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An Open Letter to American Jews=E2=80=A8Ben Shapiro=E2=80=A8Wednesday, Ap=
ril 28, 2010

"American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of =
your posteriors."

Dear American Jews,
I write to you as a charter member of the tribe. I'm not only Jewish, I'm=
religious. I'm married to an Israeli girl (she'll receive her citizenshi=
p next year and she is a proud soon-to-be American). I go to synagogue re=
gularly, keep kosher, keep the Sabbath.
American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of y=
our posteriors.

I mean that in all sincerity. Your continued support for Democrats and an=
administration that is openly anti-Semitic is a disgrace. Your embrace o=
f a party that seeks to hamstring Israel in the name of a wholly fictitio=
us Middle East peace process is contemptible. Your loyalty to a president=
who consistently sides with Palestinian and Iranian mass murder-supporte=
rs is disgusting.

Your backing of a man who has spent his life surrounding himself with the=
worst anti-Semites America has to offer -- Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khali=
di (former Palestinian terrorist spokesman), Louis Farrakhan ("I don't li=
ke the way [Jews] leech on us"), Samantha Power, Robert Malley, to name a=
few -- is nothing short of reprehensible. Rahm Emanuel's presence in the=
Obama cabinet doesn't ameliorate Obama's anti-Semitism -- it just provid=
es it convenient cover. Al Sharpton wrongly called Condoleezza Rice and C=
olin Powell "house negroes"; Emanuel is a kapo.

Even as you continue to buttress a president who seeks the destruction of=
your co-religionists, you demonstrate your myopia by rejecting the tea p=
arty movement and evangelical Christian Israel-supporters.

The tea party movement is your ally for three important reasons. First, i=
t supports capitalism against the forces of socialism -- and capitalism k=
eeps America strong enough to provide Israel with a hand against its evil=
adversaries. Second, American Jews are, by far, the highest-earning reli=
gious group in the United States -- the tea party fights for your right t=
o keep your money. Third, the tea party stands against government overrea=
ch -- and in an era when government overreach promotes anti-religious sec=
ularism, Jews must stand with the tea party.

Your rejection of evangelical Christians is even more idiotic. Evangelica=
l Christians are the only major voting bloc preventing President Obama fr=
om breaking ties with Israel. When Janet Porter, an evangelical Florida t=
alk show host, heard about Obama's anti-Israel tyranny, she responded by =
asking her listeners to buy dozens of yellow roses to send to Prime Minis=
ter Benjamin Netanyahu's office as a show of support. The price per dozen=
: $19.48, in honor of the year of Israel's founding (1948). Over 14,000 f=
lowers were delivered. Meanwhile, Adm. James Jones, Obama's national secu=
rity adviser and the man who brought Jew-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski into O=
bama's inner circle, was busy telling anti-Semitic jokes before the Washi=
ngton Institute for Near East Policy.

"But they want to convert us!" many American Jews shout. Not all Christia=
ns do. But for the rest -- so what? Would you sacrifice the support of mi=
llions of good-hearted Christians because they want to discuss Jesus with=
you? If your own belief system is so fragile, the weakness is yours, not=
theirs. While you expend energy whining about Jehovah's Witnesses who sh=
ow up at your door with a Bible, Obama supports radical Muslims who would=
show up at your door with a gun -- or, as in the case of Daniel Pearl, a=
butcher's knife.

Now, I understand, American Jews, that most of you don't care about Israe=
l.
I understand that you're more concerned about a woman's unconditional rig=
ht to abort her unborn child (which Judaism rejects) than you are about I=
srael. Fine. Understand that you have removed yourself from the vast rive=
r of Jewish history in favor of a chimerical morality that values liberti=
nism over liberty.

I understand that many of you -- all of you above age 70 -- still think F=
DR is alive. He isn't, but Jimmy Carter is.
I understand that some of you still think that conservatives and Republic=
ans are the same folks they were during the 1950s, when they banned you f=
rom country clubs. They aren't.

The simple fact is this: There is only one mainstream political ideology =
in this country that asks you to check your principles and cultural histo=
ry at the door in the name of the greater good -- leftism, the same ideol=
ogy that virtually exterminated Judaism in Russia and Europe. While the l=
eft exploits your adherence to bagel-and-lox Judaism by appealing to your=
watered-down and perverted "tikkun olam" sensibilities, you are enabling=
your own destruction. The same people who urge you to reach out to terro=
rists will be the first to sacrifice you to those terrorists' tender merc=
ies. The same people who urge you to worry about same-sex marriage rather=
than religious freedom will be the first to take your religious freedoms=
away.

I love you, my brothers and sisters. That's why I'm writing to you. Time =
is running out; the clock is winding down. Pick a side