Real Jews don’t use their Judaism as a prop

Over the weekend, IfNotNow held a small early morning protest outside the house of a member of Congress.

Here’s their photo of the event:

 

They are led by a woman with a tambourine – and wearing a tallit.

Why does she need to wear a prayer shawl?

Obviously, she doesn’t. The entire reason she is wearing it is to scream “LOOK, I’M JEWISH” while protesting against Israel. To “prove” that “real Jews” oppose Israeli policies.

But real Jews don’t use sacred objects or rituals as cheap props for political theater.

Jews In Name Only (JINOs), however, love to embrace the Judaism most of them scorn to buttress their politics.

IfNotNow held a havdalah service a couple of weeks ago – the service that ends the Sabbath – while it was still daylight on the Sabbath.

 

They hold “seders” to tell the world that instead of Jews going from slavery to freedom in their own nation, they want Jews to go from nationhood back to the Diaspora.

Any bizarre link they can find to anything remotely Jewish they will grab, twist and publicize as if what they are doing has anything to do with Judaism.

No one is fooled. These people who want you to so desperately believe that they represent Jews are proving the exact opposite with their cynical cheapening  of Jewish rituals and objects.