Okay, I can’t help it. Just a bit more on Dennis Prager. MJ Rosenberg calls Prager and self-hating Jew. I wouldn’t argue with that for a moment. But somehow that phrase just doesn’t do Prager justice.
Here’s a Jew who says that no Jew should be able to serve in the US Congress unless he or she is willing to have a copy of the New Testament on hand when they take the oath of office. I’m not sure if one can appreciate this without having the context of Prager’s general sanctimony and cloying ethnic self-abnegation. But it’s hard for me not to imagine Prager as one of Jews in the Medieval Europe arguing that living in the Ghetto and maybe wearing these funny hats might actually be a good thing after all. I’ll refrain from invoking the toxic parallels of more recent vintage.
I can’t help but wonder, deep down, what he’s trying to prove to whom.
Maybe he so hates and is so frightened of Muslims that he’s willing to sell out his religion and Jewishness, to slap on a yellow badge of second class status, in the hopes that the Christians will protect him.
The guy gives Uncle Toms a bad name.
