The Jewish Grinch Who Stole Christmas (classic)

[Warph]

                       
The Jewish Grinch Who Stole Christmas (classic)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
by Burt Prelutsky
                           


Dec. 17, 2008 - It has become an annual tradition for America's Scrooges to attack Christian symbols and traditions. This year, the flash point has been Washington state where Governor Chris Gregoire has allowed a group of atheists to post a sign that reads in part that "religion is a myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds" in the capitol rotunda next to a Christmas tree and a Nativity scene. The governor claims she couldn't object because of the right to free speech, but that only proves she is the world's largest Christmas fruitcake. It is the atheists whose belief system constitutes an extremely rigid religion of its own that hardens hearts. If the Jews of Washington had a menorah in the rotunda, would the goofy governor have given the American Nazi party a thumbs-up if they had wanted to display a copy of Mein Kampf? -B.Prelutsky

I never thought I'd live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word. You think it hasn't? Then why is it that people are being prevented from saying it in polite society for fear that it will offend?

Schools are being forced to replace "Christmas vacation" with "winter break" in their printed schedules. At Macy's, the word is verboten even though they've made untold millions of dollars from their sympathetic portrayal in the Christmas classic, "Miracle on 34th Street." Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths.

How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? And in case you find that designation objectionable, would you deny that India is a Hindu country, that Pakistan is Muslim, that Poland is Catholic? That doesn't mean those nations are theocracies. But when the overwhelming majority of a country's population is of one religion, and roughly 90% of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn fool would deny the obvious.

Although it seems a long time ago, it really wasn't, that people who came here from other places made every attempt to fit in. Assimilation wasn't a threat to anyone; it was what the Statue of Liberty represented. E pluribus unum, one out of many, was our motto. The world's melting pot was our nickname. It didn't mean that any group of people had to check their customs, culture or cuisine, at the door. It did mean that they, and especially their children, learned English, and that they learned to live and let live.

That has changed, you may have noticed. And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian, agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the ACLU, at the forefront.

Being Jewish, I should report, Christmas was never celebrated by my family. But what was there not to like about the holiday? To begin with, it provided a welcome two week break from school. The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, "It's a Wonderful Life" was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews.

But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society; it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. For example, the hatred spewed towards George W. Bush has far less to do with his policies than it does with his religion. The Jews voice no concern when a Bill Clinton or a John Kerry makes a big production out of showing up at black Baptist churches or posing with Rev. Jesse Jackson because they understand that's just politics. They only object to politicians attending church for religious reasons.

My fellow Jews, who often have the survival of Israel heading the list of their concerns when it comes to electing a president, only gave 26% of their vote to Bush, even though he is clearly the most pro-Israel president we've ever had in the Oval Office.

It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America. It is they who have conned far too many people into believing that the phrase "separation of church and " actually exists somewhere in the Constitution.

You may have noticed, though, that the ACLU is highly selective when it comes to religious intolerance. The same group of self-righteous shysters who, at the drop of a "Merry Christmas" will slap you with an injunction, will fight for the right of an American Indian to ingest peyote and a devout Islamic woman to be veiled on her driver's license.

I happen to despise bullies and bigots. I hate them when they represent the majority, but no less when, like Jews in America, they represent an infinitesimal minority.

I am getting the idea that too many Jews won't be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences.

I should point out that many of these people abhor Judaism every bit as much as they do Christianity. They're the ones who behave as if atheism were a calling. They're the nutcakes who go berserk if anyone even says, ?In God we trust? or mentions that the Declaration of Independence refers to a Creator with a capital "C." By this time, I'm only surprised that they haven't begun a campaign to do away with Sunday as a day of rest. After all, it's only for religious reasons — Christian reasons — that Sunday, and not Tuesday or Wednesday, is so designated.

This is a Christian nation, my friends. And all of us are fortunate it is one, and that so many Americans have seen fit to live up to the highest precepts of their religion. Speaking as a member of a minority group — and one of the smaller ones at that — I say it behooves those of us who don't accept Jesus Christ as our savior to show some gratitude to those who do, and to start respecting the values and traditions of the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens, just as we keep insisting that they respect ours.

Merry Christmas!
--Burt

[Warph]

The Grinch, Revisited (classic)
by Burt Prelutsky


Nothing that I have ever written has provoked as huge a response as a piece I wrote recently called The Jewish Grinch That Stole Christmas.

In the article, which brought me roughly ten times as much e-mail as I'm accustomed to, I suggested that my fellow Jews were at the forefront in waging war on the values and traditions of Christian Americans.

Predictably enough, the response from gentiles was uniformly positive. The feedback from Jews was somewhat less positive, roughly two-to-one in my favor. What I found most telling was that those who damned me didn't, as a rule, refute what I had written; they were merely angry that a Jew had written the piece. They accused me of lending aid and comfort to the Jew-haters.

Because I make it a rule to write back to anyone who writes me, and because I assume that those who took the time and trouble to write were representative of many more who didn't, I'd like to share some of my responses.

The term that nearly every Jew used in condemning me was "a self-hating anti-Semite." A few accused me of not really being a Jew. That didn't mean they thought I was a Catholic or a Baptist flying under false colors; no, they meant that my sole claim to being Jewish was that my ancestors were Jewish. The fact is, they're right.

As I have written on other occasions, I am not a religious man. I do not keep kosher. I do not help make up the morning minyan at the local synagogue. I do not even attend High Holiday services. So what? I'm Jewish because I say I'm Jewish. And because, quite frankly, with my face, who would believe me if I bothered to deny it? Furthermore, most Jews in America are not orthodox and can not read Hebrew or even speak Yiddish. For the most part, American Jews are circumcised, have a bar mitzvah, attend a reformed or conservative temple twice a year, and vote the straight Democratic ticket.

Finally, I say I'm Jewish because Hitler would have said I was Jewish, and then sent me off to Auschwitz, if I hadn't been fortunate enough to have been born in America.

That was my whole point. I was lucky to have been born to a Jewish family in a Christian nation. It was, in the main, Christian soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps. Even if I'm not as Jewish as some of my critics would like, I still believe it behooves us to be openly grateful to our Christian neighbors -- not because we fear future pogroms -- but because it's the decent thing to do.

One of the very few points for which I was specifically taken to task was for referring to America as a Christian nation. To those people, I pointed out that Christians of one denomination or another compose 90% of America's population. That is 10% higher than the percentage of Jews in Israel, but I am willing to wager that none of my critics would deny that Israel is a Jewish state.

The sad fact is that the ACLU is made up in large part of Jews, and it is that organization and its lawyers who are leading the assault against Christmas. What makes it particularly unfortunate is that most Jews are not only opposed to the policies of the ACLU, but are embarrassed and ashamed of the organization. As one of my respondents put it, "An anti-Semite used to be someone who hated Jews, but it's become someone whom Jews hate." The problem with that truism is that Jews, in the great majority, don't hate gentiles. Sometimes it just seems that way. In fact, most of us are well aware that Israel has no more devoted allies in the world than America's most devout Christians — starting with George W. Bush.


Unfortunately, as is so often the case with black Americans, those who are high-profile and get most of the media attention are the radicals and the rabble-rousers.

When my critics accused me of promoting anti-Semitism, I pleaded not guilty. I asked them if they thought that gentiles were so stupid that they didn't recognize that the ACLU seems to have nothing but Jewish attorneys on staff who spend most of their time insisting that Christians get Christ out of Christmas.

Finally, the problem is that if Christians complain that the minority group is trying to bully the majority, they stand condemned as bigots. If I, a Jew, suggest that Christians should be free to celebrate one of their holier holidays in any fashion they like, and not have to feel guilty about it, I'm accused of being a self-hating anti-Semite. In short, nobody can be critical of Jews. Well, it so happens that Jews aren't perfect. And, believe me, I'm not just talking about my relatives.

Many of us, Jews and Christians alike, have been annoyed with American Muslims because they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time whining about racial profiling at the airports, instead of condemning the world-wide butchery of Islamic fascists. Well, to me, the silence of American Jews when it comes to Christian-bashing has been equally deafening.

What truly astonishes me is the patience and good grace with which Christians have dealt with this attack on so many things they hold dear.

It is, I think, a tribute to their religion.

[Anmar]

funny thing about the whole anti Semitic  thing,  most jews aren't really Semites at all.

[Warph]

funny thing about the whole anti Semitic  thing,  most jews aren't really Semites at all.

Okay.... not all Semites are Jews, and not all Jews are Semites.  More than a third of the Israelis are Semites the rest are Jewish people.  ie... you can convert to become a Jew plus Jewishness is passed by the mom so you can have a Black or Chinese father and still be a Jew.... now in Semitic and biblical laws, you are no longer part of the tribe or Beni-Israel once you have a Goyim Father (Father of many Nations).  For instance, lets say:  My grandfather was a German/Dutch Lutheran Christian and my grandmother was a German Semitic Jew.  Hence, my Father was (Jewish... from his mother) Lutheran Christian baptized in the Church.  So I guess you would say I'm 1/4 Jew; 1/4 G/D; and 1/2 Irish and all Lutheran Christian.  My mother was all Irish.  I know, it gets confusing.... in the words of Michael Stipe, REM (who's a friend of mine btw, in Athens, GA) "Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious.  But what I think is really obvious... obviously isn't so obvious.... sometimes."  


Check the following:  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2944-beni-israel
"Ethnic/genetic/biblical Semites is a smaller group, by biblical accounts and DNA it constitutes: The majority of the Bedouins and Yemenis are Semites, more than half of the Syrians and Iraqis are Semites.  Semitic speakers are the bigger group, it constitutes of Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Ethiopic speakers.  In Ethiopia only the Semitic speaking Amhara, Tigray and Tigrinya are about 30% Semitic.  The Ethiopian Jews are limited to partial maternal Semitic lineage because they were female slaves exiled from ancient Yemen during the Ethiopian invasion."

[Anmar]

Okay.... not all Semites are Jews, and not all Jews are Semites.  More than a third of the Israelis are Semites the rest are Jewish people.  ie... you can convert to become a Jew plus Jewishness is passed by the mom so you can have a Black or Chinese father and still be a Jew.... now in Semitic and biblical laws, you are no longer part of the tribe or Beni-Israel once you have a Goyim Father (Father of many Nations).  For instance, lets say:  My grandfather was a German/Dutch Lutheran Christian and my grandmother was a German Semitic Jew.  Hence, my Father was (Jewish... from his mother) Lutheran Christian baptized in the Church.  So I guess you would say I'm 1/4 Jew; 1/4 G/D; and 1/2 Irish and all Lutheran Christian.  My mother was all Irish.  I know, it gets confusing.... in the words of Michael Stipe, REM (who's a friend of mine btw, in Athens, GA) "Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious.  But what I think is really obvious... obviously isn't so obvious.... sometimes."  


Check the following:  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2944-beni-israel
"Ethnic/genetic/biblical Semites is a smaller group, by biblical accounts and DNA it constitutes: The majority of the Bedouins and Yemenis are Semites, more than half of the Syrians and Iraqis are Semites.  Semitic speakers are the bigger group, it constitutes of Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Ethiopic speakers.  In Ethiopia only the Semitic speaking Amhara, Tigray and Tigrinya are about 30% Semitic.  The Ethiopian Jews are limited to partial maternal Semitic lineage because they were female slaves exiled from ancient Yemen during the Ethiopian invasion."

Right, so all these people here who hate arabs are anti-semites. In fact, most jews hate arabs, and most arabs hate jews, so they are all anti-semites. 

Furthermore, You talk about being a jew as if it were an ethnicity.  Being jewish means you subscribe to the jewish faith, it is not an ethnicity.

[srkruzich]

Right, so all these people here who hate arabs are anti-semites. In fact, most jews hate arabs, and most arabs hate jews, so they are all anti-semites. 

Furthermore, You talk about being a jew as if it were an ethnicity.  Being jewish means you subscribe to the jewish faith, it is not an ethnicity.

Actually it is a ethnicity. its both. As far as jews hate arabs and arabs hate jews. Been that way since Issac and ishmael. 

[Warph]

Right, so all these people here who hate arabs are anti-semites. In fact, most jews hate arabs, and most arabs hate jews, so they are all anti-semites. 

Furthermore, You talk about being a jew as if it were an ethnicity.  Being jewish means you subscribe to the jewish faith, it is not an ethnicity.

Anmar... Whatever!!!  (In case you wonder what that means, it means "Bite Me!)

Actually it is a ethnicity. its both. As far as jews hate arabs and arabs hate jews. Been that way since Issac and ishmael. 

Thank you, Steve.  Short and sweet.... I couldn't have said it any better.

[Anmar]

Its not an ethnicity.  There are arab jews, european jews, african jews, etc.  The racial construct of judaism derives from their desire not to be lumped in with people of non-jewish faith from similar ethnicities.  Judaism is one of the two major religions that institutionalizes racism by referring to people of other races or religion as sub-human.  The other of course being Hinduism. 

[Warph]

Its not an ethnicity.  There are arab jews, european jews, african jews, etc.  The racial construct of judaism derives from their desire not to be lumped in with people of non-jewish faith from similar ethnicities.  Judaism is one of the two major religions that institutionalizes racism by referring to people of other races or religion as sub-human.  The other of course being Hinduism.  

Huh!!..... no, no, no.... that's all wrong.  I believe you mean the following:

It(')s not an  ethnicity.  There are arab jews, european jews, african jews, etc.  The racial construct of judaism (muslims) derives from their desire not to be lumped in with people of non-jewish (muslim) faith from similar ethnicities.  Judaism (Islam) (is) one of the two major (minor) religions that institutionalizes racism by referring to people of other races or religion as sub-human.  The other of course being Hinduism (Satanic).  

Yeah.... I agree with that.

[srkruzich]

Its not an ethnicity.  There are arab jews, european jews, african jews, etc.  The racial construct of judaism derives from their desire not to be lumped in with people of non-jewish faith from similar ethnicities.  Judaism is one of the two major religions that institutionalizes racism by referring to people of other races or religion as sub-human.  The other of course being Hinduism. 

"girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed up muddled up shook up world"

Yes it is a ethnicity.  Damn son go research it! Tribe of judah is the pure line of Judaism.  ONLY people today would think its racist to keep a pure line of heritage!  IN FACT if you merge your religious beliefs with other religious beliefs you no longer have a religious beleif. IF You mix your heritage and culture with other heritage and cultures you no longer have your heritage or culture.  That is the purpose of separation from the world. That is why the tribe of judah is pure. 
I've never seen nor witnessed any jew treat another jew as a parasite or sub human.  I do know for a fact that if your not jewish, it is very hard to get into the community and work with them as they take care of jews first.  I have also found that if you treat them as if they are your family, they will do anything in this world to help you and that community will also help. I used to run a computer service business where 95% of my customers were jewish community in the atlanta area.   

The word Jew/Jewish originated from Leah who used two words "odeh" and "yadah" and combigned them into the name "Yehuda" which means Praise God.  "Yehuda" is Judah/jew/jewish  So from the beginning the line of judah was set apart as a pure line in which the line of Christ was determined and still exists to this day as a pure line.
Still think its not ethnic?