Yes, I issue commandments, but don’t expect ten at a time, it’s not like they’re free. The latest generation of Jews, at least, seems to be heeding this divine directive. A new study shows that young American Jews distance themselves from Israel.
CHICAGO - Young U.S. non-Orthodox Jews are becoming increasingly lukewarm if not alienated in their support for Israel in a trend that is not likely to be reversed, according to a study released on Thursday.
Blending into U.S. society, including marriage to non-Jews and a tendency to look on Judaism more in religious terms than ethnic ones, is part of what's happening, the study found.
U.S. support backed by a vocal and politically powerful Jewish lobby has been a key feature of the Jewish state's success since its founding in 1948, an event that is widely backed by U.S. Jews and non-Jews.
Of course the title of the article hypes up a far less significant finding. Statistically, a significant number still put their loyalties to Israel ahead of anything else. A conspiracy theorist that I ran into on the street said this was another attempt to claim the Israel Lobby does not exist, hid to the lobby’s body, so to say.
Apparently, young Jews find apartheid Israel indefensible, and see Israel of no special significance as they regard their Judaism as a religion and not an ethnicity (duh). They prefer to assimilate into their own societies. Maybe, they are also outraged by Israel’s most recent attack on America.
"What?" you ask.
The
Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus is killing America’s honeybees by the billions. As I always said, Israelis just can’t stand the sweet things in life.
Scientists say they have a key suspect in the mysterious disappearance and death of honeybees vital for pollinating crops nationwide.
It's called Israeli acute paralysis virus, and no one knew it was in the United States until it turned up in most of the affected beehives that were tested.
Researchers released their findings yesterday and published them this week in the journal Science. Billions of bees in Ohio and across the country have abandoned their hives and died. Scientists call it "colony collapse disorder."
I call it Beeacide.
I know, the article is from the
Columbus Dispatch. To compensate for their negative coverage of Israel's role in the Beeacide, they ran a cartoon
depicting Iranians as cockroaches. How Nazi of you.
Though the former was not the work of an editorial cartoonist with the editorial board’s backing, the latter was. For the readers among you, KABOBfest has long documented
Israel’s contributions to pathogens rather scientifically.
Chaim Sugerman revealed yesterday that the virus was developed in the laboratories of the Israeli intelligence agencies and deployed in an assassination attempt on
Nahoul, Hamas’ giant bee. Apparently the
critique by PETA was not satisfactory to the Israelis, who seem to have worked out a deal with the animal rights society in order to use
llamas in war without the latter saying a word.
[Photo tarboush tip: Nadeem]
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a billboard erected by the state in Tahrir square (downtown cairo) after the april 6th strike, saying "a youth that loves egypt...the serious youth is one that builds, not destroys". yeah, thanks for that patronizing advice.
from a shop window nearby, a sign saying: salesperson (female) wanted, with previous experience and good looks(!) Can anyone say something obtusely profound about the deep epistemological connection between these two signs that are oh so close to each other?
