Sick Jews

I doubt that there’s any nationwide or religious group that produces the share of people that support those that want to damage, not to mention kill, that group as do Jews.

When one observes Jews who defend these whose raison d’etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you need to ask: Why are there no others like them? Were there blacks who defended slavery? Were there Armenians who defended the Turkish mass homicide of fellow Armenians throughout World War I?

It is true that each nation has produced individuals who work towards their nation—notably throughout time of conflict. Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian chief who collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of Norway, is probably the perfect identified: The very identify “Quisling” is extensively used as a synonym for traitor. But even Quisling recognized extra with fellow Norwegians than Israel-hating Jews determine with fellow Jews.

It seems that the Jews who facet with those that want to eradicate the one Jewish state and slaughter as many Jews as doable are actually distinctive.

It is that this uniqueness that makes these Jews tough to clarify. Nevertheless, you will need to no less than try to take action.

Here are two explanations.

1. Psychological Explanations

As a results of the Holocaust, just about each Jew—whether or not or not that they had members of the family who have been murdered by the Nazis and their non-German collaborators—suffers from a type of PTSD. Few non-Jews know this, and even fewer can determine with this situation. So, let me clarify.

Between 1941 and 1945, probably the most civilized nations on the earth—the nation that gave the world the best music ever written; the best single nationwide supply of nice scientists; the nation that produced Protestant Christianity, the mom of recent liberal democracies, the first supply (together with the Hebrew Bible) of the American experiment in freedom and of the anti-slavery motion—murdered two out of each three Jews in Europe.

Jewish ladies, infants, and aged Jews have been slated for loss of life simply as a lot as have been younger males. Jews weren’t merely persecuted or enslaved; they have been focused for loss of life within the largest and most systematic genocide in recorded historical past.

And with only a few exceptions, the world’s nations did nothing to assist the Jews of Europe. Even those that managed to flee have been, in too many instances, denied secure harbor in different nations, a incontrovertible fact that continues to underlie the necessity for one Jewish state on the earth.

Inevitably, this has had a profound influence on the Jewish psyche. Virtually each Jew since 1945 has, consciously or subconsciously, feared one other Holocaust. In truth, lengthy earlier than the Holocaust, on the Passover Seder Jews recited (and nonetheless do): “In every generation they arise to annihilate us.” Note that the phrases usually are not “to persecute us” or “to enslave us” however “to annihilate us.” Jew-hatred has all the time been distinctive in that it’s an annihilationist hatred.

Given this actuality, some Jews have all the time sought to assimilate wherever and at any time when doable. Some modified their names, some baptized their kids (as Karl Marx’s Jewish mother and father did), and a few merely selected to not increase their kids as Jews.

Today, there are Jews who select to determine with the Jews’ enemies. More than just a few younger Jews on school campuses, for instance, undoubtedly imagine—consciously or not—that they are going to be safer in the event that they align themselves with the Jews’ enemies.

To those that search to annihilate Israel and its Jews, there isn’t any one as invaluable as a Jew who sides with them—and plenty of younger Jews know, or no less than sense, this. By aligning themselves with immediately’s Nazis—and lest you suppose that’s too robust a time period, vis-a-vis the Jews there isn’t any distinction between the Nazis and the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and Hamas—they go from being hated by Israel-haters to being cherished by them (for now).

2. Ideological Explanations

Not all Jews facet with the would-be exterminators of the Jewish individuals for psychological causes. Many Jews who’re within the pro-Palestinian, Israel-hating camp are there for ideological causes: They are leftists (not liberals, who typically stay what they’ve all the time been: pro-Israel). And leftism is likely one of the two major sources of Israel-hatred and Jew-hatred immediately. The different is fundamentalist Islam.

This is true world wide. The most anti-Israel leaders outdoors of the Muslim world are leftists.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, described by The New York Times as “Colombia’s first leftist president,” has severed his nation’s relations with Israel and never solely used the “genocide” libel towards Israel however accused Israel of participating in “the extermination of an entire people.”

(As I’ve famous for many years, reality is a liberal and conservative worth; however it’s not, and has by no means been, a left-wing worth.)

The leftist president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, severed his nation’s relations with Israel lower than three weeks after Oct. 7. Bolivia completely illustrates the common left-wing hatred of Israel: Bolivia’s earlier left-wing president, Evo Morales, severed Bolivia’s relations with Israel in 2009; and Morales’ conservative successor, Jeanine Anez, restored relations with Israel in 2020.

Meanwhile, essentially the most pro-Israel chief on the earth immediately is the conservative president of Argentina, Javier Milei.

Most American Jews are liberal, however many are leftist, and so they embrace the anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas line. (At this time, “pro-Palestinian” means “pro-Hamas” simply as, throughout World War II, “pro-German” meant “pro-Nazi.”)

For many Jews who abandon perception within the Torah, leftism fills the non secular gap created by that abandonment. This is equally true for a lot of non-Jews, however there’s a main distinction: Christians who abandon Christian religion don’t nonetheless name themselves Christian, nor does anybody else; however Jews who abandon Jewish religion usually proceed to name themselves Jews (particularly when attacking Israel), and so do others.

Psychopathology and left-wing ideology are the 2 major explanations for why Jews comparable to these in teams like “Jewish Voice for Peace” and “IfNotNow” willingly function helpful idiots for many who want to exterminate the Jewish state and the Jewish individuals. Including them.

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