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You want to reduce antisemitism? Understand the Holocaust but stop trying to educate people who couldn’t care less if Jews are exterminated. Non-Jews who are interested will be able to learn by themselves, visit Holocaust memorials and museums, while the others will only pick up from it that Jews are victims. Many people are bullies and get a kick out of seeing victims suffer. The reason so many nerdy losers on campus join this idiotic pro Palestinian obsession is because Jews appear weak, especially when they habitually declare themselves victims. And these non-Jews enjoy feeling powerful by calling for genocide and assaulting Jewish students, vandalizing Jewish spaces and so on.

Stop playing the stupid woke game. We Jews gain nothing from claiming our victimization, and neither left or right cares one bit and won’t fit us into their identity politics. Jews will not be given a slot in this idiotic hierarchy of victimization.

Jews knew what to do, circa the 1930s and 1940s. They didn’t try to educate antisemitic non-Jews, they didn’t whine and claim victimization. They punched Nazis in the face around the US. They fought in WW2 in allied forces and partisan forces. Nokmim found Nazis after WW2 and assassinated them. They fought the Palestinian mobs and Arab armies invading Israel with the goal of a second genocide of Jews.

Jews around the world need to watch how Israelis are handling Hamas after October 7 - pursuing them above and below ground without fear and killing them. Close ranks and unify, like Israel has. Toss anti Zionist Jews out of Jewish organizations. Learn to fight, teach our kids to fight. Stop giving money to organizations that habitually defame Jews - universities, NPR, NGOs. Invest that money in organizations like UN Watch, CAMERA, NGO Watch, Stop Antisemitism, Jews on Campus. Invest in armed guards for temples, security for Hillel events. Give regular free Krav Maga lessons to Jewish youth. If diaspora Jews want to stop being victimized they need to stop behaving like victims. And for God’s sake, stop begging Muslims and progressives and leftists to be allies. They won’t, they’re our enemies. Treat them with the necessary suspicion and derision. Stand with Israel, stand with other Jews, and fight.

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One thing is clear. Writing a check is not going to stop Jew-hatred.

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‏ישר כוח

I urge you and others who wrote about this to drop the misleading term “anti-semitism” for “Jew Hatred”. It sounds ugly, as it should.

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Not really. Michael for instance hating the ideas behind Orthodox Judaism is not hating actual Jews? Or hating that we write G-d or HaShem is hating how an Orthodox Jew may say His name, alluding to what an orthodox Jew DOES. Or preparing the evening meal on Friday afternoon and clearing up after BEFORE the sun sets in winter for instance is again hating what an ORTHODOX Jew DOES ritually, what he does, not the Jew himself? And so on -?

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A great essay on point against antisemitism, Joshua!

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Just so awful. I find it hard to understand even if I try. I come from a neutral position to reach my conclusion. With these individuals that is not possible resulting in an ignorant and totally irrational position. Actually based on emotions, especially, hate.

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Bernie Davis and Arrr Bee sum it up best. Zero tolerance for these activities, freedom of speech be damned. The slogans shrieked to high heaven are more than offensive. They come out of the mouths mainly of those with no clue what they are ranting about. The name calling, threats, graffiti, harassment on the streets, of Jewish people. All malicious and vicious. Complacency, the nice guy approach, acceptance of the unacceptable, the reprehensible behaviour, is over, for good!

Sit around and take it no more! Follow our lead here in Israel, stand up straight and stand tall.

We are not afraid.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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