T. Belman. That reminds me what was said to me by a drunk WASP who sat beside me on a return flight from London to Toronto. We were talking about three very rich Canadian Jews Jews, Bronfman, Reichman and Belzberg. He said “in every generation Jews claim up the latter of success and then we goyim knock the latter out from under them.”
The bell curve of Jewish existence in the Diaspora tells a clear story: We start at the bottom, reach an apex, and then plummet into an abyss of terrifying violence.
An onlooker stands outside a rabbi’s residence in Monsey, NY, Sunday, following a stabbing attack Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration | Photo: AP/Julius Constantine Motal
The dark corner of the Washington, DC metro station provided ample opportunity for the guy who spotted the kippah on my head. He wore a plaid shirt and had long, curly hair. “Free Palestine!” he shouted, moving toward me. I tensed up and ignored him at the same time. Luckily, he only carried on for a few more seconds before going on his way.
I’ve walked around dozens of cities across the globe while wearing a kippah, but this was the first time Jewish attire put me in danger and it’s clear that what I experienced last month is simply another incident in a wave that can no longer be denied. American Jewry is under attack.
Jews are being attacked with knives and guns, physically and verbally, in broad daylight or the dead of night. They are being assaulted in the streets, in their synagogues, and on social media. The virulent eruption is neither isolated nor local. On the East Coast, the West Coast and the vast spaces in between, Jews are in danger simply because they are Jews. This wasn’t the case in America a decade ago, but is certainly the reality today. There’s no point in pretending anymore.
The even worse news is that we’re only at the start of the wave. The bell curve of Jewish existence in the Diaspora tells a clear story: We start at the bottom, reach an apex, and then plummet into an abyss of terrifying violence. Such was our history in Spain, Egypt, and England, in Poland and Russia, Portugal and Iraq, and more. After the golden period, comes the period of hatred. This is what’s in store for our brothers and sisters in the United States. Such is the fate of the Jews, to which only Zionism has offered an alternative.
From a state of destitution and indigence in impoverished neighborhoods, the descendants of Jewish immigrants in the United States climbed the social ladder to inhabit a broad range of key positions – in politics, media, business, culture, and technology. It is at this point, history tells us, that hatred begins to foment. This hatred permeated the intellectual elite in the US a long time ago, spread to the ground level and has carved out a niche in politics as well – due to the failure of Democratic leaders to clearly condemn anti-Semitism two years ago. These were the initial signs, which we all found convenient to ignore.
American Jews, and us with them, hoped this time would be different, that history wouldn’t repeat itself. It is in this belief that they have marched in the footsteps of their forefathers. Then, too, they thought “this time will be different,” that “after all we contributed to the host nation, it won’t reject us,” and that “the lessons of the past have been learned and therefore history won’t repeat itself.” Until, of course, reality provided its inevitable, sobering wake-up call.
The Jews in the United States, sadly, are sitting on the precipice of a volcano. The initial upsurge of lava is bubbling, signaling the massive eruption sure to follow. Maybe this will happen in five years, maybe 50, perhaps in the form of a series of shootings or a wave of neighborhood riots; maybe in synagogues or Jewish community centers; maybe in schools or in the streets. American Jewry is in danger. The time has come for it and us to open our eyes and reach the appropriate conclusions.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I responded to this yesterday, saying that it was; 1st …astonishing, 2nd, disgusting, and mre…etc I see that it has vanished Ted is having probems, no point in bothering him….. he must be nearly underwater, trying to get everything back to normal.
@ yamit82:
Where you attacked Felix, in a manner uncalled for.
@ yamit82:
I can’t delete comments so disregard the above
@ yamit82:
This comment meant for Zorn don’t know what happened?
@ Edgar G.</b
The final solution was sealed after the "Evian Conference" Hitler before that was willing to support the Zionists from common interests. Getting rid of the Jews and making a profit. When he saw the world turning its collective back on the Jews, it was his green light to murder them.
@ Edgar G.:
MANY COMMENTS OF MINE WHICH ONE OR ONES ARE YOU REFERRING AS HYPERBOLIC???
@ Edgar G.:
Don’t remember what I wrote it’s not included here.
And white European leftists, who said, “Americans” when they really meant Jews, like the New Zealander who — a total stranger — came over to my table during the second Iraq war, got right in my face, and told me that Americans ought to be gassed – in a room full of Americans he singled me out — and chased me around the room while security refused to intervene.
@ Edgar G.:
And it certainly conforms to my experience. Nearly all of the antisemitism I have encountered was from Blacks and Muslim Arabs.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
I can’t find it now, but I once read the results of a survey that said that Blacks with more education tended to be more antisemitic than Black with less. Certainly, there is a much higher rate of antisemitism among Blacks and Latinos, especially the former than among Whites or Asians. ““Entrenched anti-Semitic views” very rare among whites and Asian Americans, common among blacks and Latinos” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/19/entrenched-anti-semitic-views-very-rare-among-whites-and-asian-americans-common-among-blacks-and-latinos/
@ yamit82:
Don’t be gratuitously, hyperbolically nasty…. THIS… was uncalled for…
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
I don’t think, Adam that he said they “endorsed” Zionism. IHe wrote that they “co-operated” with the Zionists to train and send Jewish youths to Palestine (to get rid of them) And this is my understanding. You may recall my mention of the Haavara Agreement, earlier in these posts above somewhere I think, which was run by ao German mid-level career official Werner Von Hentig (a non Nazi), and arranged finally with the Nazis by both the German Zionist movement, and the Anglo-Palestine Bank.
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Of course it benefited the Nazis enormously, but it also saved over 60,000 young Jews Unfortunately, things moved too fast elsewhere, for more to have been included in the deal.
WiKi has a long, detailed article on “The Havaara Agreement”, which I came across whe researching for something else, some years back
@ yamit82: Totally false. The Nazi leadership never endorsed Zionism. Hitler in Mein Kampf denounced Zionism as part of the Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, together with Communism and international financiers, all of whom in his view were fronts for the Jewish conspiracy. He never varied from this view.
Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jewry did not begin in 1942, but at least as early as January 1939, when he publicly “prophecied” the “extermination” of the Jews (he actually used that word). He publicly repeated this “prophecy” in January 1940 and January 1941. After his deputy Herman Goering signed the “final solution” order on July 31, 1941, Hitler publicly stated that his “prophecy” was now being fulfilled on numerous occasions, in beginning in August 1941.
Jewish writer Edwin Black’s claim that Hitler was a supporter of Zionism, and the that the Zionists were pro-Nazi, which he made in a book on the “transfer agreement” published in 1979, are false. It has been seized on by Jew-haters and Israel-haters forits propaganda value.propaganda purposes. Much of Black’s subsequent research disproves it, although he has never retracted or apologized for his false narrative.
I experienced a lot of antisemitic harassment and even violence (I was one of the earliest victims of the punching attacks) during operation Iraqi Freedom in Manhattan. And, I remember how the violent antisemitic wave arose and fell in the early 90s, centered around Farakhan, Khalid Mohammed, Jitu Weusi and other Black demogogues. It seemed to subside quickly then in response to two books that debunked in a scholarly way the lies put out in Farakhan’s and Newman’s book, “The Secret relationship between Blacks and Jews.” and then, of course, Leonard Jeffries. And, there was another in the 70s, and another in the 60, and in the 50s, when Black migrants from down South flooded Jewish communities in the 50s and then tried to chase Jewish teachers out of the school system in the 60s. And Harlem, earlier. Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Brownsville, were Jewish communities, and Harlem was White with a large Jewish section.
The Muslim influence from the birth of the Nation of Islam in the early 30s seems to have been the largest antisemitic influence and today Farakhan, as well as various Muslim imams in the U.S. and Canada who have been exposed as calling for genocide against Jews. But, Farakhan is the biggest. Farakhan, who we know is working for Iran. He has spoken there.
And it’s happening in Europe because of they allowed in Muslim migrants.
What if, just what if, all of this latest antisemitic wave isn’t spontaneous. What if Iran is calling the shots.
How would we deal with it differently if we start from that premise?