Department of Homeland Security announces $94 million in grants to protect Jewish organizations
Department of Homeland Security announces $94 million in grants to protect Jewish organizations
Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.
Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.
I recently sat down with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad from Congregation Ner Tamid, who told me the temple spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on security.
"The fight against hate against the Jews would morph yet again, um, so when someone says that they are, they, they love Jews but they, but they hate Israel and you get a little deeper, what do they mean by that..... and usually when they go into the territory not of being critical of Israel which is fair game. But they say Israel has no right to exist at all now.... we get into the area of antisemitism," Akselrad said.
More grants are expected in the coming months.
Notice it’s to protect Jewish organizations, not Jewish people.
Apparently it is now antisemitic to speak out against an organization you disagree with, even ones that bear a strong resemblance to what would otherwise be labeled a terrorist organization.
The problem of course is that there ARE antisemites out there mixed in with all the people upset with the US and Israeli governments.
Its antisemitic to not fund organizations that pay for settler terrorism in the west bank actually
No religious body should ever receive federal money for anything short of a natural disaster to repair their assets. Jews, Baptists, Muslims, Buddhists, etc... they're all the same in my eyes, and should be in the eyes of the government. They are all fucking loony toons that believe in ghosts, and that shit has no place in law and government. Let them fail for their beliefs or grow up and join and evolve with society.
This is the type of shit that leads to pogroms and lies like “The Elders of Zion.”
Benefits Netanyahu short term. Hurts Jews long term.
Israel has gone out of its way to eliminate sympathy towards Jewish survivors of the holocaust.
greedy zionist filth dont desevre more money. geneciders desevre to be culled, death to the idf and isreal. filthy nazi scum
But they say Israel has no right to exist at all now
This gets a little philosophical, but do nations have some specific right to exist? People certainly do have a right to exist, but I just don't see this applying to a governmental entity. We hear about human rights, but not nation rights. And if we are going to apply it to nations, then the next question is: does Palestine have a right to exist?
How many nations in other parts of the world have been "eaten" by imperialism? Does Hawaii have the right to exist as its own separate nation? Where's the outcry for them?
It seems you’re conflating the words nation and state. A nation is a group of people with a shared, named identity, such as Hawaiian or Palestinian. A state is an officially recognized group with sovereignty over an area of land. Many nations exist which do not have their own states.
All nations have the right to exist by the human right to freedom of association. Sovereign states have no right to exist: their existence is asserted and defended by force and by mutual recognition with other sovereign states.
The word nation has come to mean nation-state. Borders changing does not equate people changing anymore.
A nation is a group of people with a shared, named identity, such as Hawaiian or Palestinian
Hmm, I dont think this is true in the most common usage, but it's also not what is meant when people challenge the notion of Israel's 'right to exist'.
Nobody contends that the "shared identity" of Israel has no right to exist, only that Israel as a capital-J Jewish State has no unique or exclusive right to self-determination in Historic Palestine. No state or nationality has a right to deny the self-determination of another group on the basis of ethnic identity.
Nation-states are the problem. They're based on the belief that everyone with some common set of features (language, religion, etc) are somehow a uniform, undifferentiated whole, and anyone who doesn't fit the template are to be excluded and disempowered. So you end up with an in-group either attemptiong to force-assimilate or exterminate everyone else. For example, the way the Castilians treat the Catalans, Basques, Galicians and others in Spain, or the way the Danes treat the Greenlanders, or the way the Han Chinese treat anyone who isn't Han, or the way the Turks treated their Greek minority (now ethnically cleansed), their Kurdish minority (culturally suppressed and occasionally attacked), their former Armenian minority (subjected to genocide), etc, etc.
And they're most damaging in cases where mutiple ethnicities live alongside each others-- for example, the Serbs' attempts to subjugate minorities under their control.
There are few exceptions to this: one being Scotland, which generally constructs its national identity in an inclusive way.
As for Israel, do your own analysis.
Any state that does not guarantee equal rights for it's people should not exist. Hate has nothing to do with it.
Does MAGA like Jews? I was under the impression they supported Israel but hated Jews, because...MAGA.
They like a very particular kind of Jewish person the same way they like a very particular kind of Christian. That being hardcore conservatives who use religious doctrine as a cover for bigoted dog whistling and nothing more.
Sounds about right.
Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.
Fuck Noem and her ICE bullshit.
I welcome this. Jewish Americans have been wrongfully threatened over things Israel has been doing. Jewish Americans (the many im friends with) hate the Israel govt's actions and leaned heavily Democrat. Temple were getting weekly bomb scares during 2024, and there's been lots of harassment and physical violence. They walked alongside of us during BLM and No Kings.
I wish this was extended to the Muslim community. But of course, we know why it's not.
