).
And who was Churs father? Calev (1 Chronicles 2:19). The same Calev who later with Joshua spied out the land of Canaan and insisted in spite of the other ten spies defeatist attitude that it could be captured. The same Calev who we are told in the Talmud (Sotah 34b) went to pray for help at the Tomb of the Patriarchs the Cave of Machpela in Hebron. Full of faith in G-ds promises to their ancestors Abraham Isaac and Jacob they warned the Jews in the desert dont rebel against G-d and dont fear the enemy the land will be given to the Jewish people. The same Calev who G-d says has a different spirit he followed Me wholeheartedly he I shall bring into the land and his offspring shall inherit it. (Numbers 13:22 30 14:6-9 24).
Chur and Calev were the ultra-nationalist religious Jews of their time. And their descendent Betzalel was rewarded with helping to build the Tabernacle.
We also find in the Torah reading the tribal leaders donating the last items to the tabernacle and for the priestly garments (Exodus 35:27). But Rabbi Natan asks Why did the princes contribute at the beginning of the dedication of the Alter but not at the construction of the Tabernacle?" He answers they said Let the rest of the people bring what they will and then well bring whats missing." He criticizes them for being lazy they should have rushed to bring their donations (Numbers Rabbah 12:16).
Rabbeinu Bechaya on the verse adds its the way of princes to look down on the rest of the nation. Not long ago these tribal princes were lowly slaves but after their appointment to leadership they started looking down on their brothers.
The Talmud (Pesachim 113b) says that four people are intolerable one is the public official who looks down on the rest of the community for no reason.
Thats the nature of radical left-wing Jewish activists and politicians self-appointed leaders" claiming moral superiority they look down upon Amcha" the average people and their faith in G-d and the Torah. Screaming in the name of defense of democracy" they are willing to attack slander and dis-enfranchise other Jews who dont think like them.
The Yesh Atid Party Labor Meretz and the Joint Arab List have signed a motion to disqualify candidates Itamar Ben-Gvir and former MK Michael Ben-Ari of Otzma Yehudit from running in the upcoming elections. To hold a Central Elections Committee discussion twelve signatures are required. Central Elections Committee members represent the outgoing Knesset factions. If the Central Elections Committee does disqualify them it goes to the Israeli Supreme Court.
In response Otzma Yehudit said The cat is out of the bag and it turns out that Gantz and Lapid want to form a government with the votes of terror representatives in the Knesset and winks at them as he joins the request to disqualify Otzma. It wont help them! The unification of the right-wing parties will be the surprise of the elections and in the coming Knesset Dr. Ben-Ari and Attorney Ben-Gvir will also serve and protect the government from the right."
This Jewish leftist self-hatred and faithlessness has now fallen to a new low highlighting the great divide between the universalist/suicidal left and the more particularist/self-preservationist right within the Jewish people globally.
Their attacks against Netanyahu the Likud and the Jewish Home-National Union-Otzma Yehudit list have unmasked the Jewish lefts assimilationist/suicidal proclivites both in America and Israel.
It reminds me of the good Jewish communists" the Yevsektsiya of the 1920s in the former Soviet Union who helped" their brethren. Ripping them from Torah and Mitzvot turning them into Stalins henchmen for re-education" or death and causing three generations of Jews to be turned into atheistic anti-Zionist model Soviet citizens until the 1967 Six-Day-War reawakened their Jewish national consciousness.
Many members of the Yevsektsiya ironically perished in Stalins Great Purge" of 1936-38.
So too in America and Israel today. Jewish and Israeli leftists are running down the Yevsektsiyas path of self-destruction. While hating their Jewish brethren who are true to the Torah and Land of Israel they traffic with Jew haters and anti-Zionists what has been called the new anti-Semitism."
What do they think the Islamo-fascists BDS anti-Israel thugs and the Palestinians" will do to them the Jewish left of today if they are victorious?
Recently leading Religious Zionist Rabbi Chaim Druckman felt it necessary to respond to those on the Religious Zionist Left who claimed the merger with Otzma Yehudit was an immoral move The most moral thing is to save Jews and keep them alive and to ensure no Jew is evicted from settlements. We passed Gush Katif and the folly of uprooting Jews from their homes. We got rockets in Ashkelon. We dont have to worry about saving Jews and preventing their uprooting? Therefore it is immensely virtuous even if its not so pleasant to you and even if others will disparage you. You do something that you believe is in favor of the people of Israel.
Regarding liberal Rabbi Benny Lau calling Otzma Yehudit Nazis Rabbi Druckman said Even with all the expressions that sound so harshly like Nazism refering to Otzmas call to expel Arabs that are treasonous to the State of Israel which actually is an Israeli law stripping citizenship and deportation...After all its been discussed that its forbidden to use anything belonging to the Holocaust. We demand of the youth that they not call a policeman and a soldier Naziduring a settlement expulsion."
How can one say that voting for Jewish Home-National Union-Otzma Yehudit is to vote for Nazism? It is a remark lacking all responsibility. There arent enough words in my mouth to condemn this expression...I refer to the things that were published in his name and them I denounce there can be no such thing. Jews are not Nazis. Jews are Jews even if their worldview is different from mine. I must go against the words that were said but to say this about them its not right and its not moral."
The global Jewish leftist accusation of fascism racism and Nazism toward Otzma Yehudits participation in the upcoming elections debases the memory of those Jews who suffered from real Nazis in the past and suffer from real anti-Semitism today and should be beyond the pale.
And this while they themselves hypocritically cozy up to anti-Semites real fascists Nazis and racists. Yes Arab terrorism against Jews just because they are Jews is racism too.
Jewish Leftist self-hatred has reared its ugly head and its dangerous to us all!
Ariel Natan Pasko an independent analyst and consultant has a Masters Degree specializing in International Relations Political Economy & Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank websites and in newspapers. His latest articles can also be read on his archive: The Think Tank by Ariel Natan Pasko. (c) 2019/5779 Pasko