Jewish American Parents Need a Plan
Jewish parents have to be realistic about the scale of the problem we are facing. Antizionism and antisemitism throughly permeate places of learning — this is not something that can be fixed easily.
When I was growing up in the USSR, Jewishness was a source of anxiety and fear. Not that it wasn’t obvious in my case, but, like many other Jewish kids, I was admonished to never bring up any Jewish topics in mixed company. That is, when I was old enough to know who I was.
I didn’t realize until I was six at which point my cousin, three years older than me and whose parents already gave her the talk, decided to share the news. I have no memory of my response, but the cousin swears I said “no, I’m Russian!” I suppose I was within the range of typical reactions, though tears was perhaps the most common.
The United States is not at the point when we’d have to shelter kids from their heritage, but considering the direction of educational institutions, Jewish American parents need a plan. Increasingly often, schools and libraries target very young kids with an antizionist agenda that is at odds with both honest a historical narrative and the values of Jewish families.
You and me might find The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to be a milquetoast group that over the last few decades served the interests of the Democrat Party rather than the community it’s supposed to champion. In all fairness, the NGO did begin to rediscover its voice in the aftermath of Simchat Torah Massacre in October 2023 — and apparently it’s too much for the woke establishment.
The policymaking body of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest trade union in the U.S., has voted to cut ties with the ADL. It approved New Business Item 39, resolving:
NEA will not use, endorse, or publicize any materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or its statistics. NEA will not participate in ADL programs or publicize ADL professional development offerings.
The NEA passed a resolution at their annual convention last week to “not use, endorse, or publicize any materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),” an organization founded to fight antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/bKVoJ56TMu
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) July 10, 2025
The National Review explained that the decision is still pending approval by the executive committee. The disagreements reflect rudimentary differences of worldview and perhaps will be difficult to resolve:
The committee explained its decision by saying, “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
In recent decades, Palestinianism emerged as intersectional social justice bingo champions. It supersedes every cause despite ostensible ideological incongruity. For instance, it trumps gender issues, as made notorious by organizations like Queers for Palestine that support antizionist causes despite Israel being the sole state in the region sympathetic to gay liberation. Feminists bowed over to some of the most misogynist social arrangements known to history when they selected Linda Saussure to lead the #MeToo movement. Curiously, we never hear about self-identified Palestinians calling the cops on George Floyd. Probably for the same reason we never hear about the Arab slave trade — Palestinianism is woker than race.
Zionists don’t stand a chance against this kind of clout. In the intersectional universe, Jews are hyper-white and priveleged. The Jewish state is a colonial entity the eradication of which is a normal proposition. It is no surprise that educational institutions are joining Tic-Tok and other social media platforms promoting lies and libels.
Intersectionality is just a framework, but the NEA’s goals are pushed by their personnel and for them it can be personal:
The vote comes after the ADL previously accused Merrie Najimy, former president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and other members of the MTA of giving a presentation on Israel and Palestine that amounted to “glorifying terrorists.” The MTA is an affiliate of the NEA.
“Why would we partner with an organization that does us harm?” Najimy asked ahead of the NEA vote.
By her own admission, Najimy grew up “angry” at “Islamophobia” in Hollywood and lack of representation of Arabs in textbooks. She found the American response to 9/11 “draconian” and got into politics to promote her sectarian agenda. No way she’s going to cede any ground.
And while this type of person gets to define educational policies, “Jewish teachers who spoke up for the ADL were reportedly met with boos and jeers.” Citizen journalists from Accuracy in the Media produced an undercover interview with one of the attendees who complained that “Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Justice, Access, and everything” are all empty words when you are Jewish, continuing “All the people that said they would hide you in an attic, they all disappeared on October 8th.” He said that he took off his Star of David and hides his Jewishness from his coworkers “because it means that I won’t have trust.”
American libraries appear to be headed in the same direction. Examples of antizionism for tots in spaces ostensibly dedicated to collecting knowledge abound. For instance, this summer, the taxpayer-funded Free Library of Philadelphia scheduled at least six antizionist events for small children. Alana Goodman reports for Zionist Organization of America about
”anti-Israel “storytime” events that teach children that Israel “senselessly murdered” thousands of kids in Gaza, depict a map in which Israel is entirely replaced with “Palestine,” and create art projects promoting the “Palestinian liberation” movement.”
Likewise, in May, Children’s Room of Iowa City Public Library hosted a “Palestine Storytime and Craft” event during which activists read books that erased Israel and demonized its citizens. In New York City, public libraries hosted Read Palestine Week during which books about the Holy Land Arabs were displayed next to the literature about Native Americans. Drowning out of the Jewish voices is the next logical step in the campaign that calls for the erasure of the Jewish state.
In the wake of the NEA conference, libertarian educational reformer Corey DeAngelis called on his followers to contact their representatives to “REVOKE the National Education Association’s federal charter”. It’s a worthy undertaking.
However, Jewish parents have to be realistic about the scale of the problem we are facing. Antizionism and antisemitism throughly permeate places of learning — this is not something that can be fixed easily.
Our nemesis are certainly preparing surprises. For instance, on June 30 the San Francisco Unified School District ambushed Jewish families with the announcement of an experimental mandatory Ethnic Studies curriculum that appears to be based on antisemitic Liberated Ethnic Studies lesson plans. Jewish families and organizations are left scrambling to find out what their children will be learning and how to prepare them for it.
It’s realistic to assume that educational establishment will define Jewishness in ways that clash with what they learn from home and synagogue. The school and the library might be telling them that they are colonial bloodsuckers but the Torah introduces them to the Jewish history in the Levant. From other community members they learn about the hundreds of brave IDF soldiers whose lives were sacrificed in order to alleviate the suffering of Gaza civilians — the very people most of whom wholeheartedly supported and in many cases participated in the Simchat Torah massacre.
In addition, if teachers find it necessary to hide their Jewishness in classroom settings, how can we expect our children to grow up to be proud Jews? Parents need to think long and hard about these issues. Demographic shifts alone are likely to press institutional change towards less tolerance and liberty.
The gap between the state institutions and community life is large and growing. For years to come it will be a source of frustration and anxiety. Our goal is to preempt the hostile actors from poisoning our children’s minds and to help them to reach their full potential.
I’m not a treasure trove of good suggestions, but I do know that although America has been great for us, being a Jew was never easy and what we have to deal with right now looks like another diaspora arrangement. What probably would help is to live in an area with a large Jewish population where tactics for addressing these problems can be developed locally.
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If Jews are being demonized in the US as stated it is time to leave. The red-green alliance is too large and too violent and is to embedded in too many institutions, Of course the real question is where to go….
Both dramacrats and republicans are responsible for this state of being. They imported muslims and they allowed the progressive nutjobs to flourish in our society. They also promoted or at least tolerated public employee unions which should never have been allowed. Good job. I hope the destruction they are causing was worth it to you.
The United States is my home. Even were I young enough to start over, I’m not moving to some sliver of baking hot desert where I can’t speak the language or read signage. I was brought up, pretend Jewish, in other words, reform. I don’t think our kind are welcome in Israel in the first place.
I feel just the opposite. It’s time we stop running, digging our heels, and fight back for once.
you’d have a lot of help but only if the government is maga and not lefty run b/c they will do as they are instructed
I just upvoted both ztskddot and you … indicating how confused I am by this horrid turn of events.
You’re confused?
I was just about to offer Grizz my attic, then I realized here in the Phoenix Valley I would essentially be offering to shove him in an oven.
I’m just down the road in North Tucson now.
As my late law partner used to say, ‘I feel strongly both ways.’
I’ll be damned if I’m going to cut and run from my home. I agree with you.
I’m fortunate in that either my looks and name, I can “pass”. But, for how long?
Either with
Same here. My father and sister, OTOH, got “the nose”. My sister has passed on, but my father is still kicking. And he stays armed.
I agree. My grandparents came here to escape the pogroms and I’m not leaving now.
That diwntick was supposed to be an uptick. Sorry.
Returning to Israel might not be a good idea. If all Jews were there, wiping Israel out would obliterate the Jewish people. It might be better to stay here and fight.
Your kind? Elaborate please.
I;m too old as well. I was thinking of young people with kids and I wasn’t thinking of Israel.
Reform.
Israel is probably mostly secular so you wouldn’t have a problem One of the Israel’s should comment though.
Respectfully, no way.
It’s the goose-stepping Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists and their genocidal, supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent, subversive and pathology-laden ideology of “Submissiom” who should leave.
Leaving the U.S. is an admission of failure, and, cedes ground to the Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists and their allies.
American Jews need to dig in and arm up.
They should but they won’t arm up. Also learn a couple of the more deadly martial arts.
Doesn’t matter, Red-Green alliance swamps number of Jews, is politically active, and has started capturing elective offices. The writing is on the wall. No way given out constitution can you turn this back,
If you don’t know where to go, you are confused.. If you are afraid or intimidated by that answer that is understandable. Israel 2018.
Not at all. I wouldn’t go to Israel. Out the frying pan and into the fire. If I was in my 30s maybe,
Don’t believe everything you read in the NYT.
I don’t read the NYT, Enough on here to scare me. Besides I have “issues”. I also believe things won’t degenerate sufficiently before I die although I have been wrong with downspiral before.
We came in 2019, to a neighborhood that is mostly Anglo. Downside: it’s too easy to get by in English, so a lot of us (myself included) don’t learn sufficient Hebrew. Weather in our town, here in the beautiful Judean Hills, is considerably more temperate than Arizona. You do get used to a less materialistic existence & fewer luxuries, but that’s not a bad thing.
After watching his youtube channel I admit to wanted to go to Dudu Outmezgine Pâtisserie even if it is overpriced,
Addressing the Jews with the Jew flu would be a starting point. It’s been a voting block that has voted for suicide for too long.
Recall that while antisemitism swept the world in the 30s and 40s, it did not take hold in the US, though some tried to take us there (just like they tried to get communism to take hold as well). US demographics are different now and while the Muslim/Indian groups do seem quite prone to socialist Pogram-ic tendencies, our other demographic (Mexicans) don’t seem to give two figs about Zion. Anti-semitism has never been a thing in Latin America to my awareness. In fact their Catholic tendencies seem more suspicious of Islam than anything. Mexicans are the lesser evil of immigrants right now. W/in a generation, many end up being conservative (at least the working, non gang banging Catholic type)
So I am hopeful that our American core will not go there, despite the Squad voting bloc being full throat Jew hating. I have no illusion of these vile and despicable people. They’ll come to kill my white Polish ass just like Hitler intended to do in Polan after exterminating the Jews.
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hatred for the jewish population “Even in america” has always been strong and acceptable in some/many places..same as many other races religions etc
latin america…the world
same way non jews vote for their own demise..christians thinking wwjd is akin to pro socialism blacks and muslims etc etc
Some Christians who spit in Jesus face because they invert His teaching to adhere to Woke dogma, sure. As for the rest, not so much.
There is only one thing leftist Kews hate more than America and that is Israel.
Leftist Jews would happily be loading their neighbours in to the cattle carts through Europe in the 40’s.
They’d also be protesting in support of Hamas.
“Anti-semitism has never been a thing in Latin America to my awareness.”
I heard there was a modest uptick in Argentina that coincided with the arrival of newcomers in 1945.
There are a couple of “socialist countries that have become anti-Israel. Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil. Cuba, Columbia are all candidates. Check the UN votes on anti-Israel items.
Argentina had decades of antisemitism, which made it one of the popular destinations for fugitive Nazi war criminals, well into this century with its coverup of Iranian involvement in the AMIA bombing, to the point that the govt was involved in the assassination of the prosecutor pursuing the coverup. Fortunately the current president is a welcome reversal.
Also, the hiding in basements and attics won’t be a thing here. The people standing between you and them won’t have room to hide you on top of all the guns and ammo stored in those places.
Which brings up another question. For all the people that bang on about how many weapons and stocks of ammunition they have, will they actually fight when the time comes? There’s times I have my doubts. Empty barrels make the loudest noise.
of course they wont
and the government will divide and conquer by going door-to-door
it will come down to the military saying no to lefty
but as history shows…lefty will remind them that they and THEIR families will be treated like gold ….and the rest of society will be the slaves
The military will have very little to do with it. It will be the police doing the job just like they did in Europe in the last century. Why do you think uncle Sam has given them all those armored personnel carriers, MRAPS?
then thats military
being armed with military equipment and the mindset
police arrest
military kills
To destroycommunism: I’m old. I remember when the street cop or the road pirates were in a proper uniform. Sure, they had a fire arm and a night stick. But they didn’t look like they were something that just jumped out of a helicopter to raid the jungle of Vietnam. Also, while police have always been nasty, it’s a whole different mindset today. They are taught in the academy that if one is not police, then one is automatically suspect of something.
Generally, people will put their own self interest first and if it comes to supporting Jews in their community or having their own family threatened, It takes a really strong person to stand up to the thugs. Those people do exist but they are in the minority.
It probably depends on what part of the country you’re standing in. There are pockets in the country that are still heavily populated with God-fearing, well-armed citizens. Those are the people who would fight back if the state didn’t. I grew up mostly in California but now live in the Deep South. Even today, the difference in culture between the two places is eye-opening. Remember the Rooftop Koreans in LA during the riots. That mentality is pervasive in the Deep South.
I lived in northeastern Tennessee until very recently. The only reason I moved away was that all allergies were killing me. I now live on the Arizona desert on the north end of Tucson. My health is still failing, but at least I’m not sneezing myself to death. Otherwise, I would still live there.
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this.
The Proud Boys are one example that comes to mind. Look how that played out. A few lessons: 1) if you are going to fight against an enemy that has a monopoly on violence (or as with Antifa- sponsor for violence, you have to either be (b) invisible or so incredibly violent no one will touch you (b) Islam 2) You can’t go tilting at every windmill. I’m not going to downtown Portland to counter protest and throw fists. I’d like to think the guns and ammo crowd are more like the “coward of the county” and once they go to fighting gear, it’s going to get ugly… but I think it’s more how you portray it. They won’t fight. Mostly. Antifa may be a bunch of feckless cross dressing rage whores, but I’ll give them their due that they are getting battle hardened and have learned a thing or two. Our side is not battle hardened. We have avoided battle.
The other thing that comes to mind is the first people the Russians (and Germans) killed in Poland were the remaining military officers. Hence the invisible part.
violence has been a way of life for some cultures as a means to an end
same way the jewish population stereotypically is pro academic as a means to an end
you cant make people smarter than they can be …money environment etc wont matter
and you can only make violent people be less violent by crushing them..b/c education doesnt work
not re-inventing the wheel here
1. Kill Tik Tok as the law REQUIRES. CCP control over what multiple American generations think……….so you think anti-Semitism something Xi Jingping actively promotes in China will not be promoted in America? How about who to vote for? Think young people are being encouraged to vote for strong enemies of China??? Trump has to hear from you to the extent you could that you do not support his continuing to save the app in current form. If the CCP wish to unload it onto an American who could be properly pressured by America fine otherwise the law is very clear.
2. Radical changes to education are mandatory. Do you actually believe that anti-Semitism is the only radicalism being brought? Men are women? Check. Socialism? Check.
3. KICK OUT all of the fellow travelers on the right from our movement.
Tucker Carlson is identical to the left on anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.
4. MAKE HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI A RED LINE!!!
Everyone who thinks ending the second world war with a minimum loss of life and creating modern Japan as a result was wrong is on the other side.
Want the right to join the left on everything? Keep empowering scumbags like Tucker Carlson and his holocaust denying bastards.
giving a revisionist a platform is what makes america …america
same way we have to allow cnn etc run their opinion pieces that are clearly anti american
1. Political movements stand for something. Give the revisionists a place in the conservative/Republican/MAGA movement and that movement will be indistinguishable from the left.
2. Freedom of speech means you are allowed to speak it does not entitle you to be part of a political movement.
3. If you are anti-American why should we want you to lead the patriotic America movement (which is ultimately what the Republican Party was founded as and what I hope it still is, Trump certainly hopes it is still the patriotic party).
4. Treat the same idea differently because the person saying it has a tie on…..
Sorry but patriotism is mandatory if you wish to be a leader in the Republican Party.
The America haters have the Democratic Party (for now I wish they didn’t) they could go there.
We don’t give the Ku Klux Klan a platform. We don’t give communists a platform. The freedom of speech means that CNN or David Duke can say whatever they like on their own platform, but we don’t give them one.
When Duke was pretending to be a Republican we made him persona non grata in the party. He was not allowed to attend any GOP function, let alone speak there. And when he won a primary (because there was no way to prevent him) we campaigned for the corrupt Democrat (“Vote for the crook — it’s important”).
It is not Tucker Carlson who is insisting on contempt for Jews – it is the top administration of Columbia University. They have far more influence than Carlson.
First it is BOTH who are insisting on contempt for the Jews their stance on Jews is identical.
Second the left is lost to Jews.
Keep promoting Tucker Carlson and fail to kick him out and so to will the right be lost to Jews.
Tucker Carlson is neo-Nazi level anti-Semitic, there is no way to excuse him.
He is more influential than any individual college professor.
To put this in perspective the Democrats did not defend their party against the anti-American assholes and look what it got them.
Do you actually think the average Democratic voter thinks Trump is a fascist, that men are women, that America is evil, that we are the villains of WW2 etc….
We have a golden opportunity to prevent our party from ever reaching what the Democrats are today.
Tucker isn’t even subtle about it, he fully denounced Trump and is demeaning all Trump victories even though his claims about WW3 got exposed as lies.
I am sorry if you have some trouble deciding if the party should go in the Trump or Tucker direction. For me it is obvious.
I just don’t think Tucker Carlson is as important as you think he is. Nor am I aware that he is anti-Semitic. My interest would be in keeping doors open to possible supporters.
if the jewish ( and their supporters) took up a rougher attitude and showed they cant be f’d with
things would change for the better BUT YES it would still cost some a certain amount of misery until the troublemakers saw that the hunted have become the hunters
They would be arrested and it would lead to local and national backlash.
Trump is doing things the correct way right now. I wish he would go farther and faster because I am not running the White House so have a lot less to deal with and know a lot less about turning dreams into reality than Trump who is probably doing as much as a president can.
I have however written to and emailed my local congressman, and local state congressman have you?
Same applies to other issues. It takes 30 seconds to write an email.
dems wont listen to me and the gop would just shake their head in agreement with me and still be rinos
My representatives at all levels are Democrats, and don’t give a **** what I think, so I see no more point in writing to them than I do in signing change.org petitions.
I live in MA which is not just all Dramacrat but all progressive if not care carrying DSA. Enough said. Pointless to engage with them
The Jews in Los Angeles fought back against UCLA demonstrations. And, yes, they were arrested. Not sure how that ended up. I believe there must be some very wealthy and influential Jews in the LA area, though, so I hope they were able to be at least somewhat successful. It looks like total defeat at Columbia in NYC.
Betar US. https://betarus.org/
Jews Can Shoot- Nothing says Never Again like an armed Jew. https://stay-armed.com/en-il?srsltid=AfmBOoplP53C5Ef73hoAWI930PNvwHx_nlh2qmAV8j4trUBvkjKGs3Rp
Jewish Americans need a plan? So too do Christian Americans. Yes, ostensibly Christians still comprise the majority of America, but how many of those ‘Christians’ are like AOC, Biden, Pelosi etc, and spew Woke Far Left ideology, proclaim it to be the Christian standard, and vilify those who hold to what Scripture literally says as whatever variant of bigotry they classify it as?
The reality is those who love the Dark hate the Light – Bible 101.
What state are we discussing? If we are discussing a vast most of red states very little.
I am not Jewish, but I’ve been attending the same Seder for decades. It was canceled this year because the host’s sons and grandsons no longer want to partake in “religious” rituals.
In a subsequent conversation with the host, she mentioned that she is pro-Palestine and was surprised that I, well, let’s just say that I’m not.
Elsewhere in the conversation, she mentioned that she does not see the recent trend of Jewish men marrying outside the faith as a bad thing. “ diversity is our strength,” or something.
If you won’t save _yourselves_…
I’m sure that dynamic exists. But, it’s been my anecdotal experience over the last two-years that many more of my Jewish friends, most of whom were largely ‘secular,’ have had something of a re-embrace of their Jewish culture…including their own religion….particularly their children who are now all young adults. One of my oldest friends was devout secular Jew and active Democrat since the 1988 Election. Two-years after 10/7, he’s a gun-owner, has joined a synagogue (he and his wife taking Hebrew lessons) and is a Trump supporter and his biggest worry is how the GOP can hold the House. He will be the first to say that day changed him and his family in a profound way.
“When I was growing up in the USSR, Jewishness was a source of anxiety and fear.”
I believe you. Nevertheless I found it ironic because Jews were prominent in the in the Bolsheviks and other socialist parties. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky, and many other associates of Lenin were Jewish. Those names are all aliases. Jews were also a large percentage of the NKVD. Of course all were eventually purged and executed. Stalin was planning a second Holocaust, but he died before it went much beyond the doctor’s plot. Alexander Rashin’s book, “Why didn’t Stalin Murder All the Jews?” covers the history of the plan, and much else. This book provided insights (at least for me) into the history and nature of the Soviet regime.
You might want to recheck your numerical facts on that. And as to your suggestion to move to Israel; no.
Jews were prominent in the in the Bolsheviks and other socialist parties before the Revolution. They were prominent in the Communist Party until the mid-1930s. And then they were purged and slaughtered, and that was the end of that. By the time Ms Sedgwick was born Jews in the USSR were persecuted and suppressed.
Oh, and even before the 1930s, while there was no official persecution of secular Jews (though plenty of unofficial), my family were religious Jews, Jews who had not dropped their religion as soon as the Revolution came along, and they were persecuted more than ever. In my family’s stories from the 1920s and 30s, the GPU and NKVD are like the Spanish Inquisition; and just as in Spain the worst persecutors were the apostate Jews, so in the USSR the worst were the Yevsektzia, the Jewish Section of the Communist Party.
The names were aliases because Jewish Bolsheviks wanted to think of themselves as revolutionists, not as Jews. They were among the fiercest in persecuting those Jews who remained true to Jewish tradition & those who abandoned tradition for liberalism or intellectualism rather than communism. Right up until they were purged & executed by their Jew-hating non-Jewish comrades.
“but I do know that although America has been great for us, being a Jew was never easy …”
Very true. I know a physicist who worked for Standard Oil of California (now called Chevron) in the 1950s. Being a star performer, he kept the company of top management. He wanted to hire David Blackwell as a consultant. I think it was a VP who told him Chevron doesn’t hire blacks or Jews. I was somewhat shocked as Blackwell was a star performer who eventually became a professor at UCB. Backwell was black. I had aways heard that Jews had trouble working for corporations before the 1950s.
Antisemitism is like the shingles virus. It lies dormant and then suddenly breaks out. I’m afraid it’s really breaking out now, and I personally think Jews don’t have a bright future in America unless the trend gets reversed. Consider moving to Israel.
If anything, the movie Gentelman’s Agreement, based on the novel of the same name, understated antisemitism in the U.S. of that period. Also worth reading is GI Jews, a nonfiction account of antisemitism faced by Jews in the U.S. military during WWII.
Parents need to send their kids to Hebrew day school; specifically orthodox. In my school, just about every day was Holocaust education and awareness day; from kindergarten up. It was rough, but Never Again means something to me.
“‘Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Justice, Access, and everything’ are all empty words when you are Jewish”.
The suicidal stupidity that underpins this statement is heartbreaking, To have swallowed the propaganda to the point that when you hear “equity” you think “equality”. . .
I had a elementary school classmate (Jewish) whose Communist grandparents moved with their kids from the USA to the USSR in the 1930s. It was a miracle that they were able to get out after WWIi.
Cheder will only help if, in addition to Holocaust studies, it also teaches marksmanship and gun handling. Being aware of what went before is useless unless you have a way to prevent a repeat performance. There is a bright line difference between “never forget” and “never again.” The former leads to hand wringing, the latter to survival.
“Hand wringing “. I saw and heard so much of it among the other Jews, that I knew in my youth. Holocaust this, shoa that. The goyim all want to kill us. Oy gevalt this. Oy vey’s mir that. Lots of sighing. But never a solution. Never a willingness to learn how to fight.
I freely grant that I’m not at all good with firearms. But, I’m going to find a local gun shop, go in, and ask where I can get some good range training and also some trading and how to carry my weapon on the street. And by that I don’t mean what good holster to buy. I’m talking about ready. Reaction and being able to respond. Hitting paper targets in the common environment of range is one thing. What I wanna know is what to do when I’m confronted with problems on the street.
Patronize.
One thing I did not like about the CCE class I took: not a word about carrying or methods of carry, holster selection, concealment or how to draw.
NEA to ADL:
If you will no longer be our good niggers, we have no use for you.
Yes, I went there, because it’s 100% true.
This is the Democrat Party unmasked.
2/3 top leaders of NEA are black females. Color me surprised.
It’s a right to self-defense that authorizes the war, not the Holocaust. If you make it the Holocaust, you lose the rhetorical battle. As you see.
It’s true that there is a concerted global attack on the right of individuals and nations to defend themselves. But it’s important to define self-defense properly. For example, Allah Buksh Brohi, the former Pakistani Ambassador to India defined self defense in a way that shows that Woke and the jihadis not only have common enemies, but have very similar ways of thinking .
“When a believer sees that someone is trying to obstruct another believer from traveling the road that leads to God, spirit of Jehad requires that such a man who is imposing obstacles should be prevented from doing so and the obstacles placed by him should also be removed, so that mankind may be freely able to negotiate its own path that leads to Heaven.” [To do otherwise,] “by not striving to clear or straighten the path we [Muslims] become passive spectators of the counter-initiatory forces imposing a blockade in the way of those who mean to keep their faith with God.”
[This viewpoint appears to reflect the classic, collective duty within jihad doctrine, to defend the Islamic community from threats—the concept of defensive jihad. Brohi is saying much more than that; however, he is attempting to delineate the duty—the proactive duty—to clear the path for Islam. It is necessary not only to defend the individual believer if he is being hindered in his faith, but also to remove the obstacles of those counter-initiatory forces hindering his Islamic development. This begs the question of what is actually meant by the initiatory forces. The answer is clear to Brohi; the force of initiative is Islam and its Muslim members.]
“It is the duty of a believer to carry forward the Message of God and to bring it to notice of his fellow-men in handsome ways. But if someone attempts to obstruct him from doing so he is entitled as a matter of defense, to retaliate.”
[This formulation would appear to turn the concept of defense on its head. To the extent that a Muslim may proclaim Islam and proselytize, or Islam, as a faith, seeks to extend its invitation and reach—initiate its advance—but is unable to do so, then that represents an overt threat justifying—a defensive jihad. According to Brohi, this does not result in the “ordinary wars which mankind has been fighting for the sake of either revenge or for securing . . . more land or more booty . . . [this] striving must be [is] for the sake of God. Wars in the theory of Islam are . . . to advance God‟s purposes on earth, and invariably they are defensive in character.” In other words, everywhere the message of God and Islam is or can be hindered from expansion, resisted or opposed by some “obstruction” (a term not clearly defined) Islam is intrinsically entitled to defend its manifest destiny.
Emphasis added. Remarks by Joseph Myers, who reviewed the book The Quranic Concept of War in an essay for the U.S Army War College from which the excerpt was taken, are in square brackets. Brohi’s words are in quotes.
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol36/iss4/12/
It’s a right to self-defense that authorizes the war, but the Holocaust is an important part of the context for that self-defense. Israel is fighting Hamas not because of what it actually did but because of what it’s likely to do again if allowed. And in predicting that it’s important to know that it is a branch of an organization founded in the 1920s that was consciously patterned after the German National Socialist Workers Party, was allied with it in the 1930s and ’40s, and enthusiastically participated in the Holocaust. That gives us a good idea of what it would do if it could, and why it must never be allowed to get to a place where it could do that.
Anyone denying we need to get rid of the enemies within the Republican Party glad you all think we shouldn’t fight on the trans ideology or other leftist radicalism.
I am grateful to Trump for the great victories he has been bringing such as “Kamala is for they them I am for you” and instead you feel it is a betrayal like he does.
We could either be a patriotic socially conservative party or a Tucker party.
Democrats tried allowing fascistic America hating thugs like Tucker Carlson to be their party leadership look what it got them that is the Democratic Party today.
If you want to go down the same path fine just don’t pretend to be ignorant of the result when you could very clearly see what it got the Democratic Party.
Jews belong in Israel. That much is obvious. I moved to Israel in 2018 because the handwriting was on the wall.
History doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes. Now take a gander at Jewish history. You have no chance in the US. So enough with the histrionics.
We took the cowardly way out & waited until we retirement (late 2019) because we were afraid to try to work here. But we came not because of antisemitism as the firm conviction that the future of the Jewish ppl is in Israel, not in the diaspora, based in part on our seeing social & demographic trends in the U.S.
Better late than never. I totally agree with you about the Jewish future. My situation was uncommon. I was 53 but with a 10-year old son. We couldn’t see a good future for him in the US. And, while far from wealthy, I knew I would have a roof over my head and would be able to feed the family. My son is now Israeli. It’s beautiful.