I laugh bitterly to myself when I think about how naive I was, believing for most of my life that antisemitism (I would never have used the words Jew hatred) was over, gone, dealt with, never to reappear, a thing of the past -- beyond which the world had "progressed."
Born in the mid-50s, it's not easy for me to shake my head and soul, and realize how stupid and trusting and ignorant I was, but just imagine those among us whose very lives were almost swallowed up in the last Holocaust -- those who saw it, lived in it and survived it, and now have to see it come roaring back with all the familiar (and characteristic) intensity and irrationality... and this time, not just in Europe but all over the world. Even in America. Imagine the agony of that.
Todah rabah to CJHSLA for sending this along, by Si Frumkin.
Frumkin at a Jewish Brigade truck in refugee camp in Italy 1945
My Death Sentence ... was the law of the lands where the swastika banner flew proudly. The 1000-year Reich lasted just 12 years; then the lights went on again all over Europe for a brighter, happier, productive future for those who had lived through it.I was just 14-years old. I had memories but, more importantly, I had hope. I had hope that what I had lived through would not be repeated, that I would live a normal life like everybody else – Jew and non-Jew, that I would acquire knowledge I could pass on to others – including, I hoped, my children and their children, that I could do something that might make my world – and everyone else’s - a better place to live in.
My hopes became reality after I came to America at the age of 18. I graduated college, got a job, bought a house, fathered children, made friends, became involved in humanitarian causes, and loved and appreciated the wonderful country that gave me the opportunity – and the inalienable right - to pursue happiness.
It had never occurred to me that there might come a time when I and my family might be sentenced to death once again for the crime of being born Jewish. It never crossed my mind that the world would once again be hearing the shouts of “Kill the Jews” and “Jews to the ovens!” I realized that there were some who hated Jews but I was sure that this was a tiny, mindless, insignificant minority – surely smaller in numbers than those who believed the Earth was flat or that Elvis was alive.
I was wrong.
Hatred is with us again. The legions of haters are proudly waving their flags and flaunting their slogans around the globe. And just like the nazis of seventy years ago they are not bashful or apologetic in disseminating the ideology of mass murder. They are dedicated, enthusiastic, committed, and ready to die for their deadly doctrine. One of their religious leaders put it best: “We love death as much as the Jews and Christians love life!”
A less literate, young man at a New York demonstration was even more frightening by waving a misspelled placard that demanded, “Kill All Juice!” The photo brings a smile to most that see it on the internet but it isn’t funny. We know that he doesn’t want to kill orange juice – he wants to kill me, my children and grandchildren and all those other “juice”.
In Fort Lauderdale on December 30, hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators protested the Israeli military operation in Gaza . Their hatred encompassed all Jews – “Go Back to the Ovens! You Need a Big Oven” and “Kill All Jews!” (this time spelled correctly), read their placards.
Pamphlets in Denmark demand, “Kill Israel’s People”, and on the reverse, less correctly, “Kill Jewish People Evry Where in Ther World”.
In Mumbai, a city with very few Jews, the Islamic terrorists went to the trouble to find a tiny, unmarked Chabad facility to slaughter the 6 Jews there.
In Britain the police are unable to guarantee security for Jewish schools.
In Amsterdam in January, a crowd at a rally chanted “Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the Gas!”
In Belgium pro-Hamas demonstrators burned a public menorah and painted swastikas on Jewish-owned shops.
In Berlin , the police chief warned Jews not to wear scull caps in public and avoid “acting Jewish”.
In France a burning car was rammed into a Toulouse synagogue.
In southern Sweden a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a synagogue. And there is more, everywhere…
The hatred is not hiding....
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