DOUBLING DOWN ON CHANANYA ARSEMAN

To help those who still can't see...

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We received a confidential letter from a reader we admire, whose outlook and observations are always appreciated.

But because he didn’t understand the initial smack we issued to CHANANYA ARSEMAN—the king of baseless hatred and master of the smear—we decided to print our reader’s concern, along with our response, below.

We will not disclose our dear reader’s name, because that just plain wouldn’t be nice.

Our reader wrote, essentially:

“You referred to your "make-believe" interview with him. I assume thereby that you don't know him personally; so anything that you said about him … is conjecture and not fact. Did you find any basis for that low blow? “

Our response was as follows:

Hi E—,

I'm very sorry, but you missed the point entirely.

Chananya Weissman is someone I read and listened to regularly—until he wrote the following about Kahanists, a very large population of dedicated and believing Jews who put their money where their mouths are vis-a-vis the state and its regular persecution of good Jews.  And that includes the Hilltop Youth.

This is what he wrote (HERE, in case you didn't see it):

Kahanists are:

-washed-up

-make bombastic statements

-have belligerent fantasies

-are a cult of personality

-made a new religion that revolves around watching videos of their long-dead leader

-honor Jewish gangs

-dream of nuking people

-use cherry-picked Torah sources

-failed the Covid test miserably

-are part of a movement that burned out after the death of their leader

-part of a movement that failed to inspire another generation

-who react with belligerence and senseless arguments

-who have no real depth or compass

-who are unable to be introspective

-who are one-dimensional people

-who have a penchant for violence

-who have little actual Torah grounding or yearning for it

-who are irrelevant at best and potentially dangerous

-who will not lead us to a better future

(Click the link above, if you want to go to the source.  I'm not making it up.)

E—, if you agree with the above sentiments, then we have nothing to discuss.  I wish you the best of luck.

If, on the other hand, you believe that Rabbi Kahane's followers are NOT monolithic, not all the cartoon characters that Weissman makes them out to be, then you'll agree that his piece was neither level-headed nor thoughtful.  It was a hate piece, pure and simple, based on G-d knows what.

The Kahanists that I know in Yehuda and Shomron don't fit the mold that Weissman wants to stuff them into.

But if he wants to play a smear game because one or two Kahane people he's acquainted with are not to his taste, or fit the radical description he's tried to depict here, then two can play that game.

I once knew a degenerate homosexual from RIETS.  Therefore all RIETS graduates are degenerate homosexuals.

You didn't get it.

No idea if he will, either.

His hatred and his anger run very deep.

And by the way, he's getting married tonight.  He's not gay.  I know that.  My point in writing was to do precisely what he did—slander an entire population (including him) based on those with whom they associate.

Others figured it out.

And got a chuckle.

All the best,

Dean

Mr. Wiseguy Arseman owes the entire Kahane population an apology. There was nothing remotely Jewish or halachic in the venom that issued from his hate-filled mind.

And until he does, we’re invested in exposing his anger and the unfounded hatred he bears for a huge swath of committed Jews.

Pray G-d his new wife is never subject to his Shimonic wrath.

Dean Maughvet