For centuries, for millennia, Jews have been persecuted, chased from pillar to post and then the pillars and posts were destroyed, instantly and inherently, implicitly and explicitly, providing for ultimate genocidal campaigns against the Jewish nation, its people, from the unborn and newborn to the most aged. Roots to flowering branches - all were to be extirpated from the makeup of the world population.
Against the ravages of mankind against them, Jews have survived, flourishing during good times and hunkering down amid terrible times. The last major attempt to destroy the People of The Book almost succeeded, as Hitler managed to kill 75% of Europe's Jewish population and the rest of the world's population of Jewry was well documented in preparation for its annihilation.
Ghastly in devisement, even ghastlier in execution, these constant drumbeats "kill the Jews" have continued apace, forever rearing its ugly, deadly head, serviced by multiple leaders of society who spouted the same recuring filthy false canards of hate. Whilst violent to the extreme in Europe and Moslem lands, though it existed within the USA, it was generally nonviolent here, mainly expressed sotto voce, not quite the done thing.
Despite the quotas in universities, despite the unspoken antisemitism on Madison Avenue, law firms, and so much more, Jews were able to establish themselves, prosper, follow their religion at their desired level. They became comfortable and an integral part of the weave of the fabric of life in the nation. But always, beneath it all there was the taint of antisemitism just waiting to take to the mainstream. Now it has done so.
Killings. Murder. Random attacks. Vicious media buy in and publication of this 'new' but not so new antisemitism. The thin disguise of this viciousness as 'anti Zionism', demonization of Israel. The strewing of leaflets among Jewish neighborhoods, threats, rallies where openly, vicious antisemitism is proudly vaunted, and for that see the latest one in LA. So entrenched is this ugly movement that the ugly 'new' GOP has selected antisemites as their new leadership. Kari Lake. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Laura Bobert. Ron Johnson. Mastriano. Candidates for upper state positions, especially in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona.
Nor can we simply overlook the filthy mouthings of Ye, the former Kanye West, who has become the latest vicious hate spouting puppet of these white antisemites so eager to spill Jewish blood upon our nation's lands. Apparently, Jews are the cause of bad diagnoses of medical conditions, even creating these medical issues, are the wily, sneaky manipulators of people, control the media, in all aspects, desire to take over the world.
Would that this was so, that so great a power was in the hands of this people, for surely, peace would reign in the land as they followed the urging of the Bible to welcome all, to seek out, run after, justice, to take care of widows and orphans, to crush evil and injustice, to insure fair treatment of employees, to obey the rules of a civilized society, with the Ten Commandments the early seed of such a world.
What we have instead is a new America where universities establish 'safe' places from Jews. Really!! Where Amherst's student paper writes and glorifies the murders, the terrorism of Hamas, how right and fitting it is that they kill so many Israelis and never mind the collateral murders along the way. Universities now confessing their anti-Jewish quotas of the fifties and sixties, create new hostile conditions for Jews on campus and 'suggest' they might find a more 'comfortable' place elsewhere. Well, thank you very much-NOT!
When Trump accuses American Jews of being 'bad Jews' for not supporting him, for not supporting an Israel created in his image and need, enough!!
There goes the alarm, shrieking in our ears. The clappers of bells strike hard, loud and long. Again, the seeding of the dual loyalty accusations, ever and for always. Again, the attacks, verbal and physical. Again, the isolation and devaluation of a people. Always the denigration, demonization, the devaluation, the accusation of being subhuman. Always the on-hand scapegoat.
The long lasting, through generations, of trauma and its harmful effects on descendants of victims of hatred has become clearer. Hence, no wonder all this recurrent, reviving, bitter, acidic antisemitism calls out these genetic memories, these traces of damages of a bitter bloody past, once believed to have been vanquished. How wrong we were. ARE.
There is a light in this dark tunnel we are passing through. Even as "there's an echo of a pain that people feel" there is also help. For millennia, Jews have followed the Bible and the Books that followed. Even as this belief was derided, castigated, via a new scientific advance in the field of geophysics combined with the earth's magnetic properties, much of the Bible, the invasions written about, have been closely dated and verified.
Thus, hope. All the promises of the Bible. The promise of a nation as numerous as the sands and the stars in the Heavens. The promise of a land of their own. A land and world where peace shall reign as swords are beaten into ploughshares and the ways of war are learned no more.
Hope. Light. Belief. Relief.
But meanwhile, the pain is sharp, cutting, present and dangerous. Life threatening. Most definitely.
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