Jewish Complicity Repeats Itself

The tragedy of the destruction of the Second Temple was greatly compounded by Jewish complicity. The Gemara in Gittin describes how Bar Kamtza went to the Roman authorities and warned them (falsely) of a pending Jewish revolt. Later, the zealots deliberately destroyed the storehouses that would have allowed the inhabitants to withstand a lengthy siege, in order to force the city’s inhabitants into battle against the mighty Roman forces.

Today many Jews turn a blind eye to the anti-Semitic elements that exist within Black Lives Matter (BLM) and are all too quick to buy into their narrative of “systemic racism.”

To criticize BLM is to risk firing and social ostracism, despite cofounder Patrisse Cullors’s proud proclamation that she is a Marxist revolutionary. Corporations are showering the organization with tens of millions of dollars, as is George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Many NBA players will wear the organization’s name on their uniforms. (Yes, the same NBA that moved rapidly to suppress any expression of solidarity with Hong Kong residents resisting China’s imposition of totalitarian rule.)

But a significant portion of BLM is anti-Semitic, with many interlocking connections to the BDS movement, the founders of the Women’s March (which specifically barred participation by Jewish progressive groups), and to Louis Farrakhan.