SHINING a SPOTLIGHT on THE NEW ISRAEL FUND; ANTI-ZIONIST HATERS!
IN no uncertain terms, the disease of antisemitism is incurable; its poisonous roots have existed for centuries. This devastating assertion is hardly news.
HOWEVER, what must be deemed largely unknown, yes, shadow-like, are the tentacled parts played by aptly named, ‘Jews-by-Birth’ (a/k/a JBB’ers) – anti-Jewish Jews, that is, anti-Zionists, too.
BUT before we head to an impeccably researched, searing indictment of the topic at hand at MEF.org, let’s veer back to two exposes’ by this investigative journalist. This topic is a bane. An unremitting thorn.
March 18, 2023:
Israel, as a sovereign nation, is more than capable of executing its own electorally-mandated policies — or so one would think. Not so fast.
As fully evidenced within recent analyses regarding the interference/funding by America’s powerful left, to thwart long overdue, righteous judicial reform in Israel — found here, here, and here — similarly, the leftist junta in control of America’s educational apparatus has captured Israel’s school system too. Mind you, even the State religious system (where most Jewish national religious parents send their children) cannot escape the left’s infection. Tentacled grasp.
Belatedly, as non-comatose Americans (yes, to their utter horror) have come to realize, the Deep State Mafia has a total vise-grip/strangle-hold upon the educational system. Lock, stock, and barrel. Resultant, it is impossible to ignore their brazen, in-your-face warping; the bitter fruits of their years-long, stealth-like encroachment/co-option of the hearts and minds of generations of American students, wherever the indoctrinators heretofore skulked. Pointedly, let’s call an ace an ace and a spade a spade.
Incontestably, let’s place partial onus where it belongs. Fair is fair. Were it not for the inaction/inertia and unfathomable silence of so-called conservative leaders, America’s kiddies (by extension, the heirs of the greatest freedom-based country, bar none) wouldn’t be in grave peril. While they played footsie, destructive radical forces went in for the kill…for years on end! Top prize: generations of mis-educated foot soldiers. In plain-speak, the rotten chickens have come home to roost; free to bend/mold generations to their will.
As such, it would be intellectually and morally dishonest to solely drop the blame at the left’s doors — after all, die-hard radicals who “worship” the tenets of cultural Marxism are only acting true to form. Got that?
Still yet, for those who prefer visual/audio aids, well, the following podcast “This is how the left is taking control of public schools” is more than an instructive lesson, sans any poppycock to boot.
Now that that is established, the question becomes: where does the pollution of Israel’s progeny enter the fray? Better yet: where doesn’t it?
In a nutshell, akin to their radical counterparts in the U.S., Israel’s hard-left is fully cognizant of the “necessity” to march through the school system. While Marxist theory, slowly but surely, is brought into the classrooms, a main obsession is the “normalization” of transgenderism via the highly militant LGBTQ movement.
As excerpted by this writer:
As an American-Israeli, these ears are, first and foremost, attuned to both nations. Alas, when it became known that an innocent, confused child was encouraged to transition from a girl into a boy (within an affluent community as one of Tel Aviv’s outer burbs), well, blood-boiling barely describes it at this end.
The headline read, “Transgender school scandal: Education claims leading Rabbi approved situation” — from the article:
Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, the former Chief Rabbi of Ramat Gan, has published his initial response to the saga of the girl masquerading as a boy in a state-religious school in a highly sought after town in central Israel, news of which was broken in the B’Sheva magazine (affiliated with the Hebrew-language version of Israel National News) two weeks ago.
In Rabbi Ariel’s letter, it is clear that, contrary to what the Education Ministry has been claiming, he is opposed to the girl remaining in the class.
‘This situation of a girl dressed up as a boy, in boys’ clothes, is impossible and has no place in halachah [Jewish law],’ Rabbi Ariel wrote. ‘A boy is a boy and a girl is a girl. Since this case relates to a young girl [in third grade], the situation must be handled with great sensitivity. There is no question of continuing to allow this girl to be incorporated into a class together with other boys,’ he concluded.
And whether the Education Ministry – truth be told, known for its left-ward bent — is covering its “behind” due to the ensuing backlash and kerfuffle, or the Rabbi realizes that he has been caught tolerating the intolerable, likely, it will never be known, that is, at least, within the public arena.
But what is a certainty and of grave concern and import to the majority mainstream public in Israel, is the absolute fact that the poisonous effects of what goes down in America will, inevitably, and eventually, reach Israel’s public and private recesses.
Previously featured at Israel National News:
At this critical juncture in history, it should be crystal clear: traditional leaning Jews (as well as non-Jews, in general, conservatives) are living in Dystopian times. This is the case on a multiplicity of levels. Nonetheless, some must be considered stand-alone exhibits.
So much so, that the lede to LGBTQIA is not our cause célèbre, written by Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, a prolific writer and thinker, commences thusly:
‘This article should not really be deemed controversial, but it possibly is the most daring I ever have [sic] published. It is time. If the words below resonate, know you are not alone.’
Think about that. When a man of Rabbi Fischer’s professional and learned stature feels compelled to voice that the aforementioned “is possibly the most daring I have ever published”, a reasonable conclusion is that it was written hesitantly…cautiously. It might even be akin to an apologia — How can this be?
After years spent exploring and exposing the insidious creep of the issue at hand — the infiltration and penetration of the LGBTQIA agenda into the West in general and the Jewish community in specific — I wish to posit that there are American benefactors, funded in part by the American taxpayer, advancing the perversion of Israel’s youth and the obliteration of its traditional culture.
The “New Israel Fund” is the highly malignant entry-feeder and mischief-maker, that is, for all things radical in Israel. If anything, it’s the umbrella organization that lends a tailwind through their touchy-feely moniker; their stated goal is to “drive meaningful social change” and transform Israel into a leftist entity. Conspicuously, the eventual erasure of the Jewish homeland and traditional values is plotted within its confines. Don’t ever forget that…..continue imbibing their treachery here.
Jan.5, 2026
BACK on August 27, 2025, this writer exposed the most heart-wrenching/rending subject matter, bar none, that is, Self-Hating Jews a/k/a Jews-By-Birth. They are the enemies within.
HISTORICALLY, they are deemed AMALEKITES.
The Amalekites were . They were believed to be descendants of Amalek, a grandson of Esau (Jacob’s twin brother), which made them distant kin to the Israelites.
INDEED, to call another Jew an AMALEKITE is the worst pejorative imaginable – as if this writer gives a darn, come what may, as per what is deemed acceptable within “polite” society! That ship has long sailed.
WHICH brings us to a recent upload, starring, “Ladies Who Absolutely Roar”: Revealing, “SCUMBAGS OF THE YEAR”! …..continue with the evidentiary trails ala the most pernicious Jew haters – those who lend tailwind after tailwind to anti-semitism/anti-Zionism here.
AS promised, onto a most searing indictment at MEF.org:
The contemporary struggle over the definition of antisemitism constitutes one of the most volatile fronts in the culture war engaging the American Jewish community, the progressive political left, and the legal apparatus of the United States. Within this contested terrain, the Nexus Project has emerged not merely as a pseudo-scholarly initiative, but as a strategic intervention designed to reshape the boundaries of permissible discourse regarding Israel and Zionism. Established ostensibly to explore the intersection of antisemitism and Israel with nuance, a forensic examination reveals a more specific functional purpose: the construction of an intellectual and political firewall that protects anti-Zionist rhetoric and actors from the stigma and legal consequences of being classified as antisemitic under the widely adopted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism.
The Nexus Project operates as a fiscally sponsored project of the New Israel Fund (NIF), launched in November 2019 immediately after the Trump administration codified IHRA. The organization has achieved its central strategic objective: insertion into official U.S. policy, fragmenting Jewish communal consensus on antisemitism, and deployment as a defense mechanism whenever progressive figures face accusations of Jew-hatred related to Israel. By prioritizing intent over outcome, the organization effectively creates a safe harbor for political attacks on Jewish self-determination, offering an ideological fig leaf to factions that would otherwise be marginalized by the mainstream Jewish community.
A forensic audit of an organization begins with its human capital, which reveals a monolithic consolidation of the institutional left rather than a diverse academic inquiry. The leadership and task force members share a dense web of professional affiliations centering on the New Israel Fund, J Street, and academic centers dedicated to challenging traditional Zionist narratives. This insular network suggests that Nexus functions less as an independent think tank than as the intellectual defense ministry for a specific political faction. The Task Force was initially hosted by the Knight Program on Media and Religion at USC Annenberg from 2019 to 2021 before affiliating with the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, maintaining institutional connections that reveal its ideological orientation.
Jonathan Jacoby, the president and national director who founded Nexus in 2019, exemplifies the project’s genealogical roots in progressive Israel-critical advocacy. Jacoby served as the founding executive director of the New Israel Fund from 1982 to 1988, then as president of Americans for Peace Now from 1989 to 1992, and subsequently as founding executive director and co-founder of the Israel Policy Forum from 1993 to 2005. This 40-year trajectory through the institutional infrastructure of progressive Jewish engagement with Israel is critical because the NIF has historically been the primary financial engine for civil society organizations in Israel that challenge the state’s character, including groups that have accused Israel of war crimes and apartheid. Jacoby’s transition to Nexus represents a shift from funding the activism to defining the legitimacy of that activism, ensuring that the charges leveled by his former grantees remain within the bounds of acceptable discourse. The child of Holocaust survivors — his mother Erika survived Auschwitz — Jacoby deploys this biographical detail to establish moral authority while advancing positions that mainstream Jewish organizations characterize as enabling antisemitism.
In his May 2022 Times of Israel piece, Jacoby articulated the core Nexus position: “I know people who oppose Zionism, and they are far from being anti-Semites. Their opposition does not necessarily reflect a specific anti-Jewish stance.” In his December 2022 Forward op-ed, Jacoby argued that unlike other forms of antisemitism, left-wing antisemitism is often a hatred that begins with anger toward Israel, not a hatred of Jews qua Jews. He defended use of the term “apartheid” as “inflammatory but not antisemitic,” citing Yitzhak Rabin’s own warning about avoiding apartheid conditions. In a September 2025 Interfaith Alliance interview, Jacoby stated: “We don’t think that any definition of antisemitism should be adopted in any formal way — certainly not incorporated into law. There’s no definition of racism in law; why should there be a definition of antisemitism?” He further warned that “shouting down any political action directed against Israel as antisemitic made it harder for Jews to call out actual antisemitism, while stifling honest conversation about Israel’s government and U.S. policy toward it.”
Kevin Rachlin, the vice president for government relations and Washington director, spent nearly seven years at J Street, rising to vice president of public affairs before joining Nexus in January 2024. J Street functions as the counterweight to AIPAC, frequently lobbying against measures that would penalize the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Rachlin’s transition signals a strategic division of labor: while J Street handles direct lobbying, Nexus provides the intellectual cover. In his March 2025 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, Rachlin argued that IHRA “becomes problematic when used as an enforcement mechanism because it conflates legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies with antisemitism.” Congressional staff have praised Rachlin for “helping the Beltway understand when people are using antisemitism — and using the Jewish community — for political purposes,” a framing that positions Nexus as a tool for deflecting rather than combating antisemitism accusations.
Kenneth S. Stern, the original lead drafter of the IHRA definition itself, now serves as an ex officio Nexus Task Force member through his position directing the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Stern’s trajectory from authoring the definition at the American Jewish Committee in 2004-2005 to opposing its codification into law makes him a pivotal figure in antisemitism policy debates. He served as director of antisemitism and extremism at the AJC for 25 years, from 1989 to 2014, before joining Bard in 2018. His book, The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (2020, University of Toronto Press), examines campus speech controversies from his perspective.
Stern has testified before Congress multiple times against the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, arguing the definition was “never intended to target or chill speech on a college campus,” but rather created “primarily so that European data collectors could know what to include and exclude.” His December 2019 Guardian op-ed was titled, “I Drafted the Definition of Antisemitism. Rightwing Jews Are Weaponizing It.” He wrote that “It was never intended to be a campus hate speech code.” In his Boston Globe piece, he stated: “It was never intended to be weaponized to muzzle campus free speech.” When NPR asked directly in March 2025 whether the Trump administration was weaponizing antisemitism, Stern responded: “Yes, it’s absolutely weaponizing antisemitism.” In September 2024 Senate testimony, Stern argued: “Legally endorsing a binary — whether as the UN did when it adopted the Zionism=racism resolution in 1975, or the current attempt to use IHRA to legislate its mirror image (that anti-Zionism is antisemitism) — harms democracy and Jews and others, and is inappropriate for legislation.” On anti-Zionism specifically, he stated: “Not all antizionism is antisemitism, but this isn’t only a matter of political disagreement, it’s also a religious one, about whether Zionism is an essential part of Jewish identity.” And “antizionism is sometimes clearly antisemitic, it is sometimes clearly not antisemitic, and it is sometimes simply unclear.” Later in the testimony he said, “I am a Zionist. But I know many young Jews whose Judaism leads them to anti-Zionism. I disagree with them, but it is wrong to call them ‘unJews,’ let alone antisemites.” His presence allows the project to claim it is “saving” the true intent of antisemitism definitions from political abuse, effectively weaponizing his credibility to undermine the enforcement of the very standard he helped create.
The Nexus Task Force draws heavily from academic Jewish studies departments, assembling scholars whose published work and public statements demonstrate consistent patterns of challenging Zionist narratives, signing letters accusing Israel of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, endorsing the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism as an alternative to IHRA, and opposing any codification of antisemitism definitions into law. This academic cohort provides the scholarly veneer for what functions as political advocacy.
Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard, became a national figure when his January 2024 appointment to co-chair Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism ignited fierce controversy. Penslar had signed an August 2023 letter — the “Elephant in the Room” letter drafted by David Myers — accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and implementing “a regime of apartheid.” The letter was signed by 2,147 academics. Penslar is also a founding signatory of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which serves as an alternative framework designed to narrow what constitutes antisemitism regarding Israel.
Critics of Penslar’s Harvard appointment included former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who called the appointment “highly problematic,” stating that Penslar “has publicly minimized Harvard’s anti-Semitism problem, rejected the definition used by the U.S. government in recent years as too broad, invoked the need for the concept of settler colonialism in analyzing Israel, referred to Israel as an apartheid state and more.” Summers compared the appointment to putting “someone who had minimized the racism problem” on an antiracism task force. Bill Ackman tweeted that Harvard “continues on the path of darkness.” Rep. Elise Stefanik said Penslar “is known for his despicable antisemitic views and statements.” Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, criticized naming “a professor who libels the Jewish state and claims that ‘veins of hatred run through Jewish civilization.'”
In his December 2023 Harvard Crimson op-ed, Penslar argued: “Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism magnifies divisions within our Harvard community and stymies a common struggle against hatred.” He noted “the enormous media attention paid to antisemitism at Harvard has obscured the vulnerability of pro-Palestinian students, who have faced harassment by actors outside of the University and verbal abuse on and near campus.” In Fathom Journal, he stated: “I have long had reservations about the IHRA definition. Its sections on the nature of antisemitism lack clarity, and its judgment of critical discourse about Israel assumes guilt rather than innocence.” Penslar told JTA that “outsiders took a very real problem and proceeded to exaggerate its scope” regarding Harvard antisemitism. Writing in Tablet Magazine, David Mikics of the New College of Florida concluded that Penslar’s work is “designed to make Harvard and the larger world a safer place for antisemites — which is a scary thought.” Notably, Penslar later expressed regret about signing the “Elephant in the Room” petition: “I do regret signing that one petition for the simple reason that the net value of signing a petition is pretty small and the net risk is high” — suggesting strategic rather than substantive reconsideration……continue with the outings/ummasking of the most vile creatures within the so-called Jewish Professoriate here.
ONE more thing, that is, if your heart and mind can withstand it.
FOR the most overarching, critical, clinical analysis, bar none, re the mental aberrations plaguing a growing proportion of mentally ill Jews, well, introducing, one of this writer’s heroes:
The Oslo Syndrome examines the Oslo debacle in which Israel sought to win peace through territorial and other concessions even as Palestinian leaders assured their people their objective was still Israel’s destruction. Psychiatrist and historian Kenneth Levin relates Oslo to the long history of Jews under siege, subjected to defamation, discrimination and other abuses, seeking to end the assaults through self-blame and accommodation to their oppressors.
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