(Jewish Group) Trumps Jews Are A Shonda For Di Goyim

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

My first job in journalism was at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a venerable, century-old newswire which provides coverage to Jewish papers around the world. As a jack-of-all trades intern, one of my jobs was to monitor our web traffic. To my surprise, I found that one of our top referrers was frequently Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi website.

Then it made sense: our job was to track every Jewish newsmaker, for good or ill, and write it up. And in a way, so was theirs. Anti-Semites are obsessed with Jewish behavior, and so are Jews: We take pride in those who excel, certainly, but our history has demanded alertness to those who might provoke backlash. To an extent, we have always sought to hush and hide our transgressors. Before the phrase “bad for the Jews” came into currency, the Yiddish phrase a shanda fur di goyim –- a scandal in the eyes of Gentiles -– illustrated the plight of a minority community working to show itself in the best light before punitive external scrutiny.

This week, the Jewish newspapers (and, no doubt, the Nazi ones, too) have been ablaze with high-profile Jews behaving badly. Take Michael Cohen, for instance, Trump’s lawyer and fixer whose evocative name dates back to the Jewish Biblical priesthood. Cohen allegedly paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay mum about her affair with the president. But earlier this week, the FBI raided his office this week for evidence, a breach of attorney-client privilege that generally only happens in cases when a lawyer is strongly suspected of furthering crime or fraud. This morning, lawyers for the Southern District of New York determined that Cohen was doing “little to no legal work” –- not even much of a lawyer!

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It’s awful — but it’s also scary. As my father used to tell me, “Remember –- you’re just a guest in America.” The stories of my grandmother’s neighbors in prewar Poland, who happily studied with her in her Polish school and then spat on her when the anti-Jewish laws arrived, were a vivid part of my heritage.

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“Remember –- you’re just a guest in America.”

Maybe we should take it to heart, because it isn't just the "Jews will not replace us!" crowd who take "pride" in reminding us, we aren't real Americans!

[TexasProgresive]

1. Would the crowd of tRump's a shanda fur di goyim include Roy Cohn?

It seems in every group of people there are those who are self-serving at the lowering of the reputation of the whole group. I am not Jewish but I had the good fortune to know and love the few Jews living in my neighborhood in Houston. And to my great joy is the Israeli born mother of my precious Jewish grandchildren.

There are always those who cause scandal and those who are looking for an excuse to hate, a hand in a glove. A glove that is often velvet but always bound in iron.

Thank you for posting this, Behind the Aegis. I hope I have been respectful as was my intention.

[oberliner]

2. Been thinking the exact same thing

Awful - and scary, as the article says.