Liberal Jews Embrace Their Enemies

You have to wonder about the mental health of liberal Jews. While they hold Evangelical Christians in contempt and suspicion, won't accept their friendship and shun them, they will eagerly reach out in friendship to muslims, the Jews greatest enemies today, without harboring any suspicion of them. And when they are warned that the muslims they are involved in interfaith dialogue with are extremists who have made anti-Semitic speeches, they give the muslims the benefit of the doubt and accuse their detractors of being bigots to which they make it publicly clear that they don't speak for the Jewish community. As far as I'm concerned, the leftist Jews who embrace islamists don't speak for the Jewish community. They may like to think of themselves as progressive and enlightened, but they are insane.

Chelm on the Charles River

by Jerry Gordon (August 2009)


When the new Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) was dedicated on June 26th, a number of local clergy, including members of the progressive rabbinate showed up for the event. They were complemented by members of the Boston Jewish community who had unwavering long term commitments to Jewish Muslim dialogue. Massachusetts Governor Derval Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and the Jewish head of the City Council either sent greetings via videos or showed up for the occasion. “Others who attended included the Dean of Harvard Divinity School, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, and local Christian and Jewish clergy.”
Their appearance was opposed by leaders of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) and others in Boston community, Jews and non-Jews. The APT news conference laid out a factual record of the ISBCC whose funding had come from known terrorist financiers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. ISBCC trustees had either been convicted of being launderers of terrorist funding or had espoused the extremist Salafist/Muslim Brotherhood hate doctrine towards Jews, Christians and other infidels. APT leaders like Charles Jacobs, formerly of the David project, Prof. Dennis Hale of Boston College and Egyptian Reformist Sheik Ahmed Mansour pressed the matter of this extremist Islamist background with evidence produced in a law suit abandoned by the ISBCC in 2007.
That evidence figured prominently in an expose, “Menino’s Mosque” published by the Boston Phoenix. The information made public probably convinced leaders of the main Jewish communal organizations, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) not to show up for the ISBCC official dedication. Those progressive Jews who came to the ISBCC program were useful fools. They were abetting the agenda of Muslim Brotherhood front the Muslim American Society (MAS), which backs the ISBCC, to subjugate and otherwise turn into dhimmis, their own coreligionists.
Jacobs and Hale noted at the conclusion of the Boston Globe report on the ISBCC event:
“We have let sensitivity trump truth’. . . and Our political leaders are failing us by embracing the radical leadership.”
This benighted group of progressive Jews are akin to the fabled Wise Men of Chelm, the mythical Polish shtetl in the humorous works of the late Nobel-laureate, Isaac Beshevis Singer like “Zlateh the Goat “and the “The Fools of Chelm.” In her play, “The Wise Men of Chelm,” author Sandra Fenichel Asher introduces us to these foolish Jews:

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