American Jewry Desperately Needs Better Leadership

As I was researching the factors that have led to the failure of the American Jewish leadership in protecting their Jews from the rising Antisemitism and active anti-Israel hatred in advance of an article and video, I read that the chance to inflict defeat on Ilhan Omar, the foremost antisemitic Israel haters in Congress, was sadly missed partly, or in large part, because of the failure of Jewish organizations, who claim to represent the nest interests of Jews and Israel, to get behind her rival, Don Samuels, who defied the odds by losing to Omar by only 2%!

True, Mr. Samuels, despite his name, is not Jewish, but that does not deflect from the fact that had organizations who dislike (to put it mildly) Omar’s verbal antisemitism and active anti-Israelism supported her rival we would be hearing today of her removal from Congress.

It is clear that today’s American Jewish leaders are limply following the bad example of their younger generation and drifting into a dark and dangerous place. 

The ropes that kept the twin anchors of both traditional Judaism and modern Zionism have been shredded and, without a true moral compass, the decline of American Jewry is accelerating. 

The young generation is being called The Lost Tribe of Israel and the older generation has lost its calibration as it chases after them and into the arms of passionate and well-funded Israel haters. 

There are a few who are trying to shine the light, but there is a dire need of a future leadership unafraid to expose the fraud of the anti-Israel venom, the threat of the Jew haters, and to boldly expose the identity of the perpetrators, particularly when it does not come from the far-right.