Comments on: Why Max Blumenthal’s video is important

By: dannhy bloom

dannhy bloom — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:41:11 +0000

" target="_blank">http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/The-Ugly-Sick-Racist... What a shame. The world Jewish community should be very ashamed of that video and of those young Jewish American kids. A sad day in Jewish history. I protest! DANNY BLOOM BLOGS: "This is such a disgusting video, as a Jewish American man, 60, i am deeply ashamed of these young men and women in the video, and because of this video I am renouncing my Judaism today - publicly. Not that anyone reads my blogs, but here it is. I will never again call myself a Jew. This was a very sad day in modern Jewish life, and the makers and distributors of the video should be ashamed of themselves. Oi."

By: dannhy bloom

dannhy bloom — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:36:31 +0000

Blumenthal's video is a wake-up call.

By: dannhy bloom

dannhy bloom — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:32:01 +0000

Jewish author renounces Judaism over racist Video of ... DANNY BLOOM BLOGS: "This is such a disgusting video, as a Jewish American man, 60, i am deeply ashamed of these young men and women in the video, and because of this video I am renouncing my Judaism today - publicly. ... " target="_blank">http://northwardho.blogspot.com/2009/06/jewish-au...

By: Nedsky

Nedsky — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:37:51 +0000

I was with you, Phil, until almost the end when you wrote "Jews have made a terrible error in Israel by fostering racist policies…." It isn't that I disagree about the "error" part, it is at least that, but that it is something that had to be fostered. There is more than enough in Torah (especially Deuteronomy and Judges) extolling the slaughter of people whose only "crime" was in trying to find a different understanding of the cosmos. The people in the film, and as you pointed out a major chunk of Israeli society, secular or religious, are really just updating Deuteronomy and applying it to the Jewish state of today. So maybe it isn't an aberration, or even a poor choice, but something intrinsic not in Jews as a people but in the culture IF there is a Jewish state at all, anywhere or anywhen….Someone on another site wrote that as long as enough Jews really do feel that they are a chosen people, then everyone else is only fit to be chopped liver….

By: RowanBerkeley

RowanBerkeley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:15:24 +0000

I suppose you feel (think) that martin buber and judah magnes were not zionists (yonahred) I don't know whether Shirin thinks that, but I think that they were, in terms of results, just liberal stage props for people like you to use, irrelevantly, to obscure reality.

By: Duscany

Duscany — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:58:43 +0000

Well, I can certainly understand why you wouldn't want non members of the tribe to see the sense of entitlement and disloyalty to America shown by these young people.

By: MRW

MRW — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:11:32 +0000

Well, I need to correct my own record. I finally watched the cable news about this guy. I hadn't realized that he banged on the door, the guard answered and he shot him. I thought he saddled through security, which is what I heard initially. I shouldn't have jumped the gun. I should have checked the facts. I didn't I apologize. I still dont understand how some guy under surveillance since 1981 and viewed as a threat could buy a rifle.

By: yonahred

yonahred — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:39:09 +0000

i suppose you feel (think) that martin buber and judah magnes were not zionists.

By: Duscany

Duscany — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:16:18 +0000

It wans't just their casual bigotry that disgusted me. It was their astonishing sense of entitlement and, for the American born ones, their total lack of loyalty to America.

By: Duscany

Duscany — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:09:40 +0000

Ain't that the truth? Three years ago I considered sending my son on one of those trips. My wife was against it then. Recently she changed her mind and now wanted to send him. But having learned so much about Israel in the meantime, i said, no way.