This week's postings have all been connected. I must say I feel the better for it, for having said - written- of much that has disturbed me, as I have not spoken out as much as I should have. It is good to air that which eats away at oneself, albeit in a sane manner, not ranting and raving, nor screaming threats in capital letters or whatever similar manner one can gin up.
It has long bothered me how we pick and choose victims and beneficiaries. It has long confused me as to why on earth Jews are too often scapegoated or penciled in for havoc, robbery, rape and murder. Why Czarist Russia stole Jewish boys and trained them to be soldiers, for terms of 25 years. Gone, even should they survive.
America went to war with Britain largely over the impressment of Americans into their navy, a very big deal. Now think how big a deal it was for the Jews of Russia as they knew very well that the chief motivation was to 'disappear' the Jews, 1/3 by emigration, 1/3 by extermination and 1/3 by forced conversion.
Hitler followed that policy of persecution of Jews through the ages- expel, murder, kidnap children, forced conversions, murder and mayhem, burn as heretics, impoverish and restrict - ghettoes and curfews and required odd clothing. The new addition was the plan to eliminate Jews totally. To the last one on earth, after having taken every last bit of possessions, including their very hair, and enslaving them to death with nothing left, virtual walking skeletons.
Not 6 million. Not anonymous victims as were the Jews slaughtered by the Crusaders on their way to 'Holy' slaughter blessed by the Pope. But first, they practiced - on the Jews of the countries they passed through. No boredom, no growing stale in skills. No, those Jews and all slaughtered Jews, are not faceless. They were the elderly grandparents, the extended families, the butcher, the rabbi, the beggar, the doctor, the former political official, the judge. They were fathers and mothers, clinging to their children, their babies, their struggling elderly of the community, bereft of their families, alone, frightened, confused, as they waited to be shot at a ravine or walked into a shower which showered them indeed - with poison gas, as they comforted their children, as they died in agony, choking, their cries of Mama, Papa, going unanswered.
No, not anonymous. My cousins, great aunts, uncles, my great grandmother for whom I am named, thrown into a boxcar. Her only comfort was in knowing one daughter would survive in America and she had a daughter with her -if that is any comfort as one knows only death awaits.
No, they are not, were not, never will be - anonymous.
Yet today there are crazed marchers chanting of another Holocaust, one of their creation, even as they deny the truth of the Holocaust. Even as Spain, to this day has a truly unfortunate definition of a Jew and Judaism.
“These descriptions are the product of a medieval and renaissance terminology of rejection, envy, and hatred directed at the Jews"
a sign of an antisemitic prejudice still prior to the Edict of Expulsion of 1492 that has been maintained throughout the centuries,”
“Jew,” - translates to a “greedy or usurious” person.
The entry for the word “judiada” — which notes that the term “originated with antisemitic intent” — , “a dirty trick or an action that is detrimental to someone,”
Nope, no progress here. As for other nations, France remains a hotbed of antisemitism as do the Arab and Moslem nations, England and just about most nations continue to retain that stinking attitude.
America is no different. Day after day we now read of this professor or that fired, denied tenure, offer of employment rescinded. The most recent one was supposedly due to a statement made years ago posing some questions as he continued, not against DIE, in fact, pro, but sensible, meaningful ones re the effectiveness of it. Bam!! Offer rescinded. 55 grad students just messed up both personal and professional life. Because he did not toe the line marching lock step with them. Verboten!! Free speech apparently ok for PC speech only. Certainly, his name, obviously Jewish, did not help as there is a rather frightening heightening amount of antisemitism in the USA.
At 4% of the population, Jews have fought way, way over their fighting weight and have done well in this country, always remembering to contribute, to better society. It has grown very uncomfortable of late, with the vitriolic memes and tropes of the haters, their voices louder, their deeds more violent, planned and financed quite well. This statement was made by a former Congresswoman from Brooklyn cooperating with grossly antisemitic and antiblack people, yet there she is with this trash.
"...shared a picture of the Twin Towers burning, with a hand slotting in a puzzle piece with "Zionists" written across it, to make up the full sentence "Zionists did it." She captioned the tweet "The Final Piece of the Puzzle."
" ...conspiracies regarding the Rothschilds, which claim that the famous Jewish family controls the world's wealth and financial institutions", as weii as claims that "powerful people conspire to kidnap children and have blood rituals," a belief which is directly linked to antisemitic blood libel.
All leading to this jewel!!
“CAN BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER DEFEAT OUR COMMON ENEMY?” with a Star of David under the word “ENEMY.”
No, no shortage of antisemitism and yet, most of it goes unreported, or lumped together with other hatreds, always minimized. A synagogue is invaded with terrible consequences, made mention of and then were thrown in the same bag with "as well as other acts of hatred." I believe deeply in the goal of improving society, in all being allowed equal chances to gain equal pieces of the pie, but not to simply place separate despicable acts over others because one is about one group and the other set arranged about the second group.
All hate, all bias, all acts arising out of these awful philosophies are anathema. One is not better nor lesser or of more importance, nor to be an exaggeration so as to attain more political power. To eat the whole pie.
That, my friends is not democratic. That, my friends, is an incremental step on a road to the destruction of democracy.
All hate is atrocious. All violence based on hate and bias must have severe consequences and not a slap on the wrist as in distributing hate 'mail' and paying a fine for littering. Is that appropriate?
Is it? Not in my mind. Not in what I read. Not in what I see. That is the problem with the DIE mindset at this point, almost counterproductive to such a degree that the backlash has begun and is consuming other worthy causes as it runs rampant and amok.
That is the ugly truth of it all and there is no rhyme nor reason for it or for it to be combated in a seriously flawed manner.
We can combat it only united, only together, as a society out for improvement.
Only together, only in unity.
Tomorrow.
And together.
Together. Only and always together.
Together, always together.
Together, united for good.
Together.
Together.
We can heal the nation.
HEAL THE WORLD.
HEAL YITZY!
Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah
May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu.
AMEN. AMEN
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