The time has come. It is past time, long past time and yet here we are reverting in 2025 to actions more suitable to earlier times, times we thought we had dismantled, declared obsolete and of no more use. No longer would we be going to take people out the back door so that their words would not be heard or under the claim that they would be more protected if they were induced to slink out as thieves in the night, hidden, stifled, to go unheard. However, these stifled words were and are of great value and should not have faced extinguishing simply because there were a bunch of loud mouths out there who threatened violence. Speakers were shut down even as they had followed all the rules and regulations. On the other hand there were those who did not follow the rules. Yet they were not shut down. Why is that? I ask again - why. is. that?
There were those who say that protesters have the right to scream, to chant. Yes, they do. What they do not have the right to do is to scream and chant of death, of violence, of incitement of violence, of plans for violence, and certainly so on campus grounds by outsiders. Many of the non-campus protesters have been exposed as being associated with terrorist groups, with funding by and from these groups, who, interestingly enough, also call for the death of America while living in America. A tad puzzling and a greater tad irritating!
Questions are raised. In the wake of all that has been going on, on campuses round the nation, why are non-campus groups allowed entry? Colleges and universities have the right, no, the duty and responsibility, to shut their gates, close their gates to outsiders with nefarious and dangerous plans to not only shut down the campus group who dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's, but to do violent bodily harm, to close their access to public speaking, to herd them out the back door, if left able to walk!!
That the security forces were the ones to herd them out, shut down the peaceful legitimate assembly, as thieves in the night, does not whitewash that act by calling it a protective move. The violent threatening non campus protesters with no right to be on campus should have been those who were taken away. Not the Jewish group. Not out the back door. Not to be driven away, shut down, deprived of their right of free speech and peaceful assembly - rights guaranteed in the Constitution. As if criminals in the night.
This entire nasty occurrence is particularly offensive due to its location, taking place in a notoriously outed university system, on a viciously active JewHatred campus. The entire California State University establishment is rotten with active and violent antisemitism and particularly so in the San Marcos campus in North San Diego County. Campus authorities had the duty to lock out non campus poison shouting protesters and keep intimidation and threats of violence from being spewed forth onto any campus students. Whatever their cause, whatever their origin. Period.
Words of protest, yes. Words of threats of violence, no. Acts of violence - to be criminally charged and prosecuted. Back doors are to be locked, unused, and front doors wide open to legitimate assembly inside, no interference within, and peaceful protest without. Legitimate, lawful, as it should be. Respectful of the rights of all, even if distasteful. If we are to continue to be America and Americans, this is the only way forward.
This event of March 25 is quite scary and relevant and pointing to the temper of our times, to its ugly possibilities and probabilities, for that matter. It is not a concern for some distant far-off time. It is happening now. Once again.
It began and begins again with words. Graduating to threats and acts of violence. To destruction of property. And finally, to destruction of people, any people, any chosen target. Humanity has developed a well-honed skill for that. On another April 1 the Nazis engaged in an orgy of fire, blood lust, and destruction, but why must we fear it again, today, in 2025, in America?
We should not and will not. No longer. Not again. Not ever. Know that the world knows better now. That we Jews know better now. That we know the capability of mankind. We know the ugliness and inhumanity of which they are capable and too often desirous of. Know there are enough Righteous to stand against, withstand these ugly waves of hate and bloodshed. No matter its origin, no matter the target. No matter its guise and path.
NO! NO! AND NO AGAIN.
No more backdoors. No more abrogation of rights. No more violence, but certainly no more violence unrepaid. Time for the authorities in the world to know, to be able to distinguish between those who have a right to speak and that those who also have a right to speak, but who may not impinge on the rights of the first by threats and acts of violence and death. Time to stop this backdoor policy.
As we approach the holiday of Passover, a holiday celebrating our exodus from slavery and becoming a nation once again, we will not tolerate those who wish to render asunder that nationhood. Upon the heels of Passover, we have three extremely important days in our lives. First is our national, international, day of mourning. We honor the memory of all those martyred during the Holocaust. Men, women, children, infants. It mattered not to their butchers. We will always remember them and honor them and reassure them that such a horror will never be again, ever. EVER!
Kfir, Ariel, forgive us.
Immediately afterwords we commemorate yet another day of mourning. It is Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance, when we remember and mourn those of the Jewish nation, the people of Israel, who have been killed via terrorist attacks, or standing in defense of the nation, the State of Israel, this defender and home of and for all Jewry. We will never bow nor bend to those who would deny us our indigenous, G-d given homeland, a land where there has been permanent Jewish residence, and a permanent place in our hearts and prayers. Always, even in the concentration camps, there was that dream, those prayers, to return to our land. To reestablish the State of Israel. Always present in the consciousness of the Jewish people for we knew our acceptance into the society of any country was never permanently assured. We learned that the hard way. Always - Tzion, Zion. Our thousands who fallen in her name and unfortunately the many who continue to do so, for the hate never ceases, are forever etched into our hearts, always to be remembered and honored.
Finally, we celebrate the refounding, the reestablishment of a Jewish homeland. Once again, reversing the Exile of the millennia. Our Home. Our Land. Our Destiny.
Am Yisroel Chai - Lanetzach.
The nation of Israel lives - Forever!
Yesterday.
Today.
And for all the
On the morrows.
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