{"id":6682,"date":"2023-10-21T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartman.blog.polityka.pl\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2023-10-21T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:15:00","slug":"anti-semitism-flourishes-when-jews-are-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.polityka.pl\/hartman\/2023\/10\/21\/anti-semitism-flourishes-when-jews-are-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism flourishes when Jews are murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, pogrom\nmoods have taken hold. Jews are afraid to walk the streets, they try to go\nsomewhere quieter, because once the Israeli army enters Gaza it will only get\nworse. After all, even the politicians have run amok. How many of them were\nfooled by the hoax about the bombing of a Gaza hospital! Twitter was on fire\nwith their expressions of indignation. It wasn’t hard for the Hamas thugs (in\nthis lunacy titled by the Western media as „spokesmen” for some\n„Palestinian ministries”) to fool them – after all, the image of\nmurderous Jews fits them with what their ancestors lived for centuries, and\nwhat they were forbidden to live themselves, because of the\n„post-Holocaust pause”. But now the break is over and business as\nusual is back, i.e. good old hatred of this perverse and infidel tribe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have learned over the years to ignore\nanti-Semitism. Although I encounter it every day and I am spat upon and\ninsulted every day, I almost never react because, apart from giving\nsatisfaction to the racists, I see no effect of such reactions. However, there\nare situations where a reaction is a duty to the victims. The Jewish victims –\nthis time friends of the Palestinians living on the kibbutzim near Gaza and the\nyouth festival participants no less empathetic towards them, nearly 1,500 of\nthem bestially slaughtered by fanatical Hamas thugs – did not come from\nnowhere. It is not just Hamas and an anti-Jewish madness-ridden Iran. It is\nalso the hundreds of millions of liberal, supposedly progressive Westerners, of\nwhom the murderers can be sure of one thing: that they will not feel sorry for\nthe Jewish victims, but will gladly avert their eyes from the nightmarish\nPalestinian crimes in order to drown out the moans of the dying with shrieks\nabout the injustice of the bombed-out inhabitants of Gaza. To this scoundreldom\nthat is rampant in the world today, to the shamelessness of people who cannot\neven afford to say openly as their predecessors did before the war: we despise\nthe Jews!, every Jewish author has a duty to bear witness. So that everyone\nknows that a second Holocaust is just around the corner. And when it does\nhappen – so that no one thinks it fell from the sky. And so that they\nthemselves don’t think they are less Jew-Eaters than the Nazis, because they\npretend to themselves that they are „only criticising Israel, and that’s\nnot anti-Semitism”. Israel is criticised by the vast majority of Israelis\n– criticism, after all, is not the eager repetition of a rant that is believed\nfor one reason only: that the Jew appears in it as an oppressor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we are witnessing today is unique. The\nwhole world is shaking with spirited demonstrations of support for the\nPalestinians and, de facto<\/em>, for Hamas. Pathos-laden words of anger and\nsolidarity are being uttered by those in authority. No condemnation of the\ncrimes of Hamas or sympathy for the murdered is to be found. Instead, it is\neasy to find belittling and almost justification of these crimes. And what\nadvice to Israel? Should it continue to tolerate Hamas, which exists only to\nmurder Jews? That no longer interests the anti-Semites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I seem to know all this already and I\nshould have been used to it for a long time. Whenever something happens between\nIsraelis and Palestinians, there is a wave of hatred in the media and\nfalsehoods sent out by terrorists, going around the world in the kind of mad\nexultation with which one carries a banner captured from the enemy in a\nvictorious march. Together, this wave of madness is amplified by left and right\npublic opinion – country after country. Until it sweeps the entire planet. So\nthat both the Chukchi in Siberia and the Mapuche in the Andes hear the news\nthat the Jew is a great thug! What a beautiful rapture! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently I know this, because every day I\nsee the tails of black Jew-hatred, numbering up to hundreds of posts and\ncomments, trailing behind every statement condemning anti-Semitism or\nexpressing empathy and compassion for the victims of terrorism. After all, I\nremember with what cold indifference the deaths of Jewish children, blown up by\ncrazed „militants” on Israeli buses, were once received. The worst\nsuch assassination attempt took place equally twenty years ago in Jerusalem. I\nthought that this crime, in a series of similar ones, would move people, because,\nafter all, it was children… Unfortunately, it was only Jewish children – it\nis only after the deaths of Palestinian children, used by terrorists as human\nshields, that we should cry. Jewish children are, after all, children of the\nperpetrators, children prepared from the cradle for the Holocaust of the\nPalestinians, for ethnic cleansing, children lost to the world of civilised\npeople. But back then we didn’t have the whole \u201asocial media\u2019 thing yet, and we\ncould delude ourselves into thinking it was just insensitivity. Today we know\nthat it is a living hatred. That the insane Palestinian joy at the murder of\nevery Jew spills over in a wide, blood-warm wave to the „Christian\nnations”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know how many anti-Semites will\nread this text, but it won’t be a thousand or two, so it might be worth making\nthe effort to say a few more words. So listen to what a Jew has to say to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you are told about Israel and the\nissue between Israelis and Palestinians, and what has been injected into your\neager ears by propagandists working for terrorists and for regimes in Iran and\na few other countries, has as much to do with the truth as Goebbels\u2019 propaganda\nduring the war, portraying Poland as the bastard child of the Treaty of\nVersailles, a parasitic quasi-state spreading over ancient German lands, ruled\nby an aggressive regime persecuting the German minority, and so on. This is\nexactly the same level. And the only reason you allow yourselves to be duped\ninto this bullshit about a century of criminal Jewish violence and the brave\nself-defence of the tormented Palestinians is because you hate Jews. You are\nincapable of admitting it even to yourselves, so you take the great opportunity\nto falsify it by pretending that it is not about Jews but about solidarity with\na people oppressed by nasty „Zionists”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do not imagine that there is even a\nshadow of truth in this. That, yes, you hate Jews, but the Palestinian cause is\ndear to you regardless. Really? The Kurdish cause likewise? The Rohingja issue\ntoo? How about the Tamil issue? How about the Tibetan one? Or is it about\nchildren killed? Because the children are innocent and they are all „ours”?\nDid you cry over the fate of Jewish children murdered by Palestinians? And what\ndid you feel when the thugs slaughtered nearly one and a half thousand Jewish\ncivilians on 7 October? That it was \u201cgood for them\u201d? That the Palestinians had\nno choice? If you felt anything other than horror and anger, such as on 11\nSeptember 2001, then you are on the side of the terrorists. If the Hamas thugs\nare „militants” to you, if you blame Israel for the tragedy of the\nisolation of Gaza and not Hamas terrorising the people of this enclave, it\nmeans that hatred takes your mind off things. Do you know any country that\nwould not isolate the space from which death comes to it? Maybe Poland would be\nthe very country that would open the border in Israel’s place? Or do you know of\nany country whose citizens, who die every few days in terrorist attacks (they\nhave been organised by Hamas almost every day for the last twenty years – on\naverage once a week an attack is successful and an Israeli is killed), would\nnot set up entanglements and try with all their might to thwart the supply of\nweapons to a deadly and declared enemy? But what do you care about the Jews and\nwhat you yourselves would do in their place! For you, even Hamas is something\ncompletely different from ISIS or another Al Qaeda, because in the end they are\nall about murdering Jews and not Westerners. Well, how so? Do you regard Hamas\nas a bunch of murderers, or a little less than murderers? Well, that’s right…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don’t make any illusions that you care\nabout any Palestinians. Not even a little. Do you happen to take one minute to\nlearn about the injustices suffered by Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan?\nOr do you care about the brutal terror they are subjected to at the hands of\ntheir Hamas tribesmen, controlled by Iran? Do you sympathise with the people of\nGaza over the tragedy they have suffered because their region has been overrun\nby a bunch of terrorists? I don’t think so. You care nothing and nothing about\nthe Palestinians and their children dying under Israeli fire. Just as you do\nnot care about dozens of other peoples under oppression of various kinds. You\nonly have the Palestinians on your lips for one reason: they give you the\nopportunity to „safely”, supposedly without the risk of being accused\nof anti-Semitism, condemn the Jews. That is all. That is the secret of your\n„commitment”. But I, a Jew, say to your face: you are anti-Semites.\nThe same as your ancestors in the 19th and 20th centuries. And it is people\nlike you who create the social subsoil for the pogroms from which, years later,\nthe Holocaust is born. There has already been one. Don’t worry, there will be\nanother one! We are few and you are many. You can handle it! In the name of\nGod! Yalla!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photo from The Times of Israel<\/em> shows one of the funerals of the victims of the 7 October massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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