{"id":1231,"date":"2018-01-02T00:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:10:36","slug":"charlottesville-and-the-jewish-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/01\/charlottesville-and-the-jewish-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlottesville and the Jewish Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/charlottesville-and-the-jewish-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times of Israel blog post<\/a>, Doug Aronin discusses the Jewish community should be particularly concerned about the events in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some\u00a0Jews appear to believe that we have no dog in this fight, but that is a dangerous delusion.\u00a0 It is true that few Jews have much of an emotional investment, one way or the other, in the fate of Robert E. Lee\u2019s statues or the display of the Confederate battle flag, but those are not the main issue.\u00a0 The alt-right leadership (David Duke, Richard Spencer, et al.) is openly anti-Semitic and makes no effort to hide it.\u00a0 One of the chants\u00a0picked up by the crowd at the\u00a0Charlottesville rally was: \u201cJews will not replace us.\u201d The implications of that chant should frighten us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Times of Israel blog post, Doug Aronin discusses the Jewish community should be particularly concerned about the events in Charlottesville. 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