I could not be happier about yesterday’s march on Washington. Elie Wiesel said, “When Jews are together, I am never afraid.” Yesterday, 300,000 Jews got together and let the world know that we’re here too, we’re not going anywhere, we know what we believe, we know what we want, and we’re going to stand up for it—and we vote. Everyone from the organizers to the participants deserves all the praise we can give them for this accomplishment.
For me personally, the march was a very emotional event, though I did not attend. Ever since Ralph Nader’s run for the presidency in 2000 woke me up to the threat of a virulent leftist-Muslim antisemitism, I’ve been hoping the American Jewish community would wake up too.
But for 23 years, me and others like me felt like we were screaming into the void while banging our heads against a brick wall. American Jews, we feared, would never wake up, and the results would be catastrophic when the real world finally came crashing in.
The real world crashed in on Oct. 7, and in many ways the results were catastrophic. But American Jews finally woke up. They are not, as many of us feared, afflicted with suicidal decadence. It is now clear that they are prepared to fight and determined to survive. Baruch Hashem.
One thing that particularly struck me was Deborah Lipstadt’s speech at the march, in which she quoted from George Washington’s famous letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island. Washington wrote that the United States “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”
It seems to me that this is why the pro-terrorist, pro-genocide, antisemitic movement we’re seeing in the streets, the universities, and even Congress is fundamentally anti-American. It wants sanction for its bigotry and assistance for its persecution. It is demanding it. This is not just opposed to but negates the best values and aspirations of the US, as expressed by its first president.
I think the majority of non-Jewish Americans know this instinctively. We should make sure to remind them of it. The Axis of Antisemitism doesn’t just want to destroy Israel and the Jews, because in order to realize its hideous ambitions, it will have to destroy America’s soul along the way.
As I’ve already noted, it’s remarkable how far the New York Times is willing to go in order to further the Axis’ ambitions. This morning, it reached the point of hilarity. Not only was there no front-page headline about the biggest pro-Israel, pro-Jewish march in American history, but the only indication it ever happened was a photograph showing about three people. This desperate attempt to cover up what was a watershed event for the American Jewish community was so blatant that it was barely distinguishable from satire.
It’s obvious, of course, why the Times is doing this. As a systemically racist publication, its sole purpose in regard to this issue is to denigrate and demonize the American Jewish community. At the same time, it seeks to portray the Axis and its pro-terrorist movement as a massive popular uprising with unstoppable momentum, in hopes that this will intimidate opponents of the movement, especially President Biden and other pro-Israel Democrats, into silence.
It’s craven and pathetic, but should not be underestimated. The Times is a behemoth and the house organ of the American aristocracy. It wields immense influence over America’s leaders and prospective leaders. If we want to win, we have to keep chipping away at the Times’ halo until it shatters.
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Keep up the good work, Benjamin.