This Week in Tikvah Tablet Traitor Joe Lysol Sedition PILPUL (6/13)
David Shasha
The Banana Republic Trump DOJ Was Justified!
I usually finish preparing all the extra-newsletter matter on Friday morning, but this week I had a strong feeling that I would need to wait until just before Shabbat:
https://mailchi.mp/36fca312274a/what-happened-today-may-25-808833?e=4b6f9b46a8
I was correct!
For those who do not yet know, the criminal enterprise known as the Trump White House engaged in worse-than-Nixon corrupt conduct in seizing phone records of prominent Lysol enemies and their family members:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/justice-department-leaks-trump-administration.html
The new Banana Republic AG has still not gotten off his tuches; the investigation will be conducted by the DOJ Inspector General independently:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/11/us/politics-news
The media was all abuzz with the news, but Tikvah Tablet The Scroll buried the item in its “The Rest” section:
More Trump-era loose ends: Early in Donald Trump’s presidency, the Justice Department obtained metadata on the communications of Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee strongly and credibly suspected of leaking sensitive information to the media about investigations into the president. But the probe raked in information about numerous people other than the two congressmen, with the records of “at least a dozen people tied to the committee seized” in 2017 and 2018, according to the New York Times.
We know that Tikvah Tablet does not like the NYT at all:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/narcissism-nyt-foreign-coverage
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/why-im-unsubscribing-to-the-new-york-times
Did you know that the NYT supported Stalin and Hitler?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/new-york-times-nazi-correspondent
And so it is that Tikvah Tablet The Scroll still proudly supports Trump and Barr:
Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee strongly and credibly suspected of leaking sensitive information to the media about investigations into the president.
Whore of Trump Alana Newhouse will never fail us!
The filth just gets filthier.
The Ad the Whore of Trump Alana Newhouse Doesn’t Want You to See
In these notes on Tikvah Tablet racism and nihilism, I have continued to present the context in which Alana Newhouse merits being called Whore of Trump.
Here again, I would like to provide more of that context before we look at the usual Straussian filth that she publishes on a daily basis.
It is more important to note what she refuses to publish that what she actually does. And what she publishes is pretty disgusting.
On Monday night, just as I was finished watching my DVR’ed movies for the night, I caught the final segment on Brian Williams’ MSNBC program, and he was airing an ad that FOX News refused to show:
It is a one-minute series of clips on the 1/6 Insurrection told by the heroic police officers who worked to protect the Capitol and our elected officials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHZjrc1vDB8&feature=emb_imp_woyt
Radical Left Wing propaganda!
Like the Whore of Trump, a number of those elected officials do not care what happened on that day, or how the Republican Party of Trump is now working to ensure that votes not be counted and allowing election results to be overturned by the whim of corrupt state officials:
https://theweek.com/articles/979505/republican-plot-steal-2024-election
Along with Newhouse, Tikvah ally Ross Douthat is feeling pretty optimistic about things and sees no danger of a Trumpublican coup:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/oe9FgQ-ur8Q
Douthat and Newhouse are rare in the Neo-Con world, as even Right Wing diehards like David Frum, Max Boot, and Jennifer Rubin have sounded the warning bell that American Democracy is in mortal peril:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/republicans-are-making-four-key-mistakes/618575/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/max-boot-republican-2024-warning_n_60b72591e4b00a703139e9c0
Rubin has even taken a swipe at Traitor Joe:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/07/time-call-manchins-bluff/
But that sort of courage will never be found in Tikvah Tablet.
As we continue to see, the Whore of Trump is making good on her name.
Tikvah Tablet The Scroll is With Traitor Joe!
A few hours after I posted the Traitor Joe triptych, the Whore of Trump confirmed it:
https://mailchi.mp/46306cd41595/what-happened-today-may-25-808793?e=4b6f9b46a8
The key word here is “allegedly”:
Joe Manchin, the tie-breaking Democratic senator from West Virginia who has emerged as perhaps the most powerful single person in the United States, dispelled all doubt in an op-ed published in a Charleston newspaper this weekend: He won’t be voting for H.R. 1, an activist wish-list of electoral reforms, or for the elimination of the Senate filibuster, which in the Biden era has emerged as the enemy of all people of good faith and decency. High-profile Democrats, including New York freshmen congressmen Mondaire Jones and Jamaal Bowman, have accused Manchin of making common cause with Mitch McConnell or supporting a Jim Crow–like status quo. But the New York Times editorial board also sharply criticized the current version of H.R. 1, hinting at what may be a key political division within the party that controls the White House and Congress: The Democrats, their voters, and their institutional supporters agree that ballot access and countering allegedly restrictive voting laws like ones passed in Texas and Georgia is a top national priority, and an issue where the stakes are no less than the survival of American democracy itself. But there’s deep disagreement over the exact nature of the problem and over how much the ruling party can really be expected to achieve with slim legislative majorities in a deeply divided country.
In case you missed it, here it is again:
The Democrats, their voters, and their institutional supporters agree that ballot access and countering allegedly restrictive voting laws like ones passed in Texas and Georgia is a top national priority, and an issue where the stakes are no less than the survival of American democracy itself.
The PILPUL is clear:
The Trumpublican laws designed to disenfranchise the minority vote are not really restrictive.
Very Rabbenu Tam!
And note the Schadenfreude tone that permeates the note.
It is the essence of Whore of Trump.
Kehilath Jarvanka Makes it to Tikvah Tablet The Scroll!
For those who still do not know KJ, here is some background:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/1FZAvTWyM6Y/m/BUhi_Xb6BQAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/hMVfmYkb5QA/m/cSi0mO6_AQAJ
The Synagogue does not like to speak of its most famous members – JARVANKA – and their role in the Trump Alt-Right Anti-Semitism:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/bgLy_ke0b_w/m/zJ7g6Il-BAAJ
On Tuesday, Tikvah Tablet The Scroll closed with a fascinatingly ironic piece by KJ Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, speaking of some other former Synagogue members:
https://mailchi.mp/c2c02f9e6442/what-happened-today-may-25-808805?e=4b6f9b46a8
Here it is in full:
I woke up on June 2 to the realization that my synagogue,
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, had attained a unique distinction: The new
president and the next prime minister of the State of Israel were both former
congregants. The new president, Isaac Herzog, had been a congregant from 1975
to 1978, while his father, Chaim, was Israel’s ambassador to the United
Nations; Isaac attended our sister institution, the Ramaz School, of which he
is a graduate. (Isaac was, fittingly enough, elected president of the Ramaz
General Organization, the school’s student government, in his senior year.) As
a teenager, Isaac was very involved in the synagogue and is remembered for
being an exceptional reader of the Torah and Megillot. He has remained close to
the community, and was honored at the 2015 Ramaz dinner.
Naftali Bennett, who is slated to be the next prime minister, was a regular
attendee of the KJ Beginners’ Service from 2004 to 2006, when he and his wife,
Gilat, lived on the Upper East Side. He was engaged in the lively study
discussions at the service, and Rabbi Elie Weinstock, who was then the
congregation’s associate rabbi, recalls the Yom Kippur when, during a break in
the service, Naftali and Gilat sang the moving Kibbutz Beit Hashita melody.
Bennett has also remained close to the community and spoke at last year’s KJ dinner.
Given its history, perhaps it is no coincidence that one synagogue on the Upper
East Side of Manhattan can claim both the president and the prime minister of
Israel as alumni. Rabbi Moshe Zevulun Margolies was a pioneering Zionist at the
turn of the century. From 1946 to 1948, the president of the KJ Men’s Club was
a leading fundraiser for underground arms smuggling to the Haganah. On June 3,
1967, two days before the Six-Day War, a Shabbat morning appeal at KJ raised a
staggering $3 million for a joint UJA-Israel Bonds campaign on behalf of
Israel. During the second intifada, when all other tourism had dried up, KJ
shopping missions to Israel helped local merchants. Several have said the
congregation’s visits saved their businesses.
KJ has always sought to put Ahavat Yisrael, the love of the Jewish people, at
the center of its mission, alongside an embrace of Klal Yisrael, the totality
of the Jewish world. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein played a critical role in the
Soviet Jewry movement and made that activism part of the community’s DNA. As
Natan Sharansky put it, “Demonstrations were part of the Ramaz curriculum.”
This emphasis on Klal Yisrael is all-embracing and means putting ideology aside
to work together with rabbis and synagogues from other denominations.
Klal Yisrael also meant fostering an openness to people of any background. The
Men’s Club president who smuggled weapons to the Haganah was not observant and
would ordinarily not have joined an Orthodox synagogue. The Beginners’ Service,
which reaches out to those with little or no previous knowledge of Judaism,
attracted the Bennetts to KJ; they came after they saw a flyer on a
neighborhood telephone pole advertising an introductory Shabbat morning service
that was “better than tennis, better than shopping, better than sleeping in.”
The nonjudgmental nature of the community made a profound impact on Gilat, who
was raised in a secular home.
This open, embracing, and activist form of Ahavat Yisrael influenced Herzog and
Bennett. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein recalls that Isaac Herzog has often said “that
his years at Ramaz set him on his life’s path of Ahavat Yisrael.” George Rohr,
who founded and led the KJ Beginners’ Service, recalls that Naftali Bennett
often remarked that “we needed to come from Israel to the Upper East Side of
Manhattan to be taught that we have to love every Jew.”
Even when it was unpopular, KJ has stood up for its vision of community. In a
1976 article, Rabbi Joseph Lookstein wrote about preserving the ever-fragile
unity of the American Jewish community. He concluded the article with these
words:
Rabbi Elazar Azikri wrote a ... passage from which we all can benefit.
“When all Jews live in peace with each other, Satan cannot affect them, and
the Divine presence is with them even if they are not observant.”
These words are not an encouragement for nonobservance. They are a plea for
tolerance and understanding. In days of dissension and upheaval, these words
can be our guide and comfort.
This passion for unity and community drew in two visitors from Israel. Hopefully
it will continue to inspire them as they assume some of the most profound
responsibilities in the Jewish world.
That is Kehilath Jarvanka – never having to say you’re sorry!
Right in the Tikvah Tablet wheelhouse.
Tell it to Satan.
Bari Weiss Finds a “Cancelled” Palestinian
It is uncanny:
As she has noted, Ms. Weiss now has a podcast to spread the Anti-Woke Gospel.
Her first guest is a Good Palestinian named Majdi Wadi:
I was not familiar with the name, so I googled it and found that NPR post from last year.
Then I recalled seeing his store on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives some years ago:
https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/holy-land-minnesota.html
The story is interesting because it speaks to the racism of minorities that is so critical to the larger Alt-Right White Supremacy project.
She has already posted an item by Tikvah Tablet favorite Zaid Jilani that speaks to the matter:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/white-people-dont-have-a-monopoly
If minorities can be racist, then it is okay for White people to be racist!
Again, we must recall that Weiss began as a Columbia University undergraduate with the “Columbia Unbecoming” David Project, which sought to Cancel professors in the school’s Middle Eastern Studies department:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GQ1T91xG72SCnuUwl7WQwGYGZk95Dg65zRphnSZxPWg/edit
As we see in this week’s newsletter, the Zionists are still trying to Cancel the late Edward Said!
Recently Weiss posted a HASBARAH article defending Israel once again from criticism of its treatment of Palestinians:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-bad-optics-of-fighting-for-your
Indeed, she even managed to bring in New York Congressman Ritchie Torres to confirm the HASBARAH:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/can-you-be-a-progressive-and-support
For this epic HASBARAH performance, Torres found himself welcome on the Bill Maher Islamophobe fest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT416yHnZEk
If the Wokers have cancelled you, you are good with Weiss.
If you are fighting racism, Weiss wants to cancel you.
That is the PILPUL way of life in Zalman Bernstein world.
David Shasha