Monday, April 14, 2014

Jew hatred and Jewish anti Christian sentiments

Anti Semitism and the Blind Jew

Several years ago, I happened to tune into a radio broadcast called "Jewish News and Views," conducted by Shifra Hoffman. The callers were berating Ms. Hoffman for spreading what they called the myth of rampant anti-Semitism. One man said he was tired of hearing about the Holocaust, and that "we Jews ought to stop whining about it."
I called in and identified myself as a Christian who was very much aware of widespread but hidden anti-Semitism. I gave her examples of the anti-Semitic remarks I had heard from people in all walks of life who assumed I shared their views because I am an Hispanic Catholic. I was invited to appear on the show, which was broadcast from Staten Island, to relate my experience.
I took calls from Jewish listeners who refused to believe what I had to say about this anti-Semitism because it was assumed that, as a Christian, I shared this sentiment. Nothing could be more false. The nuns that taught me history emphasized the Holocaust as a human tragedy. We were taught to imagine the Nazis storming into our own homes and dragging us to the concentration camps. Ms. Hoffman called me a 'righteous gentile" but I certainly didn't feel like one as a child wondering if I could have had the courage of those sheltering the Anne Franks during the Holocaust. . The callers pooh-poohed what they called Jewish hysteria about anti-Semitism yet I saw the hate mail in Ms. Hoffman's office that was beyond description. Years later, as an op-ed columnist, I received the same contemptible missives from angry radical Muslims whenever I wrote columns supporting Israel.
Israelis understand the meaning of the phrase-"never again" and yet many Americans just do not get it. They actually think that another holocaust is impossible. Perhaps if all they do is read the New York Times, they may not know what is going on around the world as sharia gets embedded in the legal systems and the yarmulke becomes a bulls-eye.
Whenever a dear friend of mine, Ralph Rubinek, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, e-mails me, he attaches hate mail he receives from other Jews. They call him a self-hater and Christian convert because he dares to suggest that Christians are more likely than liberal Jews to support Israel. The Christian right does understand the importance of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East, unlike the liberal elite and some anti-Zionist Jewish groups.
What I fail to understand most of all is why there are so many intelligent Jews in politics and the mainstream media who are ignoring the many anti-Semitic attacks in Europe and the increasing ones here in the States. Religious Jews have been 'knockout game' victims in Brooklyn; and in Lakewood, New Jersey, the targets to initiate gang members are Orthodox women.
Anti-defamation leaders are quick to go after any type of anti-Semitic remark made bycelebrities but are silent when the United Nations condemns Israel for human rights violation while ignoring those committed in Muslim controlled nations. I am reminded of the shunning of Mel Gibson's film, Apocalypto, in Hollywood, because of his vile, drunken remarks yet it would be good to take another look at this brilliant movie. There is a scene of a native man running from his Mayan hunters who stumbles across a sea of bodies. It reminds one of the Nazi films of the ditches the Nazis filled with Jewish corpses. While "Apocalypto" chronicles man's inhumanity to man in a primitive culture, how do we explain the 20th-century Holocaust? How do we explain the hundreds of thousands of Saddam's victims uncovered in Iraq, or those in Rwanda, or in Darfur?
Israelis understand the meaning of the phrase-"never again" and yet many Americans just do not get it. They actually think that another holocaust is impossible. Perhaps if all they do is read the New York Times, they may not know what is going on around the world as sharia gets embedded in the legal systems and the yarmulke becomes a bulls-eye.
People like Ralph Rubinek recognize the danger of forgetting the past. In Kansas City, three people were killed in shootings at the Jewish community and retirement center in Overland Park on the eve of Passover and while police are not yet calling it a bias crime, unconfirmed reports say that the shooter yelled, "Heil Hitler" before shooting.

What will it take for these blind ideologues to be reminded that we are closer to another holocaust than we are to the end of the planet due to global warming? That is, indeed, an inconvenient truth.

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