WAS gonna give Gold a plug on the PSBB when i saw those Riech-wingers hailing the CHIEF...
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By William G. Hamilton | December 5, 2005
''THE MOST dangerous thing for a nation or an individual is to plead guilty to imaginary sins." A century ago the Jewish thinker Ahad Ha'am penned these words. Today they seem just as compelling with the release of Marc Levin's unnerving new film, ''Protocols of Zion," which documents a furious resurgence in their global popularity.
The Protocols are a hatred-riddled forgery [ imported into this cuntry by Henry Ford ] that finds every malady, misfortune, and calamity winding back to a sinister plot of Jewish Elders in pursuit of world domination. For a century the Protocols have incited and virtually required violence against Jews. Because the Jews are purported to be engaged in a satanic mission, murdering them necessitates neither explanation nor guilt. This worldwide best-seller is the catalytic converter for justifying brutality under the delusional trance of victimhood.
Levin's documentary is very much a personal awakening. From the streets of North Jersey to the jail-cells of Trenton, he encounters the ridiculous claim that no Jews died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks [ a claim that echos in my book ]. What follows is an exposition of the latest chapter of history's oldest, most reliable hatred -- anti-Semitism.
Often documentaries favor the predigested insights of scholars, world leaders, and ivory towers. This film more credibly appraises post-9/11 urban anti-Semitism by presenting one Jew's unfiltered confrontation with haters [ i think i do a far better job illustrating this in Jew Girl ]. Yet as his own personal journey, Levin's street tilts slightly right with an anticorporate and ideological extremist bent -- leaving virtually untouched a dramatic reemergence of left leaning European anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in academia. Admittedly, 21st century anti-Semitism has become too large a subject, varying from one continent to the next, to be captured in a single sitting.
An incredulous Levin wonders why the Jews are blamed so often for so much by so many. He scratches the surface of deeply seeded cultures of blame and contempt. An indoctrinated world-view rejects any assertion that a Jewish prominence in the media, policymaking, and finance is coincidental. The claim of the Protocols is validated by Jewish proximity to power and influence. [ An UNDERSTANDING of history would explain WHY this is so...but too few are willing to READ it]
Yet simply asking ''who benefits most" from a turn of events implies flawless implementation and design by the beneficiary. Outcomes based reasoning is murky science. But any excuse will serve the hater. Jews have been hated for being capitalists and communists, separatists and assimilationists, homeless and nationalist, weak and strong.
Levin's film localizes Jew hatred to the street and the extreme. Yet a blood-soaked history has taught that anti-Semitism is a disease for which education, talent, even genius provides no effective vaccination.
One generation rarely follows precisely a prior generation's blueprint [ THIS is evident by Steve Malzberg's neo-cuntservative idiotic ranting...]. Inquisitions differed from expulsions, massacres differed from pogroms, and the Holocaust stands alone. Suicide killings represent hatred's latest packaging as a twisted expression of sacred violence. Zealots seek to preserve hostile designs in the garb of religious conviction [and contemporary Jews should be wary of their frangible apotheosis by the "christian" Reich]. Yet this is often little more than another form of identity theft, a ''religious opportunism" that is dishonest to motivation and dishonorable to communities of faith.
Certainly hatred for Jews is hardly the world's only hatred [ but as Dostoevsky pointed out---Love thy neighbours but hate the Jews---has long been an unwritten commandment that "christians" were able to follow
Contemporary culture's emphasis on rights more than responsibilities is rooted in virtues like compassion, the promotion of justice, and the urge to help. But taken to an extreme, they turn people into objects. People become done-to, not doers. By locating the cause for their circumstance outside of themselves, they become totally dependent on others -- so often locating something or someone else to blame.
In a world of finger-pointing and scapegoating, can one ever accept too much responsibility? Why is it so dangerous to plead guilty to imaginary sins? Perhaps responsibility has an equilibrium. Assuming too much of it breeds neuroses. Too little entitles one to a litany of blame, resentment, and contempt for the other.
Levin's film rouses us from our slumber. We are too wise to be paranoid, too old to be naïve, too experienced to be blind [ WHO are these mythical "We"
TODAY is probably more vicious than at any time in history!!! ].
May we not prove too neurotic to concede guilt for the contemptuous imaginings of haters. And may the haters, before they further downgrade their own humanity to their ruin, accept responsibility to build a better tomorrow for themselves without tearing down the tomorrow of others.
William G. Hamilton is rabbi of Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline.
© Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
Oh yeah kiddos...Jew Girl has THIS stuff in it tooMaybe i accidentally tapped into some kabbalistic TRUTH
But fuck it...JonBoy Jewmiser STILL ain't bought da book!!!!
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fuckit...ain't even gonna edit the photos so y'all can see them...copy & paste or let Jonny neo-GOY do da work
Originally Posted by jetsetlemming
Well Jetset...you seem to have missed quite a few history classes.