Seeing IfNotNow post a Hanukkah greeting from Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) was confusing on multiple levels. I’m sure Tlaib doesn’t know that Hanukkah is the most Zionist of our religious holidays, but I guess INN doesn’t understand it either. No surprise there, because they are the very model of a modern Hellenistic Jew. Hmmm, maybe I can send them an appropriate Hanukkah gift…
(in case you don’t know the tune)
1/I am the very model of a modern Hellenistic Jew
My Christmas tree looks very pretty; all the ornaments are new
On Hanukkah I eat latkes
With sour cream, and bacon too
I am the very model of a modern Hellenistic Jew.
2/In politics I always support Amo Bernie’s policies
It really wouldn’t bother me if Israel was brought to its knees
If the wokesters don’t accept me
I’ll be deeply ill at ease
A Hellenistic Jew like me lives in a world of fantasies
3/ Were I living in Judea in the Hasmonean times
I would have helped the soldiers of Antiochus commit their crimes
But if the Maccabees would find me
Then I would have had to flee
Because a Hellenistic Jew is not who Judah wants to see.
Happy Hanukkah! (except to the anti-Zionists)
