Fuming
Oh dear G-d, we've got full blown Holocaust denial at the White House.
All through the campaign, I heard, from members of my synagogue, that, "He can't be an anti Semite, his daughter married a Jew, she converted, his grandchildren are Jewish."
And yes, Ivanka and Jared are Orthodox, living a very observant life.
FYI, Eric's wife is Jewish, too, but we are less likely to hear about that.
But yet, the Donald didn't attend his grandson's bris. The most important ritual in the child's life. A ritual in which grandfathers assume an important role. He skipped it, stayed on the campaign trail.
When he spoke to Jewish Republicans during a fundraiser, he called them "negotiators". A flattering stereotype-- he's also said he wants a "room full of guys in yarmulkes" counting his money -- but a stereotype nonetheless.
And it was obvious that Jared wrote the speech Donald gave at AIPAC, the most pro-Israel super PAC. His statements there differed greatly from his comments during an interview, where he said he'd let the parties decide their fate.
And since taking the oath of office...
He walked back all the promises he made about Israel.
He had to be poked and prodded by the press to speak out against rising anti-Semitism while the Jewish community was under siege. No surprise there, he never quashed the anti-Semitic harassment doled out by his supporters against Jewish members of the press who criticized him.
But to make the Holocaust "Judenfrei"? To honor Holocaust Remembrance Day and not even mention the Jews?
They were trying to be "inclusive", they explained.
And then there was the Passover Seder. For 8 years, President Obama hosted a Seder for the White House staff. The first Trump Seder, hastily arranged after the press noticed its absence, was not attended by Trump or any member of his family. Not even the Jewish members of his family.
(Though I heard that the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn is also a victim of poor planning and will be greatly scaled back this year.)
But the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back comes from his press secretary.
In discussing Assad, and Syria, and chemical weapons, Spicer said that "even Hitler didn't gas his own people."
No, actually he gassed MY people. In concentration camps, not "Holocaust centers."
And this abomination was said on, of all days, the first day of Passover.
Passover, the festival commemorating our liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt.
The Passover Haggadah tells us that in every age a tyrant rises up to anhilate the Jewish people, but with G-d's help, we always survive.
We will survive.
Check out today's post in Talking It Out
All through the campaign, I heard, from members of my synagogue, that, "He can't be an anti Semite, his daughter married a Jew, she converted, his grandchildren are Jewish."
And yes, Ivanka and Jared are Orthodox, living a very observant life.
FYI, Eric's wife is Jewish, too, but we are less likely to hear about that.
But yet, the Donald didn't attend his grandson's bris. The most important ritual in the child's life. A ritual in which grandfathers assume an important role. He skipped it, stayed on the campaign trail.
When he spoke to Jewish Republicans during a fundraiser, he called them "negotiators". A flattering stereotype-- he's also said he wants a "room full of guys in yarmulkes" counting his money -- but a stereotype nonetheless.
And it was obvious that Jared wrote the speech Donald gave at AIPAC, the most pro-Israel super PAC. His statements there differed greatly from his comments during an interview, where he said he'd let the parties decide their fate.
And since taking the oath of office...
He walked back all the promises he made about Israel.
He had to be poked and prodded by the press to speak out against rising anti-Semitism while the Jewish community was under siege. No surprise there, he never quashed the anti-Semitic harassment doled out by his supporters against Jewish members of the press who criticized him.
But to make the Holocaust "Judenfrei"? To honor Holocaust Remembrance Day and not even mention the Jews?
They were trying to be "inclusive", they explained.
And then there was the Passover Seder. For 8 years, President Obama hosted a Seder for the White House staff. The first Trump Seder, hastily arranged after the press noticed its absence, was not attended by Trump or any member of his family. Not even the Jewish members of his family.
(Though I heard that the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn is also a victim of poor planning and will be greatly scaled back this year.)
But the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back comes from his press secretary.
In discussing Assad, and Syria, and chemical weapons, Spicer said that "even Hitler didn't gas his own people."
No, actually he gassed MY people. In concentration camps, not "Holocaust centers."
And this abomination was said on, of all days, the first day of Passover.
Passover, the festival commemorating our liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt.
The Passover Haggadah tells us that in every age a tyrant rises up to anhilate the Jewish people, but with G-d's help, we always survive.
We will survive.
Check out today's post in Talking It Out
I believe we as american will survive. But what the result will be, who knows.
ReplyDeleteAnd we have an idoit and his advisor (some of them) at the wheel.
It gives me a bit of hope we will be voting in 2018.
Coffee is on
We're headed for something major, I think. This is how the French Revolution started....
ReplyDeleteAh yes. As Mich says. I still remember the quote from some TV show or other, "the French Revolution had to happen".
ReplyDeleteI thought we were getting more inclusive as a culture. Accepting of everyone. We're backsliding. Although, I'm heartened by the idea that this might be the last gasp of this old elitist tradition. It's like when you're done with fighting with someone, they'll try to get you angry again, getting ugly to try to pull you back into the drama. But eventually, they give up when they realize you're serious.
These people are desperately trying to hold on. They're grasping for any sort of relevancy. And, of course, they're getting angry and violent about it. But they're in their death throes. (At least, that's what I'm choosing to believe.)