No, Mr. President. This is a provocative effort by Neo-Nazis to foment racism and hatred and create violence. Call it out for what it is. https://t.co/WibPqkLsLa— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 12, 2017
People like the president and Bernie Sanders, you see, live
under the illusion that Jew-hatred is nothing special. That's despite the fact
that we have, still walking among us, people who survived the systematic
rounding up, gassing, and burning of more than 6 million Jews.
What is comparable to that event in history? How is what
happened there anything like garden variety racism?
The answer?
It isn't.
And lumping Jew-hatred with any other hatred, bigotry, or
xenophobia waters it down. Takes its meaning away. Makes us feel less alone,
less targeted, and puts the world in danger, puts us back in time to the chaos
of the Holocaust.
There. I said it. The word that is in a category of its own.
Now you might be excused for looking the other way and
hushing up the Jew thing if you'd been duped into thinking the protest was
really about the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, or a thousand or so alt
right Trump supporters. Except that we know exactly what went down at
Charlottesville.
We know that men holding torches shouted "Jews will not
replace us."
As if Jews had anything to do with Robert E. Lee or Trump's
election.
We know that in Charlottesville, men wore swastikas and gave
the Nazi salute in the bright, hot summer sunlight while chanting, "Jews,
Jews, Jews, Jews."
But President Trump said
nothing about the Jews or antisemitism, “Racism is evil," he said, though
the Jews are not members of a single race. "And those who cause violence
in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold
dear as Americans," he said, blurring the significance of the chants, the
symbols, and the salutes.
By Cristiano Del Riccio (Hollywood Olivia Wilde) |
Celebrities, whose words should not matter to anyone but do,
followed suit.
Olivia Wilde, for instance. Olivia Wilde is an actress. Why
should any one of us care what she thinks about abortion
or racism? It's a mystery, but we do.
Lady Gaga? She spoke of the necessity for kindness and love, a form of Jew-hatred blindness that doesn't see what is, and doesn't speak of it. And if we don't speak of it, talk about it incessantly, it will not go away, no matter how much kindness and love this individual or that will throw at the world.
I know we are not created to hate each other, but to help & love. Use hashtag #BeKind #ThisIsNotUS to tweet positive messages. #Charlotte— xoxo, Gaga (@ladygaga) August 12, 2017
Kim Kardashian, a woman of color married to a black man, also chose not to see the singularity of what those men were chanting. She spoke of "Americans" and "targets of hate & violence," but like Trump, et al, nothing about the Jews.
How tragic that this is what we've come to. My prayers are w those in Charlottesville & every American who is the target of hate & violence.— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) August 12, 2017
Demi Lovato spoke of general prejudice and racism. Again, seeing nothing special about what exactly those men were chanting. Not paying heed, giving it no credit.
Love. Please, I beg of the evil to let go of the prejudice and racism and to #stopthehate. #prayforCharlottesville ✌🏼 pic.twitter.com/FkPoohkfAO— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) August 13, 2017
Jessica Alba went on for quite some time on Instagram chiding those of us who claim others "aren't THAT racist," but saying nothing at all about the target of the protestors or their identity. Which makes you wonder whether she might just be THAT racist.
And all are complicit, including the Jews who join the masses,
speaking of "occupation" and "choosing love" (instead of
truth).
The Jews are not just hated generally, as a needed focus for
blame, for venting anger and spleen. There's a back story. The Jew has long
been typecast as the one who comes to undermine and destroy society, in particular,
white Christian society.
Charlottesville, VA braces for 'The Whites' to speak their minds: AUG 12th. #UniteTheRight - Lee Park pic.twitter.com/ZkgADD1DN2— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) August 12, 2017
Leo Frank |
Why else was the Jewish American Leo Frank lynched for an act he did not commit? But no. This is an ugly story that must be muted.
Along with Henry Ford's Jew-hatred and the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 barring Jews fleeing persecution from the United States, the latter of which prompted President Calvin Coolidge to say at its signing, "America must remain America."
All of these things made it even more important for the
president and others to decry what so nakedly happened in Charlottesville by
giving it its proper name.
Because Jew-hatred isn't just a fringe thing, something in
which wild-eyed crazy men indulge themselves, but something mainstream, too.
Here one must recall the 1862 General Order No. 11, penned by General Ulysses S. Grant, a man who would someday, like Trump, be president. The order expelled Jews from territory under Grant's command over drummed up claims the Jews were war profiteers, running goods between the Union and the Confederacy. Grant's papers from this time referred to the black market as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders."
Here one must recall the 1862 General Order No. 11, penned by General Ulysses S. Grant, a man who would someday, like Trump, be president. The order expelled Jews from territory under Grant's command over drummed up claims the Jews were war profiteers, running goods between the Union and the Confederacy. Grant's papers from this time referred to the black market as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders."
Ulysses S. Grant |
Henry Ford |
As one can see, Jew-hatred, contrary to myopic belief, isn't confined to Eastern Europe. In some of its iterations, Jew-hatred is as American as the DAR or apple pie.
Protesters march to Emancipation Park, chanting "blood and soil". #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/fzT0QQ6szq— ACLU of Virginia (@ACLUVA) August 12, 2017
We have seen the rise of the far left ethos in America. This
societal state of mind, historically, has always led to blaming a specific
other for economic and social woes. And we know the identity of that other, the
one who is always blamed, always at the core of the deepest hate possible, the
one who will always be hunted down and murdered, the one who must be eradicated
at all costs, as the presumed source of the deepest frustrations of man.
The Jew.
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