You Just Might Be A Liberal Jew If…
Posted by jtfdotorg on January 30, 2009
Hat tip: Xoce
1. If you spend more time worrying about whales and dolphins than about Jews, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
2. If you think that the essence of Jewish ethics is supporting the political agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
3. If you think Michael Lerner and Arthur Woodstock of Tikkun magazine are really sensitive or deep thinkers, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
4. If you think the highest priority for your ‘Temple’ is to have a good recycling program, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
5. If you think Clinton was the most pro-Israel president ever, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
6. If you think that American pressure on Israel to make peace is necessary and valuable, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
7. If you think Jews should support affirmative action programs, even though they discriminate against Jews, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
8. If you disapprove of the Rev. Al Sharpton but think he has a good point about Jews being racists, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
9. If you oppose voucher programs for schools and school choice, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
10. If you think Anthony Lewis and Leonard Fein make a lot of good points, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
11. If you approve of the Religious Action Center of the Reform synagogue movement, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
12. If you do not understand why America still needs a strong military, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
13. If you still believe the US should have just let sanctions work in Iraq, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
14. If you still think Nelson Mandela is a hero, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
15. If there’s even the slightest possibility you might vote for Jesse Jackson for any public office, you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
16. If you like to complain about how tough people have it in America, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
17. If you send your kids to a Quaker day school, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
18. If you think all that talk about political correctness suppressing free expression is a myth, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
19. If you seriously doubt that the media are dominated by liberals, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
20. If you donate to the New Israel Fund, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
21. If you think the courts and police are riddled with institutional racism, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
22. If you think Jews should practice zero-population growth because the world is so crowded, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
23. If you think the Israeli settlements are the main obstacle to peace, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
24. If you think that Oslo was basically a sound idea that was applied incorrectly, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
25. If you think Shimon Peres is basically a decent guy with the right agenda, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
Anna said
Great post! Thanks for the laugh/cry.
Mary said
Each and every point is a zinger, but my personal favorite is 18:
“If you think all that talk about political correctness suppressing free expression is a myth, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.”
Deified liberalism is the spawn of political correctness–the mindset promulgated in colleges and universities by smug, self-ongratulating, rigid “liberal intellectuals,” and spread from there like the disease that it is.
Political correctness is the wannabe philosophy that has brought about its own apotheosis: B. Hussein.
Kathrine said
This is a laundry list of liberal idiots adhering to every religion in the US, not just Jews. I think of their dumb ideas as “whistling in the dark”: if we’re the worst people on earth, why then, there is really nothing to worry about, is there? Just go to Ahmadinejad with an “open heart, open mind” (to borrow from the silly United Methodist slogan of recent years), and all those angry, bomb-wearing, decapitators-with-dull-butter-knives will be won over instantly.
Sometimes I think no one earth has ever been so fatally, willfully, stupidly naive as American liberals. They are deeply afraid to realize that once Israel has been incinerated, the global bullies and thugs will be coming for us. By the time they wake up they will be dead like the rest of us.
jtfdotorg said
Hi Kathrine,
Good point. This list is applicable to ALL american liberals. However, as a Jew, I believe that Jews should know better than to support land for peace deals with Israel already being so tiny. But still, there are some Jews who are convinced that Israel is the cause of all the anti-semitism, and that if it goes away, everything will be hunky dory (sp?).
Kathrine said
Yes, every time Israel makes a concession…more Iranian rockets from Gaza. Why people can’t see that astounds me, and true, you would think Jews would see it before anyone else. I guess it’s the persistent, culpable and unfounded hope that appeasing a bully will finally make him like you. What ever is the cause, it is frustrating and infuriating to see people try to rationalize their own annihilation.
Tracy said
hi
just found your site from googling rabbis (to verify spelling in a comment i wrote on article about Israeli rabbis severing ties with Vatican due to Bishop Richard Williamson)
I’ve been so confused lately as to how and why my Jewish friends actually voted for a Farrakhan-supporting douchebag like BObama. I just don’t get it.
anyway, this gentile reads the bible. nObama holds Judea-Christian values my foot. his “church” was based on Black Liberation Theology (as stated on their own damn website). that’s not religion, that’s voodoo.
Kathrine said
Obama is not a Christian, nor a Muslim. Those faiths focus on worship of one personal and all-powerful deity. Obama is an adherent of Black Liberation Theology. But BLT is really just a sect of the American Cult-of-Self-Worship. If you’re black and narcissistic, you can worship yourself all the more because of your skin color.
I agree with you Tracy. What did American Jews not understand about the Obama-Farrakhan love-fest? If that didn’t keep them from voting him in, I have to think they’d vote for Hitler should he somehow run again. Is it more than willful ignorance? Is it a death-wish?
Gad Cohen said
I’m sorry, but Nelson Mandela NOT being a hero? That is ridiculuous. You are disgusting pigs. I am a Jew myself, and I am about to barf all over you.
Mary said
# 8.
No, sonny, you’re not a Jew, just someone brainwashed to be politically correct who once had a bar mitzvah. Barf away, stupid. It will be good practice for when Obama’s “civilian” army puts you in ObamAuschwitz. Now go back to daily kos where you belong.
Mary said
jtf,
Do you know anything about this story? This is just from one of several sources listed on Alta Vista.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/p_williams/2009/02072009.htm
kat in your hat said
February 09, 2009
The Bureaucratic Coup Targeting Hillary and Israel (samantha power, etc)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_bureaucratic_coup_targetin.html
flashback:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5XxXm8wPE
(Samantha Power’s plan is for the USA to switch investing billions of dollars in Israel and to put that money into building Palestine, and to alienate Israel.)
kat in your hat said
@ #11
1/27/08
“Obama and Israel–It Gets Worse”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/2093
2/19/08
Samantha Power and Obama’s Foreign Policy Team
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html
10/5/08
Key Obama adviser called for US military invasion of denuded Israel
http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2018399%3ABlogPost%3A9391
jtfdotorg said
Hi Mary,
Thanks for the link. I’ve been out of town for the past few days. I’ve also been very busy with work stuff, which is why I haven’t been posting that much. But I’ll check this out.
Mary said
Hi jtf,
Uppity found a copy of the “executive” order. As long as I’m giving her credit (very Talmudic), I don’t think she’ll mind if I post the link to her post here, including some responses from her readers.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/fr-doc-e9-2488/#comments
Kathrine said
Mary: regarding the article on resettlement of Palestinians here at taxpayer expense: I believe it. I’ve heard His Majesty has signed off on a whole bunch of sly, controversial leftist executive orders without fanfare, and this is one of them.
So, let’s sort this out: resettle angry refugees from Gaza, here in the ‘States where Jews have been comparatively safe, and turn them loose to do…what they were doing in Gaza? Namely attack Jews.
Obama is really a much bigger problem than even I thought. It does just keep on getting worse.
He’s a repulsive control freak and a murderer, who would deny care to a dying baby. He has access to U.S. classified information. This is much worse than it looked to be on November 4th.
Kathrine said
And by the way, why doesn’t Saudi Arabia take these happy campers in?
Tracy said
regarding the story of the Executive Order to spend $20.3 million in aiding Hamas-supporting Palestinians to the US… it’s true… it’s on the White House website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog_post/relief_for_gaza/
God Save Us All
maybe it is time for the Messiah
leave this fucked up world to the Haters
bernard smith said
wow – it seems, that i’m a liberal jew. and i’m not even jewish.
jtfdotorg said
I should probably change the post to just say “liberal.”
Gary Kaplowitz said
if tou believe giving $900 million to Hamas….
If you believe that the messiah is Potus…..
If you believe that the Dems’ $3.6 million stimulus is OK /can work/has enough tax cuts/won’t kill jobs and the private sector/is Not tyranny/is good for America/has not hurt your retirement or the stock market……
THEN YOU JUST MIGHT BE A JEW HATING, JEWISH PROGRESSIVE MISINFORMED HISTORY FORGETTING Chuck Shumer “Shmuck” Liberal.
Gary Kaplowitz said
Unfortunately 78% of American Jewry voted in these Tyrants and Betrayed Yisrael. They might as well all be Goyim. Thankfully 22% of us are sane. It reminds me of the episode with the golden calf. We’re close enough to Pesach and Simha Torah to talk of the worst sin we, as a people ever made. To believe in a false Idolatrous Diety is to abandon the First Commandment. Yet that’s exactly how these assimilated Jewish Liberals have regarded the Usurper/Marxist chosen one.
Gary Kaplowitz said
Please ask Mr. Netanyahu if he believes I should modify my last comment. If he says so, I shall.
chuckiepie said
I asked my Brooklyn Rabbi for his honest opinion of Rush Limbaugh. As a Man of the Cloth, my Rabbi calmly responded with his customary Wise Words of Wisdom, in his Fair and Balanced way, saying:
“Rush Limbaugh is a “shtick dreck” whose opinions aren’t worth “bupkis”. Why this “ohngeshtupteh vantz” should have the head of the Republican Party kissing his “tukhess” is a question that’s above my pay grade. Rush is a “tseckrokhener, tzebisiner, narisheh trumbenick” — and a “meeskeit”. He’s also a “meshugeneh kvetch”, a “paskudnyak” and a “nudnick.” Anyone with a “yiddishe kup” can see that Rush hasn’t got an ounce of “tzeikhel” in his “poopick”. Rush Limbaugh — “feh!! — pui, pui, pui, pui.”
Please visit my Blog:
“Conservatives Are America’s Real Terrorists”
http://conservativesarecommunistss.blogspot.com/
jtfdotorg said
Chuckiepie, can you or your rabbi give me any factual examples as to how Rush Limbaugh is “drek?” Or are you one of those crazy people who believes all conservatives are fascists?
chuckiepie said
Dear JTFdotorg: I would never say that all Conservatives are Fascists. That’s simply not in my nature. I couldn’t possibly bring myself to think such a thing. Conservatives may be Communists, but they certainly aren’t Fascists.
However, I do believe that Conservatives are RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) —- and DINOS (Dinosaurs, who
belong in the Dustbin of History —- and, as George M. Cohan said: “You can tell ‘em — They’ll Be There Erelong”). And, as Molly Picon said: “Abi Gezunt!”
Please visit my Blog:
“Conservatives Are America’s Real Terrorists”
http://conservativesarecommunistss.blogspot.com/
jtfdotorg said
Chuckie, I actually agree with you that many “conservatives” are nothing but RINOs. John McCain and Former President Bush are but two examples. The Democrats are not what they once were. If JFK was alive today, I’m sure he’d be labeled a right wing nut job. The Democratic party has veered WAAAAY off to the left in recent years.
grappledoctor said
#26 If you think “Barack” (Arabic) sounds like “Ba-ruch” (Hebrew) and therefore voted for Sheik Obama, you just might be a foolish Jewish liberal.
Elaine said
Bravo! You might add: “you might just be related to Geroge Soros.”
HatedOpinionist said
2. If you think that the essence of Jewish ethics is supporting the political agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
I think everyone should do whatever they feel is best, not to criticize but to debate on what is right. Its not being an assimilated Jewish liberal, it’s being your own man/woman.
6. If you think that American pressure on Israel to make peace is necessary and valuable, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
Absolutely, it’s not all about appeasement.
8. If you disapprove of the Rev. Al Sharpton but think he has a good point about Jews being racists, then you just might be an assimilated Jewish liberal.
Sharpton is an advocate for injustices done to african americans the way we would expect Assemblyman Hikind to speak out and advocate injustices against the Jewish community.
jtfdotorg said
Hated Opinionist, you conveniently ignore the fact that Al Sharpton has instigated violence against innocent people resulting in murder. He also slandered an innocent man by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley. Google Freddie’s Fashion Mart and the Crown Heights riots where an innocent Jewish man was stabbed to death by a hysterical mob.
Liora said
This is so depressing, but so true. Im one of the 22% of jews that did not sign on for the Obama-crazy-train. Unfortunately, jews in this country feel little to no connection to Israel, they have a Ghetto Jew mentality that makes them act against their own interests time and time again. I know many of them and argument is futile. Liberals are some of the most stubborn, inflexible, closed minded people.
Sadly, it doesnt matter what happens now – the damage has been done (not just to Israel, but also to this country) and it is irreversible.
jtfdotorg said
I agree with you, Liora. Arguing with these people is futile. Welcome to my blog.
moishe said
the israel lobby must be smashed! israel isn’t so great; it’s a fashist (sic) country, bullying and brutalizing arabs and americans alike.
Bram said
This is such a great site. All of you are right, of course. America should drop whatever else it’s doing and focus all of it’s energies and attention on Israel and Jews, giving them as much money and military support as it can. Obama has absolutely no right to be concerned about silly domestic issues such as health care for the poor, and the like. And of course, Obama (as are all blacks) is an out-and-out anti-semite. In fact, all gentiles are anti-semites.
What a charming bunch of fascists you are.
Sharon said
Obama has some personal issues regarding healthcare that he wants to implement some changes. granted. Why is he more concerned about small Israel fighting for its right to exist rather than the genocide that occured in Sudan??????? Huh Bram? forgot 9/11 maybe? The world closed some eyes during holocaust and we hope that it does not happen again. May we see an end to these atrocities once and for all.