A Hanukkah massacre reveals the cost of trading Jewish power for acceptance, but Hanukkah reminds us: If we do not develop the habits of power, we will be left with the habits of fear.
I absolutely agree with the sentiments expressed. The Jewish people have spent too much time trying to educate those who do not wish to be educated and donating billions to civic, cultural, arts, educational, political and medical (the list is unending) organisations who have turned their backs on us when we needed/begged for their support. Our ‘bargain’ with the west has spectacularly collapsed yet we still keep trying to convince the world that we have a ‘right’ to exist. I am an Australian Jew from Bondi, Sydney, Australia who narrowly escaped the carnage inflicted upon my community because I decided not to go to the Chanukah celebrations on the beach with my 2 year old grandson because of my fear of attending a large, unprotected gathering of Jews in a public place. I do not want to live like this anymore and am seriously considering leaving the land of my birth to live in the only land where I can be who I am without apologising for it.
All Jews should behave like the State of Israel. That is, fuck with us and we will make you pay. Like when Meyer Lansky was hired to beat the shit out of American Nazis after they attended German-American Bund rallies.
History proves attacks on Jews serve as the canary in the coal mine, warning of democratic collapse and violence spreading to other minorities. When antisemitism rises unchecked, it signals broader societal breakdown threatening all vulnerable communities.
Leaders, civil and political, should state that attacks reveal systemic hatred that never stops with Jews but metastasizes to threaten everyone. If leaders do not know this, they should consult history.
That said, the global Jewish community should respond accordingly. This attack reflects systemic hatred, threatening all religious, ethnic and cultural minorities.
Name them... The UK Spain Sweden Finland Norway Canada Portugal even Australia are Muslim countries
They are no longer western democracies....name them....the new ottoman empire..or another name...accuse politicians of taking bribes...they do not ...do anything except support the world wide Muslim religious war.....and it is time for the Jew the Christian and the black to go to war...
Here is my new idea - yes getting a license to carry is nice; learning self-defense is also nice. BUT, this is like spraying the virus AFTER it flares up. What we need, and what we should fund, is a Diaspora version of the Mossad. These people have to speak Arabic, and understand the mentality. Then, they can infiltrate mosques and social media and hopefully learn about what is being planned. Then you do whatever is required to thwart the plans.
Money should go to paying these people, NOT TO ANY OTHER CHARITIES (there are plenty of other people in the world to take care of the animals and the veterans and the sick). This also means not funding Jewish federations and other organizations that don't really do anything (I'm exempting planting a tree in Israel, supporting Birthright or the Weizmann Institute, or your local Hillel). We need to get our own Mossad up and running, and fast. Then, and only then, can we truly sleep peacefully.
Jewish friends, you have two choices. Stand up together or die. It really IS that simple. I was a 23-year skydiver in my past life and we considered ourselves dead after exit. It was what you did on the way down which changed that equation because to do nothing meant gravity would be the final arbiter when you hit terra firma. Are you gonna allow Jew-haters the power to be the final deciders of your fates? The choice IS up to you.
I absolutely agree with the sentiments expressed. The Jewish people have spent too much time trying to educate those who do not wish to be educated and donating billions to civic, cultural, arts, educational, political and medical (the list is unending) organisations who have turned their backs on us when we needed/begged for their support. Our ‘bargain’ with the west has spectacularly collapsed yet we still keep trying to convince the world that we have a ‘right’ to exist. I am an Australian Jew from Bondi, Sydney, Australia who narrowly escaped the carnage inflicted upon my community because I decided not to go to the Chanukah celebrations on the beach with my 2 year old grandson because of my fear of attending a large, unprotected gathering of Jews in a public place. I do not want to live like this anymore and am seriously considering leaving the land of my birth to live in the only land where I can be who I am without apologising for it.
That’s why most of my family is living in Israel!
Remake after remake after remake of, No One Is Coming To Save You.
Many of us have grown up lucky, grown up naive, and both. Luck runs out and reality intrudes. Learn, prepare, train.
All Jews should behave like the State of Israel. That is, fuck with us and we will make you pay. Like when Meyer Lansky was hired to beat the shit out of American Nazis after they attended German-American Bund rallies.
YES!!!
History proves attacks on Jews serve as the canary in the coal mine, warning of democratic collapse and violence spreading to other minorities. When antisemitism rises unchecked, it signals broader societal breakdown threatening all vulnerable communities.
Leaders, civil and political, should state that attacks reveal systemic hatred that never stops with Jews but metastasizes to threaten everyone. If leaders do not know this, they should consult history.
That said, the global Jewish community should respond accordingly. This attack reflects systemic hatred, threatening all religious, ethnic and cultural minorities.
Name them... The UK Spain Sweden Finland Norway Canada Portugal even Australia are Muslim countries
They are no longer western democracies....name them....the new ottoman empire..or another name...accuse politicians of taking bribes...they do not ...do anything except support the world wide Muslim religious war.....and it is time for the Jew the Christian and the black to go to war...
Here is my new idea - yes getting a license to carry is nice; learning self-defense is also nice. BUT, this is like spraying the virus AFTER it flares up. What we need, and what we should fund, is a Diaspora version of the Mossad. These people have to speak Arabic, and understand the mentality. Then, they can infiltrate mosques and social media and hopefully learn about what is being planned. Then you do whatever is required to thwart the plans.
Money should go to paying these people, NOT TO ANY OTHER CHARITIES (there are plenty of other people in the world to take care of the animals and the veterans and the sick). This also means not funding Jewish federations and other organizations that don't really do anything (I'm exempting planting a tree in Israel, supporting Birthright or the Weizmann Institute, or your local Hillel). We need to get our own Mossad up and running, and fast. Then, and only then, can we truly sleep peacefully.
Excellent idea!
Brilliant idea. I don’t understand why it hasn’t been done.
Perfectly stated. It’s time we give to our own. We must be one people again helping each other.
This is a must read.
Jewish friends, you have two choices. Stand up together or die. It really IS that simple. I was a 23-year skydiver in my past life and we considered ourselves dead after exit. It was what you did on the way down which changed that equation because to do nothing meant gravity would be the final arbiter when you hit terra firma. Are you gonna allow Jew-haters the power to be the final deciders of your fates? The choice IS up to you.
To paraphrase the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, “Every Jew a .22.”
Guns'n'Moses?
Love it!!! 😂
Better a .40, more stopping power.
Yes! Brilliant.
Excellent piece! Thank you for connecting the dots for us all!