Here's a little moral experiment for a slow Friday afternoon: Say you're walking down Bleeker St. and you happen upon a black homeless man lying prostrate in front of you. A few yards down, you notice a kippa'd white homeless man in roughly the same sorry state. Put yourself in the kind of New York where indigence is met with instant acts of charity. Your natural inclination would be… to step right over the black guy and head straight for the Jew to offer assistance. Right? Ariel Beery in the J-Post:
While it feels good to support all peoples and all victims, the nature of the world in which we live in – where Hizbullah amassed thousands of rockets and attacked Israel; where Iran edges towards nuclear weapons; and where over a third of Israel's Jews, and, surprisingly, 20 percent of New York Jews live under or close to the poverty line – makes an ethics of universalism simply irresponsible at the moment.
"Och, boychik. You're very young, you haven't learned yet. The only blood that matters is Jewish blood!"
This disgraceful essay was written in response (or better say, reaction) to a concert in Jerusalem that was organized by, among others, Daniel Sieradski of Jewschool. The concert's purpose was to raise money for all the victims of the latest war between Israel and Lebanon; by all, I mean those in North Israel and in Lebanon. But that's not good enough for Beery:
With millions being donated by Jewish organizations and Hizbullah paying out $12,000 in hard cash to families hurt by the war, the funds these young leaders will raise for Lebanon will probably do little more than help fix the wall of a Lebanese home, perhaps enabling the return of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's portrait to its former place.
Now isn't that sweet? A country, whose parliament Hezbollah controls just 14 seats out of 128, is deemed a unanimous backer of state-within-a-state terror, and thus unworthy of humanitarian assistance from concerned Jews.
Our first weekly Abe Foxman Thundering Ethnocentrism Award goes to Mr. Beery.
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