Excellent essay, ty! I am one of those former leftie Jews, always standing up for the underdog- then Oct 7, 2023 happened, and all those groups I had aligned with suddenly wanted me and my people dead. What a revelation: the complete lack of compassion for those Israelis slaughtered and for the hostages by so many globally, the total obsession and condemnation of Israel as it fights for its very survival, the propaganda and blood libels by mainstream media (sources that I once relied upon like the NYT and WP)- all this has shocked and shaken me to the core. I am no longer interested in supporting any groups now except for my own. This is about Survival and MORE. For me, it's about God and our relationship as a Nation, to God. I am learning Hebrew for the first time. I am reading Torah with a deep curiosity and interest that I never had before. Torah is answering my questions as to WTF is going on in this crazy, upside-down Israel-obsessed world! I feel closer to God and my people. I feel as if Oct 7 awakened something in me a deep connection to my ancestors, to those who stood in God's presence at Mt. Sinai. I yearn to go to Israel- to the Holy Land that God gave to us. As a people, God endowed us with Brilliance- but also with courage and strength. We are Warriors- and I feel as if God is calling forth these traits in every one of us. Sometimes, I feel as if my faith is being tested. Will I answer the call, or will I be like the spies in Torah who were sent by Moses to survey the Land given to us by God, only to return faithless, claiming the task was impossible because our enemies were too strong? We are truly living in Biblical times.
Go to Israel. You have to see it with your own eyes. A miracle in the desert in just 78 years. The young people are strong and beautiful. A sight to behold. You will be so proud to be part of them. ā¤ļøš®š±
My journey is similar, though now Iām just politically homeless, not feeling aligned with any one political philosophy and totally alienated from the radicalization creep happening in both groups.
I hope to see some containment of the antizionism & antisemitism by next elections, but Iām not naive enough to think thatās likely to happen before it plays itself out.
I will vote for candidates who have a track record of support for Israel and who remain unafraid to stand with Jews.
Most of me agrees with this: but thereās something Iāve yet to put my finger on that bothers me. Canāt yet put it into wordsā¦ shall reread and think, but initial feelings - and Iām happy to be wrong - give me the impression that although other places are mentioned, diaspora as described here = mainly the US, and there feels like an assumption that most diaspora Jews are liberal, if not Liberal(That may be an age thingā¦ Iām old)
Iām thinking back to the early 70s when I was a student, and imagining how things might have been at college if this had happened then. Iām fairly certain that I was probably the only Jew there. Apologies if this is a bit random and muddled, but I am random and muddled these days. The main thing, thoughā¦ October 7th changed me: I began to speak up, and I lost a lot of friends; one in particular started it(too long to go into, much as Iād like to)ā¦ and I have no regrets about that loss. They never were friends anyway.
I believe American diaspora is different to most of Europe for two distinct reasons .. one, many Jews in the USA arrived circa 1850s + and in ensuing years saw themselves more as Americans of the Jewish faith, and not a people or a nation (after Israelās rebirth in 1948), whereas European Jews and those in South Africa & Australia were more directly impacted by the Holocaust.
.. fortunately the Nazis only got as far as Guernsey. My great grandparents also arrived in the UK around 1870, so I am 3rd generation, with my parents and myself having been brought up in London.
In my reckoning, whilst the mainland UK wasnāt invaded, Britain was bombed during WW2, so British Jewry is far closer to what happened in Europe, than the experience in the USA.
Yes indeed, so much of Britain was bombedā¦ the London blitz, Coventry, Clydebank(Glasgow) and so many other places. Many city children were evacuated to the countryside. The āHome Guardā, made up of retired and those unable to fight, was formed(whole tv series called Dadās Army based on it)
To addā¦ from Russia, to escape the pogroms. They settled in Manchester, and their children lived in London, Manchester and Glasgow, which is where I was born and grew up
Thank you Joshua for your spot on essay. Simply magnificent. I can confirm that Jewish Americans are indeed training up. Krav Maga training is increasingly available and subscribed. The numbers of American Jews with licensed firearms is not publicly available. At our firing range and all of my continuing trainings, orthodox and non Orthodox Jews are openly present. Seeing American Jews living like Israelis warms my heart. Thank you for keeping us so well informed. Gratefully. Gary
"Without the means to defend ones self, morality becomes performance art.". I love it. There is nothing that quite focuses the mind than getting shot at and missed. Diaspora Jews should come together, get over their aversion to what is required for self-defense, and practice on a regular basis.
I can appreciate your dilemma. Personally, I look at the means of self defense not as a "war toy" but as tools. The tools can be used for the just purpose of defending self, family, and community or, in the hands of the terrorists, the unjust purpose of destruction. Many tools can be scary until one masters their operation and positive use. Hopefully you will one day develop the skills with confidence. G-d forbid but one day your life or the life of someone close to you may depend on it.
If after Oct. 7th of '23 as many as 40% of NYC Jews vote to install an open Israelophobe, then what was learned or felt about Jewishness. Could 40 % of Blacks vote David Duke if he promised free bus rides? Virtually no Jews who are FB "friends" will comment on or even like what I post or share about Israel. A number of celebrity Jews can't find enough praise and superlatives for the anti Zionist Jew Hater for mayor of NYC. The 83 year old "wind bag" as I heard him referred to, the Polish American atheist from Vermont is still a rock star with young voters. Yes, we had a moment of sympathy for dead Jew....and it evaporated. Jews who are never going to visit Israel are still lecturing Israelis on their alleged apartheid, theocratic and anti democratic Jewish supremacist ethno state while they book tours of the NIle. And the Greek islands or the coast of Turkey. Will visit China. Anywhere but Israel. Which offends their liberal and progressive ideology.
I've been trying to get my Lefty Jewish friends in NYC to vote against Mamdani but they are simply helpless against anyone who claims to be a "socialist", it disarms their critical faculties and moral reasoning.
NYC Jews of the 20th century gave their hearts and souls to "universal brotherhood" and "socialist liberation" and no matter how many times these shiny slogans have been revealed to be hiding some darker undercurrents, esp in re Jews and Israel, they have been too conditioned to change. I think they may be ethnically Jewish but their real sacred beliefs involve Leftism and its claims of being about universal compassion etc.
When I explain Mamdani's history of devoting his entire adult life to attacking the Jewish state and spreading so much hate and lies about it, they quickly move to defend him or even hide behind the familair canard of: he might hate Israel but not Jews. As if he has ever attacked any other country or people!
My feeling lately is that Jews have lived so many centuries as strangers and guests in other people's lands, whose tolerance could be (and usually was) revoked any moment, has given Jews (most esp Ashkenazim) a form of Stockholm Syndrome, where they opt for a survival strategy of keeping their heads down, not ever pushing for the rights of their people and going along with whatever political trend promises them acceptance if only they dissolve their particularness in some form of universalism.
It might take another decade or so of brazen public Jew hate plus the dying off of the generation of old Commies like Bernie and Chomsky and their disciples to change this.
I feel that about Ashkenazim too, they saw cultured intellectuals, music, science, humanism around them since the Enlightenment, and saw it was desirable to be part of this wonderful society, even at the price of hiding their Jewishness or stopping to be Jewish. So many of them did.
The Sephardim looked around and saw backward ignorant and violent societies around them and saw nothing worth leaving their religion for.
As my Jewish wife keeps telling me, half in jest: Stop trying to get in the way of my Jewish self-hatred!
I think it's almost impossible for any American raised in prosperity and safety to imagine what it's like to live your life surrounded by hostile enemies, who hate you not for what you've done but for who you areābut the blood seems to remember. And I hope we don't get a real-life lesson in this anytime soon. I'm too old to move to Israel! ;))
With the exception of a fringe of communists/socialist the Mizrahi are less conflicted about their Jewishness. In Muslim world, one's faith community is one's community...there is no ethnic/religious division. There was no "Arab" outside of Arabia until the Christian Lebanese Arabic speakers invented it. Abdullah Schafer, a Jewish convert to Sufism wrote in Al Arabiya that apart from the music and food, the Jews want no part of being Arab. I've seen indifference to Israel from my peers my entire life....I didn't have to endure the anti Israel hate that is now endemic on campuses. The left and Muslim alliance has made hating Israel, hating Zionism, hating Jews, central to their ideology and Mandy Patinkan's anti Zionism isn't going to be enough cover. Perhaps your final comment will prove to be true.
āāVirtually no Jews who are FB āfriendsā will comment on or even like what I post or share about Israelā
Exactly the same for me! After losing a bunch of them, the rest stay silent and either ignore my posts on Israel or donāt respond, with one or two exceptions, who occasionally ālikeā. And I *know* many of them feel the opposite to me(which does make me wonder about why we are friends, whether to stay friends, and so onā¦ most of my communication is online, as Iām āan indoor catā - hate the expression āshut-inā - due to health, so I donāt want to lost the small communities if things which interest meā¦ butā¦ I know this is more important than my interests: though I donāt want to feel alone online, too. Iām still undecided as these are people I know well, decades of friendship.
If you have some mobility, don't be a shut in. One can't depend on social media...it's ruining the younger people and it shouldn't do the same for us older people. I haven't really lost friends as my social world is very small at this time of life. The people I'm closest to support Israel.
As I specifically saidā¦ I do not like āshut inā. And the mobility I have is both physically and time limited - I have several conditions - so using up my five minutes of mobility to see to my cat and make myself a cup of tea before fatigue takes its toll is my choice of use, for example. Itās annoying to be told how to live when someone does not - and has no need to - know my circumstances. Younger and/or more able people have different reasons and the comparison is not a valid one.
How is it friendly to use to describe me the expression I told you I hate? And my response was polite. No āwowā necessary. Live long and prosperā¦ no harm was intended šš¼
I explain to my Israeli friends that they are fighting and will win the ground war (and make no mistake, that is the most dangerous and consequential) and in the diaspora we are fighting the PR war - one that we will never win, but is as necessary to our survival as the ground war.
I agree with others - this is a great piece but ignores the not insignificant group of American Jews who stay silent at best or openly support the anti-Israel (āpro-Palestinianā) movement. I too have been so disappointed by so many of my Jewish friends who refuse to speak out. I wonder what percentage of American Jews this is - maybe not the majority but certainly a significant minority. This is a huge problem and one that needs to be addressed if we ever hope to win the PR war which as pointed out above we are losing badly right now.
All true. As I have noted before many times on this website, the Genocidal Ideology of Nazism has in fact always been Virulent since 1945 in high places here in The West, with all of the Genocidal AntiSemitic Hatred, and the Nazi Alliances with Genocidal Hating Islamism against The Jewish People which goes with Nazism: These facts are verified and proven and in the record here in the Diaspora, and with the Authorities, by us monitors. Am Israel Chai.
The Nazis killed in the name of The (albeit Racist) State, which makes them adjacent to some of The Far Left who are also State-fanatics, certainly. But what makes The Nazis so very far indeed from The Socialist Left is The Nazisā Genocidal Racism, which also killed 27 Million Russian Slavs, five Million Polish people, and three million Serbian souls: fifty million people in total were killed by Hitler and The Nazis in WWII
The Soviets killed Russians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Kazakhs, Poles, Finns, Tatars, Czechs, Slovaks and anyone else who got in their way by the millions.
Whether it is in the name of USSR, Josef Stalin, The Third Reich or Hitler you are still dead by Socialist Totalitarians scum.
I agree. Right or Left, Totalitarianism is dreadful. It is the route by which the psychopaths take power and set loose the dark side of human nature, which then murders millions of people.
After reading through the comments, it feels like we are all leaning in and searching for connection to our community of fellow Jews. It made me want to share this: https://www.theshabbosproject.org/
For this upcoming Shabbos, letās all unite and experience this eternal gift of rest and reconnection.
This essay is a keeper! So well stated and explained, it put into words what Iāve been feeling for the past two years. Iād add that itās the unity of diaspora and Israel forging into one nation that will ultimately bring our salvation and redemption. We need to see each other as family, and embrace what we shareā a rich heritage and opportunity to be a light among the nations.
In Australia, Jews arrived as convicts on the First Fleet. We have always taken Judeo-Christian values for granted. Jews came as refugees as Poles via UK, from Pogroms in Russia and despite the doubling due to the shoah, we still can only fill one football stadium. There seems to be more antisemitism than the entire Jewish population of Australia. This evil was built up by ultra left wing government media, useful idiots (unemployed or trust fund babies) and old tropes and blood libels resurfacing
Excellent essay, ty! I am one of those former leftie Jews, always standing up for the underdog- then Oct 7, 2023 happened, and all those groups I had aligned with suddenly wanted me and my people dead. What a revelation: the complete lack of compassion for those Israelis slaughtered and for the hostages by so many globally, the total obsession and condemnation of Israel as it fights for its very survival, the propaganda and blood libels by mainstream media (sources that I once relied upon like the NYT and WP)- all this has shocked and shaken me to the core. I am no longer interested in supporting any groups now except for my own. This is about Survival and MORE. For me, it's about God and our relationship as a Nation, to God. I am learning Hebrew for the first time. I am reading Torah with a deep curiosity and interest that I never had before. Torah is answering my questions as to WTF is going on in this crazy, upside-down Israel-obsessed world! I feel closer to God and my people. I feel as if Oct 7 awakened something in me a deep connection to my ancestors, to those who stood in God's presence at Mt. Sinai. I yearn to go to Israel- to the Holy Land that God gave to us. As a people, God endowed us with Brilliance- but also with courage and strength. We are Warriors- and I feel as if God is calling forth these traits in every one of us. Sometimes, I feel as if my faith is being tested. Will I answer the call, or will I be like the spies in Torah who were sent by Moses to survey the Land given to us by God, only to return faithless, claiming the task was impossible because our enemies were too strong? We are truly living in Biblical times.
Go to Israel. You have to see it with your own eyes. A miracle in the desert in just 78 years. The young people are strong and beautiful. A sight to behold. You will be so proud to be part of them. ā¤ļøš®š±
.. Iām on my 9th visit to Israel in 2025 .. just to support š®š±
My journey is similar, though now Iām just politically homeless, not feeling aligned with any one political philosophy and totally alienated from the radicalization creep happening in both groups.
I hope to see some containment of the antizionism & antisemitism by next elections, but Iām not naive enough to think thatās likely to happen before it plays itself out.
I will vote for candidates who have a track record of support for Israel and who remain unafraid to stand with Jews.
AMEN!
Most of me agrees with this: but thereās something Iāve yet to put my finger on that bothers me. Canāt yet put it into wordsā¦ shall reread and think, but initial feelings - and Iām happy to be wrong - give me the impression that although other places are mentioned, diaspora as described here = mainly the US, and there feels like an assumption that most diaspora Jews are liberal, if not Liberal(That may be an age thingā¦ Iām old)
Iām thinking back to the early 70s when I was a student, and imagining how things might have been at college if this had happened then. Iām fairly certain that I was probably the only Jew there. Apologies if this is a bit random and muddled, but I am random and muddled these days. The main thing, thoughā¦ October 7th changed me: I began to speak up, and I lost a lot of friends; one in particular started it(too long to go into, much as Iād like to)ā¦ and I have no regrets about that loss. They never were friends anyway.
I believe American diaspora is different to most of Europe for two distinct reasons .. one, many Jews in the USA arrived circa 1850s + and in ensuing years saw themselves more as Americans of the Jewish faith, and not a people or a nation (after Israelās rebirth in 1948), whereas European Jews and those in South Africa & Australia were more directly impacted by the Holocaust.
My great grandparents came to the UK in the mid 19th century. So, thatās not applicable.
.. fortunately the Nazis only got as far as Guernsey. My great grandparents also arrived in the UK around 1870, so I am 3rd generation, with my parents and myself having been brought up in London.
In my reckoning, whilst the mainland UK wasnāt invaded, Britain was bombed during WW2, so British Jewry is far closer to what happened in Europe, than the experience in the USA.
Yes indeed, so much of Britain was bombedā¦ the London blitz, Coventry, Clydebank(Glasgow) and so many other places. Many city children were evacuated to the countryside. The āHome Guardā, made up of retired and those unable to fight, was formed(whole tv series called Dadās Army based on it)
To addā¦ from Russia, to escape the pogroms. They settled in Manchester, and their children lived in London, Manchester and Glasgow, which is where I was born and grew up
My grandparents only came to Australia in 1957, so it is very new and fresh for us.
.. from where did they migrate ? ..
Unity is our strength šŖ
Thank you Joshua for your spot on essay. Simply magnificent. I can confirm that Jewish Americans are indeed training up. Krav Maga training is increasingly available and subscribed. The numbers of American Jews with licensed firearms is not publicly available. At our firing range and all of my continuing trainings, orthodox and non Orthodox Jews are openly present. Seeing American Jews living like Israelis warms my heart. Thank you for keeping us so well informed. Gratefully. Gary
"Without the means to defend ones self, morality becomes performance art.". I love it. There is nothing that quite focuses the mind than getting shot at and missed. Diaspora Jews should come together, get over their aversion to what is required for self-defense, and practice on a regular basis.
I hear you Richard but Iām still not over the āno war toysā time in my earlier life.
I can appreciate your dilemma. Personally, I look at the means of self defense not as a "war toy" but as tools. The tools can be used for the just purpose of defending self, family, and community or, in the hands of the terrorists, the unjust purpose of destruction. Many tools can be scary until one masters their operation and positive use. Hopefully you will one day develop the skills with confidence. G-d forbid but one day your life or the life of someone close to you may depend on it.
Truth.
If after Oct. 7th of '23 as many as 40% of NYC Jews vote to install an open Israelophobe, then what was learned or felt about Jewishness. Could 40 % of Blacks vote David Duke if he promised free bus rides? Virtually no Jews who are FB "friends" will comment on or even like what I post or share about Israel. A number of celebrity Jews can't find enough praise and superlatives for the anti Zionist Jew Hater for mayor of NYC. The 83 year old "wind bag" as I heard him referred to, the Polish American atheist from Vermont is still a rock star with young voters. Yes, we had a moment of sympathy for dead Jew....and it evaporated. Jews who are never going to visit Israel are still lecturing Israelis on their alleged apartheid, theocratic and anti democratic Jewish supremacist ethno state while they book tours of the NIle. And the Greek islands or the coast of Turkey. Will visit China. Anywhere but Israel. Which offends their liberal and progressive ideology.
I've been trying to get my Lefty Jewish friends in NYC to vote against Mamdani but they are simply helpless against anyone who claims to be a "socialist", it disarms their critical faculties and moral reasoning.
NYC Jews of the 20th century gave their hearts and souls to "universal brotherhood" and "socialist liberation" and no matter how many times these shiny slogans have been revealed to be hiding some darker undercurrents, esp in re Jews and Israel, they have been too conditioned to change. I think they may be ethnically Jewish but their real sacred beliefs involve Leftism and its claims of being about universal compassion etc.
When I explain Mamdani's history of devoting his entire adult life to attacking the Jewish state and spreading so much hate and lies about it, they quickly move to defend him or even hide behind the familair canard of: he might hate Israel but not Jews. As if he has ever attacked any other country or people!
My feeling lately is that Jews have lived so many centuries as strangers and guests in other people's lands, whose tolerance could be (and usually was) revoked any moment, has given Jews (most esp Ashkenazim) a form of Stockholm Syndrome, where they opt for a survival strategy of keeping their heads down, not ever pushing for the rights of their people and going along with whatever political trend promises them acceptance if only they dissolve their particularness in some form of universalism.
It might take another decade or so of brazen public Jew hate plus the dying off of the generation of old Commies like Bernie and Chomsky and their disciples to change this.
American Jews voting for madman Mamdani should be ashamed of themselves.
I feel that about Ashkenazim too, they saw cultured intellectuals, music, science, humanism around them since the Enlightenment, and saw it was desirable to be part of this wonderful society, even at the price of hiding their Jewishness or stopping to be Jewish. So many of them did.
The Sephardim looked around and saw backward ignorant and violent societies around them and saw nothing worth leaving their religion for.
As my Jewish wife keeps telling me, half in jest: Stop trying to get in the way of my Jewish self-hatred!
I think it's almost impossible for any American raised in prosperity and safety to imagine what it's like to live your life surrounded by hostile enemies, who hate you not for what you've done but for who you areābut the blood seems to remember. And I hope we don't get a real-life lesson in this anytime soon. I'm too old to move to Israel! ;))
With the exception of a fringe of communists/socialist the Mizrahi are less conflicted about their Jewishness. In Muslim world, one's faith community is one's community...there is no ethnic/religious division. There was no "Arab" outside of Arabia until the Christian Lebanese Arabic speakers invented it. Abdullah Schafer, a Jewish convert to Sufism wrote in Al Arabiya that apart from the music and food, the Jews want no part of being Arab. I've seen indifference to Israel from my peers my entire life....I didn't have to endure the anti Israel hate that is now endemic on campuses. The left and Muslim alliance has made hating Israel, hating Zionism, hating Jews, central to their ideology and Mandy Patinkan's anti Zionism isn't going to be enough cover. Perhaps your final comment will prove to be true.
āāVirtually no Jews who are FB āfriendsā will comment on or even like what I post or share about Israelā
Exactly the same for me! After losing a bunch of them, the rest stay silent and either ignore my posts on Israel or donāt respond, with one or two exceptions, who occasionally ālikeā. And I *know* many of them feel the opposite to me(which does make me wonder about why we are friends, whether to stay friends, and so onā¦ most of my communication is online, as Iām āan indoor catā - hate the expression āshut-inā - due to health, so I donāt want to lost the small communities if things which interest meā¦ butā¦ I know this is more important than my interests: though I donāt want to feel alone online, too. Iām still undecided as these are people I know well, decades of friendship.
If you have some mobility, don't be a shut in. One can't depend on social media...it's ruining the younger people and it shouldn't do the same for us older people. I haven't really lost friends as my social world is very small at this time of life. The people I'm closest to support Israel.
As I specifically saidā¦ I do not like āshut inā. And the mobility I have is both physically and time limited - I have several conditions - so using up my five minutes of mobility to see to my cat and make myself a cup of tea before fatigue takes its toll is my choice of use, for example. Itās annoying to be told how to live when someone does not - and has no need to - know my circumstances. Younger and/or more able people have different reasons and the comparison is not a valid one.
Wow what a response to a friendly post from me....a senior. I wish you peace.
How is it friendly to use to describe me the expression I told you I hate? And my response was polite. No āwowā necessary. Live long and prosperā¦ no harm was intended šš¼
Spot On!
I explain to my Israeli friends that they are fighting and will win the ground war (and make no mistake, that is the most dangerous and consequential) and in the diaspora we are fighting the PR war - one that we will never win, but is as necessary to our survival as the ground war.
Excellent essay. Iāve never been a prouder or louder Jew than since October 7th. We stand or fall together.
I agree with others - this is a great piece but ignores the not insignificant group of American Jews who stay silent at best or openly support the anti-Israel (āpro-Palestinianā) movement. I too have been so disappointed by so many of my Jewish friends who refuse to speak out. I wonder what percentage of American Jews this is - maybe not the majority but certainly a significant minority. This is a huge problem and one that needs to be addressed if we ever hope to win the PR war which as pointed out above we are losing badly right now.
This is beautifully put. Thank you for your essays and guest essays. They are a balm and fortification in these difficult times š
All true. As I have noted before many times on this website, the Genocidal Ideology of Nazism has in fact always been Virulent since 1945 in high places here in The West, with all of the Genocidal AntiSemitic Hatred, and the Nazi Alliances with Genocidal Hating Islamism against The Jewish People which goes with Nazism: These facts are verified and proven and in the record here in the Diaspora, and with the Authorities, by us monitors. Am Israel Chai.
The Nazis were Socialists so makes perfect sense.
The Nazis killed in the name of The (albeit Racist) State, which makes them adjacent to some of The Far Left who are also State-fanatics, certainly. But what makes The Nazis so very far indeed from The Socialist Left is The Nazisā Genocidal Racism, which also killed 27 Million Russian Slavs, five Million Polish people, and three million Serbian souls: fifty million people in total were killed by Hitler and The Nazis in WWII
Not forgetting LGBTQ folk(of which I am one) and disabled folk
The Soviets killed Russians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Kazakhs, Poles, Finns, Tatars, Czechs, Slovaks and anyone else who got in their way by the millions.
Whether it is in the name of USSR, Josef Stalin, The Third Reich or Hitler you are still dead by Socialist Totalitarians scum.
I agree. Right or Left, Totalitarianism is dreadful. It is the route by which the psychopaths take power and set loose the dark side of human nature, which then murders millions of people.
After reading through the comments, it feels like we are all leaning in and searching for connection to our community of fellow Jews. It made me want to share this: https://www.theshabbosproject.org/
For this upcoming Shabbos, letās all unite and experience this eternal gift of rest and reconnection.
This essay is a keeper! So well stated and explained, it put into words what Iāve been feeling for the past two years. Iād add that itās the unity of diaspora and Israel forging into one nation that will ultimately bring our salvation and redemption. We need to see each other as family, and embrace what we shareā a rich heritage and opportunity to be a light among the nations.
In Australia, Jews arrived as convicts on the First Fleet. We have always taken Judeo-Christian values for granted. Jews came as refugees as Poles via UK, from Pogroms in Russia and despite the doubling due to the shoah, we still can only fill one football stadium. There seems to be more antisemitism than the entire Jewish population of Australia. This evil was built up by ultra left wing government media, useful idiots (unemployed or trust fund babies) and old tropes and blood libels resurfacing