CALIFORNIA FOCUS
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023 OR THEREAFTER
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS
“CALIFORNIA
WON’T MISS THIS EMIGRE”
Many
Californians grow concerned when they hear of the so-called “exodus” of
middle-class residents, even though the actual number departing this state over
the last five years amounts to less than one-half of one percent of the
populace.
Most who
leave hope to cash out while trading high-priced California homes for cheaper
and larger ones in places like Texas, Idaho, Arizona and Florida. Some others
are white collar workers freed from any need to report to offices, and
preferring to work remotely from locales near family or friends.
But the
decamping of Jon Minadeo Jr. from his former Sonoma County home is something
very different. The low-profile Minadeo may be the most prolific anti-Semitic
Jew hater in America. He’s taken his “Goyim Defense League” (GDL) and its
associated “Goyim TV” to Florida, where he hopes to be more welcome than he
lately was here.
The
rapper Kanye West, who has dined with ex-President Donald Trump, called for
“Deathcon 3” against Jewish Americans and allowed that he “likes Nazi people,”
gets far more publicity. But Minadeo’s group likely spurred many more hate
incidents against Jews in 2022, a record year for such episodes.
(The word
Goyim employed by Minadeo is a Hebrew and Yiddish term for non-Jews, not by
itself carrying pejorative implications.)
Goyim TV
and the GDL emphasize anti-Jewish propaganda, police saying their adherents are
most likely responsible for dozens of episodes of anti-Semitic flyers
distributed door to door in plastic baggies in cities as disparate as Beverly
Hills and Altadena, Napa and Los Angeles, plus many similar distributions in
other states. Some of the negative messages included false claims that Jews
were responsible for COVID-19 and its pandemic, plus the spread of other ills.
It’s difficult
to prove these actions induced real violence, but Los Angeles Police Chief
Michel (cq) Moore opined in December that the rise of hate speech on social
media was definitely one cause of violence.
He named
rapper West, as one using the Web to induce hate. “We see (West, who now calls
himself Ye) and others that have gone to Twitter and other social media
platforms such as Parler (cq) that have been created solely for people with
extreme views,” he said.
Moore
reported hate crimes in his city were up 23 percent last year, with no
reduction in sight.
It’s not
provable that the new spate of anti-Semitism is the cause, but a study from the
ResumeBuilder.com website shows “an alarming amount of anti-Semitism within
companies, a great deal of which is considered acceptable.”
This
bears importance for other groups, too, because Jews historically have been
like canaries in coal mines. When they’ve been tormented without major
consequences for their attackers, other ethnic or religious groups from Blacks
and Asians to Roman Catholics often faced similar trouble soon after.
The
ResumeBuilder report says 26 percent of hiring managers now say they are less
likely to move forward with a Jewish job applicant, with many admitting to
making appearance their main method for identifying persons as Jewish. Fully 23
percent of hiring managers say they want fewer Jews in their industries and 17
percent say corporate leaders have told them not to hire Jews. Plus, 33 percent
said anti-Semitism is common in their workplaces and 29 percent say it is
acceptable in their companies.
Those
numbers are music to the ears of Minadeo and his Goyim TV organization, which
has claimed responsibility for anti-Semitic flyer drops in 40 states.
The
group’s goal is to push negative stereotypes of Jews and spread anti-Semitic
myths and conspiracy theories, says a report from the national Anti-Defamation
League. Minadeo makes near-daily recordings in a studio in his home, viewed by
hundreds who often donate money so he can produce more. He also attacks Blacks,
Latinos and LBGTQ persons, while pushing Holocaust denial.
Although
his family owns a Sonoma County restaurant, he has said he left because his
reputation was diminished there by coverage from local news organizations that
spurred threats to burn down his house.
“Jews are
getting to intimidate me, vandalize my house, slander me, assault me, and the
police do absolutely nothing,” he told a reporter.
So he decamped for Florida, and perhaps
that will mean fewer hate crimes in California.
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Email Thomas Elias
at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most
Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,"
is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit
www.californiafocus.net.
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