Israel Matzav

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Jewish Federation's General Assembly gives itself over to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas

Caroline Glick has a deeply disturbing indictment of the recently concluded Jewish Federation General Assembly in Denver, Colorado.

This year at Jewish Federations of North America's annual General Assembly, they invited the newly minted anti-Israel activist Peter Beinhart to speak. They also showcased the Boston Globe's resident anti-Israel columnist James Carroll. These moves as well as much of the program of the 3-day conference which presented several panels discussing whether anti-Zionists should be embraced by the community are indicative of the advanced suicidal tendencies of the American Jewish community.

This is a community that has for generations seamlessly merged its definition of Judaism with leftist politics. And now that this generation of leftists has cast its lot with the anti-Semites, the young American Jews coming of age have embraced anti-Semitism to show their moral purity.

It may have once gone without saying, but apparently it is no longer obvious that this embrace of Jew hatred by young American Jews is a death embrace for the community.

The only way to deal with this is head on.

But who among the well-funded American Jewish leadership has the courage to tell these young people that they are deranged? Who has the courage to tell their children that they have embraced evil and ought to be ashamed of themselves?

Caroline goes on to show the Occupy Birthright video that I showed you here, which drew several comments.

Perhaps this is the real reason why so many Israeli leaders declined to appear at the General Assembly. They didn't want to talk to the walls.

Labels: Caroline Glick, James Carroll, Jewish Federation General Assembly, Occupy Birthright, Peter Beinart

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Catholic Church demanded Jerusalem not be part of Israel in 1947?

Yaacov Lozowick quotes a passage from James Carroll's Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World, which may give some clue as to why the 1947 partition plan for 'Palestine' made Jerusalem a separate entity.

Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, wanted control of the sacred centers, but they were not alone in being unable to abide the thought of Jewish control. Yes, the city was the most disputed real estate in Palestine, but mere political turf was not really the issue. The clue to the significance of the Corpus Separandum proposal for the city lay in its being offered in a Latin phrase – the language of Rome, which had initiated Jerusalem’s condition as an apocalyptic nerve center (see the Arch of Titus, near the Colosseum, with its bas-relief celebration of the first century destruction), and of Catholicism, which had kept the condition current. Greeks, too, were part of this, as Byzantium had carried forward assumptions about Jewish expulsion from the land that Constantine and his mother, Helena, had made holy. But by now the Vatican was the chief custodian of exile theology, and it was universally expected to be a party to any internationalizing arrangement. Rome’s unfulfilled desire for Jerusalem was the very genesis of the mimesis – the mimetic rivalry. (P.265)

Hmmm.

Labels: 1947 partition plan, James Carroll, Jerusalem