'How self-defeatist for Jewish youth to street-chalk Black Lives Matter tropes'- Rabbi Parry in L.A.
Channel: Jew Tube
Date: 2020-06-10

When the L.A. Black Lives Matter rally marched past synagogues on the holiday of Shavout last Saturday, some of their participants defaced synagogues and looted Jewish stores. After a week of media-fed frenzy of city-wide pro-BLM marches, looting rampages, and curfews, a group of modern orthodox Jewish girls and boys gathered to chalk-draw (on the asphalt and sidewalk of a 4-way stop intersection) activist BLM-inspired slogans, such as "White Silence = Violence," "No Justice, No Peace," "Beverlywood wants Peace, not Quiet," and "Jews for Black Lives!" 

Local area Rabbi Moshe Parry says: "I consider this a disgrace. B.L.M.'s  anti-Capitalist roots are Red/Green Axis, Communist/Islamist revolutionary from the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam.  Jew-hatred is part and parcel of their anti-Capitalist credo. These girls are inculcated with an erroneous view. Jews don't discriminate racially, yet they're accepting false guilt for "white-privilege" - a revolutionary political race-tool. We're in denial of the real prejudicial threat - the anti-Semitism in today's Progressive Left." 

Israel Hayom newspaper published Caroline Glick's column this week: 

"As progressives, many American Jews share the views of their non-Jewish progressive counterparts regarding the need to prioritize the interests of minority communities over their own interests.

But the Jews' progressive desire to work on behalf of those demonstrating for African Americans places their political identity on a collision course with their Jewish identity. Black Lives Matter, the radical group leading the demonstrations, is an anti-Semitic organization. BLM was formed in 2014 as a merger of activists from the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, the anti-Semitic Black Panthers and Dream Catchers. In 2016, BLM published a platform that has since been removed from its website. The platform accused Israel of committing "genocide" and referred to the Jewish state as an "apartheid" state. The platform accused Israel and its supporters of pushing the US into wars in the Middle East. The platform also officially joined BLM with the anti-Semitic BDS campaign to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. BDS campaign leader Omar Barghouti acknowledged this week that the goal of the BDS campaign is to destroy Israel. BDS campaigns on US campuses are characterized by bigotry and discrimination directed against Jewish students.

BLM's platform's publication was greeted with wall-to-wall condemnations by Jewish organizations from across the political spectrum. But today, Jewish progressive are hard-pressed to turn their backs on the group, despite its anti-Semitism. As white progressives, they believe they must fight America's "structural racism" even at the cost of empowering social forces that reject their civil rights as Jews. As Jews, they feel that their rights should be protected. One progressive Jew tried to square the circle writing in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, "Today Jews need to support Black Lives Matter; tomorrow we can talk about Israel."

As white progressives radicalized over the past decade, radical Jewish progressives built a formidable Jewish organizational framework whose mission is to advance the progressive revolution. They have worked to recast Judaism itself as the apotheosis of progressive revolutionary ideals under the banner of "tikkun olam."