A plea to American Jews
By Ben Shapiro
“American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of your posteriors.”
Dear American Jews,
I write to you as a charter member of the tribe. I’m not only Jewish, I’m religious. I’m married to an Israeli girl (she’ll receive her citizenship next year and she is a proud soon-to-be American). I go to synagogue regularly, keep kosher, keep the Sabbath.
American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of your posteriors.
I mean that in all sincerity. Your continued support for Democrats and an administration that is openly anti-Semitic is a disgrace. Your embrace of a party that seeks to hamstring Israel in the name of a wholly fictitious Middle East peace process is contemptible. Your loyalty to a president who consistently sides with Palestinian and Iranian mass murder-supporters is disgusting.
Your backing of a man who has spent his life surrounding himself with the worst anti-Semites America has to offer — Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi (former Palestinian terrorist spokesman), Louis Farrakhan (“I don’t like the way [Jews] leech on us”), Samantha Power, Robert Malley, to name a few — is nothing short of reprehensible. Rahm Emanuel’s presence in the Obama cabinet doesn’t ameliorate Obama’s anti-Semitism — it just provides it convenient cover. Al Sharpton wrongly called Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell “house negroes”; Emanuel is a kapo.
Even as you continue to buttress a president who seeks the destruction of your co-religionists, you demonstrate your myopia by rejecting the tea party movement and evangelical Christian Israel-supporters.
The tea party movement is your ally for three important reasons. First, it supports capitalism against the forces of socialism — and capitalism keeps America strong enough to provide Israel with a hand against its evil adversaries. Second, American Jews are, by far, the highest-earning religious group in the United States — the tea party fights for your right to keep your money. Third, the tea party stands against government overreach — and in an era when government overreach promotes anti-religious secularism, Jews must stand with the tea party.
Your rejection of evangelical Christians is even more idiotic. Evangelical Christians are the only major voting bloc preventing President Obama from breaking ties with Israel. When Janet Porter, an evangelical Florida talk show host, heard about Obama’s anti-Israel tyranny, she responded by asking her listeners to buy dozens of yellow roses to send to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office as a show of support. The price per dozen: $19.48, in honor of the year of Israel’s founding (1948). Over 14,000 flowers were delivered. Meanwhile, Adm. James Jones, Obama’s national security adviser and the man who brought Jew-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski into Obama’s inner circle, was busy telling anti-Semitic jokes before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“But they want to convert us!” many American Jews shout. Not all Christians do. But for the rest — so what? Would you sacrifice the support of millions of good-hearted Christians because they want to discuss Jesus with you? If your own belief system is so fragile, the weakness is yours, not theirs. While you expend energy whining about Jehovah’s Witnesses who show up at your door with a Bible, Obama supports radical Muslims who would show up at your door with a gun — or, as in the case of Daniel Pearl, a butcher’s knife.
Now, I understand, American Jews, that most of you don’t care about Israel.
I understand that you’re more concerned about a woman’s unconditional right to abort her unborn child (which Judaism rejects) than you are about Israel. Fine. Understand that you have removed yourself from the vast river of Jewish history in favor of a chimerical morality that values libertinism over liberty.
I understand that many of you — all of you above age 70 — still think FDR is alive. He isn’t, but Jimmy Carter is.
I understand that some of you still think that conservatives and Republicans are the same folks they were during the 1950s, when they banned you from country clubs. They aren’t.
The simple fact is this: There is only one mainstream political ideology in this country that asks you to check your principles and cultural history at the door in the name of the greater good — leftism, the same ideology that virtually exterminated Judaism in Russia and Europe. While the left exploits your adherence to bagel-and-lox Judaism by appealing to your watered-down and perverted “tikkun olam” sensibilities, you are enabling your own destruction. The same people who urge you to reach out to terrorists will be the first to sacrifice you to those terrorists’ tender mercies. The same people who urge you to worry about same-sex marriage rather than religious freedom will be the first to take your religious freedoms away.
I love you, my brothers and sisters. That’s why I’m writing to you. Time is running out; the clock is winding down. Pick a side.
Hitlerjuden = Hitler Jews, would vote for Hitler if he was running with a D instead of an N after his name. The National “Jewish” “Democratic” Council comes to mind.
Excellent commentary, Ben.
Well written and insightful.
But American Jews have already chosen a side.
They have chosen to side with the anti-Semite.
Bill Clinton said that the timing of the Goldman-Sachs lawsuit is suspicious. Michael Savage says that obama is targeting Goldman-Sachs because of its NAME. You all know what he means by that. So it would seem that Jones’ joke was not off-the-cuff but rather part of a broader campaign by the obama regime to demonize the Jews. So while muslims wage jihad against us, hussein obama is waging jihad against the Jews.
Well spoken. Yasher koach.
I am really impressed with your bona fides, really impressed, real religious Jew?
Mishne Torah, Sefer Shoftim, The Laws of Kings and Their Wars, Chapter 5, Halakha 12.
Nobody asked you whether you were observant or not and since you brought up the subject and are using it to emphasize what a good Jew you are I beg to differ. A truly religious Jew will not , cannot pick and choose which mitzvot to observe/ That your wife is Israeli it is grounds for a get should either of you choose to seek one. Just thought you might like to know religious Jew.
Ted who is Ben Shapiro?
is this the Ben Shapiro?
Ben Shapiro (born 1984 in Burbank, California) is a syndicated conservative political columnist, author, and radio talk show host.
Early life and college education
He attended Edison Elementary School in Burbank, CA, where he skipped third grade. He then attended Maimonides Hebrew Academy from fifth to sixth grade, at which point he moved to Walter Reed Junior High School IHP Program for the remainder of junior high. He attended YULA high school in Los Angeles, but graduated early after skipping freshman year. Shapiro enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) at the age of 16, majoring in political science.
Legal education and career
Shapiro received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School in June 2007. As a second year law student, he had a summer clerkship with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.[1] He formerly practiced law at the Los Angeles office of Goodwin Procter LLP.[2] He now does independent legal consulting for major media clients.
Writing career
Shapiro was hired by Creators Syndicate at age 17 to become the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the U.S. He has written for the Orlando Sentinel, the Conservative Chronicle, and Townhall.com. He has written a book on his experiences in college, titled Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth (ISBN 0-7852-6148-6), which was published in 2004. His next book, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future (ISBN 0-89526-016-6), was published by Regnery in June 2005. His newest book, Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House (ISBN 1-5955-5100-X), was published in 2008. He is also a staunch critic of judicial activism, supporting judges whom he believes interpret the United States Constitution according to its original meaning.
Radio
Shapiro guest hosts regularly for major talk show hosts including nationally syndicated hosts Jerry Doyle and Rusty Humphries.
Political ideology
Shapiro has taken conservative stances on many social issues. He favors stronger military and law enforcement spending, as well as more restrictive laws against abortion and pornography. He has also spoken favorably of tighter immigration restrictions and expanded government wiretapping powers of suspected terrorists. Shapiro is also strongly critical of the liberal beliefs of many of his fellow Jewish-Americans. Shapiro is also a very strong advocate for abstinence before marriage. Shapiro married in Acre, Israel in July 2008.
Personal life
Ben Shapiro is an Orthodox Jew.
External links
* Shapiro’s website
* Podcasts of Shapiro’s recent articles
Right on Mr. Shapiro. Let’s see what the next election brings…
And I think Shapiro is well within his rights to self-identify as a religious Jew. Yamit isn’t the arbiter of who is and isn’t a true Jew.
When Ben was going to Harvard, I came across his writings and asked him to blog with me. At first he started to but then moved in his own direction. Similarly with Sultan Knish. When he was starting out I invited him to blog with me and he started out, then went on his own. The Sultan (Daniel Greenfield) is recognized now as being brilliant.
Conclude what you will from that.
Yamit, you are one curmudgeon, you are.
The true Christians Mormons and Adventists, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Churches
** All Atheists who claim to be Christian are every bit a Christian as you are.
Maybe I am? But I ain’t no cheerleader either.
Send Shapiro my comment if he hasn’t read it on his own. I would love to read what he has to say if anything.
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Coincidence?
Or inextricably interwoven?
A puzzling conundrum, but you make the call.
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Israpundit seems to be attracting more broads than guys by a considerable margin and is heavy on broads with advanced degrees rendering the guys as undereducated simpletons. Seems you don’t appeal yet to under 45 crowd and I will make some suggestions shortly with ideas I think might improve that demographic.
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Here’s what was missing from the photo
Re: #3
Goldman Sachs wants to profiteer off carbon credits at the expense of working Americans. So does J.P. Morgan Chase. (Both firms were named by Kirsten Gillibrand as beneficiaries of Obama’s cap and trade legislation.) Criticism of Goldman Sachs for its involvement in the cap and trade agenda is no more anti-Semitic than criticism of J.P. Morgan Chase for this is anti-Welsh. I do wish, however, that Goldman Sachs was led by someone who didn’t have a name like “Blankfein.”