Very true. But today the Jews and Israel also have allies - many Christians, many Hindus, some Muslims (listen to the Indonesian Premier's speech at the UN) and many right-thinking people.
And thank God for that. Contrast the violence against ice to protect those here illegally with the antagonism of the same people and their supporters against Jewish citizens ( here IN US and in UK)
Sadly everything you say is true. The revolting hatred from Countries is vomit inducing. I agree that separating Zionism from antisemitism is ridiculous. It’s one and the same. The Government must stop these evil marches as a start. The are acting in a vacuum cowering like frightened animals. I will never forgive them. My prayers are for all Jewish people and for Israel. 🙏
Very well written and explained, however we can see example after example of Jews, being their own worst enemies always voting party line even if the politician is clearly against what is best for the Jewish people someone I know who is quite religious and observant she is voting for Hochul who endorsed Mandani
Mamdami Quora does not have a way to edit anymore. Why is that if you make a mistake in spelling or word there is no way to go back and edit the comment. Why? Why is that Quora?
The world has never forgiven Israel for earning their country through victory on the battlefield. From the War for Independence down to today, and especially the Six Day War, Israel has shown that it is not dependent upon the good graces of the so-called international community. Rights, privileges, and territory gained from the blood, sweat, and tears of defensive wars shall not be surrendered. Not the Golan, not Jerusalem, and not Judea-Samaria. Those who would do such a thing should have their names chiseled in stone in the wall of shame. Am Israel Chai.
In 1922 The World - The League of Nations - voted 57 to 0 for a British Mandate in Jewish Palestine for a Home for the Jewish People
In 1936 - Colonel Orde Wingate, a devout Christian and Zionist of the British Army, formed Haganah Night squads to fight the Muslim Arabs. Moshe Dayan said, "Wingate taught us everything we know."
in 1947 The World - The United Nations - voted 33 to 13 for a Jewish State by partitioning the 1922 Palestine Mandate.
In 1948 - The Czechs supplied weapons and military planes. America and other countries supplied the pilots to turn the war in favor of Israel. America provided Colonel Benny Marcus a WWII veteran at the request of Israeli Jews to form and lead their Army.
Jews (Israel) will always have friends and enemies.
It looks bleak right now, but God is on Israel's side.
In the 1870's Wilhelm Marr coined the term antisemitism as a more palatable way of saying judenhause, Jew hater , along with establishing the League of Anti-Semites. It was more acceptable to declare you were an Anti-Semite than to come out and say you were a Jew hater. Today you can do the same proudly proclaiming yourself anti- Zionist, as though that has nothing to do with Jews. What is disturbing is how many young, so called"progressives", have taken on this posture. It isn't surprising that many are the same ones who are championing the trans ideology. This is particularly true with young "progressive" women. There is an emptiness there which is being filled with darkness.
Come on people, wake up, we are on our own, no one is coming to save the day, if we don't stamp out and crush the source of these antisemitic roots then we will continue to suffer these incidents and these attacks, yes we have friends in the Christian world and there are many in the USA who are our friends, those same fiends realize that we the Jews are the canary in the mine of history and when we are under sever threat, they are next on the list once we are gone.
For thousands of years we have not been able to make more than short term peace with our enemies so when are we going to learn that is is an unattainable and overly ambitious goal, safety comes from strength and from striking fear into their leaders, and it is that fear that keeps their people in check, pharaoh only released the Jews when every first born male in Egypt was struck down, and only now after the almost complete decimation of hamas and the fact that we went after their leaders inside of their "protected" states of being in places like Iran and Qatar, are we finally seeing the possibility of the release of our people.
So no this is not over by a long shot, and it wont be over until we completely destroy every detractor wherever they may hide, or when we drag them from under whatever rock they crawl under, we need to hunt them and end them, until we do that this does not end and we will not stop paying with the blood of our families and our children, this only ends when we end them!
I don’t think we will ever be able to crush the source of antisemitism, as you call them ‘the roots’.
As the late Rabbi Sacks (z’l) said, “in every generation, antisemitism morphs," after all, it has been around for centuries.
Israel could certainly have better PR, working in conjunction with diaspora Jews.
There are many different strands of diaspora Judaism, not just between level of religiosity, but the way in which support of Israel is shown. That too has huge contrast between European Jewry and American Jewry.
Yea antisemitism is like cancer and does re-morph itself every few years, and we need to learn from this and like cancer we need to establish ways in which to track and catch it early in its manifestation, and then eradicate it before it gains traction, kill it before it can go exponential, we have now left it to late again and we are about to pay a huge price for what is coming down the line for the Jewish people, this time around we are going to lose way more than we did with Hitler, this time around we will be lucky to survive what is coming.
I attended Kol Nidrei at one of NYC's wokeist congregations. The prayers were for freeing the hostages and for ending the suffering of the Gazans. I'm not praying for the Gazans....they voted this monster in....they ran across the border to participate in the plunder. Jewish celebrities have the temerity to lecture us on how we should behave in light of Netanyahu's "genocidal war." So it's only a diced and spliced community of Jews left who are unequivocal in their support of Israel. The world community had a chance now to show contrition for their complicity in genocide. They did the opposite. Holocaust is either mocked or appropriated for "Palestine," Anne Frank is either mocked or appropriated for "Palestine" Israel is mocked from an awards podium by a no nothing as that "ethno national thing" ....an asajew...who finds nothing wrong in Palestine racist ultrafanatic etho national thing. The day I left Israel in '74 after a long sojourn as a volunteer on a kibbutz a mile from Gaza was Ma alot...so that sticks in my memory. Instead of Gaza I wanted the rabbi, the cong president to read every name of the remaining hostages living and dead. Say their names. Remember Shani Louk. Keith Segal's testimony on I 24? or Fox...? ,....witnessed a woman tied and beaten. He was starved and spit on,. Who knows what else he endured. That's who I'm praying for. The synagogue is aligned with J street values. So are a lot ....too many American Jews. All you say is true. No argument here.
Yesss, at last we start to wake up. As I told a lot of times we must fight for ourselves, NOW!! WE WERE NEVER PROTECTED, NEVER!! I LOST 70 OF MY FAMILY IN WWII, SO STOP DREAMING AND F I G H T, FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!!!! AM ISRAËL CHAI!!
Israel has a unique opportunity to show the rest of the world that no longer will they be pressured to fight until a ceasefire. It is way past the time where Israel needs to notify the world that if it is attacked, it will respond with unprecedented fury, and that the perpetrators will be obliterated from the face of the earth. If Hamas does not fulfill every last point in the peace plan, Israel should take off the gloves and totally destroy Gaza. No more knocking. No more flyers. Just hell on earth until Hamas is all gone, literally.
These hateful losers will be eternally remembered as a disgrace to their nations.
Supporting terrorist activities leads to profound and enduring consequences for those involved. Such actions directly undermine the principles of peace, justice, and human rights globally. The repercussions of these choices extend beyond immediate effects, impacting generations to come. Those who choose to align themselves with terrorist groups will face eternal condemnation and infamy. Consequently, their legacy will be one of disgrace, serving as a stark reminder of the destructive nature of terrorism.
"The distinction between “anti-Zionism” and antisemitism is a grandiose lie. "
What do you call someone of British descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Brit.
What do you call someone of French descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A French patriot
What do you call someone of Chinese descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Chinese patriot.
What do you call someone of Jewish descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Jewish patriot.
What is the Hebrew word for his homeland? Zion.
So, Using the Hebrew term for being a patriot of one's country, Zionist, that, my fine feathered friends, makes the Brit patriot a Brit Zionist; the French patriot a French Zionist; and the Chinese patriot, a Chinese Zionist. What do they all have in common beside their patriotism to their countries of origin? Their profound commitment to the right of their people to self determination in their motherlands.
"what must we do [against this latest iteration of Jew hatred]?
. . . . The answer is to turn inward, to strengthen Jewish unity and Jewish power."
The answer is to borrow a leaf from the Jihadists: Globalize Jewish Identity. Let every Jew be proud of his heritage, his ethnicity, the richness of Jewishness is all about.
To paraphrase one of the concluding statements of the essay, "[Antisemitism] will end [or at least diminish to a dull roar] when Jews stop apologizing for their survival and begin to [unapologetically and vigorously exercise their Jewishness].
Never has there been a more lucid summary of what's the problem facing both Jews everywhere and Israel and what is the solution. After reading this, please share it with your social network, personal email list, family, and friends.
It is also incumbent on Jews in jurisdictions where they can, such as the U.S. (I love our 2nd Amendment) to arm themselves and train, train and train so they are proficient in the use of hand guns, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and have copious amounts of ammunition for all of their weapons. I am fortunate to live in rural Conservative Red Christian America where my armory of weapons and ammunition is common and where Islam, its sycophants and their mayhem are not tolerated. Although there are literally only a handful of Jews in my entire state, my neighbors have my back. In my neighboring rural Red Christian state after 10/7 the local Christian militia offered to provide around the clock armed security to that state’s main synagogue. As for the countries where Jews are not allowed to be armed, the U.K. and most European countries, Israel should be setting up clandestine cells of training and smuggling in arms, ammunition and explosives for Jews and let those Jews bring the war to the Muslims. Very similar to how the Boston Irish smuggled arms and money to the IRA in their war against the British. In the U.S. we should reestablish the JDL and Israel through the Mossad should expand the JDL internationally. Once they are established the local JDL Chapters can make alliances with similar minded groups such as the English Defense League in the U.K. I was and still am a supporter of the bombing campaigns the JDL conducted in the U.S. against the Arab diplomatic missions in the 1970’s.
I would support their continued campaign as the target list has greatly expanded. That’s a good start in enabling Jews to defend their own communities since it’s become clear that most live where their nations don’t defend them.
You say that Jews should become duel citizens with Israel, although I have friends who live there, including Americans who made Aliyah, I can never see myself doing the same. For one, living where I do, I’m detached from all the antisemitism so prevalent in the liberal blue states so it doesn’t impact me personally and two, Israel doesn’t have the equivalent of the Second Amendment and the only way I’ll give up my guns is when they are pried from a cold, dead hands. I will never leave my or my family’s security in the hands of my government or any government. So until Israel establishes that equivalent right, Israel is not a viable option. I even travel with one side arm that I daily carry. Lastly, I’m an American and my loyalty lies to my state. Although I share a common religion and history with Israelis, I’m a product of America and my history is American as is my perspective, so our values are different on many levels and for me those differences in values are enough that I could never see making Aliyah. I’d rather fight and die for my rights as an American than bug out and run to Israel. At least dying that way, I get to take a lot of the bastards with me.
Very true. But today the Jews and Israel also have allies - many Christians, many Hindus, some Muslims (listen to the Indonesian Premier's speech at the UN) and many right-thinking people.
And thank God for that. Contrast the violence against ice to protect those here illegally with the antagonism of the same people and their supporters against Jewish citizens ( here IN US and in UK)
Sadly everything you say is true. The revolting hatred from Countries is vomit inducing. I agree that separating Zionism from antisemitism is ridiculous. It’s one and the same. The Government must stop these evil marches as a start. The are acting in a vacuum cowering like frightened animals. I will never forgive them. My prayers are for all Jewish people and for Israel. 🙏
Very well written and explained, however we can see example after example of Jews, being their own worst enemies always voting party line even if the politician is clearly against what is best for the Jewish people someone I know who is quite religious and observant she is voting for Hochul who endorsed Mandani
.. please explain why you think Jews are their own worst enemy.
Mamdami Quora does not have a way to edit anymore. Why is that if you make a mistake in spelling or word there is no way to go back and edit the comment. Why? Why is that Quora?
The world has never forgiven Israel for earning their country through victory on the battlefield. From the War for Independence down to today, and especially the Six Day War, Israel has shown that it is not dependent upon the good graces of the so-called international community. Rights, privileges, and territory gained from the blood, sweat, and tears of defensive wars shall not be surrendered. Not the Golan, not Jerusalem, and not Judea-Samaria. Those who would do such a thing should have their names chiseled in stone in the wall of shame. Am Israel Chai.
In 1922 The World - The League of Nations - voted 57 to 0 for a British Mandate in Jewish Palestine for a Home for the Jewish People
In 1936 - Colonel Orde Wingate, a devout Christian and Zionist of the British Army, formed Haganah Night squads to fight the Muslim Arabs. Moshe Dayan said, "Wingate taught us everything we know."
in 1947 The World - The United Nations - voted 33 to 13 for a Jewish State by partitioning the 1922 Palestine Mandate.
In 1948 - The Czechs supplied weapons and military planes. America and other countries supplied the pilots to turn the war in favor of Israel. America provided Colonel Benny Marcus a WWII veteran at the request of Israeli Jews to form and lead their Army.
Jews (Israel) will always have friends and enemies.
It looks bleak right now, but God is on Israel's side.
Keep fighting and keep praying.
In the 1870's Wilhelm Marr coined the term antisemitism as a more palatable way of saying judenhause, Jew hater , along with establishing the League of Anti-Semites. It was more acceptable to declare you were an Anti-Semite than to come out and say you were a Jew hater. Today you can do the same proudly proclaiming yourself anti- Zionist, as though that has nothing to do with Jews. What is disturbing is how many young, so called"progressives", have taken on this posture. It isn't surprising that many are the same ones who are championing the trans ideology. This is particularly true with young "progressive" women. There is an emptiness there which is being filled with darkness.
Come on people, wake up, we are on our own, no one is coming to save the day, if we don't stamp out and crush the source of these antisemitic roots then we will continue to suffer these incidents and these attacks, yes we have friends in the Christian world and there are many in the USA who are our friends, those same fiends realize that we the Jews are the canary in the mine of history and when we are under sever threat, they are next on the list once we are gone.
For thousands of years we have not been able to make more than short term peace with our enemies so when are we going to learn that is is an unattainable and overly ambitious goal, safety comes from strength and from striking fear into their leaders, and it is that fear that keeps their people in check, pharaoh only released the Jews when every first born male in Egypt was struck down, and only now after the almost complete decimation of hamas and the fact that we went after their leaders inside of their "protected" states of being in places like Iran and Qatar, are we finally seeing the possibility of the release of our people.
So no this is not over by a long shot, and it wont be over until we completely destroy every detractor wherever they may hide, or when we drag them from under whatever rock they crawl under, we need to hunt them and end them, until we do that this does not end and we will not stop paying with the blood of our families and our children, this only ends when we end them!
I don’t think we will ever be able to crush the source of antisemitism, as you call them ‘the roots’.
As the late Rabbi Sacks (z’l) said, “in every generation, antisemitism morphs," after all, it has been around for centuries.
Israel could certainly have better PR, working in conjunction with diaspora Jews.
There are many different strands of diaspora Judaism, not just between level of religiosity, but the way in which support of Israel is shown. That too has huge contrast between European Jewry and American Jewry.
Yea antisemitism is like cancer and does re-morph itself every few years, and we need to learn from this and like cancer we need to establish ways in which to track and catch it early in its manifestation, and then eradicate it before it gains traction, kill it before it can go exponential, we have now left it to late again and we are about to pay a huge price for what is coming down the line for the Jewish people, this time around we are going to lose way more than we did with Hitler, this time around we will be lucky to survive what is coming.
So powerful and so true. Thank you Josh Hoffman, our modern day Isaiah! 🍯🍎💪🏻
I attended Kol Nidrei at one of NYC's wokeist congregations. The prayers were for freeing the hostages and for ending the suffering of the Gazans. I'm not praying for the Gazans....they voted this monster in....they ran across the border to participate in the plunder. Jewish celebrities have the temerity to lecture us on how we should behave in light of Netanyahu's "genocidal war." So it's only a diced and spliced community of Jews left who are unequivocal in their support of Israel. The world community had a chance now to show contrition for their complicity in genocide. They did the opposite. Holocaust is either mocked or appropriated for "Palestine," Anne Frank is either mocked or appropriated for "Palestine" Israel is mocked from an awards podium by a no nothing as that "ethno national thing" ....an asajew...who finds nothing wrong in Palestine racist ultrafanatic etho national thing. The day I left Israel in '74 after a long sojourn as a volunteer on a kibbutz a mile from Gaza was Ma alot...so that sticks in my memory. Instead of Gaza I wanted the rabbi, the cong president to read every name of the remaining hostages living and dead. Say their names. Remember Shani Louk. Keith Segal's testimony on I 24? or Fox...? ,....witnessed a woman tied and beaten. He was starved and spit on,. Who knows what else he endured. That's who I'm praying for. The synagogue is aligned with J street values. So are a lot ....too many American Jews. All you say is true. No argument here.
Yesss, at last we start to wake up. As I told a lot of times we must fight for ourselves, NOW!! WE WERE NEVER PROTECTED, NEVER!! I LOST 70 OF MY FAMILY IN WWII, SO STOP DREAMING AND F I G H T, FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!!!! AM ISRAËL CHAI!!
Israel has a unique opportunity to show the rest of the world that no longer will they be pressured to fight until a ceasefire. It is way past the time where Israel needs to notify the world that if it is attacked, it will respond with unprecedented fury, and that the perpetrators will be obliterated from the face of the earth. If Hamas does not fulfill every last point in the peace plan, Israel should take off the gloves and totally destroy Gaza. No more knocking. No more flyers. Just hell on earth until Hamas is all gone, literally.
These hateful losers will be eternally remembered as a disgrace to their nations.
Supporting terrorist activities leads to profound and enduring consequences for those involved. Such actions directly undermine the principles of peace, justice, and human rights globally. The repercussions of these choices extend beyond immediate effects, impacting generations to come. Those who choose to align themselves with terrorist groups will face eternal condemnation and infamy. Consequently, their legacy will be one of disgrace, serving as a stark reminder of the destructive nature of terrorism.
Kol hakavod, Joshua!
"The distinction between “anti-Zionism” and antisemitism is a grandiose lie. "
What do you call someone of British descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Brit.
What do you call someone of French descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A French patriot
What do you call someone of Chinese descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Chinese patriot.
What do you call someone of Jewish descent who is proud of his heritage and willing to defend his ancestral homeland to the best of his ability? A Jewish patriot.
What is the Hebrew word for his homeland? Zion.
So, Using the Hebrew term for being a patriot of one's country, Zionist, that, my fine feathered friends, makes the Brit patriot a Brit Zionist; the French patriot a French Zionist; and the Chinese patriot, a Chinese Zionist. What do they all have in common beside their patriotism to their countries of origin? Their profound commitment to the right of their people to self determination in their motherlands.
"what must we do [against this latest iteration of Jew hatred]?
. . . . The answer is to turn inward, to strengthen Jewish unity and Jewish power."
The answer is to borrow a leaf from the Jihadists: Globalize Jewish Identity. Let every Jew be proud of his heritage, his ethnicity, the richness of Jewishness is all about.
To paraphrase one of the concluding statements of the essay, "[Antisemitism] will end [or at least diminish to a dull roar] when Jews stop apologizing for their survival and begin to [unapologetically and vigorously exercise their Jewishness].
Never has there been a more lucid summary of what's the problem facing both Jews everywhere and Israel and what is the solution. After reading this, please share it with your social network, personal email list, family, and friends.
I am short male and bearded…
It is also incumbent on Jews in jurisdictions where they can, such as the U.S. (I love our 2nd Amendment) to arm themselves and train, train and train so they are proficient in the use of hand guns, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and have copious amounts of ammunition for all of their weapons. I am fortunate to live in rural Conservative Red Christian America where my armory of weapons and ammunition is common and where Islam, its sycophants and their mayhem are not tolerated. Although there are literally only a handful of Jews in my entire state, my neighbors have my back. In my neighboring rural Red Christian state after 10/7 the local Christian militia offered to provide around the clock armed security to that state’s main synagogue. As for the countries where Jews are not allowed to be armed, the U.K. and most European countries, Israel should be setting up clandestine cells of training and smuggling in arms, ammunition and explosives for Jews and let those Jews bring the war to the Muslims. Very similar to how the Boston Irish smuggled arms and money to the IRA in their war against the British. In the U.S. we should reestablish the JDL and Israel through the Mossad should expand the JDL internationally. Once they are established the local JDL Chapters can make alliances with similar minded groups such as the English Defense League in the U.K. I was and still am a supporter of the bombing campaigns the JDL conducted in the U.S. against the Arab diplomatic missions in the 1970’s.
I would support their continued campaign as the target list has greatly expanded. That’s a good start in enabling Jews to defend their own communities since it’s become clear that most live where their nations don’t defend them.
You say that Jews should become duel citizens with Israel, although I have friends who live there, including Americans who made Aliyah, I can never see myself doing the same. For one, living where I do, I’m detached from all the antisemitism so prevalent in the liberal blue states so it doesn’t impact me personally and two, Israel doesn’t have the equivalent of the Second Amendment and the only way I’ll give up my guns is when they are pried from a cold, dead hands. I will never leave my or my family’s security in the hands of my government or any government. So until Israel establishes that equivalent right, Israel is not a viable option. I even travel with one side arm that I daily carry. Lastly, I’m an American and my loyalty lies to my state. Although I share a common religion and history with Israelis, I’m a product of America and my history is American as is my perspective, so our values are different on many levels and for me those differences in values are enough that I could never see making Aliyah. I’d rather fight and die for my rights as an American than bug out and run to Israel. At least dying that way, I get to take a lot of the bastards with me.