The anti-Zionist oratory of Dovid Weiss drew an impassioned crowd of about 30 people on the UA Mall yesterday, many of whom held signs or wore stickers to protest Weiss’s appearance on campus.
Dressed in a dark suit and a wide-brimmed hat, Weiss dismissed the different sects of Judaism, and called for an end to the Jewish state of Israel.
“There’s no such thing as reform, reforming, be more conservative, there’s one thing: the acceptance of the covenant that God gave us on Mount Sinai,” he said.
There has been an issue which has been on-going for a great many years. An issue which has both gone on unchecked and without any form of real criticism. It is known to all, but is the dirty little secret which no one talks about. I speak, of course, about the American Jew.
American Jews like to talk a good story. They like to pull the Jewish card out whenever they can for whatever it gets them, but at the end of the day, they are the furthest thing from Jewish you can get. American Jews are spoiled, pampered, and have no idea about what it means to be Jewish or what the Jewish Struggle is even about.
They mostly live hedonistic lives, completely devoid of any Judaic practices or beliefs. By enlarge, they are Liberals and Leftists; if you really looked into it, you would probably find that they're not just left, they're fringe left. There are also a great many who are Atheists.
You can always spot them, they're the ones eating pork, seafood, and anything else they can find that goes against Kosher Law. They're the ones working on the Saturday Sabbath. They're the ones constantly smack talking Israel and trying to stab them in the back. They're the ones finding any way they can to rebel and repel their Jewish heritage.
However, all of this is quite okay, because at the end of the day, they donate a sum to The Jewish National Fund or some other Jewish organization. They're in no way Jewish, but they pay other people to be "Good Jews" so they don't have to be. They pay others to bare the brunt of the Jewish Conflict, so that it soothes their conscience for completely betraying their heritage and way of life.
They get to experience America, its liberties, its freedoms, its dream, 24/7's, while the real Jews fight the good fight.
Ha Shalosh Haverim
While the Jews in Israel don't know whether they're going to live through the day, American Jews are trying to decide whether they want soy milk in their latte from Starbucks, or if they should say to hell with the few extra calories and get the whole milk.
While the Jews in Israel struggle in vain, day in and day out, to find some solution to a peace with the Palestinians so they can save every Jewish life possible, American Jews are trying to figure out whether they want a BlackBerry or an iPhone, and whether or not they should ditch their Myspace page and start a Facebook page or have both.
While the Jews in Israel struggle with the issue of whether or not to damn the torpedoes and tell the World to mind their own business, and just do what they all know they're going to have to do, American Jews are trying to figure out how they're going to spin their next leftist Blog or Op-ed piece in the New York Times admonishing the Israelis for trying to survive and save their country.
One of the passages of this article which really stood out for me was:
Azad Molla, a political science senior, came to the protest after being invited by a friend via Facebook. He said he hadn’t heard of Weiss before, but came to see what he had to say.
What struck him most, he said, was how two opposing groups could peacefully disagree with each other.
Molla was born in France to Middle-Eastern parents, and said this type of discussion could not have taken place in the Middle East.
Of course this type of discussion could not have taken place in the Middle East. Why? Because over there, this type of discussion is about Life and Death. In America, where everything is hunky-dory, we have the luxury of such things. In Israel, where rockets are flying and buses and buildings are being blown to pieces by Hamas, they don't have the time or the inclination to entertain such discussions.
It's really easy to be an Armchair Quarterback from the safety of your little American homes. Where were you when 9/11 happened? Crying about injustice and atrocity, screaming for blood, and demanding vengeance.
9/11 was one event. This is what Israel has to live with every day. It's not about whether or not it's going to happen; it's about whether or not it's going to happen before the terrorists have their shawarma and Mitzli or after.
I'm not sure which is the sadder state of affairs, that an organization like Neturei Karta International exists, that it was started in Israel, or that they would find receptive ears to their message amongst Americans. As the saying goes: With friends like these, who needs enemies?
