Time to Face Your Own Truth

All of you who aren’t Palestinian and are marching in pro-Palestinian rallies, I want you to go home, look in the mirror and ask yourself, why support the Palestinian cause when you didn’t march for the Moslems of Kosovo, India, China, the Christians in Sudan, India, Iraq, Egypt, the women in Iran, the women in Afghanistan?  What particularly drew you to the Palestinian cause above all others?  So look in that mirror and admit to yourself it’s because you despise the Jews.  There isn’t another single explanation for your actions since you’ve sat on your hands when so many others could have benefited from your voices of outrage.

You weep for the children of Palestine, their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents, as do we all.  But you go a step further.  You applaud the rape, the murder, the dismemberment, the burning to death of the citizens of Israel, who weren’t only Jews, but also Arabs and Thais.

Like those in Gaza, when you heard the news of the slaughter of those young people attending a rave, you passed out sweets to celebrate them being hunted down, raped and shot so many times that their bodies leapt even in death.

Everywhere you act you have proven the point that without Israel, every Jew is a potential dead Jew due to your hatred.  Europe?  Never forget.  You’ve forgotten.  But we haven’t.  We remember Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, all you civilized countries that were oh, so anxious to betray your fellow citizens, to see them sent to the slaughter.  Eastern Europe, how gleefully you herded the Jews of your town into the synagogue and set it on fire.

The Americas, a safe haven for fleeing Nazis, home now to right wingers, screaming “Jews will not replace us,” and Black people with whom Jews stood shoulder to shoulder, for whom Jews died to get you your civil rights, we remember what you choose to forget.

Jews who think it’s important to stand with your Arab brothers and sisters.  Hey, get real.  All the baptismal certificates Jews got to protect themselves from the Nazis were worthless.  You think you’re being accepted?  You’re being used and you’re too dumb to realize it.

Now let’s look at Israel.  The “colonizer.”  Over fifty percent of Jews in Israel come from Arab countries.  As did my husband, who remembered as a five-year-old, hiding in a closet with his family while the Arabs of Baghdad rampaged through the streets looking for Jews to kill, and they found some of his family members to slaughter.  What about the Jews from Ethiopia?  Guess what?  Their skin color is black and yet they’re Jews.  Then there are the Cochin Jews from India, part of the ingathering, where Jews came because they knew they’d be safe.  Obviously not from the hatred of the world because, hey, you’re still out there with your placards “From the River to the Sea,” meaning the elimination of the State of Israel, meaning the death of all Jews.

So be proud of yourself for marching in support of genocide.  Enjoy your self-regard and wallow in your ignorance of the realities of the Middle East.  And just remember who you are because while they come for us, you never know who’s going to be next.  It might be you.