It's amazing how many Jewish people around the world do not support Israel and based on the description of anti-Semite today that makes them anti-Semitic How do you explain this phenomena?
You can criticize Israeli politics. You don’t have the right to say that Israel has no right to exist. Here’s a question. If anti Semitism didn’t exist, would there be a need for Israel? Just asking. It is the ancient home after all
One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters like Piker are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
Only a swollen headed Israel could think they are smarter then everyone else. When you look at their actions and history the truth is exactly the opposite fools believe liars who report themselves to be honorable men.
“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.”
Yeah it's really interesting when you look at the polls of Jewish people from around the world and you realize that only about half of them support Israel so that means half of them are actually as considered Anti semitic.
Actually, the percentage of Jews who support Israel is extremely high, they are just reluctant to call themselves “Zionist” because of the stigma. The rest are either woefully ignorant of their own heritage and culture or suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Centuries of persecution will do that. “I’m the good Jew, not like those bad Jews over there! Go attack them and leave me alone!” It’s called feeding the crocodile in the mistaken belief that it will spare you.
Satmar and related ultra orthodox oppose the secular state until the coming of the Messiah, but believe the land will be given the Jews at that time.
So not in the same category.
Either way, the projection of personal and societal failures upon the Jew scapegoat has been ubiquitous for millennia.
Mandy Patinkin is a fool. Mark Ruffalo won't hate him less because he denounces Netanyahu and justifies Jew hatred because of him. He will be denounced as a genocider just the same.
We will have to let anthropologists , group psychologists and evolution experts have the last word, if they can ever agree on one.
They will have to explain the survival secrets of the Jewish People as well as its strength. As Mark Twain famously said, "All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" .
It may come as an unpleasant conclusion to the experts, but they might come to realize that the unmitigated and constantly perpetrated brutality of the hatred against the Jews, as far in history as the Egyptians, contributed majorly to forge their perceived supernatural strength.
The more they hate us, the stronger we become. If the Jew-haters only understood that, and if they left us alone, the true test of our alleged immortality would be how we live and thrive in spite of our own divisions, without the outside hostility.
Mark Twain was not a partisan and he was a sceptic. He would not have resorted to the " immortality" image unless he was truly amazed. A mystic could imagine the saga of the Jewish People as " the laboratory of God", or even a rationalist could see Job in the Jewish story. Job suffers unspeakably, but never forsakes his God, and thrives.
Zionism is the Jewish people's answer to antisemitism — the movement to convert a permanently exposed minority into a nation with a border and a shield. It fights antisemitism by defeating what antisemitism does: it gives Jews somewhere to go and the means to defend it. And antizionism that denies Jewish peoplehood, or launders the old hatreds into new language, is antisemitism by another name — while the hatred itself long predates the state and would outlive its absence.
How many and which Jews are invested in Israel? How many Jewish Americans vacation in Greece without a thought for a short plane trip to Ben Gurion....for some the idea of a Jewish state is an embarrassment. who wants to be around all those Jews? I've been making fun of Mandy Mamaloschen and his wife crying for Gaza on You Tube. He's invested in Israel? Is J street invested in Israel... Bend the arc? That's some devotion to his Jewish people for his tears shed for Gaza but not for a hundred thousand plus displaced by Hezbollah bombing. fcuk him and his brand of Zionism. You care , because I see and share your videos on FB...they are excellent. And you are young and you are open about you gay identity. Speaking as an elder now from both communities too. I don't know that any of my FB friends bother to listen to your videos....there are no likes or comments ....except from my gentile Friend who loves Israel.
Thank you for this. If Israel were suddenly gone, nothing would stop anti Semitism, the excuses would just be different.
This bit of truthfulness really triggers the semi-literate-antisemites!
I know, right. Why I didn’t respond to him. Too much work, lol
It's amazing how many Jewish people around the world do not support Israel and based on the description of anti-Semite today that makes them anti-Semitic How do you explain this phenomena?
You can criticize Israeli politics. You don’t have the right to say that Israel has no right to exist. Here’s a question. If anti Semitism didn’t exist, would there be a need for Israel? Just asking. It is the ancient home after all
Yeah it's the ancient home of the canaanites the israelites all the ancestors of the Palestinians including Christ himself.
Bull shit Israel causes more then not and last time I checked the semantics where the Arab Tribe's when did this change?
Ah the old "Arabs are semites" bullshit. You can smell the Jew haters from a mile away. Fuck off.
I'm glad you understand what Roger wrote because I can't understand his sentence.
Well I got the gist of it and that was enough, lol.
Yes, well, when all one’s working brain cells have been rotted away by infection with insidious antisemitism virus, that is what tends to happen.
It was poorly written, for sure.
Piker is DARVO incarnate.
One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters like Piker are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
Only a swollen headed Israel could think they are smarter then everyone else. When you look at their actions and history the truth is exactly the opposite fools believe liars who report themselves to be honorable men.
Uhuh. Thanks for proving my point.
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.”
Yeah it's really interesting when you look at the polls of Jewish people from around the world and you realize that only about half of them support Israel so that means half of them are actually as considered Anti semitic.
Actually, the percentage of Jews who support Israel is extremely high, they are just reluctant to call themselves “Zionist” because of the stigma. The rest are either woefully ignorant of their own heritage and culture or suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Centuries of persecution will do that. “I’m the good Jew, not like those bad Jews over there! Go attack them and leave me alone!” It’s called feeding the crocodile in the mistaken belief that it will spare you.
Satmar and related ultra orthodox oppose the secular state until the coming of the Messiah, but believe the land will be given the Jews at that time.
So not in the same category.
Either way, the projection of personal and societal failures upon the Jew scapegoat has been ubiquitous for millennia.
Brilliant!
Mandy Patinkin is a fool. Mark Ruffalo won't hate him less because he denounces Netanyahu and justifies Jew hatred because of him. He will be denounced as a genocider just the same.
Brad Lander has found that out.
Hopefully some of those NY American Jews who voted for Madmani would read this post.
Great article.
We will have to let anthropologists , group psychologists and evolution experts have the last word, if they can ever agree on one.
They will have to explain the survival secrets of the Jewish People as well as its strength. As Mark Twain famously said, "All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" .
It may come as an unpleasant conclusion to the experts, but they might come to realize that the unmitigated and constantly perpetrated brutality of the hatred against the Jews, as far in history as the Egyptians, contributed majorly to forge their perceived supernatural strength.
The more they hate us, the stronger we become. If the Jew-haters only understood that, and if they left us alone, the true test of our alleged immortality would be how we live and thrive in spite of our own divisions, without the outside hostility.
Mark Twain was not a partisan and he was a sceptic. He would not have resorted to the " immortality" image unless he was truly amazed. A mystic could imagine the saga of the Jewish People as " the laboratory of God", or even a rationalist could see Job in the Jewish story. Job suffers unspeakably, but never forsakes his God, and thrives.
One of your BEST yet, Hen! Thank you for this and all you do for Israel 🇮🇱 and the worldwide Jewish community 💙 🩵
Such an insightful essay. Thank you.
A great and very helpful article.
Well put, learn it's lessons please!
I truly hope you will turn your articles into a book. What an amazing anthology that would be.
Zionism is the Jewish people's answer to antisemitism — the movement to convert a permanently exposed minority into a nation with a border and a shield. It fights antisemitism by defeating what antisemitism does: it gives Jews somewhere to go and the means to defend it. And antizionism that denies Jewish peoplehood, or launders the old hatreds into new language, is antisemitism by another name — while the hatred itself long predates the state and would outlive its absence.
Herzl’s eyes so that he suddenly became aware of the false promises of assimilation as the antidote to antisemitism
It’s a common myth that it took the Dreyfus affair to drop the scales from Herzl ha
Thank you! Am Yisrael Chai!
How many and which Jews are invested in Israel? How many Jewish Americans vacation in Greece without a thought for a short plane trip to Ben Gurion....for some the idea of a Jewish state is an embarrassment. who wants to be around all those Jews? I've been making fun of Mandy Mamaloschen and his wife crying for Gaza on You Tube. He's invested in Israel? Is J street invested in Israel... Bend the arc? That's some devotion to his Jewish people for his tears shed for Gaza but not for a hundred thousand plus displaced by Hezbollah bombing. fcuk him and his brand of Zionism. You care , because I see and share your videos on FB...they are excellent. And you are young and you are open about you gay identity. Speaking as an elder now from both communities too. I don't know that any of my FB friends bother to listen to your videos....there are no likes or comments ....except from my gentile Friend who loves Israel.
Yep