You may recall that for my Passover greeting this year, I made fun of those Israel-hating “as-a-Jews” who run so-called “liberation seders” that show their ignorance of anything Jewish.
In what will come as a shock to none of you, these “as-a-Jews” yet again proved they are really “not-such-Jews.”
In one of the most stark (and embarrassing) examples of this, Jewish Voice For Peace (JVP) and “their allies” (read: fellow antisemites and terror supporters) gathered outside the University of Southern California to hold a “Passover seder calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.”
Leaving aside the fact the timing of the seder was all off (not a surprise!), the photo they posted of the “seder” reveals they do not even know or understand simple Hebrew, the language of the Jews.
For those familiar with Hebrew, the things written on the white sheet are supposed to be some of the main elements of the seder (from top left, clockwise):
- Chazeret (חזרת): Typically romaine lettuce, whose roots are bitter-tasting
- Beitzah (ביצה): Roast egg
- [top right: unable to discern]
- Maror (מרור): Bitter herbs
- Charoset (חרוסת): A sweet, brown, pebbly paste of fruits and nuts
- Karpas (כרפס): Vegetable
If you cannot recognize those Hebrew words from the JVP photo, that is because they do not appear correctly. They are all written back-to-front!
It seems the JVP geniuses do not realize that Hebrew words are written right-to-left and not left-to-right like English.
This is a mistake so embarrassingly bad, considering many (if not most) assimilated Jews learn this in Hebrew cheder (class) as children. So these JVP “as-a-Jews” are so far beyond the pale as Jews, assuming they are even Jewish at all (a fair assumption).
By the way, one of the elements of the seder they left out (probably deliberately) was Nirtzah (נרצה) “desired” – because that is when we sing “Next year in Jerusalem!”
