No Delusions, No Despair

"27 Oct 2007 Seattle Demo - Jewish Voice for Peace 01" by Joe Mabel is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. American Jews’ current predicament, with antisemitism skyrocketing and the threat of marginalization and ghettoization ever present, there is a question that must be asked regarding progressive Judaism: what went wrong? I do not mean to be insulting or contemptuous in saying this.

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My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. “And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords,” news anchor Kent Brockman said in one of the greatest jokes of The Simpsons’ golden age. Today, I, for one, welcome the death of Star Wars.

The American Jewish establishment is still pursuing its old, failed policies. My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. There is an old adage that states: “When something isn’t working, first stop doing it.” This is good advice, as proven by how rarely it is obeyed and how often this dereliction leads to disaster.

My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. Near my family’s home, there is a hyper-progressive church sporting a rainbow-colored lawn sign that reads: “God loves everyone. No exceptions.” Seeing this sign, which appeared, at first, radically benign, I had what is, in many ways, a not unusual reaction, which was to contemplate the obvious problems with its slogan: Does God really love everyone? And therefore, should we?

My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. It is quite common for defenders of Israel to preface their statements with the phrase, “Israel isn’t a perfect country,” which is true, as far as it goes, but rather misses the point. Given the blizzard of defamation and demonization that surrounds the Jewish state, the issue is not whether Israel is perfect, but whether it is as imperfect as its enemies claim.

Dissent and defiance will defeat the attempt to shatter our spirit. "File:Nicholas D. Kristof - Davos 2010.jpg" by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. The Kristof Maneuver: Accuse, presume guilt by accusation, defame and demonize dissent, rinse and repeat.

Dissent and defiance will defeat the attempt to shatter our spirit. "File:Nicholas D. Kristof - Davos 2010.jpg" by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. The Kristof Maneuver: Accuse, presume guilt by accusation, defame and demonize dissent, rinse and repeat.

My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. “Let’s go motherf–kers, c’mon! C’mon, motherf–kers!” a man yelled at antizionist thugs in Brooklyn earlier this week, according to the New York Post. This man, apparently Jewish, engaged in openly aggressive self-defense as antisemites marched freely through a Jewish neighborhood, strikes one immediately as admirable.

My new book, Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto, is now available at Amazon via Wicked Son Books and the Z3 Project. Historically speaking, the Jews have always and everywhere been an oppressed people, at least over most of the last two millennia. Even the existence of Israel has not entirely changed this, since while Jews are not oppressed in Israel, Israel itself is most certainly oppressed on the world stage. The one exception, we are always told, is the United States.