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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Useless Jewish Organization

After the Iran deal, American Jews turned to the “Establishment” of liberal Jewish organizations to whom they had written out so many checks over the years expecting them to do something about it.

And the organizations did what they do best. They expressed concern.

The ADL was “deeply concerned” about the Iran nuclear deal two years ago. It announced that it now has “cause for concern”. It’s unknown whether the next ADL boss, Obama crony Jonathan A. Greenblatt, it also concerned, but it doesn’t matter since the ADL’s concern and five bucks can get you an Iced Cinnamon Dolce Latte at Starbucks.

AIPAC is also “deeply concerned” about the deal. So is John Boehner. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was also “deeply concerned” about Iran’s nuclear program eight years ago. The IAEA was “deeply concerned” about it four years ago. And Obama, he’s now “deeply concerned” about the Americans held in Iran. The last time he was “deeply concerned” about the subject was two years ago.

Expressing concern, deep or otherwise, is a meaningless formula that reassures the people actually upset about an issue that they are being taken seriously, by the organizations otherwise ignoring them.

After four years, conservatives have learned that Boehner’s concern doesn’t amount to much. American Jews are baffled to realize that the organizations they expected to help them are just as worthless.

American Jewish liberalism is based on a comforting myth that in times of crisis, its organizations step up to the challenge, rescuing Jews from the Holocaust, saving Soviet Jewry and fighting for Israel. In real life, the establishment has a long history of fighting the “radical” and “extremist” groups that actually did these things, before eventually climbing on the bandwagon and then claiming all the credit.

Before it was fundraising off Israel, the establishment was militantly anti-Zionist.

In the 20s, the establishment was directing money away from Israel to the USSR’s “Jewish” farming colonies. At a time when the future of Israel hung in the balance, the American Jewish Congress had sponsored a report by Louis Fischer, a Communist sympathizer and propagandist (and a future anti-Communist), who was denying that there was a famine and urging millions be spent on Soviet colonies.

The JDC’s Agro-Joint project committed more resources to developing agriculture in the USSR than in Israel. Fortunes that could have been used to save countless Jews from the Holocaust and build a stronger Israel were instead funneled into the USSR. When the Communists had gotten what they wanted from their useful idiots, many of the Joint’s employees ended up colonizing gulags.

This was one of the earliest splits between Zionists and anti-Zionists in American Jewish life, with the anti-Zionists being Communist sympathizers or their useful idiots. As Stephen Wise pointed out, "The protagonists of this colonization were more concerned about Russia than about Jews."

A $16 million fundraiser (more than twice what the JDC had spent on Israel) was accompanied by propaganda claiming that the Jews of the Soviet settlements had found a “new life” and a “happy future”. David A. Brown, the anti-Zionist head of the United Jewish Campaign, claimed that it would get rid of anti-Semitism. Before long, most of the Joint’s employees had been shot or imprisoned by Stalin.

But by then over a decade and a fortune had been lost. By the time the Soviet colonization project had been thoroughly discredited, the British limitations on Jewish immigration had closed another door.

In 1943, James N. Rosenberg, the JDC boss, stated that the world ought to learn a lesson from “Russia’s treatment of minorities.” Meanwhile the USSR had begun its struggle against “rootless cosmopolitans”; a coded reference to Jews. The two Russian Jews he was welcoming, Solomon Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer, would soon be killed by Stalin as part of a larger purge of Soviet Jews.

Having learned nothing from the butchery of his own Joint people by Stalin, the anti-Zionist Rosenberg then suggested that European Jews after the war should move to the USSR.

Eventually in 1950, Rosenberg, whose “On the Steppes” was a key piece of establishment propaganda for the Soviet colonies, belatedly admitted that his project had, “ended in dust, ashes and death.”

Israel does not exist because of the establishment, but in spite of it. It exists because while the establishment bosses in New York were swallowing Soviet lies, young Jewish farmers worked the soil in Israel. If Israel survives, it will be because of its farmers, not because of New York’s corrupt bosses.

The Jewish establishment has always been anti-Zionist. It was anti-Zionist before the State of Israel was founded. It is anti-Zionist today. Then and now, it disguises that anti-Zionism behind excuses while redirecting money to its pet political causes. Once Israel had won, history was rewritten and the anti-Zionist Jewish establishment became Zionist; even if it was a Zionism in name only.

During the 20s, the establishment directed aid away from Israel and toward the USSR. In the 30s, there was a more progressive cause than saving Jews from Nazi Germany and his name was FDR.

Once again the establishment was “deeply concerned” about the mass murder of Jews and it was willing to hold as many meetings as it took to issue statements of deep concern. The one thing it could not and would not do was actually challenge a liberal president who had emerged as a progressive hero.

That fell to Jewish radicals and extremists in the Bergson Group who took out angry ads in newspapers with immoderate titles like “Guaranteed Human Beings at $50 a piece.”

FDR was far more concerned with Muslim feelings than Jewish lives. At the end of the war, Roosevelt would say that he had learned more about the Jewish problem by talking to the Saudi king for five minutes than he could have learned from numerous letters. At Yalta, FDR had told Stalin that he would be happy to give the Saudi king “the six million Jews in the United States.”

The Saudi king had stated, “The word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe this… that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew ensures him an immediate entry into Paradise and into the august presence of Allah. What more then can a Muslim want in this hard world.”

Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, who would cunningly block Jewish rescue efforts, wrote in his diary that “The whole Mohamedan world is tending to flare up at the indications that the Allied forces are trying to locate Jewish people under their protection in Moslem territory.”

Long before Obama or Carter, a liberal president was sacrificing Jews to Muslim anti-Semitism with the complicity of the major Jewish organizations that promised their constituents that their diplomacy on the inside would succeed. And after six million were dead, the organizations that let them die spent the rest of the century fundraising off their ashes to create tolerance programs and big buildings.

In the 60s, it was finally time for the USSR. For decades the Jewish establishment had expressed “deep concern” over the organized persecution of Jews in the USSR. While the establishment focused on keeping lines of communication to the USSR open, young Jewish activists in America staged protests. They didn’t just march; they disrupted the very dialogue that the establishment wanted so badly.

Like the Bergson Group, these activists were young and edgy. They were not impressed by meetings with officials. Instead they realized that they had to make themselves a nuisance to succeed.

They were not “deeply concerned”. Instead they acted.


The establishment will not stand up to Obama, just like it didn’t stand up to FDR. The real action will come from ad-hoc coalitions, like the one behind the Stop Iran Rally, that throw things together. And it will come from a handful of kids somewhat that do what the adults aren’t doing.

Bergson was in his early twenties when he began his activism. Dennis Prager was in his early twenties when he began working as the national spokesman for Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Where the establishment failed, they succeeded in bringing national attention to an urgent crisis.

Creative solutions will not come from the establishment, but from outside it. The establishment has been 0 for 3 when it came to building Israel, the Holocaust and Soviet Jewry. Expecting it to do any more about Iran than be “deeply concerned” is a formula for disappointment.

This is not a time for more internal diplomacy in which establishment bosses chat with politicians and come away with four pounds of nothing in a torn sack. It’s time for forceful activism that wakes up everyone to the reality that we are facing a future in which terrorists have nuclear weapons.

While the ADL spends money on lesson plans about Bruce Jenner and social justice poetry, while the UJA winks and funds BDS, a new generation will once again be called on to stand against Armageddon.


  1. Ever so sadly true.

  2. Why not name those who fought to disrupt the American foreign policy of detente with the Soviet butchers as the JDL lead by Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT"L, as you did with those who took out newspaper ads during the shoah?

    Where do traitorous Jewish organizations fit into Western society's systematic and consistent attempts to wipe out the Jewish people and enslave people?

    source for "assumptions" in ^statement: https://youtu.be/smNSMUg4Zfg

  3. Anonymous29/7/15

    NEVER AGAIN...indeed, until the next time. And the next time has come and gone yet awaits tomorrow's sunrise.

  4. The ADL in Atlanta is headquarter for 4 southern states is concerned about the Confederate flag.

  5. Anonymous29/7/15

    Why don't Jews, Catholics & Protestants join forces against the corrupt establishment? The continuing Planned Parenthood expose' proves beyond doubt that the politicians & bureaucrats of U.S. government are willing to countenance death on an industrial scale. There are millions of people in the U.S.A. who are ready and willing to act against this increasing tyranny. What's missing is a LEADER. It will take a military man like George Washington or Benjamin Netanyahu to focus and lead the resistance to and reformation of U.S. government. Jews, Catholics & Protestants of good conscience want relief and are willing to fight for it. It will take a strong & honorable leader to focus, organize & lead the resistance. Present leadership does not have the will or the know-how.

  6. We need a movement to defeat the leftists Jewish establishment in United States. Why don't you provide the intellectual guide for doing this, Daniel? Who are the Jewish leaders and business owners willing to support and fund such an effort?

  7. Anonymous29/7/15

    Sultan - What is the source of " At Yalta, FDR had told Stalin that he would be happy to give the Saudi king “the six million Jews in the United States.”" Since this takes an axe to liberal theology I would appreciate being on rock solid ground before using it.

  8. DenisO29/7/15

    "...a new generation will once again be called on to stand against Armageddon..."
    If history is any judge, it won't come from the Jewish community of America.
    Daniel must have found it painful to write this historical indictment of the American Jewish "establishment". It's very true, and though seldom admitted, the rest of America has witnessed that long history, also. That is one real reason why there are few who will defend their plight. Except for Israel, of course, where they have as many cowardly liberals, yet the People defend themselves, heroically. The World loves a fighter, especially an underdog that stands, defiantly.

    Outside their own families, American Jews are unloved and un-pitied when they shed crocodile tears over whatever "oppressed" serial murderer or inner city thugs they fear, as well as supporting socialists that would confiscate their wealth and distribute it to the poor thugs. They follow any anti-capitalist aspirant that wants to volunteer to lead their groups, with herd-like loyalty and indifference. It's crazy, but there is no denying their stripes, and as long as they experience no pain, they will continue following any Jewish pied-piper that's willing to take their money without asking for sacrifice or commitment. It works for them; what do you want?

    They are not alone, unfortunately. The Left in America does the same thing, following blindly any fashionable radical that wants to change America. Now, after they have succeeded, they have become the Establishment that their hippie-grand parents trashed. They're responsible for failed and dangerous major cities, a weak economy, fatherless families, a failed education system, and children having children or abortions, as their mood dictates. The hippies of this century that will come for them will be their phony "oppressed" inner city thugs, led by Jessie Jackson-type mullahs. I don't think the Left can escape the blame for what they've done, but poetic justice is rare.

  9. The powers-that-be in Congress, Jewish and non-Jewish, are moved by money and votes. Jews in the aggregate may supply enough of both in some parts of the US to be politically effective on the national scene, but how does that work in the treaty fight when most are true-blue liberals?

  10. Anonymous29/7/15

    LEADERSHIP is a 4 letter word in Washington DC.

  11. Anonymous30/7/15

    "Deep concern" = "I feel your pain."

  12. Anonymous30/7/15

    Obama has found his Axis of countries to destroy Israel and put down America at the same time. His Islamism is the raison d’etre of his foreign policy.

    The fact that Jews voted for Obama twice and Jewish agencies kowtow to him is an indication of how deeply the Jewish people in America have assimilated into their leftist bubbles which have them offering their support for all humanity as they ignore the dangers to their own people and Israel.

    It is beyond comprehension that the Diaspora has abandoned Israel which is the greatest success story and miracle of modern times.

  13. Anonymous30/7/15

    Dark shadows for US Jews under an Iran deal
    If Ambassador John Bolton is correct stating that Iran is enriching in N Korea, as has already been supported by US intelligence*, as high Iranian officials scientists are almost always present at N Korean nuclear events then disturbing consequences arise

    1. Obama is applying his tried and tested technique to distract from and cover up one scandal with an even bigger one.
    2. Obama has thus succeeded to gradually and systematically erode the American Constitution, democracy and moral stance
    3. Obama and the hard left believe that America is evil and its drivers need to be destroyed. Iran with an avowed intent to destroy America is a convenient vehicle for Obama's declared goal thus Iran is being supported
    4. Obama has unleashed terror and chaos on our world, through action and inaction; he continues sowing seeds for more; the UN is not in a position to substitute for America as leader of the free world.

    Obama must be stopped along with his shady deal, failing which American Jewry according to what Saudi king told FDR may elevate some muslim souls

  14. We can listen to people's words, but we don't have a sense of true character until we examine their choices. Choices trump words. These Jewish organizations are now institutional centers of Leftism. They have little to do with Hebrew culture, Judaism or Zionism. Jewishness means lots of things, but when earthly ideological desires trump clear and present dangers to one's people, it seems like it might be time to check the premises for said institution's existence.

  15. Anonymous30/7/15

    The League of the Deeply Concerned.

  16. I beieve AIPAC is furiously working behind the scenes and not all their efforts are being made public. But overall i agree that its mostly talk and not action with the majority of Jewish organizations.

  17. Anonymous30/7/15

    I wrote about this years ago...thank you https://usa2mom.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/jewsh-american-leaders-are-chickenshit/ and https://usa2mom.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/an-open-letter-to-the-jewish-american-community-what-is-wrong-with-you/

  18. Israel is a democracy filled with the brightest Jewish minds, and the hard-working spirit of the Jewish people. It doesn't need America to protect it, to fights its wars, or to fund its economy and army any more. After only a little over half a century, it is ready to stand on two feet and protect itself without unwanted American assistance.

  19. DenisO31/7/15

    "... it is ready to stand on two feet and protect itself without unwanted American assistance..."
    No. It needs America, to avoid a war. Even if it wins, wars are destructive. Israel defeating one or more Arab Countries would not be a win, when the enemy, religious holy men, still exist. The best strategy has always been to let them fight among themselves. Any war against Israel will be waged with the outcome justified in terms of Sunni vs Shiite. Right now, Iran is talking Israel-hate, while quietly surrounding Saudi Arabia. Their game is obvious, though I'm not confident Kerry sees anything. By now, the Saudi's know the score.

  20. Anonymous1/8/15

    @High Arka
    Is Israel's military really self sufficient? I think Israel still relies on the US to provide them w/patriot missile batteries (or the surface-to-air missiles it fires), air-to-air missiles or ammunition and spare parts for multi-million dollar front-line fighter/bomber aircraft. Manufacturing the jet engines for front-line fighter/bomber aircraft takes significant skill, resources and materials.

  21. Not fair to lump AIPAC in on this issue. More than 600 activists dropped vacation plans and work to fly to DC to lobby their MOCs last week on the very bad Iran deal. The Fly-in was organized in just 10 days and we are working very hard to get friends and family to lean on (or thank) Congress to vote against it. AIPAC is not a charitable organization so donors don't get a tax deduction for supporting it, flying to DC to lobby or spending countless hours driving to see MOCs in their home districts. It's one place where Democrats, Republicans and independents can find common ground in strengthening the American-Israel relationship.

  22. My parents were involved with Irgun and the "Bergson" group, and as I heard the story it became unpopular to be linked to these groups after the war. They had to decide whether to make aliyah or stay here. Kook himself denounced Jews who decided to remain and assimilate. I think that there is still a memory of that in the Jewish establishment here. They prefer to remain in the mainstream rather than align themselves with issues and movements that, in the past, have been morphed in the public eye to be referred to as "terrorism."




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