Unknown? Buried in the midst of time? Unable to be formulated? Or simply impossible to answer? For sure we can answer the perennial question of little ones as to why the sky is blue, but to answer a question we should never have been asked or contains impossibilities in its structure is rather challenging, to say the least. Yet, time and again, such questions are posed. Sometimes brutal in their simplicity. Sometimes even elegant in their twisted misuse of language. Sometimes even appearing to be reasonable until one looks just that tad beneath the surface and sees the ugly truth behind that question.
This is the case with the questions regarding anti Semitism. Or rather, the pumped up even more toxic JewHatred of our times. A hatred which has spread in pandemic manner throughout the entire world, from countries large and small, dictatorships or democratic. All seem to have much to say. Most of the much they have to say is, shall we say, oppositional to the possibility of a safe and secure life for people of Jewish origin, institutions, even for viewpoints that a majority of Jews might espouse. Even when Hate speech and crimes are banned, by law, that which is regarding Jews is valued and allowed. Much of the time we get an "it is being investigated, "even though theintent is clear and the actions and speech are vile to the nth degree and are dripping with venom.
Of late, many of our children have come to us bewildered as to what has happened. Children clearly raised as Americans, mainstream, with sports heroes and ambitions and lifestyles similar to all, are now questioning. Why do these same sports heroes smear the Jewish people? Why do actors feel compelled to speak of their hate for me and mine from a stage? Why are my friends no longer my friends? Why do I feel so alone? Even adults echo these feelings, and I have lost count of the number of adults who have been stunned by the desertion of both their non-Jewish friends and the Jewish deluded who think that joining with the retrogressive "Progressives” will confer immunity upon them and theirs. It won't, it doesn't. It never has. But some people never learn, much to their detriment.
And so here we are. How do we answer those questions? To be honest, there are no answers, for these questions have no validity, no right to exist. In turning to answer these questions, trying to explain antisemitism, we fall into the trap of explaining away the "error” of these anti-Semitic creatures. It is not upon us to do that, to find explanations of logic and acceptability, for there is actually no answer. There is no reason behind Anti Semitism and all attempts to explain the reasons are simply attempts to whitewash those wallowing in its filth.
Any attempt and explanation proffered, such as Jews stand out, or they eat differently, or dress differently, or believe differently, or turning to the vile retreads of the past, quite present in our todays, Jews killed our divinity, accusations of blood libel, of controlling the world, of being both communists and capitalists and anything at all in between, any crime, any criminal activity or trend, it never ends and is a Sisyphean labor, never to be completed. In trying to explain it all away, we are actually conferring it with acceptance and validity. Allowing for ever more, always more, to be laid upon Jews. It has been so since the first Jew, Avraham, chose to answer his Lord's call and go where he was directed, to live a life based on faith and belief and obedience to the Lord, the One G-d.
In trying to use those nonreasons as reasons, to be explained away, to be presented as grievous errors of thinking and emotion, we are actually legitimatizing that which is anathema and has no place within this world. These haters, these people of great character flaws, have fallen, bought into deep involvement in the vileness of it all. In explaining it away or in trying to "understand" why they feel this way, is to aid and abet and justify that which has no truth within, for in so doing we are actually excusing their ignorance and their hate.
What needs to be maintained for always and ever is that there is no reason for anti-Semitism. There is nothing to be explained. Nothing to be excused. In fact, there is no reason for anti any group of people, for if we fully, truly understand our differences and similarities, hatred of others will be moot. However. humans tend to be creatures of superstition, have a need to claim superiority over someone, anyone, in order to validate their lives. Thus, here we are.
Perhaps people hate us because they don't understand how we, this small, oppressed, scattered people, over the course of three millennia, much hostility, managed to survive. Outlived hostile empires and nations, plans for their extermination. How they remained for the most part as a unified nation, no matter how scattered and repressed and persecuted. A people keeping their prayers, their beliefs, their innate and forever desire to return to their ancestral home, Zion, Israel, all intact. For the most part a united people understanding the importance of the strength of that tie, of all the ties that bound us together and helped us survive.
How did we survive? Why did we survive? For that, I can only say look to the Heavens Above for there is no logical answer other than knowing we have the Hand of the Lord with us, His Eyes upon us, always, endowing us with the capability of the strength to defeat all our enemies.
All the yesterdays, the todays, the tomorrows will always be here for us, lighting the path before us, giving us the strength to move on. Assured in our knowledge that the nation of Israel lives forever. Our truth will inevitably defeat the lies of the haters and perhaps one day we can all hope for a world draped with flowers and the serenity of peace for all.
Perhaps. One day. Seems quite far, does it not?
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