We put down “fat shaming” or bullying against kids or against transgenders.
But what is going on with all this animosity against the entire Jewish race?
And not just by the Hamas, but, shockingly by some Americans, too?
We are not talking about bullying, or shaming, or terrorism. We are talking about the threat of genocide. The desire to wipe an entire religious race off the face of the earth.
If I do not speak out, what good is healthy nutrition or balanced hormones? If not to be used for peace?
You may say I am supporting the loss of freedom of speech. But beg to differ.
In LA, elderly Jews are being attacked as they walk to Synagogue on Shabbat (Friday evening). This past Friday evening several grandpa’s and grandma’s were stoned.
On the Star of the Sea preschool, adjacent to Temple Emanuel, children and their families had to see a threat that wrote out in angry letters, “Free Gaza, kill Jews!’ (see above)
Many college classes, such as at Harvard, are continuously disrupted by protesters who use bullhorns and other disruptive methods, while the offending students suffer no disciplinary actions.
Jewish students, faculty and others are fearful for their own safety. While the physical abuse of students by other students remains unpunished.
I had a close girlfriend visiting me recently. She had no idea any of this was going on.
Uprisings against Jewish people are occurring from “sea to shining sea”.
Many antisemitic uprisings have been occurring on campuses and some university presidents are accused of not only not stopping these, but contributing to the chaos.
Three major university presidents (Harvard, MIT, University of Pennsylvania) testified in front of Congress. In eerie rehearsed unison.
These 3 university presidents evaded representative Stefanik’s questions with consistent repetitive claims of “context”.
Would there be any “claims of context” needed if the targeted groups were African Americans, Asians, Catholics, transgenders, or gays?
In front of Congress these three presidents repeated over and over that antisemitic rhetoric would not be horrific “unless it were translated into action”.
Action was the context.
What actions? The killing of a Jewish student?
The Jewish population makes up the lowest census number of any religious group in the world. Only 15 million on the planet.
Most other groups are 15 to 30+ billion.
Jewish people only make up 1.5% of all Americans.
We are a shrinking peoples, as we are one of the few religions that do not actively go out and try to encourage others to practice “faith” the way we do.
At the same time, per comparison to other races, Jews often have less divorce, less addiction, less convicts.
Jewish children are raised with emphasis on family and education.
When the president of Israel, years back, was asked what was the main sport of Israel, he jokingly responded, “Reading”.
Through emphasis on learning, Jewish peoples have gone on to contribute greatly to societies world-wide.
Many Jewish kids go on to become doctors, lawyers and huge societal supporters.
What are the Hamas contributing?
On October 7th when the Hamas invaded Israel many of us saw footage on media airways. Of youth, women, elderly, hunted, tortured, dismembered, beheaded. Executed without mercy.
The Hamas are calling for the entire wiping out of the Jews. They claim their “holy book” guides them thus.
If Jesus were alive, they’d want to wipe him out, too.
I ponder that “hate” is like cocaine, or heroin, or excessive alcohol.
To “hate” is to to get “high” in a perverted manner. Rather than the ability to get “high” from achieving happiness within their own lives and skins.
Hate has drug-like “addictive” actions. On the un-evolved brain.
This kind of hatred cannot “live” in those who have achieved calm of spirit. And vision of humanity’s oneness.
Antisemitism traces its roots all the way back to the Egyptian captivity of the Israelites. From that persecution it continues today.
Hate makes no sense to any race.
On Harvard’s “prestigious” campus, an amazing “34” Harvard-branded student organizations” held Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ barbaric acts. They do not condemn Hamas’ actions.
Billions of dollars going into Harvard, have now been cancelled, paused, or withdrawn.
Campuses like these are exposed to substantial legal liability due to alleged violations of the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This puts at risk other funding, tax-exempt status, and risk of financial liability from private plaintiffs.
But it puts Jewish students and professors at highest risk.
So much so that on December 8th, a bipartisan coalition of 72 members of Congress issued a public letter to Harvard’s governing boards, demanding president Gay’s termination.
It’s rare that our Congress has taken bipartisan action like this.
Wanting unity in the U.S. more that the polarized shrill, it’s good to witness Congressional bipartisanship.
I have often questioned why all this racism against African American? Is it because they are so strong in physical strength? So beautiful. So talented? Are we secretly intimidated?
Or just so uncomfortable with “difference”? That we horrifically translate difference into hate?
But genocide?
If Black lives matter, if transgender lives matter, why do Jewish lives not matter?
We live on this planet. Of duality. Where there is love, there is hate. Where there is light, there is dark.
Two sides to everything.
But genocide is not just hatred. It’s wanting god-like, yet Satanic-like, right to destroy an entirety of humans.
The Hamas live in a society where they stone women who want to study.
Women are stoned if they do not wear Burkas.
They are not allowed to go out in public freely.
These are the same people that voted in the Hamas.
They live right next door to a nation. And want to wipe that nation out.
They initiated this.
This gives no recourse to Israel but to respond in kind. The Hamas’ are not about negotiation.
What if another country wanted to wipe out Americans? They landed planes and launched weapons and started to butcher and rape. And lived right next door.
We would have no recourse but to try wipe out those trying to wipe us out.
Some Gazans aren’t aligned with Hamas’s ideology. While Hamas wants to destroy Jews and the Israeli state, some Gazans support a two-state solution with an independent Palestine and Israel existing side by side.
But it’s pretty tight over there. And Hamas often uses the bodies of “any” elderly, young, or infirmed, as human shields. Including many Palestinians.
Much footage that Hamas claims to be happening in present time, isn’t factual. You can’t trust anything they say or share.
You think genocide can be supported in any way?
I reiterate, it wouldn’t stop here.
They would be next, a’coming for you. And yours.
Dr. B.
I agree the answer is 'Yes' Dr DLB. Your sage words 'we live on a planet of duality, we love, we hate, there is light, there is dark' sums it up 'for me'; and isn't hate but a hormone, regulated by our brain, and capacity to think? Evolution, in theory, suggests enlightenment, improvement. The couplet* by Roman poet Cattallus in 54 BCe comes to mind "... I hate & I love, I do not why I do these things, all I know is I hate and I love ....". So how is evolution going? Are we any more endowed to answer Cattullus? Seems to me, more than ever, man's assault on his fellow man and the lust for power and politics is undeterred by 2,200 years of 'evolution'.
* Courtesy of my country's great Actors Jack Thompson.
Well said. We are living in an upside down world. There is a coordinated evil agenda happening and so many gullible people buy right in.