Anti-Semitic Semites
The New Neo-Nazis in Town
Anti-Semitic Semites: The New Neo-Nazis in Town
Step aside, neo-Nazis, there’s a new force of anti-Semitism in town— It’s called the “Jewish-run mainstream media”. They’ve taken the tiki torches off your hands, and placed them in the hands of the people in charge of distributing information to the masses. Yes, the Jews are replacing you. Replacing your anti-Semitic rhetoric with other anti-Semitic rhetoric. We are key players in our own destruction. When reading anti-Jewish or anti-Israel articles in the NYTimes, CNN, Washington Post, WSJ, I can’t see past the Cohens, the Goldbergs, the Steinbergs, the Rosenfelds, and other Bergs, Steins, Mans, Felds, and Witzs, as the authors of those articles. We are using the media as a subtle tool to spread our own hateful anti-Jewish propaganda.
The anti-Israel protests have evolved rapidly into anti-Jewish protests. The media sources are providing the ammo on a silver platter to fuel the fire of Jewish hate. I’m a self-hating Jew like the rest of them, but still I am determined to create a world for my future children and grandchildren, where it’s accepted and safe to live openly as a Jew in the US -- as my four Holocaust surviving grandparents intended for me. They came to the US with the tens of thousands of other Jews, hoping for refuge and liberation from the horrors they experienced in Europe, unbeknownst to them that their offspring would be met with similar challenges 90 years later. Sadly we are paving the way for our own extinction. We are all just watching with our faces planted in our hands, waiting for the next version of Nazis to line us all up and send us to the incinerators. People choose to ignore the fact that anti-Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism. Jews assaulted on the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and many other major US cities, following recent violence in Israel reminds us of that. In a society where we strive to accept everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference, the Jews are consistently forgotten. Today, a person is free to be a pronoun-less black transgender woman and we welcome them with open arms, and that’s wonderful, but my Jewish friends and family don’t feel safe walking through the US streets wearing a yalkmulke.
Where are the Sacha Baron Cohens, the Seth Rogens, the Sarah Silvermans, the Jon Stewarts? Israeli politics is extremely complicated and in this fragile society everyone is fearful to speak up. Your silence is so loud that it will be the cause of our next attempted annihilation-- as us Zionist Jews are buried in an echo chamber, screaming for someone to listen. Trying to remind the world of what Europe in the 1930s looked like. Now the US and parts of Europe are starting to become reminiscent of that time. Our mission of preventing history from repeating itself, is slowly slipping away. Our memory is becoming clouded and our judgement impaired. Whether you’re a Zionist Jew or an anti-Zionist Jew, “kill the Jews and rape their daughters” chanted from the streets of London in 2021, refers to every brand of Jew.
How many NYTimes articles have we read, tweeted, re-tweeted, and re-re-tweeted about the horrors of Donald Trump? And we just continue to allow Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib or as I refer to them, the “Anti-Semitic Trio”(perhaps their band name? Hoping it sticks!), continue their blatant anti-Semitic remarks. Where’s the NYTimes? Where are all the Jewish celebrities, commentators, journalists, who took any opportunity to criticize the Republican party? Silence. When Jews got beat up in Times Square in NYC. Silence. An elderly man punched in the face while being called racial slurs, as he walked into a Brooklyn synagogue. Silence. When there were Swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs spray painted on Synagogue doors, kosher restaurants, and grocery stores. Silence. A 12 year old Jewish boy on Melrose in LA punched in the face. Silence. Every celebrity, every news source, every activist stood by and protested on the streets as we saw the horrors of racism with George Floyd. But a Jewish man is assaulted and stabbed on the streets of Boston. Where are the protests? Where are the riots? Where are the activists? Where is the celebrity support? Where is the media? Silence. These stories are NOT from Europe in the 1930s, these are from the US in 2021. If your response is that you haven’t heard any of these recent stories, then we have a much bigger issue.
We all want to be on the right side of history, yet sometimes we forget to be on the right side of Jewish history. As we approach our daunting future, your deafening silence will be the loudest thing heard.
Comedian John Mulaney had a joke about a conversation he had with his father when he was young, that I believe is relevant.
Dad: How was your day at school?
John: Someone pushed Tyler off the seesaw.
Dad: And where were you?
John: I was over on the bench.
Dad: And what did you do?
John: Nothing. I was over on the bench.
Dad: But you saw what happened?
John: Yeah because I was over on the bench.
Dad: So you saw what happened and did nothing?
John: Yes, because I was over on the bench.
Dad: Let me ask you this. In Nazi Germany… When people saw what the Nazi’s were doing, and they did nothing. Were those good people?
John: No, those were bad people. You gotta stop the Nazis.
Dad: But you saw what happened to Tyler and did nothing.
John: Cause I was over on the bench!
Dad: Just explain to me this. How are you better than a Nazi?