Enough already. Go buy a mirror.
Last night, I bought ketchup from my local store. It’s kind of funny, but the local maker of popular ketchup (the massive Israeli conglomerate “Osem”) has a higher percentage of tomatoes than does Heinz in its product. As it saw Heinz becoming more popular, it had the Israeli government raise the minimum percentage threshold of tomatoes in order to be called “ketchup.” Heinz has had to rename its product “condiment” since it misses the cutoff. Anyway, the ketchup is around 5 shekels ($1.50) more at the local store than at the big supermarket. The issue was simple: which outcome was less bad, having ketchup now or waiting to save a few shekels. As I grilled some hamburgers, the simple vote was for the ketchup now.
The United States of America has been, hands down, the greatest country in history for the Jewish people. Every European country kicked out its Jews at some point in its history. The countries of the Middle East ethnically cleansed around 800,000 Jews whose families had lived in places like Iraq (Babylonia) and Lebanon for centuries or longer. The Yemenite Jews did not come back for the Second Temple and were in Yemen for over 2,000 years. There are today four or fewer Jews left in one of the most successful and important communities of the Jewish diaspora.
While the U.S. has been the best place to be a Jew, it has not been completely free of antisemitism. Kind of like the pilot light on your boiler, there has always been some very low level of anti-Jewish activity. A friend told me that when he went to open a bank account in Appleton, Wisconsin, the teller said that she didn’t want to “Jew him” with charges. One might hear of a Jew being harassed or some anti-Israel protest having clearly Jew-hating features to it. But overall, until around a decade ago, most synagogues were unlocked and very few Jews thought twice about whether it was a good idea to go to New York or other big cities.
Even before the October 7, 2023, massacre, antisemitic acts were growing. The 2019 shooting at the Poway Synagogue in California was an isolated but not singular event. Synagogues started locking their doors and installing security cameras. Guards were brought in for the Sabbath. Members were encouraged to learn to shoot and bring heat under their ritual prayer shawls. Then came the pogrom in southern Israel. After around three minutes of sympathy, outright Israel/Jew hatred exploded. And it has continued to this day. So who are the Jew haters?
- Lefties/Democrats/College Graduate losers: They have bought into the simplistic Marxist formula of oppressors and oppressed. Jews, in their mind, are mostly white (don’t tell that to my Yemenite wife), while Palestinians are mostly brown. Therefore, the women raped and murdered in Be’eri were obviously the bad guys, and the Hamas terrorists instructing them in Hebrew to take off their clothes were the good guys.
- Muslims. The increase in security requirements for Jewish institutions ran in parallel with the increasing Muslim population in the U.S. There is no way to sugarcoat this: it’s not blacks or “right-wing extremists” who are the major threat to Jews or Jewish schools. It is primarily Muslims who are funded through the Muslim Brotherhood’s local affiliate and from afar, Qatar. Jew hatred is in their blood, due to the total failure of their culture to create anything. As Bobby Kennedy, Jr. pointed out, 500 million Arabs contribute nothing to mankind while Jews, at 0.2 percent of the world population, rack up Nobel Prizes.
- The “Woke Right.” The really funny thing about the clown car of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon, et al. is that each one of them is on video praising Israel in the past. I saw a few days ago Balloon Bannon at, of all places, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) saying how he was a Christian Zionist circa 2017. Kelly and Carlson at Fox spoke well of Israel and were not critical of her policies to defend her citizenry. These morons want a MAGA, specifically Christian-focused, Republican Party sans the Jews. And in order to show the Jews the door, they attack Israel. And as Dr. Martin Luther King stated, one cannot have an “anti-Zionism” that doesn't equal antisemitism.
You are not allowed to criticize Israel! Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic! The latter statement is true under two simple conditions: do you criticize other countries for the same “crime” or “sin”? Also, is your criticism of Israel writ large to include its 20 percent Arab population, or is it somehow only against those Jewey Jews of Israel? If you claim that Israel has stolen Palestinian land, then where is your outrage over Turkey holding 40 percent of Cyprus for over 50 years? If you claim, as Tucker does, that Israel is killing “thousands of children,” do you also turn red in the face when discussing Hamas using children as soldiers and gun runners? When you claim that Israel is a racist society, do you ask the Chinese ambassador to the U.S. why Muslim Uighurs are in concentration camps in his country? As they used to say on the news when the questioning got tough: “We’re out of time and don’t have time for any more questions.” It is always Israel who is guilty, and only Israel.
Do they praise Israel when she sends aid and personnel to disaster zones — including to Turkey after an earthquake? Do they admit that Israel has facilitated the movement of 2 million tons of aid into Gaza while Gazans were trying to kill Israelis? How many tons of food did Patton or Eisenhower give to German citizens in Germany WHILE THE WAR WAS ACTIVELY GOING? I didn’t see a number for that statistic. Do they praise Israel when it helps African countries with their agricultural and other developmental needs? No, of course not. The Jew haters want either no Jews in the world (Muslims), no Jews around them (Antifa), or no Jews in their pure Republican Party II (Woke Right).
And I know that there will be comments below about Jews voting for jihadis and other Jew-haters in the most recent and many previous elections. I am not a spokesperson for the Jewish people, and I don’t claim to represent any group of Jews beyond the one presently banging away at this Dell computer. Those Jews who voted for the Mighty Midget from Michigan or Chuck Schumer, who gave his campaign $30 million to beat good American Mike Rogers, display one common feature: their Judaism is as important to them as changing the oil in their car. Sure, they like the Chanukah lights, and they can say, “Oy,” or eat a bagel with lox and cream cheese with the best of them. But if their Jewish identity somehow makes them stand out, interferes with their perceived success, or flies in the face of the liberal anti-American education they received, then it is Judaism that is thrown out the window. The jihadis, now growing in strength in the West, hate the Jews who march with them no less than they hate Israelis. The Jews who protest and act against fellow Jews figure — like the kapos in World War II — that they are buying their ticket to survival. But they are wrong. If the Muslim invasion of the West leads to the U.K. becoming Egypt and France Lebanon, they will be denounced as Jews and treated accordingly.
This week was the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht. I have previously written about its importance in my family’s history. Its global importance was that one could harm Jews and nobody would raise a finger. Let that be a warning today.
