This is not a post that I would have chosen freely to write. As I have stated elsewhere, my target audience is non-Jewish family and friends, and of course any Gentiles or Jews who might find my posts of interest. This audience, to which the term “decent” applies, but which never had to be said out loud because it was understood, is now facing something that many nationalities have faced before, but for which they are unprepared. Because they are decent. What they are facing is a moment or a place in time just before the appearance of critical-mass Antisemitism. This is the definition of an indecent time, of indecency itself, and it has the power to roll over entire peoples and lead to wholesale extermination of Jews, while being celebrated by all participants. I never believed that this moment could arrive in America, but here it is, in what was once the far corners of “left” and “right”, now infiltrating through the viral-like guise of Anti-Zionism, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Westernism or Anti-Racism, what have you, into the mainstream discussion of the public square in the United States of America.
Can a gentile have issues with a Jew? Hell yes! A business deal gone bad, a loan officer named Shumplunk denying your justified request, an affair of what you thought was true love but was not. If you are unlucky, several of these and or other instances. All of which would lead a decent person to say: “Shumplunk is a piece of crap” but would not lead to ascribing bad behavior to an entire race of people and to start to believe that that people is out to get you and that they want to control the entire world, by the way. Now I’m not saying that there might not be a small residual nugget checked-off deep in the hard drive of our minds that labels Shumplunk as a Jew, and that might color our view of the next Jew that we meet. What can we do? That is the way we are wired. And that is fine, if all it leads us to is to be extra careful when we sit down with Shumplunk’s cousin who is trying to sell us a house.
On the theological side I do not think that there are any existential issues concerning Jew-hatred. Jews are not about to be burned at the stake in Toledo Spain. True, they are being thrown to their deaths from windows in France, but that is Arab-based Jew hatred, newly connected to Islam, as Jews lived in Islamic lands for thirteen hundred years. Yes, they were the underlings in a triple-layered caste system, but Jews were never lined up for the gas chambers in Arab lands. Today, the worse you see from Christians is a simple and honest disappointment with Jews for stubbornly not believing in the Christian Messiah. But even then, if you look closely at those Christians, you see that they are even more disappointed with themselves for failing to convert the Jews. They will go back to their lay groups and pray for guidance on how to succeed the next time.
Dear Christian friends, the Jew’s answer will always be no. It can only be no. It is not because you have failed to find a way to enter our hearts. It is because the Jews are on a mission from God. Period. The lowest handmaid at Mount Sinai saw and heard what even the greatest prophets did not see or hear. We are commanded. For all of our generations. The voice from Sinai still resonates with its message of ultimate morality in the air that touches our ears, circling the Earth like the crack of Krakatoa forever. End of story until the end of time.
Arabs, you are a different story. In general, you have imbibed Jew-hatred from an early age. Beware of supposed allies who proclaim your cause. They are more interested in your effendi or Rais—your enslavers—than in you. Those of you who have managed to break free are the harbingers of the new Arab, with civil rights and personal freedoms that are the necessary precursors of a renewed Arab Golden Age, that will surpass the previous one. A new Arab civilization that will live in peace with Jews and Christians and all others, and contribute to the common good.
However, if you come at us with sword in hand in the Holy Land, seventy times a sword you will receive in return. You should know this by now. The Jews have not returned to their homeland to be subjugated. We are doing our best to allow non-Jews in Israel to live productive and contented lives, and the fact that the only thriving Arab middle class in the world is the Muslim Arab community of Israel testifies to the success of that effort. It can get better. Come to terms with the fact that Israel cannot allow another failed Arab state to arise on its ancient homeland, and you will leap forward, with Jewish help and applause.
The Coming Reality
This is what is going to happen wherever Jews are found outside of Israel. The talking heads are talking already, with millions of followers, and those followers will soon target Jews. Wherever you find a menorah or star of David, or a yarmulka, or a Jewish name you are looking at a prime target. It will be intermittent and non-lethal at first, with “Jews get out!” spray-painted on synagogues, that sort of thing. Then there will be extensive property damage, along the lines of the Antifa riots, but targeting Jews only. At some point, a critical mass of Antisemitism will be reached, and then it will be open season on Jews. They will be attacked in their homes and in the streets, and anywhere they might be found. It will not be your once-a-year turkey shoot-up of a synagogue by some random nut. This deadly turn will be sudden and overwhelming and incomprehensible to decent Gentiles.
A Call for Decent Action
In general, the Jews of America and France (that’s 90% of the Jews outside of Israel) cannot protect themselves from what is coming. The police and national guard cannot be everywhere all the time, and some of them may be infected too. On a basic level, one must decide how far one is willing to go to protect Jews. I’m not talking Anne Frank. You cannot hide five or six million American Jews behind fake walls. Local, de-centralized safe havens are the way to go. Coordinated with local authorities if they can be trusted, not advertised to the general public. And if push comes to shove, there must be a willingness to stand up against the thugs. To shout them down, to push back if necessary. Anything to prevent them from harming Jews.
The End Play
There is only one, and that is that the Jews must immigrate to Israel, the one and only true safe haven for Jews. If they leave the US under duress, then decent Gentiles must do all in their power to mitigate their hardships and suffering. For example, by paying fair prices for homes and businesses left behind. Helping the Jews pack their belongings. Subsidizing Jews of little means. Israel can absorb them all, even on short notice. At this stage decent Gentiles will be able to hold off the Antisemites by convincing them that they have won, and that soon America will be rid of her Jews, so they do not need to kill them.
Hallelujah! Happy days!
I've noticed that jew hatred is emerging again in pop culture. But I don't get it. Why do people want to persecute the jews? The only answer I can come up with is envy. Other cultures don't like the jews because they're successful. Envy certainly seems to be the main driver of socialism, another disturbing trend.
I must live somewhat in a bubble. I hear of things here and there with antisemitism but had no idea it was so rapidly growing. I thought yesterday about what might be mine to do in this small slice of the world I occupy.. I found out we have an Anne Frank museum at a near by university, I plan to take our children next week. It isn’t a large thing to do but I can educate my children and myself.