By Diane Bederman
What is going on in America? What has happened to the Jews? Generation after generation an Amalek arises calling for our death; bringing forward blood libels against us. New ones, reused ones, revised ones. America is the home of the brave and the land of the free because of the Jews. The Founding Fathers brought the ethic the Jews delivered in the desert 3500 years ago, to the shores of America and then embedded it in their constitution. America sits on the teaching of the Jews.
Yet, here you are, dear Jews, standing with Jew-haters. Protecting and defending them. Ilhan Omar is not our friend. Rashid Tlaib is not our friend. Neither is AOC. Nor their friends Linda Sarsour and Louis Farrakhan. Please tell me you know this. And if you don’t, what rock has been your home these past four years? You are standing with people who hate Jews, and hate the ethic that underpins America. They hate America from the bottom up and you stand with them because you stand with the Democrat Party of the 2020’s. You stand with Bernie Sanders who hates Israel. You stand with Joe Biden, who is not now, nor has never been, especially as VP to Obama, a friend of Israel. But that doesn’t bother you. You are Progressives. You promote tolerance and inclusion and accommodation and diversity and open the borders to hateful teachings. It’s OK. It’s progressive and inclusive. You seem to think that you will be welcome in America, forever. Like the German Jews in Germany and the French Jews of France. How did that work out?
You think if you stand with those who hate you they won’t hate YOU; not YOU, the good, progressive Jew. It’s the other Jews. But not you. And anyway, the Democrats don’t really mean what they say. They aren’t really antisemitic. OK, so a few members of congress. Did you not study how Hitler took over? As if he were the first of the Amalekites?
I see posts on Facebook that are forever maligning President Trump. But he is the only leader in the free world protecting Israel. And he is only leader in America to call out the Jew haters in government. Schumer isn’t. He’s protecting them.
Hitler must be qvelling in Hell.
And what is going on in Israel? Are you so comfortable in your homeland after 70 years that you no longer fear Galut? Are you so progressive that you forgot your connection to OUR ethic that teaches the difference between good and evil? You voted in a government with Muslims who want the destruction of Israel-from the inside out! “MK Heba Yazbak (Joint Arab List) last week told an Arabic radio channel that her political program “opposes and fights state Zionism.”
What were you thinking? Is it some kind of suppressed death wish? Is there mass mental illness in Israel? You not only invited the horse into the gates, you let him out to spread havoc over the land. Israel is the stumbling block in the Middle East. You are the only stumbling block to the Islamic dream of another caliphate, yet you democratically put into place a government that wants the Jews out. Think about that. You elected these people. The Germans elected Hitler.
Are we so cavalier as to believe that we are safe? Because of Israel? Or safe in the diaspora; after all didn’t the Shoah teach the world about Jew hatred?
If we end up in Galut again, we will have deserved it.
But, even that support didn’t make the American Jewish community support staunch friends like Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon, Wendell Wilkie, Governor Thomas Dewey, and there was another friend in Congress then, named Thomas Dewey, and LBJ. in the aformentioned 40s, 50s and 60s. Ironic that this film about Eddie Cantor in Israel comes from the Spielberg archive. The Arab league actually put sanctions on Cantor personally! Spielberg would never make a film like this. HIs sister Nancy, did. But she’s the anomaly. Nancy Spielberg was the producer. Roberta Grossman the director. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNCVYCXeaE https://www.amazon.com/Above-Beyond-Roberta-Grossman/dp/B00VJERASG
No they didn’t. MKs are bolting Blue and White and polls show that, in the event of a fourth election, Bibi’s coalition would easily win 61 mandates. As for American Jews, so what else is new? No, they don’t fear the galut, for the most part. They did choose it, after all, and Israel is not a priority for them, nor does Israel need their funding (which mostly goes towards their own, often subversive or irrelevant pet projects, anyway) and most of the political support for Israel is not coming from them, so why should Israel concern itself with their opinions? They aren’t helping and they don’t have the power to harm. A few years ago, I actually met an Orthodox Jewish immigrant from Germany, who was outraged that Bibi told European Jews, it was time to come home. I guess this was one Orthodox Jew who didn’t believe in the ingathering of the exiles? But, typical for these parts. I’m in Manhattan. I don’t know about Brooklyn. But, according to every poll, about 75 percent of American Jews, agree with him. And that’s been true for generations, though not to such an extent, it’s true. Campus Hillel’s holding “Nakba” days? HIAS championing Muslim immigration as it’s central “Jewish” cause? Even now with the Virus rampant! It’s gotten worse, but it’s been true for a long time. The support Israel got from liberal Jews in the 40’s, 50, and 60’s was the anomaly. By the 70s, they didn’t care about the Russian Jews.
Diane,
Jews are clearly having an identity problem as are Yankees like myself. If you went by the ethics of my neighbors, you would think that Elder Brewster was a vegan homosexual who practiced yoga.
I think we are all under God’s judgment. It seems we’ve been in a downward slide since 1967. Israel gave up Sinai, then Lebanon, then the heart of its country. The US lost Vietnam, then helplessly watched our embassy staff paraded blindfolded in Tehran; then we were driven from Lebanon in humiliation; then 9/11, then the ’08 crash, followed by Obama, America’s Penitent-in-Chief; then Benghazi; and now the corona virus: which first smacked our Chinese and Iranian (and European, but don’t tell anyone) enemies in the kisser, only to finish with a slap at the US and Israel. Only the Third World countries escaped; but they have problems enough of their own.
I’ve never known a pestilence to go from one person to the entire world (including Greenland & Alaska!) in four months; nor have I known a plague in my lifetime that affected world leaders and sent armies into quarantine. This is, and these have been, God’s judgement against the US and Israel; and the rest of the world has not gone untouched; but our leaders continue to spout out defiance: We will rebuild! Stronger! Higher! Greater!
Not. When will Jews leave the Galut? Will they? There’s no scriptural guaranty that they will. In fact, they’ve become Israel’s greatest enemies. The Jewish Homeland might be better off without them.
@ Diane:
Your article is on the mark!!!
@ erwag:
Thank you
G-d bless you for your courage to speak the truth, Diane Bederman.