Not a day goes by where I am not bombarded through email, social media, or in person by the farcical notion of ‘Jewish unity.’ The latest of which was on Facebook where a woman tagged me in a post by the liberal Columbia Professor, Shai Davidai, who is not remorseful for voting for an antisemitic party whose policies led to the Jewish genocide last year. When I asked her nicely to untag me, she railed into me about ‘Jewish unity.’ I had had enough, and replied that I have zero intention of ever ‘uniting’ with self-hating Jews who caused the Jewish genocide on October. 7th. And that aside from the near 200 years of the United Monarchy (the rule which spanned Kings Saul, David, and Solomon), there was never Jewish unity, and for good reason. If there were, we as Jews, as a distinct ethnicity and race would never have survived this long.
I say this as a former misinformed, self-hating Jew.
Studying actual history does wonders to put things into reality and accurate perspective.
Let’s work backwards to explain why Jewish unity is not real. On October 7th, and for the remainder of October of last year, I did feel united with almost all Jews – except the ones who were on the side of Hamas and the entire terrorist supporting population in Gaza. Like one female Israeli comedian who was posting videos with a pro-terrorist Arab. When the Arab terrorist supporter asked the Israeli woman, is it true that Israeli women were raped in the ‘attack’ – as if it was some minor incursion, the Israeli woman, said yes, but, “that rape is what happens in war.” I was dumbfounded. Not only did she minimize what occurred, but failed to share that women were not just brutally gang-raped but also raped with knives, machine guns, pelvises broken, some women had breasts cut off after being raped. Or the Israeli and American Jew extreme leftists who felt that October 7th was ‘punishment’ for the ‘occupation’ and ‘torture’ of the ‘Palestinians’ – and they were not talking about actual Palestinians, Jews who lived IN Israel from 136 AD – 1948.
November of 2023 rolled in, and I, like many Jews, in fact, nearly 300,000 American Jews attended the DC Rally for Israel. I knew that the event was organized by a liberal group, but I came despite that, and attended with a very open heart. In fact, I came alone as most of my friends have young children and could not attend. I ended up befriending a family from North Carolina, who within the first hour of the 3 hours we spent together, gladly told me they hated Republicans. But hey, we were there for Israel, so I kept my mouth mostly shut on any political rebuttals.
It was a truly unifying rally, with speeches from hostage families, Democrat politicians, some Republican ones, and the slew of slogan Zionists, who all used antisemitic terminology, and who lied that there are ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza. Still, through all that, we all clapped and were briefly hopeful. And then, that very evening, as many of us were heading back to our respective homes, the Democrats all voted against a stand-alone Israel aid bill. The very Democrats that were invited to speak at the rally and all said nice words, followed up, as usual, with antisemitic actions.
And this was the pattern for decades. Jews who voted for Jihad Joe knew that he was anti-Israel, that he was going to continue Obama’s policies. This included re-funding ALL the terrorist organizations that President Trump had de-funded, and re-arming Iran through massive sanctions relief. Jihad Joe flew to Israel, said a few words of niceties to pander to gullible Jews following October. 7th, and then it was back to strong-arming Israel through aid withholding, weapons withholding, and diplomatic bashing. Oh, and still, despite a Jewish genocide, Jihad Joe and his minions of Jewish supporters did not drop the antisemitic ‘2 state solution’ push – despite there being an actual occupier state in the Jewish homeland, since 1922, thanks to Churchill, and it is called Jordan.
We all know the horrid Obama years and his push to divvy up what is left of Israel to appease Arab occupier terrorists, and to split our unified capital of Jerusalem.
Prior to Obama, Democrat Jews were applauding Clinton and his antisemitic Oslo Terrorist Accords. The very Accords that gave away 2/3rds of our actual ancestral heartland, Judea & Samaria, and to add to the insult, placed a terrorist group (the Palestinian Authority, part of the PLO) in charge of Areas A & B. And yet, to this day, there are major Jewish organizations who have the audacity to invite Dennis Ross as speaker, after all the damage he helped bring about, thousands of murdered Jews, including Oct. 7th martyrs, directly because of the Terrorist Accords.
Carter blamed Israel’s legal Jewish communities, which antisemites call ‘settlements’ as a roadblock to peace. He didn’t stop there. Carter also added in the imaginary ‘Apartheid’ in Israel as to why Israel should be hated, and of course he leveled ‘human rights abuses’ charges against Israel. Carter’s favorable actions towards the Ayatollah was a diabolical plot against Israel, America, and the majority of Iranians who were not radical.
And there are Jews, to this day, who defend FDR despite his horrific actions (turning away not just a 900-person boat of refugee Jews, but denying numerous visas to Jews; in total only 1,000 Jews were able to enter the U.S during the Nazi years) against Jews attempting to escape Nazi Europe. Or his refusal to bomb the train tracks leading to the very well-known to FDR and Churchill, concentration camps. The antisemitic actions of Churchill can fill an entire book, but this is a great start.
Politics aside, there were the Jewish kapos who helped kill Jews during WWII. I’ve heard of the kapos, but never paid much attention, until I attended a very moving Yom HaShoah event at a Greek synagogue this past spring. Greek-Jewish kapos were mentioned strongly, that they snitched almost immediately to the German occupiers about the location of Jews throughout Greece. Once the war finished, kapos throughout Europe were put on trial by Jews and dealt with accordingly. However, the Greek-Jewish kapos never had trials and for good reason. Those Jews who were able to remain or returned to Greece, hunted down the kapos and their families, and executed them.
We now view the Haganah with pride, but those who read actual history, do not see the Haganah as favorably. At every turn, they worked against the more anti-British Irgun. The Haganah even helped the British occupiers arrest Irgun members, and together with the Jewish Agency, lied that there was a massacre at Deir Yessin, setting an avalanche of antisemitic sentiment for decades to come. Then there was the Altalena incident which resulted in 19 Jews killed, at the helm of David Ben-Gurion’s orders, all to not share weapons with the Irgun. The Irgun also wanted to expel all the Arabs. The Haganah refused. We see where that decision landed Israel.
If there was Jewish unity, we as a people would not have survived into modern times. These days, Chanukkah, is watered down to a ‘festival of lights’ but Chanukkah was a Zionist military celebration after 25 years of intense battle, not just against the Seleucid Empire, but more so against the Hellenized Jews. The majority of the battles the Maccabees fought were against Jews. The Maccabees knew that if the Hellenized Jews were not stopped, we would have been fully assimilated and thus, not only our peoplehood would be erased, but also our faith would be completely extinguished.
I also feel no unity with most of the leftist Jews of Israel. I say most because I know that many who were murdered and kidnapped during the Jewish genocide, were to the left. None deserved what happened, despite their politics. There still is a Jewish connection to all Jews in terms of wanting safety for our people.
The leftist Jews of Israel protesting Judicial Reform for months on end, who were much against the safety of Jews in Judea & Samaria – not united with them whatsoever. I lost count how many slogan Zionists were part of those marches, who were even identifying as ‘pro Palestine’ in the antisemitic sense, or who called Arab occupiers in Gaza, the very sub-humans who would murder them in a second, and did murder Israelis, as helpers to Hamas on Oct. 7th, their ‘brothers and sisters.’
I do not feel united with the Jews of Tel Aviv, who, prior to this war, when Hamas was raining down missiles on their city, were ignoring the safety of Jews down south. I remember going out for cocktails in 2018 in Tel Aviv, when Hamas was targeting the south, to the point where a friend was worried about her wedding moving forward in that area, and when I voiced concern over Jews who lived in the Gaza envelope, particularly, the Jews at the cafe said, oh don’t worry, nothing is here so who cares. No unity with them. I also felt zero unity with the Jews on my last organized trip to Israel, with the American Friends of Magen David Adom, who, when I was concerned about a series of terrorist attacks that occurred in Judea & Samaria, said, oh, ‘it’s over the Green line.’ Seriously? As if some antisemitic imaginary line should lessen our concern over our fellow Jews, because those Jews choose to live in our actual ancestral heartland. And nearly all those trip participants were for the antisemitic ‘2 state solution.’
I wish I could feel unified with all Jews, truly it would be easier, but knowing the very real damage that self-hating Jews have done throughout our history, it is impossible to feel unified. For thousands of years, our people have had a fifth column working against our survival. Perhaps one day that will change, but sadly, not even a very recent horrific Jewish genocide was able to halt the fifth column.
AIPAC recently wasted $14 million to ‘defeat’ Jamaal Bowman. Why is defeat in singular quotes? Because there is no actual difference between the Progressives and the rest of the Democrat party. There are very few exceptions who loudly push back on the anti-Israel messaging; only John Fetterman (a non-Jew) and Jared Moskowitz (D – FL), also a Junior Congressman, come to mind. Just like Hamas is not some ‘outsider’ to Gaza; literally came from within the Arab occupier population, so too, did the Squad come from within the Democrat politicians. The Progressives of the party are not more ‘radical’ – they are just willing to do the party’s loud bidding; so that ‘moderates’ can hoodwink Jews especially into thinking it is the Progressives only that are the issue.
It does not matter if George Latimer wins Bowman’s seat, when his vote is needed, he will vote lockstep with the antisemitic party. And therein lies the issue with AIPAC.
I was part of AIPAC for two full years, and I wish I could take back my time and money wasted.
The first major issue with AIPAC is that it pretends to be pro-Israel without knowing what Israel wants or needs. For instance, AIPAC has been strong arming Israel into a dangerous two ‘state’ solution (Israel is not a state, it is a sovereign country) for decades. It dangerously dangles the ‘2 state solution’ carrot to Congress. If only we give Israel $3.8 billion for weapons, when America benefits from that deal grossly more than Israel, as Israel has to retrofit most of the weapons, dangerously power down its own weapons production, and share the research & development for free with the U.S., then Israel will do what we want.
If only you politicians will stop Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Israel will stop building ‘settlements’ aka legal Jewish communities.
Prior to the Jewish genocide, over 80% of Israelis were against the antisemitic 2 state solution. Today, that number has greatly increased. So where does AIPAC get off making policy promises on behalf of Israel.
Why was AIPAC not pushing for the U.S recognition of Jerusalem as the Jewish capital?
In recent decades, the only positive pro-Israel policies came from outside of AIPAC – the Taylor Force Act, not AIPAC drafted. Or President’s Trump expanding the Civil Rights Act’s Title VI to include Jews as a protected race – also not AIPAC’s doing. Instead, AIPAC, which turned massively to the left in recent years, is nothing more than a yearly conference, where mostly anti-Israel politicians are invited to pander to gullible Jews.
There is no benefit to having AIPAC. Many non-Jews see it as a Jewish cabal and more Jews, who get what is going on, see it as a massive waste of money and deceitful misrepresentation.
I remember being forced to donate to Democrat campaigns, was promised it was ‘for the good of Israel’ and never saw an ROI on those political contributions, as the candidates would not do AIPAC’s bidding when it came to votes. Also, AIPAC wholly fails to educate the politicians on the history of Israel during lobbying efforts, and continuously uses antisemitic terminology. According to AIPAC, Israel was ‘founded’ in 1948. That right there, tells you everything there is to know about the failure of AIPAC.