While I agree with you I would have preferred you reference HOW to fight back. Many are ready to fight but most Jewish organizations stay in their own lane. There is know organized
group teaching us to band together and fight by doing ABC.
Look at the American Jews serving in the Senate and Congress—Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Debbie Wassermann Schultz and a few others. Very powerful people and all of them are devoted to destroying Trump, demonizing MAGA, and fighting Trump’s efforts to rein in the poisonous, Jew-hating DEI that permeates our universities. We all can see what has erupted from our universities. Look at how almost 80% of American Jews keep voting for Democrats no matter what. Look at how the ADL smeared Charlie Kirk and defends Antifa as being peaceful and not even a group. They tried to extort Kyrie Irving for $600,000 and make him visit a Holocaust museum. Most Reform temples were flying the Black Lives Matter Banner and the JCC in my town has one flag in the front window—the “Progressive Pride Flag.” None of these “Jews” are keeping their heads down; they are simply raising them in a direction that is harming Jews, Israel and America. I tried to engage the head of the Mountain States ADL. She persisted in telling me that Charlie Kirk was a racist, and she said, “No one else is doing what we’re doing in schools.” And how has what they’re doing in schools worked out? It is the youth that is most anti-Israel and anti-semitic. All those Jewish Voices for Peace, J-Street, Open Hillels, Rabbis for Peace, etc. are not keeping their heads down; they are marching right in the front of the brigade of Students for Justice in Palestine, stabbing us in the back.
This is precisely the claim of divided loyalties which The Far Right exploit against us. Voting Democrat is fine until the Democrats like Mandani turn against Jews and Israel. Wake up and realise this is a Far Right Play. Here in the UK I voted Socialist until the same happened here. Reality forces Loyalty. Support for Israel is non negotiable. The Reason: in a World where The Nazi Party has re-formed and is now virulently active against both Russia and The Jewish People (the Neo-Nazis murdered 10000 Ethnic Russians in The Donbas from 2014 onwards, and thereby started the Ukraine war), Jews need Israel, in the same way Russians need Russia. Hitler murdered 27 Million Russians as well as six million Jews, and the Neo-Nazis re-started The Ukraine War. This has all been monitored here in London. In the world as it is now, Jews need Israel in the same way that Russians need Russia. The Nazis are sworn to genocide against both.
Democrats are no longer the friends of the Jews. When 40% vote yo hold up weapons to Israel and you don’t get the message, you’re simply a useful idiot for the Democrats.
OK, that is a very thoughtful summary of the situation.
What are your recommendations for the Jews in the Diaspora?
What are the means that they have to fight back?
Why don't we see a bigger Aliya to Israel?
Why are so many Jews in the Diaspora joining the vilifiers and demonizers of the State of Israel? Are they trying to feed us first to the crocodiles? 🐊
After October 7th I immediately called the head office of Krav Maga in Montreal pleading with them to give free courses to all students. That still hasn’t happened but at least they gave four hour classes at each synagogue. I have never held myself back and I never will. My mother telling me to be quiet, it doesn’t matter. My response has been that I will never be quiet.
Look folks, the cavalry ain’t coming and we in the diaspora (and I live in Canada) are essentially here on our own.
One good thing that has happened (at least I see it that way) is that we are reacquainting ourselves with who our real friends are and who are not. The first list is already vanishingly small and getting smaller.
That non-violence thing is already dead and yoú can smell the rot from here.
Get licensed (PAL here in Canada), get competent and read ‘The Wrong Jew’ by Hesh Keston.
Diaspora Jews refuse to learn from history. Ben Hecht, was an American writer, he rallied American Jews to line up and expose the murderess Nazis to the world, to save Europe’s Jews. His calls went unanswered. Jews chose not to be a Jew, chose silence. While they Fought for All Other Causes “the Jew vanished” giving antisemitism power to thrive. They are silent today about the rise of Antisemitism, giving Antisemitism more room to flourish.
Hecht was partly successful! They say he saved over 100,000 jooish lives! (I found this link--I've yet ta read it all but his heroism wuz obscured perhaps due to his far-lefty affiliations? Dunno) but this quote is great!
"Ben Hecht did more to help Jewish refugees from the Holocaust and to ensure the survival of the nascent State of Israel than any other American Jew in the twentieth century".
We have been held back by our collective fear of feeding the stereotype of Jews controlling the media, the government, the financial institutions, etc. As Joshua has recommended, now is the time to get creative and strategize, to expect a different form of leadership from our Jewish organizations, to move out into the broader community with strength, not withdraw from it. Bari Weiss's founding her own university is a perfect example. Vigilantism without violence? I like to think such a thing is possible.
He is totally correct. The rule is keep quiet, and do not make a fuss, or you will bring shame to the Jewish community, here in Canada, despite the fact that Canada is worse than Britain in the level of open Jew hatred and the acceptance of Jew hatred is society as a positive value. Here in Canada, Jewish Federation heads went to Ottawa to grovel on their knees to Carney for protection. He in fact is the most openly Jew hating PM in modern history since MacKenzie King, the fine gentleman who stated "None is too many" when talking about allowing Jewish refugees to enter Canada, after WWII.. The unelected leaders continually thank the police who actually are the bodyguards and servants of the tens of thousands of jihadists on the streets in violent demonstrations, and who go to Jewish homes to threaten any Jew who dares to make a counter-demonstration, like in my city. These useless leaders are busy getting Jews to sign petitions to Parliament, although the ruling Liberal Party is openly supporting Hamas , dehumanizes Jews, and many support the atrocities, which is also true of their go-to Party, the NDP, who are rabid Jew haters with some self-hating radical Jews in the mix. Again these leaders are using Holocaust education as the saviour, even though it has been shown it is an absolute failure to rid Jew hatred from our society when more and more jihadists in the tens of thousands if not more, are pouring in from the most fanatic dangerous countries and areas in the ME, such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, and North Africa, and now Gaza and the PA, nearly all unvetted.
It's deeper than that. Jews are taught to *appear* weak. I always hated Woody Allen films because they showed the quintessential weak and nasty Jew who hates himself and puts down his women. Over the course of my life, I met *many* Jewish men who cited Allen as a role model (which made me run away from them). Weak Jews feel safe in the Diaspora because they feel that if they're just not *threatening*, they'll be left alone, they just have to hide until the threat passes by. Historically, that strategy worked until it didn't, over and over, but of course if you don't know your Jewish history you don't know that.
The world hates hates hates Israelis and especially the IDF because they project strength in all ways. Which would you rather be, a Diaspora Jew who laughs along with his "friends" when they insult him for being Jewish, or an Israeli who takes no crap?
The answer was plain to me; I just made Aliyah, and I wish I had made it when I was 18 so I could have served in the IDF. I'm now in Haifa and I'm meeting almost no Americans and no Brits or French. This completely befuddles me. What are they waiting for? Oh yeah, they're laying low and waiting for the hatred to pass by, while antisemitism becomes institutionalized in their governments.
I recognize if you have a job and a family and a mortgage, moving might be difficult. But you really want to move while you can, before the flights are cancelled, before the borders are shut, before it's no longer an option. I also recognize that it's a little early, things haven't ramped up to really dangerous yet and that won't happen for at least three more years, but I will be very surprised if in three years, we're not looking at a lethal climate for Diaspora Jews.
The assimilated German Jews who didn't leave in time had an excuse; they had nowhere to go and were locked in. We have the benefit of history and we have a place to go with a military. I feel like no one is paying attention.
Respectfully, I'll differ with ya muchly on Woody whose films an' writin's I do LOVE.
Funny ta me he's not at all weak! He's the little guy (small in stature physically) who pipes up an' words are his weapons--I love that no end! Ta me he comes across as sharp, cantankerous, hilarious, an' a self-made fella who came from gornischt (literally livin' under the overhead subway tracks!--not wealthy, no connections, etc omg no!) an' read constantly an' did NOT even go ta college (talkin' 'bout breakin' a jooish shibboleth!) AND YET he thrived! That's resilience! Also he survived lawfare of a vengeful former girlfriend who imho wuz lyin' (an' I DO usually believe the women but there's far more ta it than meets the eye--an'nuther story fer another time but Woody never caved!).
Not all human beans are physically tough an' thank g-d fer that. I'd like ta believe we have room for all kinds.
Woody is also (still!) a great moosician (I value moosic!) an' still plays weekly jazz clarinet with his band as he's done fer like 50 years. He's writin' novels now--still reinventin' himself--still funny, still sharp (wartched a recent interview couple weeks ago).
I think we do best (imho) to embrace all our variety & diversity! Woody wuz always proud ta be jooish an' frankly I don't worry about wuther or not he kin bench press 100 lbs 'er heft a weapon... But anywhoo, I vish ya luck in yer new home!
agreed (lol) an' indeed we're in accord on the other stuff an' I think the whirled (that likes, per Dara Horn, just "dead chews") needs to welcome our variety; I do think that we shouldn't reject anybuddy fer bein' a "90lb weakling physically" as imho Woody's a mighty guy in his own way! (Also a big sports fan) Perhaps it's the "Sleeper" in him lol--anyway--have a good nite!
All of our existing Jewish, organizations, funds, PACs, reformed religious groups, etc. that aligned themselves with the liberal, leftist democrats are still being accused of “running” US government and many influential cultural and educational institutions have failed us.
Millions of contributions were wasted on “feel good” clubs, religious organizations even ones supporting “coexist” causes, always reacting and not acting. What we got assimilation to a point that the younger generations join anti-Israel movements.
The infrastructure and membership is there; what needs to change is the leadership that chooses “fight” and not “flight”. The change must start internally; think candidate Trump changing the Republican Party and not starting a 3rd party.
I read this and thought about all the Jews who are furious with Donald Trump for fighting antisemitism (threatening universities by withholding money, going after non-citizens spouting Jew hate, etc.) and saying that Trump is making everything worse for Jews by being so aggressive in trying to stop antisemitism. They believe in the "shut up and wait it out" approach but that doesn't work.
I don't see how withholding money from scientific research at universities fights antisemitism. I don't have any figures, but I expect that over 3% of science researchers at American prestige universities are Jewish. The real problem is in undergraduate and humanities studies where at some colleges, tenured professors threaten students who don't demonstrate in favor of terrorists with lower grades or even flunking. Is this what tenure is really about? I thought it was to support freedom of thought, not to prevent it.
Can’t they dig into their endowments? The woke poison has not just stayed in the humanities. Medical students are taught to say “chest feeders” and “pregnant person” and that there is no such thing as two genders.
So what he's talking about is learning how to fight, physically up to and including the use of deadly force when justified. This is a critical and appropriate step for Jewish communities. I believe in it and I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights. I support 2A organizations. I grew up with guns in the house. It wasn't a big taboo.
I got my wife and kids to undergo firearms training and we will do more together. My wife when I first met her was quite liberal and opposed to firearms in the house. Now, she's an excellent shot. Everybody in the house can safely handle a firearm and is a good shot. Learning how to shoot is actually fun if you abandon your preconceptions about guns. Guns are just powerful tools, and they require training. Acquiring new skills is enjoyable, and it might save your life if god forbid you find yourself in a threatening situation.
There are many good organizations that will train your family, your synagogue or other group to defend themselves. They are professionally run. People should avail themselves of these resources. Synagogues in the USA can apply for grants from the Federal Government for security infrastructure.
The problem is that many people won't do it. They are opposed to guns or it's too much work. This is not the correct response. Despite the dramatic uptick in mass casualty events and the current hostile environment toward Jews, they prefer to keep their heads in the sand. This is a dangerous attitude.
We need to cultivate a reputation as people not to be trifled with. It's not about numbers. Predators don't like to go after people who they know will respond with lethal force. They like soft targets, not pitched battles. We have to be warriors. We have to be responsible for our own protection because the governments in the West look like they are disinterested, hostile and / or incapable of providing security for the diaspora communities. Our brothers in Israel do it everyday. They are known for their bravery and competency. We need to develop a warrior culture in the diaspora.
Just like grade-school bully’s pick on the small, weak or isolated kid, violent antisemites are looking for soft targets. But its a reputation that you build up, refusing to sit in the back of the bus. Pack, Carry, Train so that every synagogue and community center has armed people in it. Nobody messes with a Baptist church in Alabama because half the men are armed and everybody knows it. They train with paintball guns active shooter drills quarterly at my church.
I'm a big fan of Future of Jewish articles, but this one missed the mark in a way that perfectly captures Israeli attitudes toward diaspora Jews.
First, it falls into the trope of "blame the Jews for their own situation," without fully acknowledging the rising global tide of culturally fashionable antisemitism that we are facing in the Diaspora, which is larger than even the largest of the "alphabet soup" of organizations can address.
Second, it ignores Israel's failures to help Diaspora Jews in fighting the information war by putting almost no effort into countering the outrageous claims leveled against the Jewish State, and against all Zionists by proxy. We are left to try to piece together fragmented information on our own to help explain Israel's actions, for which we are deemed guilty by association.
Third, it assumes that Diaspora Jews are weak and unwilling to alter our own situations because we are either unwilling to uproot our entire lives to move to Israel or unwilling to give up the idea that change is possible by working within the system.
"Second, it ignores Israel's failures to help Diaspora Jews in fighting the information war by putting almost no effort into countering the outrageous claims leveled against the Jewish State, and against all Zionists by proxy. "
Indeed, there's no reason that Israel could not have put out daily English language de-bunkin's on a dedicated channel! (Charlie Kirk's "letter" made this suggestion too....) Israel relied on Christian Zionists to speak on "her" behalf which imho wuz messed up. I keep screamin' (also) hire Madison Avenue--surely sumbuddy would have had a campaign to counteract the camp-PAIN against us....
I think it's a mix--we are not "weak" but those deep pocketed who DO wanna help have been led inta throwin' their shekels inta causes that are "feel good" but ultimately not helpful. The rest of us who pipe up have neither the gelt nor the clout.... The only solution should not be jus' movin' to Israel.... Tablet Mag. seems ta have the right voice but how ta amplify?
Aaron, I especially appreciate your second claim. People assume the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN and others are totally accurate. I talked to a guy who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat and boasted that he gets all his news from these 3 sources. One day the Palestinians are suffering profoundly from long-term malnutrition and the next day they are celebrating boisterously in the streets (but they are still deprived victims).
While I agree with you I would have preferred you reference HOW to fight back. Many are ready to fight but most Jewish organizations stay in their own lane. There is know organized
group teaching us to band together and fight by doing ABC.
Look at the American Jews serving in the Senate and Congress—Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Debbie Wassermann Schultz and a few others. Very powerful people and all of them are devoted to destroying Trump, demonizing MAGA, and fighting Trump’s efforts to rein in the poisonous, Jew-hating DEI that permeates our universities. We all can see what has erupted from our universities. Look at how almost 80% of American Jews keep voting for Democrats no matter what. Look at how the ADL smeared Charlie Kirk and defends Antifa as being peaceful and not even a group. They tried to extort Kyrie Irving for $600,000 and make him visit a Holocaust museum. Most Reform temples were flying the Black Lives Matter Banner and the JCC in my town has one flag in the front window—the “Progressive Pride Flag.” None of these “Jews” are keeping their heads down; they are simply raising them in a direction that is harming Jews, Israel and America. I tried to engage the head of the Mountain States ADL. She persisted in telling me that Charlie Kirk was a racist, and she said, “No one else is doing what we’re doing in schools.” And how has what they’re doing in schools worked out? It is the youth that is most anti-Israel and anti-semitic. All those Jewish Voices for Peace, J-Street, Open Hillels, Rabbis for Peace, etc. are not keeping their heads down; they are marching right in the front of the brigade of Students for Justice in Palestine, stabbing us in the back.
This is precisely the claim of divided loyalties which The Far Right exploit against us. Voting Democrat is fine until the Democrats like Mandani turn against Jews and Israel. Wake up and realise this is a Far Right Play. Here in the UK I voted Socialist until the same happened here. Reality forces Loyalty. Support for Israel is non negotiable. The Reason: in a World where The Nazi Party has re-formed and is now virulently active against both Russia and The Jewish People (the Neo-Nazis murdered 10000 Ethnic Russians in The Donbas from 2014 onwards, and thereby started the Ukraine war), Jews need Israel, in the same way Russians need Russia. Hitler murdered 27 Million Russians as well as six million Jews, and the Neo-Nazis re-started The Ukraine War. This has all been monitored here in London. In the world as it is now, Jews need Israel in the same way that Russians need Russia. The Nazis are sworn to genocide against both.
Democrats are no longer the friends of the Jews. When 40% vote yo hold up weapons to Israel and you don’t get the message, you’re simply a useful idiot for the Democrats.
Worse. A useful idiot working for The Nazis, and the re-formed Nazi Party.
OK, that is a very thoughtful summary of the situation.
What are your recommendations for the Jews in the Diaspora?
What are the means that they have to fight back?
Why don't we see a bigger Aliya to Israel?
Why are so many Jews in the Diaspora joining the vilifiers and demonizers of the State of Israel? Are they trying to feed us first to the crocodiles? 🐊
After October 7th I immediately called the head office of Krav Maga in Montreal pleading with them to give free courses to all students. That still hasn’t happened but at least they gave four hour classes at each synagogue. I have never held myself back and I never will. My mother telling me to be quiet, it doesn’t matter. My response has been that I will never be quiet.
Look folks, the cavalry ain’t coming and we in the diaspora (and I live in Canada) are essentially here on our own.
One good thing that has happened (at least I see it that way) is that we are reacquainting ourselves with who our real friends are and who are not. The first list is already vanishingly small and getting smaller.
That non-violence thing is already dead and yoú can smell the rot from here.
Get licensed (PAL here in Canada), get competent and read ‘The Wrong Jew’ by Hesh Keston.
And for CS (😊) stop crying and get to it!
Diaspora Jews refuse to learn from history. Ben Hecht, was an American writer, he rallied American Jews to line up and expose the murderess Nazis to the world, to save Europe’s Jews. His calls went unanswered. Jews chose not to be a Jew, chose silence. While they Fought for All Other Causes “the Jew vanished” giving antisemitism power to thrive. They are silent today about the rise of Antisemitism, giving Antisemitism more room to flourish.
Hecht was partly successful! They say he saved over 100,000 jooish lives! (I found this link--I've yet ta read it all but his heroism wuz obscured perhaps due to his far-lefty affiliations? Dunno) but this quote is great!
https://jewishmag.com/144mag/ben_hecht/ben_hecht.htm
"Ben Hecht did more to help Jewish refugees from the Holocaust and to ensure the survival of the nascent State of Israel than any other American Jew in the twentieth century".
May his memory be a blessin'!
Ben Hecht's, may his memory be a blessing and American Jews have to take his lessons to heart.
We have been held back by our collective fear of feeding the stereotype of Jews controlling the media, the government, the financial institutions, etc. As Joshua has recommended, now is the time to get creative and strategize, to expect a different form of leadership from our Jewish organizations, to move out into the broader community with strength, not withdraw from it. Bari Weiss's founding her own university is a perfect example. Vigilantism without violence? I like to think such a thing is possible.
He is totally correct. The rule is keep quiet, and do not make a fuss, or you will bring shame to the Jewish community, here in Canada, despite the fact that Canada is worse than Britain in the level of open Jew hatred and the acceptance of Jew hatred is society as a positive value. Here in Canada, Jewish Federation heads went to Ottawa to grovel on their knees to Carney for protection. He in fact is the most openly Jew hating PM in modern history since MacKenzie King, the fine gentleman who stated "None is too many" when talking about allowing Jewish refugees to enter Canada, after WWII.. The unelected leaders continually thank the police who actually are the bodyguards and servants of the tens of thousands of jihadists on the streets in violent demonstrations, and who go to Jewish homes to threaten any Jew who dares to make a counter-demonstration, like in my city. These useless leaders are busy getting Jews to sign petitions to Parliament, although the ruling Liberal Party is openly supporting Hamas , dehumanizes Jews, and many support the atrocities, which is also true of their go-to Party, the NDP, who are rabid Jew haters with some self-hating radical Jews in the mix. Again these leaders are using Holocaust education as the saviour, even though it has been shown it is an absolute failure to rid Jew hatred from our society when more and more jihadists in the tens of thousands if not more, are pouring in from the most fanatic dangerous countries and areas in the ME, such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, and North Africa, and now Gaza and the PA, nearly all unvetted.
It's deeper than that. Jews are taught to *appear* weak. I always hated Woody Allen films because they showed the quintessential weak and nasty Jew who hates himself and puts down his women. Over the course of my life, I met *many* Jewish men who cited Allen as a role model (which made me run away from them). Weak Jews feel safe in the Diaspora because they feel that if they're just not *threatening*, they'll be left alone, they just have to hide until the threat passes by. Historically, that strategy worked until it didn't, over and over, but of course if you don't know your Jewish history you don't know that.
The world hates hates hates Israelis and especially the IDF because they project strength in all ways. Which would you rather be, a Diaspora Jew who laughs along with his "friends" when they insult him for being Jewish, or an Israeli who takes no crap?
The answer was plain to me; I just made Aliyah, and I wish I had made it when I was 18 so I could have served in the IDF. I'm now in Haifa and I'm meeting almost no Americans and no Brits or French. This completely befuddles me. What are they waiting for? Oh yeah, they're laying low and waiting for the hatred to pass by, while antisemitism becomes institutionalized in their governments.
I recognize if you have a job and a family and a mortgage, moving might be difficult. But you really want to move while you can, before the flights are cancelled, before the borders are shut, before it's no longer an option. I also recognize that it's a little early, things haven't ramped up to really dangerous yet and that won't happen for at least three more years, but I will be very surprised if in three years, we're not looking at a lethal climate for Diaspora Jews.
The assimilated German Jews who didn't leave in time had an excuse; they had nowhere to go and were locked in. We have the benefit of history and we have a place to go with a military. I feel like no one is paying attention.
Bravo an' much luck yer way fer makin' Aliyah.
Respectfully, I'll differ with ya muchly on Woody whose films an' writin's I do LOVE.
Funny ta me he's not at all weak! He's the little guy (small in stature physically) who pipes up an' words are his weapons--I love that no end! Ta me he comes across as sharp, cantankerous, hilarious, an' a self-made fella who came from gornischt (literally livin' under the overhead subway tracks!--not wealthy, no connections, etc omg no!) an' read constantly an' did NOT even go ta college (talkin' 'bout breakin' a jooish shibboleth!) AND YET he thrived! That's resilience! Also he survived lawfare of a vengeful former girlfriend who imho wuz lyin' (an' I DO usually believe the women but there's far more ta it than meets the eye--an'nuther story fer another time but Woody never caved!).
Not all human beans are physically tough an' thank g-d fer that. I'd like ta believe we have room for all kinds.
Woody is also (still!) a great moosician (I value moosic!) an' still plays weekly jazz clarinet with his band as he's done fer like 50 years. He's writin' novels now--still reinventin' himself--still funny, still sharp (wartched a recent interview couple weeks ago).
I think we do best (imho) to embrace all our variety & diversity! Woody wuz always proud ta be jooish an' frankly I don't worry about wuther or not he kin bench press 100 lbs 'er heft a weapon... But anywhoo, I vish ya luck in yer new home!
You don’t have to agree with me but we all have to find our way.
agreed (lol) an' indeed we're in accord on the other stuff an' I think the whirled (that likes, per Dara Horn, just "dead chews") needs to welcome our variety; I do think that we shouldn't reject anybuddy fer bein' a "90lb weakling physically" as imho Woody's a mighty guy in his own way! (Also a big sports fan) Perhaps it's the "Sleeper" in him lol--anyway--have a good nite!
Hope your new life is everything you dreamed it to be.
All of our existing Jewish, organizations, funds, PACs, reformed religious groups, etc. that aligned themselves with the liberal, leftist democrats are still being accused of “running” US government and many influential cultural and educational institutions have failed us.
Millions of contributions were wasted on “feel good” clubs, religious organizations even ones supporting “coexist” causes, always reacting and not acting. What we got assimilation to a point that the younger generations join anti-Israel movements.
The infrastructure and membership is there; what needs to change is the leadership that chooses “fight” and not “flight”. The change must start internally; think candidate Trump changing the Republican Party and not starting a 3rd party.
I read this and thought about all the Jews who are furious with Donald Trump for fighting antisemitism (threatening universities by withholding money, going after non-citizens spouting Jew hate, etc.) and saying that Trump is making everything worse for Jews by being so aggressive in trying to stop antisemitism. They believe in the "shut up and wait it out" approach but that doesn't work.
I don't see how withholding money from scientific research at universities fights antisemitism. I don't have any figures, but I expect that over 3% of science researchers at American prestige universities are Jewish. The real problem is in undergraduate and humanities studies where at some colleges, tenured professors threaten students who don't demonstrate in favor of terrorists with lower grades or even flunking. Is this what tenure is really about? I thought it was to support freedom of thought, not to prevent it.
Can’t they dig into their endowments? The woke poison has not just stayed in the humanities. Medical students are taught to say “chest feeders” and “pregnant person” and that there is no such thing as two genders.
Ever heard of the JDL? It was labeled a right-wing extremist group and is apparently no longer active in N. America.
So what he's talking about is learning how to fight, physically up to and including the use of deadly force when justified. This is a critical and appropriate step for Jewish communities. I believe in it and I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights. I support 2A organizations. I grew up with guns in the house. It wasn't a big taboo.
I got my wife and kids to undergo firearms training and we will do more together. My wife when I first met her was quite liberal and opposed to firearms in the house. Now, she's an excellent shot. Everybody in the house can safely handle a firearm and is a good shot. Learning how to shoot is actually fun if you abandon your preconceptions about guns. Guns are just powerful tools, and they require training. Acquiring new skills is enjoyable, and it might save your life if god forbid you find yourself in a threatening situation.
There are many good organizations that will train your family, your synagogue or other group to defend themselves. They are professionally run. People should avail themselves of these resources. Synagogues in the USA can apply for grants from the Federal Government for security infrastructure.
The problem is that many people won't do it. They are opposed to guns or it's too much work. This is not the correct response. Despite the dramatic uptick in mass casualty events and the current hostile environment toward Jews, they prefer to keep their heads in the sand. This is a dangerous attitude.
We need to cultivate a reputation as people not to be trifled with. It's not about numbers. Predators don't like to go after people who they know will respond with lethal force. They like soft targets, not pitched battles. We have to be warriors. We have to be responsible for our own protection because the governments in the West look like they are disinterested, hostile and / or incapable of providing security for the diaspora communities. Our brothers in Israel do it everyday. They are known for their bravery and competency. We need to develop a warrior culture in the diaspora.
Just like grade-school bully’s pick on the small, weak or isolated kid, violent antisemites are looking for soft targets. But its a reputation that you build up, refusing to sit in the back of the bus. Pack, Carry, Train so that every synagogue and community center has armed people in it. Nobody messes with a Baptist church in Alabama because half the men are armed and everybody knows it. They train with paintball guns active shooter drills quarterly at my church.
There you go. Fight. Fight. Fight. Somebody famous said that…😏
I'm a big fan of Future of Jewish articles, but this one missed the mark in a way that perfectly captures Israeli attitudes toward diaspora Jews.
First, it falls into the trope of "blame the Jews for their own situation," without fully acknowledging the rising global tide of culturally fashionable antisemitism that we are facing in the Diaspora, which is larger than even the largest of the "alphabet soup" of organizations can address.
Second, it ignores Israel's failures to help Diaspora Jews in fighting the information war by putting almost no effort into countering the outrageous claims leveled against the Jewish State, and against all Zionists by proxy. We are left to try to piece together fragmented information on our own to help explain Israel's actions, for which we are deemed guilty by association.
Third, it assumes that Diaspora Jews are weak and unwilling to alter our own situations because we are either unwilling to uproot our entire lives to move to Israel or unwilling to give up the idea that change is possible by working within the system.
THIS!
"Second, it ignores Israel's failures to help Diaspora Jews in fighting the information war by putting almost no effort into countering the outrageous claims leveled against the Jewish State, and against all Zionists by proxy. "
Indeed, there's no reason that Israel could not have put out daily English language de-bunkin's on a dedicated channel! (Charlie Kirk's "letter" made this suggestion too....) Israel relied on Christian Zionists to speak on "her" behalf which imho wuz messed up. I keep screamin' (also) hire Madison Avenue--surely sumbuddy would have had a campaign to counteract the camp-PAIN against us....
I think it's a mix--we are not "weak" but those deep pocketed who DO wanna help have been led inta throwin' their shekels inta causes that are "feel good" but ultimately not helpful. The rest of us who pipe up have neither the gelt nor the clout.... The only solution should not be jus' movin' to Israel.... Tablet Mag. seems ta have the right voice but how ta amplify?
Aaron, I especially appreciate your second claim. People assume the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN and others are totally accurate. I talked to a guy who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat and boasted that he gets all his news from these 3 sources. One day the Palestinians are suffering profoundly from long-term malnutrition and the next day they are celebrating boisterously in the streets (but they are still deprived victims).
GOD BLESSISRAEL AND ITS PEOPLE
That explains why New York Jews will vote for Zoron the moron.