Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers and the Jews

The Jews Behind the United Farm Workers

When former President Obama called for and then later signed into law a day commemorating the Mexican 'worker activist' Cesar Chavez: (1) who was to all intents and purposes a Mexican communist and as anti-American as you like. It was perhaps a faux pas on his part. Since while it exposed Obama's long-time links with the radical left: (2) it also demonstrated his close links with the jewish community which has become the cornerstone of his presidency (3) (dependent as he is on their continued support and general munificence). (4)

This jewish connection to Chavez goes right back to the beginning of his career as a militant labour organizer given that he was a disciple of the jewish communist Saul Alinsky: whose 'Rules for Radicals' Chavez greatly admired. (5) This spirit of creeping class war, which was very much in the vein of orthodox Social Democratic/Marxist ideas on the dialectical evolution of social conditions and that organizing workers into collectives not revolutionary action was the key to creating a truly socialist state and was something that Chavez used to play the long game with the United States by presenting himself as a relatively benign humanitarian figure (vis-a-vis the Gandhi and Mandela strategies) and thus avoid the very real problems faced by being an overt - as opposed to a covert - communist.

Chavez however was really a figurehead more than anything else and to be fair to the man: he was an expert at the propagandistic 'big gesture' and presenting himself as a Jesus-like figure rather than a bloodthirsty Che Guevara wannabe. The real powers behind the Chavez throne however were unquestionably jewish.

Chavez's first vice president was Irv Hershenbaum. (6) Hershenbaum is in many respects the true architect of the success of the United Farm Workers since he joined the nascent organization as a part-time organizer of strikes in 1972 (progressing to full-time status in 1975) right out of university and has been a senior member of the UFW up till the present day (he is heading up the Contract Campaigns department). (7) Hershenbaum was the brains behind many of the UFW's most successful actions and was also influential in formulating and putting into practice the UFW's media and public relations strategies, (8) which became the bedrock for the 'legend' of Cesar Chavez (although Hershenbaum still speaks very little Spanish in spite of being a devout 'one-worlder'!). (9)

It is then perhaps not surprising to learn that Chavez's long-time personal secretary, media spokesman and general organizational grey eminence Marc Grossman (10) is also jewish. (11) Grossman - like Hershenbaum - is still an integral part of the Chavez propaganda bureau and the UFW decades on: currently holding the position of 'Head of Communications' for the Cesar Chavez Foundation (and being editor-in-chief of the myths propagated about Chavez) these days. (12)

This significant jewish leadership element in a primarily Mexican/Latino trade union becomes even scarier when we realize that for most of its existence (up till fairly recently): the UFW was heavily subsidized by lots of individual donations from liberal/left-wing jews. (13) This occurred to such an extent that the Chavez family began to notice an oddity in so far as a large number of the donations they were receiving came from people with the same first name: 'Rabbi'. (14) It took them a while to figure out (after lots of head-scratching) that 'Rabbi' is a title not a given name.

In other words: the UFW was heavily - if not primarily - funded by large numbers of individual jewish donors, which is almost inexplicable given that the UFW was (and is) primarily geared to advocacy of Mexican/Latino 'rights' and as such is an organization that is generally alien to jewish interests, but can be reasonably held to be tangential to jewish attempts to break up any form of American nationalism and sense of identity by encouraging other ethnic minorities to rise up and 'fight the system' (so-to-speak) thus creating a cacophony of dissident that is almost impossible to deal with without using force and ruthless propaganda tactics.

The jews did not just donate money to Chavez: they provided him with his first 'martyr' in the shape of Nan Freeman who died 'in harness' to the UFW (15) as well as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations declaring any non-union food during boycotts as treif (i.e. not kosher) in an effort to hurt employers and further the revolutionary agenda of the UFW. (16)

Jews also worked organizing the Mexican/Latino farm workers in boycotts for the UFW: one such example is Stephen Lerner who went on to be a major jewish industrial organizer in other unions such as the similarly jewish-run ILGWU. (17) Another is Marshall Ganz who worked for the UFW for sixteen years as well as an academic attached to Harvard, while in 2008 Ganz was intimately involved with Obama's social media strategy in relation to his (successful) campaign for the presidency. (18)

Reading all this one is reminded of the similarly huge jewish presence in the NAACP during its formative and most active years (which are somewhat parallel to the years of major activity for the UFW) as well as the difficulty of explaining this significant jewish presence in organizations that were not for jews or directly served jewish interests without looking at it as an manifestation or conscious strategy of spreading dissension by helping other groups fight against a common foe: European-Americans.

That Chavez had a close personal relationship with the jews is also demonstrated by his frequent holding of a Seder on the jewish holiday of Pesach (viz. Passover), (19) which would be inexplicable without Chavez having a very close and intimate working knowledge of jews and Judaism. As otherwise why would Chavez regularly perform this rather unusual ceremony?

I should also point out that Chavez - in spite of claims he was a model vegan and animal rights proponent - (20) supported Kashruth and all that entails. (21) Kashruth of course contains some of the most barbaric ideas in relation to the slaughter of livestock (Shechita) that have ever existed and it has frequently been banned by countries concerned by the subject of animal rights (Switzerland was the first in the late nineteenth century, while Denmark is the most recent in February 2014). (22)

From this we can see how in reality the United Farm Workers was an organization that was both funded and run by jews: who used Chavez as a quintessential non-jewish front man who could present a friendly ethnic face to the Mexican/Latino farm workers who were the principle target of their left-wing evangelism.

This is still true to this day as the central players in Chavez's old UFW; Hershenbaum and Grossman, are still in place: while another jew (or rather probably part-jewish individual) can be found on the Cesar Chavez Foundation's board in the person of Manuel Bernal (the 'Director of Multi-Family Housing'). (23)

Thus we can see that the United Farm Workers and the Cesar Chavez Foundation are - and always have been - primarily jewish funded and run organizations that operate with the sole purpose of facilitating the creation of a socialist America and more recently the mass migration of the populations of Central and Latin America into the United States (displacing and impoverishing American workers in the process).

References

(1) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/30/presidential-proclamation-cesar-chavez-day

(2) See http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GECON-02-250214.html

(3) See http://allenbwest.com/2013/11/obamas-dangerous-lie-jewish-community/

(4) See http://www.jpost.com/International/Michele-Bachmann-Jewish-groups-sold-out-Israel-for-Obama-344678

(5) http://jewishcurrents.org/march-31-cesar-chavez-day-9624

(6) http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/2012/04/10/1184218/jews-union-bound-by-social-justice.html

(7) http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=about&inc=about_exe.html

(8) Ibid; http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/2012/04/10/1184218/jews-union-bound-by-social-justice.html

(9) Ibid.

(10) http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cesar-607307-chavez-very.html

(11) http://www.newswithviews.com/Lloyd/rees116.htm;http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/2012/04/10/1184218/jews-union-bound-by-social-justice.html

(12) http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/16/local/la-me-cesar-chavez-20110516; https://www.chavezfoundation.org/_page.php?code=014004000000000&page_ttl=Contact+Us&kind=1

(13) http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/2012/04/10/1184218/jews-union-bound-by-social-justice.html

(14) Ibid.

(15) Ibid.

(16) Ibid.; http://jewishcurrents.org/march-31-cesar-chavez-day-9624

(17) Ibid.

(18) Ibid.

(19) http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/2012/04/10/1184218/jews-union-bound-by-social-justice.html

(20) http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_nlinks&b_no=3763

(21) http://jewishcurrents.org/march-31-cesar-chavez-day-9624

(22) On this see Seymour Freedman, 1970, 'The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds', 1st Edition, Bloch: New York, pp. 152-190

(23) http://www.cesarechavezfoundation.org/_page.php?code=011000000000000; 'Bernal' is a surname that comes almost exclusively from the Sephardic jewish community derived as it is from Hebrew.