Most people mean well, but good intentions aren’t enough. Here’s what actually makes a difference for your Jewish family members, friends, and colleagues.
Most non-Jews feel that it’s not their fight. It’s a tough sell, Melissa. It’s asking a lot to expect your friends (99% of them who are actually just acquaintances, not friends) to involve themselves in a difficult conversation on behalf of a Jewish neighbor, teammate, co-worker. Not gonna happen on a large scale. Too much work, too much uncertainty as to what social friction their support for you would result in. And I don’t expect anything more. The light isn’t gonna suddenly turn on anyway, even in the unlikely event that one of my “friends” openly confronts an anti-semitic trope in my absence.
I’ll take care of myself. It’s all I can reasonably expect.
In Canada, they would be howling in the streets if the hate and violence was against any other minority but not if they are Jews. The so-called silent majority support the Carney government which has incited the hatred and condoned the violence and signalled that arresting the jihadist attackers is not approved.
I've given up on most of my non-Jewish friends and acquaintances at this point. I don't have the time and the patience to watch their eyes glass over as they lecture me on the sufferings of Blacks and gays (ignoring what Jews are experiencing), or harden as they lecture me on how Israel is committing "horrors" (just what horrors is always left vague.) You know...screw 'em. I can live without these people in my life.
What shoukd we do about our Jewish friends who got no clue want no clue and just don’t give a shit about anything besides hating Donald Trump ( I’m not a fan)? You know, Jews who’s only religion is the Femocrstic Party platform.
What you wrote should be on the front page of the New York Times. Of course they wouldn't print it for all of the reasons that you put forth in your outstanding essay.
I stopped after the statement "most people mean well". No, they don't. In fact, at least in Canada, they support the government under Carney from the Jew hating, Israel demonizing Liberal Party, who actively incites and condones the hatred. There is no "silent majority" in this case. The silent majority is silent when confronted with Jew hatred where they would be screaming their heads off, and the media would be outraged, and has been when there is a hint of a hate against every other minority but Canadian Jews.
Meanwhile our unelected weak, weak Jewish leaders are following in the footsteps of ghetto leaders in the 18th century by grovelling on their knees begging for protection from Carney, the Jew hater, in person. They consistently keep praising the police who are actively protecting the jihadist demonstrators screaming outrageous statements that would be considered hate crimes if it was aimed at any other minority in Canada, often acting as buddies with them, and laughing and joking while watching attacks on Jews while in Jewish neighbourhoods, and then they turn around and arrest Jews who are on the sidewalks for fomenting trouble by standing there silently.
Many Canadian Jews see that depending on our weak oblivious leadership in totally including our passive rabbis, is more than useless. The "hush, hush, do not make waves or they will hate us" is the message from both our unelected leaders and rabbis who act cowardly and pretend we are living in the 1970s. Many families, even in their late thirties and forties, have decided to make "escape plans" to leave this cursed hate filled country as they do not want to raise their children in Canada, now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world due to the complicit incitement of hate by most of the main line media, including the tax-payer supported CBC, and the condoning and encouragement of the Liberal Government and Carney, as PM, and the total absence of strong Jewish leadership with a proactive approach to stop the hatred and violence.
The Left in the Western World is allied with Islam in every single country and that is especially true of Canada, Australia, NZ, Canada and the United States. It is totally deliberate.
Yet in Canada 50 to 55% of the Canadian Jews vote Left and in the US it is 65 to 70%. Makes you wonder.
Maybe don't ask your friends for help when so many are hell bent on self destructive behavior?
Actually the Liberal Party was never Left. The NDP party was and of course the Green Party. Once Trudeau took over in 2015 it started to go further and further to the Left and Carney, who actually is not Left, is using the Jew hatred as a tool to unify the over 2 million Muslims that the Liberals starting in 2015, in order for them to vote as a bloc for the Liberals rather than the NDP. Trudeau was a wonky not too intelligent person who had very Progressivee ideas which helped destroy our economy but Carney is strictly evil.
Well, to me there are two Lefts. Or two Marx's as it were: economic and cultural. Trudeau was an Economic and Cultural Marxist and Carney is at least a Cutural Marxist.
"but Carney is strictly evil."
You are so right about him. I live on the US Canada border and my wife and I vaction in Alberta every year in Banff and Jasper National Parks. We live about 5 hours from Banff. Just made our reservations for this year so seeing Carney after Trudeau for us is very sad.
Try “triangulating:” In Judaism, the relationship between God and the Jewish people is defined by an eternal covenant (a sacred, binding agreement) established with Abraham and solidified at Mount Sinai. Whether Old or New Testament, God cherishes His relationship with the Jews. Our treatment — from those who first love and honor God — should flow from there.
Yes, but...there is a growing Christian movement embracing "replacement theory" (promoted by those like Tucker Carlson) which says that today's Jews are not "the real Jews" and that the "new Jews" are actually Christians who inherited the "chosen" label from God through Jesus, and that it is Christians who should inherit Israel, not the "fake Jews" of today. In service of this belief, they relentlessly post outrageous lies and hate toward Jews; everything from "Jews worship Satan," "Jews are all pedophiles"(they mis-quote the Talmud and use Jeffrey Epstein as their *proof*), "Jews hate Christians and spit on them and tear down churches." They also twist/misinterpret Scripture to *prove* that the Jews have been turned from God's covenant and that the covenant now belongs to Christians. And they are gaining Christian followers who are looking for religious reasons to hate Jews.
Perfect! I would just remove the hyphen from “Antizionism” because this iteration of Jew-hatred is its own new phenomenon, which has nothing to do with pre-1948 Jewish debate over whether or not to reconstitute a state. Antizionism IS what you describe to a T: the libels, the scapegoating, the “but I’m not antisemitic!” fig leaf, the very real marginalization and persecution of Jews everywhere as proxies for a demonized Jew among nations, Israel. Thank you for all your writing!
"History has already shown us more than once where that road leads to." Yes, pogoms, forced ejection from countries, Islamic murders, and the Shoah which too many think never happened despite the vast evidence. The picture at the top of this story shows, I'm guessing, Jewish students somewhere with hand-lettered signs which vividly compare with the professionally made placards of the anti-semites. When I run into the usual accusations I, as a Catholic, simply ask why that person believes such and force THEM on the defensive.
Really, all we ever ask is to be left alone. All the business, libraries, medical advances, smart phone tech, etc is protection payment.
People know exactly what they should do—they just don’t do it.
The silent majority stays silent. In my own experience, 95% of people say nothing. Not a word.
Some are afraid to speak out. Others think it doesn’t affect them.
They’re wrong. It does. But that’s a longer conversation for another day.
Most non-Jews feel that it’s not their fight. It’s a tough sell, Melissa. It’s asking a lot to expect your friends (99% of them who are actually just acquaintances, not friends) to involve themselves in a difficult conversation on behalf of a Jewish neighbor, teammate, co-worker. Not gonna happen on a large scale. Too much work, too much uncertainty as to what social friction their support for you would result in. And I don’t expect anything more. The light isn’t gonna suddenly turn on anyway, even in the unlikely event that one of my “friends” openly confronts an anti-semitic trope in my absence.
I’ll take care of myself. It’s all I can reasonably expect.
In Canada, they would be howling in the streets if the hate and violence was against any other minority but not if they are Jews. The so-called silent majority support the Carney government which has incited the hatred and condoned the violence and signalled that arresting the jihadist attackers is not approved.
Glad I don’t live in Canada. Disgusting.
I've given up on most of my non-Jewish friends and acquaintances at this point. I don't have the time and the patience to watch their eyes glass over as they lecture me on the sufferings of Blacks and gays (ignoring what Jews are experiencing), or harden as they lecture me on how Israel is committing "horrors" (just what horrors is always left vague.) You know...screw 'em. I can live without these people in my life.
me too.
What shoukd we do about our Jewish friends who got no clue want no clue and just don’t give a shit about anything besides hating Donald Trump ( I’m not a fan)? You know, Jews who’s only religion is the Femocrstic Party platform.
Brilliant
What you wrote should be on the front page of the New York Times. Of course they wouldn't print it for all of the reasons that you put forth in your outstanding essay.
I stopped after the statement "most people mean well". No, they don't. In fact, at least in Canada, they support the government under Carney from the Jew hating, Israel demonizing Liberal Party, who actively incites and condones the hatred. There is no "silent majority" in this case. The silent majority is silent when confronted with Jew hatred where they would be screaming their heads off, and the media would be outraged, and has been when there is a hint of a hate against every other minority but Canadian Jews.
Meanwhile our unelected weak, weak Jewish leaders are following in the footsteps of ghetto leaders in the 18th century by grovelling on their knees begging for protection from Carney, the Jew hater, in person. They consistently keep praising the police who are actively protecting the jihadist demonstrators screaming outrageous statements that would be considered hate crimes if it was aimed at any other minority in Canada, often acting as buddies with them, and laughing and joking while watching attacks on Jews while in Jewish neighbourhoods, and then they turn around and arrest Jews who are on the sidewalks for fomenting trouble by standing there silently.
Many Canadian Jews see that depending on our weak oblivious leadership in totally including our passive rabbis, is more than useless. The "hush, hush, do not make waves or they will hate us" is the message from both our unelected leaders and rabbis who act cowardly and pretend we are living in the 1970s. Many families, even in their late thirties and forties, have decided to make "escape plans" to leave this cursed hate filled country as they do not want to raise their children in Canada, now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world due to the complicit incitement of hate by most of the main line media, including the tax-payer supported CBC, and the condoning and encouragement of the Liberal Government and Carney, as PM, and the total absence of strong Jewish leadership with a proactive approach to stop the hatred and violence.
The Left in the Western World is allied with Islam in every single country and that is especially true of Canada, Australia, NZ, Canada and the United States. It is totally deliberate.
Yet in Canada 50 to 55% of the Canadian Jews vote Left and in the US it is 65 to 70%. Makes you wonder.
Maybe don't ask your friends for help when so many are hell bent on self destructive behavior?
Actually the Liberal Party was never Left. The NDP party was and of course the Green Party. Once Trudeau took over in 2015 it started to go further and further to the Left and Carney, who actually is not Left, is using the Jew hatred as a tool to unify the over 2 million Muslims that the Liberals starting in 2015, in order for them to vote as a bloc for the Liberals rather than the NDP. Trudeau was a wonky not too intelligent person who had very Progressivee ideas which helped destroy our economy but Carney is strictly evil.
Carney is not Left?
Well, to me there are two Lefts. Or two Marx's as it were: economic and cultural. Trudeau was an Economic and Cultural Marxist and Carney is at least a Cutural Marxist.
"but Carney is strictly evil."
You are so right about him. I live on the US Canada border and my wife and I vaction in Alberta every year in Banff and Jasper National Parks. We live about 5 hours from Banff. Just made our reservations for this year so seeing Carney after Trudeau for us is very sad.
Try “triangulating:” In Judaism, the relationship between God and the Jewish people is defined by an eternal covenant (a sacred, binding agreement) established with Abraham and solidified at Mount Sinai. Whether Old or New Testament, God cherishes His relationship with the Jews. Our treatment — from those who first love and honor God — should flow from there.
Yes, but...there is a growing Christian movement embracing "replacement theory" (promoted by those like Tucker Carlson) which says that today's Jews are not "the real Jews" and that the "new Jews" are actually Christians who inherited the "chosen" label from God through Jesus, and that it is Christians who should inherit Israel, not the "fake Jews" of today. In service of this belief, they relentlessly post outrageous lies and hate toward Jews; everything from "Jews worship Satan," "Jews are all pedophiles"(they mis-quote the Talmud and use Jeffrey Epstein as their *proof*), "Jews hate Christians and spit on them and tear down churches." They also twist/misinterpret Scripture to *prove* that the Jews have been turned from God's covenant and that the covenant now belongs to Christians. And they are gaining Christian followers who are looking for religious reasons to hate Jews.
Agreed. Antisemitism from the time of God‘s chosen people onward,(Deuteronomy 7:6; 14:2). [T. Carlson a complete whack job…]
Perfect! I would just remove the hyphen from “Antizionism” because this iteration of Jew-hatred is its own new phenomenon, which has nothing to do with pre-1948 Jewish debate over whether or not to reconstitute a state. Antizionism IS what you describe to a T: the libels, the scapegoating, the “but I’m not antisemitic!” fig leaf, the very real marginalization and persecution of Jews everywhere as proxies for a demonized Jew among nations, Israel. Thank you for all your writing!
"History has already shown us more than once where that road leads to." Yes, pogoms, forced ejection from countries, Islamic murders, and the Shoah which too many think never happened despite the vast evidence. The picture at the top of this story shows, I'm guessing, Jewish students somewhere with hand-lettered signs which vividly compare with the professionally made placards of the anti-semites. When I run into the usual accusations I, as a Catholic, simply ask why that person believes such and force THEM on the defensive.
"Most people mean well"
Communists mean well?
Muslims mean well?
Really? Color me at least somewhat sceptical about that.
You've got it. 🫂
Jews can help themselves by abandoning the leftist states, moving to the free states, and arming themselves.