The Jew Thing

Thoughtful piece on Israel by Ted Sasson. 

Did you read the story about the kid that won't work for jews? Cornell student Austin Franco has been pretty honest about his antipathy towards jews.  And now he is being financially rewarded for that hatred.

Sad, but I have worked for lots of people I couldn't stand, jews and nonjews. Still it is one thing to hate jews and Israel and another to target people and synagogues with bullets and fire. And that is also happening more and more often, especially in Europe and Canada right now. People are afraid to wear anything that might make them a target.

And we are not immune here in the United States either. From the ADL:

• Over half of Jewish Americans (55%) report experiencing some form of antisemitism in the past year.
• 79% of all respondents are concerned about antisemitism.
• Nearly one in five (18%) were either the victim of an assault, experienced threat of physical attack, or experienced verbal harassment due to their Jewish identity in the past year, while over one-third (36%) witnessed actual or threatened antisemitic violence.
• Jewish Americans experienced antisemitism in many contexts, with the most common ones including online, public spaces, the workplace, and educational institutions.
• Safety concerns are widespread among American Jews; over 50% are somewhat, very or always worried about personal safety, one-third have discussed with others what they would do in a “worst case” scenario, and 14% have developed a plan should they need to flee the country due to rising antisemitism. These rates are significantly higher for those that experienced direct antisemitic harm.
• Jewish-Americans who experienced direct antisemitic harm or witnessed antisemitic acts within the past 12 months exhibited higher rates of symptoms used to screen for anxiety and depression.
• One in five Jews who wore something distinctively Jewish before October 7 have since taken it off.

Clearly the antizionist movement doesn't discriminate with its hatred and violence. Any Jews are fair game, Israel supporters or not.

And then there is this Democratic woman candidate in New Mexico who wants to jail supporters of Zionism and castrate them, Maureen Galindo.

On social media this week she wrote, “ZIOS=GENOCIDAL EUROPEAN COLONIZER FREAKS.” She has elsewhere referred to the “synagogue of Satan,” a phrase with Biblical origins that was popularized by Louis Farrakhan to promote the idea that today’s Jews are inauthentic, and said that “Israeli leaders are not real Jews.”

On Instagram Wednesday Galindo wrote that, if elected, she would “write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it’s Zionists harming the Semites.” The candidate added that she would turn a local immigrant detention center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” adding in parentheses, “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

Never again? It can always happen again.