Blessed is the country that knows justice for all

The US believes in equality and justice for all!

Right. If one is a white Jew like yourself maybe. Tell that to the blacks who suffered under hundreds of years of slavery. Who were routinely hung and lynched while the southern sheriff looked the other way- many years after slavery. Blacks are still heavily discriminated against in very softer and more legally covert ways in America today- despite the 'God-bless Constitution"! Same with what America did to natives that it killed and wiped out to get their land.

Today's America doesn't go after Jews but after Arabs and Muslims. It also routinely bombs people it suspects as terrorists (i.e. those opposed to US foreign policy)in AfPak rather than find out and fight like men. Laws are being passed by the Conservative movement (which includes many right-wing Jews) calling for detainment of Latinos who may be illegal or banning the building of mosques. I won't even get started on Gitmo.

The US may be kind to white Christians and Jews, can't say that about too many others- at home or abroad!

Rabbi,

In an earlier posting, I wrote that "gentiles don't scare me." Neither do genitals, and at times the two are not readily distinguishable, a point to keep in mind throughout your current endeavor.

I was reminded of the close similarity as I read the remarks of another blogger, one JPFrog, aptly monikered, I might add:

"It is true that Jews (and I am MOT) have been on the whole treated better here than anywhere else (leaving out little items like Father Coughlin) but there are no little indications that this is not guaranteed in perpetuity."

This arrogant illiterate gentile (a Jew it is MOT [sic])believes we have been "treated better here than anywhere else."
That is to say that s/he is positioned to "treat" others either poorly as well. Others--Jews, women, gays, etc.--are guests, you see, while s/he, along with his/her co-religionist "hosts," determine how we are treated (sic). LOL!

And yet, your entire essay rests on a rather different "foundation," does it not. I am amazed! JPFrog lives in a world where chalky, gentile hetero privilege is unquestioned.

You see, Rabbi, as long as you are not downwind of bothersome gentiles, there is nothing to fear and much to find amusing.

Have a happy Hanukkah!

Farnaz

I am amazed! It seems, Rabbi, that you and I live in different countries. You live in a place where justice is perfect for all, and I live in a country where innocent men, mostly black, a put to death for crimes which they did not commit due to the lack of resources to hire a competent defense attorney. You live in a country where people who do bad things are justly punished, and I live in one where torturers destroy evidence of their evil and no one does a damned thing about it, where liars perpetrate a war on false pretenses (in "depraved indifference to human life", which is 2nd degree murder in many states) and kill in six figures, and we "move on, nothing to see here". You live in Dr. Pangloss' country, where God has created the best of all possible worlds, and I live in a country that, if it was created or supported by God, shows Him to be either a cosmic incompetent or a malevolent fiend. I wish that I did live in your country.

It is true that Jews (and I am MOT) have been on the whole treated better here than anywhere else (leaving out little items like Father Coughlin) but there are no little indications that this is not guaranteed in perpetuity. American exceptionalism in its present incarnation as a political bludgeon comes from the same psychological soil as Italian "sacred egoism" and German "cultural superiority" and we know where that ended . Don't you find it somewhat troubling that a constant villain in the insane right's conspiracy-mongering is George Soros, who in their paranoid views could step full-blown from the pages of the "Protocols of Zion" (which was, BTW, widely disseminated by Henry Ford).

Rabbi,

Still can't find anything clearly indicating antisemitism. If you can explain, it would be helpful.

Certainly, I could list at least twelve Catholics and Protestants, who are more guilty than the man you discuss and were given nowhere near the sentence he was. Is that the basis of your claim? Or is there more?

I'm not naive about antisemitism. And I'm not quiet about it either. How shall I put it--gentiles don't scare me.

If antisemitism is demonstrably involved in this case, I would help.

Mr. Hecht,

Since you love this secular country so much, I challenge you to work for justice and equal rights for the Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. As you know, the Gaza Strip is the largest open-air prison in the world, the West Bank is being cantonized by right wing Jewish settlers in violation of international law, and Israeli Arabs do not have equal rights in Israel, and there is even talk about expelling them from their own country. Will you work to address these issues?

I've done a bit of reading on this, and it seems clear that Reade should have recused herself.

Other elements in the case seem vague. I would like to know whence the allegations of antisemitism.

After living thru myself the era of communism with its brutal behavior to innocent people, and persecuting religion, I am seeing a repetition of that wickedness in the great democratic nation of the United States . It is none other than the Justice system and their judges, who have an open hand and power to divert the truth , to serve their own objectives. It is an outmost danger and failure to the nation. The average taxpayer belives that their goverment is here to protect them from danger, but instead they protect their own objectives. So, it is the medias obligation to inform the people of the United States, of their goverment's miscarriage of justice. So, please, keep on writing and posting your articles in many different sites and continuesly non-stop, maybe it will reach to the voters in time.