I've been thinking what you eloquently laid out in your article. I went to lunch with two of my best friends about a month ago. Over the course of our meal, I mentioned how difficult it is right now to be a Jew in America. I was met with silence. When George Floyd died, I called one of these friends and suggested we go for a walk so we could talk about it. I wanted to understand how she was feeling. So, to be clear, I know who wouldn't hide me if the worst were to happen. I've never felt they are antisemitic, but the ally-ship all my lib friends crow about is complete bullshit.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of antisemitism among black Americans rn. Some pushback and good support too, but they’ve targeted them with jihadi propaganda and you can see it’s been effective.
I'm sure they are, but people envy most what they see every day, and blacks and Jews are both mostly urbanites sharing the same turf, whereas evil rednecks are mostly spotted in the movies, not in cities.
Depends where one lives.. perhaps not in NYC - very few of my friends in midtown or Brooklyn ever met an Appalachian - but once you go further west they are everywhere - in every city- and my son tells me there are plenty of rednecks driving 1500 Dodge RAMS in South Florida.
Such an important topic. I've been a supporter of reparations. No longer. Where is the leadership? Where are the networks? Get your act together and show the rest of the world what you're made of. I personally know lots of successful, smart blacks. They just have to get it together.
Once again, Jews are on their own and cannot count on anyone else's help—and once again, Jews fought for the rights and dignity of other people, only to see it never be reciprocated.
My feeling is that most black people think of Jews as "rich", thus not deserving or needing any assistance, and any politically active liberals of any race (who would be most expected to understand) have been intimidated by the Social Justice-Islamist alliance, which has conquered our liberal institutions.
I think many Black people and Jews, including me, would take issue with this generalization.
That said, I am hurt and surprised by the lack of acknowledgement and simple dialogue that has been absent/avoided by many of my Black friends and colleagues. I have shown up for and tried to make a difference with Black-related issues, inequalities and horrors all my life.
"I think many Black people and Jews, including me, would take issue with this generalization."
I say this to my (Jewish) wife and she says the exact same thing. I think it's hard for people to admit that they might be filled with envy or on its receiving end (that's what they invented the Evil Eye for!). But who wouldn't have a small bit of envy for people or peoples with much more wealth and success than them? It's only natural.
"I am hurt and surprised by the lack of acknowledgement and simple dialogue..."
As you should be. I could try to think of a reason as to why this is, but wouldnt want to generalize (again).
Those of us who went through the CORE and civil rights days - are pretty much gone. I knew when they cut Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel z"l out of the movie "Selma" - the Jewish support in the black community was greatly diminished.
Most American liberals have handed over their hearts, souls and brains to the Social Justice faith, and in this faith Jews are white oppressors who deserve zero sympathy and support. (This wouldn't be the first social movement that Jews have helped create and lead that eventually turned on them, sadly.)
It's hard for most people to think and act clearly and independently if they think this might get them charged with heresy/blasphemy and expelled from their chosen community. Ideologues make bad friends.
The pain and betrayal you’re feeling is palpable. Have you considered joining us in Israel? We love talking about how difficult it is for Jews there, but we’re never alone 😁
We have a saying in Oakland, stay strapped or get clapped. Jewish survival depends on vigilance and courage. I never understood the Jews who advocated for disarmament; do they know what happens to defenseless people when the angry mob shows up at their door?
A non-Jewish friend recently asked me if I’m feeling vulnerable. My answer was no, more dismayed at humanity (and really, who isn’t?) I’m more nervous, on guard, especially with a small Magen David hanging from one ear, than ever before. But vulnerable suggests to me an internal frailty, which is the one thing I have shed since 7/10/23. I have never felt more proud to be a Jew, or more solid in my identity. So I may be in greater actual danger, in some regard, but I refuse to hide.
Welcome to the real world of being an ethnic minority. Here in Britain, the Deep State has run a hate campaign against Jews for many years now. Our place in the world is now Israel. Britain may well elect a Far Right party to power in the next four years. This was actually always the case here in Europe. America is different. Trump is expressly pro Israel and likes Jews. Also, the US is a new nation and indeed a nation of immigrants. Not so the UK. So Jews are safer in the USA than in any of the countries of Europe. I am making plans for Aliyah. Love Britain and the British as I do, my place as a Jew is now Israel.
Not only have diaspora Jews forgotten about exile, they have forgotten about slavery. If you are a Jew and now, after all that has happened over the last year and a half, cannot stand and be counted, you are a slave to your ideology. Jews need to start seriously investing in precious metals. Brass and lead.
I joined JPFO, Jewish Preservation of Firearm Ownership, mainly to support the Jewish founder. He did research into Senator Dodd’s gun control bill back in the 60s which mostly was plagiarized from Germany’s 1933 law…that should give a chill. Nice to hear from a sister packer.
TRLL ME...How many people were gathered and walking in solidarity...and how many young people 18-40 ...were participating in this march...and tell me ....was there any added security...or for that matter...ANY SECURITY...organized...to stand by these people...in the event of a confrontation...???
2 questions: 1. Why was this guy allowed to keep threatening and yelling until the cops came? No one in the crowd was willing to confront him? 2. Where are the huge demonstrations of Jews demanding justice? I fear that American Jews are too busy being nice to stand up for themselves
More important, where was the security? You can't expect elderly people to grapple with a madman. They did point out that they are not responsible for what the Israeli government does or does not do
A really sad reply which reflects a big problem with American Jews. First of all there is nothing to be embarrassed about Israel defending itself from a group of murderous rapists who proudly proclaim that their goal is to commit genocide on the Jews. Secondly, these Jew haters don't care what you do or think, they hate you for what you are. These attempts at trying to portray oneself as a "good Jew", not like the nasty Israelis just make you appear waker in the face of your enemies, who, as we see want you dead.
SO true. It addresses the situation for Diaspora Jews very effectively. It is a complete shonda how we have been deserted by all those minorities whom we have supported, by our non-Jewish friends, family and neighbors, and by almost all governments. However, the Islamist forces and the countries who harbor them are against not only Israel’s existence, but the existence of every non-Muslim in the world. We Jews, wherever we live, may as well take advantage of the fact that we already know they want to kill us.
As a Lutheran, a westerner and an American, I condemn very strongly what took place in Boulder, Colorado a couple days ago! Your right Joshua, this is NOT about Gaza! This is about antisemitism plain and simple. Elias Rodriquez and Mohamed Soliman care nothing about Palestinians, they just hate Jews. Jews can’t depend on anyone else but each other and instead of hashtags the American Jewish community must come together to strategize and protect their communities. They can’t depend on the unreliable gentile authorities to do so.
The Jihadist Brownshirts on college campuses and their radical leftist allies are motivated by antisemitic, anti-American and anti-western sentiments. Folks like Jonathan Ben-Meacham, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Cenk Uygur, and Briahna Joy Gray can try and whitewash what’s going on but it’s true. They long since crossed the line from free speech to violence. Free speech does not mean you get to block students from going to class, attack journalists, police officers and Jewish students, setting fires, chanting for intifada, and vandalizing and illegally occupying public property.
Funny how we hear not a peep out of the social justice crowd about Loay Alnaji murdering Paul Kessler, the shooting of Yaron Laschinsky and Sarah Milgram, the Boulder fire bombing attack, or October 7th. But if the victims of these events had been black, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, Trans, immigrants, or disabled they’d be outraged and in the streets protesting. I guess Jews don’t count for liberals and progressives. 🤷♂️
Remember in LA a couple years ago when an antisemitic mob attacked a Jewish neighborhood? They attacked and vandalized a Jewish bakery not because it had anything to do with the war in Gaza but because it was Jewish owned, they also went after a synagogue. If one didn’t know any better when watching the videos of what took place, they’d think they were in Germany in the Middle Ages, not America in 2025. Imagine if white protesters gathered outside black churches to “protest” in Alabama and Mississippi.
When Pro-Palestinian protesters held up signs praising Yahya Sinwar at Hunter College and the home of Anne Pasternak the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum was vandalized with a red triangle. The triangle is meant to represent the yellow Star of David patches European Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis during the Holocaust. This is basically the equivalent of when the Ku Klux Klan would burn a cross on the lawn of a black family they were trying to get to leave town.
How about the organized pogrom in Amsterdam where Arab Muslim migrants attacked Israeli Jewish Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in an incident that was planned in a WhatsApp group? Where were the Dutch police? Antifa, Socialists and Communists have made common cause with the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white nationalists But what they do agree on is that they hate Jews and Israel. The far-left and far-right don’t agree on much. But what they do agree on is that they hate Jews and Israel. Islamists don’t help matters either. Western governments outside of the U.S. are so pathetically weak when it comes to taking action to stop this. This is why the global Jewish community can only depend on each other and the state of Israel to protect them.
Joshua, thank you for your excellent words, again. We, Jews, are at a tipping point. We will either fight to survive or become mutilated victims of a violent cult, gaining strength from a clueless population. It is time to abandon the liberal Kumbaya. It simply does not work. Thank goodness, in the US, we have a friend in the White House. But, don't think you can sit back while he solves our problem. It is up to us-- it always has been. You are your own first responder. Can your family and friends depend on you when the time comes (now)? You can and should always be a Jew: kind, smart, compassionate, a leader, a teacher. This is what G-d has given you. The Almighty has also given you the ability to be a fierce warrior. The IDF has proven all these qualities can and do exist together. What are we waiting for to start fighting back? It is time to be a bad-ass war fighter, whatever it takes to win.
Just a thought, why is it we leave it to the old folks to publicly demonstrate for our brothers and sisters held captive by the sub-animals in Gaza? Are younger Jews so afraid, they leave it to the elderly to have courage? I hope not, because the elderly cannot win this war by themselves.
A few more of these incidents and Jews may finally get it. The cavalry is not coming, the police will get there after the fact, the headlines for justice for Jews will not be written. The time is now to get to work and start organizing and planning so these incidents don’t become common place. Did I hear someone mention resistance???
I'd love to be a fly on the wall as a "Liberal" Jew reads this excellent essay and then says, "...but look what Israel is doing in Gaza to the poor women and children," without an ounce of recognition that what happens to those who are non-combatants is what Hamas, not Israel, has done, both in starting this war with horrendous violence and in placing their own women and children as shields to be killed for propaganda. Where is the world's condemnation of Hamas and its supporters? Oh, sorry, there's not enough airtime or newsprint left for that. Or, indeed, enough sympathy for us Jews.
You’d think ppl would be thrilled to show the world they’re the saviors, the noble ppl they pretend to be online, now that a minority is being targeted in terror attacks in the U.S. Instead, they minimize, justify, and DARVO. They say this is “overflow” violence, “backlash for Gaza.” The fact that THAT’S how they see it is a huge part of the whole problem. How obvious can it be that this is a feature, not a bug, not a couple random lunatics, not about a war thousands of miles away? God, I’m so tired of trying to reason with ppl in giant, global cults.
You are correct about progressive and liberal minded Jews in the Diaspora, but how much better is it in Israel? The vast majority of the 1200 killed on October 7th, and those taken as hostage, were progressive, peace loving Jews living near Gaza or attending the Nova Music Festival They were similar in their generous and liberal attitudes to many Diaspora Jews. Why are not all the Jews in Israel authorized to maintain arms in their homes, as are Jews in the United States? Any Jew who doesn't maintain at least one firearm in the home for each adult is naive and foolish. Jews worldwide are under threat. Yes, Israel has an army and the means to defend itself, which is wonderful, but in many ways they are dependent on larger powers to supply them with arms and support. At one time it was the U.K. and France, now it is the United States.
Steve, I think Israel has learned (from the prior administration) that she needs to become more independent and/or self-reliant on manufacturing its own weaponry!
That is a good thing, but I can't imagine a world where they entirely and independently manufacture their own fighter jets, bombers, helicopters, naval warships, submarines, tanks, and a multitude of other armaments.
I've been thinking what you eloquently laid out in your article. I went to lunch with two of my best friends about a month ago. Over the course of our meal, I mentioned how difficult it is right now to be a Jew in America. I was met with silence. When George Floyd died, I called one of these friends and suggested we go for a walk so we could talk about it. I wanted to understand how she was feeling. So, to be clear, I know who wouldn't hide me if the worst were to happen. I've never felt they are antisemitic, but the ally-ship all my lib friends crow about is complete bullshit.
What’s particularly galling is the lack of support from the black community.
Jews were murdered during the battle for civil rights. Two of the “Mississippi Burning” boys were Jewish.
Not a peep from the NAACP after 10/7.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of antisemitism among black Americans rn. Some pushback and good support too, but they’ve targeted them with jihadi propaganda and you can see it’s been effective.
Black people are (somewhat understandably) very envious of Jews, who are much richer and much more successful and accomplished.
Jewish success puts the lie to the notion that oppression is what keeps minorities down, and this leads to anger and resentment.
They should be angry at the white nationalist communities - who oppressed them, used racial slurs, wore white hoods and burned 40 Foot Crosses.
I'm sure they are, but people envy most what they see every day, and blacks and Jews are both mostly urbanites sharing the same turf, whereas evil rednecks are mostly spotted in the movies, not in cities.
And people resent those who have helped them. If somebody saw you when you were down and you owe them, resentment is a natural reaction.
Excellent points.
Depends where one lives.. perhaps not in NYC - very few of my friends in midtown or Brooklyn ever met an Appalachian - but once you go further west they are everywhere - in every city- and my son tells me there are plenty of rednecks driving 1500 Dodge RAMS in South Florida.
Such an important topic. I've been a supporter of reparations. No longer. Where is the leadership? Where are the networks? Get your act together and show the rest of the world what you're made of. I personally know lots of successful, smart blacks. They just have to get it together.
Once again, Jews are on their own and cannot count on anyone else's help—and once again, Jews fought for the rights and dignity of other people, only to see it never be reciprocated.
My feeling is that most black people think of Jews as "rich", thus not deserving or needing any assistance, and any politically active liberals of any race (who would be most expected to understand) have been intimidated by the Social Justice-Islamist alliance, which has conquered our liberal institutions.
I think many Black people and Jews, including me, would take issue with this generalization.
That said, I am hurt and surprised by the lack of acknowledgement and simple dialogue that has been absent/avoided by many of my Black friends and colleagues. I have shown up for and tried to make a difference with Black-related issues, inequalities and horrors all my life.
"I think many Black people and Jews, including me, would take issue with this generalization."
I say this to my (Jewish) wife and she says the exact same thing. I think it's hard for people to admit that they might be filled with envy or on its receiving end (that's what they invented the Evil Eye for!). But who wouldn't have a small bit of envy for people or peoples with much more wealth and success than them? It's only natural.
"I am hurt and surprised by the lack of acknowledgement and simple dialogue..."
As you should be. I could try to think of a reason as to why this is, but wouldnt want to generalize (again).
Those of us who went through the CORE and civil rights days - are pretty much gone. I knew when they cut Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel z"l out of the movie "Selma" - the Jewish support in the black community was greatly diminished.
I didn’t know they eliminated Rabbi Heschel from that movie. That says a lot as does the rise of Louis Farrakhan.
yes it does.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/18/fresh-controversy-hits-selma-daughter-of-rabbi-abraham-joshua-heschel-shocked-by-exclusion-of-her-father-from-film/
In fact BLM fetishized the paraglider thing.
Most American liberals have handed over their hearts, souls and brains to the Social Justice faith, and in this faith Jews are white oppressors who deserve zero sympathy and support. (This wouldn't be the first social movement that Jews have helped create and lead that eventually turned on them, sadly.)
It's hard for most people to think and act clearly and independently if they think this might get them charged with heresy/blasphemy and expelled from their chosen community. Ideologues make bad friends.
Maybe Jews should stop forming coalitions with evil. They seem to never learn
Very true. It's hard to risk losing one's friends, acquaintances and reputation, and to risk being labelled right-wing. https://ruthvanita452091.substack.com/p/killing-indifference
If they are antisemites, they are not friends. I don't have a problem being labeled right wing.
The pain and betrayal you’re feeling is palpable. Have you considered joining us in Israel? We love talking about how difficult it is for Jews there, but we’re never alone 😁
Exactly. A lot of silent non-Jews and also some silent Jews.
https://ruthvanita452091.substack.com/p/killing-indifference
Conservatives and Christian Zionists have not been silent. You need to associate with better people.
Good that you learned
Pam, with an !!
We have a saying in Oakland, stay strapped or get clapped. Jewish survival depends on vigilance and courage. I never understood the Jews who advocated for disarmament; do they know what happens to defenseless people when the angry mob shows up at their door?
if I were Jewish I’d be at the gun range for sure.
many of us carry, we just don't pose with them.
Perhaps we should. I’m thinking billboards…
Yes we saw what happens on Oct 7
A non-Jewish friend recently asked me if I’m feeling vulnerable. My answer was no, more dismayed at humanity (and really, who isn’t?) I’m more nervous, on guard, especially with a small Magen David hanging from one ear, than ever before. But vulnerable suggests to me an internal frailty, which is the one thing I have shed since 7/10/23. I have never felt more proud to be a Jew, or more solid in my identity. So I may be in greater actual danger, in some regard, but I refuse to hide.
Welcome to the real world of being an ethnic minority. Here in Britain, the Deep State has run a hate campaign against Jews for many years now. Our place in the world is now Israel. Britain may well elect a Far Right party to power in the next four years. This was actually always the case here in Europe. America is different. Trump is expressly pro Israel and likes Jews. Also, the US is a new nation and indeed a nation of immigrants. Not so the UK. So Jews are safer in the USA than in any of the countries of Europe. I am making plans for Aliyah. Love Britain and the British as I do, my place as a Jew is now Israel.
Aliyah is on my mind…
Not only have diaspora Jews forgotten about exile, they have forgotten about slavery. If you are a Jew and now, after all that has happened over the last year and a half, cannot stand and be counted, you are a slave to your ideology. Jews need to start seriously investing in precious metals. Brass and lead.
Agreed. This Jew has a gun permit and a gun.
I joined JPFO, Jewish Preservation of Firearm Ownership, mainly to support the Jewish founder. He did research into Senator Dodd’s gun control bill back in the 60s which mostly was plagiarized from Germany’s 1933 law…that should give a chill. Nice to hear from a sister packer.
TRLL ME...How many people were gathered and walking in solidarity...and how many young people 18-40 ...were participating in this march...and tell me ....was there any added security...or for that matter...ANY SECURITY...organized...to stand by these people...in the event of a confrontation...???
JEWS IN DIASPORA NEED A HEADSHAKE..!
No security. Very few young people.
so, they were easy targets. After DC it should be a no-brainer that security is always needed. Hell, after Tree of Life.
2 questions: 1. Why was this guy allowed to keep threatening and yelling until the cops came? No one in the crowd was willing to confront him? 2. Where are the huge demonstrations of Jews demanding justice? I fear that American Jews are too busy being nice to stand up for themselves
More important, where was the security? You can't expect elderly people to grapple with a madman. They did point out that they are not responsible for what the Israeli government does or does not do
A really sad reply which reflects a big problem with American Jews. First of all there is nothing to be embarrassed about Israel defending itself from a group of murderous rapists who proudly proclaim that their goal is to commit genocide on the Jews. Secondly, these Jew haters don't care what you do or think, they hate you for what you are. These attempts at trying to portray oneself as a "good Jew", not like the nasty Israelis just make you appear waker in the face of your enemies, who, as we see want you dead.
From what I read, this guy had a spray gun that acted like a flamethrower. It was a very ugly scene.
SO true. It addresses the situation for Diaspora Jews very effectively. It is a complete shonda how we have been deserted by all those minorities whom we have supported, by our non-Jewish friends, family and neighbors, and by almost all governments. However, the Islamist forces and the countries who harbor them are against not only Israel’s existence, but the existence of every non-Muslim in the world. We Jews, wherever we live, may as well take advantage of the fact that we already know they want to kill us.
Jabotinsky said better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it. Timeless wisdom. Get some and get some training.
As a Lutheran, a westerner and an American, I condemn very strongly what took place in Boulder, Colorado a couple days ago! Your right Joshua, this is NOT about Gaza! This is about antisemitism plain and simple. Elias Rodriquez and Mohamed Soliman care nothing about Palestinians, they just hate Jews. Jews can’t depend on anyone else but each other and instead of hashtags the American Jewish community must come together to strategize and protect their communities. They can’t depend on the unreliable gentile authorities to do so.
The Jihadist Brownshirts on college campuses and their radical leftist allies are motivated by antisemitic, anti-American and anti-western sentiments. Folks like Jonathan Ben-Meacham, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Cenk Uygur, and Briahna Joy Gray can try and whitewash what’s going on but it’s true. They long since crossed the line from free speech to violence. Free speech does not mean you get to block students from going to class, attack journalists, police officers and Jewish students, setting fires, chanting for intifada, and vandalizing and illegally occupying public property.
Funny how we hear not a peep out of the social justice crowd about Loay Alnaji murdering Paul Kessler, the shooting of Yaron Laschinsky and Sarah Milgram, the Boulder fire bombing attack, or October 7th. But if the victims of these events had been black, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, Trans, immigrants, or disabled they’d be outraged and in the streets protesting. I guess Jews don’t count for liberals and progressives. 🤷♂️
Remember in LA a couple years ago when an antisemitic mob attacked a Jewish neighborhood? They attacked and vandalized a Jewish bakery not because it had anything to do with the war in Gaza but because it was Jewish owned, they also went after a synagogue. If one didn’t know any better when watching the videos of what took place, they’d think they were in Germany in the Middle Ages, not America in 2025. Imagine if white protesters gathered outside black churches to “protest” in Alabama and Mississippi.
When Pro-Palestinian protesters held up signs praising Yahya Sinwar at Hunter College and the home of Anne Pasternak the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum was vandalized with a red triangle. The triangle is meant to represent the yellow Star of David patches European Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis during the Holocaust. This is basically the equivalent of when the Ku Klux Klan would burn a cross on the lawn of a black family they were trying to get to leave town.
How about the organized pogrom in Amsterdam where Arab Muslim migrants attacked Israeli Jewish Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in an incident that was planned in a WhatsApp group? Where were the Dutch police? Antifa, Socialists and Communists have made common cause with the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white nationalists But what they do agree on is that they hate Jews and Israel. The far-left and far-right don’t agree on much. But what they do agree on is that they hate Jews and Israel. Islamists don’t help matters either. Western governments outside of the U.S. are so pathetically weak when it comes to taking action to stop this. This is why the global Jewish community can only depend on each other and the state of Israel to protect them.
You forgot the attempt to burn the governor of Pennsylvania and his family to death. Incredibly weird that that has apparently been memory holed.
Where are the liberals and progressives you ask? Well.. these people understand Jews to be mostly Caucasian, privileged and the oppressor!
Joshua, thank you for your excellent words, again. We, Jews, are at a tipping point. We will either fight to survive or become mutilated victims of a violent cult, gaining strength from a clueless population. It is time to abandon the liberal Kumbaya. It simply does not work. Thank goodness, in the US, we have a friend in the White House. But, don't think you can sit back while he solves our problem. It is up to us-- it always has been. You are your own first responder. Can your family and friends depend on you when the time comes (now)? You can and should always be a Jew: kind, smart, compassionate, a leader, a teacher. This is what G-d has given you. The Almighty has also given you the ability to be a fierce warrior. The IDF has proven all these qualities can and do exist together. What are we waiting for to start fighting back? It is time to be a bad-ass war fighter, whatever it takes to win.
Just a thought, why is it we leave it to the old folks to publicly demonstrate for our brothers and sisters held captive by the sub-animals in Gaza? Are younger Jews so afraid, they leave it to the elderly to have courage? I hope not, because the elderly cannot win this war by themselves.
A few more of these incidents and Jews may finally get it. The cavalry is not coming, the police will get there after the fact, the headlines for justice for Jews will not be written. The time is now to get to work and start organizing and planning so these incidents don’t become common place. Did I hear someone mention resistance???
I'd love to be a fly on the wall as a "Liberal" Jew reads this excellent essay and then says, "...but look what Israel is doing in Gaza to the poor women and children," without an ounce of recognition that what happens to those who are non-combatants is what Hamas, not Israel, has done, both in starting this war with horrendous violence and in placing their own women and children as shields to be killed for propaganda. Where is the world's condemnation of Hamas and its supporters? Oh, sorry, there's not enough airtime or newsprint left for that. Or, indeed, enough sympathy for us Jews.
You’d think ppl would be thrilled to show the world they’re the saviors, the noble ppl they pretend to be online, now that a minority is being targeted in terror attacks in the U.S. Instead, they minimize, justify, and DARVO. They say this is “overflow” violence, “backlash for Gaza.” The fact that THAT’S how they see it is a huge part of the whole problem. How obvious can it be that this is a feature, not a bug, not a couple random lunatics, not about a war thousands of miles away? God, I’m so tired of trying to reason with ppl in giant, global cults.
You are correct about progressive and liberal minded Jews in the Diaspora, but how much better is it in Israel? The vast majority of the 1200 killed on October 7th, and those taken as hostage, were progressive, peace loving Jews living near Gaza or attending the Nova Music Festival They were similar in their generous and liberal attitudes to many Diaspora Jews. Why are not all the Jews in Israel authorized to maintain arms in their homes, as are Jews in the United States? Any Jew who doesn't maintain at least one firearm in the home for each adult is naive and foolish. Jews worldwide are under threat. Yes, Israel has an army and the means to defend itself, which is wonderful, but in many ways they are dependent on larger powers to supply them with arms and support. At one time it was the U.K. and France, now it is the United States.
Steve, I think Israel has learned (from the prior administration) that she needs to become more independent and/or self-reliant on manufacturing its own weaponry!
That is a good thing, but I can't imagine a world where they entirely and independently manufacture their own fighter jets, bombers, helicopters, naval warships, submarines, tanks, and a multitude of other armaments.
Point well taken, Steve. I was referring to munitions.
This has to stop. Praying for my Jewish friends and family.