Dennis Prager wrote an article under the title: “Bernie
Sanders, the Non-Jewish Jew and Non-American American,” but these are not the
only categories he invented into which he confines the Left Wing Jews and/or
Americans whom he despises.
He created a few more categories as you'll see in the
article he published on June 7, 2016 in National Review Online. The odd thing
is that Prager does not attempt to categorize the Right Wing Jews and/or
Americans whom he never disparaged. Perhaps he views the people of the Right as
specimen that are naturally resistant to confinement.
He begins the article by making the point that Bernie
Sanders has become what he is because he chose to cut himself off from his
Jewish roots and from his American roots. But then Prager generalizes the
concept that being cut off from their Jewish or American roots, is why other
prominent personalities grew up to resemble Bernie Sanders. Here too, the
author neglects to say whether or not there are Right Wing Jews and/or
Americans that cut themselves off from their roots. If yes, who are these
people? Where are they? And why have they not become Lefties?
As to Sanders, the way to understand his strangeness, says
Prager, is to know that having cut himself off from his roots, he became
alienated … and wants other people to be alienated too. He knows all this, says
our writer, because Sanders almost never mentions that he is Jewish, and never
says anything good about America .
It is only that he “laments American inequality, Wall Street corruption, and
other American evils”.
Lest the readers become confused as to what it means to be a
Jew either nationally or religiously, Dennis Prager offers this definition:
“Judaism consists of a national and peoplehood identity, not only a religious
one.” That ought to clarify things. But if you're still not clear, don't write
to me, write to Dennis.
Reading the article, you get the sense that Prager believes
the current situation is a messy one for Jews, and that he longs for a time
when things were better. So you look in the article to see what happened that
changed things, and find it in these words: “Once the walls of Jewish ghettos
broke down and European Jews were allowed to leave Jewish enclaves, many Jews became
non-Jewish Jews … some became radicalized. They loathed religion, traditional
middle-class values and capitalism. They particularly hated Jewish religious
and national identity.” Well? Does that mean he is advocating a return to the
ghetto?
He mentions the names of prominent Jewish lefties such as
Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky and George Soros to say they cause much
of the bad things we see in the world today – especially the bad things that
happen to Jews. That's because these people reject their Jewishness, convert to
being citizens of the world and make revolutions, says Prager. The result of
their actions, he goes on to say, is that the Jew that's left behind is the one
that pays the price for what the non-Jewish Jew has wrought.
That said, Prager returns to the subject of Bernie Sanders,
and says that he seeks “to undermine the national and religious identities of
others – in this case, the Jewish and American identities.” The trouble is that
he gives not a single example as to how or when Sanders said something or did
something that undermined the Jewish or American identity.
Instead of offering specifics, Prager makes this
generalization: “Non-Jewish Jews are far more likely to work to weaken
Christianity than Jewish Jews. The same holds true for American non-Jews who
have rejected Christianity: Many seek to weaken Christian influence and
identity in America ”.
He now brings together all the loose ends he created in the
article, and offers this package: “Non-Jewish Jews are alienated from Jews who
strongly identify as Jews, and from Christians who strongly identify as
Christians. Non-American Americans are alienated from Americans who strongly
identify as Americans. The radical non-Jewish Jew and the radical non-American
American love humanity, but hurt real humans, especially Jews and Americans.”
Did you get all that?