I spent so long building all this trust up only to have it fall down

[sovay]

I was going to make a post complaining about something in my writing life, but then I saw that the man in the White House plans to sign an executive order interpreting Judaism as a nationality and, oh, just for starters, when has defining Jews as a race of their own ever gone wrong before?

Fuck Christian Zionism. Fuck the pretext of one marginalized group's civil rights as an excuse to deny another marginalized group theirs. I don't dispute that the levels of anti-Semitism in this country are unignorably, escalatingly, lethally high. I don't dispute that they can be seen on college campuses, which take the pulse of the country as much as subway graffiti and its multiplying swastikas. But the man in the White House raised this firestorm for his own gratification; he is the last person I trust to put it down. He doesn't care about protecting American Jews. We don't vote for him. We could burn for all he cares. (He doesn't even believe we're American.) He just wants his special relationship with his fellow authoritarians in power in Israel. This is protection like a protection racket. And Armageddon for all.

[edited 2019-12-12 04:44 am (UTC)] It seems that the text of the executive order does not support the definition reported by the New York Times and therefore by me.

I believe the rest of this post remains valid.

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[kore]

I'm sure this has TOTES NOTHING to do with Jared Kushner's "Middle East foreign policy" (good God, who the fuck thought he would be doing diplomacy for this administration) or the criticism he just got for saying "Jews are driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel" and the fucking "Trump Heights" settlement idea!

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, a liberal Israel advocacy group, said the president’s order was a cynical effort to crack down on critics, not to defend Jews from bias. “It is particularly outrageous and absurd for President Trump to pretend to care about anti-Semitism during the same week in which he once again publicly spouted anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money,” he said in a statement.

Fucking seriously.

[sovay]

I'm sure this has TOTES NOTHING to do with Jared Kushner's "Middle East foreign policy"

"The Jewish grandson of Holocaust survivors, Mr. Kushner embraced the idea, which also had been explored over the past year by the president's domestic policy aides. With Mr. Kushner's support, the White House drafted the order and Mr. Trump agreed to sign it."

Jared was bad enough when he was failing his own family's memory on the front of compassion to others. Now I'm trying to figure out how he thinks that the legal tools that nearly murdered his family are the ones he want to set in place to save his skin.

[dewline]

I was just listening to a J-Street rep, Logan Bayroff, on CBC Radio's As It Happens a few minutes ago.

https://twitter.com/cbcasithappens/status/1204888967839174658

[sovay]

I was just listening to a J-Street rep, Logan Bayroff, on CBC Radio's As It Happens a few minutes ago.

I am sure this adminstration will get any foot it can in the door to silence its critics. I remain concerned that this particular door will kill a lot more people than it just shuts up. [edit] Just to be clear, I am aware that more than one bad thing can happen at once. I don't want them to.

[dewline]

Agreed on that last point.