Brad Lander Asked Jews To Atone On Yom Kippur

Self-hating Jews. Kappos. You see these uh terms thrown out very loosely online. You know, and I understand it, and I don't think it's always accurate. I really don't. I think sometimes we see a lot of people out there um who we disagree with politically or have the wrong idea or misinformed, and if they're Jewish, they're called self-hating Jews, which I think is very easy to disprove when somebody takes the term literally and says self-hating Jew, "What do you mean self-hating? Nobody hates themselves. How could someone hate themselves?" And people liken it to when, you know, they called, you know, the liberals or the far left would call black people Uncle Toms or people who hated their own kind, things like that. And it's not analogous, and I can explain why. What we're talking about, I think when we correctly use the term self-hating Jew, is not that a person hates themselves, but they hate the part of themselves or have apathy or disregard or real loathing, self-loathing for the part of themselves that's Jewish to the point where they have to ask permission to be Jewish or they wish it to be accepted in such a way as to be completely divorced from uh Israel, which I'm sorry to say, the land that you pray to three times a day in Judaism, that's an integral part of our story, that's fundamental to the Jewish story and experience to be a nation, a tribe with a collective culture, language, and land. You can't separate that just so you can get appeasement from those who hate you and seek your destruction. But it is possible to really hate that side of yourself, to hate that sense of uh chosenness, to feel uncomfortable with it, to feel feel uncomfortable with Jewish exclusivity, to be uncomfortable with being part of something because you wish for acceptance over inclusion um with your own identity. a you'll take acceptance over pride in your own identity, your own self, your own customs, traditions. And you just beg for it. And so, in that sense, yes, we have our candidates for people who hate their Jewish identity because it separates them from everyone else. And I would say there's dignity in difference. Everyone has their own sets of values, community, cultures, customs. And instead of being proud of those things, a lot of these people are ashamed. And so, they will use their Judaism as cover to express basically far-left values. Wherever Judaism aligns with them in their other progressive values, that's their primary identity, progressivism, leftism. So, ideas like tikkun olam, ideas like healing the world, social justice, they will say, "Oh, that's Jewish." Everything else that's exclusively Jewish, no, we have to disregard that. That sets us apart, it makes us different. We don't want that. We want acceptance into this left-wing, woke woke mobs. So, they'll don a tallit, a tallis, they'll put it on only when they're protesting Israel. They use their Judaism as a perversion, as an inversion, to beg those who hate them to accept them. And I say, "No, no, no, no, no." It's not going to work. They use their Judaism as a coverage to, you know, provide coverage for real anti-Semites out there. And they can say, "Hey, look, I'm Jewish, and if you want to support those entities and regimes and ideologies that seek the Jewish people's destruction, I give you permission to do that. I say I have no problem with that. As long as you accept me. Not them. I'm not one of them. I'm me. I'm I'm different than them. And there's this desire to uh separate themselves. So, let's talk about our candidates. First up, Brad Lander. Let's watch a clip of Brad Lander and what he did this Yom Kippur. Uh and then we'll react to it. I'm going to add this clip to the stage. >> liberal and progressive Zionists about the repentance that we must do today. Because as someone who feels a connection to Israel, who cares about it, I feel today so deeply that my vidui, my confession, must center on my on our complicity in what I view as genocide in Gaza. Now, I understand the hesitation of some to call it a genocide. I understand and share fears of rising anti-Semitism. And I understand, even though I don't share it, the feeling of antagonism some have to those who reject the vision of a Jewish state. But what I don't understand is this. For those Jews who share that connection to Israel, when we confess our collective transgressions today before God, how can you not join me in seeing the wanton destruction of Gaza, the famine exacerbated by lack of aid, the land thefts and murders in the West Bank at the center of our shared transgressions? >> You know what I don't understand? Bradley, first of all, kind of ironic that on Yom Kippur, you're responsible and committing the sin of lying. Lying. Oh, although I know some of you don't call it a genocide, I'm going to call it a genocide, even though it is definitely not a genocide, because I hope that our haters will love me for doing it. So, set aside all the lies that he recycled, the libels about Israel and the forced starvation and genocide, these false characterizations that have been peddled and propagandized lots and lots of people to believe, all of that put out there to smear Israel and completely misrepresent the reality. Hasn't he been Brad, hasn't Brad Lander been going on and on and on about how Jews should not be held accountable for the actions of the Israeli government? How doing so and conflating the two is anti-Semitism? Haven't you gone on and on, interview after interview saying that we should not hold Jews in the diaspora accountable for the actions of the government of Israel? That we should separate the two. And yet here you are asking the Jews to atone for a made-up sin. For a manufactured sin that you falsely characterize as a genocide. And not a war. And no mention of Hamas in your statement. For their accountability, how about their atonement? No calls on them. Strictly on the Jews present in front of you. Isn't that something? What a way to undermine all the efforts you've said you've made to not conflate the Jews and Israel and the actions of the Netanyahu government and Jews, you just gave fodder to all the anti-Semites in the room and around the world. Look at what you did there. That we should feel guilty and atone for a sin that you're manufacturing and yet the Jews are responsible to atone for it? Wow. Way to expose yourself. Mask off. To claim that the Jews collectively need to atone for their for being complicit in a genocide? You just affirmed what all the anti-Semites under the guise of anti-Zionism believe. That's what you did. That sounds like a sin to me. It sounds like you need to atone, man. And you know, we have what we have to do is and when when we read the Nesanel Tokef, the Nesanel Tokef about all the ways in which we could die over the next year, that's what we read in the liturgy. In the prayers about others, a really dark prayer about a heavy prayer about all the ways in which we could leave this world. Some of those in the right time, some of them not in the right time, not by fire, not by water, not by wild beast. We hope all these different ways do not end us and we could be written into the good book of life. Brad Lander should add one more thing in his mind, not by fire, it should not by water, by wild beast in its right time, but also possibly maybe by suicide, which is what I'm encouraging all of you to do. Maybe by suicide. Collectively, we should all just end ourselves so that we could be loved. So that we could be loved and respected because the world loves dead Jews. A total fraud. It's unbelievable. Sitting there next to Muhammad Khalil in the crowd, a Hamas supporter, supports the dismantling of the one and only Jewish state to kill all the Jews in it. Yes, they support that. And they support killing you, too. And you begging them to like you and saying you're not like the rest of us. You're not like the rest of them. Kill them, not me. Kill them, not me. Guess what? Never want to be on the last train to Auschwitz. There's no difference between on being on the first and the last. And make no mistake. And what these people believe about the Yahud. And boy, they're just begging to be loved. It's pathetic. The self-loathing, the self-hatred, the holding all Jews to be complicit to requiring the Jews collectively to atone for a sin you're manufacturing, for a lie that you're peddling and you're continuing to push. Man, this is starting to turn. You're going to look at this whole free Palestine movement the way we looked at COVID or BLM as a mass psychosis, a mass hypnosis that made everyone hysterical, losing all their rational faculties. Now, I get it. You look at the scenes of war. It's tragic. But if you look at the data and the numbers, if you care about the rational facts on the ground, which these people do not, they care about looking virtuous to be loved by those who hate them. But if you care about the actual reality, you see a very different picture. And in the moment, in the in the height of the war, these things are hard to defend because war is a tragic thing and it's awful to look at. But you're not holding the right people accountable. Should Qatar atone for their sins? Should Hamas atone for their sins? Should the Iranian regime atone for their sins, Brad? Wow, what a perversion of morality. An inversion of reality. I guess that's what's required. >> [sighs] >> That's what's required for you to buy into this. And so many of these people don't care even about Palestinians. I think they care about looking like they care. Cut back to the Ed Sheeran fiasco. These people care about looking like they care. And they beg their own enemies to love them. And say they will join the chorus of Jew hate, and join the chorus of Israel hate, if if only you can include us on your side and keep us protected. It's not going to work. And it's really pathetic. It's so pathetic. These people come out and all of a sudden they get religious, use their Jew- Judaism and their Jewish identity as coverage to spread hate towards the Jews. To provide fodder and red meat for anti-Semites. See, look at all these people. They also think Jews are bad and guilty and need to atone. Ugh, I'm sick to my stomach. Sick to my stomach, my God. Anyway, Brad's a sweet guy. Yeah, I'll give him a call. Just kidding. I'm really I don't know how you look in the mirror. How you feel good about yourself. Knowing you've emboldened uh all the enemies sitting in front of you. They're laughing at you. They are just laughing. It's so nebuch. There's no other word for it. It's nebuch. It's pathetic. >> [music] [music]