J. Honigman. And, in case you’d like even more eye-opening material on what’s in the above link, the two following links here provide (among other things) some comparisons between two early key Church Fathers re “what to do with the Jews”—St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom. They contain material the author of the great Tablet essay in the link above missed (obviously, no ONE analysis can cover everything).
The “gentle” Augustine gave birth to such things as the ghetto; Chrysostom provided the blueprint for Hitler’s extermination policy: https://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/5/article82.htm
INN’s editor ignored my own attempt to be less harsh on our “fellow dhimmis,” the Copts, and did her own rewording a bit at the very beginning and with my own original title… http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10797
Why the left is repeating Christianity’s most dangerous historical mistakes, and why it’s very, very bad for the Jews
By Liel Leibowitz, TABLET
We live in strange political times, so it’s no wonder that we’re called upon to address strange political questions. A few stand out: Is Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Democrat representative from Minnesota, right to call herself the first refugee in Congress, even though several Holocaust survivors preceded her? Is Julia Salazar, the newly elected New York state senator Jewish, which she claims to be even though members of her family refute her account of their genealogy? Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents, Jewish because, as she recently argued, her ancestors were Sephardic Jews? Does that mean that anyone who could trace some fraction of Jewish ancestry—which includes nearly all of Latin America and vast swaths of the rest of the world—is now Jewish? Can you become Jewish merely by rising one day and declaring yourself passionately affiliated with the Jewish people? Is arguing otherwise racist and exclusionary?
If so, does that mean that tikkun olam is the true essence of Judaism, and that those who practice it are the real Jews even though they may otherwise commit their energy to arguing that the Jews are the only people on earth undeserving of a state in their national homeland, where they have lived continuously for nearly three millennia? And are people who oppose progressivism un-Jewish, even if they observe Jewish rituals daily, study Jewish texts, and lead dedicated Jewish lives?
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