Uncanny Parallels and Striking Contrasts-Antisemitism in 1930s and Now

There are uncanny parallels and striking contrasts between the pervasive antisemitism in 1930’s and now.The euphemistic slogans, such as ‘There’s Only One Solution, Intifada Revolution’, mean the genocide of the Jews. In this regard, In this regard note the obvious connection between ‘One Solution’ and ‘Final Solution’. But there are also striking contrasts. Most importantly, we now have Israel. My Father Z”L would painfully recount how in the Holocaust there was no choice. There was no country willing to intervene and save the Jews. There were some individual heroes who managed to save a very few Jews and we honor them for their selfless good deeds taken at great personal risk. However, that’s the point, Jews were saved and many more could have been rescued. But, a callous uninterested world was complicit, because not only did they not rescue Jews wholesale, they even frustrated attempts to save Jews by closing off escape routes and preventing the funding of rescue efforts.
As children who grew up in a world where Israel existed and miraculously rescued the Jews of Ethiopia and intervened to save Jews wherever they were threatened, including in the miraculous rescue at Entebbe, we couldn’t really appreciate the ugliness of the world, as it existed in the 1930’s. Our weltanshauung included the successful fight to save Soviet Jewry in the early 1970’s. We could not imagine a world that did little or nothing to save the Jews during the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we cannot be complacent. We must unite to defeat antisemitism and celebrate and support Israel. May Israel defeat the evil that is Hamas and its cohorts and may the hostages and valiant soldiers of the @IDF return home safely. Am Yisrael Chai. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uncanny-parallels-and-striking-contrasts-antisemitism-in-1930s-and-now/

Biden Is Risking The Jewish Vote

President Biden is risking the Jewish vote. History demonstrates that sitting Presidents who turn on Israel always end up in failure and defeat. On April 7, 1992, then-Senator Joe Biden criticized those who interfered in Israel’s affairs.He declared: “The absurd notion that publicly vilifying Israel will somehow change its policy; who in the hell do we think we’re dealing with? What makes us think, even if the administration is 100% correct on the policy, what makes them think that in the midst of an election campaign, in the midst of a so-called peace talk, that we can publicly vilify a nation, persons, and think that a leader is going to say, now I will yield before the world and God, because I’ve been told? What in the hell do we think we’re doing?” He also noted, “Why, why is there any incentive for the Arabs to make any compromise, any compromise, in the peace talks? Why, if they know that they must only wait for the United States to do their bargaining for them? Why would they compromise? Why would they be reasonable?” https://www.jns.org/biden-is-risking-the-jewish-vote/ via @JNS_org