The Judenrat and Kapos are still with us.

When one asks a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps what was their most horrible experience, many will say it was the Jewish overseers: the Judenrat, and the Kapos, - Jews who collaborated with the Nazis. The evil of the Nazis is comprehensible for evil is ever present in their world, but the Jews who cooperated in the genocide of their own people is beyond imagination. The Judenrat and Kapos are still with us.

According to the great Soviet dissident Nathan Sharansky we can recognize Jew-hatred when manifested against Israel by the 3 Ds: demonization, double standards and delegitimization. By this definition J Street is loudly and proudly anti Semitic. Jewish Voices for Peace has gone so far Progressive that they honored Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, an IslamoNazi Jew killer who is about to be deported by the United States.  The Democrat Party has gone full and poisonously “Progressive anti-Israel” by aligning itself with J-Street as demonstrated by Nancy Pelosi’s speech at the most recent AIPAC policy conference when she read the manifesto for a two-state solution written by J-Street staffers. The crowd of 18,000 pro-Israel supporters was for the most part unusually quiet. No clapping, no standing ovation.

American Jewish Progressives worship at the altar of the liberal state. Their religion is not Torah Judaism but Progressive values. They identify with the power of progressive liberal government so closely that they stifle conservative dissent within their houses of worship, much like the Kapos of WW2. In the mind of Jewish progressives, they would rather do outreach to radical Islamic Imams than reach out to their conservative brothers.

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Politics and public policy has no place in modern Judaism, and I predict that this desire to worship at the alter of Progressive liberal values will continue to imprison those who only want spiritual Judaism, not a political manifesto.