Fuel for conspiritory Jew haters in Merrik Garland as Justice

This was a letter sent to two eminent historians 

I'm in the middle of reading "The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives and Antisemitism" and appreciate your telling a story of events in the rare mode of historiography, since consciousness -- from elites to the masses ---is focused on the present, the current elections, values and social stresses that underlie them.  In the Western world, and this country in particular, antisemitism seems an artifact of past times, and the mere raising of the subject outside of academic circles is suspect.  

This is expressed in this article in N.Y. Jewish Week,

“It is a remarkable testament to America that a fourth Jew can be nominated to the court and that his religion is not an impediment,” said Marc Stern, general counsel for the American Jewish Committee.

If confirmed, Garland would fill the seat held by Antonin Scalia, who died last month.

Stern said he believes it unlikely that Garland’s religion will “generate substantial opposition from those who would say there are too many Jews on the court. Nobody is threatening violence against the Jews, as happened in Europe when they thought the Jews were too powerful. … It’s unprecedented in the long history of the diaspora that you have an institution as powerful as the Supreme Court and that there could be four members who are Jewish when Jews constitute less than 2 percent of the population.”

This articles is saying, "We have arrived, and this disproportionate representation on the high court is cause for celebration.

Let's jump forward an unknown period, and assume that there has been a series of Supreme Court decisions that, from the conservative perspective, has fostered the murder of millions of unborn babies and impeded the teaching of Gods holy message.  And, it can be pointed out that these cultural changes have been made by a cabal of five un-elected Justices, of whom 80% are, ethnically at the least, of the Jewish religion.

Those, such as the writer of the above article, choose not to visualize that Jew hatred, something that has existed in various forms for millennia, could surface again.  There are hundreds of jurists with credentials comparable to Merrick Garland who could be nominated for this position with similar juresprudential and partisan values.  Many with a Protestant background, a majority of American citizens with not a single Justice on the Supreme Court, as Antonin Scalia pointed out in the Obergefell decision 

While I do not believe that President Obama gave this much thought, and just worked the political calculus of this nomination, it behooves others to look at the possible adverse consequences.  When someone attempts to discern the reality of "Judeo-Bolshevism" whether it be more accurately a canard or a phenomenon, the first pass is the proportion of Jews in the revolutionary leadership.  For those who want to revive Jew hatred, they need go no further.   That revolution evolved from complex evolving historical causes, while the Supreme Court is structured, lending itself to citing of anomalies of religious-ethnic representation and influence.

I am sending this to two scholars who have explored this area in great depth. I see this as a time-bomb, that while unlikely ever to explode, there being no valid reason for it to ever exist.  While it is unlikely that Mr. Garland will be confirmed by the Senate,  it would be preferable if his withdrawal were made without any reference to the issue that I raise.  There are more anodyne explanations that would suffice.

I do not have the ability to do more than share this with you two individuals, with your status in the intellectual and Jewish community providing a path to ultimate access to Mr. Garland.  Historians, by exploring the past have a unique insight into what can be the shape of the future.  And few adverse outcomes are so easy to prevent as this nomination.

Regards

AR

Since writing this Sonia Sottomeyer answered a question after a speech including this: "I, for one, do think there is a disadvantage from having (five) Catholics, three Jews, everyone from an Ivy League school,"