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Linda Sarsour’s CUNY Speech: A Moral Disaster

One can have visions of shenere un be sere velt, a better and more beautiful world, as prophesied by the Workmen’s Circle, when reading the delusional praise of Linda Sarsour in the Forward by New York City Councilmember Brad Lander. Alas, his naive ilk bears historical precedence in bad Jewish outcomes. Before getting to the state of American Jewry, however, I must correct some misperceptions that Lander and so many others have regarding free speech on campus.

As a former trustee of CUNY, I can state categorically that claims of free speech in these matters are nonsense and amount to deliberate obfuscation by elected Democratic officials who have placed their chits with the radical left — to the detriment of Jews. Rare exceptions include Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who, in summing up Sarsour’s shortcomings, remarked that “surely CUNY can do better.”

CUNY Chancellor James Milliken’s declaration that “taking action… would conflict with the First Amendment and the principles of academic freedom” is a fallacious statement. The conferring of honorary degrees and commencement speeches are pure marketing tools designed to draw attention to a school and burnish its image. These are honors bestowed by a college or university; they have little to do with free speech. Instead, bestowing an honorary degree to Sarsour amounts to the administration making a value judgment.

In Linda Sarsour’s case, CUNY selects an honoree who proclaims, “You can’t be a feminist in the United States [and not] stand up for the rights of Palestinian women,” and that “nothing is creepier than Zionism.” They celebrate a woman who said of anti-Islamist writer and politician Ayaan Hirsut Ali and conservative journalist Brigitte Gabriel, “I wish I could take their vaginas away.” Sarsour also called Palestinian thugs who threw stones at Jews “courageous.”

Lander cannot claim to be a feminist and a Zionist and then go on to “stand with Sarsour,” any more than I can be a Zionist and stand with Louis Farrakhan.

 Several years ago, when the CUNY School of Law wanted to honor Lynne Stewart, attorney for terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the “Blind Sheikh” (who herself spent time in jail for illegally smuggling messages from her client to his rabid followers), the chancellor and the trustees at that time, including me, said no way. CUNY damages its brand when it associates with unworthy honorees.

As to the larger picture:

I see the Jewish masses proudly marching, working, building coalitions with spurious partners — assisting the Black Lives Matter movement, cooperating with the likes of Sarsour, other participants in the BDS movement — in short, a potpourri of anti-Semites. Where is the simple instinct of dignity to at least demand reciprocity of Jewish goals in exchange for Jewish support, and to understand the needs of all Americans when advocating for actions that they believe are derived from Jewish law?

In the name of “social justice,” those very Jews fight government incentives that could benefit Jewish education while advocating for abortion rights and opposing charter schools.

Jewish liberalism and leftism may have made sense in the era before labor unions, Social Security and other components of the basic safety net, but today, they are a backbone of the BDS movement and other causes inimical to Jewish survival.

What’s happened?

Jews in the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements were mostly in sync on core Jewish survival issues until about 50 years ago. However, as the Conservative and Reform movements began to see largely empty pews on the Sabbath, their leaders concocted out of whole cloth an expanded tikkun olam.

Tikkun olam is a simple, direct injunction proclaiming just that we should “repair the world by proclaiming God’s sovereignty,” nothing more, nothing less. In the past several decades, however, not only did application of the term expand, but it also did not possess the self-respect of insisting on reciprocity. To the contrary: Tikkun olam, as opposed to the direct and simple injunction of God’s sovereignty, has morphed into Palestinian rights, Black Lives Matter (no friends of the Jews), LGBT rights, abortion rights, etc. Many of these are legitimate social issues, but they have nothing to do with tikkun olam.

I am not some perfectly practicing Orthodox Jew, but the fact is that the Conservative and Reform movements are disappearing because their leaders have created an alternative religion through what the late economic professor of Stephen Plaut of Haifa University dubbed the “tikkun olam fetish.”

As Jews, we end up advocating for our enemies and expect no reciprocity, nor receive it; I call it, “Tikkun olam for thee, but not for me.”

What other racial/ethnic/religious/national group would foolishly do for others while receiving betrayal in return, let alone reciprocity? For our critical role in the civil rights movement because it was right — not because of the tikkun olam fetish — we applaud Black Lives Matter partnering with our libelous enemies?

If there is a majority of American Jews who wish to proclaim their liberalism, that’s their business — just don’t falsely attribute their philosophy and actions to Scripture.

Our Scripture does remind us, “your enemies shall emerge from within you.”

Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld is a wealth manager and was a senior aide to Gov. George E. Pataki, Sen. Al D’Amato, Mayor Ed Koch, Rep. Tom Manton and Borough President Claire Shulman. He sits on the board of several national Jewish organizations.

Read more: http://forward.com/opinion/371399/linda-sarsours-cuny-speech-a-moral-disaster/

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Philip
Philip
6 years ago

Please let those stuck at home know how they can telecommute. Stay safe all!

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Philip

Left/Liberal/feminazi Loons want to bring in more of these fake “refugees” to do more of this in America. And they criticise Trump for taking steps to protect Americans from these jihadis !

Dems including Obama have not only denied refugees status to christians from middle east who are real refugee but even have deported christians back to ISIS territory to be slaughtered by ISIS http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch

Not one media covered it !

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Kook of the East
Kook of the East
6 years ago

Thank you, Pamela.
Wish I could be there.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Don’t back down or get shouted down. State the truth.

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago

Let me supplement what this article is essentially saying with my own commentary on what this nation is actually facing from people like this Linda Sarsour. These are my strong statements on the real issues involved.

As a person who can trace my lineage to
immigrants who came to this country, and assimilated properly into this great
country of ours, and with what I am seeing happen today from the barbaric
conduct that is happening around this world, and more recently in Manchester,
England, I felt compelled to write the following commentary.

The migration that is occurring today from
the Middle East and Africa has one significant difference that I am afraid the
free world leaders, media and its people do not clearly see, or refuse to
calculate into the equation, and I believe that this missing piece is very
significant. While I recognize that the liberals in the media, the Democratic
party and the liberal citizens of this country would like to see the world of
Islam as involving so-called peace loving constituents, they, nevertheless,
miss the very salient point that is at the heart of the problem, and that is
the one major difference with this migration (refugees) is that its belief
system has as its underpinning dramatic and dangerous beliefs, teachings and
expectation of dominance or subjugating non-believers to its control.

Where I was once a believer in extreme
vetting to try to weed out those who would follow their belief system that
promotes the heinous conduct that is used as justification for horrible acts of
terrorism against non-believers, I have now come to the conclusion that vetting
will never work for the following reasons. Though I do not profess to be an
expert on all cultures, the refugees who accept Islam as their belief system
bring with them an already proven danger involving overthrowing and replacing
everything with their laws under Islam, creating a religiously controlled
theocratic state, a belief system that justifies barbaric conduct and falsely
promises a “fruitful” afterlife.

I do not believe that any migrants who came
here before came with such a binding, frightening and dangerous philosophy.
When the Pilgrims arrived from Europe, when the Irish Catholics arrived from
Ireland, when the Italian Catholics arrived from Italy, when the Jews arrived
from Russia, Poland and elsewhere, when the Hispanics arrived from Central and
South America and Puerto Rico, when those of the Protestant faiths who came
from Europe and elsewhere, and when all others arrived from places like China,
India and elsewhere, I do not believe that any of these faiths and cultures
brought with them the stigma of “overthrowing and replacing” the
American way with their culture or faith rather than to be able to, as those
people essentially did, of assimilating and prospering into a non-violent
America when they arrived.

Though I recognize that there are
individuals and groups of crazies to be found among all faiths and cultures and
morbid belief systems, none of the many immigrant cultures and faiths that came
here over the last two hundred years, except for the “ism’s,’ such as
Communism, Nazism/Fascism, which now includes Islamism, had as its underpinning
the concepts that promote abhorrent conduct and overthrow/replacement.
Therefore, the differences are monumental and need to be seen for what they
are.
If we keep our borders open to these Islamic believers, our society, which
allows all beliefs system to live side by side in peace, will cease to exist,
and we will find the same things happening here that are happening in Europe
now, much to our forever chagrin. That is what I believe we are facing, and is
the missing piece of the equation, and we need to recognize that clearly and
keep those believers out of this country. I would certainly be willing to
support them in safe zones where they can meld into an already approving
Islamic society, but to allow them to come here is downright stupid and
suicidal.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Linda Sarsour is a greasy moslem terrorist.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Carry iron.

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