Yiddish Takes Over The Forward’s “Year of the Arab Jew” and Other Ashkenazi Supremacist Fantasies

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Yiddish Takes Over The Forward’s “Year of the Arab Jew” and Other Ashkenazi Supremacist Fantasies

“Why 2015 Was the Year of Yiddish”

We will recall that 2015 was marked in The Forward by the self-hating idiot Sigal Samuel as the “Year of the Arab Jew”:

http://forward.com/opinion/israel/211507/lets-make-2015-the-year-of-the-arab-jew/

The article occasioned a series of SHU attacks that began at the beginning, and kept going:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/davidshasha/sigal$20samuel/davidshasha/ySA2cXrvZ1U/GlZB33xb-UYJ

But, ironically, as the year now comes to a close there seems to have been a change of mind at The Forward:

http://forward.com/culture/327826/why-2016-was-the-most-yiddish-year-of-all/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20newsletter%20-%20normal%20%5BA%5D%202015-12-29&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday

The circle is now closed: What started last December as the “Year of the Arab Jew” has now ended somewhat differently!

Seth Rogovoy clears the matter up for us by proclaiming 2015 as the “Year of Yiddish,” which is far more accurate than the foolishness of Sigal Samuel; the same Sigal Samuel who so proudly published a novel on the Hasidim of Montreal:

http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/how-my-montreal-novel-led-me-to-mumbai/?utm_source=Jewish+Book+Council+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=46485ed66f-MAIN_LIST_December_28_201512_28_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aba3aeb0f5-46485ed66f-90468181

Ms. Samuel has admitted that her novel on the Hasidim led her to “discover” her Indian Jewish heritage; which she still knows very little about, as I have discussed:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/davidshasha/sigal$20samuel/davidshasha/bMcqKLDcbBM/qFh8lpfm_yMJ

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/davidshasha/sigal$20samuel/davidshasha/v9dBh0Mgglk/5wesNC4QBiMJ

Samuel remains utterly ignorant of the Arab Jewish tradition, but is very much a dutiful servant of Ashkenazi hegemony. Her Orientalist bias continues to impress.

So it is certainly true that, as Mr. Rogovoy insists, we can never get enough Ashkenazi-Yiddish culture.

With a new Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” it is clear that Ashkenazi culture still needs a boost from The Forward, as Ri Turner so passionately showed us earlier this year:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/davidshasha/ri$20turner/davidshasha/os_RQM-mwuk/8o3l9bRJqSwJ

Ashkenazim continue to believe that Sephardic culture is in no need of such enthusiastic promotion, so it is best left unrepresented in the Jewish world. Our voices are to be excluded from the discourse of the White Jewish racists.

The Ashkenazim can indeed work wonders for themselves while the Sephardim wither on the vine!

And for all her callous disrespect to the classical Sephardic Jewish tradition, Samuel has just been rewarded with a promotion from the paper’s Deputy Digital Media Editor to the position of Opinion editor:

http://staging.forward.com/author/sigal-samuel/

http://forward.com/author/sigal-samuel/

Who says that sucking up to the Ashkenazim does not have its perks and privileges?

Sephardim becoming Ashkenazim is always an excellent career move, especially in the “Year of Yiddish.”

The Forward’s Ashkenazi Ethnocentrism in Chicago

Last Monday The Forward – true to its Ashkenazi ethnocentric mission – published the following piece on two Chicago lawyers involved in the current racial issues there:

http://forward.com/news/327886/in-chicago-two-davids-puncture-goliaths-blue-shield/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_TopSpot_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20newsletter%20-%20normal%20%5BA%5D%202015-12-28&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday

Both Futterman and Kalven are indeed Ashkenazi Jews, as is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel.

Both Futterman and Kalven are married to non-Jews and yet are presented as holding firmly to their Jewish identity.

In this case Jewish identity means Ashkenazi political radicalism rather than traditional Torah values. Torah values are in fact seen as synonymous with those of the American political Left, a faction that is deeply tied to the dominating leadership of Ashkenazi Jews.

Rather than being a deviation from their Jewish heritage, these Left Wing Ashkenazim are seen as fulfilling their Jewish mission.

And what it is that Rahm Emmanuel is doing is not made clear.

In the end it is not about Judaism at all, but about how Ashkenazi dominate our culture and act as elite figures that we must all admire.

The Forward’s “Jews” Praying in Arabic!

Okay, so Arab Jews are not welcome to speak in The Forward, and to prove it we now get an article by someone named Elizabeth Bahar – the surname appears to be Sephardic – letting us know about a group of Jews in Alabama who participated in an Interfaith prayer service in Arabic:

http://forward.com/opinion/327971/why-jews-down-in-dixie-are-praying-in-arabic/?utm_content=opinion_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Opinion%20Redesign%202015-12-28&utm_term=Opinion

In spite of her Sephardic name, she does not seem to be much of a Sephardi:

http://forward.com/series/rabbis/2015/elizabeth-bahar/

Without getting into the issue of personal ethnic identity, what we are seeing in this article is a complete absence of Arab Jews as participating in Arabic culture and the common history that the inhabitants of the Middle East share.

What we do see is the usual Interfaith Dialogue nonsense which privileges this sort of artificial ecumenical prayer as opposed to actually recounting the history and culture of the Arabs – Jews, Christians, and Muslims – who have lived together for many centuries.

David Shasha

Here are links to all my previous posts on The Forward’s “Year of the Arab Jew”:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/ySA2cXrvZ1U

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/RVTjSONFtr8

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/nZMnVKNDx4E

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/E3RUqeDRZt8

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/kdnHdTqrCgE

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/v6bSDaP39rk

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/qW8Odxz51OU

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/xc1bFIniRN4

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/TAsO7UIo5TQ

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/davidshasha/7xn3Yv4-bYQ