The News is Not Getting Better For "The Jews"
I have been curating the news on through the Internet and Social Media for many communities since 1999, starting with JewsinHarrisburg@yahoogroups, through Kol Harrisburg and Kol Central Pennsylvania and now through All The News Views and Schmooze World Jews and Our Friends Can Use on Facebook. I have curated news of Jewish interest for world wide academics in my capacities as Co-Founder and President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East for nearly 10 years having edited their Faculty Forum. Sadly, I have to report that after 26 years of doing this daily, the news is not getting better for the Jews anywhere.
While I do not consider myself a conspiracy theorist, I believe we are under attack in a well financed world wide conspiracy by a growing population of radicalized fundamentalists seeking to finish the job Hitler started and establish a world wide empire of true believers ruling over infidels. Crazy as it seems, the evidence is mounting world wide and threats are coming from principle sources in the Middle East with brutal rulers funding proxies and issuing hits on “infidels and resisters.”
The old leaders sit protected by loyalist legions and funnel resources to the young aspiring leaders who sweet talk their way into politics, education, unions, business, the media all in the guise of “freedom of speech” and diversity spreading fear and hate, first with the guise of progressivism and then with the full fury of fascist intent in the streets, on the campuses and in the halls of institutions. They are the new National Socialists, formally the Nazis, but this time western society is too comfortable, fat, dumb and happy to rally against this movement while the Jews, once again, are the canaries in the increasingly toxic mineshaft. With their heads in their cell phones and drinking the Kool-Aid of increasingly toxic propaganda, they become useful tools in their own demise with a false sense of moral superiority to fellow Jews fighting for their lives and rightful place under the sun. Just like the unwitting Jews of Europe who felt they were “the good Jews” as opposed to those “bad Jews” being deported, they felt they were immune, not realizing the “Final Solution” included all “The Jews.”
Antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist haters have made it very clear that there is no place in the sun for “The Jews,” not just in Israel, but anywhere as ancient antisemitic tropes are evolving into modern manifestos being adopted by government, educational institutions, businesses, the arts, social movements and the media. History is being distorted with intersectionality, revisionism, denial, appropriation, confabulation to the point where even artificial intelligence is spewing it at an alarming rate and it’s all pointing to the Jews as the reason for the world’s ills.
Our tiny minority, under .2% of the world’s population, not fully recovered from the worst genocide in history, continues to be the target of inordinate and disproportionate hate and violence. Yet there are those in our camp who are too blind to see and are willing delusional participants in our their own demise. We speak of the universality of Greek tragedies and study them, but what is clear to me is the timeless universality of Jew-hatred of a society that has given the world far more light, understanding and good than it has given back. We must fight back once again, but this time studying the etiology of Jew-hatred so that we can find the cure for it….if we survive this next period of darkness.
With that, I look forward to never having written these words and being able to write and report on Jews living freely throughout the world in peace and safe from ancient and contemporary threats continuing to be a light unto the nations and improving the quality of life for all without fear of prejudice, envy or hatred.