Throw the Jew down the well

There are many reasons I am glad to be a Jew, but the main one is that nobody could make active fun of their own imminent attempted genocide quite like we can:

I don’t know who made this updated remix of Borat, but whoever you are: kol hakavod.

At least we can laugh. There are several clips going around online via the help of Al Jazeera and AJ+ (who we obviously can’t trust because Hamas bankroll those media outlets), in which Israelis are allegedly poking fun on TikTok at suffering Palestinians. These are being shared all over the internet to show how callous, depolorable and demonic Jewish people are, laughing at the pain of civilian Palestinians. Never-mind their Jihadi death cult leaders just laughed and jeered in the streets of Gaza while displaying naked rape victims as trophies! Oh no that we’ll ignore. Never-mind the regular street parties in Gaza and The West Bank where they throw candy and confetti in the air every time a Jew dies. Oh no, forget that.

I will concede that two wrongs do not make a right, but I simply don’t believe these TikToks were made by Jewish people, because I have watched a few (forcibly — Hamas fans have tweeted them at me with the sentiment “iS tHiS yOu, zIoNisT piG?”), and they are tragically unfunny. We have research teams on them trying to determine the original source, and nothing has been confirmed. But my strong suggestion is that we don’t claim them. These are not by us. And if they are, we have bigger problems than we thought.

Thank fuck, we are funny. We like to laugh, especially when we are in pain. Which brings me onto my thoughts this evening: pain, and specifically trauma. I have read a lot of books about trauma in the past 12 months, because I am a fun person, and apparently we’ve all read “The Body Keeps The Score” (have we? Or did most of us just keep it on the shelf after attempting the first 20 pages?), so we all know that there are three types of responses to trauma:

1/ Fight
2/ Flight
3/ Freeze

I was thinking about this earlier, with respect to the vast array of reactions from our fellow Jews to this grand and terrifying reprise of 1938. And I was thinking about how we can use these three responses to categorize the tribe in a neat way. It is no secret that all of us Jews have inter-generational trauma, given we are a people who are hunted out of our homes in every generation. Perseverance is in our blood. So when the trauma comes online (hi), as it’s doing right now in response to October 7th, and the worldwide resurrection of Jew hatred, all of us will either engage in fight, flight or freeze.

I am in fight mode. I’m a Zionist, and I have a gun. (Not a real one, yet, although I do have a Taser on my night stand). This is my gun. I think most of the loud Zionists we see on the TV, in the streets, on Instagram Lives, and on Twitter are all in fight mode. And who else is in fight mode? Israel. The IDF is the reason we’re not in 1938. Instead of wearing pinstripe uniforms with numbers tattoo’d on our arms, we now have men and women in full military gear with weapons strapped to their backs. That is why I wear an IDF t-shirt. The IDF is our resistance. Because of the IDF we are no longer a defenceless people. Because of the IDF we have Israel, and that is the biggest middle finger in the air to every “Free Palestine” activist in the street right now. Cry harder.

My theory is that the antizionist Jews showing up at Grand Central Station in New York, and putting links to Gaza Aid fundraisers in their Instagram posts (thereby immediately lining the pockets of Hamas), and joining the on-campus terror marches with their feminazi pals, are in flight mode. They ran away to the other side. They looked at themselves in the mirror and thought: nope, let’s just join the Hitler youth instead.

In Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery she talks about the disconnect that can happen when trauma kicks in:

“Traumatic events call into question basic human relationships. They break the attachments of family, friendship, love, and community. They shatter the construction of the self that is formed and sustained in relation to others. They undermine the belief systems that give meaning to human experience. They violate the victim’s faith in a natural or divine order and cast the victim into a state of existential crisis.”

The Jewish people who are liking self-hating Jewish Voice For Peace posts right now are definitely having an existential crisis. They flew the nest and wound up in a forest shaped like a Swastika. I don’t feel sorry for antizionist Jews. They are “pick me”s and they are the bullseye on my dartboard. Antizionist Jews are already our downfall.

Finally, we have the freeze response. Way too many reasonable Jews are frozen. Just mute. Panicking inside but absolutely unwilling to do anything about it. The way I see it, you can either just sit around and wait for the really bad thing to happen, or you can use your time while you have it. There are too many Jewish people who have influence and have remained totally schtum. What about all the power players on Wall Street? What about all the Jewish people who still work in legacy media? What about the famous Jews who could help normalize this fear we all have right now? I’m not asking Steven Spielberg to out himself as a Zionist (god forbid). I’m not asking HAIM to post an Israeli flag emoji. I’m not asking Scarlett Johansson to tell Angelina Jolie to just sit this one out. They could merely express some notion of - shit this is bad. It’s not a secret that they’re Jews. Why are they standing still?

We are in survival mode. It doesn't matter how much evidence exists or how much clarity there is, the progressives of the West are choosing the people who burned babies alive. The worst has already happened and still the progressives don't see. And don’t want to see. They don't have to want to hang out with us to believe us. But they don’t even believe us.

They don’t understand the hate we experience, and they hide behind a people (the faraway Palestinians they don’t know) whose voice is stifled by the same enemy we are trying to eliminate. All the while, the Arab nations are rubbing their knees in glee while exploiting Palestinian human shields, and letting them die, just to make Israel, and the Jews, look bad.

They are ushering in our deaths. The London university UCL literally called for it today. They’re not even talking about “Zionists” any more.

In 2007, I went to UCL to do an LLM in Human Rights Law. I smelled a heavy dose of the antisemitism on campus and I started to understand how antisemitism was woven into Human Rights discourse. Suffice to say I didn’t follow through with my plan of becoming a human rights barrister and instead became a music writer. Today, UCL graduated from being superficially anti-Israel to supporting the genocide of all Jews.

Of course, the antisemitism eventually caught up with my music writing career too. You know the story there. As accustomed as I am to the terrain I exist in, having been cut out of every single major publication I wrote for during the course of the last half decade because I believe Israel has a right to exist, I still wanted to set shit on fire when I saw this hypocritical dross in New York Magazine this afternoon:

Way to minimize editors who clearly want to get away with glorifying the terrorism of Hamas and ignore the threat to Jewish people and Israel. We are living in loopy land.

I know a lot of my progressive Jewish friends are coming to some rude awakenings right now but you’re still in the freeze. You watched as we warned you that this was exactly what would happen. You didn’t listen. You participated in it, hoping that you’d be excused when the time came for us all to be attacked. And you actively smeared us as fringe, or conservative, or overreactive, or — RACIST!

I’m not fringe. I’m not conservative. I’m not overreactive. I’m not Islamophobic, but I’ve called out radical Islamism. You were a bystander in this. You let us take the heat for the things you weren’t prepared to say.

They want to throw the Jew down the well. So stop making it easier for them.