On Monday, a columnist at Salon.com named Brittany De LaCretas authored an article titled Trump-era anti-Semitism changed in my family, we started going to synagogue. The author says that until recently, she had, quote, considered myself a non-practicing Jew, a reformed atheist who found my way back to some sort of spirituality and began to embrace the cultural history of Judaism that I was raised with. But she hadn't stepped into synagogue in years, until Trump. Dela Kretas writes, quote, But then a news alert came across the screen of my phone, three days before Trump's inauguration. The Jewish community center, a few miles from my home, had been evacuated following a bomb threat. I felt my palms begin to sweat as I stared at the notification in disbelief, jaw slightly slack, not here, not now. Anti-Semitism, which until this time in my life has been only a theory, instantly became incredibly real. Even here in the liberal bubble of Massachusetts, hatred is alive and well. The JCC bomb threats suspects, it turns out, were a leftist journalist and a Jewish teenager with mental problems, but the JCC threats were merely an entreeks to target the real anti-Semites. Quote, anti-Semitic hate crimes are at their highest levels in years. Jewish community centers around the country are getting bomb threats at an alarming rate. Steve Bannon, an anti-Semite, is in the White House. Swastikas appear like hideous confettietti decorating walls and buildings all over the country.

Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized, and while President Trump may have reminded us about his Jewish family members and assured us at a recent press conference that we're going to see a lot of love under his administration, so far, I don't see it. Never mind, we don't have any suspects in the cemetery vandalisms yet. never mind that Bannon isn't an anti-Semite, I should know, since I'm an Orthodox Jew who worked with him for two years daily, and think he's a garbage human being for other reasons. Now, I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't upset by the level of anti-Semitic vitriol I received from some Trump supporters during the last election cycle. According to the Anti-Defamation League, I was the top journalistic recipient of anti-Semitism on Twitter by a wide margin.

I received thousands upon thousands of overtly anti-Semitic tweets during the campaign.

But that was not why I went to Shul and kept kosher or turned off my computer for Shabbat.

I did all of those things because Judaism is my religion and my way of life.

I practiced Judaism not in opposition to anti-Semitism, but because Judaism has real true value. De LaCretas isn't actually interested in Judaism. She's interested in redefining

Judaism to mean leftism and then saying that she's rededicated to her leftism because of Trump.

To her, Judaism is social justice warrior stuff, an excuse to virtue signal and push leftist values.

Here's how she's, here's how she describes Judaism, quote, now more than ever, I want to teach my children what it means to be Jewish. Our faith has a long history of resistance. No matter how many times history has tried to erase us to wipe us out, we have survived. We have resisted our own demise and we have fought for the rights of others. Our people were active in the civil rights movement and fighting alongside black folks in the 1950s and 60s. Today, my family has Black Lives Matter signs in our home and on our shirts. Before my oldest daughter could even walk, she marched with me as a Jew for the liberation of Palestine, strapped to my chest in a sling. It is through complacency that we can become perpetrators of the oppression we were once victims of via a vote for Trump or belief in marginalized people's ability to bootstrap their way to success. It is through turning towards instead of turning away that we connect to our roots as oppressed people. And it is this Judaism, the one that centers the fight for justice that I connect to. It is the one that finally makes sense. Instead of turning away from our community, we are choosing to become part of it for the first time in our adult lives, unquote. This is horse crap. Judaism is about

a particular set of beliefs and practices. It's wonderful that Jews were active in the civil rights

movement, and they certainly called upon the Bible for support, so did Martin Luther King Jr., of course.

But marching for the liberation of Palestine, while Palestinians murder Jews in the

streets and elect Hamas, is not Judaic. It's anti-Judaic. Neither is marching for the Black Lives Matter

movement, which castigates police and makes innocent Black Americans more vulnerable to the predations

of crime. And it's certainly not a Judaic concept to shirk personal responsibility and

suggest that people can't rise in a free society. De La Cretas article is only important because it demonstrates that for the secular left, religious practice is a charade. It's just a way to claim marginalization and minority status rather than abiding by the dictates of a religion that actually demands something of its adherence. If De La Cretas truly wants to participate in Judaism, she should start with the synagogue and let it shape her rather than the other way around. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. This has turned into a very, very busy newsday. President Trump has signed an executive order on religious freedom. I thought I would be celebrating. Unfortunately, I cannot because it's a crappy executive order. Honestly, God, President Trump, do better than this. He's also not doing a great job on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, which I will talk about. Plus, Trump care is going to be rammed through the house, and we'll go through the details on what this crap sandwich looks like. But before we get to all of that enlightening and uplifting news, we have to, and I would like to say thank you to our advertisers over at Wink. So if you are somebody who doesn't know anything about wine, if you're

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