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Government Corruption
Schumer's ‘Rabbi’ is an Anti-Israel Activist Who Protested War on Hamas
2024-03-19
[FrontPage] The media decided to defend Sen. Schumer’s attack on Israel and warning to spare Hamas and create a terrorist state by rushing out his ‘rabbi’ Rachel Timoner to claim that “he said what most of us think” and “what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other”.

The first part of that is probably true.

Rachel Timoner is an activist with such anti-Israel groups as J Street, T’ruah
…a group of about 2000 leftwing political rabbis and cantors, it was founded in 2002 as Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, advocating for the rights of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and then against torture in GITMO and Abu Ghraib; in 2013 they split off and renamed themselves The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights-T’ruah. They do not support the BDS movement only because the effort does not distinguish between Israel proper and Israel in the Palestinian Territories, and otherwise advocate for a mixed salad of leftwing causes…
and co-founded the New York Jewish Agenda leftist organization alongside Sharon Kleinbaum who faced an exodus from her ‘temple’ after saying Kaddish for Hamas terrorists with a mission of fighting the city’s Orthodox Jews.

The latter isn’t because these anti-Israel extremists don’t represent Jews. They represent only the Jew-hating far Left.

Bringing out Timoner, the clergywoman of the leftist congregation Schumer attends, doesn’t help him. It reveals how bad he really is.

Let’s take a look at what Rachel Timoner has been up to.

Timoner took part in a recent anti-Israel ‘ceasefire’ rally while whining that, “continued war and Israeli occupation of Gaza will be an unmitigated disaster”.

Rachel Timoner signed on to a letter by the T’ruah anti-Israel hate group which claimed that “there is no military solution” and demanded that Biden “ensure that Israel does not invade Rafah” and finish off Hamas.

In the past, Rachel Timoner had signed on to a T’ruah/J Street letter defending BDS.

Timoner, the author of op-eds such as “Fellow Dykes: We Must Be Both Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine”, tries to have it both ways, but she picked her side.

The side of those who murder Jews.

We know what Timoner is. Now what does tell us about what Schumer is?

“Schumer has attended Timoner’s synagogue near his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn for at least a decade. Timoner officiated his daughter’s wedding, blessed his three grandchildren and buried his father.”

This is what Schumer embraced as his guiding spiritual light.

A mere few weeks after the Hamas atrocities, Rachel Timoner was already scolding Israel in a sermon, warning that, “killing thousands of Palestinian civilians will not bring back the Israeli civilians.”

She repeated the same message in a New York Times op-ed.

T’ruah summed up Timoner’s remarks at one anti-Israel rally as, “American Jews must tell our govt we oppose this war and want an end to the occupation and a real political solution for Palestinians and Israelis.”

That’s the message Sen. Schumer took to the Senate. It’s not the message of American Jews, but of their leftist and Islamist enemies.
Related:
J Street: 2024-03-05 AIPAC uncorks $100 million war chest to sink progressive candidates
J Street: 2024-03-03 Back from Israel, 6 US House Dems accuse PM of ‘utter disregard’ for Palestinian lives
J Street: 2024-02-08 They Endorsed Hamas Terrorism. Then They Hosted a Big-Ticket Fundraiser for Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.


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New York Jewish Agenda: 2022-08-04 AIPAC-backed Stevens ousts Levin in Michigan race seen as bellwether on US-Israel politics after supporters post/remove anti-Zionist TikTok video; poll: 2/3rds of Dems, 91% of Repubs don’t support BDS
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  Israel As 'A Pariah' Among the Nations

Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-19 05:42  

#1  yea, yea, he's just a naive - easily led - child.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-19 02:58  

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