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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: KalmanBenMenachem on July 05, 2025, 01:44:25 AM
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Rabbi Meir Kahane didn't inspire Jewish efforts to free Jews trapped in the Soviet Union, blacks did.
Self-hating Jewish leftists are writing Rabbi Meir Kahane out of history, and placing the struggle for Soviet Jewry firmly within the context of the "civil rights movement." All it takes is a PhD and a publisher.
San Francisco State University Jewish Studies Professor Marc Dollinger writes, in his book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s:
Black Power activism inspired American Jews to internalize the call for identity politics. The fight for Soviet Jews emerged, then, as the next political step for Jewish liberals once dedicated to African American civil equality. If Black nationalists pushed Jews out of domestic social justice causes, arguing that each ethno-racial group must take care of its own, then a movement to save Soviet Jews developed as the logical response. As historian William Orbach wrote, “Jewish youth, possibly influenced by black activism and rejecting their parents’ lethargy, demanded decisive action on behalf of Soviet Jewry.” While the antisemitic policies of the Soviet government could have triggered American Jewish interest a decade earlier, Orbach understood the delay. The “growing disillusionment with the civil rights struggle, in the face of increasing black militancy,” he concluded, served as inspiration for Jews to ride the era’s new “ethnic wave.”
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What an insane text.
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There are people I call story twisters... This guy sounds like a classic case... I could be wrong, but I don't recall Liberal activist Jews being at the spearhead of saving Soviet Jewry.