[ April 29, 2024 ]
David Mamet David is a a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He has multiple received Tony nominations….
How the Democrats betrayed the Jews
The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price
By: David Mamet, October 23, 2023
Story continues below advertisementI grew up in a tiny Jewish enclave on Chicago’s South Side. When I first saw New York, in the Sixties, I was awed as by no subsequent marvel of nature: stretching north from Columbus Circle, up the West Side, was a Jewish metropolis.
New York, in my lifetime, had always been a Jewish city: the rhythms, the accent, the humour always felt to me like home. Because they were home. The populace, of whatever ethnicity, was formed or noodged by Yiddishkeit, much as the Chicago of my youth was by the culture of the Irish and the Poles.
The New York Times and The New Yorker were run by Jews; they were both our Rialto and our Bible. New York Theatre, in my lifetime, had always been Jewish. The playwrights were Miller, Odets, Elmer Rice, Ben Hecht, Sidney Kingsley; and, later, Arthur Laurents, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Wallace Shawn, and myself.
We New York Jews have always voted for the Democrats, as their policies appealed to the immigrants and the first generation (my parents). A Fair Shake, a safety net, and unionism were manna to the newly arrived — in spite of (in both their and my lifetime) quotas and antisemitic discrimination. The immigrant Jews did well here, and voted for Franklin Roosevelt. And we are voting for him still.
His Advisor on Jewish Affairs (jude-suss, or “house-Jew”) was Rabbi Stephen Wise, the “dean” of the American Rabbinate. He referred to FDR as “Boss”, and brought home to his community Roosevelt’s assurance of aid to the dying Jews of Europe. Yet Roosevelt’s aid stopped with his assurances, and tens of thousands of Jews died because of his restrictive immigration policies, and millions in Europe because of his refusal to interdict the Holocaust.
Still, today, Jews vote Democratic: electing Presidents who refused to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister (Obama and Biden) in times of “peace”, who gave and give aid to the terrorist state of Iran in exchange for some semi-specified “deal”. American “Aid” to Iran pays for the equipment and ordnance, which is, at this moment, eradicating Jews.
Why do Jews vote Democratic? Partly from tradition — conservatives have heard a Liberal Jew, when asked to defend or explain various absurd or inconsistent Democratic positions, shrug and joke: “I’m a Congenital Democrat.” I understand, for I was one, too.
But there is no more cosy mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party; Representatives are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists and pro-Palestinians, calling for the end of the state of Israel — that is, for the death of the Jews. And Democrat Representatives repeat and refuse to retract the libel that Israel bombed a hospital, in spite of absolute proof to the contrary, and will not call out the unutterable atrocities of Hamas. The writing is on the wall. In blood.
Moses was instructed to have the Jews smear blood on their doorposts to identify themselves, and, so, avert the wrath of the Angel of Death. Mythologically, the blood can be said to be their own: the message, that if they chose to stay in Egypt, their blood would not mark the doorpost, but would wash the floor.
Many German Jews served the Kaiser during the First World War, and explained to the Nazi thugs that they were Good Germans. And they were killed. And many defended themselves, in the Thirties, by admitting, among themselves, that the Eastern Jews were uncouth; just as today some Western liberal Jews “agree” with the Squad that the terrorists, though they have “gone too far”, “may have a point”: that Israel’s desire to exist is not consonant with an enlightened humanism. This is, in effect, a plea for exemption, not only from terror, but from conscience, for the liberal Jew means the Israelis “are making it hard on the rest of us”. Which is true; for if Israel’s innocent anguish is acknowledged, he will have to admit he has been living a terrible lie.
Many good German Jews in the Thirties ignored their brothers and sisters to the East, and later died with them. My generation, born right after the Holocaust, wondered: “Good God, didn’t you see what was happening around you? Are you literally willing to die rather than admit you were mistaken?” The answer, today, to many liberal American Jews, is “Yes”.
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10 Comments
6 months ago
DAvid Mamet is a great playwright. His “Untouchables” had some of the greatest writing in it. I especially like the scene when Kevin Costner rejects that alderman’s bribe with a story of Roman times.
6 months ago
“Good God, didn’t you see what was happening around you? Are you literally willing to die rather than admit you were mistaken?” The answer, today, to many liberal American Jews, is “Yes”.
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The Democrat Party deceived and betrayed the entire nation.
ALL the big shots here need to answer the same questions. Most would rather bury me than answer.
6 months ago
The progressive, commie, demoncraps, have been betraying the Jews for years. The worst ones are the JINOs, like smucky schumer, frankenfeinstein, boxhead, dippy wasserman schultz and the rest of them who call themselves, Jews, who have betrayed the Real Jews. Why most of the Jews still vote “d” is disgusting. Obviously they are indoctrinated. They still have not learned from what happened in NAZI Germany.
D
6 months ago
For decades after WWII it was accepted that when it came to the holocaust, “never again”.
And here we are with calls for death to the Jews in open public demonstrations by mobs.
This hatred of Jews is now at the levels of the 1930’s.
The atrocities of Oct 7 exceed those of Kristallnacht.
My answer to all this: “Never Again”.
Last edited 6 months ago by Roger Grant
6 months ago
If the Jews still vote for DemoRats than they’re no better than Soros.
6 months ago
I read the entire article in Unherd. The leftist Jews are those who contributed to (cultural) Marxist thought from Antonio Gramsci, György (Georg) Lukács et all and now must reject it.
D
6 months ago
There R no (longer—any) democrat Joos in my shul… My deduction—Joos who go 2 shul R Republicans—“Joos” who don’t R shandas like Soros, Mayorkas, Garland, Schiff, Schumer, Nadler, Weingarten—ask them where they spend their Saturday mornings! hash v’sholem—reading Torah!
6 months ago
Many Jews that I know left the Democratic Party years ago. The Communist Party said (years ago) that they would have to take over a political party in America and they succeeded.
6 months ago
Oh boo hoo! Grow up Mamet, they all stuck with the Dims knowingly and so did you. How pathetic!
