After a horrifying five days, I took to Instagram a few hours ago to post a stream-of-consciousness that’s already reached 25,000 people. I decided to post it here too. You can play it above. Please share it if it helps you send a message to people.
It is amazing that for the first time in our lives, terrorists have provided endless video and photo evidence of their crimes, and the entire world is asking for proof that it is happening. To such an extent that President Biden had to return to his pulpit today to say that he has double-checked and now personally traumatized himself to look at picture sof decapitated Jewish babies himself, to show that it is real.
As new scenes of horror emerged from the Kibbutz Be'eri pogrom where children were slain in front of their parents, their severed body parts found with knives still in them, and 108 bodies dumped in a communal dining hall reminding Jewish people of scenes like those from the pogroms our familes escaped from (mine in Lithuania and Poland), there was - simultaneously – a tone deaf meme going around, created by a JEWISH person. Uh-huh. Some Gen Z celebrity blogger named Matt who is giving antizionist has decided it’s their place to let everyone off the hook. You can sit this one out, according to Matt. I made my own version of Matt’s meme:
The irony is that this “us against the world” feeling that delusional cowards are inspiring in Jewish people right now means we’re all going to fight for Israel with every single bit of chutzpah we’ve got. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
But it would be nice if you agreed that we deserve to fight for our lives.
Except for the past decade-plus, the intelligentsia have been indoctrinated into believing that Jewish people should be the sacrifical lambs for everyone else’s rights. Right? The same people who told us “light-skinned” Jews that we have the same "white privilege" as any non-Jewish American or European are the same people minimizing the murders of light-skinned Jews in Israel this week. It's not a coincidence. It’s been part of the plan of erasing our identities all along, forcing us into cookie-cutter shapes to fit race theories that have excluded us from the jump-off, so that we can be the ultimate scapegoat. The leftists thought we were "centering" ourselves in every conversation that involved their human rights. If we were it was because the leftists were "centering" us, obsessionally. They were blaming Israel and the Jewish people for all of it: racism, the war on women, the climate, homophobia. We fought back for our human rights, and our identity.
I said it all three years ago in September 2020.
And you know what’s going to happen next? Yep. A whole new wave of oppression olympics, rejecting the notion that Jewish people could ever be victims of anything. Because look over here at this! Etc. Despite Hamas’s self-publishing of their crimes against the Jewish people. The playbook of antisemitism since the dawn of time is that the Jews are lying about everything that happens to them so don't believe a word they say. Just in case you don't know antisemitism 101. You saw a video? you say. The person who shot the video said it’s real, eh? Oh, I don’t know… I mean do you know this Hamas terrorist personally? Can you really confirm the video was real? (It must be exhausting to be these people).
All that said, if you're a Jewish performer or artist and you're choosing silence, you're actively harming Jewish people by diminishing our cause. You are being used as examples by our enemies to showcase that we are, in fact, all lying. Cos you’re their favorite! They love your movies and your pop songs, and they would rather just see you out and about living your best lives and decide that these other Jewish people online are just victims of their own paranoid inter-generational trauma. Phew!
Jewish celebrities: Don’t sell us out. You took our support when it served you. You tokenized your faith and your ethnicity. Have some dignity.
There is not a single reason why any Jewish person who cares about the survival of our people, our traditions, our heritage, would not side with Israel unless they too have had so much poison poured in their ears that they internalized the hatred against us. Is that you?
The onus is on you, friends