This Week in Trump Campaign Surrogate Tikvah Tablet (9/20)
David Shasha
Child Molester Enablers, Yes – George Soros, No!
In last week’s newsletter we saw how Tikvah is all in with the rabbi-pedophiles and their enablers.
For those who might have missed it:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Wg8q-rEXhhs/m/bnQVskmTBQAJ
On Thursday Alana Newhouse taught us another important lesson in this regard:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/tribute-rabbi-norman-lamm
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/bard-college-soros-campus-week
The first article is a very personal and emotional tribute to Norman Lamm, who looked the other way when pedophilia was being perpetrated on his watch.
The second article is another Neo-Con FOX News attack on George Soros – who is not with the pedophiles.
Unless you are QAnon:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html
The article then goes on to attack Karl Popper!
These goals emerge from the ideological vision of open society that Soros adopted long ago. Popularized by the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, the idea of the “open society” was a response to Soviet communism back in the 1950s during the Cold War era. This ideology was largely abandoned almost 30 years ago after the fall of the Soviet Union and communism made it seem increasingly obsolete. Yet Soros has remained remarkably committed to this ideological vision. He has become its chief, and arguably only, powerful advocate.
We must always remember that the Straussian racists dig deep, but attacking Popper – the man who called out the totalitarians from Plato to Hegel to Marx- is weird even by their debased standards.
In any case, it is all about attacking the Open Society and promoting child molestation.
Zalman Bernstein would have been proud!
Where the Hell Does Alana Newhouse Find Her Writers?
Last Monday I finally took the plunge and got into my car, left Brooklyn, and drove to the East Village in Manhattan for the first time since March – just to get a haircut at Astor Place Barbers!
I looked at the Monday Tikvah Tablet e-mail newsletter before I left the house, but it was too complicated to deal with prior to the trek, so I decided to leave it for when I got back home.
The first article, never mentioning Donald Trump, is a weird review of what the writer thinks the High Holidays will be like:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/holidays/articles/pandemic-high-holidays
The Tablet site says that she is a writer from the Boston area, but nothing else.
The article is the usual White Jewish Supremacy, though it lacks any discussion of Orthodox Jews.
It sees the Trumpdeath situation in a positive light:
The 5781 High Holiday season will be a radically different experience: no ushers checking tickets, schmoozing with friends, congregational singing, or crowded sanctuaries. Instead, there will be Rosh Hashanah baskets delivered to homes and Vid Hugs (video greetings), congregational singalongs, family photos, and Zonegs (Zoom meet-and-greet) displayed on computer screens. One thing is certain: We may be entering the New Year alone together, but we will also be connecting in ways never before imaginable.
Excellent!
And then there is someone called Shawn Vandor who has issues with New Atheist Israeli Hipster Yuval Noah Harari:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/yuval-noah-harari-campus-week
Vandor is a left-field acquisition:
https://literary-arts.org/bio/shawn-vandor/
As he is in Portland, I hope that he and his family are safe from the dangers there.
Harari’s books have become huge best-sellers for the Hipster set, but have little actual relation to Judaism and our literary-intellectual culture. It is all very TED.
I am not sure what it means, if anything:
Yet I’ve been struck, watching Harari speak at various elite global institutions on YouTube—many of which are tech or economics related—by the reverential way many of the hosts and audience members look at him. Sure, Harari’s smart. But it’s like these people haven’t spoken to anyone outside of their narrow field of expertise in decades; it’s like they forgot the humanities existed.
The article is very much along these lines.
Then we have an actual Palestinian who decries Identity Politics in a discussion of the American Revolution!
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/campus-week-cancel-culture
The author Lama Abu-Odeh is a Law professor at Georgetown:
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/lama-abu-odeh/
She appears to be a supporter of the Peter Beinart One-State Solution:
http://bostonreview.net/forum/lama-abu-odeh-case-binationalism
Looking at the responses to her article, it seems that she is knee-deep in the White Jewish Supremacy.
Her article on American history is the usual Tikvah sludge:
What has enabled this large and often frightening shift in academic discourse? The answer is complicated. Part of the answer lies in the increased hires of “diverse” faculty who, instead of using the empathetic patronage of white progressive faculty to advance their careers (as I did), have turned to the diversity department, with its threat of state power, as their protector.
Of course, she does Cancel Culture and Robin DiAngelo:
On a bad day, the new rebels want to cancel you: cause you to lose your job, a prestigious fellowship, or institutional affiliation; force a journal to withdraw your article; deplatform you from a conference panel or a speaking gig. On a good day they want to send you off to read more Robin DiAngelo, the holy priestess of diversity training, to consider your defensiveness about your “white privilege.” And in case you were confused about the new academic moral norms, the diversity department at your university sends you regular emails about the latest panel discussing “structural racism,” a regular reminder that the new bureaucrats have this uncanny capacity to justify their income by warning us of a “systemic” problem only they can solve.
It is a long tirade that does not seem to be connected to the Middle East in any way, as it serves to reinforce the Zalman Bernstein vision.
Amazing!
Then we got a Trumpist hit piece on COVID and higher education:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/campus-week-covid-higher-education
The title says it all: “The Sickness of Higher Ed.”
It is a fascinating rant, that also never mentions Donald Trump, which is apparently an attack on the way colleges are dealing with the Pandemic and remote learning:
This essay will be a sermon. While many of our most august educational institutions were born as seminaries, they have lost their sense of holy mission. I don’t mean religion per se, but rather a felt sense of urgency and purpose. Let’s consider then what we should have done with higher education over the plague summer, why we’re not doing it, and why—let me be as blunt as possible—we, the faculty, share a large part of the blame.
There we have it – the Plague, and the Holy Mission, and the College-as-Seminary.
I had to dig a little deeper to find out why the author Mordechai Levy-Eichel – what a great Ashkenazi name! – is a Newhouse favorite:
https://ycri.yale.edu/people/mordechai-levy-eichel
Of course, he has the Ivy League pedigree, but it is his connection to the Neo-Con Shalem Center that makes him stand out:
https://yale.academia.edu/MordechaiLevyEichel/CurriculumVitae
He has an impeccable Straussian Neo-Con lineage, as he began at the home base of the University of Chicago and has moved his way through the YU world:
http://blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2011/04/12/republicanizing-the-hebrews/
Though for some reason, none of the YU blog links seem to work.
Then on Wednesday we got another Neo-Con attack on PC culture from Brittany Talissa King:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dubois-washington-black-lives-matter
Ms. King is gradually moving into the Tikvah mindset, as she was once a student of Black Separatist Ta-Nehisi Coates.
But she is rethinking it all:
Four hundred years ago, everyone mentioned on the above list would’ve been murdered, because books and pens were criminalized in our ancestor’s hands. These laws weren’t only used to take hostage their ability to read and write, but to keep independent thinking captive. Literacy was a fatal crime, because once a slave could critically think they became dangerous, and therefore were better off dead. A literate slave could easily construct an argument justly opposing their captivity even against a manipulated doctrine proclaiming they weren’t human. And this is why I make a case for Black freedom of thought—an unconditional stance no matter if the next idea challenges mine.
Of course, it is always about Freedom of Thought; a relative concept in Tikvah World when it comes to presenting opposing opinions in their publications.
It is always about finding the voices that firmly support the Neo-Con worldview, and suppressing those who actually have the temerity to oppose the New Fascism.
These articles are examples of the Newhouse process when it comes to cultivating her writers, and reminds us one again of her deep antipathy for Sephardim and the Sephardic heritage.
All China, All the Time!
On Wednesday we were back to the China Lysol Talking Points:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-china-class-fights-trump
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
Though we are being warned that Vladimir Putin is revving up his Trump 2.0, Newhouse and her Trump minions are revving up their Wuhan attacks.
The Trumplove could not be clearer.
David Shasha