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Alex Fox's avatar

100% correct. You're describing the nebbish mentality, which is the little voice that says, "If you don't make them angry, they won't hurt you." Unfortunately, that's not true. Weakness and passivity invites contempt and predation.

Look at how the October 7 attack was widely described as "resistance to Zionist aggression." In this world, simply existing while Jewish is considered a provocation that justifies violent reprisal.

There may only be a tiny fraction of the population that actually wants to go out and hurt Jews, but history shows that the rest likely would not object. That's why it is important to exercise forceful resistance at the beginning.

There was a huge outpouring of support for the frat boys who protected the American flag from being replaced with a Palestinian flag. People respect strength. I would love to see Jewish college students physically break through the human chains and barricades erected against them. That would do more to elicit public good will than the so-called high road.

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Nachum Kaplan's avatar

When I was at high school someone made an anti-Semitic remark. Three of us, one the son of a Holocaust survivor, corned him after school, warned him, and punched him in the jaw. That ended that. The idea then was that you stop these things before they start. We seem to have forgotten this and let it spread.

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