WHY IS IT OKAY TO HATE JEWS?

As a young person, we made jokes about everyone and everything.  Nothing was sacred.  The day after Helen Keller died, the jokes started.  After the NASA disaster, more jokes.  If you’re ever in an OR, you’ll find the doctors joking at times.  We laugh about things to relieve the pressure of the situation or to simply enjoy a laugh.  As such, I was counted on for my Jewish American princess jokes.  No one was offended because everyone could be a target.  We all knew it didn’t mean anything.

In the ‘80’s, some people began getting very touchy about making jokes or even making a comment about another group.  People became so sensitized that you could even get in trouble if someone misheard you and was offended.  More recently, everyone who can find a group to join is demanding special protection as if being a victim was a desirable state.  For a while, fat people were still a viable target, but now, airlines are considering giving them more room on a plane instead of insisting they buy another seat.

But through all of this, antisemitism (the wrong word, as Arabs are Semites too) is considered acceptable.  Before the Hamas attacks, I heard that a female rabbi was murdered, yet before a suspect could be identified, the DA announced that it would not be considered a hate crime. So, you get a pass if you murder a Jew?

The Pro-Hamas Riots

For quite a while, I’ve wondered how many kids going to elite schools were even half as smart as we were in the ‘70’s.  I never had the free time to go to protests, nor did I consider most issues worthy of interfering with my study time.  Sure, I had opinions, but I respected those of others, even if we vehemently disagreed.  UC Berkeley was a somewhat saner place then. We also had diverse speakers, but no one tried to burn the campus down to keep them out.

And now, people think that Hamas deserves some kind of protection.  If any group of people violently attacked another group, killing many, maiming others and taking hostages, we would condemn their actions.  It’s only when Israel is involved that people think the residents should just sit back and take it.  I’m going to offend people here, but too many did sit back and take it when Hitler started exterminating them.  No one thought what the Nazis did would be possible.  After that, many Jews realized that they had to build a strong army and be prepared to protect themselves. 

Israelis, many of whom aren’t even religious Jews, take up arms ONLY to protect themselves.  They don’t initiate attacks.  Is it right for people to condemn them for retaliation, especially after failing to condemn Hamas for their brutal attack?  No.  But for some reason, the Left has decided that Jews/Israelis are the enemies of the world and should stand down, even if their own people are slain.

Those who tell Israel to have a cease-fire, condemning their really careful and rational attacks should be seen as enemies of the world, as were those who supported Hitler’s attack on Jews, gays, gypsies and people who were mentally or physically disabled.  We would never stand for genocide again, would we?  Well, perhaps we would, given that the Squad continues to get away with hate speech about Jews, the kind of speech that wouldn’t be tolerated if it were any other group.

Anyone who is against Israel, who actually warned Palestinians to leave the area before they bombed it, should be condemned, lose jobs, be kicked out of their universities, etc., for their hate speech against Jews.  We should consider carefully where we put our money and who we support, based on whether they single out Jews and Israelis for condemnation when they wouldn’t do it against any group.

The Why?

I don’t actually know the full answer to the question, nor do I really understand why so many wealthy Jews support the Left.  But I know that part of it is envy.  As a group, Jews are successful, mostly because they, like many Asians, work extremely hard to learn, build businesses and create success.  Like the Israelis, working on a desert just like Palestine, they built a paradise and a successful country that Hamas and other groups can’t begin to match.

Too many want to tear down the successful, and claim, inaccurately, that their success is based on advantages they themselves never had.  One plus is that most Jewish families stay intact, and work hard to help their kids succeed.  They expect hard work from them.  We hear the stories of successful Blacks, like Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson.   Both came from poverty, broken homes and little hope, but still succeeded on an incredible scale.  Poor (legal) immigrants come here every day and build businesses, employing thousands. Look at the leadership in Silicon Valley.  They didn’t have all these supposed advantages, but nothing stopped them.

Just like the Occupy Wall Street crowd, too many people envy those who have more than they do, without asking the key question…why?  While they loll in indolence on the streets, claiming to hate the 1% without understanding who the 1% are and how they got there.  Well, when you speak about many politicians, they should be condemned for the backroom deals they make to enrich themselves.  But most successful people earned it as well as paving the way for the success of others.  And many of these people are Jewish, either by heritage or faith.

It's Time for Change

We need real consequences for this bigotry.  No one should hold office, nor work in the government sector if they hate a particular group, INCLUDING Jews.  They should be drummed out.  PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah supporters should face the consequences of their bigotry.  And I’d love to see the wealthy pull their financial resources from institutions that don’t protect Jews from being attacked or even marginalized.

Gay rights became a big thing such that bills were passed just to protect them.  In many cases, the bills came after public support had made them moot.  But it’s time to start passing bills that protect Jews from the many ways their attacked and marginalized in America.  (and elsewhere)

Are you with me?