JIDF vs. Glenn Beck

I have always been a fan of history. I have studied US history in great detail over the past decade but things started to get a little boring for me trying to understand some things in world history. Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of things that have happened outside of my great nation that has caught my interest, but some things took a little extra effort to get interested in. Initially, one of those things was all the turmoil in the Middle East. You turn on the news any day of the week and see some violence thousands of miles away and you turn the channel to another rerun of Cheers.

But lately I’ve gotten into the struggle of Israel. I won’t get into it in detail again because you can go back and read some of my earlier posts and see a lot of my views on the small Jewish state. My point in this blog is that the more I studied Israel, that more I began to see how almost the entire world is assisting the Arab nations in destroying them. They have always had the US to have their backs, but now it is clear that many in the Obama administration are helping plot their downfall as well. People like Soros, Rice, Sunstein, and Power have all invested a great deal in defeating Israel.

As I started to connect some of the dots, I wondered why nobody in the US media was even mentioning these things. Sure, some conservatives have discussed Obama’s treatment of Israel, but they never went into much detail. That is, until I found Glenn Beck talking about all of it, in great detail.

The more I became intrigued with Israel, the more I began defending them on Twitter. I had taken a lot of heat from Muslims and other Arabs on there, as they kept showing me clips of their propaganda where mangled children were being carried away after an Israeli attack. I would point out that Israel was only retaliating for attacks against them and groups like Hamas and Hezbollah strategically place their arsenals next to innocent civilians, which makes them responsible for these tragedies. The arguments got very vicious at times because a lot of Muslims only know violence. But then, I started reading the Twitter posts of someone who was very pro-Israel. His name, or the name of his organization, is JIDF (Jewish Internet Defense Force) What I expected to see was posts about anti-Israel atrocities. What I found was him relentlessly attacking Glenn Beck.

Alright, I thought, many people don’t like Glenn Beck. He is a rather extreme personality and has been attacked constantly from people like Soros, because he exposes their schemes. But I foolishly figured someone like JIDF would support Beck since he is the only one exposing the anti-Israel plots to any large degree in the US media. But I was wrong, JIDF relentlessly attacked Beck and his fans, saying that Beck is a huge anti Semite and his followers are as well. This, I could not stand for, so I began calling him out on his false claims.

JIDF said that he didn’t have time to argue with nut job, anti-Semitic fans of Beck and he sent me a link of all the anti-Semitic things that Beck has ever done or said. I began researching these things and found that most of these claims were put forth by George Soros or Soros-funded sites. Then, I found a few blogs debunking every claim and I showed it to him. He told me that anyone can write a blog, and that doesn’t make it true. “Well, those were blog post you sent me claiming that Beck was an anti Semite.” I told him. I also told him how he was just feeding into the Soros slandering of Beck. After that, I had many of his loyal followers attacking me. So, I began debating all of them. I told them to send me an actual episode where Beck was being anti-Semitic. So, one girl sent me an episode Beck did on propaganda, and the man who started it was Bernays, a Jew.

“So, since a Jewish man started propaganda, including saying how it was good for your health to smoke cigarettes, it should be ignored because he is Jewish?” I asked JIDF’s follower. She told me that Beck had mentioned several other Jews in that episode. I watched the whole thing and didn’t see one of note. “Alright,” I told her. “Let’s just say he was calling out a few Jewish people in that episode. (Which it really was just one.) What about the hours upon hours he spends promoting the cause of Israel?”

I was told that Beck only promoted Israel because the Jews had already called him out on being anti-Semitic. Everything he was doing now was just a penance for the everything he had done. I could see I was getting nowhere with these blind followers of JIDF, so I asked all of them to answer one simple question and I will stop bothering them. “Who does more to promote the cause of Israel in the US media more than Beck?”

The one girl I had been arguing with told me she didn’t have time to deal with idiots like me. (This was after we’d been arguing for hours.) She didn’t have time to answer one more question? That is when she blocked me and told everyone how stupid I was. So, I asked JIDF himself. The next thing I saw on his Twitter page was where he had blocked me and told everyone of his followers to block me and anyone who followed me. Wow, I thought, instead of saying that they had no answer to my question, they just continued to attack me and call me anti-Semitic.

The truth is Glenn Beck, like him or not, has been pointing out the schemes of insiders in the Obama administration and of the entire world to defeat Israel. He points out thing like R2P (responsibility to protect) and Soros’ organizations that met in Egypt in 2009 to start their revolution and put the Muslim Brotherhood in place. He tells his audience how these things are all a plot against Israel. So no matter what JIDF and his lovely followers say, he is far from anti-Semitic. He is a friend of Israel.

Finally, the practices of JIDF in his defense of Israel is commendable. He targets anti-Israeli sites and often succeeds in taking them down. But on the issue of Beck and his fans, his actions are disturbing. Although he claims he is largely conservative, he uses similar tactics used by those on the left. That is, if you disagree with someone, you don’t have to win the argument. Instead, you heave hurtful insults at them and label them racist or, in this case, anti-Semitic. I know he or his followers will never see the light on this subject, but I am just one of many, including many Jewish people, who will continue to call him out on it.