Jerusalem News
(31 December, 2019, 3 Tevet 5780)
Contents:
1. Why They Attack Jews in New York by Victor Rosenthal (Abu Yehuda Blog).
2. EU Revising History by Ascribing Equal Blame to Russia
3. GUNMAN OPENS FIRE IN TEXAS CHURCH, ARMED CHURCH MEMBERS TAKE HIM OUT
By Christopher Berg, BLM, December 29, 2019.
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1. Why They Attack Jews in New York by Victor Rosenthal (Abu Yehuda Blog).
http://abuyehuda.com/2019/12/why-they-attack-jews-in-new-york/
Extracts Only:
Louis Farrakhan holds a copy of his book, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews"
Why are blacks and Hispanics attacking Jews?
I have been searching for a coherent statement by an assailant. Most of them don't get past "f- you, Jews." But it seems to me that they blame Jews for something, and feel justified in hurting them. The consequences of doing it are not great, so why not?
Blaming Jews is a subset of blaming others, and the feeling that others are responsible for one's problems is popular today. ...
Obviously, sometimes things happen because of external influences.
... But in recent years it has become an article of faith on the Left that the system is structurally biased against "people of color (POC)," a term which includes black people, people whose ancestors came from a place where Spanish is spoken (except Spain), and Muslims with white skin who were born in the US like Linda Sarsour, and excludes Jews of any color and Protestants or Catholics of European origin. It includes East Asians if they are discriminated against, but not if they are successful.
A key word is "structurally." The idea is that the colorless people (non-POC) who benefit from the bias made the rules in such a way that the system will help them and hurt POC. This is called "structural racism," because it has been built into the structure of society, and doesn't require explicitly racist behavior to injure POC. POC who believe this can complain bitterly that their problems are due to "racism" even if they can't cite instances of blatant racial discrimination.
... Louis Farrakhan, the "GOAT" (Greatest Of All Time) is one of the most popular personalities in the American black community. According to Farrakhan, the Jews dominated the slave trade, created the Jim Crow system, exploited black talent and creativity to make money while leaving performers in poverty, introduced drugs and sexual deviance into their community, own stores and real estate that exploit POC, and more.
Ironically, Farrakhan's philosophy calls for blacks to adopt an internal locus of control, and change their condition through action. But at the same time he is telling them that all their problems are someone else's fault: the Jews.
The idea that a Jewish conspiracy is responsible for the perceived problems of POC in the US is widely believed. The "information bubbles" that surround people today make it possible for what would have been considered extremism in the past to become conventional wisdom within each bubble. If everyone in your neighborhood "knows" the Jews are responsible for its poverty and crime, who are you to deny it?
Just as the Palestinian educational system has produced a generation of young people who will cut a Jew's throat, even a Jewish child's - as easily as looking at him, the ideology of powerlessness against a society designed to exploit you, combined with explicit anti-Jewish rhetoric from respected figures, has created an angry young generation.
They are punching, spitting at, robbing, or cursing Jews. They have (mostly) not become murderers like the young Palestinians (yet).
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2. EU Revising History by Ascribing Equal Blame to Russia
(a) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2019-0098_EN.html
(b) Russia has slammed a resolution adopted by the European Union that states the 1939 nonaggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany "paved the way for the outbreak of World War II."
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-slams-eu-resolution-stating-nazi-soviet-pact-paved-way-for-wwii/30176278.html
(c) Putin blames Poland for WWII and says Soviet occupation 'saved lives'
https://notesfrompoland.com/2019/12/23/putin-blames-poland-for-ww2-and-says-soviet-occupation-saved-lives/
Putin then argued that when the Soviet Union occupied the eastern half of Poland two weeks after the German invasion in September 1939, this 'saved the lives of a large number of local people, especially Jews, because later the population would be exterminated by the Nazis'. He also claimed that the occupation was necessary because the 'Polish government had lost control of the country'.
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3. GUNMAN OPENS FIRE IN TEXAS CHURCH, ARMED CHURCH MEMBERS TAKE HIM OUT
By Christopher Berg, BLM, December 29, 2019:
https://gellerreport.com/2019/12/gunman-opens-fire-in-texas-church-courageous-armed-parishioners-take-him-out.html/
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