Diaspora Judaism has a serious problem. The most dangerous threats to a group are always from within. There is a percentage of Jews, could be 5 or 10%, that is very vocal and harming Judaism & the Jewish community more than anyone from the outside ever could.
They sow division in the Jewish community. They fuel the negative rhetoric against fellow Jews. They demand that Jews must accept what they promote or the Jews are bad Jews. They do to fellow Jews what we have complained non-Jews do to us for centuries.
They demand that Jews work against the interest of the Jewish community. They demand that Jews reject their tenets. They invalidate Jewish history. They require Jews to abandon fellow Jews. And if a Jew does not do that they are labelled bad Jew, right wing Jew, or even Nazi Jew.
This is not necessarily new. At the turn of the 20th century in Germany, there were many Jews who were militantly assimilated. They thought more traditional Jews were an embarrassment, that they brought antisemitism, and that they did not fit in a modern world. Don't believe me?
Read about he the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens or the CV, in Germany. They did what many of the Jews today are doing. They worked against Jewish solidarity. Of course, in the end, their fate was the same as the Jews that they looked down upon.
Throughout history, Jewish survival and Jewish unity has been inseparable. Fellow Jews, small in numbers but large in voice, should know that if they continue to work against the latter eventually it will eventually have an existential affect on the former.
One negative tweet about Jews from a fellow Jew is more harmful than 1000 negative tweets about Jews from a neo-Nazi.
It is written in the Talmud "Kol Yisrael arevim zeh la zeh", all Jews are responsible for one another. This is not a tenet of orthodox Judaism, this is all Judaism. Here is an article from a progressive Judaism website about it.
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We are commanded to love our fellow Jews regardless of their belief. I do not hate the Jews who work against us. I view them as lost sheep and hope that they find their way home one day.
