The "tracking" of what Jews do with their money, who they give it to or what they spend it on is inherently antisemitic.

[PeaceWave]

It was the first day of April, 1933 and Adolf Hitler was launching his economic boycott of the Jewish people. German SA men, under the direction of Hitler, began to position themselves in front of Jewish owned shops. The SA men painted Stars of David on the shop windows, obstructed customers from entering the shops and carried signs with the words...Kauf nicht bei Juden! (Don't buy from Jews!) Alternate signs posted in front of shops not owned by Jews proclaimed that Jewish peoples were banned from entering. Hitler's message was clear...Jews and their money were to be restricted and contained to prescribed areas...Jewish business dealings, Jewish money itself was implicitly tainted...because Jews simply could not be trusted with what they did with their money.

Almost 93 years have passed since Hitler's economic boycott of the Jewish people and yet the world appears to have learned little with regard to the insidious machinations that allow antisemitism to rise and thrive - in plain site. It is not Jewish money that needs to be contained but rather those who pursue the "tracking" who need to be questioned, investigated and outed with regard to their true intentions. This March 28th - No Kings Day - keep in mind the significance of April 1, 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_boycott_of_Jewish_businesses

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. So, we should ignore who AIPAC donates to, and why?

Once again, we must not buy into the fallacy that criticism of the government of Israel, and the pro-Israeli government lobby = antisemitism.

It does not.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Is there something that has happened about someone tracking what Jews do with their money? (nt)

[leftstreet]

3. I want to know where my electeds get their $

Whether it's Bank of America, AIPAC, National Association of Realtors, Blue Cross/Shield, Blackstone ...

just tell me

[Autumn]

4. If a group of people are going to spend a lot of money to buy a politician I want to know who they are

and what that politician is going to do. We have two political parties. AIPAC is not one of them.

[PeaceWave]

5. Five years after the "tracking" of Jews and their money began in Nazi Germany came the "registry" of their wealth...

Five years after the crackdown on Jewish stops...On April 26, 1938, the “Decree for the Reporting of Jewish-Owned Property” issued by Hitler’s government took effect, requiring all Jews in both Germany and Austria to register any property or assets valued at more than 5,000 Reichsmarks (around $2,000 in American currency of the period, or $34,000 today). From furniture and paintings to life insurance and stocks, nothing was immune from the registry. By July 31 of that year, German finance officials had collected paperwork from some 700,000 Jewish citizens—7 billion Reichsmarks-worth of wealth ripe for state-sanctioned theft known as “aryanization.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1938-nazi-law-forced-jews-register-their-wealthmaking-it-easier-steal-180968894/

The "Tracking" of Jews and their money was followed by a "registry" of their wealth was followed by their annihilation. Something again to think about this coming April.

[karynnj]

6. Please explain what you mean by tracking how Jews spend their money

As a Jew, I can think of NO instance where my purchase of anything was tracked because I was Jewish.

If you are referring to how AIPAC spends its money, ALL PACs have and should have their donations to candidates and any political campaigns tracked. Not to mention you don't have to be Jewish to give AIPAC money nor have all Jews given money to AIPAC. I would guess that few Jews on this board have done so.

I take pride in the fact that years ago, roughly 2006, AIPAC representatives left an event at a synagogue I belonged to in a huff because several of us called them on what they presented as facts. Best yet, they were so unhappy with us they left the sign in sheet with emails behind. We took advantage of that to document that we, not they, were correct. While I know at least some had contributed to AIPAC in the past, I suspect and hope we reduced that number ... the opposite they hoped for

An editor of a Jewish newspaper at a different talk noted that while AIPAC claimed to support Israel's positions, they tended to only follow the right wing LIKUD positions.

[fujiyamasan]

7. So please tell us what you are trying to imply...

I don’t hear anyone calling for boycotting “Jewish owned” businesses (unless it was some idiots trying to boycott the local deli a year or two ago). Besides I don’t know what “Jewish money” even means in an American context. For that matter, if you said something about white, black, Latino, Christian, Muslim or Hindu money, I’d also be confused.

If this is about AIPAC well, yeah I think we all ought to know how an organization representing foreign interests is spending their money. That’s the whole point of campaign finance laws — providing transparency to the public. A lot of the politicians getting AIPAC money aren’t even Jewish. They’re Christian, and right wing Christians at that.

If this were about rising antisemitism, I think there’s a valid discussion to be had (yes, incidents such as the attack a week or two ago in Michigan are very disturbing and are part of a series of attacks over the years on Jewish cultural and religious centers and Jews in general — they should be strongly condemned by everyone), but any thinly veiled attempts to tie AIPAC or criticism to Israel to antisemitism fall flat and make a mockery of the seriousness of both US foreign policy in the Middle East, and real antisemitism globally.