Non-Jew Happy To Tell Jews What Jews Believe

“It’s especially Jewish to tolerate people who seek to harm you, which is why so many Jews are proud progressives.”

New York, August 24 – A gentile took the opportunity again today to lecture a member of the Hebraic tribes on what such membership demands and entails, a pastime in which he indulges with some frequency, according to observers.

“Access to abortion is a Jewish value,” insisted Chester Anthony, a progressive activist, in conversation with a Jew. “Real Jews are pro-choice.”

“Also true Judaism is anti-Zionist,” he added. “Real Jews oppose the State of Israel and want Palestinian control over all of historic Palestine.”

Anthony considers himself knowledgeable enough about Judaism and Jewish history to pontificate on what Jews should and should not do. “Jews should have learned from the Holocaust not to mistreat minorities under their rule,” he has stated, in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other lessons from the Holocaust, such as the realization that Jews cannot depend on non-Jews for safety and security, and must protect themselves by whatever means necessary, plus any lessons for non-Jews regarding their inaction while millions died, remain absent from his rhetoric and political thinking.

“Education is a Jewish value,” he has also asserted, even as he criticizes insular Jewish religious communities for structuring their lives around maximizing the study of Jewish texts. While Anthony has not spoken outright his assumption that assimilation into wider society is a Jewish value, the sentiment shines through in many of his pronouncements on the subject of Jews. An interlocutor once asked him to explain the inconsistency between “Real Jews are pro-choice” and his argument that the state must force the insular communities to study and exhibit proficiency in secular subjects. Anthony blocked the tweeter and reported him for harassment.

“Tolerance is a Jewish value,” he explained afterwards. “Jews tolerate everyone. It’s especially Jewish to tolerate people who seek to harm you, which is why so many Jews are proud progressives.”

“Jews care about the environment,” he declared, using a small handful cherry-picked examples from an ancient text and imposing twenty-first-century sensibilities onto them. “Especially ultra-orthodox Jews, they have to stop having so many children, which are bad for the planet. Just look at the massive quantities of disposables they go through. It’s so not Jewish.” Anthony has yet to reckon with the implications of his ecological argument, including the logical inference that if population reduction helps the environment, the Holocaust made a positive contribution to the planet. He does, however, maintain political alliances with people who make such a claim irrespective of the environmental issue, and chooses not to question them on it.

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