Jews on the Precipice

Some say that we are re-living the 1930’s. I disagree. Today, the danger to Jews is far graver and more complex than it was in the pagan or medieval-Christian world, or during World War Two.

Today, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American propaganda has gone global. It is visually masterful, technologically sophisticated, and available around the clock, especially in Arabic. Jews and Zionists can be “seen” holding a meeting of the (fake) Elders of Zion, (falsely) demanding that Jesus be tortured and crucified, committing (fake) massacres in Jenin, and stabbing non-Jewish children to death for their blood.

Old-fashioned Czarist-, Nazi-, and Stalinist-era anti-Semitic stereotypes (the Jews control the media and the banks and seek world domination), have been added to the pre-existing Islamic views of Jews as subhuman infidels. The mix is a hot brew of relentless hatred.

Jew-haters are creating a situation in which – dare I say it? Yes, I must say it – another mass murder – perhaps even a Holocaust-like mass murder of Jews might be possible. Indeed, in my view, it has already begun, certainly not in America, and not yet in Europe – but in Israel.

Today, Jews who live in the Jewish state – a nation that was initially envisioned as the solution to the ceaseless persecution of the Jews – are far more endangered than those who live in the Diaspora. Worse: The existence of the Jewish state is now being used to justify verbal and physical attacks against Diaspora Jews around the world and on campuses throughout the Western world. For example, “Zionism” is an increasingly dirty word on campuses. I am also told that among American teenagers, the word “Jew” is increasingly being used pejoratively.

Israel has served as the laboratory, or groundzero, in the terrorist war against the West. It is where the Islamofascists have perfected their experiments, their grisly, spectacular, and well-choreographed mass murders and their ingenious use of hijacked planes.

In my recent book, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It, I was among the first to characterize the new anti-Semitism as an alliance between Islamofascist terrorists and “politically correct” western intellectuals. Both groups have remained morally blind to the slaughter of innocent civilians in Israel and America. Worse, they have blamed that slaughter on Israeli and American policy. In their frenzy to scapegoat Israel for all human suffering, these new anti-Semites have joined the United Nations, international human rights groups, and the media in failing to condemn the most horrendous human rights abuses in the world, including genocide.

The propaganda war against Israel and against Jews is staggering, both visually and linguistically. It is often vulgar and blatant but it is also subtle, earnest, persuasive. One is forced to confront Big Lies at every level, socially, professionally, among scholars and in the media.

Today, Israel is the world’s punching-bag symbol for “Colonial, Apartheid, Oppressor.” Although Arafat began his terrorist campaign against Israel in 1964 when the “offending” settlements were Tel Aviv and Haifa, his terrorism against Israel is justified because of the offending Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Let me quote from ex-PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, who has since converted to Christianity and is now pro-Israel. In an interview in the Jerusalem Post, Shoebat suggested the unthinkable: “The true occupation is of the minds of Palestinians, of teaching them hatred for Jews. That is the real occupation.”

Let me expand upon that. The true occupation also includes the utter Palestinianization and highjacking of the western media and the western academic world into believing that black is white, day is night, that the Palestinian Authority can do no wrong, and Israel can do no right.

Say this on many campuses in North America or Europe and you will be mocked, scorned, intimidated, bullied, raged at, perhaps even physically endangered. And not by illiterate, impoverished, formerly colonized people but by well-heeled tenured faculty and bright doctoral students – some of whom will soon run for public office.

“Politically correct” Americans, including some Jews, have joined Islamists in embracing the Palestinians as the most oppressed and most Noble of Savages whose misery, in their view, has been caused solely by a cabal of Zionists, Orthodox Jews, and Christian Republican conservatives.

This unholy alliance of politically correct progressives and Islamists has presented the long-suffering Palestinians and their corrupt and murderous leadership as secular versions of Jesus crucified. Newspaper cartoonists have literally portrayed Arafat as Jesus. They have also romanticized Arafat, bin Laden, and their human bombs as Che Guevara- and Nelson Mandela-like “freedom fighters.”

Bizarrely, tragically, these new anti-Semites have decided that Israel is the “greatest oppressor of all time,” and is “worse than the Nazis” – surely a new form of Holocaust denial.

They also characterize Israel as an “apartheid” state (which it is not). In fact, Islam is the largest practitioner of apartheid in the world, both in terms of religion and gender; Israel once again is the scapegoat for this.

Today, Israelis are being slaughtered not only because they happen to live in a nation engaged in a local war with a neighboring nation but because Israel is a Jewish nation that has been under almost perpetual siege since its birth in 1948. Twenty-one thousand Israelis have lost their lives in wars of self-defense and in acts of terrorism against the Jewish state since 1948.

Since the fall of 2000, Israelis have endured the equivalent of 9/11 almost every other week. I cannot imagine the level of post-traumatic stress symptomatology Israelis must be suffering – they, who have lived through so many unchosen wars of self-defense and whose parents and grandparents endured Hitler’s Final Solution, the Gulag, Cossack pogroms, and persecution and exile from Arab and Muslim lands.

As I’ve noted, the slow-bleed of Israelis from 1948-2000 has been barely noted among western intellectuals. “Everybody dies, other people also suffer. Enough with the Jews!” Jewish blood does not register with them – or, rather, Jews are supposed to die; they are not shocked when it happens. In an attempt to awaken such hard-hearted intellectuals, some of whom are, sadly, Jews, I decided to convert the Israeli reality into American terms.

Thus, from 9/29/2000 to 5/12/04, 961 Israelis were murdered by terrorists. This represents 0.015% of the Israeli Jewish, Christian, and Muslim population of six million, four hundred thousand. Based on an American population of approximately 293 million, the Israeli civilian death count is the equivalent of 44, 005 Americans killed by terrorists on our own soil, in pizza parlors, on buses, at Passover sedorim, in our beds.

In addition, between 9/29/2000 and 5/12/04, a total of 6,344 Israelis were wounded by terrorists, often seriously, and for life. This represents .099% of the Israeli population. In American terms, this is the equivalent of approximately 290,000 Americans wounded by terrorists.

Every Israeli personally knows someone – a parent, a child, a spouse, a co-worker, a neighbor, a friend – who has been killed. Every Israeli personally knows someone who has been wounded for life. Ads for hospital beds and orthopedic devices regularly appear in mainstream newspapers, not in medical journals.

And yet, our “best and brightest” suggest that the Jews are “paranoid” about anti-Semitism, “alarmist,” “neurotic,” that Hitler killed millions of people who were not Jews (“Why do the Jews go on and on only about themselves as if they are the only victims?”), that the Israelis are now perpetuating a “Holocaust” upon the Palestinians, (another way of saying that “Hitler should have finished the Jews off”), that Israel is a “colonial” state that should be abolished – exterminated – and that this suggestion, which is being made by many progressives and intellectuals, does not necessarily amount to Jew-hatred.

Meanwhile, as some Jewish American organizations launch major fundraising drives pegged to these latest alarming trends, their leaders hasten to reassure us that Jews in America are relatively safe; that Israel has a strong military, including a nuclear strike capacity. All true.

But if Israel (G-d forbid) ceases to exist, if America is fatefully weakened by the terrorist threat against it – who are we? If the Jews of Israel, Europe, and South America remain at peril – what then? Is it “okay” that we’re “okay” in America?

Hillel asked three questions, not just one. Let me remind us of these questions: “If I’m not for myself, who will be for me?” “When I am only for myself, what am I?” “And, if not now, when?”

Many Jewish progressives gloss over Hillel’s first question and focus only on his last two questions. Some Jews are often the first to demonize the Jewish state and the Jewish religion in their zeal to institute social justice as if doing so is a substitute for G-d.

Yes, of course Israel has made mistakes; what nation hasn’t? But nothing – I repeat, nothing – that Israel has done deserves the savage, obsessive, demonization and terrorism against it. The Israel Defense Forces have behaved with exquisite moral restraint given the enormous provocation against the Jewish state. They have not been congratulated for this but rather condemned.

As I have documented in my book about the new anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism is today’s new anti-Semitism.

So, what must we do? We must stand up to The Big Lies. We must take back the campuses. We must forge an alliance with Christian and Republican Americans to fight the war against terrorism and for a safe Israel. And yes, of course, the Israeli government and Jewish organizations and individuals must continue talking with Arab and world leaders.

But my most radical suggestion is a gathering of the twelve tribes. This must be undertaken in the same spirit in which Theodor Herzl convened the first World Zionist Congress. So many Jews who hold passionate and opposing views have simply stopped listening and talking to each other. The silence is more awful than arguments. Many Jews no longer act as if they believe the ‘Other’ has been created in G-d’s image. We must come together in order to strategize about our very survival.

Let me suggest that we consult the Torah for some perspective and guidance. What does the Torah teach us about anti-Semitism?

Early on, we see that G-d accepts Abel’s offering but rejects Cain’s. Despite G-d’s intervention, the heartbroken and enraged Cain kills his brother Abel, whose offering was “chosen” by G-d.

Yaakov favored Yosef – and Yosef’s older half-brothers envied, resented, and hated him. Yosef, the absolute apple of his father’s eye, the precocious dream-interpreter, the young peacock who struts about in his coat of many colors – oh how his brothers want him out of the way. Some want to kill him but they settle for selling him into slavery. Divine destiny will have Yosef both rescuing his people from famine and forgiving his brothers.

What happens when one is chosen, not only by one’s biological father but by G-d, one’s heavenly parent?

One breaks the hearts of all those who have not been chosen and such heartbreak often leads to envy and resentment. Oddly enough, despite the considerable hardship and danger, many people still want to be “the chosen one.”

While Jews do not cause Jew-hatred – nor does Israeli policy – we must also quietly consider that our chosenness (or at least our perceived chosenness) does seem to have certain consequences. We are the first People of the Book and are, psychologically and theologically, the Mothers and Fathers of all those who have followed in our monotheistic footsteps. In addition, our Jewish ideas about G-d, mitzvot, justice, ethics, mercy, have indeed gotten us into trouble with all those who wish to worship idols, engage in child sacrifice, and to murder, rape, slander, and steal. The glory of being “chosen” is also a dangerous and difficult burden.

The sages say that Jerusalem is the source of the world’s peace and light. When the source of peace is not at peace, the world is sorely troubled too.

May the Israel Defense Forces and the American military endure and prevail. May civilians – both here and in Israel – be kept safe from terrorist attacks. May G-d protect and look over us.

And yet, our “best and brightest” suggest that the Jews are “paranoid” about anti-Semitism, “alarmist,” “neurotic,” [...] that the Israelis are now perpetuating a “Holocaust” upon the Palestinians, (another way of saying that “Hitler should have finished the Jews off”), that Israel is a “colonial” state that should be abolished – exterminated – and that this suggestion, which is being made by many progressives and intellectuals, does not necessarily amount to Jew-hatred.

Of course not. How could anyone possibly conflate shrill advocacy of the destruction of the world's only Jewish state with the simultaneous destruction of Jews, for heaven's sake...? < /sarcasm>

It's the rank, simpering dishonesty of the modern-day anti-Semite that most galls, ultimately. They're apprentice dhimmis who visibly, palpably burn to spew the words they most ache to use... but, at day's end, don't even possess the courage of their own curdled convictions.

They don't even qualify as decently robust Nazis, ultimately. They're just Nazi-Lite. :)

When I see Jewish (and Christian) women who are for abortion, you got to be kidding indeed, Jews are in danger. If population control is a problem, then why not kill the women themselves while we are at it?

The bottom line is that by embracing this modernist death cult, we all have painted a target on our own foreheads, because if the death of the innocent is worthy cause because of the mess they cause, then what are we? Better? Got to be kidding me.

Anti-semitism is a barometer for a general descent into dark ages, and it knows no barriers. Whether you are jewish, christian, muslim or what not, the barbarians are barbarians. IN previous times they could be found along various groups making a stand for civilization, nowadays the dark ages seem to descend indiscriminately in various forms.

Antisemites, and slobby muslims in particular who desecrate their own shrines by their very stupidity, have ultimately shamed themselves to hell, God not wishing to clean their mess up ...

Yeah, so all can have property rights and buy things because they have the mark of the devil on their foreheads, but that mark is also a painted target for their own destruction.

Just check out the anti Christian attitudes in the USA media and Hollywood and examine the fate of Christians in Muslim controlled countries

Any cult of genuine purification and sanitation of the land is targeted for blame.

You try to do good and to answer questions, people use those against you.

You are bad and evade, others have to answer questions since they have the burden of proof. Meanwhile the bad guy does not have to incriminate himself, but the victims must reveal their sins?

They blame the garbage man for smelling, while transvestite like liberal cops who won't dirt their uniforms are inherently praised. You do the math.

"And yet, our “best and brightest” suggest that the Jews are “paranoid” about anti-Semitism, “alarmist,” “neurotic,” [...] that the Israelis are now perpetuating a “Holocaust” upon the Palestinians, (another way of saying that “Hitler should have finished the Jews off”), that Israel is a “colonial” state that should be abolished – exterminated – and that this suggestion, which is being made by many progressives and intellectuals, does not necessarily amount to Jew-hatred.

Of course not. How could anyone possibly conflate shrill advocacy of the destruction of the world's only Jewish state with the simultaneous destruction of Jews, for heaven's sake...? < /sarcasm>

It's the rank, simpering dishonesty of the modern-day anti-Semite that most galls, ultimately. They're apprentice dhimmis who visibly, palpably burn to spew the words they most ache to use... but, at day's end, don't even possess the courage of their own curdled convictions.

They don't even qualify as decently robust Nazis, ultimately. They're just Nazi-Lite. :)"

Seems to be that the state of Israel is not alone in the sights of terrorists and liberals. I think that the US and the Constitution have become target number 1 these days.

History tells us who votes and supports liberals which base ideology is destruction of the Constitution, taking for themselves that position of authority of Whom it is that gives "RIGHTS" that no man/or government can take.

Hopefully that voting block will wake up and see who is willing to put life and limb on the line to protect "freedom". (guess some of you will call that statement Nazi and or Nazi lite)

As a Christian I feel just as hated as anyone else in my own nation, however, I know who has the victory and the real "war" is not about flesh and blood as it is written.

(In my recent book, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It, I was among the first to characterize the new anti-Semitism as an alliance between Islamofascist terrorists and “politically correct” western intellectuals...)

It is indeed an alliance of terrorists and pc liberalism and is leading to a world wide persecution of Jews and Christians that will bring in the 7 year tribulation prophesied of in the greatest book ever written, the Word of God. The Lord is leading the world to cause the Jews to return to Israel for the second time, they will be gathered from the four corners of the earth, Israel will be set upon by the nations of the North and South(those nations now known as Europe and Africa and other confederate nations which are known as Persia and others, God foretold these nations to come to the hills of Meggiddio, where they will intend to destroy Israel (God is making Israel a burdensome stone and the so that they will intend to destroy Israel along with the Satan, the ruler of all those people who refuse Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour,God will then destroy all those who intend to destoy Israel (in their blind hatred of God and His Christ),at which time God will intervene and destroy these nations with judgments and plagues (many refer to this as Armageddon), 1/6 of these defeated men will return to their own lands and give glory to the God of Israel (Lord Jesus, we praise thy name). They will than tell the nations of the world that the Lord does dwell in Jerusalem, the city where He has chosen to rule from and set the 1000 year rule of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour( believe how he died for our sins and rose the third day and God will cleanse your sins and save you from the wrath to come). Prophecy then states that the Lord Jesus Christ will rule and reign as KING over All the earth and world wide peace and prosperity will flourish under His rule. Until then, the foolish governments of the world will continue their destructive and anti-Christ ways, God,the LORD of Hosts, will then send a man He terms the anti-christ who the world will be deceived by and who will deceive many nations by words of peace (probably one who is a liberal socialist from among the area of the 10 nations of old Rome), he will deceive the nations and will cause the 7 year wrath of God to fall on mankind; the world is now in a Christ rejecting socialist( the socialist hate and turning against God will lead them to persecute both Jews and Christians because of their blind hatred of Jesus Christ, the only name given under heaven through which salvation must come). This is what bible prophesy teaches to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, God has opened Christians minds to understand the sciptures and bible prophecy,( they are the only people who will be delivered from the 7 year wrath preceding the Kingdom Age of Jesus the Christ,the Lamb of God,by an event known today in engilish as the rapture)because of unbelief in the Son of God, even in Jesus Christ our Lord.

"As a Christian I feel just as hated as anyone else in my own nation, however, I know who has the victory and the real "war" is not about flesh and blood as it is written."

I, too, see the persecution of the Christians, here and throughout the world. But I agree with the article writer that the Jewish people and their suffering are in a special category in this respect. It seems that all sanity is lost when confronting the "Jewish Question". This insanity has biblical roots, and will never go away.

Anyone familiar with the history of the past century would know that the number of Christians murdered by the Marxists outnumbered the Jews murdered in the Nazi holocaust. And the number of Christians being slaughtered today in Africa and Asia in battles with the Moslem hordes has also surpassed the number of Jews murdered since Israel was founded. But the numbers of Christian dead at the hands of Marxists and Moslems in no way belittles the suffering of the Jews, who have been targeted by all sides.

As a Christian, I believe that we are seeing the first shots in the final war against the Moslem hordes that will end in the battle of Armageddon. The "Children of Ishmael" are beyond redemption and will not be deterred in their mission to kill all infidels, Christians and Jews alike, in the name of Allah. Everything we do from here on out, in every corner of the world, is a holding action to stave off the final conflagration that was foretold centuries ago. But it cannot be stopped.

I look for mad Moslem murderers to eventually commit some horrific atrocity against the long-suffering Jews that will incite a response so overwhelming that the Middle East will explode in a ball of fire. And everyone else in the world will be sucked into the maelstrom as less-than-innocent actors who have aided and abetted the killing. Whether its Marxist Communists and Socialists, such as the Europeans, who will enter the fray as allies of the Moslems, or the US, who will enter as allies of the Jews. It makes no difference.

You can't argue or negotiate with members of the satanic death cult which is Moslemism. As the mad Moslem murderers say "It is written..."

"As a Christian, I believe that we are seeing the first shots in the final war against the Moslem hordes that will end in the battle of Armageddon. The "Children of Ishmael" are beyond redemption and will not be deterred in their mission to kill all infidels, Christians and Jews alike, in the name of Allah. Everything we do from here on out, in every corner of the world, is a holding action to stave off the final conflagration that was foretold centuries ago. But it cannot be stopped."

The hordes of Moslem have plenty of help via the Communists of the world, who take advantage of the death and destruction cause by their bloody rage.

Remember Christ said to "fear" not about wars and rumors of war, but the "Peace", "Peace", "Peace" that follows.

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