In Defense of Truth: “If our community has a chance of surviving the betrayal of our leaders, we will need fewer apologias from the Forward and more Pamela Gellers”

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That’s two pig-flying moments today.

Here is something wonderful you don’t see very often: defense of my work, not privately, not in email, but in the oped pages of a Jewish newspaper. It’s brave because, in a time of denial, delusion and “universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” I am tired of people whispering in my ear and telling me I am right.

Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science, University of Cincinnati. He also served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis and the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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If our community has a chance of surviving the betrayal of our leaders, we will need fewer apologias from the Forward and more Pamela Gellers. After all, when ancient Israel stood on the brink of disaster, it was often our women who rose against those in our midst who would betray us.

Thank you, Professor.

Pamela Geller Truth not hate

The Forward’s New Israel Fund Whitewash
By: Abraham H. Miller, Jewish Press, April 14th, 2015

In attempting to rise above the Jewish community’s internal conflict over the role of the New Israel Fund in supporting boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Forward’s Jane Eisner (Anatomy of a Smear Campaign, March 10, 2015) pens an editorial that at first blush reads like it was written by Diogenes’ honest man (in this case, woman). We no longer have to strike a lantern against the daylight, the truth stands before us.

To her credit, Eisner acknowledges that the NIF is fair game for challenge and debate. To her shame, she engages in the very ad hominem tactics she decries in the NIF’s critics.

She comes not to defend the NIF but to expose the damage wrought on the Jewish community by its unrestrained critics. Like Mark Anthony, who came to bury Caesar, not to praise him, she, of course, ends up defending the NIF and its supporters.

Her issue is the challenge to the NIF marching in New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade this coming May. The Jewish Community Relations Council issued guidelines that those who support BDS are not welcome. But as Eisner notes, the NIF publicly affirms it does not support BDS, so why the attack on both the NIF and its supporters, many of whom are prominent members of the Jewish community whose generosity to both Jewish charities and Israel is legendary? Why make an issue of the JCRC permitting the NIF to march alongside pro-Israel groups.

For Eisner, the answer is to be found in the actions of the noted “right-wing agitator” (no ad hominem here) Pamela Geller, who sees the NIF as a force aimed it Israel’s destruction and whose supporters, irrespective of previous good deeds, are 21st century kapos. Geller intends to paste their names on one hundred bus ads in America’s largest cities.

Why cannot Geller, and the rest of us, simply take the NIF at its word and not expose the eleemosynary titans of the Jewish community, and the community itself, to public ridicule?

The answer is quite simple. The NIF lies. It lied about its relationship to George Soros’ funding, unless one is sufficiently gullible to believe that a Filipino entrepreneur living in Hong Kong decided to make the NIF her major charitable concern.

Saying the NIF does not support BDS but supports organizations that advocate BDS is like saying, Werner von Braun had nothing to do with the V2 attacks on London. He just made the rockets go up. Where they came down was not his concern.

And there is what should have been the embarrassing situation in a Manhattan court room, where an Israeli human rights lawyer, who represents groups with NIF funding, testified on behalf of Palestinian terrorists trying to evade financial and moral responsibility for shedding Jewish blood. For many of us, that was only the latest outrage. For Eisner, it was a McCarthyite attempt at guilt by association.

In my own community of San Francisco, Students for Justice in Palestine, arguably the most anti-Semitic campus group, sponsored along with a number of NIF-funded groups, an evening with Dalit Baum, a radical Israeli feminist who openly brags about her mission to destroy the Israeli economy. At the door of the event, as investigative journalist Lee Kaplan noted, was a card soliciting funds. Where was it to be returned? To the NIF headquarters.

So, is this too guilt by association? NIF did not sponsor Dalit Baum. They just financed some of the groups that sponsored Dalit Baum.

Maybe to Eisner this is a distinction with a difference. Maybe having been a pillar of the Jewish charitable community entitles one to a pass when supporting an organization that gave money to 972 Magazine, which featured a cartoon of a floating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raping a gravity-defying President Barack Obama in the sky.

Pamela Geller thinks it does not. Her confrontation with the leaders of our community might make them think twice about whom they support. Doing good deeds does not exonerate one when doing bad deeds.

If our community has a chance of surviving the betrayal of our leaders, we will need fewer apologias from the Forward and more Pamela Gellers. After all, when ancient Israel stood on the brink of disaster, it was often our women who rose against those in our midst who would betray us.

About the Author: Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science, University of Cincinnati. He also served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis and the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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sandra schmidt
sandra schmidt
8 years ago

Preach it, Pammy. We are at war and we need to name and shame the enemy.

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8 years ago
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Steve Smith
Steve Smith
8 years ago

Abraham H. Miller, a man whose honesty, runs deep.

UnderzogD
Underzog
8 years ago

The Jewish Press is a good Orthodox weekly. Incidentally, even the Liberal Jewish Advocate (published where I live), had an editorial defending Pamela Geller. I think this was a couple of years ago.

Honest Citizen
Honest Citizen
8 years ago

Yishar koḥakha!! יִישַׁר כֹּחֲךָ

Guest
Guest
8 years ago

As sure as day follows night, the truth will out, and I’m going to be there on that day. So will Pamela Geller.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago

Thank you Prof., from all of us!

Your Friend Clem
Your Friend Clem
8 years ago

Well Mme Geller, i can only repeat Mr H citizens remark : Yishar koḥakha!!
I reckon Emeritus Professor Abraham H Miller is an admirer and he obviously prizes your constancy and determination : you do not stop, you do not quit. Don’t

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
8 years ago

One would think Jane Eisner and the folks at the Forward would be embarrassed by professor Miller’s cogent summation.

One would be wrong.

tpellow
tpellow
8 years ago

Talking about the need for truth among our leaders-

“Clinton Campaign Kicks Off as Huma Abedin Probe Begins”

[Opening excerpt]:-

“At long last the Department of State is investigating why a top Hillary Clinton aide with generational ties to Islamic terrorism was allowed to work in a sensitive government position while simultaneously working for a Clinton-connected private sector consulting firm.

“Hillary Clinton and the senior aide, Huma Abedin, apparently conspired to keep the sweetheart working arrangement that the Muslim Brotherhood-linked employee had at Foggy Bottom a secret.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/clinton-campaign-kicks-off-as-huma-abedin-probe-begins/

Patriot Girl
Patriot Girl
8 years ago

God bless you Pamela.. Finally finally finally your message is getting thru .. Your truth is every AMERICANS truth and I said once when the dust settles you will be thought of as our nations great truth teller/ freedom fighter/patriot extraordinaire! Thank you for your tireless work.. Good luck at show please be careful.. You’ve stirred the savage shit up , and they’re not happy….and you know how violent and vicious our enemy is.. So God bless you! Shalom! God bless America!

marlene
marlene
8 years ago

Our community has already allowed too many home invaders into our home over these past 7 years, without firing a shot against them. While these government invaders are in our homes, militarized police are outside our door and Jade Helm is waiting for us at every corner. Exactly WHAT can we do now – except die for liberty or die from total control? I choose liberty and will keep my weapons until i use them.

joker
joker
8 years ago

Ms Geller you come to Italy and we will give you the best security. Completely free and fully kosher.

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