This Week in The Tikvah Fund (11/15)
David Shasha
Bari Weiss is Back in Business!
In the current WION I began with an item from Anatoly Sharansky and Gil Troy saying that the Rabin Assassination was basically a good thing for the Peace Process.
Shortly after writing the note, I got this Tikvah announcement:
In a recent Tikvah Tablet notes, I included an item on Yoram Hazony and Rod Dreher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zxpnr9QeQ
And that was connected to Bari Weiss and her love for the New Crusader:
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/18897/rod-dreher-the-new-crusader
I have now discovered that there is a Tablet in the UK – a Catholic publication:
Indeed, Dreher fits the Zalman Bernstein model well:
In stark contrast to his daily manner on social media, when he often uses personal attacks and name-calling, and in his columns, which can be sour and vituperative, I found Dreher candid and self-deprecating, even as it became clear that the differences between us ran deep. “I am often misunderstood by people,” he told me. “They think that because I am so rhetorically ardent in my own conservatism and religious belief, I must be dour. My temperament is completely the opposite. I believe what I believe, and I hold some of those beliefs strongly. But I try hard not to take myself seriously. I would rather sit at table with an efflorescent freak who has about him a real sense of humanity than with some wrapped-too-tight Christian who shares my politics and religious views, but who doesn’t grasp the essential merriment of life.”
A real Christian whackjob sweetheart!
Weiss just loves him:
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
And, of course, the ZOOM event will be moderated by Liel Leibovitz.
Fantastic!
Muslims are Doing Fine! Colonialism is Great!
On Thursday we got these two gems from the racist Newhouse:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/muslims-survived-and-thrived
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/postcolonial-western-guilt-pascal-bruckner
We have met Muslim Uncle Tom Zaid Jilani before:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/wQOD6AqDobo/m/hBlnpC84BQAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/RtkWUuM9-6c/m/wKs71lNTBQAJ
He is another Bastard Child of Zalman Bernstein:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/liberal-minorities-victimhood-identity
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-diversity-trap-jilani
He is very happy in Stephen Miller’s America!
The second article is a defense of the Imperialism in the usual racist key:
One example: The far-left Podemos party demanded in 2016 that Spain apologize to Islam for having retaken Andalusia in the Reconquista and expelling the Muslims. One might have thought the reverse: that northern Africa should extend its solemn apologies to Spain for having occupied it for seven centuries. But no! The liberation struggle went on for several centuries and was Europe’s first anti-colonial war. And it was a fierce one, particularly with the arrival, in 1478, of the Spanish Inquisition against Muslims and Jews, which transformed Catholicism into an ideology of conquest. But in the course of labeling the Reconquista as “fascist and genocidal,” we might have been reminded of the wars of independence of the 1960s, many of which also featured bloodbaths and the expulsion of Jews (to take one example) from the entire Arab world. The myth of idyllic Andalusia is one that cannot stand up to facts or analysis and cries out for a more nuanced treatment.
It is hard to breathe after reading this, but it shows us what Newhouse is really made of.
Note well the positive reference to the Reconquista and the Catholic persecution of the Sephardim.
It reminds us that White Jewish Supremacy is in the end White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism. Catholic apologia is all over the place!
Newhouse is a hardcore racist to the very end.
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Brings the Tikvah Mojo to the Hobby Lobby Bible Museum
It has been some time since we checked in with the HLBM:
https://tikvahfund.org/cfg-event/
It is more Neo-Con Intersectionality in the Christian lane:
What explains the secret of Jewish immortality, Mark Twain once asked? For millennia, the Jewish people have been a living witness to the biblical vision of God, morality, and the mystery of life. Egypt, Assyria, Rome—the greatest empires in human history sought to control or extinguish the Jews. And yet these empires are gone—and the Jewish people endures. How, and why? What is the religious meaning of Jewish history? How do we explain and understand the miracle of Jewish survival—including the restoration of Israel as a modern nation in the Jewish people’s ancient homeland? In this conversation, we will explore these great theological and historical questions with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik—one of America’s leading religious voices, minister of the oldest Jewish congregation in America, ambassador for Jewish faith to religious leaders around the world. He will engage in conversation with Eric Cohen, executive director of the Tikvah Fund, one of America’s preeminent Jewish think-tanks and educational institutions. Many of the most meaningful artifacts of Jewish history are in the Museum of the Bible, and a new video series—filmed in the museum—brings this story to life. We will explore it all. Join the conversation.
It is another great milestone in the New Convivencia.
Tikvah White Jewish Supremacy Alive and Well: Warren Zev Harvey and Four Jewish Philosophers
On Friday we received the following Tikvah Tablet piece on the recent passing of important Jewish scholars:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/four-scholars-jewish-philosophy
Let it be said that Rabbi Jose Faur is mentioned, though his work is not discussed. I suppose that is because his work was not at all respected or cited by scholars like Harvey.
The four figures discussed are intriguing examples of the White Jewish Supremacy.
There is the Kookist Rabbi Michael Nehorai:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25547
The Jewish Occultist Michael Schneider:
https://jphilosophy.biu.ac.il/en/node/1017
It was very difficult to find anything on David Brezis, apparently a Levinas scholar:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Levinas-tournant-sacrificiel-David-Brezis/dp/2705682619
I had never before heard of any of them.
They are all very Ashkenazi!
But the best one for me was Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin who was a real piece of work:
The Mizrahi Israeli seems to be the most racist reactionary White Jewish Supremacist of the four:
Elgrably-Berzin has written opinion articles in Hebrew for various publications, mostly taking the Likud’s stances on political and ideological matters, and writing about the philosophy of Likud ideological forebear Ze’ev Jabotinsky. She has also written about Moroccan Jewry.
Several of Elgrably-Berzin’s articles are about Diaspora Jewry, though not ones written in recent years.
An Israel Hayom article she wrote in 2015 said Israel was no longer important to many American Jews, and “parts of the Jewish-American Left do not hesitate to cooperate and be funded by anti-Zionists. It’s not an Iranian bomb, but it is a ticking time bomb that hurts Israel, including the Zionist Left.” She called for left-wing Israelis to insist on their Zionism when talking to leftist American Jews.
An Israel Hayom article Elgrably-Berzin wrote in 2016 said American Jews who put universal values above “mutual responsibility in the ethnic dimension... sometimes turn their backs on” their Jewish identity, and that their efforts to be ‘good Christians’ or ‘good Germans’ fail when antisemitism rises.”
A lack of a connection to Jewish identity or to Israel encourages radical anti-Israel elements, she argued. In that article, she put J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace and BDS in the same category as being “on the axis between extreme Left and anti-Zionist” and “having developed an obsessive empathy for the Palestinian stance and claiming their activities come from a desire to save Israel from itself.”
The Messianic Settlers loved her!
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/811893
Indeed, Zev Harvey represents the White Jewish Supremacy in academic Jewish Studies that has ignored the work of Jose Faur, and promoted the Mizrahi Self-Haters who reinforce HASBARAH racism, as they follow the Ashkenazi ideas of their mentors.
David Shasha