So... Kanye West went "full Nazi" today, telling Alex Jones that he sees himself as a Nazi, admires Hitler, hates the Jews who control everything, and so on...
All right, so Ye has destroyed his own career. He would have trouble getting hired to take out the trash at the local morgue. Does it have a broader effect?
On the one hand: no. Americans are the least antisemitic people in the world and most people will recognize his lunacy for the self-destructive mania it is.
On the other hand: I am seeing a surprising amount of support for Ye on social media for people who might otherwise simply be Christians and nationalists.
The one point Ye made during his lengthy interview that might stick, because the left has already been pushing it , is that Christians cannot also be Zionists.
We'll see how this ends. Probably not well. Hopefully without any real wide resonance for Ye and his contemptible views. What a colossal loser.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
