Tuesday, December 31, 2019

They counsel Justice by compounding Injustice

If you felt like you got hit in the face with an American baseball bat that was swung by Jewish arms upon hearing the latest Judeo-American treatment of the Palestinians, rest assured this is not a one-of-a-kind oddity; it is as much a Jewish habit as matzoh bread.

This time the Americans gave the Jews of Israel the right to all of the West Bank because they said that the current situation did not produce peace, therefore things had to change. But instead of the Americans telling the Jews to change the current situation by getting out of Palestine, they told them to grab more of Palestine. This is like saying the victim that was gang raped by a Judeo-American pack of savages did not like being raped and so, the Americans thought of fixing the situation by gang raping the victim some more.

Well, the Jews of America have done it again––this time not in Palestine but in America itself. And you won't have to go far to find out what they are foaming at the mouth nowadays. In fact, the idea was expressed in the title of Jonathan S. Tobin's article. It reads as follows: “Reform's Embrace of Reparations Won't Advance Justice,” published on December 29, 2019 in the Jewish publication, Algemeiner.

What Tobin says is that to recognize the wrong that was done to the Africans who were brought to America as slaves and treated as such, is to do the wrong thing––it would be committing an injustice. That's because for justice to be done in his view, today’s African-Americans must accept what happened to their ancestors, and go from there to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and be satisfied with their lot.

You'll see why Jonathan Tobin believes he might convert some African Americans to his point of view, if you've been following the events of the last few months. That's when the differences in temperament between the Blacks, the Whites and the Jews came out as clearly as can be.

What happened during that time is that White supremacists killed Blacks in their churches and in their apartments. The Blacks responded by forgiving them, even hugging them. But when Whites were mass murdered by other Whites, the relatives of the victims insisted on seeing that justice be done. As to the Jews, the scent of blood got them to clamor for he heads of innocent men in their nineties. These were men that did nothing worse than be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This being the way that things ought to remain in Tobin's view, he was shaken to the core when someone––a rabbi no less––rocked the boat. Here is how Tobin described what happened: “Rabbi Jonah Pesner of Reform Judaism declared that it was time for the Jews to 'reckon with our nation's bigoted history,' as well as to confront 'racism in our country, our synagogues and our hearts.' He also put forward the notion that compensation for slavery was comparable to the reparations from Germany to Jews”.

From there, Jonathan Tobin went on to argue against compensating African-Americans for the slavery that their ancestors endured, and the aftermath that continues to linger to this day, affecting them negatively in both subtle and overt ways. Here, in condensed form, is what Tobin said in this regard:

“Pesner is right to consider slavery and racism as sins. But he is wrong about both the justification for and the utility of reparations. The enactment of such a law –– and the creation of a new federal bureaucracy that would cause American society to become even more race-conscious than before –– would not undo past wrongs, while likely making the country a more dangerous place for all minorities”.

Now, dear reader, I ask you to imagine the howling, the moaning and the cries of anti-Semitism that would have been produced by Jonathan Tobin and those of his ilk if someone had suggested that the Jewish victims of 9/11 must not be compensated because the enactment of such a law and the creation of a new federal bureaucracy would cause American society to become even more race-conscious without undoing 9/11, while making the country a more dangerous place for all minorities.

If you wonder how the creation of a new bureaucracy will make the country a more dangerous place for all minorities ... wonder no more. To say that the whole world, or at least the whole country will go to hell if you do something that displeases the Jews, is a Jewish habit that is uttered often but means nothing. In fact, Jonathan Tobin used it again to close his article. Here is what he said:

“For Pesner's Religious Acton Center to engage in the rhetoric of white privilege when speaking of Jews validates the myths that fuel antisemitic libels of Israel and the Jewish people, as well as the propaganda spread by Jew-haters like Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Race is an issue that can never be ignored. But when groups embrace solutions that will do more to downplay the reality of a rising tide of antisemitism, it only winds up hurting all Americans”.

In other words, Tobin is counseling against compensating the African-Americans for being treated badly because if you do, you'll increase antisemitism and hurt all Americans, he says. It is an argument as annoying as a dog's poop left on your porch.