American Jewish community leadership needs a refresh for about 50 different reasons. The reason that these things are happening in the West without serious repercussions is because the ruling class has signaled their tacit approval. BTW Donald Trump is not part of that club. It’s also happening because some people are confused about what freedom means and how to preserve it.
The election is important. No, it’s not everything, but it’s not nothing either. These are not normal times and it’s not a normal election. The stakes are a lot higher for a number of obvious reasons, one of which - blatant anti-Semitism and the embrace of barbarism - you and many others spend a lot of justified effort to combat.
Being the combative Jew is better than being the passive Jew. It’s not entirely up to us to cure Western societal malaise, but is up to us to condemn it and to be good citizens of our countries until (and if) it’s no longer a viable proposition. I still have hope for America. The majority of Americans are not racists or Hamasniks. It’s particular segment of society that is causing most of the trouble here, mostly upper middle class Left leaning credit card nihilists with daddy issues, cosplaying to fill the void in their lives. The far right and the dipshit libertarian Jew haters are a tiny group.
We will get through this. But we need to be realistic and we have to choose sides. Some beliefs are not viable in the face of the massive increase in anti-Semitism. The problem in America isn’t Trump. It’s the people calling Trump a Nazi who are the actual problem, projecting their garbage beliefs onto the rest of us.
Again: The DNC globalist Davosphere is inhabited by the same A-Bomb rattling ideological utopians and malignant narcissistic totalitarians who burned the 20th century to the ground. The manufactured division and hatred is purely pathological, not political. It's a disease. In human moral terms, was Hitler, Stalin or Mao sane? Painting Trump as Hitler makes the puppet masters behind the MSM, Goebbels. Six million Jews plus another six million Christians, Muslims and atheists of every stripe, went to the ovens together. Everyone else cowered in fear as the bombs fell, died on the battlefield, or perished in the crossfire. WWII and the Jewish holocaust sprang from the same moral vacuum now painting half the American population as "terrorists". It is a LIE, and everyone knew/knows it is a LIE. Including the perps who manufactured it, and continue to profit from it.
Ovens and the disappeared? The Starmer horror in England and the incarceration of free British citizens for thought and speech crimes now, with a nod from the DNC, boldly sent to American shores. In Canada the ever rising popularity, of the ever expanding euthanasia center, utilized by the Canadian bureaucratic surveillance state, on the poor, depressed and anxious. (The problem of excess labor solved at last.)
The empowered fascism of the Iranian mullahs funding Hezbollah and the war on Israel is, like war in the Ukraine, happening because the Biden/Harris monstrosity is allowing it to happen. The squealing little anti-Semite campus piggies are the purely symptomatic result of the ignorance and spiritual/moral bankruptcy wrought by the six decade war against the American middle class by criminal financiers and the political sycophants serving them. How different is state sanctioned violence against Jews in this century or the last and the DNC/Harris wink and nod repeat of Kristallnacht in the Covid riots that assaulted small businesses and took civilian lives during the lockdown. Bail for the looters all around.
There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. When those are gone Israel is gone. Stand together or perish alone. Depart the psyop and live.
Israel will survive regardless. That’s what Jews do. I agree that the interests of a free America and a free Israel are mostly the same, although not identical. America will survive too. But we have to take out the Marxist trash. It’s a universal problem across the West.
As a thought: The war is and has always been on consciousness. (I'm beginning to believe, the word itself, should be capitalized.)
Tech opened the door to a new age and a new consciousness. A new consciousness we the people and other free peoples of the world are only beginning to understand. Our problem? The hijacking of the vision, promise, and possibilities being offered to the world, by self interested and avaricious rigged game retro ideologues. And, their attempted imposition of a world sized, sterile, anti-human, hyperrealistic lie built on fear, prejudice and the repression of civil liberties. These things are clear confirmation that "ism's" as we have understood them in the past, are dead. The recognition and affirmation of the natural human moral reason in all peoples was enshrined in our Republic and Constitution by America's founding fathers. (For the tender and touchy--add mothers.) Every study I've ever seen indicates that a well informed and educated citizen with access to a truth/fact based reality will make decisions that support a healthy culture, civilization and community.. The intentionally distorted, fractured, manufactured, hate filled reality now subsuming and preventing the healthy national dialogue that America and the world deserves, is clearly a psyop. Healthy human life, liberty and community cannot exist inside a LIE.
Israel or America, in either instance, only through the strengthening commitment to first moral human principals on a one by one human re-awakening and a renewed truth/fact based national conversation can we begin to build the healthy human reality capable of providing the necessary vision for the future the world deserves.
One of your best ever. Thank you for so adequately and articulately expressing my sentiments. Everything that needed to be said is here but regrettably no one is listening. The utter ignorance, the utter foolishness and I might add the utter desperation of those who have sunk so low to use H—-r and the Shoah comparisons just
Thank you for your truth, Eve. As an Israeli, I have to say that this past year I was envious of my fellow jews from the diaspora. Because it seemed you managed to stick together and unite through this awful time while here in Israel although there was a point of unity, we are back to square one: divided as ever. I guess a lot about this is to do with social media. In psychological terms, I would argue we are all stuck in the paranoid- schizoid position and we all need to grow up and realize that the world is so much more depressing than that.
I loved this piece Eve, I agree that the most important thing we can do at this point is to fight together that no matter which side wins the election- we will have a place in the table, and we will have a voice that no one can ignore.
Sarit, we are with you - all of you. It breaks my heart to see divisiveness amongst Israelis. I know the challenges are immense and the situation is so hard to fully resolve. Regardless, I hope every Israeli knows in their heart they are not alone, remembers that they have each other and the global Jewish community that will continue to thrive no matter how much the world does not want us. I beseech every Sabra - look left, look right - these are your brothers and sisters. We are trying to do the same amonst our fellow Jews in the diaspora, who are also turning on each other. Am Yisrael Chai
Harris, probably unwittingly, is actually exploiting Trump’s one “innovation” by abusing “Never Again” for her own benefit: the idea that nothing matters anymore, and anyone can say what previously was unsayable because there are no real consequences for such behavior anymore, if you’re willing to just ride out the minimal news cycle and have no shame. Everything you say about her seems correct to me.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump cannot be trusted. In the final stretch of the election he is publicly and repeatedly sucking up to Muslims, saying “all they want is peace.” Trump is no savior to Jews. As the potential next president, I wish he were, but he will do what is in his personal interest no matter what and it’s a mistake to view him as a protector or a savior for any reason (his Jewish family members, past support for Israel, etc.). If he’s elected I pray he proves me wrong.
I see no good option and like the rest of decent America I am bewildered and astonished so many people are willing to engage in such blatant Jew-hatred (or virtual ghettoization) for whatever they get out of it in exchange for the moral cost to them—if there even is one.
Sadly, even several of my own friends engage in lazy denial of the obvious crisis. The rest just don’t say anything, or may not even have the slightest clue about anything more than the tip of the iceberg. I can think of only one of my hundreds of close and social media friends who have commented even about the violent hate marches, much less the antisemitic poison in publishing, education, unions, city government, etc.
These chanting subhumans have showed up to our local JCC and even my temple here in Arizona—and we generally have it good here, compared to a lot of other places. The picture of the woman in London forced to endure that vile, brainwashed mob is heartbreaking. She could be my mother.
Sounds like your only news sources are MSNBC and CNN. Stop exclusively listening to what Trump's detractors say about him. Try to actually listen to more than the out of context edited sound bites his detractors allow you to hear Trump is saying. Unfortunately it sounds like you already drank the Koolaid though and there's no real antidote to the venom you've already ingested. Sorry if this sounds harsh. I'm Canadian, just calling it like I see it.
That’s a ridiculous assertion, as I watch and read neither CNN nor MSNBC. In fact I actively avoid each of those (and NPR, NYT, WaPo, etc.) due to their overt anti-Israel bias. I am not a progressive or even a liberal. Your comment isn’t harsh, it’s just flat-out incorrect and unnecessarily rude.
For the record, the reporting on Trump appearing in Michigan to plead for the Muslim vote came from the Washington Examiner, which is conservative:
Point taken Kip. Although I disagree about your assertions about the reason Trump is asking for Michigan Mohammedans to vote for him. There are surely a number of Americans Muslims who disagree with their imams and the hateful rhetoric about israelis. Just as there are Muslim Israelis who proudly stand with the IDF and Israel.
Eve's post echoes the disgust I also feel with this cheapening of the Holocaust by false incantations of "nazi" and "hitler" directed towards a former president who also tells Jews to "wake up." Also agree that the pen is mightier than the sword, but sometimes you need the sword. When they come to your door and all you have is the pen, better hope it is sharp and edged. The quote from John Wayne brought to mind the following quote from a well known Shawnee Chief and Warrior:
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."
Sadly, the DNC narrative is sticking. People are buying into the fascist narrative all too willingly. What msnbc did was despicable, yet will the majority of their Jewish audience stop watching that channel? So many "intelligent" Jews claim they read the NY Slimes because they need to know what the "other side" is saying. Really? Until i see a banner headline stating that what msnbc and their ilk did was reprehensible - it will happen again in a different form - i will pay them no heed. Eve, you are spot on in everything you have said and I am grateful for your having a pen to fight with.
No! Absolutely no to this article. No fascist is acceptable. It is a lie. Trump isn’t a fascist they are. He will win by wide margins bar the cheating and this Nazi bullshit shall not be forgiven ever. It is fucking disgusting, his daughter is a Jew, Israel supports him 85%. This is madness. Harris is a fucking idiot and i will never forgive MSNBC and the left for minimizing Hitler to get elected. Fuck them.
Literally lol’d at the cross/sword anecdote. Ppl who know, know, and ppl who don’t will be sure to tell you you’re wrong. We are constantly being called out for every little thing, bc everyone else knows more than us about us. Even fellow Jews! The gaslighting is insane. You have pinpointed everything on the fuckin head here. And Kapo Jews will be the end of us. Normalizing the entire Holocaust “comparison” and using our own phrasing and trigger words against us? Manipulation at its finest.
Thank you for your words and your action. You are fucking awesome 💗🙏🇮🇱👏
Absolutely. They sure put that treason behind us. Barely a peep out of mainstream news about the attempted murder in Chicago by an illegal Muslim immigrant who shouted God is great and this was caught on ring camera. So far not charged as a hate crime. Keeping his immigration status secret.
Thank you, Eve Barlow for writing this incredible post. You have captured it all and I hope everyone reads and shares. Jewish congregation leaders need to read this and share this truth.
I will vote for Harris bc Trump does not believe in the rule of law - I’m an immigration lawyer and know more than most what he and Stephen Miller are capable of. For those of you who are concerned about the border crisis, my clients come legally and represent the best and the brightest. It was a NIGHTMARE.
That being said, I don’t think Harris understands the conflict and I’m incredibly concerned by her comber’s.
Eve - so grateful for your voice. I was accused of not being a “good Jew” - there are no good Jews or bad Jews. There are just Jews with myriad opinions on a variety of issues. No one gets to tell us who we are!
Seems to me the biggest shame and danger is that so many Jews have forgotten what it means to be a Jew (in all its forms) and so many Americans (in all forms) have forgotten what America is supposed to be. The intersection of the two is devastating. The intersection of Jewish tradition, thought and history with the bold democratic success of America should be a shining example of what is possible. We have just to look at Israel (with all of its challenges, human foibles and imperfection) as a LIVING example.
First, I saw the earring, thought it was a cross and thought, Cool, she’s in solidarity with our Christian friends. (The massacres of Christians have been ignored by the media too.)
Second, your insight along with your heart on the page are breathtaking. You are spot on with every point you make. Thank you thank you…! 🙏
American Jewish community leadership needs a refresh for about 50 different reasons. The reason that these things are happening in the West without serious repercussions is because the ruling class has signaled their tacit approval. BTW Donald Trump is not part of that club. It’s also happening because some people are confused about what freedom means and how to preserve it.
The election is important. No, it’s not everything, but it’s not nothing either. These are not normal times and it’s not a normal election. The stakes are a lot higher for a number of obvious reasons, one of which - blatant anti-Semitism and the embrace of barbarism - you and many others spend a lot of justified effort to combat.
Being the combative Jew is better than being the passive Jew. It’s not entirely up to us to cure Western societal malaise, but is up to us to condemn it and to be good citizens of our countries until (and if) it’s no longer a viable proposition. I still have hope for America. The majority of Americans are not racists or Hamasniks. It’s particular segment of society that is causing most of the trouble here, mostly upper middle class Left leaning credit card nihilists with daddy issues, cosplaying to fill the void in their lives. The far right and the dipshit libertarian Jew haters are a tiny group.
We will get through this. But we need to be realistic and we have to choose sides. Some beliefs are not viable in the face of the massive increase in anti-Semitism. The problem in America isn’t Trump. It’s the people calling Trump a Nazi who are the actual problem, projecting their garbage beliefs onto the rest of us.
Well said ... totally agree!!
Again: The DNC globalist Davosphere is inhabited by the same A-Bomb rattling ideological utopians and malignant narcissistic totalitarians who burned the 20th century to the ground. The manufactured division and hatred is purely pathological, not political. It's a disease. In human moral terms, was Hitler, Stalin or Mao sane? Painting Trump as Hitler makes the puppet masters behind the MSM, Goebbels. Six million Jews plus another six million Christians, Muslims and atheists of every stripe, went to the ovens together. Everyone else cowered in fear as the bombs fell, died on the battlefield, or perished in the crossfire. WWII and the Jewish holocaust sprang from the same moral vacuum now painting half the American population as "terrorists". It is a LIE, and everyone knew/knows it is a LIE. Including the perps who manufactured it, and continue to profit from it.
Ovens and the disappeared? The Starmer horror in England and the incarceration of free British citizens for thought and speech crimes now, with a nod from the DNC, boldly sent to American shores. In Canada the ever rising popularity, of the ever expanding euthanasia center, utilized by the Canadian bureaucratic surveillance state, on the poor, depressed and anxious. (The problem of excess labor solved at last.)
The empowered fascism of the Iranian mullahs funding Hezbollah and the war on Israel is, like war in the Ukraine, happening because the Biden/Harris monstrosity is allowing it to happen. The squealing little anti-Semite campus piggies are the purely symptomatic result of the ignorance and spiritual/moral bankruptcy wrought by the six decade war against the American middle class by criminal financiers and the political sycophants serving them. How different is state sanctioned violence against Jews in this century or the last and the DNC/Harris wink and nod repeat of Kristallnacht in the Covid riots that assaulted small businesses and took civilian lives during the lockdown. Bail for the looters all around.
There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. When those are gone Israel is gone. Stand together or perish alone. Depart the psyop and live.
Israel will survive regardless. That’s what Jews do. I agree that the interests of a free America and a free Israel are mostly the same, although not identical. America will survive too. But we have to take out the Marxist trash. It’s a universal problem across the West.
As a thought: The war is and has always been on consciousness. (I'm beginning to believe, the word itself, should be capitalized.)
Tech opened the door to a new age and a new consciousness. A new consciousness we the people and other free peoples of the world are only beginning to understand. Our problem? The hijacking of the vision, promise, and possibilities being offered to the world, by self interested and avaricious rigged game retro ideologues. And, their attempted imposition of a world sized, sterile, anti-human, hyperrealistic lie built on fear, prejudice and the repression of civil liberties. These things are clear confirmation that "ism's" as we have understood them in the past, are dead. The recognition and affirmation of the natural human moral reason in all peoples was enshrined in our Republic and Constitution by America's founding fathers. (For the tender and touchy--add mothers.) Every study I've ever seen indicates that a well informed and educated citizen with access to a truth/fact based reality will make decisions that support a healthy culture, civilization and community.. The intentionally distorted, fractured, manufactured, hate filled reality now subsuming and preventing the healthy national dialogue that America and the world deserves, is clearly a psyop. Healthy human life, liberty and community cannot exist inside a LIE.
Israel or America, in either instance, only through the strengthening commitment to first moral human principals on a one by one human re-awakening and a renewed truth/fact based national conversation can we begin to build the healthy human reality capable of providing the necessary vision for the future the world deserves.
Pardon the rant Tanto. :)
One of your best ever. Thank you for so adequately and articulately expressing my sentiments. Everything that needed to be said is here but regrettably no one is listening. The utter ignorance, the utter foolishness and I might add the utter desperation of those who have sunk so low to use H—-r and the Shoah comparisons just
Is beyond my comprehension.
Thank you for your truth, Eve. As an Israeli, I have to say that this past year I was envious of my fellow jews from the diaspora. Because it seemed you managed to stick together and unite through this awful time while here in Israel although there was a point of unity, we are back to square one: divided as ever. I guess a lot about this is to do with social media. In psychological terms, I would argue we are all stuck in the paranoid- schizoid position and we all need to grow up and realize that the world is so much more depressing than that.
I loved this piece Eve, I agree that the most important thing we can do at this point is to fight together that no matter which side wins the election- we will have a place in the table, and we will have a voice that no one can ignore.
Hoping your words echo through. 🫶
Sarit, we are with you - all of you. It breaks my heart to see divisiveness amongst Israelis. I know the challenges are immense and the situation is so hard to fully resolve. Regardless, I hope every Israeli knows in their heart they are not alone, remembers that they have each other and the global Jewish community that will continue to thrive no matter how much the world does not want us. I beseech every Sabra - look left, look right - these are your brothers and sisters. We are trying to do the same amonst our fellow Jews in the diaspora, who are also turning on each other. Am Yisrael Chai
Harris, probably unwittingly, is actually exploiting Trump’s one “innovation” by abusing “Never Again” for her own benefit: the idea that nothing matters anymore, and anyone can say what previously was unsayable because there are no real consequences for such behavior anymore, if you’re willing to just ride out the minimal news cycle and have no shame. Everything you say about her seems correct to me.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump cannot be trusted. In the final stretch of the election he is publicly and repeatedly sucking up to Muslims, saying “all they want is peace.” Trump is no savior to Jews. As the potential next president, I wish he were, but he will do what is in his personal interest no matter what and it’s a mistake to view him as a protector or a savior for any reason (his Jewish family members, past support for Israel, etc.). If he’s elected I pray he proves me wrong.
I see no good option and like the rest of decent America I am bewildered and astonished so many people are willing to engage in such blatant Jew-hatred (or virtual ghettoization) for whatever they get out of it in exchange for the moral cost to them—if there even is one.
Sadly, even several of my own friends engage in lazy denial of the obvious crisis. The rest just don’t say anything, or may not even have the slightest clue about anything more than the tip of the iceberg. I can think of only one of my hundreds of close and social media friends who have commented even about the violent hate marches, much less the antisemitic poison in publishing, education, unions, city government, etc.
These chanting subhumans have showed up to our local JCC and even my temple here in Arizona—and we generally have it good here, compared to a lot of other places. The picture of the woman in London forced to endure that vile, brainwashed mob is heartbreaking. She could be my mother.
As I said at the very top of my piece, our politicians cannot be trusted.
Sounds like your only news sources are MSNBC and CNN. Stop exclusively listening to what Trump's detractors say about him. Try to actually listen to more than the out of context edited sound bites his detractors allow you to hear Trump is saying. Unfortunately it sounds like you already drank the Koolaid though and there's no real antidote to the venom you've already ingested. Sorry if this sounds harsh. I'm Canadian, just calling it like I see it.
That’s a ridiculous assertion, as I watch and read neither CNN nor MSNBC. In fact I actively avoid each of those (and NPR, NYT, WaPo, etc.) due to their overt anti-Israel bias. I am not a progressive or even a liberal. Your comment isn’t harsh, it’s just flat-out incorrect and unnecessarily rude.
For the record, the reporting on Trump appearing in Michigan to plead for the Muslim vote came from the Washington Examiner, which is conservative:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3204853/trump-attacks-liz-cheney-at-michigan-rally/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3204772/trump-touts-endorsements-muslim-leaders/
Point taken Kip. Although I disagree about your assertions about the reason Trump is asking for Michigan Mohammedans to vote for him. There are surely a number of Americans Muslims who disagree with their imams and the hateful rhetoric about israelis. Just as there are Muslim Israelis who proudly stand with the IDF and Israel.
Eve's post echoes the disgust I also feel with this cheapening of the Holocaust by false incantations of "nazi" and "hitler" directed towards a former president who also tells Jews to "wake up." Also agree that the pen is mightier than the sword, but sometimes you need the sword. When they come to your door and all you have is the pen, better hope it is sharp and edged. The quote from John Wayne brought to mind the following quote from a well known Shawnee Chief and Warrior:
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."
- Chief Tecumseh
Sadly, the DNC narrative is sticking. People are buying into the fascist narrative all too willingly. What msnbc did was despicable, yet will the majority of their Jewish audience stop watching that channel? So many "intelligent" Jews claim they read the NY Slimes because they need to know what the "other side" is saying. Really? Until i see a banner headline stating that what msnbc and their ilk did was reprehensible - it will happen again in a different form - i will pay them no heed. Eve, you are spot on in everything you have said and I am grateful for your having a pen to fight with.
No! Absolutely no to this article. No fascist is acceptable. It is a lie. Trump isn’t a fascist they are. He will win by wide margins bar the cheating and this Nazi bullshit shall not be forgiven ever. It is fucking disgusting, his daughter is a Jew, Israel supports him 85%. This is madness. Harris is a fucking idiot and i will never forgive MSNBC and the left for minimizing Hitler to get elected. Fuck them.
Your pic looks like the sheriff has arrived. We ride at dawn.
You hit the nail on the head, yet again.
Every word of this rings true with me. Thank you Eve for being that Jew. I am very grateful and proud to subscribe
Literally lol’d at the cross/sword anecdote. Ppl who know, know, and ppl who don’t will be sure to tell you you’re wrong. We are constantly being called out for every little thing, bc everyone else knows more than us about us. Even fellow Jews! The gaslighting is insane. You have pinpointed everything on the fuckin head here. And Kapo Jews will be the end of us. Normalizing the entire Holocaust “comparison” and using our own phrasing and trigger words against us? Manipulation at its finest.
Thank you for your words and your action. You are fucking awesome 💗🙏🇮🇱👏
Hahahaha thank you
Did you notice the wild flailing of Hitler accusations from the Dems immediately following the Tabatabai leak? The scope and sequence was apparent.
Yes I did.
Absolutely. They sure put that treason behind us. Barely a peep out of mainstream news about the attempted murder in Chicago by an illegal Muslim immigrant who shouted God is great and this was caught on ring camera. So far not charged as a hate crime. Keeping his immigration status secret.
Thank you, Eve Barlow for writing this incredible post. You have captured it all and I hope everyone reads and shares. Jewish congregation leaders need to read this and share this truth.
I will vote for Harris bc Trump does not believe in the rule of law - I’m an immigration lawyer and know more than most what he and Stephen Miller are capable of. For those of you who are concerned about the border crisis, my clients come legally and represent the best and the brightest. It was a NIGHTMARE.
That being said, I don’t think Harris understands the conflict and I’m incredibly concerned by her comber’s.
Eve - so grateful for your voice. I was accused of not being a “good Jew” - there are no good Jews or bad Jews. There are just Jews with myriad opinions on a variety of issues. No one gets to tell us who we are!
Amen.
Seems to me the biggest shame and danger is that so many Jews have forgotten what it means to be a Jew (in all its forms) and so many Americans (in all forms) have forgotten what America is supposed to be. The intersection of the two is devastating. The intersection of Jewish tradition, thought and history with the bold democratic success of America should be a shining example of what is possible. We have just to look at Israel (with all of its challenges, human foibles and imperfection) as a LIVING example.
First, I saw the earring, thought it was a cross and thought, Cool, she’s in solidarity with our Christian friends. (The massacres of Christians have been ignored by the media too.)
Second, your insight along with your heart on the page are breathtaking. You are spot on with every point you make. Thank you thank you…! 🙏
To be fair I've always wanted to wear a cross… I think it's beautiful.
There are some gorgeous crosses out there. 🥰❤️
Wonderful!!! Xxx