But, we’re ‘different’, right?

When I was a kid we often spent Sundays visiting my paternal grandparents. My grandfather had a huge collection of books and several subscriptions to magazines like The National Geographic, going back decades.

One day I spied a set of magazines that were very different from the others. It was called “The Cross and The Flag. The Publisher was one Gerald L.K. Smith.

The original mailing label was to someone whose name I had never heard. “From a former client of your grandfather.” I was told. Not one more word was said about it.

America has largely been free of the most vicious forms of Jew Hatred so common in “Christian” Europe for at least sixteen hundred years, and in the Islamic world, since the days of Mohammad. Mostly confined to exclusion from business, political and social circles, from time to time, or the occasional lynching, the unique character of America, as an idea, has tended to suppress such drives.

But America is made up of people. And, people have cultural baggage. And tribal jealousies. And the ingrained tendency to scapegoat.

But of all these frailties, Jew Hatred has a remarkable tenacity to span time, distance, language, religion (or lack thereof) nearly any other cultural or historic parameter. You don’t even need Jews in your midst to loathe them! It lies there, just under the surface. Like a nest of cockroaches. Until it bursts forth in a frenzy.

It is no secret that the moral paragons of our political leadership have shamelessly stolen our freedoms and run up a tab that is breathtaking in scope. They (and by our acquiescence, we) simply refuse to address this squarely. Nobody wants to be first. Most of us know that it will end very ugly. The more we stall, the uglier still will be the reckoning.

But then, there is that ancient excuse. The always-effective scapegoat resting on the shelf. Even here. Waiting. Waiting to be grasped and swung with ecstatic abandon into a human face.

So, with that in mind, I refer you to a thought provoking article by commentator, Vic Rosenthal, from his Abu Yehuda weblog, entitled, “America Crosses the Line“.  Be sure to follow his links, especially those to Ms. Shrode’s Facebook page and the comments.  Sobering.

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One thought on “But, we’re ‘different’, right?”

  1. And it seems the further left the politician stands, the more anti-Semitic they are. Bernie Sanders (whom I heard one Israeli call a capo last week) is more anti-Semitic than Hillary. He feels barry has been too soft on Israel and unfair to the poor pieceful Falestinians. He will be more so. Hillary? I’m sure she won’t feel beholdin’ to any country the Clintoon foundation has taken money from. And the results of the “arab spring” have made Israel SO much safer.

    The normalcy bias. If people think this can’t get ugly real quick, just go to a political rally and hold an opinion different than the people being paid to attack those with that opinion. Take trauma pads. No matter WHO your candidate is, if there are gangs going after groups of people for some “reason”, what makes anyone think that “reason” can’t change? Since nothing is really being done about the attacking gangs, why should they stop? Any consequences from Ferguson, Baltimore or other cities? Meh, not so much.

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