NEVER AGAIN OR ONCE AGAIN? Ruth S. King
Tonight, on Passover we will recount the history of the escape from Pharaonic tyranny, and the sojourn to Israel which revealed the Ten Commandments for decency at a time of chaos and barbarism. We will recall the Passover of 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto when unarmed civilians rebelled and held off the Nazis for over a month- an epic rebellion during an epic time. Then we will pray for the souls of the innocent murdered civilians in Israel, Ukraine, and the persecuted Christians throughout the world.
Finally, we will retell the story of 1948, when once again the seas parted for the hulls of ships bringing the wretched survivors of the Holocaust as well as the refugees from Moslem states to the new/ancient homeland of the Jewish people. The Palestinian Jews who lived there from time immemorial welcomed them in a historic rescue with shelter, counseling, vocational training, immediate citizenship, and an army to protect them from the ensuing wars and terrorism.
Thanks to the Abraham Accords many former enemies have turned to accommodation and recognition of Israel and they too will reap the blessings of Israel’s amazing and outsize research and development of life enhancing technology and science.
However, breaking with tradition, four new questions hang in the air:
One: Why is it that in the United States, an exceptional and glorious corner of the Diaspora, the academies which should be citadels of learning and free speech permit hateful groups to libel and distort Israel’s legitimacy and history but censor the language and opinions of critics their faux narrative?
Two: Why does the mainstream media airbrush growing Anti-Semitism — including harassment and violence, and defacement of shrines, cemeteries, and synagogues — while treating every other minority victim claim as a “hate crime”? And why do they downplay the bloodcurdling threats toward America and Israel that emanate from Iran?
Three: Why are the legislators in the corridors of power so loath to criticize and censor the vile and virulent anti-Semitism of so many fellow Democrat members of Congress, bowing to partisan solidarity with these common bigots? They are political vultures whose support of all “progressive” policies borders on risible street theater.
Four: Why do too many of our brethren who trumpet every “woke” cult assiduously avoid supporting Israel and denouncing the murder of Israeli citizens going about their daily business? Is there a yet undiscovered commandment that invokes blind adherence to “progressive” policies that are inimical to Jewish survival?
We vowed “never again” to exactly what is happening once again, and the sound of silence is deafening!
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