Bloomberg has “Jewish values”? What sort of values are those? The art of plunder and thievery? Bloomberg is worth some $30 billion, he’s the antithesis of what the vast majority of Jews have given to human history. How could any human being go to Israel and not visit Gaza or at least try to; it’s one of the world’s largest outdoor concentration camps. Jews in history have played the most progressive roles. They have fought for oppressed peoples throughout history. They have led revolutions and fought despotism. Jews have played a role far greater than their tiny numbers would suggest making the world a better place for all workers. They have led unions and workers’ struggles. They have contributed to the artistic, cultural, political and scientific history of the world perhaps more so than any other people considering their numbers. The racist policies of Zionism are the values of Jewish extremism and imperialism, not the values of Jews we see throughout history.
After reading this article perhaps take the time to watch Norman Finkelstein’s talk on the one year anniversary of the Gaza invasion.
Israelis and Americans are ho-hum about Palestinian children’s deaths
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman who served three terms as mayor of New York, was the one receiving — and then returning — the first-ever Genesis Prize, which honors achievement steeped in what it calls “Jewish values.”Instead of pocketing what to him might be considered pocket change, Mr. Bloomberg and the Genesis organization announced a global competition with 10 prizes of $100,000 available to entrepreneurs ages 20 to 36 with big ideas, also based on Jewish values, to better the world…
Mr. Bloomberg, 72, visited Israel frequently while in office, and he has donated millions of dollars to Jerusalem institutions, financing a hospital wing named for his mother and an ambulance center named for his father…Mr. Bloomberg said his religiously observant parents had inculcated Jewish values around the dinner table, and he identified those qualities Thursday night as “freedom, justice, service, ambition, innovation.”“The values I learned from my parents are probably the same values that, I hope, Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists learned from their parents,” he said at an earlier appearance. “They’re all centered around God put us on Earth and said we should take care of each other. We have an obligation not to just talk about it but to actually do it.”
Mr. Leno, 64, is not Jewish and had not been to Israel before Tuesday, when he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“This is just like a Hollywood awards show but with fewer Jews,” Mr. Leno cracked Thursday night. Taking note of the preshow buffet featuring falafel, gefilte fish, goulash and roast lamb, which was billed as “Jewish cuisine from around the world,” Mr. Leno said it was “what is known in New York as a deli.”He made light of the recent sentencing of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for taking bribes, but avoided the political minefield of Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians except to say that the “least popular boys’ name” is “John Kerry,” a reference to the secretary of state.
Candidates for the $100,000 prize [announced by Bloomberg with his prize money] need not be Jewish, though the video promoting it showcased an all-Jewish cast of achievers, including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Marc Chagall, Levi Strauss, Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Silverman.
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