Hate doesn’t stop being hate because it sounds “progressive.” This isn’t activism; it’s anti-Jewish obsession, and it’s growing more dangerous by the day.
“When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”
And we need to call out Jew hating when we see it. We need to not accept their argument that anti-zionism isn't racism. If you hate (at a minimum) half the world's Jews, you're a Jew hater. Period. If I said I don't hate black people, just the ones in the United States, I'd, correctly, be labeled a racist. So should Jew haters.
Don't call them anti-Zionists, call them what they are, Jew haters.
There are three big lies that need to be addressed to the world …
1. Israel is not an apartheid nation. South Africa segregated its blacks and whites. In Israel, society is homogeneous, with Muslims and Christians participating in society.
2. Zionism is the belief in a homeland for the Jewish people. Zionism is not racism.
3. There was never a country called palestine which was colonised by European settlers.
These three lies which are constantly propagated play a huge part in today’s hate against Jews.
It is obsession. Even for hate, this is not normal. It has become a singular, all encompassing fixation. The Covid version of hatred.
I’ve read comments so insane that one would think ( if there was still such thing as functional thought), it was a protracted SNL skit.
Like, “ My dog was killed by an alligator in the Everglades”- The alligator was Mossad
“ I was trying to flag a taxi in the pouring rain and fell in the street”- Jews control the weather
“Thirty Nigerian Christians were kidnapped by Boko Haram while attending church and beheaded”- They were Jews masquerading as Boko Haram
My Hindu son in law whose parents emigrated from India was surrounded by Jihadists screaming “Die Zionists!” in front of the Guggenheim Museum - Peggy Guggenheim was a filthy Jew so he must be one
“ But he’s very dark complected and was wearing a Nehru tunic”- India is really Israel with an a at the end . Hindus are satanic Kabbalah demon worshipping Zionist Jews.
Depending on which revisionist conspiracy theory suits the hatred-Churchill, Lincoln, Washington,Grant, Jefferson, Locke, Paine, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Lord Acton, Montesquieu,Voltaire,Rousseau,Huxley,Steinbeck,Margaret Mitchell , Shah Pahlavi,Attaturk,Dalai Lama were Jews
And so were Hitler, Stalin,Mussolini,Genghis Khan,Attila,Vlad the Impaler,Hirohito,Nero,Napoleon, the British Monarchy,David Duke, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer,Ed Gein, Gacy, Richard Ramirez,Ted Bundy, too.
“Mossad” killed Charlie Kirk,the Kennedys,John Lennon, Shinzo Abe, Uribe,Marilyn,MLK,Malcolm X, Lincoln,the Lindbergh baby,Tupac, Biggie,Joan of Arc,Mary Jo Kopekni,Amelia Earhart,Roger Rabbit,Sheriff John Brown,Flipper,Cujo,’Old Yeller, Billy Jo McAllister,the dinosaurs and of course, Jesus
Mossad created Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah,Taliban, Epstein, ISIS,perpetrated 9/11, the Gulf War, Afghanistan,Libya,10/7,US Embassy bombing in Lebanon,Iran-Contra,Ukraine/Russia,created Covid, AIDS, Ebola,H1N1,West Nile, SARS,MERS,Thyphoid, Measles, Polio Smallpox, cancer, cystic fibrosis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, tuberculosis…. cooties..
Oh yeah! The volcanic eruptions of Vesuvius, Mt Saint Helens, Mauna Loa.. the Mexico City, San Fran, Turkey, Syria, Tangshan, Indian Ocean, Haitian, Chilean, Messina Earthquakes, too.
I know — yet another piece about Jews and Israelis, you might be thinking. Maybe it feels repetitive or obsessive. I get it. But I need you to hear this: This is not normal.
NO! THIS IS NORMAL! We don't have to forget and forgive!
Quoting the essay: "Are people comfortable with Israelis and Jews being excluded, demonized, shamed, and mocked?" Apparently, yes--they are not only comfortable with it, but encourage it.
Simple statement of the facts: Hamas’s Charter expressly calls for a Genocide against The Jewish People. And then they hid amongst civilians after just such a war, after their attack of Oct 7th. 50,000 died as the result. These civilian casualties WOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAVE HAPPENED if those two things were not the case. Furthermore: They had the chance of a state, which they blew with a War and the irrevocable choice of Martyrdom. So toughen up. History was never our fault. Tell this like this is to all your Antisemitic AntiZionist colleagues. And if they can’t take these truths THEN CEASE contact with them. You might want to add that Hamas has an alliance with the re-formed Nazi Party here in London, which we have monitored. Let us see the confected outrage at this too. I bet this fact is met by faces like a smacked arse. Or indeed lips pursed like a cats arsehole. Hint: they were never friends or colleagues anyway.
Excellent essay. Thanks for writing it. I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where streets are teeming with left-leaning white American women wearing keffiyehs as winter scarfs. To call them idiots is unfair to actual morons. Three cheers to Maimonides for the concept of shogeg karov le-mezid.
The perennial attacks on the Jews, a very small minority anywhere, demonstrate the bullish and savage true nature of Humankind. Natural evolution has not produced better people yet. People are still vile and their minds and wills are weak.
It’s easier to hit the few Jews that still exist than to fight brutal, hugely populated, Islam. It proves that the jungle rules.
The survival of the fittest still has the upper hand. It just happens that the Jews are extremely fit as survivors, and that ironic reality drives the world crazy .
The reality of Jew -hatred, also in its modern anti-Zionist abomination, confirms that empathy is not as natural in humans as we like to speak of. I have seen much more love in animals.
The inversion of morals is a civilisational failure: parents have failed, entire education systems became prostituted, the same popular adherence to demonic ideals ,such as Nazi propaganda achieved ,is still easily achievable, Orwell was right about the decadence of truth, and collective insanity has seized the mind of the West. Leaders have not risen to the occasion. For all the faults one may find in Trump, he is an exception amongst the Western leaders of today.
Media, AI, Quatar, fraudulent professors, popular information outlets, have all exhibited distortion of judgment that have plagued and corrupted young Western minds.
Common sense has died. The ability to discern is gone.
Hatred is a cherished human expression and there are no longer barriers to hatred’s expression.
Identity and narcissism come before any formerly considered humanitarian tendency or endeavour.
Nothing truly has changed since ancient times.What stuns us is that we never expected it to burst and flourish after the Holocaust. We thought that this was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. A horrible idea, like the name Holocaust is horrible, that at least seemed to draw a red line.
As Jews, we were hopeful, even after such a demonstration of savagery and indifference, always ready to begin again.
As humans, we have been parochial, too eager to deny perspective and history and just look at whether anything is “ good for the Jews”, and we have been naive believing in the supposed moral superiority of Western civilisation, to which we, the Jews, granted its foundational principles.
Thanks for the article. It's a damn shame that psychology / social work are bailing out from good sense and logical thinking.
One phrase leapt out at me -- "rape culture." OMG, that is Islamic culture. They are a rape. death cult. Everything that is anathema to the West is foisted on to Israel when in fact it is Islam that has or is doing those things They are the biggest colonizers in history (maybe neck and neck with Britain, Rome); they certainly practice gender apartheid; and rape is a weapon of war for them. In any given population there will always be bad apples. That's not what I'm talking about. Oct 7 made it clear. I remember seeing a video in which one terrorist said, "I wanted to make her dirty." This is a sick ideology; a leftover mentality from barbaric times.
As far as standing up verbally, I often wonder how it would work if whatever they throw at you, you parrot it about some other group and watch for the reaction. First of all, we cannot worry about name-calling. Call me islamophobic, call me racist -- I don't care. I'm not Ito suicidal empathy. But further, if someone says "Jews are colonizers" you say, "Islamists are colonizers." If someone says "Jews are slave traders" you say, "Africans are slave traders" Just throw it back.
Those are my thoughts. I just hope we aren't doomed.
“Antisemitism is always a means rather than an end. It is a measure of the contradictions yet to be resolved. It is a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and state systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.”
Glad that you brought up “suicidal empathy” that Gad Saad wrote about. Jews had no problem with standing up to antisemitism coming from the right but being mostly in left camp, they lost their voice. We have to call as we see it, and aggressively- we are no longer the begging Jews in the Diaspora, we have Israel and we must accept it that we are one. There is no more Zionism movement - it has been accomplished and it needs to be defended without buts, ifs or any excuses. Why always we have to inject - “we may not agree with Israel’s government” - like we agree with any government on everything. No more defensive excuses, we must be on offense and sometimes on preventive offense.
any perceived microaggression is unquestionably "Islamophobia." If a man screams Allahu akbar and shoots innocent people.....particularly Jewish people,, there is no known or obvious motive and an intensive investigation will attempt to discern what compelled such a heinous act.
Ironic, given that it was Jews who were raped on October 7 by Gaza "palestinians". And it is THEY and islam in general which certainly is a rape culture.
“When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
You are absolutely right, Rabbi.
And we need to call out Jew hating when we see it. We need to not accept their argument that anti-zionism isn't racism. If you hate (at a minimum) half the world's Jews, you're a Jew hater. Period. If I said I don't hate black people, just the ones in the United States, I'd, correctly, be labeled a racist. So should Jew haters.
Don't call them anti-Zionists, call them what they are, Jew haters.
Well said!!
https://substack.com/@thinktorah/note/c-162655842
What is happening is despicable! I Will always stand with you and speak out for you.
You are Gods own people.
There are three big lies that need to be addressed to the world …
1. Israel is not an apartheid nation. South Africa segregated its blacks and whites. In Israel, society is homogeneous, with Muslims and Christians participating in society.
2. Zionism is the belief in a homeland for the Jewish people. Zionism is not racism.
3. There was never a country called palestine which was colonised by European settlers.
These three lies which are constantly propagated play a huge part in today’s hate against Jews.
It is obsession. Even for hate, this is not normal. It has become a singular, all encompassing fixation. The Covid version of hatred.
I’ve read comments so insane that one would think ( if there was still such thing as functional thought), it was a protracted SNL skit.
Like, “ My dog was killed by an alligator in the Everglades”- The alligator was Mossad
“ I was trying to flag a taxi in the pouring rain and fell in the street”- Jews control the weather
“Thirty Nigerian Christians were kidnapped by Boko Haram while attending church and beheaded”- They were Jews masquerading as Boko Haram
My Hindu son in law whose parents emigrated from India was surrounded by Jihadists screaming “Die Zionists!” in front of the Guggenheim Museum - Peggy Guggenheim was a filthy Jew so he must be one
“ But he’s very dark complected and was wearing a Nehru tunic”- India is really Israel with an a at the end . Hindus are satanic Kabbalah demon worshipping Zionist Jews.
Depending on which revisionist conspiracy theory suits the hatred-Churchill, Lincoln, Washington,Grant, Jefferson, Locke, Paine, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Lord Acton, Montesquieu,Voltaire,Rousseau,Huxley,Steinbeck,Margaret Mitchell , Shah Pahlavi,Attaturk,Dalai Lama were Jews
And so were Hitler, Stalin,Mussolini,Genghis Khan,Attila,Vlad the Impaler,Hirohito,Nero,Napoleon, the British Monarchy,David Duke, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer,Ed Gein, Gacy, Richard Ramirez,Ted Bundy, too.
“Mossad” killed Charlie Kirk,the Kennedys,John Lennon, Shinzo Abe, Uribe,Marilyn,MLK,Malcolm X, Lincoln,the Lindbergh baby,Tupac, Biggie,Joan of Arc,Mary Jo Kopekni,Amelia Earhart,Roger Rabbit,Sheriff John Brown,Flipper,Cujo,’Old Yeller, Billy Jo McAllister,the dinosaurs and of course, Jesus
Mossad created Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah,Taliban, Epstein, ISIS,perpetrated 9/11, the Gulf War, Afghanistan,Libya,10/7,US Embassy bombing in Lebanon,Iran-Contra,Ukraine/Russia,created Covid, AIDS, Ebola,H1N1,West Nile, SARS,MERS,Thyphoid, Measles, Polio Smallpox, cancer, cystic fibrosis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, tuberculosis…. cooties..
Oh yeah! The volcanic eruptions of Vesuvius, Mt Saint Helens, Mauna Loa.. the Mexico City, San Fran, Turkey, Syria, Tangshan, Indian Ocean, Haitian, Chilean, Messina Earthquakes, too.
HI, TOVAH!
I know — yet another piece about Jews and Israelis, you might be thinking. Maybe it feels repetitive or obsessive. I get it. But I need you to hear this: This is not normal.
NO! THIS IS NORMAL! We don't have to forget and forgive!
dan
Quoting the essay: "Are people comfortable with Israelis and Jews being excluded, demonized, shamed, and mocked?" Apparently, yes--they are not only comfortable with it, but encourage it.
A simple question for those professing antiZionist beliefs - our own “purity test”, if you will.
“Do you always oppose indigenous rights or only for Jews?”
Simple statement of the facts: Hamas’s Charter expressly calls for a Genocide against The Jewish People. And then they hid amongst civilians after just such a war, after their attack of Oct 7th. 50,000 died as the result. These civilian casualties WOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAVE HAPPENED if those two things were not the case. Furthermore: They had the chance of a state, which they blew with a War and the irrevocable choice of Martyrdom. So toughen up. History was never our fault. Tell this like this is to all your Antisemitic AntiZionist colleagues. And if they can’t take these truths THEN CEASE contact with them. You might want to add that Hamas has an alliance with the re-formed Nazi Party here in London, which we have monitored. Let us see the confected outrage at this too. I bet this fact is met by faces like a smacked arse. Or indeed lips pursed like a cats arsehole. Hint: they were never friends or colleagues anyway.
Excellent essay. Thanks for writing it. I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where streets are teeming with left-leaning white American women wearing keffiyehs as winter scarfs. To call them idiots is unfair to actual morons. Three cheers to Maimonides for the concept of shogeg karov le-mezid.
The perennial attacks on the Jews, a very small minority anywhere, demonstrate the bullish and savage true nature of Humankind. Natural evolution has not produced better people yet. People are still vile and their minds and wills are weak.
It’s easier to hit the few Jews that still exist than to fight brutal, hugely populated, Islam. It proves that the jungle rules.
The survival of the fittest still has the upper hand. It just happens that the Jews are extremely fit as survivors, and that ironic reality drives the world crazy .
The reality of Jew -hatred, also in its modern anti-Zionist abomination, confirms that empathy is not as natural in humans as we like to speak of. I have seen much more love in animals.
The inversion of morals is a civilisational failure: parents have failed, entire education systems became prostituted, the same popular adherence to demonic ideals ,such as Nazi propaganda achieved ,is still easily achievable, Orwell was right about the decadence of truth, and collective insanity has seized the mind of the West. Leaders have not risen to the occasion. For all the faults one may find in Trump, he is an exception amongst the Western leaders of today.
Media, AI, Quatar, fraudulent professors, popular information outlets, have all exhibited distortion of judgment that have plagued and corrupted young Western minds.
Common sense has died. The ability to discern is gone.
Hatred is a cherished human expression and there are no longer barriers to hatred’s expression.
Identity and narcissism come before any formerly considered humanitarian tendency or endeavour.
Nothing truly has changed since ancient times.What stuns us is that we never expected it to burst and flourish after the Holocaust. We thought that this was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. A horrible idea, like the name Holocaust is horrible, that at least seemed to draw a red line.
As Jews, we were hopeful, even after such a demonstration of savagery and indifference, always ready to begin again.
As humans, we have been parochial, too eager to deny perspective and history and just look at whether anything is “ good for the Jews”, and we have been naive believing in the supposed moral superiority of Western civilisation, to which we, the Jews, granted its foundational principles.
Exactly.
Thanks for the article. It's a damn shame that psychology / social work are bailing out from good sense and logical thinking.
One phrase leapt out at me -- "rape culture." OMG, that is Islamic culture. They are a rape. death cult. Everything that is anathema to the West is foisted on to Israel when in fact it is Islam that has or is doing those things They are the biggest colonizers in history (maybe neck and neck with Britain, Rome); they certainly practice gender apartheid; and rape is a weapon of war for them. In any given population there will always be bad apples. That's not what I'm talking about. Oct 7 made it clear. I remember seeing a video in which one terrorist said, "I wanted to make her dirty." This is a sick ideology; a leftover mentality from barbaric times.
As far as standing up verbally, I often wonder how it would work if whatever they throw at you, you parrot it about some other group and watch for the reaction. First of all, we cannot worry about name-calling. Call me islamophobic, call me racist -- I don't care. I'm not Ito suicidal empathy. But further, if someone says "Jews are colonizers" you say, "Islamists are colonizers." If someone says "Jews are slave traders" you say, "Africans are slave traders" Just throw it back.
Those are my thoughts. I just hope we aren't doomed.
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate:
“Antisemitism is always a means rather than an end. It is a measure of the contradictions yet to be resolved. It is a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and state systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.”
Yes yes. I've heard Douglas Murray quote him several times.
Glad that you brought up “suicidal empathy” that Gad Saad wrote about. Jews had no problem with standing up to antisemitism coming from the right but being mostly in left camp, they lost their voice. We have to call as we see it, and aggressively- we are no longer the begging Jews in the Diaspora, we have Israel and we must accept it that we are one. There is no more Zionism movement - it has been accomplished and it needs to be defended without buts, ifs or any excuses. Why always we have to inject - “we may not agree with Israel’s government” - like we agree with any government on everything. No more defensive excuses, we must be on offense and sometimes on preventive offense.
any perceived microaggression is unquestionably "Islamophobia." If a man screams Allahu akbar and shoots innocent people.....particularly Jewish people,, there is no known or obvious motive and an intensive investigation will attempt to discern what compelled such a heinous act.
Ironic, given that it was Jews who were raped on October 7 by Gaza "palestinians". And it is THEY and islam in general which certainly is a rape culture.
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"Today, Israelis, Zionists, and many Jews are compared to rape culture",