Perceptive. I can only encourage klal Yisroel to learn to defend ourselves. Learn to shoot. Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it. I quote Jabotinsky.
Yes… You are far from wrong ! I’ll try a base-ball bat.. or a high C… that can be really disturbing if your opponent does not expect it …. I don’t know how to aim and shoot ! 🤣
I am a Gen # 2. From both my mother (Germany) and father (Silesia). From a very young age I knew the name AH - I knew my paternal grandparents were gassed in 1942 because they were Jews, I listened and asked many questions - my three brothers didn't ask or say a word they played softball and bowled instead.
At 14 I knew all about Auschwitz from my first cousin once removed who spent 2 years in Auschwitz. My father would only talk about his time in Anders Army - he would not discuss Buchenwald and Vladivostok slave labor - he was the only survivor of his nuclear family. My maternal side also had great losses -they lived in Berlin, Mannheim, and Cologne, Paris, Metz and Tanlay Yonne deported in 1941 to Lodz they were gassed in Chelmno or Sobibor or in France in 1942 and 1944 to Drancy and on to Auschwitz. Thus on both sides we were a small family. Today my late parents would have had 7 great grandchildren from the four of us.
We grew up up in a close knit survivor group in the midwest of the USA, they socialized with each other - and played cards every Sunday night, which seemed to be typical of the survivors/greeners across the USA. I felt like an outsider from my American peers - whose parents and grandparents were born in the USA.
It was only when I moved to Israel in 1971 that I felt "safe" and understood. Like most of "us gen # 2) I have written a book and I am working on a documentary film (over 4 years) after years of research and discovery of documents - my children and grandchildren - like I was raised - know everything - they have their own family book and a documentary film.
My parents, Oma and Opa had no closure at their deaths of the fates of our family members.
They used to say it can happen anytime and anywhere - It doesn't matter where you live... antisemitism/Judenhass exists as do the clergy who preach the hatred on youtube and television. In the USA antisemitism is on both sides of the aisle, we are seeing the far right and their neo nazi groups in several countries including Poland calling us satanic etc...
Bottom line? We are about 16 million globally - Jews had better find a common denominator and be unified if they want to survive. IMHO The only reason we have not been in line for annihilation again, is due to the State of Israel and our IDF. shabbat shalom
PS: My first election in which I voted, was in Israel and I voted for my father's fellow lantzman Polish Anders Army colleague - Menachem Begin - my Israeli (Sabarim) friends all vets from the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars called me nuts - they said Begin was a war hawk and would put us back into a war, in the end he and Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize - who would have thought that we would discover in 2024 underground tunnels in Gaza from Raffa into Egypt - who were sending amo into Gaza? Begin was right and here is a clip of him in 1981 talking about the chutzpah of the chancellor of Germany telling PM Begin what Israel should do about the "Palestinians" , just like now the world goes against us and tells us what we "have to do" they, the very perpetrators, collaborators and those countries who turned their heads to our plight 85 years ago,
And 20% of NYC JEWS are apparently about to vote for a modern day nazi . Think about that. And jews in congress a s the senate voting to deny Israel weapons. Let that sink in. And Jewish billionaires like soros funding anti jew and anti American "activists." Bottom line is there are far too jews to fight back in a meaningful way. This is why our Christian friends are one of the keys going forward and why tbe media lies must be rebutted. And then there is tiny Israel that has the power( if it God forbid ever came to it) to go down swinging. How many of the jews mentioned above would argue that Israel ( if it came to it) should NOT go down swinging? Think about that too
Yes, I cannot wrap my head around liberal Jews who pander to the Islamists running for office in a nation they hate. But I have christian ‘friends’ and neighbors turning instantly because of Tucker, Candace, and other isolationists, suddenly afraid of helping Israel. Or even buying into ‘Oct 7’ was because of ‘occupation.’ Trust no one and arm yourself on your way to Aliyah.
He has publicly announced his support to globalize the intifada, which means to kill the Jews. He is nothing but a Jew hating piece of shit. That’s why.
Hmm, we will fight till the end, there is no other answer, we will not explain nothing anymore. We are finished! We will fight with all the weapens we have, yes also guns.
When I was at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, I visited Dachau and to me what was worse than seeing the ovens, was the sign on the road outside. The notice basically read, do not judge the residents of Dachau by what you see in the camp. We did not know what was going on! Wrap your head around that.
There is only one thing that will keep that from happening again, and that is the existence of the State of Israel.
Do not be scared. The Russians have shown the way after Ethnic Russians, some 10000 people, were murdered in The Ukraine by the re- emergent Nazi Militias from 2014 till 2022. Nazism went underground after 1945. The Nazis have been watched then challenged and then refuted and defeated today as they attempted to become ascendant once more. This Defeat of Nazism once again has been a Superb victory! Israel Am Chai. Our Vigilance is Eternal.
It's unfortunately much worse; today Anti-Semitism is a good thing.
Many of those who have been standing at the remembrance day of the Holocaust and shedding a tear and saying "never again" and calling everyone else a Nazi if they don't share their liberal left political ideals, are now saying "we can't hold a remembrance day event, it would upset our voters keeping up this hasbara."
People always think they would do the right thing because they’re convinced of their own righteousness. Just like the Germans. “As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one.” Paul, in his letter to the Roman church, quotes Psalm 14:3.
It is a worldwide problem that doesn’t see the evil in antisemitism!!!
Anti Semitism went underground from 1945 until 1967 and now is a feature of the left and the result of universalizing the Holocaust and rendering it as not a particularly Jewish event.
Please do not use a good thing — the barrier-breaking of Jackie Robinson and the following acceptance of more Blacks into baseball — as a metaphor for a horrendous thing — antisemites coming out of the woodwork. Whether you realize it or not, that is deeply racist.
The Jewish People are not alone. Remember there were 50 Million White people killed by The Nazis. So in its own terms, Nazism as a terrorist ideology for Whites, Nazism failed completely. And they were the best Whites who were murdered by War too. This is the irrefutable and irrifragible logical position.
Many good points in this article. I am one of those people who was and is shocked by 10/7 and everything that has followed. I had no idea such antisemitism existed in the US. My mother visited Bergen-Belsen in the late 1950s and explained the Holocaust to me as I was growing up. I've never forgotten my horror. I have tried to do things to help but my physical disabilities and time have limited me.
JFPO, an acronym I never get quite right—Jews for the Preservation of Gun Ownership—started by a Jew who researched America’s 1960s Dodd gun act which has actually plagiarized portions from the Nazi 1930s gun law. Post WW2, Dodd had been at Nuremberg and having access to documents, apparently appropriated Hitler’s gun law taking guns from the citizenry. Would there have been a different outcome had the Jewish men who had been soliders in WW1 been armed still when Hitler rose? Chilling bit of Holocaust history which this guy reveals, offering copies of the original German as well as the Dodd Act. Anyway, this little organization keeps one current on whatever state laws, regs, rules and goings on with our right to bear arms. And it is Jewish. Make my day…
And what of the growing number of Jewish Israeli Holocaust scholars who are coming out and calling what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide; would you condemn them as antisemites as well?
Here's a story written in a book of short stories by Holocaust Survivors. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism. You fast from sunrise to sunset and then have a feast. Well NOT in Germany or Poland during A.H.'s reign. It usually falls in September, so it was frigid cold. Prisoners were starved and worked usually in the Winter with no shoes. Walking through snow barefoot, doing arduous manual labor. Young men and the elderly. On the Eve of this particular Yom Kippur the Nazis prepared a feast for the Jews. Unimaginable Cuisine, when these men used to share their crumbs with the children, sick and dying. Anyway the Men refused the food. It was unanimous. The Germans were baffled and infuriated. And angry. They had the men line up by a steep hill and climb up and slide down on their starving bellies. One after the other. And the Germans kept saying:" Eat your feast you disobedient Jews." Yet, the men kept climbing the snowy hill, barefoot in the snow sliding down on their boney, sick and emaciated bodies. So what's the moral here? You CANNOT BREAK THE JEWISH SPIRIT.
Hi that is why we have survived all these thousands of years and come back stronger and stronger, unlike the other ancient peoples. Shabbat Shalom! Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
Perceptive. I can only encourage klal Yisroel to learn to defend ourselves. Learn to shoot. Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it. I quote Jabotinsky.
Yes. I quote Kahane.
Yes… You are far from wrong ! I’ll try a base-ball bat.. or a high C… that can be really disturbing if your opponent does not expect it …. I don’t know how to aim and shoot ! 🤣
Learn, not that difficult if you don’t know learn.
Thank you for an informative essay.
I am a Gen # 2. From both my mother (Germany) and father (Silesia). From a very young age I knew the name AH - I knew my paternal grandparents were gassed in 1942 because they were Jews, I listened and asked many questions - my three brothers didn't ask or say a word they played softball and bowled instead.
At 14 I knew all about Auschwitz from my first cousin once removed who spent 2 years in Auschwitz. My father would only talk about his time in Anders Army - he would not discuss Buchenwald and Vladivostok slave labor - he was the only survivor of his nuclear family. My maternal side also had great losses -they lived in Berlin, Mannheim, and Cologne, Paris, Metz and Tanlay Yonne deported in 1941 to Lodz they were gassed in Chelmno or Sobibor or in France in 1942 and 1944 to Drancy and on to Auschwitz. Thus on both sides we were a small family. Today my late parents would have had 7 great grandchildren from the four of us.
We grew up up in a close knit survivor group in the midwest of the USA, they socialized with each other - and played cards every Sunday night, which seemed to be typical of the survivors/greeners across the USA. I felt like an outsider from my American peers - whose parents and grandparents were born in the USA.
It was only when I moved to Israel in 1971 that I felt "safe" and understood. Like most of "us gen # 2) I have written a book and I am working on a documentary film (over 4 years) after years of research and discovery of documents - my children and grandchildren - like I was raised - know everything - they have their own family book and a documentary film.
My parents, Oma and Opa had no closure at their deaths of the fates of our family members.
They used to say it can happen anytime and anywhere - It doesn't matter where you live... antisemitism/Judenhass exists as do the clergy who preach the hatred on youtube and television. In the USA antisemitism is on both sides of the aisle, we are seeing the far right and their neo nazi groups in several countries including Poland calling us satanic etc...
Bottom line? We are about 16 million globally - Jews had better find a common denominator and be unified if they want to survive. IMHO The only reason we have not been in line for annihilation again, is due to the State of Israel and our IDF. shabbat shalom
PS: My first election in which I voted, was in Israel and I voted for my father's fellow lantzman Polish Anders Army colleague - Menachem Begin - my Israeli (Sabarim) friends all vets from the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars called me nuts - they said Begin was a war hawk and would put us back into a war, in the end he and Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize - who would have thought that we would discover in 2024 underground tunnels in Gaza from Raffa into Egypt - who were sending amo into Gaza? Begin was right and here is a clip of him in 1981 talking about the chutzpah of the chancellor of Germany telling PM Begin what Israel should do about the "Palestinians" , just like now the world goes against us and tells us what we "have to do" they, the very perpetrators, collaborators and those countries who turned their heads to our plight 85 years ago,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzOOHOibweE
Bless you. Cannot wait for your book and documentary to be available. Your warning is felt by me.
I will add a short "clip to my notes" 5 minutes worth Just for you :-)
And 20% of NYC JEWS are apparently about to vote for a modern day nazi . Think about that. And jews in congress a s the senate voting to deny Israel weapons. Let that sink in. And Jewish billionaires like soros funding anti jew and anti American "activists." Bottom line is there are far too jews to fight back in a meaningful way. This is why our Christian friends are one of the keys going forward and why tbe media lies must be rebutted. And then there is tiny Israel that has the power( if it God forbid ever came to it) to go down swinging. How many of the jews mentioned above would argue that Israel ( if it came to it) should NOT go down swinging? Think about that too
Yes, I cannot wrap my head around liberal Jews who pander to the Islamists running for office in a nation they hate. But I have christian ‘friends’ and neighbors turning instantly because of Tucker, Candace, and other isolationists, suddenly afraid of helping Israel. Or even buying into ‘Oct 7’ was because of ‘occupation.’ Trust no one and arm yourself on your way to Aliyah.
Do you believe Mamdani is an "Islamist" just because he is Muslim?
Why exactly do you believe Mamdani is, as you put it, a "modern day Nazi"?
He has publicly announced his support to globalize the intifada, which means to kill the Jews. He is nothing but a Jew hating piece of shit. That’s why.
Hmm, we will fight till the end, there is no other answer, we will not explain nothing anymore. We are finished! We will fight with all the weapens we have, yes also guns.
AM ISRAËL CHAI!!!
“Every Jew a .22…”. Make that a .357 but you get the point.
this is the truth, sadly.
When I was at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, I visited Dachau and to me what was worse than seeing the ovens, was the sign on the road outside. The notice basically read, do not judge the residents of Dachau by what you see in the camp. We did not know what was going on! Wrap your head around that.
There is only one thing that will keep that from happening again, and that is the existence of the State of Israel.
If a Zionist (Jew and non Jew) wasn’t an activist before Oct 7, she is now.
People compare today to 1939 Germany— but it’s not limited to one country. The entire world is emboldened.
Do not be scared. The Russians have shown the way after Ethnic Russians, some 10000 people, were murdered in The Ukraine by the re- emergent Nazi Militias from 2014 till 2022. Nazism went underground after 1945. The Nazis have been watched then challenged and then refuted and defeated today as they attempted to become ascendant once more. This Defeat of Nazism once again has been a Superb victory! Israel Am Chai. Our Vigilance is Eternal.
They were not Nazis; Putin started that war, and the idiot Obama let him do it.
They absolutely were Nazis, they started the war by murdering Russians, and Putin was right to go in.
It was the idiot Biden, not Obama. Come to think of it, Biden was nothing more than Obama’s puppet.
It's unfortunately much worse; today Anti-Semitism is a good thing.
Many of those who have been standing at the remembrance day of the Holocaust and shedding a tear and saying "never again" and calling everyone else a Nazi if they don't share their liberal left political ideals, are now saying "we can't hold a remembrance day event, it would upset our voters keeping up this hasbara."
And it makes me absolutely furious too.
People always think they would do the right thing because they’re convinced of their own righteousness. Just like the Germans. “As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one.” Paul, in his letter to the Roman church, quotes Psalm 14:3.
It is a worldwide problem that doesn’t see the evil in antisemitism!!!
Anti Semitism went underground from 1945 until 1967 and now is a feature of the left and the result of universalizing the Holocaust and rendering it as not a particularly Jewish event.
An important piece, and I agree with you.
However.
Please do not use a good thing — the barrier-breaking of Jackie Robinson and the following acceptance of more Blacks into baseball — as a metaphor for a horrendous thing — antisemites coming out of the woodwork. Whether you realize it or not, that is deeply racist.
The Jewish People are not alone. Remember there were 50 Million White people killed by The Nazis. So in its own terms, Nazism as a terrorist ideology for Whites, Nazism failed completely. And they were the best Whites who were murdered by War too. This is the irrefutable and irrifragible logical position.
Many good points in this article. I am one of those people who was and is shocked by 10/7 and everything that has followed. I had no idea such antisemitism existed in the US. My mother visited Bergen-Belsen in the late 1950s and explained the Holocaust to me as I was growing up. I've never forgotten my horror. I have tried to do things to help but my physical disabilities and time have limited me.
You're voice of support is perfect!
JFPO, an acronym I never get quite right—Jews for the Preservation of Gun Ownership—started by a Jew who researched America’s 1960s Dodd gun act which has actually plagiarized portions from the Nazi 1930s gun law. Post WW2, Dodd had been at Nuremberg and having access to documents, apparently appropriated Hitler’s gun law taking guns from the citizenry. Would there have been a different outcome had the Jewish men who had been soliders in WW1 been armed still when Hitler rose? Chilling bit of Holocaust history which this guy reveals, offering copies of the original German as well as the Dodd Act. Anyway, this little organization keeps one current on whatever state laws, regs, rules and goings on with our right to bear arms. And it is Jewish. Make my day…
And what of the growing number of Jewish Israeli Holocaust scholars who are coming out and calling what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide; would you condemn them as antisemites as well?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza
Here's a story written in a book of short stories by Holocaust Survivors. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism. You fast from sunrise to sunset and then have a feast. Well NOT in Germany or Poland during A.H.'s reign. It usually falls in September, so it was frigid cold. Prisoners were starved and worked usually in the Winter with no shoes. Walking through snow barefoot, doing arduous manual labor. Young men and the elderly. On the Eve of this particular Yom Kippur the Nazis prepared a feast for the Jews. Unimaginable Cuisine, when these men used to share their crumbs with the children, sick and dying. Anyway the Men refused the food. It was unanimous. The Germans were baffled and infuriated. And angry. They had the men line up by a steep hill and climb up and slide down on their starving bellies. One after the other. And the Germans kept saying:" Eat your feast you disobedient Jews." Yet, the men kept climbing the snowy hill, barefoot in the snow sliding down on their boney, sick and emaciated bodies. So what's the moral here? You CANNOT BREAK THE JEWISH SPIRIT.
Hi that is why we have survived all these thousands of years and come back stronger and stronger, unlike the other ancient peoples. Shabbat Shalom! Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱