After spending 18 years bringing “Getting Away With Murder(s)” to fruition, British filmmaker David Wilkinson faced wall-to-wall rejections when he shopped the documentary to global broadcasters and subscription services such as Netflix.
Clocking in at three hours, Wilkinson’s film is a detailed indictment of the so-called “great unpunishment” faced by nearly all of the Holocaust’s perpetrators. The film focuses on specific German war criminals — and non-German collaborators — to explain how so many mass murderers avoided accountability.
“The lack of justice for the victims of the Holocaust is the greatest miscarriage of justice in the history of mankind,” Wilkinson told The Times of Israel. “The world needs to know this,” he said.
“Getting Away With Murder(s)” will finally land on several US streaming platforms on January 27, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film has been airing in 11 European countries since July, said Wilkinson.
“It has been a slog all the time with this documentary,” said Wilkinson, who has produced or distributed 125 films in a career spanning more than four decades.
“In some ways, ‘Jews Don’t Count’ should have been the name of this film,” said Wilkinson, who had to fund much of the documentary himself, along with his wife, costume designer Amy Roberts of Netflix’s “The Crown.”
Even Israeli broadcasters, said Wilkinson, were not keen on supporting the sprawling Holocaust documentary.
“I was told a few times that Israel has more Holocaust documentaries than any other country,” said Wilkinson, whose film was also rejected by the Berlin Film Festival.
However, after the slew of commercial rejections, “Getting Away With Murder(s)” became a favorite of British critics. Wilkinson has been compared favorably to Claude Lanzmann of “Shoah” fame, and the influential “Guardian” voted the film its top documentary of the year.
“It was the power of the free press. Without them championing the film, I really do think it would have been ignored,” said Wilkinson.
In fact, Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor even acknowledged the phenomenon of growing animosity and violence toward Jews—especially among American blacks. If he had actually wanted to defuse the hold of these ideologies on some of his fans, he might have tried saying something like this: There is no truth in the claims in Hebrews to Negroes that there was no Holocaust or that today’s Jews usurped Judaism from blacks and should be punished for it. In fact, roughly 6 million Jews were murdered for being Jews during World War II; there is no historical support for a religious usurpation; and it is never okay to harass or attack Jews. If your religion tells you that they deserve it, then your religion is despicable.
And he might have added: Jews make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population but routinely suffer 60 percent of religion-based hate crimes. Here in New York City, nearly half of all hate-crime victims are Jewish—in a city only around 7 percent Jewish—and in cases where the attacker’s race is known, 42 percent of attackers are black. Brooklyn has experienced 186 hate crimes so far this year, at least 74 of these against Jews. This is shameful, and anyone who commits crimes against Jews needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
If anything, Irving’s peace-and-love non-apologies served as a dog whistle to those whose ideologies he refrained from condemning. On his reinstatement day, scores of Black Hebrew Israelites, outfitted in the uniform of the group Israel United in Christ, amassed in military formation in Grand Army Plaza shouting: “Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up. We have good news: we are the real Jews.” Still shouting, they army-marched to the nearby Barclay’s Center, where Irving was finally back on court, to distribute fliers promulgating the same brand of libel against Jews that Irving could have explicitly countered, but didn’t. Nothing that Irving has said or done since has stopped Hebrews to Negroes from becoming the best-selling book in multiple Amazon categories or delegitimized its hateful message.
Perhaps conscientious education can cure people of prejudice; certainly, dialogue is a critical and healthy part of civics. Anti-Semitism, however, is an age-old malignancy that leapfrogs bias to become something irrational, suffused with magical thinking and the potential for violence. Maybe to combat this growing surge, we need to focus less on explaining why anti-Semitism is not nice and more on discovering what forces of misplaced grievance and fear in the black community are inflaming it now.
The UAE will be adding Holocaust education to its school curriculums, the UAE Embassy in the US confirmed on Twitter last week.
"In the wake of the historic Abraham Accords, the UAE will now include the Holocaust in the curriculum for primary and secondary schools," was written in the tweet which added a quote by one of the Emirati brokers of the Accords Ali al-Nuaimi.
"Memorializing the victims of the Holocaust is crucial," he said. "Public figures failed to speak the truth because a political agenda hijacked their narrative, yet a tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust targets not only Jews but humanity as a whole."
The UAE is the first Arab state to officially include Holocaust education in its school curriculum.
"This means a lot," said US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides in a comment to the UAE Embassy's tweet. "Great to see it coming to fruition."
'Holocaust education is imperative for humanity'
"Pleased to see this important step being taken by the United Arab Emirates," wrote the US Special Envoy to Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt. "Holocaust education is an imperative for humanity and too many countries, for too long, continue to downplay the Shoah [Holocaust] for political reasons. I commend the UAE for this step and expect others to follow suit soon."
“The United Arab Emirates has been leading the way in peace and tolerance education in the region for some years,” said CEO of Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) Marcus Sheff. "IMPACT-se is delighted that they have taken this important step in educating about the Shoah and humbled to have partnered with the Ministry of Education.”
On Dec. 1, Netflix started streaming the Jordanian film "Farha," which depicts fictionalized, heartless Israeli soldiers viciously killing Palestinian men, women and children in cold blood. These events never actually happened and the film admits that it is "dramatized." But that does not mean it will not have an outsized impact on anti-Jewish hate and violence.
The movie offers a fanciful retelling of the 1948 war in which the would-be genocidal Arab armies failed to destroy a newborn Jewish state (and kill all its inhabitants in the process). Those who tried to help them do it are romantically recast as the helpless victims of a horrible catastrophe.
Yet primary sources - from the Arab side - attest to the fact that the vast majority of Arabs who left their homes did so voluntarily, or under orders from the invading Arab armies, not the Israeli armed forces.
This is not a matter of perspective or worldview. A movie that malevolently depicts Israeli forces murdering defenseless Arab children in order to feed the nakba mythology is nothing short of a modern blood libel.
In a world of rising antisemitism, it is dangerous and disgusting for Netflix to feed false and anti-Jewish information to the masses by giving a film like this a platform.
Netflix is under fire for screening a movie depicting Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family in cold blood, made by filmmakers who have a track record of inflammatory comments about the Jewish state.
The film, Farha, set in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, is being launched on Netflix in most countries from 1 December, and is likely to be Jordan’s entry to next year’s Oscars.
Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, told the JC that the film was intended to “destroy [Israel] by all means possible”.
He said: “I find it deeply troubling that Netflix has apparently failed to do the most basic due diligence before supporting and promoting this project.”
In an investigation into the filmmakers, the JC and activist group GnasherJew discovered that producer Ayah Jardaneh tweeted last year that “Israel is the real terrorist” and posted a “map of Palestine” that erased all trace of Israel.
She also tweeted that Mike Pence was supporting “an apartheid state, an occupier and Zionism”.
Addressing Mr Pence, she wrote: “If you love them so much give them your land and leave your house live as a refugee and let them live there instead”.
In 2014, Ms Jardaneh retweeted a post that said “Hamas or his firecracker rockets is not a problem, but seven decades of Israeli brutality and oppression is”.
She has also used the hashtag #27027KM, described as “the area of all Palestine from the river to the sea”.
Ms Jardaneh, who works at the Amman-based company TaleBox, is not the only member of the team to have made such controversial statements online, the JC found.
The Jordanian movie "Farha" – which shows Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family - became available on Netflix several days ago, but it seems not for all the subscribers of the popular streaming service.
Although many Israelis have expressed outrage and terminated their Netflix subscription after the streaming platform announced that it would upload the film, Israelis who chose to keep their subscription would not be able to view it after it was blocked for them.
Many Netflix subscribers in Israel said that when they tried to upload "Farha" in the Netflix search engine, and could not find it, while others received a message saying "this title cannot be viewed in your country."
It should be noted that for some subscribers who had an English interface, the film remained available for them, but still many had an error message and couldn't watch it.
Last week, Far-right lawmaker and destined National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir slammed the new Jordanian film.
"The inciteful Jordanian film that will be broadcast on Netflix demonstrates how hypocritical the world could be," Ben-Gvir said.
"Israel has been attacked by murderous terror before it was even established, this consciousness engineering should be handled by the Foreign Ministry with advocacy that shows the real picture, and who the real bloodthirsty murderers are," he said.
Tadasa
Tashume Ben Ma’ada died of his wounds three days after an Arab terrorist
set off a bomb at the bus stop where Ben Ma’ada stood, awaiting his bus. Ben Ma’ada
was murdered because he was a Jew, and he was buried as a Jew. But you might
not have read about him in your newspaper. That’s because Ben Ma’ada doesn’t
fit the CRT narrative of the Jew as white and privileged. Privileged he was, as a Jew who “came home” to
Israel from Ethiopia 21 years ago, but white he was, of a certainty, not.
Not that it matters even one little bit. A Jew is a Jew is a
Jew. It’s not that we “don’t see color.” It’s that we don’t care. Ben Ma’ada died al
Kiddush Hashem, in sanctification of God’s name, because he was murdered
precisely for belonging to the Jewish nation. That makes him holy. In Hebrew, in
fact, martyrs are referred to as kedoshim,
holy ones.
Ben Ma’ada wasn’t one of those “we are the real Jews” like Kyrie
Irving, Ye West, or the Black Hebrew Israelites, but an actual real Jew who had
zero interest in a trinity, or even Malcolm X.
Black Hebrew Israelites out in force today, chanting “we are the real Jews” and “time to wake up,” as they marched towards the Barclay’s Center in support of Kyrie Irving’s return. pic.twitter.com/hUPbbHlsBg
Ben Ma’ada, after undergoing the Jewish
purification ceremony, was buried in his tallit, his Jewish prayer shawl, like every other Israeli Jew. Those who paid
their final respects, wore kippot,
yarmulkes.
The Black Hebrew Israelites, on the other hand, during their recent march on New
York in support of Kyrie Irving distributed leaflets that left no doubt as
to their religious affiliations, reading in part:
“The biblical Israelites are targeted and accused of hate
day and night without rest. Our knowledge of our heritage and laws has been
systematically removed from us through the monstrous holocaust known as the
trans-Atlantic slave trade. They may lie
to the world and deny us of our birthright, yet Jesus the Christ, our Black
Messiah, confirms the truth of who we are. We are not antisemitic, we are
Semitic.”
To the Black Hebrew Israelites, it is Black Christians who
are the real Jews, a nonsensical idea. Because the Jewish belief in one God, a
belief certainly shared by the Jewish martyr Ben Ma’ada, is the diametric opposite
of a belief in a trinity. For a Jew, it’s simple: God cannot be both dead and
alive, nor is he a son of himself, while somehow a father, all at one and the
same time. These ideas are not consonant with Jewish thought and practice, and would
not have resonated with Ben Ma’ada, because he was a Jew like any other Jew.
Ben Ma’ada’s belief system blows a gargantuan hole into the
theory of African American/Arab intersectionality. From Eunice G.
Pollack, a retired U. of North Texas professor of history and Jewish
studies:
Decades before the current embrace of “intersectionality,”
Black political and cultural militants promoted the narrative of the
commonality of the oppression of African Americans and Arabs—both colonized by White/racist Jews.
Convinced by the Arab League and the Organization of Arab Students, its army on
the campus, that in contrast to Israel, which discriminated against people of
color, the Arab states were racially
egalitarian and that supporters of
Israel were “accomplices of colonialism and imperialism,” they sought to
forge an alliance with their brown brothers.
The Black Hebrew Israelites are not alone in speaking of
Jews as “white” and “racist,” and Arabs as people of color. A foundational
belief of the Nation of Islam, founded in the 1930s and associated today with
Louis Farrakhan, is according to Pollack, “the delegitimization of Judaism—and
the denigration of ‘white Jews.’” Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter Movement
speaks of the “racist” Jewish State, and the “struggle for freedom” of the “Palestinian”
people of color.
Several Women’s March co-chairs were not only tied to Farrakhan
but endorsed and amplified his antisemitic views. In 2016 and again in 2017,
the co-chairs informed Jewish organizers that “You people hold all the wealth,”
and that “Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters
of black and brown people” (McSweeney & Siegel, 2018; Pollack, 2019). It
must be said that Tamika Mallory later clarified that they only meant “white
Jews.”
Would Mallory have given Ben Ma’ada a pass as the “right
kind” of Jew being that he was the “right kind” of color? Or would she have
seen him as an accomplice “of colonialism and imperialism?” It certainly is
confusing. You can see why it was just easier for the mainstream media not to
say all that much about the murder of Tadasa Ben Ma’ada, who was not white, and
could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be seen as oppressing people of
color, being that he was, himself, a person of color AND a Jew. Not the fake
kind of “Jew as Christian” Jew, but the real deal, born into the Mosaic faith.
But of course, these things are all in the eyes of the
beholder. White supremacists hate Jews just as much, if not more than any BLM
or NOI activist. Pamela Paresky
notes this fact with some irony: “In the critical social justice paradigm,
Jews, who have never been seen as white by those for whom being
white is a moral good, are now seen as white by those for whom whiteness is
an unmitigated evil.”
Paresky continues:
The subtlety is that, instead of targeting Jews directly, the target of
critical social justice is “whiteness.” But this does nothing to protect Jews.
In 2018, when Hasidic Jews were victims of a wave of violent attacks — a
precursor to another cluster of bloody attacks to come a year later — Mark
Winston Griffith, the executive director of the Black Movement Center in Crown
Heights, told The
Forward that some black Americans see Judaism as “a form of almost
hyper-whiteness.”
You could have fooled the white nationalists who gathered in
Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee
from a city park. “Jews will not replace us,” they chanted, looking like
nothing so much as gleeful, blood-lusting Nazis at a Hitler rally. Here the
word “replace” refers to the Great
Replacement, known also as the white replacement or white genocide theory.
In this conspiracy theory, in which white supremacist ideology is rooted, Jews
promote mass immigration, intermarriage, and other phenomena that could lead to
the “extinction of whites.”
And of course, Caryn
Elaine Johnson, who adopted the insulting stage name “Whoopi Goldberg”
called Jews and Nazis, “two white groups of people.” “If you’re going to do
this, then let’s be truthful about it . . . these [Jews and Nazis] are two
white groups of people.”
This clip of Whoopi Goldberg saying that the Holocaust was not about race is a great reminder that there have only been two Jewish co-hosts in the 25-year history of @TheView, and none since 2016. pic.twitter.com/ZlHBetzTfI
Would Goldberg Johnson have referred to the bombing
that took Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada’s life as two brown groups of people
fighting it out? Likely not. In fact, it is more than likely that Goldberg
Johnson has never had the chance to meet a “real Jew” like Israeli Jew Tadasa
Tashume Ben Ma’ada, may Hashem avenge his blood. Which may be the real lesson
in all of this, which is that, as Paresky says, “Jews should never again accede
to being defined and divided in racial terms.”
Nor should we ever again be driven off our land by people
who pretend to inherit what God gave to the Jews—real Jews like Tadasa Tashume
Ben Ma’ada, killed not for the color of his skin, but for his Jewish faith.
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Thanksgiving was reportedly first celebrated in November 1621 by William Bradford, the leader of the “Mayflower” and the Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
He enhanced his appreciation of the Bible — and especially the Five Books of Moses — in Leiden, Holland, where he found refuge from religious persecution in England. While there, he heavily interacted with the Jewish community.
Bradford and the other Mayflower passengers perceived the 66-day-voyage as a reenactment of the Biblical exodus, and the departure from “the Modern Day Egypt,” to “the Modern Day Promised Land.”
As a governor in this new land, Bradford announced the celebration of Thanksgiving by citing Psalm 107, which constitutes the foundation of the Jewish concept of Thanksgiving, thanking God for ancient and modern time deliverance.
The epitaph on Bradford’s tombstone in the old cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts, begins with a Hebrew phrase — “God is the succor of my life” (יהוה עזר חיי) — as befits the person who brought Hebrew to America. He aimed to make Hebrew an official language, suggesting that reading the Bible in the original language yields more benefits.
The Hebrew word for Thanksgiving’s central dish, turkey, is “Tarnegol Hodoo” (תרנגול הודו), which means “a chicken from India,” but also “a chicken of gratitude/Thanksgiving.”
Progressive causes and Protestantism in the U.S. frequently went hand-in-hand, from Prohibition to expanded public education, as the 19th century became the 20th. Indeed, the Social Gospel movement, the inspiration for many of the reforms of the Progressive Era, was led in its early years by Congregationalist minister Washington Gladden. In his book, Rothman quotes George McKenna, author of The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism, on the art of the overlapping Gilded Age and early Progressive Era: “The Puritans’ ethic of self-discipline and austerity was reflected in the numerous paintings and sculptures of Puritans that appeared during this period.” If this seems somewhat paradoxical—the cultural exultation of sober self-reliance alongside the excesses of the robber barons—consider that the progenitor of the New Deal was the blue-blooded FDR, himself the son of a cradle Congregationalist.
Rothman has a theory behind what he sees as a shift, from the late-20th-century paradigm of conservative Republicans as the “Just Say No” party fearful that “someone, somewhere, may be happy,” to progressive “New Puritans,” who, he writes in his book, “are draining life of its spontaneity, authenticity and fun.” Contending in his book that while the Democratic Party had broadened its tent by the 1990s to include upholders of the ’60s’ revolutionary legacy, by contrast, in 2016, Republicans were nominating a three-time divorced Howard Stern Show regular. “Conservatives didn’t so much lose the culture wars as much as they simply fled the field,” he writes.
Of course, the actual spiritual descendants of the New England Puritans, who began as radicals in their native England, are Congregationalists like the United Church of Christ, who are themselves fairly progressive on social issues. And when the idealistic utopianism of the Transcendentalist movement arose in the 19th century, with a focus on the primacy of the self and individual personal experience, it did so in the old Puritan stronghold of New England. Among its most prominent spokesmen was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian (itself an outgrowth of Congregationalism) minister at the First Church of Boston, which had been founded by the Puritan John Winthrop of “City Upon a Hill“ fame. In his landmark address, Winthrop warned his fellow New England Puritans that the eyes of the world were upon them, and as such, righteous living was essential. The reward, he wrote, would be a New England that was “a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, ‘the Lord make it like that of New England.’”
“Today,” Rothman said in his message to Tablet, “as the left gravitates away from liberalism and toward progressivism, they are assuming many of progressivism’s conceits—chief among them, a messianic utopianism that views everything, even life’s most banal pleasures, through the prism of political activism.”
But contradiction is something the Puritans accepted as a fact of life. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling,” wrote the Apostle Paul to the young church at Philippi, and the Puritans took this charge seriously. “The [P]uritan life,” Winship writes, was “much more likely to involve protracted struggle with fear and doubt than it would a steady sense of God’s love.” They were a people ill-at-ease: with themselves, with each other, and with the wider world. That we perennially recast each other and ourselves in the New England Puritans’ story may suggest that the real mark that they left on the American character is something altogether more ambiguous than the saccharine annual depictions at Thanksgiving suggest.
Mark Twain wrote in his book Innocents Abroad about how desolate Palestine was when he visited in 1867, before the indigenous Jewish pilgrims and pioneers returned and made the desert bloom.
The success of Israeli agricultural innovation in feeding the people here, as well as in the Third World, is certainly worth celebrating. Israel’s successful hi-tech economy can be revered, as well as its unprecedented success in water conservation that would have made the environmentally conscious Native Americans proud.
Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl wrote in his 1902 book Altneuland that the Jewish state could transport water great distances. His vision and the success of the pioneers who implemented it could be celebrated on Thanksgiving in Israel.
Former diplomat Yoram Ettinger pointed out this week that William Bradford, the leader of the Mayflower and the Governor of the Plymouth Colony, interacted with the Jewish community and enhanced his appreciation of the Five Books of Moses in Holland before initiating the voyage.
“Governor Bradford announced the celebration of Thanksgiving by citing Psalm 107, which constitutes the foundation of the Jewish concept of Thanksgiving, thanking God for ancient and modern time deliverance,” Ettinger wrote. “Bradford was also inspired by the Jewish holidays of Pentecost (Shavuot in Hebrew) and Tabernacles (Sukkot in Hebrew), which highlight the importance of gratitude, and commemorating Thanksgiving for the harvest.”
Proper gratitude for the Land of Israel can be shown by eating turkey, whose Hebrew name, as Ettinger wrote, means both “a chicken from India,” but also “a chicken of gratitude/Thanksgiving.”
Thanksgiving falls this year on Rosh Chodesh, the celebration of the new Jewish month, when Jews say the Hallel prayer and its signature line Hodu LaHashem Ki Tov, which can be translated as “Give thanks to the Lord for He is good,” or “have turkey for God because it’s good.”
The final reason for celebrating Thanksgiving in the Jewish State is to remind the world and the often hostile international media that we – the People of Israel – are here in the Land of Israel, we belong here and we will always be here, even if we get bad press.
Lincoln, the Pilgrims and most of the Wampanoag are long gone, mostly due to tragic events that became part of history.
We the People of Israel have overcome countless tragedies, and yet we endure, which is clearly an excellent reason for us to be thankful.
When Kanye (Ye) West finally managed to out himself as an
antisemite, the response was predictable. Demand an apology. Demand that the
offender’s lucrative business deals be canceled. This is the pattern we’ve seen
over the past several years, as antisemitism grows, even in America, the
Goldene Medina. But is it working?
It certainly didn’t work with West. The rapper only doubled
down and refused to apologize, even after several very profitable business contracts
were canceled, as a result.
Kanye (Ye) West
The following exchange took place during an
interview with Piers Morgan:
Piers Morgan: “Do you now regret saying ‘death con 3 on
Jewish people’… Are you sorry you said that?”
Kanye: “No… Absolutely not.”
Bottom of the barrel. Kanye West goes on Piers Morgan’s show, presumably because that’s the only show that would have him on, and offers most ridiculous half-assed apology ever. pic.twitter.com/HzOSvLAwA7
In other words, despite the fact that Ye lost out on
billions of dollars in potential earnings, he has shown little to no contrition
for the hateful things he said about the Jewish people.
Yet Morgan persisted until he at last managed to eke out a
semblance of an apology from West:
“I will say I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the ‘Death Con’ — the
confusion that I caused. I feel like I caused hurt and confusion. And I’m sorry for the families of the people
that had nothing to do with the trauma that I have been through, and that I
used my platform, where you say hurt people hurt people, and I was hurt.”
Some media outlets referred to Kanye’s non-apology as an
apology.
(Yahoo)
(The Wrap)
Others were more honest.
(TMZ)
(Daily Beast)
Once allowed back on Twitter after a six-week ban, Ye collectively mocked the Jewish people by tweeting a single word, “Shalom.” As if to say, “You Jews exploited me and stole my money as you always do, but I refused to bow my head.”
The same irritating pattern was repeated with athlete Kyrie
Irving. There was a tweet with hateful content, this time in the form of a link
to an antisemitic movie: "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America."
The ADL put pressure on a sports shoe company—Nike—with West it was Adidas—and
an apology was demanded but not received. Irving was also suspended from his
position as a guard for the Brooklyn Nets.
Sources: Nets have delivered Kyrie Irving six items he must complete to return to team:
- Apologize/condemn movie - $500K donation to anti-hate causes - Sensitivity training - Antisemitic training - Meet with ADL, Jewish leaders - Meet with Joe Tsai to demonstrate understanding
But Irving was smarter than Ye, or at least saner. He figured
out that he stood to lose a LOT of money if he didn’t apologize to those damned
Jews. So after he tried to get away with not apologizing, followed by a non-apology
that everyone knew was a non-apology, he finally made an actual apology—or at
least said the words—whether he meant them is anyone’s guess (and I’m guessing
not).
“I don’t have hate in my heart for the Jewish people or
anyone that identifies as a Jew . . . The difficult aspect is just processing
all this, understanding the power of my voice, the influence I have. I am no
one’s idol, but I am a human being that wants to make [an] impact and change.”
“I really want to
focus on the hurt that I caused. I just want to apologize deeply for all my
actions throughout the time that it’s been since the post was first put up. I’ve
had a lot of time to think,” said Irving.
Having at last issued an apology—whether heartfelt or not—Kyrie
was reinstated by the Nets.
Nick Cannon
The antisemitism of Kyrie and Ye are lately in the news. But
we’ve seen this show before. There was Nick
Cannon’s 2020 podcast with Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin. From the
transcript:
Nick Cannon: Right. So let’s dive into it. Who are they?
When we speak up, because this is where it truly is. And we talk about the six
corporations, when we go as deep as the Rothschilds, centralized banking, the
13 families, the bloodlines that control everything even outside of America.
When we talk about the people who, if we were truly the children of Israel, and
we’re defining who the Jewish people are, because I feel like if we actually
can understand that construct, then we can see that there is no hate involved.
When we talk about the lies, the deceit, how the fake dollar controls all of
this, then maybe we can get to the reason why they wanted to silence you, why
they want to silence Minister Farrakhan, and they want to throw that we are
having hate speech when it’s never hate speech, when it’s not. You can’t be
anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people, when we are the same people that
who they want to be, that’s our birthright.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: It’s our birthright.
Nick Cannon: So if that’s truly our birthright, there’s no
hate involved.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: It’s not.
Nick Cannon: How did this message gets so misconstrued?
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: When we came back to
claim it. When we woke up and we came back to claim … If you steal my bicycle,
when we were six years old, and you riding around the hood with my bike, now
I’m 12, and I understand …
Nick Cannon: I want my bike back.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: I want my bike back, man.
Now you’re going to kick up dust.
Nick Cannon: Right, right. Right.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: You understand what I’m
saying?
Nick Cannon: And I’m
baller enough to get my bike back. . .
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: You understand what I’m
saying? That’s showing and proving that that’s my bike, and I’m here to claim
it, man. You got, you have to give it back. So when you start hearing songs
like Michael Jackson “hike me, kike me” and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, nah,
you can’t say that.
Nick Cannon: You can’t say that. That’s hate speech.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: When you see Puffy
talking about “I’m getting paid like the Hebrew,” you know what I’m saying?
Nick Cannon: Right, right. They want to mute the Hebrew.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: They want to mute that.
You understand what I’m saying?
Nick Cannon: Even we the true Hebrews.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: Exactly. So we can’t even
tell the truth now.
Nick Cannon: Right.
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: Not on record, not on
television shows, not on YouTube. . . .
Nick Cannon: Because we’re not saying anything hateful, and
that’s the thing when they want to put that on the Minister Farrakhan, was
saying, even the term “white devils” or just devils in general …
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: Right, right, right.
Nick Cannon: … when he was really speaking about the people
who devalue our communities and themselves, and that’s really where the word
“devil” comes from and how he’s speaking it. But they want to take the sound
bites and say, “This is antisemitic.” And so how does that occur? And why does
that occur? Is that great? Is that spiritual warfare or is that just truly just
us just silencing each other?
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: That’s the psychological
covert, meaning hidden, war on the higher, infinite power healing our people.
Further on in the podcast is this exchange:
Nick Cannon: So ultimately are we saying that there’s a
certain group of people that maybe they’re scared of the truth?
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: I think there’s Jewish
people, but I just think there’s a group of Jewish people inside of that. You
could call them Zionists. You can call them whatever.
Nick Cannon: Let’s dig into that for a second because that’s
where I, and even sometimes I find myself wanting to debate this idea, and it
gets real wishy-washy and unclear for me when we give so much power to the
“they,” and then the theys then turn into the Illuminati, the Zionists, the
Rothschilds …
Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin: The Freemasons.
Nick Cannon: The Bilderberg group, the Freemason. And as a
community I feel, and I’ve done this myself, I want to blame others for the
position that I’m currently in. And that often becomes when you say the
privileged white girlfriend comes into the room or the apologists or these
people come in and say, “Why aren’t you guys over slavery already?” or “Why are
you always complaining? And why don’t you do for yourself? Pull yourself up by
your own bootstraps. And my people were also oppressed.”
But as was the case for Kyrie Irving, money talks, nobody walks. After ViacomCBS dropped Cannon like a hot potato, he found himself (shocker!) ready to apologize.
That’s the pattern: demand an apology—and it doesn’t seem to
matter whether or not it is sincere—and hit the hater in the wallet. Perhaps it’s
time to question the wisdom of this method. Do the antisemitic beliefs
evaporate once the apology is issued? Do the apologies matter at all? And doesn’t
placing financial pressure on antisemitic offenders only reinforce classic
tropes about Jews, money, and power?
Ye’s claim that Jared Kushner’s actions between Israel and
Arab nations was driven by his desire for financial gain corroborates
long-standing antisemitic tropes about alleged Jewish control of money and
financial institutions. His vague suggestion that a prominent Jewish holiday is
associated with “financial engineering” also reinforces this stereotype.
Overall, Ye's suggestions about Jewish people, holidays and the monetary
implications of the two lends credence to the baseless idea that Jews can
leverage their power for insidious purposes because of the stronghold they have
on financial institutions.
Claims about Jewish
Control of Media and Government
In many of his recent interviews, Ye repeatedly referenced
purported Jewish control over various industries — he used the phrase “Jewish
media” over twenty times on “Drink Champs” alone. Ye also spoke about “Jewish
Zionists” and “Zionist media handlers.” He made multiple references to
prominent Jewish individuals, including George Soros — the Hungarian
Jewish billionaire, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor who is a frequent
bogeyman for both avowed antisemites and the political right — and Jared
Kushner, as supposed examples of Jewish power.
Ye’s insinuations about Jewish control perpetuate the longstanding
antisemitic trope that Jews wield an inordinate amount of power and exert
control over global systems as part of a quest for world domination. These
views are regularly promoted by extremists and antisemites of a wide variety of
ideologies, from white supremacists and extremist Black nationalist groups to
conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers.
·“Jared Kushner is an example of how the Jewish
people have their hand on every single business that controls the world.” (Ye
on “Drink Champs,” 10/16/22)
·“We’re not going to be owned by the Jewish media
anymore…Every celebrity has Jewish people in their contract…And these people,
if you say anything out of the line with the agenda, then your career can be
over.” (Ye on “Cuomo,” 10/17/22)
·“Kim [Kardashian, Ye’s ex-wife] has Zionist
media handlers surrounding her.” (Ye on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” 10/19/22)
·“I said the Jewish people because, by the way,
it’s a barrage…George Soros knows, like, ‘wow, this guy is like a younger guy
that’s looking at what I did and looking at how I control the world silently
and he’s calling it out’…That’s what George Soros sees, right, when he’s
dealing with me.” (Ye on the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” 10/24/22)
Claims that Jews
Exploit Black Artists for Financial Gain
Antisemitic tropes about alleged Jewish power and greed intersect
in Ye’s comments about purported Jewish control of the music industry and exploitation
of Black artists. This trope has been present in the discourse of other Black
performers and activists in the past and is a common talking point within more
extremist groups. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, for example, frequently makes
this accusation.
·“Jewish people have owned the Black voice…The
Jewish community, especially in the music industry, in the entertainment [industry]
period, they’ll take one of us, the brightest of us, right, that can really
feed a whole village, and they’ll take us and milk us till we die.” (Ye on
“Drink Champs,” 10/16/22)
·“There’s so many Black musicians signed to
Jewish record labels and those Jewish records labels take ownership not only of
the publishing…but also ownership of the culture itself…It’s like a modern-day
slavery.” (Ye on “Cuomo,” 10/17/22)
·“I’ve been wronged so many times by Jewish
businessmen…They’re taking money out of my children’s mouths and putting it
into their children’s mouths!” (Ye on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” 10/19/22)
·“90% of Black people in entertainment — from
sports, to music, to acting — are in some way tied into Jewish
businesspeople…Like if Rahm [Emanuel] is sitting next to [President] Obama or
Jared [Kushner] sitting next to [President] Trump, there’s a Jewish person
right there controlling the country, the Jewish people controlling who gets the
best video or not, controlling what the media says about me.” (Ye on the “Lex
Fridman Podcast,” 10/24/22)
So let’s see, Jonathan Greenblatt, after pressuring
Adidas (of the Nazi
past) to break its very generous contract with Ye, educates us on classic
Jewish tropes relating to money and power. Isn’t this a contradiction in terms?
Of course it is. And a lot of Jews think the ADL has outlived its usefulness,
and in fact, causes more harm than good.
The Dassler shoe factory--where Adidas and Puma were born--in Herzogenaurach, Germany circa 1930s. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Which of these two individuals do you find more problematic?
Kyrie Irving, a kooky basketball player who believes that
the Earth is flat, that JFK was shot by bankers, that the COVID vaccines were
secretly a plot to connect all Black people to a supercomputer, and that Jews
worship Satan and launched the slave trade?
Or Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation
League, who accepted $500,000 from Irving last week without even meeting or
even talking to the all-star—and who was then forced to give back the donation
when Irving blatantly refused to apologize?
Let’s think about it for a minute. One of these guys is a
weirdo with dumb opinions he may or may not actually believe. The other is
running a soulless racket which just made it clear that you can say whatever
you want about the Jews and buy your indulgences at a discount price.
Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely believe that Irving’s
endorsement of a Black nationalist documentary based on an obscure Jew-hating
book, to say nothing of Kanye West’s meltdown, will most likely contribute to a
surge in antisemitism in America, particularly in the Black community. But we
Jews don’t control Kyrie Irving; in theory, we do control the ADL, and we shouldn’t
want our chief defense group to behave in a way that advances antisemitic
conspiracy theories about shadowy Jews trafficking in money and influence for
fun and profit.
As for the pro forma apologies, not everyone is so eager to accept
them. Meghan
McCain, for instance, who, remarking on Nick Cannon’s apology said that
antisemitism remains “the last form of passable bigotry in America.”
Meghan McCain at the No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People, July 11, 2021, (Ted Eytan, Wikipedia.)
“This isn’t just about Nick Cannon,” said McCain. “It’s why
we, as Americans, seem to find more forgiveness in our heart for antisemitism
than we do of racism of any other kind.”
“I think my concern is, for some reason, antisemitism is
something we let people forgive a lot easier than any other forms of bigotry
and racism.” McCain noted that “we’re having conversations about canceling Dr.
Seuss,” but we say nothing about works by other authors which contain “deeply
antisemitic characters.”
“I find that people who say antisemitic things are forgiven
a lot easier than anything else,” said McCain, “And I think that’s something we
really need to examine as a society.”
McCain is right. We are too forgiving, and the pattern of
demanding apologies and forcing companies to cancel big name antisemites just
isn’t working. If it were working, we’d
see less antisemitism, rather than more, as in our current situation, with both
Ye and Irving coming out of the (antisemitic) closet, so to speak.
Raoul Wallenberg
The problem perhaps, is that the demands and pressures are
coming from the Jews, when it would be preferable to have non-Jews fight this
battle for us. But we have learned an unfortunate lesson from our tragic Jewish
history. People like McCain, and even more so, righteous gentiles like Raoul
Wallenberg who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, are rare birds. For
the most part, no one sticks up for the Jews, except for the Jews themselves.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired from the NBA in 1989, but he remains one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Many argue he is simply the greatest.
He is still—even with Michael Jordan and Steph Curry and Lebron and Shaq and Kobe—the NBA’s all-time leading scorer (38,387 points) and the league’s only six-time MVP. In March, the basketball news site HoopsHype included Abdul-Jabbar in its list of the top ten most influential players of all time. ESPN called him the greatest center in NBA history.
As Jews say every Passover: It would have been enough.
But there’s so much more that makes the 7-foot-2-inch Abdul-Jabbar a true giant. His religious conviction, his integrity, his wide-ranging intellectual proclivities, his outstanding performance in the 1981 movie Airplane!—and the unusual fact that this black, Muslim basketball star has been a consistent and outspoken voice against antisemitism.
For all those reasons, I wanted to speak with Abdul-Jabbar about the various firestorms of late: Kanye and his antisemitic rants; Kyrie Irving’s promotion of an antisemitic movie that denies the Holocaust; and the alarming rash of anti-Jewish hate crimes seemingly inspired by their worldview. A few weeks ago, a banner declaring “Kanye was right” hung over the 405 in Los Angeles as people gave Nazi salutes. On Halloween, the side of a townhouse in an Atlanta neighborhood was sprayed with graffiti: “Jews kill Blacks.” On the stop sign around the corner: “Jews enslave Black lives.” Last week, headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Chicago were vandalized with swastikas and the phrase “Kanye was rite.” And in Brooklyn, physical attacks against Orthodox Jews have become routine.
I asked Abdul-Jabbar about all of that and more in the Q and A below. And if you’re looking for more from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, check out his Substack, where he writes and talks about everything from basketball to pop culture to politics. — BW
BW: I want to focus on Farrakhan’s influence. He believes that Jews are parasitic, that Jews are behind a plot to exploit black Americans, and that blacks are the real Jews from the Bible. We’re hearing these ideas come out of the mouths of musicians like Kanye West (“Jewish people have owned the black voice”) and athletes like Kyrie Irving (“I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from”). For many Jews, hearing this kind of rhetoric is shocking, but many black Americans have noted that these views are more commonplace than we’d like to admit. So what I think a lot of people are afraid to ask is: How mainstream are these beliefs among black Americans? Are Kanye and Kyrie unique? Or has the influence of people like Farrakhan made this strain of antisemitism somehow more normal than many want to believe?
KAJ: Certain black leaders do exactly what certain white leaders do who want to gather followers, money, and power: They find a scapegoat they can blame. They can’t blame others who are marginalized because of the color of their skin, like Latinx or Asian-Americans, so they go for the default villain of fascists and racists: Jews.
What astounds me is not just the irrationality of it, but how self-destructive it is. Black people have to know that when they mouth antisemitism, they are using the exact same kind of reasoning that white supremacists use against blacks. They are enabling racism. Now they’ve aligned themselves with the very people who would choke out black people, drag them behind a truck, keep them from voting, and maintain systemic racism for another hundred years. They are literally making not only their lives worse, but their children’s lives. The fact that they can’t see that means the racists have won.
David Baddiel, a comedian-turned-activist against antisemitism who calls himself “one of the U.K.’s very few famous Jews,” was holding court in the basement of one of Britain’s best-known TV studios.
As a reporter headed hurriedly for the exit, Baddiel slouched into his chair, seemingly exhausted by the interview he had just completed about the forthcoming documentary based on his 2021 bestseller, “Jews Don’t Count.”
“I am speaking to many people like the last journalist who had not thought about any of this in their life,” he said.
The “this” Baddiel was referring to was to the idea, outlined in his book, that progressive anti-racists are guilty of hypocrisy towards Jews by not viewing them as worthy of similar protection or championing as other minorities because they are seen as white, privileged and wealthy.
When the book came out last year, it received rave reviews, and Baddiel has since become seen by some as a “voice for Britain’s Jews.” He often litigates the finer points of contemporary antisemitism as a guest on radio and television, and he has been quick to square off with trolls and critics on Twitter.
Now, with the premiere of an hour-long documentary also called “Jews Don’t Count” on Britain’s public Channel 4 network, Baddiel gets a primetime slot to make his case to a bigger audience. Featuring Baddiel’s interviews with Jewish stars of pop culture in both Britain and the United States — ranging from comedian Sarah Silverman to novelist Jonathan Safran Foer to actor Stephen Fry — the film argues that “in a culture where all forms of racism are being monitored, called out and held accountable, one form is apparently invisible.”
If a comic with a huge following like Dave Chappelle goes over the line, he will immediately be put under a societal microscope that will analyze and respond from every possible angle, as I’m doing now.
If you run an organization that fights antisemitism, or simply cares for the welfare of the Jewish community, it’s almost certain that you will feel obligated to respond. Many of those responses follow the usual dance of “expose, condemn and ask for an apology.”
Chappelle himself poked fun at that dance at the start of his monologue: “Before I start tonight, I just wanted to read a brief statement that I prepared. I denounce antisemitism in all its forms and I stand with my friends in the Jewish community. And that, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time.”
Chappelle exposed the uneasy truth of celebrities getting caught saying something offensive and then releasing a statement that everyone knows was written by a PR handler. By revealing the goal of “buying yourself some time,” he captured the phoniness of the whole exercise.
That was cutting and funny. It’s when he played up antisemitic tropes around the “all powerful” Jew that he entered dicey territory.
“I’ve been to Hollywood,” he said. “And I don’t want y’all to get mad at me, I’m just telling you this is just what I saw. It’s a lot of Jews. Like a lot.”
Perhaps realizing he was on sensitive ground, he called the idea that Jews run show business a “delusion,” but then added: “It’s not a crazy thing to think. But it’s a crazy thing to say out loud in a climate like this.”
In other words, it’s not crazy to think that Jews run the show; just don’t say it out loud.
Whether he intended it or not, that “hush hush” vibe suggests mystery and conspiracy, precisely the ancient trope that fuels Jew-hatred and makes so many Jews nervous.
Which brings us back to the “Chappelle trap.” It’s one thing to fight antisemitism when it comes from places like a neo-Nazi march or a BDS group or even celebrity musicians or athletes. None of those people make a living by making us laugh.
Chappelle does.
Because Chappelle plays in the very Jewish playground of comedy, it makes it that much harder to calibrate our response. How do we fight a comic without losing our sense of humor, without losing what made America love us in the first place? At what point do we say, “We can’t take this joke because it goes too far?”
If the ritual of “expose, condemn and ask for an apology” is phony anyhow, is it worth losing our sense of humor? And does complaining so loudly, as much as it makes us feel good, make things better or worse?
In the classic Jewish tradition, I have more questions than answers.
For the old religious and evangelical left, Israel often represents Western Civilization, colonialism, and imperialism. For aging denizens of Liberation Theology, the Palestinian cause offers the narrative of a Third World people oppressed by First World wealth, technology, and cultural superiority. Israel is an ally of the United States, and from the religious left’s perspective, is an unwelcome extension of American (and British) power into the Mideast. The Palestinians, from that view, are victims of the American imperium, meriting special advocacy by concerned justice-minded American Christians.
The religious left’s animus towards Israel leads to often absurd contradictions and double standards.
Evangelical leftists relate to this narrative, often informed by their own neo-Anabaptist perspective, which is pacifist and anti-empire. Israel of course has by necessity a significant military force, much of it made possible through American aid. This rankles neo-Anabaptists who think anti-violence is the gospel’s chief theme. There is another sometimes-underlying concern for neo-Anabaptists. They are discomfited by ancient biblical Israel, with its divinely ordained kings, warrior heroes, armies, and military victories, all of which defy the neo-Anabaptist stress on God as supremely peaceful. If only unconsciously, they are inclined towards a form of Marcionism, the early church heresy that minimized the canonical authority of the Old Testament. This discomfort with the Hebrew scriptures facilitates unease with modern Israel.
The religious left’s animus towards Israel leads to often absurd contradictions and double standards, especially for a denomination like the PCUSA. It and the other mainline Protestant bodies have countless statements condemning Israel for ostensibly oppressing the Palestinians among other depredations. But they are largely silent about human rights abuses so prevalent among Israel’s Arab neighbors, including the Palestinian Authority, not to mention countless repressive regimes around the world. They ignored Hamas’s July rocket attacks on Israel. A 2011 PCUSA report affirmed calls for democracy during the Arab Spring, but such calls are rare, and it naturally focused on criticizing U.S. Mideast policy.
The PCUSA General Assembly in July did condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But it devoted more verbiage to the United States and NATO having “flooded Ukraine with lethal weapons,” enriching “war profiteers—at the expense of the taxpayers, the poor and the planet,” guided by “powerful geopolitical and financial interests.” It also derided sanctions against Russia and lamented the cost to “planetary survival and social justice.”
The Religious Left descends from the Social Gospel, later radicalized by Liberation Theology. It disdains capitalism, bourgeois democracy, America, Western Civilization, and human rights regarding speech, religion, and property. But its hostility to Israel is especially pernicious, not just for its double standards, but also for its underlying disregard for a people who have been among the world’s most tormented.
Modern Israel arose from the ashes of the Holocaust. From the beginning, Israel has had to fight for its very existence. Christians should understand that opposition to Israel as a Jewish state is opposition to Israel as a nation.
Antisemitism is different from most other forms of racism. In order to combat it, we need to understand what is a conspiracy theory.
It's customary to hear well-meaning people intone something along these lines: "Antisemitism and anti-black racism are part of the same fight.” In a basic sense, this is true: they are both odious forms of hatred that endanger people and corrode society. Diminishing them as much as possible is part of the same overarching defense of our civic health.
But it’s a platitude that papers over essential differences between two opposite forms of racism. Few human phenomena can be described with an algorithm. There are always ambiguities and exceptions. Nevertheless, it’s heuristically valid to arrange racism into two categories: a caste-oriented, “down-punching” form and a conspiracist, “up-punching” form.
By and large, anti-black racism constructs an underclass that the racist regards as inferior, to be segregated, plundered, and exploited. In the main, Antisemitism views the Jews as a preternaturally powerful, evil elite that plunders and exploits the Antisemite—and the broader society he seeks to awaken to the struggle. In the ugliest of ironies, however much he rails about Jewish degeneracy, the Antisemite invests the Jews with traits and abilities that make them seem diabolically superior.
Yet the ADL has shown a dangerous propensity for Internet censorship—an authoritarian impulse that it usually veils behind a desire to quell the rising tide of antisemitism. Its consultations with the PayPal online payment system, for instance, were geared toward demonetizing anyone, not just far-right extremists, whose opinions were out of favor with the left.
The attempt to sink Twitter by persuading advertisers and users to exit it goes beyond those efforts to harness Big Tech clout to enforce woke orthodoxy on the Web.
What the ADL is now demanding is to set a standard by which no social-media platform or Internet service can survive if it enables conservatives to participate on an equal footing with liberals.
Censored or uncensored, Twitter—or any similar company—will always be something of a sewer, as it prizes angry discourse and discourages thoughtful exchanges. But if the ADL and others succeed, a precedent will be set to ensure that no platform encouraging debate from both ends of the spectrum can survive.
The consequence of the above—such as the Biden administration’s use of social- media companies to squelch COVID-19 debate—will be an even more divided country and greater civil strife.
Just as important, it will create an atmosphere in which free speech is not merely under assault, as it is on college campuses and other places that have been completely captured by the left. It will mean we are moving closer to a society where the norm will be to silence dissent on all important topics.
It is already a disgrace that the ADL treats partisan advocacy as more important than its core mission of fighting antisemitism. But its effort to sink Twitter makes clear that its real goal is to shut up those who don’t toe its political line.
Think what you like about Trump or Musk. But this latest stand shows that there is no greater foe of democracy than the ADL under Greenblatt.
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