Peloni: Who indeed will fight for our civilization as the barbarian hordes stand inside the wire? I would suggest that the fight which has thus far been abandoned was begun with the recent American rejection of the pro-Iranian Harris campaign to replace the pro-Iran Biden administration. Indeed, the Trump administration will stand the test of how successful American influence might stem this rising antisemitic tide, but to be honest, I think it is fair to suggest that it should be substantial. Recall that it was the advancement of Jew-Hatred among the masses by the Dems and their pro-Iran allies which have both funded and permitted this plague to run amok without the slightest consequence being visited upon the perpetrators. We should expect this to be reversed in the extreme following Trump’s inauguration.
Democratic, Western governments have become cowardly and unwilling to defend the liberal principles they promote on paper.
Shoshana Bryen • JPA • November 12, 2024
While hordes of politicians, celebrities, “influencers” and “wannabes” somberly intone “Never Again,” 86 years after Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” that ushered in the Holocaust, cowardice reigns in the West.
“Never again” is a pledge of Jewish defiance and Israel its embodiment. From the physical borders of the state and from Entebbe to Amsterdam, wherever Jews are threatened, Israel has taken on the role of defender of the Jewish people. If one is an optimist, “Never again” was also a way for the European community to verbalize that it understood the magnitude of its crimes in World War II. Repeating the mantra, Europe pledged it would never let it happen again, and its allies—primarily, the United States, Canada, Australia and others—were partners in that pledge.
The first is right, admirable and proper.
The second is either untrue or a broken promise.
The mantra of “never again” presumed that the lessons of the Holocaust were universal and that “genocide”—which, according to the United Nations, is “the organized killing groups of people for their race, religion or national origin”—would be universally rejected and that the rejection is permanent.
It is neither.
Despite the bastardization of the word “genocide,” there are real post-World War II genocides to consider. Here are a few: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s; the 1994 attacks on the Tutsis in Rwanda; attacks by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Iraq’s Yazidis (it took the United Nations 10 years to label that one at a genocide); the Kurds of Northern Iraq who were subjected to chemical weapons attacks in Halabja; a two-phased attack against the Rohingya in Myanmar; the ISIS persecution of Iraqi Turkmen, which was recognized in 2017 by the Iraqi parliament as a genocide; and, one year later, the sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen girls and women was recognized as a one by the United Nations. The United States has labeled China’s repression and killing of Muslim Uyghurs a “genocide.”
There is more, but what does this short list tell you?
Firstly, the organized killing of various ethnic and religious groups is on the radar around the globe. Secondly, there remains, among some people, the core belief that their ethnicity, their religion and their standards make other people less than human and, therefore, worthy of elimination. And they are armed.
What does that tell you about the Amsterdam pogrom? After all, that didn’t happen in the distant mountains of Iraq or the fields of Myanmar.
It tells you that liberal, democratic Western governments have become cowardly and are unwilling to defend the liberal, democratic principles they promote on paper. They talk the talk—King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said “Never again” and apologized for the pogrom—but so what?
Europe is inundated with Islamist immigration, legal and illegal (that’s Islamist, a subset of Muslim), and the radicals create fear among Muslim and non-Muslim people. Every major city in Western Europe has seen hordes of radicals marching, calling for the destruction of Israel and often for the killing of Jews.
In Australia, on the other side of the world, “Gas the Jews” was written on signs in Sydney.
In major American cities, Jews are attacked—sometimes as individuals identifiable as Jews by their clothing, sometimes when they gather in groups. Jewish communal buildings and certain American universities are dangerous places for Jews as well. Jewish-owned or kosher establishments have been vandalized in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC.
It isn’t about Israel. It is about Jews. And about the wider Western construct as made clear by pro-Hamas, anti-American graffiti in Washington.
Nothing but Western liberal cowardice explains it. Western governments let in people with entirely illiberal beliefs. They let lawlessness run rampant in immigrant neighborhoods and then beyond. They allowed these groups to have schools separate from and contrary to the liberal education given to others.
As Congressman Ritchie Torres said, “A society that fails to stigmatize antisemites will get more of them.”
Now, these same governments are afraid of the mobs of Islamists and the Iran- and Qatar-funded, pro-Hamas, antisemitic, anti-Western radicals. The governments know that those people are willing to kill. They do so across the Middle East and Africa, and they will do it in Europe and America. Yet the governments are willing to appease the mob as long as the mob hates Jews.
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) epitomized the problem when he told the administration at Columbia University to ignore concerns about antisemitism, saying that it was a problem for Republicans and that they should “keep their heads down.”
Keeping your head down may temporarily keep you, personally, out of the line of terrorist fire, but it is a poor substitute for a strong, and yes, physical defense of Western civilization and values. Sir Winston Churchill knew that a long time ago:
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength … we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin knew it:
“I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
This is not only Israel’s war or a Jewish war. It is a war for our civilization. Who, in 2024, will understand the war and fight it?
@keelie
Good points all.
Peloni, lets not forget the foul influence of the JINOs in the Biden admin. But at the same time lets not forget the potential balancing effect of what the IDF has done (so far) in the context of the Middle East… and of course the offering of the middle-finger by the real leaders of Israel to the Biden crowd and Israel’s “allies” in Europe.
Now the job has to be completed as we all know.
And here’s the other link – to the AfricanJewish Alliance.
I believe the situation in Africa should somehow be addressed. Perhaps we will gain some real allies.
Here’s the link (once again) to the Gatestone article.
Thanks Peloni, I don’t usually like using “links” as such in my occasional writings. I much prefer to create my own full link… But you’ve jogged my aging memory and familar as I am with HTML I realize what I did wrong: the sin of omission…
Reader, I have been known (to very few) as an anti-Roman sceptic when it comes to to the Christian “church” as it was formed by Constantine. He built a very solid anti-Jewish narrative (omitting the fact that Jesus (Yehoshua) was himself a Jew who no doubt kept to the letter of Jewish law).
Thus the Roman Catholic church was instigated as a political entity, and I have no doubt whatsoever that Yehoshua would have been utterly disgusted that such a church (in fact any church) had been set up in his name.
My question has been, who or what was in charge of the land of Israel between the death of Jesus (his latin name) and the time of Constantine (about 370 AD)?
But as you say, the conversion of pagan Europe did little (nothing) to civilize the people who lived there, every Jewish belief of Yehoshua having been turned upside down… even the Sabbath day.
Just found this book by accident on Amazon:
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
by David Nirenberg
I ordered it.
It is not European cowardice, it is the desire to replay the Holocaust, and this time the European “Aryans” can keep their hands clean because they can get the Arabs to do it for them – last time the Europeans had to sacrifice 6 million German soldiers to do it.
Jewish history comes in cycles.
We are living at the beginning of another murderous cycle (instigated, as usually happened in the last couple thousand years, by the Western “civilization”) and which the majority of Jews, as usual, fail to recognize and keep trying to ignore.
All the reasons why the “civilized” West shouldn’t let it happen again because it is bad for the West will fall on deaf ears because people are no cowards when they want to get rid of Jews by any means possible, in fact, they will make huge sacrifices to accomplish it.
The murderous Western civilization is based on the murderous pagan Roman civilization (and the Westerners are proud of it).
The Western civilization is NOT Jewish civilization, and there is no such thing as Judeo-Christian civilization, Jews have their own civilization, the fact which is very easy to forget and ignore in the Diaspora.
In reality, the Jews in the Diaspora are not equal citizens in their countries of residence, they are aliens with passports, and the sooner they face this reality the better.
I hope this time we will face reality and save ourselves BEFORE it’s too late.
For those who will ask “But what do you suggest?”
My answer will be “Well, why don’t we finally focus on ourselves and saving OUR lives and civilization instead of trying to be good ghetto Jews who are desperately trying to postpone the ghetto’s liquidation by being good, obedient, and useful to those who wish our demise.”
Keelie: you ask whether the decision by Mississauga to allow a ceremony honouring the murderer in chief of 07 October is ‘Dutch Courage’. No, no. Rather this displays what we can call: ‘Canadian tolerance’. We Canadians are courageous only in our tolerance. And to show you that the tolerance is not limited to the Toronto area, we can look at the Remembrance Day ceremonies held in Saanich, a bedroom community of Victoria BC. The ceremony began with a reading from that book of love and tolerance; namely, the Koran. Doesn’t this just warm the heart of an ardent post-modernist? Like, say, the dear leader who proclaimed in 2015 that Canada was the first post-modernist nation because we had no core values.
@keelie
Highlight some term or phrase to which you want to attach the link and then click the link button and add the URL in the box provided. Alternatively, you can just past the URL for the link as text and the link will appear. Try it and see if either of these methods fix your problem posting a link.
Nope – the link facility isn’t working… NO links are being sent out.
Sorry, it seems that only one link is permitted per posting… Here’s the link to the Gatestone article:
Just in passing; from the Gatestone Institute:
Please note the credentials of the author:
Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute. She is also a senior researcher at the African Jewish Alliance .
And now? “Ceremony honoring October 7th mastermind will take place in Canada”
Mississauga to be exact (Ted will know). No real details, but the article is in the Iconoclast section of the New English Review.
Apparently “Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish defended the city’s refusal to bar the event, saying any such steps would constitute “preferential treatment.” . . .
Is that what they call “Dutch Courage”?
Extremely informative and insightful column by Shoshannah. Everything she says its true. As long as the “International community”–by which I mean nearly every country in the world–tolerates antisemitism, and/or is governmentby active antisemites–there is little hope either for Jews or for humanity as a whole. Pople don’t realize that the Jews are always first on the list of peoples that terrorists and mass murderers wish to annihilate–but they are never the last intended victims on these killers’ hateful list. Haters and terrorist, whether governments or “non-state actors,” always have more than just the Jews on their agenda for for genocide genocide.