How lies are imperiling the Jews at pre-Holocaust levels

The headlines don’t get more sensational than: “French Jewish woman stabbed in antisemitic attack, swastika painted on door.”

The shocking crime, which probably has French Jews frantically on edge, is just another recently reported incident of Jews being killed in their own homes. It was just a few weeks ago that “a Detroit synagogue president was found fatally stabbed outside her home.”

Other than the fact that both of these women were Jewish and brutally stabbed to death, what else do they have in common? In each incident, quick conclusions were drawn that there was “no evidence” that the stabbings were motivated by antisemitism. In the case of the Detroit woman, a CNN wire was immediately released relying upon the word of the local police chief who said, “no evidence has surfaced suggesting the killing was motivated by antisemitism.”

However, given that no suspect had been identified, the early conclusion seemed to be more motivated by the fear of the possibility of the crime, being connected to the woman’s ethnicity, having the potential to cause great distress to millions of American Jewish citizens. Likewise, in the French stabbing, a rabbi who represented the Conference for European Rabbis also wasted no time in stating, “it hasn’t yet been categorized as an antisemitic attack.”

What is clear is that Jews are, for the first time, since the 1930s, experiencing a super-charged atmosphere of hatred and accusation aimed at them, even if they are not connected to Israel or the present war taking place against Hamas terrorists, who perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre within the Jewish homeland. It is, pure and simple, guilt by association, but even beyond that, it is the ability to use the war against Hamas, rebrand it as genocide towards the Palestinian people and scapegoat innocent diaspora Jews as justified targets of a manufactured outrage.  

Just a week ago Saturday, there was a massive pro-Palestinian demonstration at the White House where thousands were seen shaking the gates, which they vandalized with red paint, as they chanted vulgarities directed at U.S. President Joe Biden. Some were so bold as to even attempt to climb the same gates which are only yards away from the White House. Others were heard chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “Free, free Palestine.”

While it was estimated that tens of thousands attended this well-organized demonstration, where bus rides were provided for many out-of-town protesters who otherwise may not have been able to participate, the photos of wall-to-wall people made it look as if the crowd numbered well over a million. 

This kind of vicious and threatening climate, which has emerged almost overnight, hasn’t been seen since the pre-Holocaust days of Nazi Germany, when already visible and audible signs of antisemitism were taking place, throughout Europe, at unprecedented levels. Jews were being castigated, their shops were being vandalized and those same events, which we are witnessing, yet again, pre-dated the establishment of the Jewish homeland. This already attests to the motivation of this vilification being nothing more than hatred of the Jewish people which, although having lain dormant for years, was never really fully extinguished.

Rather, it waited for the right moment to rear its ugly head and spew the venomous and abhorrent sentiments toward one particular group of people who have, in each generation, borne the brunt of unwarranted loathing and the indefensible calls to eradicate them from the face of the earth.

For those who think that these renewed calls are being shouted by individuals whose ancestry is of Arab origin, think again. Large swaths of American and European populations have joined in, adding to the millions of Arab-descendant immigrants, who have made their way to what everyone thought were more tolerant venues, where mixed ethnicities resided together relatively in harmony. No longer is that benevolence and goodwill taken for granted.  

The sudden surge of anti-Jewish sentiment, although being tied to Israel’s present military actions against Hamas, is purposely being falsely represented in order to paint a distortion of what is really happening. One case in point was a kaffiyeh-donned man named Ali Abdullah who traveled from Toledo, Ohio to be part of the protests on Capitol Hill. Interviewed by Fox News reporter, Mike Emanuel and broadcast on The Big Weekend Show, which aired on Nov. 5, he said, “They’re killing kids, women and pretty much bombing everything. This is not a war. War is military against military, but this is against humanity period. We’re hoping that the aid will completely stop.”

The idea is to blatantly lie about the events, which led up to Israel’s ground incursion, to obfuscate the parachuting of terrorists into the land of Israel, who then led a brutal pogrom-like massacre upon children, babies, young people, the elderly and everyone else. The beheadings, rapes, torture and burnings are all minor details which went unmentioned by Mr. Abdullah, who dishonestly framed Israel’s actions as crimes against humanity. But then if you wanted to whip up a crowd to get them to emit their antisemitic rage, it would be useful to disguise the real events that occurred, replacing them for more insidious accusations which have no basis in reality.    

Israel’s top-leading Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published several accounts on Nov. 5, 2023 that have taken place in Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain Belgium and the U.S. One such story took place in Belgium, where Joel Rubinfeld, head of the Belgium League Against Anti-Semitism, expressed his great concern over what he is seeing. He noted that he received a phone call from someone who threatened to rape his wife that very evening. Other threats, in his city, included spray-painting Jewish stars on the residence of Jews, as well as exclusive shops owned by Jews. Rubinfeld claims that 90% of young people have been the victim of antisemitic incidents, specifically citing a 14- year-old teenager who attended a public high school where four of his classmates physically attacked him and threatened his life. 

This is what most imperils the Jewish people collectively. They are fast becoming the victims of vicious lies and embellished fiction, which then is adopted by ignorant people who already have a pre-disposition to believe that Jews are the source of the world’s problems. It is this kind of dishonest, fraudulent and corrupt charges which led millions to participate in the well-organized but ill-fated plan to rid the planet of the same individuals whom God called the Chosen People and the Apple of His Eye. 

If we didn’t know better, one might think that the root of this inexplicable desire to annihilate them stems from an unbridled jealousy which has never been resolved since the days of Isaac and Ishmael, when one was called the child of promise while the other was not acknowledged as the offspring to inherit the promises. But it couldn’t be that – could it?

There really is no other explanation, because spontaneous, demonic behavior is birthed from the evil which is satanic, taking its name from Satan, himself – the same fallen angel who, out of jealousy, coveted the place of God – so why couldn’t there be a connection?