The Left’s Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith How are Americans ever going to 'come together' if the first thing a political party sees when it sees dead Americans is a partisan cudgel? By David Harsanyi October 28, 2018 It was ironic to see many of the same liberals, who recently fought to prop up the world’s most powerful Jew-hating terror state, lecturing us on the importance of combating anti-Semitism. But there they were yesterday. The same Voxers who had long rationalized, romanticized, and excused the Jew-killing terror organization of the Middle East were now blaming the existence of the evil, anti-Semitic Pittsburgh shooter on Republicans. The same Pod bros whose echo chamber deployed anti-Semitic dual-loyalty tropes to smear critics of the Iran deal were now incredibly concerned about the Jewish community. There were many others, and that was bad enough. But others decided to dip into a little victim blaming, as well. Hadn’t American Jews been little too Jew-centric and pro-Israel for their own good? Franklin Foer of The Atlantic demanded that Jews finally dispense with their faith, adopt his, and start expelling co-religionists for their political opinions. (If you want to read about the left’s co-opting of American Judaism, I recommend Jonathan Neumann’s excellent book, “To Heal The World?”) Wire creator David Simon went bold, embracing a transparent anti-Jewish conspiracy theory, accusing the Israeli government of intervening in the American democracy. For those who confuse progressivism with Judaism — which is to say many — it might be difficult to understand that undermining the Democratic Party isn’t an act of anti-Semitism. The Trump administration, in fact, has been the most pro-Jewish in memory. Every Jew who’s ever prayed understands the importance of Jerusalem in our faith, culture, and history. It was President Trump, not any of the other presidents who promised the same, who recognized Jerusalem as the undisputed Jewish capital, putting an end to the fiction that it’s a shared city. It was Trump who withdrew from the Iran deal and once again isolated the single most dangerous threat to Jewish lives in the world, the Holocaust-denying theocrats of the Islamic Republic. It was Trump who cut more than $200 million in aid to a Palestinian government that was not only inciting terrorists (including the murder of a Jewish-American citizen named Ari Fuld; but since he never wrote for The Washington Post, you might not have heard of him) but also rewarded the killers’ families. It was his administration that kicked the Palestine Liberation Organization, the most successful Jewish-civilian murdering organization of the past 60 years, out of DC. It was the Trump administration that cut funding to the anti-Semitic U.N. Relief and Works Agency. It was also the Trump administration that turned around the unique Obama-era legacy of standing against Israel at the United Nations. And it is his administration that cracked down on anti-Semitism on college campuses and that deported one of the last real-life Nazis. At the same time, the liberal activist resistance wing is being led by a couple of Louis Farrakhan fangirls, and most Jewish Democrats are scared to death to say a single word in protest. But that’s another story. Anti-Semitic shootings aren’t new, and anti-Jewish hate crimes have long dominated religious bias in this country. This ancient hatred comes from both fringes and runs through presidents of both parties and occurs in nations across the world. Yet what was the most vital lesson partisans could derive from the massacre of elderly Jews attending a bris in Pittsburgh? Stop saying mean things about billionaire progressive sugar daddy George Soros. As a Hungarian Jew who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors and victims, I am wholly comfortable attacking Soros, who is both a hard-left activist and a funder of the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. Now, there are surely anti-Semites out there peddling conspiracy theories about Soros, just as there are people peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Sheldon Adelson and other wealthy Jews who involve themselves in politics. It’s often overdone, and often by Republicans. But if you’re not upset about the vile accusations that are incessantly thrown at someone like Benjamin Netanyahu, while you think calling out Soros is de facto anti-Semitism, your main concern is liberalism, not the Jewish people. If you think Trump should bring down the temperature, you have a point. If you think Trump should turn down the temperature but you fail to mention that a progressive yelling about “health care” tried to assassinate the entire GOP leadership on a baseball field, you don’t really care about the temperature. If you fail to mention that Democrats have been accusing Republicans of wanting to the kill the poor and young, of trying to destroy the planet, of being “terrorists” after every school shooting, you don’t care about the temperature. If you rationalize mob behavior every time you don’t get your way in the electoral process, you don’t care about the temperature. And if your first instinct is to play politics with tragedy for partisan gain, you are part of the problem. http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/28...-is-an-act-of-bad-faith/#.W9YfAMqsKHF.twitter
To show his support for Jews, Trump should ban all muslim immigration. That would be the single biggest thing he could do to protect Jews.
The Tree of Life Massacre Editorial of The New York Sun | October 28, 2018 President Trump’s announcement that he will travel to Pittsburgh in the wake of the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue is a reminder that every decent American is with their Jewish countrymen at this hour of tragedy. The outpouring of grief and solidarity from leaders of all parties, religions, and communities reminds us of why Jews maintain such an ardent affection for America. Yet the dead aren’t buried and already the Left has begun campaigning to divert the blame from the anti-Semite who committed these murders to Mr. Trump himself. The idea is that the president’s campaign to curb illegal immigration has created the climate from which the accused gunman emerged. A writer in the Nation is blaming “Jewish political and business figures” who “enable” the president. This is a moment to remember what anti-Semitism is about. We have been making this point in these columns for years, including in our first issue, which coincided with the largest pro-Israel march ever mounted in Washington. “The thing to remember about anti-Semitism,” the editorial averred, “is this — it is not a hatred of Jewish behavior. It is a hatred of Jews.” Nor is it about any president’s behavior, leastwise Mr. Trump’s. He has set a welcoming example in respect of Judaism. At the personal level, he has embraced his daughter’s conversion to Orthodox Judaism and welcomed her husband and family into the White House. At a political level, he has made his administration as supportive of Israel as any administration in history. Much will be made of postings on the internet by Robert D. Bowers, who has been charged in the Squirrel Hill massacre. Among those he raged against was the venerable Jewish charity known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” read a post the alleged killer made on one internet site but hours before he began his rampage. That was an apparent reference to the fact that HIAS has thrown itself into the work of helping settle here not only Jews but also other refugees, who aren’t Jewish. Yet HIAS, which has a heroic history, is no more to blame for the killings than are the supporters of President Trump, who is even being blamed for encouraging synagogues to review their security procedures. It would be inaccurate to suggest that American Jews have taken for granted their lives of freedom and security in America. Yet though there have been some terrible acts of anti-Semitism in American history, Jews heretofore have been spared the fears that have prompted their European co-religionists to surround their synagogues with iron fences and locked gates. This is owing in large part to the friendliness of the vast majority of Americans. This is nowhere more evident this week than in Pittsburgh itself, where a modified version of the Steelers logo is circulating with the Star of David front and center and where the entire city and well-wishers from afar are gathering to condole the extended congregation of the Tree of Life. Leaders of both political camps will be with them in body and spirit. https://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-tree-of-life-massacre/90444/