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The kids are back, and it’s not alright

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Last month we did a post on a group of Jewish kids declaring they won’t be ethnically cleansed from their “native land.” And though they live in California, they weren’t talking about California: but Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Within hours of our post, the video got pulled.

Well, it’s back. A Bay Area group Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, evidently connected to the Rimon Club that originally posted the video, reposted the video as of Monday.

And the bloggers say this of the video:

Made by high schoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is a proud unapologetic declaration of Jewish and Zionist values. Watch it, and know that the Zionist ideal is safe in the hands of the next generation. The kids are alright.

The Bay Bloggers acknowledge what our commenters said at the time: that the video is an attempt to challenge Jewish Voice for Peace’s 2011 video, Young Jewish and Proud, below:

The Bay Bloggers say:

JVP’s attempt at creating the veneer of a youth movement, ‘Young Jewish and Proud’ was meet with well deserved skepticism. With Intactivist activist Mathew Taylor, (just this side of 40) and Rachel Roberts, now an attorney for the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) among their spokespeople, the movement was ripe for ridicule, and ridicule came n torrents.

The kids in the new video appear to be affiliated with Rimon’s Club Z. There are a lot of photos up at their site  featuring some of the kids in the video. Back when we posted originally, our commenters wondered whether children were being indoctrinated in nationalist propaganda. These pictures underscore that concern. 

 
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Photo: Rimon’s Club Z
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Photo: Rimon’s Club Z

It seems as if Club Z is a Zionist boot camp for young teens, with connections to Masha Merkulova, a pro-Israel activist. The group’s Home page and “Learn Page” link to a revisionist history, featuring Howard Grief, who spoke at a settler conference, arguing that the 1920 San Remo conference gave Jews sovereignty over all of historical Palestine. (More on Grief here).

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it’s quite sad to see adolescents children been indoctrinated and lets face it abuse by elders supporting a heinous ideology call zionism. i honestly feel sorry for the children rather then anger. the video gives a very stark reminder of how far down zionist propaganda is prepared to go.

i go as far to say that these children are more victims to continious zionist atrocities.

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the music is really weird too. very end of times music. i’m not getting the upshot of that. it was probably added later and not the kids doing but it’s still weird.

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Home … birth … native … deep roots … Middle Eastern … Judeans … Israelites …

An interesting perspective coming from kids whose parents and club organisers chose the Bay Area over Israel, when leaving the FSU. I guess indoctrinating your kids (or allowing them to be indoctrinated by others) to claim their “birthright” of ethnic supremacism, territorial expansionism and racial hatred is the next best thing to actually having to live in the (ugh) Middle East.

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Looking at those pictures made me really sad because it is just so clear that the point of this “Club Z” is really to erode the kids’ abilities to make a distinction between Zionist/nationalist politics and the rituals of the Jewish religion. Seeing pictures of the kids making challah and lighting Chanukah candles interspersed with pictures of them wrapped in Israeli flags reminded me of my own childhood attending Hebrew school [at a liberal Reform synagogue in Southern California, no less!]. When I was in probably third or fourth grade, we were given maps of Israel that had no Green Line (just as they are in most Israeli school textbooks) and we were taught about the geography of Israel and the different cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem (although now that I think about it, West Bank cities such as Hebron and Bethlehem were conspicuously absent from the curriculum). There was no mention of conflict, no mention of the word “Palestinians” – just a rosy portrait of this wonderful place for Jews. My synagogue also celebrated Israeli Independence Day, and seeing Israeli flags around was commonplace. Although I’m not sure I would call it indoctrination, that sort of thing definitely tends to foster a strong connection between a person’s Jewish identity and their “support for Israel” and feeling like Israel “belongs” to them. It makes it easier to understand why on so many college campuses many Jewish students may react reflexively and defensively to criticism of Israel by SJP groups. When you are raised in a community that tells you, implicitly or otherwise, that supporting this “Jewish state” is part of being Jewish, it’s really hard to break away from that.

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RE: “Last month we did a post on a group of Jewish kids declaring they won’t be ethnically cleansed from their ‘native land’. And though they live in California, they weren’t talking about California: but Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Within hours of our post, the video got pulled. Well, it’s back. A Bay Area group Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, evidently connected to the Rimon Club that originally posted the video, reposted the video as of Monday.” ~ Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss

ATTENTION RIMON CLUB & “PRO-ISRAEL BAY BLOGGERS” : Your “native land” is most likely Khazaria, and it is located in central Asia, not in the Middle East! The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people, many of whom apparently converted to Judaism beginning in the 8th century.
KHAZARIA.COM (A Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine) – http://www.khazaria.com/
WIKIPEDIA [Khazars] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars

ALSO SEE: “New Study Shows Yeshiva University Researcher, Others Appear To Have Cooked The Genetic Books To ‘Prove’ Middle Eastern Origin Of The Jewish People When One May Not Really Exist”, by Shmarya Rosenberg, FailedMessiah.com, 12/29/12

“My research refutes 40 years of genetic studies, all of which have assumed that the Jews constitute a group that is genetically isolated from other nations,” Dr. Eran Elhaik says.
That’s because Jews were never genetically isolated, making those other studies fatally flawed and very often contradictory.
Now Elhaik, in a study that is being called more profound than all of those that came before his combined, has exposed that fatal flaw and is the first to propose a viable way resolve those contradictions, Ha’aretz reports.
The answer to the origin of the Jewish people Elhaik found is startling – for most of us, our Jewish origins really do begin with the Khazars, the Medieval central Asian people whose ruling elite (and perhaps its merchant class, as well) converted to Judaism.
The 32-year-old does his work at the School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His study was published earlier this month as, “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses”, in the prestigious journal, ‘Genome Biology and Evolution’, which is published by Oxford University Press. This study is based on a complete analysis of the comprehensive genetic data published in preceding studies.
But in the absence of genetic data for the long-lost Khazars themselves, Elhaik uses a procedure often used by researchers in his field – he used data from populations that are genetically similar to the Khazars, including Georgians, Armenians and Caucasians, populations that Elhaik says have all come from the same genetic soup.
When doing so Elhaik discovered what he calls the Khazar component of European Jewry.
According to his study’s findings, the dominant element in the genetic makeup of European Jews is Khazar. Among Central European Jews, this makes up the largest part of their genome, 38%. For East European Jews it does the same, at 30%.
Elhaik found that European Jews genome is mostly Western European.
“[They are] primarily of Western European origin, which is rooted in the Roman Empire, and Middle Eastern origin, whose source is probably Mesopotamia [a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, the northeastern section of Syria and to a lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran – J.L.D.], although it is possible that part of that component can be attributed to Israeli Jews,” he told Ha’aretz by phone from Maryland.
That possibility is important because, if it turns out to be true, it could connect European Jews to Israel. However, even if it is true, that connection is only a tiny part of the overall genome, a percentage so small that it would reportedly not be statistically significant enough to show that the origin of the Jews is the Kingdom of Judah in the biblical Land of Israel. . . . .

SOURCE – http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/12/new-study-shows-yu-researcher-others-appear-to-have-cooked-the-genetic-books-to-prove-middle-eastern-789.html

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