In ‘Historic’ Ruling, US Judge Finds Jews Entitled to Race-Based Civil Rights Protections

“Hornsby argued that Jews were thus treated like a racial or ethnic group, which Title VII was designed to protect from employment discrimination….Yet David Barkey, senior counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, cautioned that the matter was ‘sensitive’ in the Jewish community, which has in the past faced discrimination based on Nazi and other extremist claims that Jews constitute an inferior and ‘distinct race.’”

This is indeed the concern. In an age of rising Jew-hatred, a consequence of massive Muslim migration into the West, this ruling could end up being used to persecute Jews. The West, after having seen the horrific consequences of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, has not learned its lesson. Instead of repudiating anti-Semitism forever, it is now paving the way for a Holocaust to happen again. Rulings such as this one, as innocuous as they are, pave the way for further hatred and persecution. It’s ominous, but the political and media elites are generally too absorbed with hunting for incidences of “islamophobia” to notice.

“In ‘Historic’ Ruling, US Judge Finds Jews Entitled to Race-Based Civil Rights Protections,” by Shiri Moshe, Algemeiner, July 17, 2018:

A federal judge found on Friday that Jewish people are entitled to protection from race-based employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, marking what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind.

Magistrate Judge Mark Hornsby — who is overseeing a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the president of a private Baptist college in Louisiana said he would not hire a qualified candidate because of their “Jewish blood” — acknowledged that despite an ongoing debate on “whether Judaism is a people, a religion, or both,” there is no doubt “that many people have and continue to view being Jewish as a racial identity.”

The lawsuit revolves around former Louisiana College student Joshua Bonadona, who was raised in his mother’s Jewish faith before converting to Christianity as an undergraduate — a background he said was “widely known” on campus.

Last year, while working as a football coach at Southeast Missouri State University, Bonadona was invited to apply for an assistant coaching position at his alma mater. During an interview with LC’s head football coach Justin Charles and President Rick Brewer, Bonadona answered questions about his parents’ religious affiliations and maintained that he is a practicing Christian. Charles, who recommended Bonadona to the college as the most qualified candidate, subsequently said the position “was his” and that a final approval from Brewer was only needed as a formality, according to the lawsuit.

Bonadona submitted his resignation to SMSU shortly afterwards, only to be told by Charles that LC decided not to hire him because of his “Jewish descent.” When asked to clarify, the coach “stated that Dr. Brewer refused to approve [Bonadona’s] hiring because of what Dr. Brewer called [Bonadona’s] ‘Jewish blood.’”

Brewer has denied the allegation, saying in a February statement that he has been unfairly “vilified and determined guilty by certain persons from across the nation.”

“I am not nearly as upset as I am hurt,” he said. “I feel wounded by such reactions because I love and worship Jesus Christ, whose shed blood is the reason I have a personal relationship with the eternal God.”

While the college asked the court to dismiss Bonadona’s claim based in part on the grounds that anti-Jewish discrimination is not related to race under Title VII, this was contested by Hornsby, who noted in a court filing that some “embrace the concept that the Jewish people have a common genetic history.”

“America is no stranger to anti-Semitism, which is often rooted in prejudice against a person based on his heritage/ethnicity without regard to the person’s particular religious beliefs,” the judge determined. “Jewish citizens have been excluded from certain clubs or neighborhoods, and they have been denied jobs and other opportunities based on the fact that they were Jewish, with no particular concern as to a given individual’s religious leanings.”

Hornsby argued that Jews were thus treated like a racial or ethnic group, which Title VII was designed to protect from employment discrimination….

Yet David Barkey, senior counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, cautioned that the matter was “sensitive” in the Jewish community, which has in the past faced discrimination based on Nazi and other extremist claims that Jews constitute an inferior and “distinct race.”

“I think we have to remember this is a legal decision, not a scientific or sociological decision,” Barkey told The Associated Press. “The only concern that I would have is if it was being taken out of context to legitimize extremist views.”

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Suresh

5 years ago

Good move. Jihadis and Left/Libs antifa will be outraged. same protection to other groups too so blacks /hispanics don’t get away with over the top benefits based on Racial discrimination while others are discriminated against and targeted as oppressors.

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MitchHill

5 years ago

Reply to  Suresh

I don’t want over the top benefits, just give me free chicken soup with matzoh balls, kreplach, and bagels and lox . Sorry antisemites it was meant as a joke.

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Catherine Owen Wrasse

5 years ago

Reply to  Suresh

Umm, not a single “right-wing” person I know complains about Jews. It’s the Left stirring up the hate against them. Wake up! Many conservatives I know ARE Jews.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Reply to  Catherine Owen Wrasse

The conservatives of America are actually the most philo-Semitic in the world, a Christian friend of mine has a Hebrew tattoo.

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Suresh

5 years ago

Reply to  Suresh

convulated nuts.

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mackykam

5 years ago

don’t you just love it… the hatred of Jews… followed by praying to a long since dead one for salvation, LOL?

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evangeline golding

5 years ago

Reply to  mackykam

It’s one of the world’s great ironies.

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Achmed Mohandjob

5 years ago

Should refuse to recognize Christ, in the godhead, due to his Jewish blood.

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IzlamDownpressesHumanity

5 years ago

A precedent for a similar measure for muslums? Was that the real intention behind this ruling?

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

To be fair though, I thought Judaism comprised a “nation” and a religion more than it did a race.

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1PierreMontagne1

5 years ago

Can this rulliing also be used to help White People get into university and to get Jobs?

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Mike Kevins

5 years ago

How about reparations? Just kidding. You see how ridiculous that sounds?

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