Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, in an interview with the Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner released on Thursday, lamented that “intermarriage rates” are continuing to rise among Jews.
ADL CEO JONATHAN GREENBLATT: I have met a lot of October 8th Jews for whom the massacre on October 7th was a wake-up call. I’ve met a lot of people who feel much more galvanized, much more organized. But that will only be sustained if we offer them, you know, ways to participate in a real and robust way in Jewish life.
COHEN: And whose responsibility is that?
GREENBLATT: All of ours. But like, this is why we need a revolution in our community, on so many levels. So look, the reality is is that intermarriage rates continue to go up. Assimilation continues apace.
And look, I fight anti-Semitism. That is my job. But I worry a great deal about broader questions of Jewish identity, as I think we talked about over lunch. And so I think it’s really important that our synagogues, our schools, summer camps, all of our institutions and the federations and denominations and other groups that sort of manage them. I think we all need to look in the mirror and make sure that we’re doing everything we can to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been.
The ADL, as the leading “anti-racist” and “anti-hate” group in the country, decries opposition to intermarriage on their website and even has an entire curriculum for American school children encouraging intermarriage titled “Winning the Right to Marry: Historic Parallels.”
“fighting anti-Semitism” by propping up religious/racial discrimination against non-Jews.
And genocide.
Great job, I’m sure everyone will love you now.
Classic “It’s only wrong when the other guy does it” system of ethics
Learning a bit about the early zionists lets you see this from both sides as the european jews argued amongst themselves. There were prominent thinkers/writers who argued for assimilation, letting jewish culture fall away to join other cultures when they lived in those places, using jewish-ness as an ethnic background and religion rather than a racial identity. Others argued that this was no different from being targetted by a successful genocide, because there would be no more distinct jewish ‘people’ (as in ethnicity/nation, not as in plural of person) and what would it mean to be of ‘God’s chosen people’ if there was no people.
Israel and the ADL specifically only want European Jews to reproduce. Which is why the IDF has a cum brigade, which extracts semen from dead soldiers, and why Israel was forcibly sterilizing Ethiopian Jews.
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How about you take your overt racism with you and go away. There’s nothing zionist related to correcting racist and inaccurate claims from racists.
So now it’s racist to point out discriminatory policies in Israel? LoL. Y’all are really getting desperate.
Without any other context this doesn’t sound racist? My interpretation is the opposite, that as intermarriage rates increase one would need to redefine what Jewish identity is.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if he was saying the opposite, it’s just that I didn’t get that from this.
He’s saying that the amount of pure Jews are decreasing because of intermarriage and that they need to better the Jewish “education” so Jews stop marrying Goyims
I’m really not getting that at all from that paragraph, even after reading it 10 times. I still land on “we need to redefine what being Jewish is”.
Maybe the text doesn’t convey the accentuation properly. Here’s the video of it being said. https://xcancel.com/infolibnews/status/1953803386174026141
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this is why we need a revolution in our community, on so many levels. So look, the reality is is that intermarriage rates continue to go up. Assimilation continues apace.
Why would there a be need for revolution if intermarriage and assimilation rates are going up? Unless the revolution is mean to bring them down.
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That’s exactly my reading of it.
Attacking a source is not criticism. I chose this article because it contains the quotes and videos.
This guy advocates for Israel. A racially Jewish Ethnostate. There is only one single way to read what he’s saying because if he approved of the world moving towards Jewish intermarriage he the term “revolution” wouldn’t have any place here. As he himself says that the intermarriage is already popular among the youth.
I think we all need to look in the mirror and make sure that we’re doing everything we can to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been.
This means “Intermarriage is getting popular and we need to find out how to get the youth **to stop doing it”.
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Just so we’re not talking past eachother, you agree with the notion that Israel is a Jewish surpremacist ethnostate correct?
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Or is a mention of Judaism required to include an anti-Zionist disclaimer because neoliberals decided that a mention of Palestine requires an anti-Hamas disclaimer?
We’re talking about the head of the ADL here. The organisation advocating for a Jewish ethnostate. This is like asking Yahya Sinwar what he thinks about October 7 and someone shows up and says ‘nah bro he didn’t mean it like that’.
