JEWISH WORLD

JEWISH WORLD • NOVEMBER 18-24, 2022 25 Rabbi Joachim Prinz spoke right before King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Mall in 1963. Before one of the largest pro civil rights gatherings in our country’s history, Prinz be- gan his remarks with the words, “I speak to you as an American Jew.” Then, with brevity worthy of an Abraham Lincoln address, he spoke of the universal wisdom of his tradition: “We share the profound concern of millions of people about the shame and disgrace of inequality and injustice which make a mock- ery of the great American idea. “As Jews we bring to this great demonstration, in which thousands of us proudly participate, a twofold experience — one of the spirit and one of our history. “In the realm of the spirit, our fa- thers taught us thousands of years ago that when God created man, he created him as everybody’s neighbor. Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept. It means our col- lective responsibility for the preser- vation of man’s dignity and integrity. “From our Jewish historic expe- rience of three-and-a-half-thousand years we say: “Our ancient history began with slavery and the yearn- ing for freedom. During the Middle Ages, my people lived for a thou- sand years in the ghettos of Europe. Our modern history begins with a proclamation of emancipation. “It is for these reasons that it is not merely sympathy and compas- sion for the black people of Amer- ica that motivates us. It is above all and beyond all such sympathies and emotions a sense of complete iden- tification and solidarity born of our own painful historic experience.” T here is a profound, elevating power in those words and in the actions so many American Jews have taken to live up to them. That’s why it saddens me that what is true “Jewish power” gets totally lost in the too-often ex- pressed notion that Jews own the world, that Jews run the world. I saw parts of the documentary “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!” the link to which to which Kyrie Irving posted on Twitter and which triggered the controversy surrounding him. I saw in the film the demonizing of Jews and outrageous lies denying both Jewish biblical history and the Holocaust. Someone should encourage Irving and Kanye West to watch another film, of Rabbi Prinz’s heartfelt solidarity speech from the 1963 march. These two young Black men both say they want to share their “light” with the world and that they seek a higher level of understanding. They can start by learning more about a deeper power that is any- thing but sinister — the one root- ed in the universal wisdom of the Jewish tradition. Then they can tweet the link to Rabbi Prinz’s speech to their millions of followers on Twitter. David Suissa is editor-in-chief and publisher of Tribe Media Corp and the “Jewish Journal.” Rabbi Joachim Prinz at the March on Washington, 1963: “God Created man … as everybody’s neighbor. Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept.” Jewish power has nothing to do with conspir- acy-based anti-Semitism and everything to do with Jewish wisdom and universal values. Power continued from page 4 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 7-13, 2022 PHYLLIS CHESLER srael a d the Jewish people have long borne the burden of envy and hatred for their views ut monotheism, orality and . So, too, Ukrai e i now bearing burden of representing the West its fight against Eastern (Iranian, ssian, Turkish and Chinese) total- ianism and aggression. he West is supplying the weap- ; Ukraine is providing the hu- n sacrifices. an, which has been designated s e world’s leading sponso of ter- ism, has a long reach. On Aug. 12, hor Salman Rushdie was stabbed times by a 24- ear-old Shi’ite slim supporter of Iran, Hadi Matar someone who was not even born en Ayatollah Khomeini issued a a , or legal death decree, against shdie for having insulted Islam. ran funds the murders of Israe- Iran’s war is primarily a religious war against non-Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and against Judeo-Chris- tian values and Western secular mo- dernity. Such Islamists do not allow free thought or free speech. Criticiz- ing any part of Islamist culture or re- ligion is an insult; their dishonor can only be cleansed by your death. As Bari Weiss just pointed out, Western cancel culture is somewhat similar i hat a single wor or ide is ex- perienced as a violent act and there- fore demands being censored and/or a physically violent response. This is the political moment in which Fiamma Nirenstein, an Ital- ian-born, Jerusalem-based journal- ist, a former Italian parliamentari- an, has published a cri de coeur, an updated version of Zola’s J’Accuse . “The criminalization of Israel h by now been disseminated worl wide. It is a mindset based on li that have bec me p rt and parc of th media’s daily fare since t Durban Conference in 2001 … T diabolical confusion betwe n bla ing Jews and exalting human righ has created a serious short circui The notion of an intersectionality th must identify oppressed and oppre sors — espoused today from instit tions such as the United Nations the European Union to movemen such as Black Lives Matter an those of the LGBTQ community has proved to e a breeding groun for anti-Jewish hatred, to t e poi of spawning bsurditi s th t ran f om imagining Israel as an apar heid state to asserting that Jews a ‘white supremacists.’” In an interview, Fiamma tol me her book was driven by t “incredible shame that I feel in se ing a big wave of anti-Semitis rise again after, and so soon afte The global campaign fueled by hatred disguised as consci nce li Jews through its proxies such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). It has been almost impossible to persuade Westerners, including the media and the professoriate, that She has titled it Jewish Lives Mat- ter . An English language copy can be downloaded from her website. Emile Zola was compelled to speak out in 1898 because of the Dreyfus case, in which French-Jew- ish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason, pub- licly stripped of his rank and sen- tenced to life imprisonment on Dev- il’s Island. He was innocent and had be n fram d y anti-Semites. Nirenstein was driven to “cry out” over the extrao dinary global cognitive war against Israel and thew y inwhich the “good people,” especially the hu- man rights activists and organizations, have all signed onto modern blood libels in the name of “human rights.” Nirenstein is passionate, angry and ex- ceptio ally eloquent. She writes: The book is Nirenstein’s effort to tell the truth about the world’s hurling a blood libel against Israel in the name of human rights. 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