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 justified issues with a Jew? Hell yes! A business deal gone bad, a loan officer named Shumplunk denying your rightful 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 the ascribing of 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. 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, unless they arm themselves and organize a proactive defense. But that is not going to happen, because the Jews of the Diaspora are sedentary Jews. They will talk your ears off, but they will not “shoot first and ask questions later,” which is the only way to stop what is coming. No, the Jews of the Diaspora put their trust in the Authorities. But 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, with physical and even lethal force. Anything to prevent them from harming Jews. Decent Gentiles: do not allow harm to come to your Jewish neighbors. This is your test. Do not fail this time.
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 should be able to hold off the Antisemites by convincing them that they have won, and that soon America will be rid of her Jews. Mission accomplished.
For most Jews, the problem of anti-Semitism is built into their lives, their behavior, their worldview. They don't just live with it, they live in it for generations. Even though somewhere at some time it becomes a light version, almost invisible, is condemned or seems completely harmless. For me, anti-Semitism is personal. I grew up in an atmosphere of, if not encouragement, then benevolent semi-approval of anti-Semitism. Already at the age of seven, I made a choice when I did not (of course, this was unconsciously and perhaps accidentally) side with the older children who teased a Jewish boy and did not include him in their games and activities because he was Jewish. Perhaps since then I have begun to carefully choose between the screaming demands of the crowd and my own opinion. As a child, I heard all the blood libels concocted by generations of anti-Semites, stories about the "meanness and cunning" of the Jews, and I saw that this had nothing to do with the real people I knew, who were much more morally superior than those who told about them. Already at the University, I was taught as "justice" the reason why the percentage of Jews in higher education institutions should be limited, and I perceived this as an attack on my personal morality, an attempt to get my agreement with these ideas. Therefore, anti-Semitism in all its manifestations, both the ancient semi-religious, semi-sectarian, and the more fashionable anti-Zionist and simply pathologically hateful, was disgusting to me and caused only anger and a desire to resist, because it was directed not only at the Jews, but also at my worldview. For over forty years my life and work have been closely connected with the Jewish people, for over a quarter of a century I have been closely connected with the land of Israel, which I have studied and understood enough to have a firm and unshakable opinion about the rightness, the rights of the Jewish people and the correct choice of the path it is taking. And this is not the fanaticism of Islamic and pan-Arab anti-Semites, not the inflated sense of moral superiority and dogmatic bias of anti-Zionists. This is a long and difficult path of knowledge, observation and moral analysis that I have gone through.
I identify anti-Semites even before they express their (usually ignorant) claims against Jews and Israel, simply by the way they allegedly "want to understand the problem", but already have the intention to accuse, defame or delegitimize.
It seemed to me that anti-Semitism was disappearing, becoming a marginal movement, a refuge for illiterate, ignorant and limited people.
I was wrong. Anti-Semitism has taken other forms, disguises itself under different terms, receives academic degrees and titles, is reborn in grotesque and absurd theories, spreads like a virus and attacks like Alzheimer's.
But I still see it, define it, and will point to it as one of the greatest evils on earth.
Because for me it is personal.
Sick and tired of the whining.
In the USA we still have the opportunity to protect ourselves with lethal force. Instead, we try to intellectualize our way to survival? The result — shot dead in cold blood, burned with homemade flamethrowers, chased around campus like stray dogs. If our survival instinct has been pacified by our intellect we might as well walk to the camps and await the extermination.
I do not care if I am hated. That’s the haters burden. All acts of violence against us/me will be met with lethal force.
How can a smart people be so stupid?
I have been preparing my entire life for this moment. I am ready.
I will not walk to the abyss of the open pits to be shot in the back of the head.