Former President Jimmy Carter died the other day.
He received praise from HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) who said this:
HIAS pays tribute to the late president Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100. President Carter was a champion for refugees, and for human rights around the world. “During a global refugee crisis, and with bipartisan support, President Carter signed and implemented the Refugee Act of 1980, establishing a permanent system of asylum and refugee resettlement. In 1980, President Carter welcomed over 207,000 refugees to the United States through the safe and legal pathway of refugee resettlement, more refugees than any President – or country – ever resettled in a single year before or since.”
HIAS is a liberal Jewish group that backs refugee resettlement in various countries. They started out as a group that came to the aid of Jews specifically but now they seem to come to the aid of refugees regardless of their race or background. As you can see here they are also supporting Ukrainian refugees:
What’s interesting about their endorsement of Carter is that Carter was known as a strong critic of Israel. He wrote two books about Israel-Palestine in which he argued that Israel was practicing apartheid in the West Bank and blamed Israeli settlement expansion as an obstacle to peace.
Numerous non-Jews like Jimmy Carter, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn and other left-leaning politicians have worked to pressure Israel to abandon nationalism and militarism for a more pluralistic open society, which is an interesting case of liberal Gentiles trying to influence Israelis to be more like them. Normally we hear about liberal Jews endeavoring to impose their liberal values on Gentile groups, but this goes both ways.
What many JQ memers always assume is that HIAS is engaged in hypocrisy, believing that it only supports refugees for Western countries but not for Israel. The reality is that HIAS also supports refugees in Israel.
The HIAS team in Israel is thrilled with the ruling in the Jerusalem District Court that Eritreans who fled forced conscription under slavery-like conditions should be recognized as refugees. The ruling, a monumental legal victory, could apply to many of the Eritreans currently in Israel.
There are approximately 30,000 African asylum seekers who sought safety in Israel, after fleeing conflict and persecution in Eritrea and Sudan. Since arriving over a decade ago, African asylum seekers have made Israel their adopted home, speaking Hebrew, raising children, and contributing to the workforce and society. Yet, at the same time, the vast majority have not been officially recognized by the Israeli government. They have lived in a constant state of instability and insecurity, denied access to basic rights and social services.
“We are overjoyed with yesterday’s ruling, as Eritrean asylum seekers have been in Israel more than 10 years without recognition of their refugee status,” said HIAS Country Director for Israel, Sivan Carmel. “Israel has one of the lowest recognition rates of refugees in the world, and we are happy to be part of changing that.”
HIAS has had a presence in Israel since 1950 and has worked primarily with the asylum seeker community since 2014, providing legal services and other forms of aid. “We are optimistic about the future,” said Nimrod Avigal, HIAS Israel’s Director of Legal Aid. “This ruling has the potential to impact many Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel, providing them with refugee status which would affect all aspects of their lives, from healthcare to employment and economic wellbeing.”
HIAS makes it clear they are actively aiding African non-Jewish refugees in Israel:
In Israel, HIAS plays a critical role helping refugees secure legal status, the first step toward regaining control and stability in their lives. HIAS also assists refugees with access to social rights and services, facilitates resettlement, and works closely with the private sector to provide pro bono legal support for refugees.
HIAS works alongside Eritreans to make legal challenges to deportation:
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two Eritreans and joined by several Israeli human rights groups.
More than 46,400 Africans living in Israel consider themselves asylum seekers, The Times of Israel reported, citing the African Refugee Development Centre.
Israel built a fence along its border with Egypt to keep out infiltrators.
Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, called the decision a “partial victory for asylum seekers and their advocates in Israel.”
Hetfield said in a statement that he “welcomes the Court’s decision to end indefinite detention as a means of pressuring asylum seekers to leave to third countries.”
“At the same time, HIAS remains firmly opposed to Israel’s secretive system of deportations to unnamed countries that do not guarantee the protection of the individuals sent there,” he said. “Consistent with Jewish values and human rights, asylum seekers living in Israel must never be sent back into harm’s way.”
Jewish leftists who oppose Israel’s nationalistic policies are growing in number. A number of anti-Zionist Jewish organizations exist and actively lead boycotts of both Israel and Israeli lobby groups like AIPAC.
There are many cases of consistency that the memers ignore. Anti-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Amy Goodman, Miko Peled, Aaron Mate and others have led the chorus of anti-Zionist voices who consistently critique Israel on liberal/leftist grounds. While I don’t personally like any of these people because they’re leftists, they are at least consistent in the application of their principles, and appear to be even more staunch in their opposition to Jewish-Israeli ethno-centrism than other forms.
That’s not to say there aren’t cases of hypocrisy. Mainstream Jewish groups like the ADL have generally supported Israel as a Jewish majority state and abstained from criticizing Israel’s policies. The ADL did denounce Netanyahu’s plan to deport Eritreans, though.
That is modest consistency. But considering the ADL is staunchly opposed to any manifestation of White European ethno-nationalism in Western countries, many have called them out for a double standard insofar as they sustain support for a Jewish majority immigration policy in Israel even if they oppose some of Netanyahu’s harsher deportation policies.
Some individual Jews can show hypocrisy on the issue, such as this:
This particular woman jeers at “White identity” as a manifestation of woke ideology while upholding and protecting her Jewish/Israeli identity. This kind of hypocrisy should be called out. While not unique to Jews as you can find members of other ethnic groups who similarly ridicule White identity while upholding their own (Black activists, Muslim activists, etc.), it does demonstrate that a level of Marxist anti-White brainwashing has penetrated Jewish communities.
Here’s an example of one who is consistent in his apathy to the disappearance of Whites and Jews:
The liberal Jewish groups in the West will show a degree of favoritism for Israel’s attempts to sustain Jewish demographics in Israel while opposing efforts to sustain White or Christian demographics in the West. That double standard is not universal as you can see many left-wing Jews oppose Jewish ethno-centrism in Israel as much as they oppose White ethno-centrism in the West. But on social issues like LGBT, feminism, trans rights, etc., the mainstream liberal Jewish groups are mostly promoting the same stuff in Israel too.
The bottom line is that Jews can’t have this both ways: either you oppose all manifestations of ethnic or religious nationalism or you accept all as equally valid. If your principles aren’t consistently applied, then you’re a fraud. Some Zionist Jews in Israel will accept nationalism for other groups and some leftist Jews will furiously oppose Zionism as much as any other type of ethno-religious nationalism. So we can give those ones credit. But there is a third group of Jews who want to have their cake and eat it too by promoting multiculturalism for everyone but themselves. These ones need to be straitened out.
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