A 124-year-old Republican club in Manhattan has been canceled by a prominent synagogue-community center for the sin of being Republican.
And it was the GOP club’s decision to invite political strategist and Trump supporter Dick Morris to speak at an October meeting that was apparently a bridge too far for the synagogue.
This is now the party line for the Left in America: Democrats are virtuous and peaceful; Republicans are evil, violent, and need to shut down anywhere and everywhere.
The Left maintains this position even though Democrats cheered on Black Lives Matter and Antifa as they burned down American cities in 2020 and caused $2 billion in damage after the death of St. George Floyd of Minneapolis.
The Gertrude and Morrison Parker West Side Republican Club was recently notified that it was no longer welcome after renting space monthly for years from the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) on West 86th Street.
The GOP club’s website states that it was founded in 1898 as the West Side Republican Club. It was incorporated in 1941 as the West Side Republican Club Inc., and became the Morrison Parker Westside Republican Club Inc., in 2002 “to honor Morrison Parker and his efforts as a community leader and club president. Subsequently, the name was changed to the Gertrude and Morrison Parker West Side Republican Club to honor the by-then deceased matriarch and patriarch of West Side Republicans.”
SAJ claims on its website to embrace diversity. “At its core, SAJ is imbued with spiritual and intellectual curiosity. We also remain committed to the Jewish ideal of tikkun olam, doing what we can to fix the world.”
But true intellectual curiosity is rejected by SAJ. These left-wingers believe that a mere association with Republicans is reason for ostracism.
SAJ gave its reasons for severing ties with the club to FrontPage Magazine in a statement.
“SAJ is proud to be a resource to our diverse Upper West Side community, renting our space to day schools, churchs [sic], co-op boards, Jewish congregations, private birthday parties, b’nei mitzvah and more, and will continue to do so into the future,” according to the statement issued by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann and Janet Brain, Chair of the Board. Herrmann proudly declared in the statement that her pronouns were “she/her/hers.”
“We were happy to rent our space to the Upper West Side Republican Club [sic] for many years, consistent with the community’s commitment towards civility and dialogue. This recent request to use SAJ’s space was the first one by the club since before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the first request to televise their event for a national audience,” the SAJ said.
“The climate in our country has changed since the 2020 election and January 6. We cannot abide by any speaker in our sacred space whose words amplify and broadcast the anti-democratic ideas of the January 6 insurrectionists, or who condone or incite violence against our elected representatives, whether today or in a future election,” the statement continued.
“SAJ will continue to welcome diverse religious groups and organizations who hope to use the space for peaceful discussions.”
Translation: Republicans are evil insurgents who need to be deplatformed.
Pointing to articles in The Catholic Monitor and Newsmax, SAJ also said Dick Morris was guilty of “supporting Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen,” which isn’t much of an accusation given that Morris’s view is shared by most Republicans and fair-minded people in America.
“And then state after state, you kept watching, that he was doing better than he had done in 2016,” Morris said about Election Night 2020, as quoted in a November 16, 2020 Newsmax article.
“And then at 10 p.m., the hammer came down. The curtain came down, literally and figuratively. And then, all of a sudden, votes started piling up against Trump, in some cases the vote counts jumped astronomically. In Michigan, I believe, 100,000 votes came in for Biden and none for Trump within a space of about three minutes,” Morris said.
“In Wisconsin, there were six counties that suddenly had ballooning turnouts – 20% higher than normal and the rest of the state . . . underperformed the normal performance of a Democrat. And I believe this election was absolutely stolen.”
Morris seemed resigned at that point to a Joe Biden victory, saying that the electoral fraud would probably not be corrected.
“It’s very possible that Biden will be the next president. You asked if I was confident that it had been stolen. I certainly am. And I think that we have to fight and fight and fight to get the truth out here, about Dominion and about the recounts.”
So, contrary to the claims of the SAJ, Morris did not use “words [that] amplify and broadcast the anti-democratic ideas of the January 6 insurrectionists, or who condone or incite violence against our elected representatives, whether today or in a future election.”
In fact, there was no insurrection on January 6, 2021 – simply a political rally that got out of hand, followed by some unscheduled tours of the United States Capitol complex.
And even if there had been an insurrection, Morris made the comment 51 days before that date. He didn’t urge anyone to take up arms against the government – and never has. Morris merely expressed his opinion that Donald Trump was robbed, an opinion supported by mountains of evidence.
But all Republicans are now subversives trying to thwart the will of the people and overthrow the government, affective leftists now claim. According to the SAJ, the threat the GOP poses to the republic is now so great that all Republicans must be silenced.
Gertrude and Morrison Parker West Side Republican Club president Marcia Drezon-Tepler said the club’s cancellation came as a surprise after the good working relationship it had enjoyed with the SAJ.
“We were so pleased that the SAJ rented space to us for our monthly meetings featuring prominent, respected speakers. What’s more, the administrator was helpful beyond the call—
accepting book deliveries, counting our books for returns (!), fielding questions from nervous speakers, and more. That made it all the more shocking to receive the email we did, breaking our relationship,” Drezon-Tepler said.
“A Jewish institution more than others should realize what it means to marginalize any group, for that’s what the Nazis and others throughout the ages have done to the Jews,” she said in a statement.
“Our group is the one open to all; we have registered Democrats as members and have had many Democrats as speakers.”
The probabilities that the election was stolen are astronomical. But many people don’t think for themselves, probabilistically, so they can’t see it.
If your handle is any sense of your education your education was squandered.
All the Jews i know are very intelligent. Apparently this is an anomaly.
Isaac Newton was very intelligent, it could be argued that he was one of the top ten towering intellects in human history, and yet secretly he practiced Alchemy, and he believed in the irrational, illogical, unscientific, miracles of Christianity. Why the contradiction?
Many of the top Nazis were Phd.s, the cream of the intelligence crop in Germany. It was because they were Phd.s that they became Nazis.
In the land of poets and philosophers it was the poets and philosophers that led the country into the Dark Age of Nazism.
“[The Nazi] death camps,” notes a writer in The New York Times “were conceived, built, and often administered by Ph.D.’s”
What had those Ph.D.’s been taught to think in their schools and universities — and where did such ideas come from?…
The German university students were among the earliest groups to back Hitler. The intellectuals were among his regime’s most ardent supporters. Professors with distinguished academic credentials, eager to pronounce their benediction on the Führer’s cause, put their scholarship to work full time; they turned out a library of admiring volumes, adorned with obscure allusions and learned references….
The root cause of Nazism lies in a power that most people ignore, disparage — and underestimate. The cause is not the events hailed or cursed in headlines and street rallies, but the esoteric writings of the professors who, decades or centuries earlier, laid the foundations of those events. The symbol of the cause is not the munitions plants or union halls or bank vaults of Germany, but its ivory towers. What came out of the towers in this regard is only coils of obscure, virtually indecipherable jargon. But that jargon is fatal.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the mam.” – Aristotle
“The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state—it is only philosophy that can lead them out.” – Ayn Rand
Indeed.
“In politics, we are told that America, the greatest, noblest, freest country on earth, is politically and morally inferior to Soviet Russia, the bloodiest dictatorship in history—and that our wealth should be given away to the savages of Asia and Africa, with apologies for the fact that we have produced it while they haven’t. If we look at modern intellectuals, we are confronted with the grotesque spectacle of such characteristics as militant uncertainty, crusading cynicism, dogmatic agnosticism, boastful self-abasement and self-righteous depravity—in an atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom and of all-pervasive evasion. If this is not the state of being at the end of one’s resources, there is no further place to go.
Ayn Rand. For the New Intellectual (Kindle Locations 107-112).
That was written in 1960 which is 62 years ago, and since then America has progressed tremendously, she was wrong in her assertion that America was doomed, it wasn’t and won’t be, but it’s closer then it was 62 years ago.
Ayn Rand never said America was doomed. She did not believe in historical determinism. Ayn Rand was the exact opposite of a fatalist.
America and the West have not progressed, their lights have gotten dimmer, the lights of America and the West are slowly but surely going out. Like a light bulb going out there are moments that the bulb shines brighter only to grow dimmer the next. But the light of reason doesn’t go out in years or decades, it takes centuries. The unreason of Christianity took 400 to 500 years to get to the beginning of its Dark Ages.
Without a philosophy of reason able to defend and validate reality, reason, logic, man’s senses, perception, and universals, the rational West can not survive. Objectivism is that philosophy.
Without Objectivism America and the West would be doomed to a New Dark Age but with Objectivism there now exists the antidote for all philosophies of unreason.
“Ayn Rand is to Aristotle what Kant is to Plato. Both sides of the perennial duel, in their pure form, have finally been made explicit. Kan’ts philosophy is Platonism without paganism.
Ayn Rand’s philosophy is Aristotelianism without Platonism. At this point in history, the West is mutating again. The reason is that Kant as a cultural power is dead.
Kant is dead in academic philosophy; the subject has effectively expired under his tutelage. He is dead among the intellectuals, whose world view is disillusionment (they call it “the end of ideology”). He is dead in the realm of art, where nihilism, with little left to defy, is turning into its inevitable product: nihil (this is now being called “minimalism” and “postmodernism”).
Kant is dead even in Berlin and Moscow. As of this writing [1988], although it is too early to know, [Soviet] communism seems to be disintegrating.
The collapse of a negative, however, is not a positive. The atrophy of a vicious version of unreason is not the adoption of reason. If men fail to discover living ideas, they will keep moving by the guidance of dead ones; they will keep following, by inertia, the principles they have already institutionalized. For the nations of the East and West alike today, no matter what they’re faddish lipservice to a “free market”, the culmination of these principles is some variant of dictatorship, new or revised — if not communist, then fascist and/or religious and/or tribal. Force and faith on such a scale would mean the fate of the ancients [the Dark Ages] once again.
The only man who can stave off another Dark Ages is the Father of the Enlightenment [and the Renaissance — Aristotle].
It is true that Aristotle has flaws, which always gave his enemies an opening. But now the opening has been closed [by Ayn Rand].
The solution to the crisis of our age is love, as everyone says. But the love we need is not love of God or the neighbor. It is the love of the good for being the good. The good, in this context, includes reality, man the hero, and man’s tool of survival [reason].
Some remnant of such love still survives in the West. Above all, it survives in the people of America — which despite its decline, is still the leader and beacon of the world. A nation, however, is shaped ultimately not by its people, but by its intellectuals. This is the grounds for fear, unless some “new intellectuals”, as Ayn Rand called them can be created….
Objectivism is preeminently an American viewpoint, even though most people, here and abroad, know nothing about it. It is American because it identifies the implicit base of the United States, as the country was originally conceived.
Ayn Rand’s ideas would resolve the contradiction that has been tearing apart the land of the free, the contradiction between its ethics and its politics. The result would be not America as it is or even as it once was, but the grandeur of a Romantic pinnacle: America “as it might be and ought to be”.
If one judges only by historical precedent, this kind of projection is the merest fantasy; we are arguably past the point of no return. America, however, is a country without precedent, and man has the faculty of volition. To the end of her life, Ayn Rand upheld her “benevolent-universe” premise. The good, she maintained, can be achieved; “it is real, it is possible, it’s yours”. So long as there is no censorship, she taught, there is a chance for persuasion to succeed.
If no definite prediction can be made, she taught, then in reason only one action is proper: to go on fighting for reason.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff, from his book “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”
A look to the West Coast will find that New Nazis are banning Jews from certain college campuses. I know one true thing. Those banning Jews are not Republicans.
Exactly!
Trump lost, he lost and saint Joe is now our leader, stop bickering about the holocaust and follow our leader who wants to bring us all together again.
the grandchildren of those who ignored the Shoah and danced to FDR yemach shemo voted for Saint Joe and like Blinken have gentile kids
Oh, my Heavens! Gentile kids? I think I’m going to swoon!
Thanks for going full Nazi on us, Twitler.
Saint Joe. I see you took your beyond stupid pill this morning
wow, the flaming teabag-ee has gone full retard today!
EXACTLY!!!
These groups are Jewish the same way Mitt Romney is “conservative.”
Mitt is acting like a spurned bitch. I’m sorry he didn’t get a cabnet position, but that’s no reason to become an effeminate give-himself-away-now to all leftist fetishes.
He’s now trying to screw Lee, as Lee’s not anti Trump enough.
It was like when McCain kept us yoked under B. Hussein care just so he could put a shiv in Trump.
(McCain was not under that substandard health care, as neither were his staff. Why not 3rd world care for us, if it helped screw Trump)
That an old white, bland, dishonest, corrupt, career pol with dementia, who barely campaigned, allegedly got more votes than, like him or not, the truly transformational Barack Obama did in 2008 is simply not possible in this universe. Enough said.
Good point. That’s one of the probabilistic factors that indicates the election was stolen.
The stupidity of American leftist Jews is inexplicably. These America quasi Jews, whose parents exhibited a psychotic defense of Stalin’s persecution of Russian Jews, today demand all Jews continue to follow their twisted leftist ideology. Yes, history repeats over and over again for those fellow Jews, too stupid to learn from it, too foolish to be able to think clear.
A mind shut tight to ideas and experience is an empty mind.
Sadly, Exactly! Though “leftist ideology” is not fully accurate. It is exactly Bolshevik Communist ideology. And some have been doing it to America since their granddads established the Communist International (Comintern) and the Communist Party USA after they destroyed Russia in 1917. Have we noticed millions of illegals flooding across America’s border? That is exactly the same way “those granddads” also destroyed Ukraine in 1920 and brought it into their U.S.S.R. That history remembered, it is more than equally true that such friends who live out in America’s small town, fly-over country are as fiercely connected to, and defensive of, our American Dream as any of the rest of us. Many vote conservative. And equally angry at “leftists” misdeeds.
A shameful Jewish institution, Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), SHOULD, more than ANY others, realize what it means to marginalize any group, for that’s what the Nazis and others throughout the ages have done to the Jews! As a Jew,, reading this story makes me sick to my core.
I see you took your stupid pill this morning.
Yes you are Delusional.
Are you enjoying your newly increased gas prices?
SAJ as is the case for all of heterodox Jewish denominations subscribes to the woke agenda which is hostile to Republicans and conservatives
The demographic writing is on the wall. Such “Jews” have a limited shelf life.
GOD knows the evil of these Jews and will not forget. They are demon possessed just like other DEMS. I know that good group will find another place to meet. Hope they find somewhere that does not have demon possessed people that lie about the most frauded election in history and the nothing but Antifa damage on Jan.6 I have met Dick Morris and he is a good man. He said nothing wrong. These Jews have it all wrong and they will pay the price with GOD. Instead of listening to satan they should listen to people like David Horowitz and Mark Levin and learn truth if their stupid demon possessed minds can take it.
David Horowitz and Mark Levin are outstanding, deeply perceptive Americans. Their steady flow of meticulously studied anti-Communist information will carry us a long way toward saving America. If we can stop the B0lshevik Communist steal of 2020 in the coming two Federal elections. President Donald J. Trump is the Winston Churchill of America in these perilous times. Trump has already proven himself to be the most prepared, knowledgeable, efficient, and effective President in American history. Especially in dealing with our vicious, internal, Bolshevik Communist enemies of America. Only Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan are in the same league.
Shameful!
Ignore and move on.
SAJ is in a regressive mode for it does not stand for ALL!
Once the communists have stolen an election, it’s over. The fix is in permanently and they know nothing will ever happen to them.
As to the vermin who run the SAJ, it’s not ideology. There’s only one thing that drives people in this segment–money. They have been paid off by the controllers. It’s the case with all such organizations that cave in. I am convinced that those at the top are descendents/followers of the Sabbatean Frankists–truly evil monsters, many of whom have Jewish names or portray themselves as Jewish. Those in the middle are easily corruptible slime. The rank and file non-Hassidic Jews are gullible, brainwashed, sheep. They will willingly march into the next batch of ovens/chambers.
A supermajority of Jews support socialism and the Democrat party. Despite the fact that socialists are the real Jew-haters.
It’s like supporting concentration camp guards. Sick.
Perfect analogy.