What the New York Times is doing by parroting the Hamas propaganda wing is beyond irresponsible journalism, it is a crime. Advertisers who support this criminal behavior should be BDSed!
The NYTimes which has such a corru record on the rise of Communidm Nazism the uniquely Newish aspects of the Holocaust and all things relating to the State of Israel and traditional Jewish values is Pravda on the Hudson
This is the first time I've heard anyone say this out loud. I have to admit that it gave me goosebumps. It's an awesome thing to feel the stirring in the collective psyche, and to observe things shifting slowly but steadily before our eyes. Benjamin's remarkable essay is certainly part and parcel of this shift from melancholy, passivity and appeasement to a resolute affirmation of Judaism.
We have helped one another recognize that a war against us has long been underway. And we are now beginning, finally, to make battle plans to confront our enemies with our full force. Let the Lion of Judea roar!
I like it. Massive retaliation: you will never convince everyone, just like Bibi could never convince ALL of Israel that neutralizing Iran was the right course. He did it anyway,
We've been hearing for 40 years that we have to appeal to the "moderates" in Iran. There aren't any. There aren't any moderate people in charge at Harvard or the NYT, either.
There may be "moderates" in Iran. I don't know. I do know that they have no power and no capacity to influence events in a direction that might change the regime's monstrous behavior. As for Harvard and the NYT, you're right: There are no moderates--only antisemites and the cowards who enable them.
1. In the United States we must elect people like Ritchie Torres, Andrew Cuomo, and Elise Stefanik.
2. Students and alumni of the “elite colleges” must take action to defund the ethnic studies academic complex.
3. Invest in Israeli companies. Double down on “Jewish excellence.”
4. “The best revenge is massive success”. (Frank Sinatra)
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A rabbi in Brooklyn is reading the New York Times. A congregant comes up to him, astonished, and said, “Rabbi, how can you be reading that anti-Zionist rag, filled with libels of the worst kind. Are
you some kind of masochist, or, God forbid, a self-hating Jew?”
“On the contrary,” the rabbi responded, “When I used to read the Algemeiner all I learned about were pogroms in Europe, anti-Jewish riots at college campuses and Iran threatening to destroy Israel. But
now that I read the New York Times, I see that the Jews control all the banks, we pull all the
strings in the art world and cinema, and that we’re on the verge of taking over the entire Middle East. We even control the government of the United States. You know – it makes me feel a whole lot better!”
Harvard will not cease to exist as long as it has access to money. It's better to build or expand alternatives, but that doesn't happen instantly. The Jews' failure to retaliate effectively comes largely from widespread conversion to an alternative religion, socialism. What's your aggressive cure for that?
For a start: Call it out for what it is. Mock it mercilessly. Show clearly why it's a dead end and leads to disaster. Here's my recent effort to do just that:
Benjamin, in recent weeks your writing has become infused with a new spirit. It's been quite a remarkable thing to observe. Your voice has taken on a power and intensity that, quite honestly, I didn't know you had in you.
I agree entirely with your insistence that we need to go on the offensive against those who have proven to us that they live for the sake of destroying us. The mainstream Jewish organizations have failed us miserably, and their replacements are still in their very early stages. If you decide to move forward in creating an organization dedicated to fiercely fighting our adversaries, legally but effectively, I will be among those waiting in line to sign up.
If every Jewish student, donor, and instructor ended their association with Columbia, that rathole would become as relevant as the Community College of Pine-bluff Arkansas.
Well said, Benjamin. We are at a time of maximum anti-Semitism. Especially today, anti-Semitism leads to violence against Jews. Violence against Jews must be stopped. All methods, all tools, at our disposal should be used to efficiency and effectiveness. For the most part, all counter measures should be within the law, ethical and moral, except where the enemy has stepped out of bounds and parity is acceptable.
Where Israel is engaged in combat war, elsewhere such war is probable and eminent. Jews should be prepared and able to fight a kinetic war. In Israel, that is expected. Elsewhere, not so much. The element of (armed) surprise works well. Neutralize the enemy where, when and how it is possible. The present situation is unacceptable and if allowed to persist and grow it will lead to the death of many Jews. It is far better to die fighting with sword in hand than to die on your knees and beheaded.
Absolutely on target!!! Sadly we can’t organize ourselves to anywhere near the degree necessary to accomplish this. And that’s not to mention those among us who side with the Jew-haters so they can get invited to the right parties, eat treif, and sleep with blonde shicksas.
The global intifada will be televised. It will be brought to you by CNN, the BBC and the New York Times.
The Global Intifada will be televised and promoted by Columbia, Harvard and UCLA. The global intifada will be televised and produced by Hamas in Hollywood.
The global intifada is a war against the Jews and it may soon be broadcast from Gracie Mansion.
You wrote that we are currently at peak anti-semitism. I don’t in any way want to minimize the issue, especially not in the wake of the double murder last week in D.C. where two young people were shot dead solely because they were perceived to be Jewish. But thankfully, I still don’t believe we are anywhere near ‘peak anti-semitism’ in the United States. We do face a significant, vile group of hate-spewing, name-calling, politically menacing and sometimes violent anti-semites, but that is still a small minority within the broader society and we need to appreciate what safety and protections we still do have.
More importantly, it takes two to fight. If we respond to every anti-semitic statement or action with a full court press of denunciations, lawsuits, and hysteria, the other side will do the same. Raising funds for legal battles, claiming to be censored, stifled, and opressed by the all-powerful Jewish lobby and to be lone crusaders standing up for justice against overwhelming odds. The only ones who will benefit are the provocateurs and online trolls who will have endless oppression to be indignant about, while everyone else will lose.
I certainly agree that lawsuits and political campaigns have a place. But bombastic targets such as shutting down Harvard or expelling the United Nations will only increase strife, from which we will also be harmed. I believe a more reasoned path that aims for reconciliation is a better way.
I would argue that our present uncomfortable circumstances demonstrate the consequences of having followed your approach faithfully for many decades. We didn't rock the boat, and we sought moderation in all things. Meanwhile, in recent days, a UN official warned that the 41,000 babies in Gaza are likely to die of hunger because of the Jews in the next 48 hours, and the mainstream media ran with the story. What might they say that's worse than that if, heaven forbid, we provoked or denounced or challenged them?
Unfortunately, it doesn't take two to fight. It's actually quite simple, and quite common, for one person to attack while the other cowers in fear. Bullies tend to attack those who are perceived as weak and less likely to fight back. Benjamin's proposal is simply that we use what power we have to show our adversaries that the consequences of attacking us without provocation are so severe that they won't dare to repeat their mistake.
Thank you. This is frightening to read as a non-Jew. It's a call for a regime of fear by means of cultural destruction- modern Harvard attitudes (and people) being one thing, and the legacy of America's first and greatest higher education institution being another. Even though the author seems to be assuming (even hoping) that it won't be quite enough to kill the institution, he also thinks that it wouldn't be any loss, and that nothing should be held back.
It's exactly what I hoped wouldn't come out of the Jewish community, especially given the unique path into antisemitism I've seen taken by many of my online acquaintances. I understand that Jews have every right and reason to be afraid, and to seek solutions, but what is anyone's endgame if not reconciliation? To terrorize away discussions of Jews the same way that discussion of the nature of homosexuality or transgenderism is terrorized away?
There can be no reconciliation with antisemitism. It is not reconcialiable. If Harvard is systemically antisemitic, as I believe it is, then it has forfeited its right to exist. The reason is that it has declared a war to the death--by definition--with my people. It's us or them. Fine, it has to be them.
Should Harvard decide to purge itself of antisemitism, I would feel differently, but it seems clear that those in charge of Harvard would literally rather die than do that. Perhaps they will be forced to. I don't know. But until they do, then massive retaliation is the only way. I will not reconcile myself to an institution that is literally forcing young Jews to leave the country. And I have spoken to young Jews who are doing precisely that because of the abuse they've suffered at these institutions, so please don't label me paranoid.
Again, if Harvard chooses to change, reconciliation is possible. So long as it doesn't, it must be resisted.
It's the future we chose, importing both protagonists to an ancient, overseas conflict. As you note, institutions are downstream from people and Harvard hasn't been the crown jewel of WASP America for some time.
This war requires both a communal and an individual committment Does the American Jewish community have either?
What the New York Times is doing by parroting the Hamas propaganda wing is beyond irresponsible journalism, it is a crime. Advertisers who support this criminal behavior should be BDSed!
The NYTimes which has such a corru record on the rise of Communidm Nazism the uniquely Newish aspects of the Holocaust and all things relating to the State of Israel and traditional Jewish values is Pravda on the Hudson
Get the facts before causing more death and destruction and more hatred of the Jewish People.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-distribution-site-attack.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=89381836-2D36-4B21-92F2-463FBBBD78F6
For example, many Jews will say, won’t this just strengthen the antisemites’ belief in omnipotent and sinister Jewish power?
I love this one. Yeah, it will do that. And finally they will fear the power that we do have, as they should.
This is the first time I've heard anyone say this out loud. I have to admit that it gave me goosebumps. It's an awesome thing to feel the stirring in the collective psyche, and to observe things shifting slowly but steadily before our eyes. Benjamin's remarkable essay is certainly part and parcel of this shift from melancholy, passivity and appeasement to a resolute affirmation of Judaism.
We have helped one another recognize that a war against us has long been underway. And we are now beginning, finally, to make battle plans to confront our enemies with our full force. Let the Lion of Judea roar!
I like it. Massive retaliation: you will never convince everyone, just like Bibi could never convince ALL of Israel that neutralizing Iran was the right course. He did it anyway,
We've been hearing for 40 years that we have to appeal to the "moderates" in Iran. There aren't any. There aren't any moderate people in charge at Harvard or the NYT, either.
There may be "moderates" in Iran. I don't know. I do know that they have no power and no capacity to influence events in a direction that might change the regime's monstrous behavior. As for Harvard and the NYT, you're right: There are no moderates--only antisemites and the cowards who enable them.
1. In the United States we must elect people like Ritchie Torres, Andrew Cuomo, and Elise Stefanik.
2. Students and alumni of the “elite colleges” must take action to defund the ethnic studies academic complex.
3. Invest in Israeli companies. Double down on “Jewish excellence.”
4. “The best revenge is massive success”. (Frank Sinatra)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A rabbi in Brooklyn is reading the New York Times. A congregant comes up to him, astonished, and said, “Rabbi, how can you be reading that anti-Zionist rag, filled with libels of the worst kind. Are
you some kind of masochist, or, God forbid, a self-hating Jew?”
“On the contrary,” the rabbi responded, “When I used to read the Algemeiner all I learned about were pogroms in Europe, anti-Jewish riots at college campuses and Iran threatening to destroy Israel. But
now that I read the New York Times, I see that the Jews control all the banks, we pull all the
strings in the art world and cinema, and that we’re on the verge of taking over the entire Middle East. We even control the government of the United States. You know – it makes me feel a whole lot better!”
Harvard will not cease to exist as long as it has access to money. It's better to build or expand alternatives, but that doesn't happen instantly. The Jews' failure to retaliate effectively comes largely from widespread conversion to an alternative religion, socialism. What's your aggressive cure for that?
For a start: Call it out for what it is. Mock it mercilessly. Show clearly why it's a dead end and leads to disaster. Here's my recent effort to do just that:
https://samhilt.substack.com/p/dont-drink-the-kool-aid-the-dark
Benjamin, in recent weeks your writing has become infused with a new spirit. It's been quite a remarkable thing to observe. Your voice has taken on a power and intensity that, quite honestly, I didn't know you had in you.
I agree entirely with your insistence that we need to go on the offensive against those who have proven to us that they live for the sake of destroying us. The mainstream Jewish organizations have failed us miserably, and their replacements are still in their very early stages. If you decide to move forward in creating an organization dedicated to fiercely fighting our adversaries, legally but effectively, I will be among those waiting in line to sign up.
If every Jewish student, donor, and instructor ended their association with Columbia, that rathole would become as relevant as the Community College of Pine-bluff Arkansas.
Well said, Benjamin. We are at a time of maximum anti-Semitism. Especially today, anti-Semitism leads to violence against Jews. Violence against Jews must be stopped. All methods, all tools, at our disposal should be used to efficiency and effectiveness. For the most part, all counter measures should be within the law, ethical and moral, except where the enemy has stepped out of bounds and parity is acceptable.
Where Israel is engaged in combat war, elsewhere such war is probable and eminent. Jews should be prepared and able to fight a kinetic war. In Israel, that is expected. Elsewhere, not so much. The element of (armed) surprise works well. Neutralize the enemy where, when and how it is possible. The present situation is unacceptable and if allowed to persist and grow it will lead to the death of many Jews. It is far better to die fighting with sword in hand than to die on your knees and beheaded.
Absolutely on target!!! Sadly we can’t organize ourselves to anywhere near the degree necessary to accomplish this. And that’s not to mention those among us who side with the Jew-haters so they can get invited to the right parties, eat treif, and sleep with blonde shicksas.
You are absolutely right, in every point large and small. Thank you and yasher koakh!
Can’t afford subscription. Retired prematurely due to work place anti semitism .
https://popperandkarl.substack.com/p/the-new-antisemitism
The global intifada will be televised. It will be brought to you by CNN, the BBC and the New York Times.
The Global Intifada will be televised and promoted by Columbia, Harvard and UCLA. The global intifada will be televised and produced by Hamas in Hollywood.
The global intifada is a war against the Jews and it may soon be broadcast from Gracie Mansion.
The Global intifada will be televised!
“Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah”
(The End by the Doors, 1967)
I don’t agree with you about this one.
You wrote that we are currently at peak anti-semitism. I don’t in any way want to minimize the issue, especially not in the wake of the double murder last week in D.C. where two young people were shot dead solely because they were perceived to be Jewish. But thankfully, I still don’t believe we are anywhere near ‘peak anti-semitism’ in the United States. We do face a significant, vile group of hate-spewing, name-calling, politically menacing and sometimes violent anti-semites, but that is still a small minority within the broader society and we need to appreciate what safety and protections we still do have.
More importantly, it takes two to fight. If we respond to every anti-semitic statement or action with a full court press of denunciations, lawsuits, and hysteria, the other side will do the same. Raising funds for legal battles, claiming to be censored, stifled, and opressed by the all-powerful Jewish lobby and to be lone crusaders standing up for justice against overwhelming odds. The only ones who will benefit are the provocateurs and online trolls who will have endless oppression to be indignant about, while everyone else will lose.
I certainly agree that lawsuits and political campaigns have a place. But bombastic targets such as shutting down Harvard or expelling the United Nations will only increase strife, from which we will also be harmed. I believe a more reasoned path that aims for reconciliation is a better way.
I respect your point of view and it's certainly more popular than mine, but I couldn't disagree more.
I would argue that our present uncomfortable circumstances demonstrate the consequences of having followed your approach faithfully for many decades. We didn't rock the boat, and we sought moderation in all things. Meanwhile, in recent days, a UN official warned that the 41,000 babies in Gaza are likely to die of hunger because of the Jews in the next 48 hours, and the mainstream media ran with the story. What might they say that's worse than that if, heaven forbid, we provoked or denounced or challenged them?
Unfortunately, it doesn't take two to fight. It's actually quite simple, and quite common, for one person to attack while the other cowers in fear. Bullies tend to attack those who are perceived as weak and less likely to fight back. Benjamin's proposal is simply that we use what power we have to show our adversaries that the consequences of attacking us without provocation are so severe that they won't dare to repeat their mistake.
Thank you. This is frightening to read as a non-Jew. It's a call for a regime of fear by means of cultural destruction- modern Harvard attitudes (and people) being one thing, and the legacy of America's first and greatest higher education institution being another. Even though the author seems to be assuming (even hoping) that it won't be quite enough to kill the institution, he also thinks that it wouldn't be any loss, and that nothing should be held back.
It's exactly what I hoped wouldn't come out of the Jewish community, especially given the unique path into antisemitism I've seen taken by many of my online acquaintances. I understand that Jews have every right and reason to be afraid, and to seek solutions, but what is anyone's endgame if not reconciliation? To terrorize away discussions of Jews the same way that discussion of the nature of homosexuality or transgenderism is terrorized away?
There can be no reconciliation with antisemitism. It is not reconcialiable. If Harvard is systemically antisemitic, as I believe it is, then it has forfeited its right to exist. The reason is that it has declared a war to the death--by definition--with my people. It's us or them. Fine, it has to be them.
Should Harvard decide to purge itself of antisemitism, I would feel differently, but it seems clear that those in charge of Harvard would literally rather die than do that. Perhaps they will be forced to. I don't know. But until they do, then massive retaliation is the only way. I will not reconcile myself to an institution that is literally forcing young Jews to leave the country. And I have spoken to young Jews who are doing precisely that because of the abuse they've suffered at these institutions, so please don't label me paranoid.
Again, if Harvard chooses to change, reconciliation is possible. So long as it doesn't, it must be resisted.
It's the future we chose, importing both protagonists to an ancient, overseas conflict. As you note, institutions are downstream from people and Harvard hasn't been the crown jewel of WASP America for some time.
What we need is a day of rage
Yes! Massive retaliation and call these asshats out!