David Wolpe
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Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi @SinaiTemple . Scholar in Residence, @maimonidesfund , Rabbinic Fellow @adl , Taught @Harvard , @UCLA , @JTSVoice , Author, Columnist.
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Antisemitism is protean. Whatever you hate, you can transfer to the Jew. Today colonial-settlerism is the evil of choice, so Jews are colonial settlers. Nazism is a perennial hatred, so Jews are Nazis. If you hate communism, Jews are communists, if you hate Capitalism, Jews
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1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short
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3/3 Battling that combination of ideologies is the work of more than a committee or a single university. It is not going to be changed by hiring or firing a single person, or posting on X, or yelling at people who don’t post as you wish when you wish, as though posting is
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However, the system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil. Ignoring Jewish suffering is
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In a lawn you cannot get equality of outcome with fertilizer and water, only with a mower.
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More than half a million Muslims have been killed in the Syrian civil war. More than 200,000 have been killed by Islamist terror attacks in Muslim countries. More than 24,000 Rohingya killed in Myanmar. None evoked such protest. I wonder why.
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A story about
@taylorswift13
- several years ago when my daughter was 12/13 we were at a cancer benefit where Swift performed. She was the only ‘star’ my daughter cared about and wanted, despite her fear of approaching, to get an autograph. We went over to a very crowded table.
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There is a magic formula for peace in the Middle East: “We accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, will never seek to destroy it, and wish to live in peace with our Israeli neighbors.”Worked for Egypt. Worked for Jordan. That’s all it takes.
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I long for the day when you knew without question which was the news article and which the opinion piece.
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This contains the single stupidest, most venal and egregiously malicious question I have ever heard.
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See if you can find the colonialist, expansionist, imperialist power. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
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If a Jewish congressman made a series of anti-Muslim statements do you suppose they would pass a resolution opposing anti-Semitism?
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She took my daughter’s paper, said “You are such a beautiful and sweet girl, I’d never want to get your name wrong” and signed again, correctly. She was remarkably gracious and despite her youth, every inch a star. God bless her.
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Comparing things to Nazi Germany shows a genuine inability to grasp the magnitude of the Nazi’s cruelties and murders. The Shoah was not a riot, discrimination, segregation or wanton cruelty. It was the planned brutalization and execution of millions.
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This was posted today by ‘Harvard faculty and staff for justice in Palestine.’ The cartoon is despicably, inarguably antisemitic. Is there no limit?
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Students at Harvard react to the removal of a student’s mezuzah by posting scores of them. Amazing how some students protest without disrupting or destroying.
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Hatred of Israel is also hatred of the western civilization. How long before we wake up to this simple, scary truth?
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The world court has never judged a country responsible for genocide. Not Cambodia. Not Rwanda. Not Syria. Not China. Not Sudan. Never censured the desire for genocide either- but that’s only expressed against Israel so why bother?
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Surely — surely— Twitter will retract and apologize. I’m really trying to be generous here....
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The “intifada” was a series of murders directed against civilians in Israel: buses, cafes and markets blown up. Now contemplate what “globalize the intifada” means when chanted over and over again by students (and their professors?)
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Still think Israel isn’t fighting on behalf of the west? Two minutes should convince you.
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Jesus was a Jew who suffered. Turning his suffering into a story of Jewish persecution echoes the most toxic antisemitic trope of them all. Shame on you.
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In 1979 the Shah fell in Iran, the leader
of the Jewish community was executed and 60,000 Jews fled for their lives leaving everything behind. Tell me again how the Jews don’t need a homeland.
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Madame Vice President, the idea that Israel has committed genocide against the Palestinians is not someone's truth, it is someone's lie, whether they know it or not. And it is pernicious, destructive and should not be elided or ignored by the highest officials in the land.
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Swift was very nice and signed my daughter’s paper, but spelled her name wrong. When we got back to the table my daughter looked a little crestfallen so I said ‘let’s go back.’ She was scared but we finally did. Again, Swift was mobbed.
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After years as a Rabbi I am convinced that creating loving homes, good parents and nurturing early environments is the single greatest contribution we can make to human flourishing.
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If mutilation, rape and caged children cause in you a swelling of nationalistic pride, an impulse to parade and celebrate, then your soul has rotted to its roots.
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Linda Sarsour with Ilhan Omar and the latter’s tweet about Israel. In case you have an “anti-Semitic selfie” file.
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I don’t know why people don’t understand that genital mutilation, concubinage, underage marriage and sanctioned rape aren’t the real issues— it’s attacking the solitary democracy in the Middle East that will free women.
The moment that Sarsour promotes BDS at today's DC Women's March.
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The father of our country, draped in everything he fought against.
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I'm shocked, shocked to find cheating here.
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The story of a continuing massacre: "The Christians of Nigeria are alone. Even if we do not care about this, we ought to know." From
@DouglasKMurray
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The growth rate of the Arab population bordering Israel is among the highest in the world: 3.4 percent in the West Bank and 4.0 percent in Gaza, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Of course you still hear how Israel is “genocidal.” Just bad at it, I guess.
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They say there are no atheists in a foxhole but it might be truer to say there are no postmodernists in a pandemic.
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The previous two days were Kristallnacht and today is Veteran’s day. In order to prevent evil you must be willing to fight. God bless soldiers who fight for goodness and freedom and God bless America.
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“How to solve nothing and inflame everything”
Beto O'Rourke: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "racist" and doesn't represent the "true will of the Israeli people"
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Linda Sarsour saying “their little posters” (i.e. babies captured by terrorists) are put up to induce others to tear them down and get them fired. “Trust me, I know them. I got a radar for them.” Radar! Gee, who do you think she means? Contemptible beyond words.
Linda Sarsour: "There are provocateurs all across the city" waiting for you to rip down "their little posters ...They have their little people all around the city...They are everywhere. They are on your college campus, they are outside the supermarket..."
@lsarsour
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It is a modern myth that you need to focus on your own growth before you can love. Through love we grow.
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Can you have Stockholm syndrome with a Middle Eastern fanatic religious fascist regime from West Hollywood? My Iranian congregants who escaped with their lives would like to know.
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Once the pandemic is over I hope we will remember that jobs we used to call 'menial' are rightly renamed 'essential.'
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So grateful to God and to law enforcement that all are safe. Sleep well, tonight, everyone.
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Here is the simple truth. If Hamas stopped raining rockets on Israel, it would be over. If Israel stopped defending and retaliating, it would be slaughter.
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When asked why he wrote in Yiddish, a dying language, I.B. Singer replied, “In Jewish history, between dying and dead is a very great distance.”
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Shouting both ‘Ceasefire’ and ‘From the river to the sea’ means: ‘Stop fighting so we can destroy you.’
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Of Mandela’s 12 co-defendants, 5 were Jewish in a country with less than 1% Jews in the population. So it is not only bigoted and hateful, but ignorant.
Harvard *faculty* just posted an explicitly antisemitic poster depicting a Jewish hand controlling the black mind. With Professors like these, it’s easy to see why we Jewish students don’t feel safe in class
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A remarkable statement from John Mellancamp - “In solidarity with the Jewish people.” God bless him.
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One hears about both
#Islamophobia
and
#AntiSemitism
on campus but strangely while I see students taking off kippot and hiding Jewish stars, everyone, Arab and non-Arab, seems comfortable in a kaffiyeh.
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Allow me to rephrase: “After a year of Hezbollah firing rockets into Northern Israel, and continually violating UN agreements to withdraw past the Litani, Israel’s surgical strike against combatants should be hailed and applauded.”
Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon detonated thousands of handheld devices across of a slew of public spaces, seriously injuring and killing innocent civilians.
This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a
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This is the Tel-Dan stele, containing a Canaanite description mentioning “the House of David” from over 3,000 years ago (9th century BCE.) If archeological proof of 3,000 years doesn’t make you indigenous, I wonder what does?
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Things supporters of Israel never do:
Shout "Death to America."
Promote Halachah as the official law in European countries.
Teach children that martyrdom is to be sought or cherished.
Threaten, kill or attack people who mock Moses.
Just, you know, fyi.
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If you don't want your criticisms of Israel to be interpreted as anti-Semitism, you might begin with "I support a strong and secure Israel in its ancestral land." It makes a fine opener for measured criticism.
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When was the last time Israel’s enemies demonstrated for peace with signs demanding a two state solution? Oh. I see.
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If you believe that Jews do not deserve a state, you are an anti-Semite (or, if you prefer, Jew hater) pure and simple.
"We who resent being asked to denounce Zionism to participate in lefty causes should not demand that others embrace Zionism to avoid being smeared as anti-Semites," writes
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Tonight is
#Hanukkah
- the real miracle is not the oil or the victory. It is that 2,300 years later, despite persecution and wandering, Jews will still light the Hannukiah tonight all over the world.
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People who are old were once young; people who are sick were once well; people who are down and out were once on top of the world. Conditions change but the dignity due does not.
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This day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. We must never forget how they lived, how they died.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
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I dearly wish anti-Israel progressives would realize that Israel is fighting for the world view they cherish against an enemy who would crush them. Distance is a great distorter.
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After the Hezbollah attack anyone left who thought the Middle East was about a Palestinian-Israeli dispute should belatedly wake up. It is Iran, it is Jihadism, and it is never stopping with Israel.
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A word of warning to Manicheans everywhere: the opposition is not as evil nor your side as good as you might suppose.
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It is actually very easy to have an anti-Zionist Seder. Simply remove the story, the ending, the purpose and the prayers. On second thought, just go out for pizza.
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I wish some of the people decrying Kabul would realize they are urging the same fate for Tel-Aviv.
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I acknowledge Palestinian suffering and their legitimate right to their own state. If the Palestinian people and those who support them felt the same about Israel, we would long ago have had peace.
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When common culture collapses all that remains to discuss and dispute is politics — and it isn’t healthy.
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If you don’t realize that Israel is fighting not a people but an ideology, ask the girls taken by Boko Haram, the survivors of the Boston marathon or Charlie Hebdo, or relatives of those who died in the twin towers. They are fighting for you.
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Jews are often skilled at identifying enemies but less so at embracing friends. There are many, many people of goodwill who wish the best for Jews and Israel. Thank and celebrate them!
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I thought they were chanting “Two states, side by side, in peace.” My mistake.
Today Islamic extremists chanted death to Jews throughout Europe's capital cities.
Not one news agency reported this!
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Here is a narrative I'm sick of reading (paraphrased): I was a supporter of Israel. I loved them growing up. Moshe Dayan, the patch, everything. But when I realized they actually had to fight people, and even kill them, I realized they were evil.
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“Teach your tongue to say ‘I don’t know’.” Talmud
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The single most important response to antisemitism is Jewish education. We did not survive because we were hated; we survived because we were passionate about our tradition and our destiny.
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From the NYT story. As a generous spirit, I’ll just say ‘lobbyists and rabbis’ is a suspicious trope at best.
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I’ve attended AIPAC more than ten times. Every time Palestinian rights were mentioned people applauded. There are a range of views presented, left, right and center. This dismissal is unwarranted and unworthy.
Bernie Sanders says won't attend AIPAC confab that 'gives platform to bigotry'
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The Talmud has some useful advice in a contentious time: "Teach your tongue to say 'I don't know.'" (Berachot 4a).
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On this Jerusalem day, we honor the eternal capital of Israel, the city that for thousands of years has been the summit of dreams.
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Ps. 122:6)
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This is Los Angeles, folks. Because beating up Jews in California will advance Palestinian rights.
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I know this sounds too lofty, but please remember as you fulminate on twitter how many good people died for that right.
#MemorialDay
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Protesting injustice is righteous.
Burning and looting are evil. The distinction is not really that difficult.
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That Roger Waters displayed this at his concert in Poland of all places is unendingly odious.
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Every time I post on Twitter I hear my late, wise father’s voice in my head: “You know David, you don’t always have to say something.”
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I saw guards walking the perimeter of my synagogue this morning and felt both grateful for their presence and sickened at the need for it.
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Faculty, in full regalia, joining encampments that violate university policy. Hard to teach principles when you don’t have them.
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They didn’t fire him. You can get canceled for marginally slighting statements about gender or race, but full on anti-Semitism gets you transferred. Haters, adjust accordingly.
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I hope that those who claim Jews have no connection to Israel enjoy caroling in ten days about Jesus' birth in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.
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Criticizing Israel is not
#antiSemitism
obviously. But when condemnation is wildly disproportionate, when it is uniquely anathematized, denounced in vile language, abused with stereotypes and/or Jews targeted worldwide, it is. It really is.
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Hezbollah has been consistently firing rockets indiscriminately on Israel. So grateful to the UN for their condemnation. Oh. I meant the ICC. Oh. Well, surely the international community? No and no. Why does every attack on Israel make the world aphasic?
Israeli Meron air control base is burning after heavy missile barrage from Hezbollah.
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When you celebrate the death of your ideological opponents it is worth wondering what your ideology has made of you.
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Do you want to understand the depth of the rot? Here is a course eval. sheet from a Harvard Teaching Fellow on American Novels. Read the yellow:
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When my father retired from the rabbinate and I asked why, since his congregants loved him, he said, “it is much better to go when they want you to stay than stay when they want you to go.”
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To all the insufferables who are blaming antisemitism as a reaction to Israel’s policies — 85 years ago a third of all the Jews in the world were murdered before the modern State of Israel even existed. Must be a different reason, eh?
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