Posted on 11/28/2023 5:34:13 AM PST by Rummyfan
With each passing week since October 7, the outbursts of anti-Semitism in America have become more brazen, more widespread, more ferocious, and with fewer attempts to disguise its true character with academic jargon about colonialism. The Jew-hatred is completely out in the open now.
The most shocking example this previous week occurred at Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, where students rioted in the hallways against a teacher who had attended a pro-Israel rally, forcing the teacher to lock herself in her office. The video of the incident conveys the true horror of the moment far beyond the printed accounts...
The steady unfolding of what ought to be understood as America’s slow-motion Kristallnacht summons to mind Leo Strauss’s haunting words in his preface to his early book about Spinoza, reflecting on what it was like to be a young Jew in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s:
The Weimar Republic was weak. . . On the whole it presented the sorry spectacle of justice without a sword or justice unable to use the sword.
This latter sentence comes to mind when surveying the reaction of leading New York public officials to the Hillcrest High School atrocity. New York City Mayor Eric Adams put out a Tweet...
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Adams is (gag) right on top of it.
Says he’s doing an “Outreach” to “explain” to students “why this behavior is unacceptable.”
Does this wax effigy of a Mayor ever hear himself blather?
He just regurgitates the popular virtue signalling phrases of the moment, to make himself look good.
Doesnt have a clue “outreach” is straight from a “conflict resolution seminar” at liberal Ivy League schools, where most of the noxious doctrines justifying anti-Semitism have been simmering, nurtured for a generation.
I recall telling an in-law who is a liberal Jew and anti-gun. I said to her someday you’re going to be thanking us crazy gun owners for protecting your asses.
We don’t live in the proximity any longer so I haven’t talked to her in a long long time and have no reason to. But I have to wonder what she’d say if I repeated that prediction to her right now?
Her husband said that a lot of the people at the synagogue are arming themselves, this is in Florida by the way. I wonder if any of them are cognizant of the fact that these people they’re afraid of are the people they’ve been in bed with politically for a very long time. And still are if they continue to vote Democrat.I’m not sure they do.
He’s a nutjob. Have you ever heard the speech he gave to a church where he said God told him 30 years ago that on Jan.1st 2022 he would become the Mayor of NYC.
Wow I didn’t know God plans that far in advance for Mayor, and not only that, gives specific dates.
Then Adams claims any criticism of him rolls off his back, that he’s been whipped many times and he’s Kunta Kinte, not Toby.
Maybe it’s time psyche evaluations become mandatory for anyone running for office.
Here’s the thing...These “kids” don’t give a crap about “law and order” and they don’t give a crap about “Israel and Gaza” or “Jews and Muslims”...
They just see the opportunity to raise h*ll and cause riots and start trouble with any authority around them...
I have been struck lately by the lack of Israeli flags on display as a sign of solidarity, in contrast with the abundance of Ukrainian flags that popped up last year. People are afraid to publicly support Israel.
Good point.
Jews are forced to face previously unspoken leftist sentiments.
Oct 7th tore off a lot of leftist masks.
Anti-Semites don’t hide their grotesque attitudes now, they talk it up 24/7,
they are fearlessly quoted, and, no doubt, would be happy to tell any Jew to his face, if asked.
Jews are now forced to confront their non-Jewish comrades agreeing with them regarding
Leftist causes.......which for non-Jews clearly includes unvarnished anti-Semitism.
Inge was the only child of Berthold and Regina Auerbacher, religious Jews living in Kippenheim, a village in southwestern Germany near the Black Forest. Her father was a textile merchant. The family lived in a large house with 17 rooms and had servants to help with the housework.
1933-39: On November 10, 1938, hoodlums threw rocks and broke all the windows of Inge’s home. That same day police arrested her father and grandfather. Inge, her mother and grandmother managed to hide in a shed until it was quiet. When they came out, the town’s Jewish men had been taken to the Dachau concentration camp. Her father and grandfather were allowed to return home a few weeks later, but that May her grandfather died of a heart attack.
1940-45: When Inge was 7, she was deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. When they arrived, everything was taken from them, except for the clothes they wore and Inge’s doll, Marlene. Conditions in the camp were harsh. Potatoes were as valuable as diamonds. Inge was hungry, scared and sick most of the time. For her eighth birthday, her parents gave her a tiny potato cake with a hint of sugar; for her ninth birthday, an outfit sewn from rags for her doll; and for her tenth birthday, a poem written by her mother.
On May 8, 1945, Inge and her parents were liberated from the Theresienstadt ghetto where they had spent nearly three years. They immigrated to the United States in May 1946.
HERE IS INGE’S LETTER TO THE WORLD:
Remarks by Mrs. Inge Auerbacher
I AM ONE AND A HALF MILLION SILENT GIRLS AND BOYS, I AM HERE TODAY TO BE THEIR VOICE.
I was born on December 31, 1934 to a religious Jewish middle class family in Kippenheim; a village in south western Germany. I remained an only child. Papa had served in the German Army in the First World War; was wounded and decorated with the Iron Cross. Our world crashed when my parents and I were included in the August 22, 1942 transport from Stuttgart to TEREZIN (THERESIENSTADT in German) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. I was 7 years old wearing a YELLOW STAR, and was given the number XIII -1-408; the youngest in the group of close to 1200 people. I arrived with few belongings and my beloved doll Marlene in my arms. TEREZIN was an old fortress town converted into a concentration camp. It was sealed off from the outside world with high brick walls, wooden fences, barbed wire, and in control by an SS Kommandant. It was called a MODEL GHETTO for propaganda purposes. Among the prisoners were the elderly and prominent Jews. They came from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, Holland, and Denmark.
TEREZIN actually was a holding area before sending the inmates to be killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other killing centers.
The camp was beautified for the International Red Cross Inspection in the summer of 1944. They sadly accepted the deception.
Life was especially harsh for children. We slept on the floor, or if lucky on straw-filled mattresses packed like sardines on double and triple-deck bunk beds. We grew up fast. The most important words in our vocabulary were bread potatoes and soup.
We got used to the carts piled with dead bodies. Three times a day we stood in long lines holding our metal dishes to get our meager food rations. Hunger, over-crowding, bad hygiene, mice, rats, fleas, bed bugs, lice, and fear of being sent to the East plagued us daily.
We were finally liberated on May 8, 1945 by the Soviet Army. I was 10 years old. I had spent 3 years in this hell. About 144,000 people had been sent to TEREZIN. Of those 88,000 were sent mainly to Auschwitz to be killed and 33,000 died of starvation and diseases. Of 15,000 children sent to Terezin very few survived. Most were sent to Auschwitz to their death; including my best friend and bunkmate Ruth. We returned to Germany for less than a year and emigrated to America in May, 1946. We had lost 20 family members; including my beloved Grandma. Of our transport to Terezin only a handful had survived; including my parents and I. Our destination was New York.
Unfortunately, my new-found freedom was short-lived, and I became very ill from the consequences of my life in Terezin. I was diagnosed with a severe case of tuberculosis of both lungs. Years of hospitalization and complete bed rest, plus painful procedures followed. Finally, drugs were discovered to give me a cure. During my long illness I found solace in writing, which gave me a purpose in life and took away the loneliness I was feeling.
Eventually, I returned to school at age 15, after the loss of 8 years of education. I attained a college degree in chemistry, and worked for 38 years in the medical field. Six published books followed; including I AM A STAR - child of the Holocaust.
I am immensely grateful to my co-writer - composer Madeline Stone, and choral director Gregg Breinberg of PS 22 in Staten Island. Special thanks go to the wonderful children of the choir who personify the blending of many ethnic backgrounds.
Thank you all for bringing our song: WHO AM I to life. My hope, my wish and prayer is for every child to grow up in peace without hunger and prejudice. I plead with you, world: Make good choices. The antidote to hatred is education. No more genocides and another Holocaust, and no more anti-Semitism.
Thank you.
That’s cognitive dissonance packed in a bento box mentality. No cure for it.
Expel every damn one of them. They need to learn actions have consequences.
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