I have numerous thoughts regarding the proliferation of
antisemitism and hate in our nation and around the world. I have not
posted anything about the recent spate of antisemitism as it relates to
the Trump candidacy until now. Anti Jewish hate is a subject on which I
have strong opinions so much so that I wanted to carefully compose the
essence of my thoughts on it because in sum it taps into the core of my
being. I want to make an explanation of it clear and and most
importantly correct and true. Because racial hate exists on the
political right I positioned myself politically to the left.
I
once saw a film entitled "The Longest Hatred." I thought it encompassed
much about the long history of antisemitism, its reoccurring theme in
the world and, most particularly, in this country because the mantel on
which it rests is contrary to what the United States of America is all
about. I will post a link to the "Longest Hatred'' at the bottom of my
written thoughts. Full disclosure I am Jewish as were all my ancestors
who resided in Europe, Eastern Europe and in America too.
I
was first introduced to the malevolent hatred of the Jews as a young
child. I asked questions such as why do they hate us. My mother
answered by saying things like "they are jealous of us." Jealous of
what, I remember I asked? I observed it and heard accusations about it
as a young adult continuing into my adult years where I could more fully
grasp and have an understanding of the historicity of it. I was
repeatedly told the Jews killed Christ.
Antisemitism
spans centuries beginning 2000 years ago and intertwined first with the
alleged rejection of Christ, the Christian son of god, by the Jews and
his tortuous death by the Roman occupiers of Palestine. Antisemitism
runs deep within the psyche of Christians and its onslaught of hate and
ultimate slaughtering of 6 million human beings historically named the
Holocaust. How does something so huge exist perpetrated by the most
learned nation in the western world, Germany. For its evidence one need
to historically account for such a thing as the Germans, known for
their pristine record keeping kept a tally of the number of Jews killed
which jived with the philosophical underpinnings of Nazism itself.
Moreover, if one reads the German leader Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (My
Struggle) for its rationale to make the world in the
Trump has zero ethics and will use that which he thinks gives him power. He allies himself with his moronic antisemites because it is a group which he can milk for political support and does so all the time despite his own daughter's Jewish conversion, her Jewish husband and their children considered Jews by birth.
I could relate hundreds of antisemitic views including in my own life a neighbor telling me that the "Jews killed Christ" and another time a work compatriot told me she "Jewed someone down" to get a better price on something she purchased. When the Holocaust was on TV showing the horrific internment of Jews in an array of concentration camps another woman at work told me "See that's what you get for killing one of your own." By the way Jews never would use crucifixion as an instrument of death but the Romans gladly used it to show others what would befall them as they walked up a hill near the crosses as admonition if they went against Rome.
Trump induced antisemitism is currently popular and it is a part of fascistic movements all over the world. The truth that antisemitism exists cannot be denied but the content of it is and always has been saturated with lies. It must be called out for what it is man's proclivity to designate the "other" for eradication and spread those lies about them all over the world. We must call antisemitism out as lies when we hear or see it. Silence is an affirmation of it and a way to spread its ugly message far and wide.
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Separate and, in fact, not equal--an email to Rachel Maddow
Rachel, I cannot thank you enough for reporting on the death of Judy Heumann, a wheelchair bound advocate for
the rights of the disabled who suffered from polio she caught in1948. As a survivor of polio in 1954, six months before the Salk vaccine, I appreciate every day what her efforts mean to me. I can drive and find a closer parking space and/or a ramp that makes it easier for a disabled person to enter a building which must be navigated.
Polio paralyzed my right leg entirely up to and including my hip. I am 74 and now realize the difficult impact of losing
entirely the use of that leg. I am at risk of falling and have broken my right leg femur three times because of it. I cannot fracture it again. Thanks to Judy Heumann for making my life and countless others in this nation and even the world just a little bit easier.
Moreover, we must eradicate the separate but equal concept not only for the handicapped but we need, of course, to eradicate it for every other minority group that still suffers from its paralyzing effect.
Keep fighting the good fight, Rachel, for all the other minority groups in our land. Let us make the "John Lewis Voting Right Act" the law of the land once again this time permanently because separate, in fact, never means equal.
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