Impeachment and Antisemitism

Source: The Unz Review

An interview with Yonatan Stern, a Jewish Settler and an American patriot

By GILAD ATZMON • JANUARY 7, 2020 • 12 COMMENTS

A year ago I interviewed Yonatan Stern in a kosher pizzeria in Monticello, Catskills, New York. Yonatan is the man behind Cherev Gidon, an 'Israeli Tactical Training Academy.' Yonatan, an American who is also a former Israeli settler, correctly identified the demand for an Israeli-style military school to teach American Jews some of the IDF commando’s essentials for self-defense and the ability to fight back if necessary.

Yonatan was a perfect subject to interview: his views may be radical but they are based upon a sharp, coherent and consistent rationale. He was open in expressing his thoughts, which included some outrageous statements but which all left no doubt that he both meant what he said and said what he meant. I’ve observed that in America 2020, after half a century of the tyranny of correctness, very few Americans are brave enough to celebrate their constitutionally protected liberty to think and express themselves freely and authentically.

I heard from Yonatan, just before Christmas. "Things have been getting hot since we last met," he wrote, referring to a string of attacks on Orthodox Jews in the NY area. He added, "Anyhow, all this antisemitism has brought me lots of clients so I’m keeping busy."

This week Yonatan and I returned to the same kosher pizzeria in Monticello where we met before. Yonatan is very upset with Jewish Leftists. He believes that they are set to destroy the Jews, America and the whole world.

"My take on the current impeachment circus is that it is a typical display of subversive leftist Jewish attempts to undermine America from within." In a manner of speech that is typical of so called 'anti Semites' Yonatan, a hard core ultra right wing Jew of the Rabbi Meir Kahane type, wrote to me that the "powerhouse behind this (impeachment) campaign are Jews, very visible Jews. And the worst part is that they are claiming it's their "Jewish values” that are driving them to do this."

I asked Yonatan who is a Jew, or rather what is a Jew and what are 'Jewish values’? "The Jewish people is a nation, we are an ancient nation going back to the Biblical Israelites. But we are also a religion in a sense that we are guided by a religious dogma." For Yonatan a Jew who is separated from the Torah can no more be called a Jew. Yonatan contends that Jewish liberals are engaged in a fraudulent exercise "pretending that multi cultural values and their misinterpretation of Tikun Olam are intrinsic to Judaism. [In fact] real Judaism of the Torah promotes things which Liberal Jews would consider brutality: such as slavery, polygamy, rape (at a time of a war), animal sacrifice, total prohibition on homosexuality etc."

His answer surprised me and I asked Yonatan to elaborate on Judaism and slavery. Yonatan's had no doubts. "Slavery is allowed in Judaism subject to rules of course." I guess the take home message is that some Jews may oppose slavery however, the opposition to slavery is not a 'Jewish value.' They may even oppose slavery despite so-called 'Jewish values.'

Like President Trump, Yonatan has harsh words on the Jewishness of the Jewish Left. "In reality these are assimilated, pork-eating, sabbath-desecrating fake Jews affiliated with the radical left wing Reform movement who ordain women as rabbis and conduct homosexual 'marriages' under a Chuppa. These Hellenist (Greek) frauds represent everything that is evil and ugly about American Judaism and they perpetuate the myth of the hook-nosed subversive Jew being behind every insidious attempt to undermine their host countries."

It goes without saying that Yonatan doesn't approve of the Jewish Left and its duplicitous mantra yet, I had to ask Yonatan whether he would be willing to militarily train a female rabbi or a gay cantor.

"The reality is this, these people caused the problem. It will come back to bite them in the end. Now should I come and save them from the trouble they caused me and all the Jews?"

"Their actions are endangering all of us, as many American gentiles see this rightly as an attempt to subvert our republic for which they fought and died, and identify the Jew as the subversive enemy behind it." It is clear that in Yonatan's universe, the Left Jew is by far the most dangerous element in Western society in general and in the USA in particular.

This fear of the assimilated and Leftist Jew may sound bizarre to those who are foreign to Jewish culture, history and tradition. The fear of Hellenist (Greek) Jews is as old as Judaism. There is nothing more frightening for rabbinical Jews than the thought that some of their brethren endorse the ethics of Goyim, subscribe to universalism, peace, harmony and equality. Zionism was born to stop assimilation; it promised to take the Diaspora Jews away to Palestine and to make them people like all other people. The anti Zionist Bund, an East European revolutionary Communist Jewish party that was literally born the same year as Zionism (1897), was also an attempt to prevent Jews from joining the 'Hellenic' route by offering Jews a tribal path within the context of a future Soviet revolution. Golda Meir thought the real threat to Jewish existence wasn't the Arab-Israeli conflict but mixed marriages. Yonatan, like every observing Jew, knows that Hanukah is a celebration of the victory of traditional conservative Judaism over the Hellenic Jewish voices that threatened to liberate the Jews from themselves.

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