To Heal the World? Quotes

“But if you read the text more attentively, you realize that this isn’t what happened. Apparently not one to let a crisis go to waste, Joseph the viceroy takes the opportunity of the famine to enslave the Egyptian people to Pharaoh. Instead of returning the grain to the people during the years of scarcity, he sells it to them. First, the Egyptians expend all of their money for it, and then they exchange all of their cattle for it, and finally they offer their land and their very bodies to Pharaoh in return for sustenance (Gen. 47:13–26). Joseph readily accepts their proposition. And to establish beyond doubt that Pharaoh now owns the Egyptians and their land, Joseph conducts a mass population transfer of Egyptians across the country—a strategy used by authoritarian governments in more recent times as well.8 Thus grain that Joseph had forcibly seized from the people of Egypt during the years of plenty was now returned to them in exchange for their servitude. This is the consequence of depending upon the government, the Bible seems to say.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

“Lerner advances, whereby, in lieu of private property, mankind establishes a sabbatical program of job rotations over six years, with every human assuming a new occupation every year and devoting the seventh year to rest.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

“Tikkun olam is not about turning Jews into Marxists. It’s about rebranding Marxism as Judaism.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

“coercive philanthropy”—the idea that many charitable services should be provided by the state.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

“The tools needed to repair the world are all liberal ones. This isn’t charity—it’s leftist politics. And it’s all in the name of Judaism.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

“Social justice is a political philosophy that advocates the redistribution of income—and sometimes even wealth and other property—in order to achieve economic egalitarianism.”
― Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel