Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chabad Lubavitch shaliach, and head of the European Jewish Association, about which I have written both in praise and in criticism, has a new badge of honor. Someone specifically wants him DEAD.
Israel’s Channel 10 reports that someone calling themselves Richard Wright wrote, “Menachem Margolin will be a dead man if he does not stop. We will stick a bullet in his head,” on Rabbi Margolin’s Facebook page.
The post was luridly Jew-Hating, replete with a selection of curses.
Clearly, someone does not want Jews in Europe armed, nor able to leave Europe. Well… not alive, anyway.
Some traditions die hard, don’t they?
He’s back in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/top-rabbi-renews-call-arm-european-jews-307123
A brief quote regarding his original letter and renewed call:
“However, the rabbi says that his letter did not draw “a real response” from any of the governments he contacted, and instead he simply received an automatic refusal of his request, a sign, he says, that European governments are not taking the threat of antisemitism seriously enough.
“The government is unable to protect its citizens,” he says. “Jewish institutions are a main target, and we need them to monitor and fight against antisemitism, but governments do not understand the situation.”
“The serious demand is that every Jewish institution is protected 24/7. When I pick up my son at the synagogue I want to make sure that he is there and he is alive. It is a very basic request.”
I disagree with one point. These governments DO understand the situation, completely. As to the Jews… they do not give a rat’s ass. They never did and never will.
At least if he ends up getting guards he will not be like the hypocrite Bloomberg who calls for everyone else to be a vulnerable victim.