Your local Jewish Community Center is helping Chelsea Handler sell books.
“It was powerful for me the way he spelled it out,” Chelsea Handler said of Louis Farrakhan. “So whatever, you know, everybody can go f___ themselves.”
Handler, a comedian pushing a new book, was responding to the backlash over her praise for the racist black supremacist leader on Instagram. The people complaining about her praise for the bigot were Jews. And the celebrity was telling critics, including Holocaust survivors, to go “f___ themselves.”
Farrakhan had called Hitler a “great man”, ranted about “Satanic Jews”, and, more recently, claimed that Florida was suffering from the coronavirus because he had asked Allah to punish Cuban Jews.
In that same speech, he thanked Chelsea Handler for posting a clip of him on Instagram.
Handler decided to promote the antisemitic hate group leader to her 4 million followers as part of her newly woke brand which included a Netflix special, Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea, and her book, Life Will Be the Death of Me, from Penguin Random House. The theme of both the special and the book was Handler’s journey from self-absorption to wokeness by ranting about how horrible white people are.
Farrakhan had been ranting about how horrible white people are since Chelsea was in kindergarten.
“I learned a lot from watching this powerful video,” Handler had told her followers
The obnoxious celebrity was well aware of Farrakhan’s antisemitism, and defended him, arguing that, “perhaps Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic views took form during his own oppression.”
While some celebrities have been cancelled for the smallest of missteps, there was no apparent sign that Penguin Random House or HBO Max, which will be airing a new standup special by Handler, were ending their relationship with the hateful celebrity. But perhaps something was happening behind the scenes because after telling Jews to “go f__ themselves”, she finally apologized and deleted the video.
The apology was stiff and unconvincing, but it was enough for her book tour to go forward, not just at Penguin Random House, owned by Bertelsmann, the massive German media giant whose owner had donated to the SS, put out exciting fare such as, “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”, and benefited from Jewish slave labor during the Holocaust, but at Jewish federations around America.
After Handler touted an antisemitic bigot and told Jews who didn’t like it to “go f___ themselves”, the Miami Jewish Federation is touting a Zoom evening with Chelsea Handler to sell her new book.
The 39th Annual Berrin Family Jewish Book Festival features Chelsea and her book, courtesy of the Alper JCC in Miami, and the JCCs of Atlanta, Boulder, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Nashville, Memphis, and St. Louis, who have all taken Chelsea’s advice and are “f____” themselves and their communities.
No word on whether they’re also willing to help sell “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”.
Why exactly does Handler, who is descended from a German mother and Jewish father, whose grandfather was a Nazi soldier, and who once had her sidekick dress up as Hitler to celebrate Germany’s World Cup victory, and then touted a bigot who admires Hitler, belong at a family Jewish book festival?
The answer is that the Jewish federations of nine major cities are telling Jews to “f___” themselves.
It’s not just that politically correct antisemitism leads to very little in the way of a response from mainstream society, or even from the organizations that claim to represent local Jewish communities, but those same organizations actually help mainstream and reward the promoters of antisemitism.
Chelsea Handler knows perfectly well that she can promote Farrakhan or mock the Holocaust, and local Jewish federations will still eagerly line up to help her sell her books and make her even richer.
The Alper JCC claims that its mission is “providing programs and services that are rooted in and promote Jewish values, ethics and traditions”. The Aaron Family JCC in Dallas claims that it wants an “environment defined by Jewish values and culture”. The Marcus JCC in Atlanta claims that it’s dedicated to “strengthening Jewish life” and creating “Jewish moments”.
Which Jewish values does Chelsea Handler represent besides a suicidal embrace of leftist politics?
The only references to Jewishness in Life Will Be the Death of Me are negative or derogatory, and revolve around her Jewish father’s response to the death of her brother. Even without the Farrakhan, Hitler, and Holocaust stuff, Handler would be the last person to be associated with Jewish values.
But so are the Jewish federations and JCCs that made the hateful decision to help her sell books.
The unwillingness of organizations with lots of J’s and little Jewishness in them to take even the most basic of stands by cancelling an event with the granddaughter of a Nazi soldier who defended antisemitism and told Jews to “go f___ themselves” isn’t cowardice: it’s disinterest and contempt.
They don’t care.
They didn’t care during the Holocaust when millions of Jews were being killed. They didn’t care when Islamic armies and terrorists spent generations trying to wipe out the Jews of Israel. They don’t care about the big stuff, let alone the little stuff, like their celeb promoting a bigot who called Jews termites.
The vast infrastructure of the Jewish federations and the JCCs, the campus Hillels and the alphabet soup of national organizations, is a rotted mass of deadwood built long ago by people who at least had some distant sense that being Jewish mattered in some way. Built by German Jews, funded by deceased Jewish philanthropists, many of whom survived the Holocaust, they’re now just a sinecure for full-time professional non-profit fundraisers with their “inspiring” clergy and their incubators for leftist activists.
They exist to cadge money from elderly Jews who think that funding a building or a book festival with their name on it at the local JCC will be a meaningful legacy, instead of a forum for a Farrakhan supporter, by filling their fundraising letters with mentions of Jewish values, ethics, meaning, and other things they can’t define and don’t believe in. What do they believe in? As little as Chelsea Handler does.
They believe that Black Lives Matter, that the planet is in danger, that whatever Israel did last week was wrong, and whatever else their intellectual cohort of social media lefties happens to believe this week.
They’re as ignorant of what the Torah says as of the contours of the Martian mountains, but like the bigot they’re eagerly hosting, they know how to jump on the bandwagon of the cultural moment. The problem with actual Jewish values is that they are as eternal as their Creator and don’t fit into trends.
The cultural moment and its politics are momentary, filled with obvious contradictions when you try to apply them beyond the hashtags and the memes of the now. Jewish ethics and values might ask why antisemitism is acceptable, when racism isn’t, but the cultural moment has no use for consistency.
To be eternally in the moment is to have neither values nor ethics, Jewish or otherwise, and no future.
The vast billion-dollar infrastructure of organizations that are Jewish in name only are as happy to put their membership lists at the disposal of Chelsea Handler and Bertelsmann, as of Black Lives Matter. They stand for nothing, except for whatever members of their cohort are standing for now, and they make no impact on the Jewish community, and have no future once the donors and the money run out.
Chelsea Handler, like many of the celebs these organizations promote, represents them all too well.
There are no children, no values, and no future, but right now the drinks are flowing and the money is coming in as long as you spew whatever garbage is in the cultural moment without thinking about it.
Chelsea Handler’s book is titled, Life Will Be the Death of Me. The Jewish view of life is that of a gateway to eternity. That’s why the Talmud comments on Ecclesiastes 9:5 by saying that good people are considered living even when dead, while evil people are deemed dead even while they’re still alive.
Life and death don’t exist in the present moment. It’s not the now that matters, but the future eternity.
There are a great many organizations with the ‘J’ in them that are already dead because they chose to exist in the political moment without caring about the Jewish past or the Jewish future.
Featuring Chelsea Handler is their way of telling their donors and members to, “go f___ themselves”.
RichardL says
the Jews in Germany call the most Jewish and only pro-Israel party Nazis. The Jews have their fair share of leftards who hate themselves.
dee says
I read something one day either at Yad Vasham or some other museum, they wrote that when a jewish person betrayed a jewish person to escape the nazis the Nazis got him or her and murdered them but later on they were again murdered by their own. Two times a traitor.
gravenimage says
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James Lincoln says
According to the excellent feature article:
“The vast infrastructure of the Jewish federations and the JCCs… believe that Black Lives Matter, that the planet is in danger, that whatever Israel did last week was wrong…”
May I add that they also believe that whatever Israel will do this week, next week, the week after, etc., will also be wrong.
Even if Israeli doctors find a great vaccine for COVID-19…
dee says
I read the most horrific group on Susan Rosenberg lately. She is involved now with Black Lives Matter but previously she was heading up this organization which is still operating today, something like world jewish council or something. I looked through it today and was dumb founded. Rabbis and other important organizations give money to them. They operate in Latin America Africa New York California etc. She is a violent murderer.
Joss says
And she demonstrqtes ab impressive command of the English language!
mortimer says
Rude, lewd, crude, shallow, non-erudite, flippant, spontaneous, sarcastic, caustic, non-reflective. And those are her good qualities.
Is anyone taking advice from her. Does anyone think she is amusing?
I think Handler is suffering from the beaten woman syndrome or Islamic Stockholm syndrome.
This is surely a form of toxic narcissism, co-mingled with masochism. Not good.
MADELEINE D says
It is a complete disgrace that they would give her platform to sell her book and her entire racist white privilege neo black marxist ideas.
mortimer says
She’s ‘privileged’ to complain about how privileged she is. Go figure.
GreekEmpress says
Anybody who has to drop the F bomb to make a point isn’t worth listening to in my opinion.
Donovan Nuera says
She is a crappy comedian who only likes to have sex with low-IQ rappers due to daddy issues….and she has aborted 2 children and is very proud of it. Not to mention fellow idiot and rancid ANTI-CHRISTIAN Jason Biggs (of American Pie infamy) peed all over her when she was swimming in a lake while he was on a yacht; very dignified lady….ugh…yes… it is on video).
gravenimage says
Jewish Federations are Promoting a Farrakhan Fan Who Told Jews to “Go F___ Themselves”
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Just appalling. And the idea that the vicious Farrakhan has been oppressed by Jewish people is just sickening calumny.
And doesn’t the witless Chelsea Handler–a blonde, blue-eyed Jewish woman–realize what would happen to her if those like the barbaric “Minister” Farrakhan ever got into power? It would not be pretty…
James Lincoln says
Just wondering, what jokes has Chelsea Handler told lately about islam?
Has she mocked the prophet mohammed?
James Lincoln says
An excellent video by Ben Shapiro, from a few years back, on why Jews vote for leftists.
commonsense says
Excellent article by the great, prolific, and indefatiguable Daniel Greenfield,who is shockingly underappreciated and largely unknown to the mainstream, although he is read by Limbaugh, I believe, and some others on the right who have influence. He is a regular contributor to frontpagemag.com, writing new articles daily, both long and short. All his writings have substance and frequently contain information found nowhere else. He (and, yes, Robert Spencer as well) writes more of value in one day than do the hghly paid bores and ignoramuses who pass as journalists (such as George Will, Tom Friedman, and so many others) whose natterings appear perhaps two or three times weekly in newspaper columns that can be read in three minutes or less. Bravo, Daniel, Hugh, Christine, Andrew (Harrod), Robert, Raymond, and all the rest of the regular and semi-regular contributors to Jihad Watch. And thanks, Robert, for adding Daniel Greenfield to the roster.
scribblerg says
All of this has me asking a basic question. What kind of culture are we attempting to build? How many ethnic groups. how many competing religions, how many different races do we think we can handle? Let me be clear – in a fight between black Muslims and Jews I have no skin in the game. I don’t really care either, at some basic level. Pew Research and other data show American blacks to be the most likely to be racist, anti-white and anti-semitic compared to other groups – but I don’t care. Being free, owning oneself – being sovereign – means I own my thoughts and voice. I am not harmed by Farakhan or Handler not liking Jews. Or liking them. It’s irrelevant to me. Jews are a tiny minority in this society and just like any other group, if you don’t like it here, you are welcome to leave. But what I can no longer tolerate is the endless carping of every minority group claiming the U.S. as its own. Here’s an idea for American Jews – fully assimilate into American society. Forget your ethnic identity of being Jewish, and just keep your tiny little religion to yourselves. I care about your issues about as much as I care about the concerns of American Bahai or Hindus – like not at all. We did’t build a society to make every varied ethnic group to feel comfortable. You have not right to dignity, respect or even civility. And I certainly have no need to like anyone as an American – in fact, the burden is all on immigrants and people who aren’t of the mainstream culture to win us over and to be worthy of our immense good will.
We are free to hate if we wish. I don’t hate Jews, I hate Leftists – is that bigotry? And I’m exhausted with the endless stream of victimhood claims. I think what’s really so is that the U.S. experiment in a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-ethnic society has failed and it’s not working for anyone. Great, let’s end it then…Cuz I simply cannot live with the endless complaints. I’m done.
peter says
Ask not what the country has done for you,ask what you can do for your country!
Giacomo Latta says
I can remember when Jewish comedians, either individually or after some group-think, decided that having comics describing Jewish life and mocking it would get non-Jews to laugh at but eventually laugh with Jews. Something like this cannot be practised by muslims. ”Boy, I punched one of my wives so hard it broke my hand. All my other wives and my sex slaves had a good laugh at that.”
The only people who can laugh at Handler are Farrakhan and company. They must wonder where all these dumbass Jews are coming from. Also, I am not an expert but doesn’t one’s Jewishness come from one’s mother, not the father?
commonsense says
You are correct, but Handler was reportedly raised Jewish, and had a bat mitzvah. She apparently doesn’t take her Jewish identity very seriously.
OLD GUY says
FARRAKHAN is truly a piece of S**t.
grandpahalfdime says
Anyone who supports Farrakhan supports Holocaust Deniers because he is one of them.
Farrakhan supports sex slaves, trafficking of White Christians, and Islam’s pedophilia.
Supporting Farrakhan is like supporting Ruhollah Khomeini’s stand on Jews & Christians.