Dear Jews, we have failed miserably at teaching generations one of the most important lessons of the Holocaust

Diane Bederman | Nov. 1, 2024

Dear Jews, we have failed miserably at teaching generations one of the most important lessons of the Holocaust.

Somewhere along the way, we forgot to teach our children that a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. From time immemorial, there have been all kinds of Jews. Especially after the Enlightenment when Napoleon gave Jews their freedom from the ghettos. He declared France the homeland of the Jews, after it became obvious he could not establish their national home in Palestine.  He was one of the people most responsible for their transition from enduring medieval restrictions inside ghettos to becoming citizens of modern nation states.

Oh the freedom.

But not.

Jew hatred never went away. It just shapeshifts every generation or so.

No matter what causes you defend, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

Do you Democrat Progressive Jews really think your Progressive DEI,WOKE friends care about you? Have they fought against Jew hatred on campus and in the streets the way Jews fought for the rights of black people to vote or Jews standing with Palestinians? Do you think they will stand by you if Jew haters come after you?

WATCH

A Jewish man and his five year son were confronted by a cafe owner in Oakland, California over a Star of David hat. The owner stated the symbol was violent and demanded they leave.The man asked if the cafe did not allow Jews. The man was told they “might not.”

Hmmm. As a friend of mine pointed out – is this 1939 or 2024 Germany? America…what has changed?

Seems a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

That lesson should have been engraved in our collective memory following the Nazi incineration of our people. In the end, the Germans and the Nazis, didn’t care what you wore, or where you worked. Or your position in society. All that mattered was that you had Jewish blood in your body. According to the Nuremberg Laws, a person with three or four Jewish grandparents was a Jew.

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

There were so many Jews who looked around themselves in Germany and saw the more recent Jewish refugees, looking rather bedraggled and still practicing Torah Judaism. And they looked at them and said I am not that kind of Jew!

No matter how a Jew dresses. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

In the end the modern, progressive, assimilated, acculturated Jews of Germany went into the ovens with the other Jews.

Have we learned that lesson?

Have the Jews, today, learned that lesson? When taught about the Holocaust, were they taught about the hate for a Jew no matter the religiosity?

Based on what I am seeing today, especially in America, the answer, sadly, is no.

Look at the number of Jews voting for the Democrats.

Since the 1930s, American Jews overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party, which reliably received well over 80% of the Jewish vote in both national and statewide elections. But over the past 25 years, Republicans have made the case that its policies toward Israel, and the Democratic Party’s drift away from Israel, should shift the electoral priorities of American Jews.But…

In a poll of key battleground states released by the Jewish Democratic Council of America, 71% of Jewish voters said they would support Harris and just 26% said they would support Trump.

Ask yourself, how is that possible Jews continue to support the Democrats when, under Obama and four years under Biden/Harris, the Democrats gave billions of dollars to Iran, a country calling for the death of Israel and America? Iran, a country almost on its economic knees under Donald Trump? A country that made October 7 a reality?

How is it possible that so many Jews vote Democrat when, under Biden/Harris, particularly since October 7 2023, Jew hatred has skyrocketed on campuses everywhere, and on city streets?

October 7 was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust and yet Jews vote for a party that is associated with the KKK and a party that has its own Hamas Squad Jew-hating Muslims. When was the last time; the first time Harris/Biden called on the American people to put an end to the Jew hatred? When did they admonish the universities? When did they go after Jew haters in the streets?

You stand with Kamala Harris who declared that Israel…ISRAEL.. was committing a genocide? Gaza has Israeli hostages; does that matter at all? Ukraine can kill all the Russians they want and receive military aid from America – seems without restrictions, and no one calls on Russia to provide aid. But Israel? Seems the Democrats don’t treat the Jews the same away as the Ukrainians. Ukraine – home of the Azov Battalion-Nazis.

Then there is Trump-you know…hitler. Who said:

“I will defend our American Jewish population. I will protect your communities, your schools, your places of worship and your values. We will remove the jihadist sympathizers and Jew haters. We’re going to remove the Jew haters who do nothing to help our country, they only want to destroy our country,”

What could be better for the Jews and America? When the Jews are safe, the West is safe. Why have we  as Jews  not learned that? We are called the canary in the mine. OK. The canary is screaming. And one party has decided to listen to the screams but you Jews vote Democrat.

Sure there was a time when Democrats cared about the Jews. Not anymore. Yet you progressive Jews refuse to see the writing on the wall. And that is because you never learned that a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. You did not learn the most important lesson of the Holocaust.

You may think you are safe. Like the well-to do Jews in Germany. But you are not.

And it isn’t about you. It is about the rest of the Jews: the non-assimilated Jews.  They are in trouble. They are attacked at their synagogues and restaurants and homes and on the streets. The number of antisemitic attacks in the US soared 200% to more than 10,000 incidents this past year — the most ever recorded by the Anti-Defamation League and fueled by a massive jump on college campuses.

At least 1,200 of this past year’s hateful incidents occurred at universities — a deeply troubling 500% increase between Oct. 7, 2023, and Sept. 24, 2024, when compared to the 200 such occurrences in the same period last year, the ADL said. The ADL. Not the most Conservative of organizations.

And you Jewish Democrats are OK with that?

Never Forget.

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

From the Ethics of the Fathers: “Rabbi Tarfon used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it.”

Diane Weber Bederman