The ranks of those believing in Neo-Nazi ideology have exploded in the last two years, and they barely talk about Gaza. Instead, they focus on some of the most dangerous conspiracies about Jews.
I constantly oscillate between trying to convince myself that social media makes it seem worse than it is and then wondering if I’m like the European Jews who buried their head in the sand in the years leading up to the war… but that seems too alarmist and paranoid and so the cycle continues.
"What people have been doing to fight Jew hatred has been grossly ineffective and I hope there is a revolution in that space because this is reaching the point of no return." - what would you suggest people doing so it does become effective? It feels at times a losing battle... do too much and it makes people believe their "powerful" stereotypes. So what to do??
Thank you so much for this. I am a non-US Jew (Zionist as the vast majority of us are) who was born and lives in the diaspora Jewish community with the most Holocaust survivors per capita outside Israel. I went to school with the grandchildren of Schindler Jews who are featured on screen at the end of Schindler's List at his grave in Jerusalem. I had uncles and aunties with Auschwitz tattoos and their stories would make your blood curdle. I am a proper Jewish Jew with connections to community and practices in ways many of us believe American Jews drown out, given their number. (There has never been an outmarriage in the history of my family ever.) I have been to Iran - LOVED IT. We all love diaspora Iranians/Persians (and Kurds). Anyway I just wanted to say I've never felt such a chilling fear in my life as I have for the last 2 years. Jewish premises such as shuls, restaurants and childcare centres here have been firebombed on multiple occasions. The graffiti has been direct (Die, Jews). The substitution of the words Zionist and AIPAC for 'Jew" is widely acknowledged. References to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion pop up on my feed. We are terrified (nOt aS tErRiFiEd aS A cHiLd iN gAzA). This whole thing feels like a nightmare.
but to a central point of your perspective :: epistemology grounds ontology ;; what is believed depends directly upon how it has been learned, indoctrinated or simply absorbed from family &
'significant others' by insistent rote repitition..
the case for nuance ambiguity & a mind open to expanded vistas requires more than platitude cliche` respect for 'critique', 'dialectic' & sundry Sunday television debate...
epiphany moments do occur to bend a trodden path, or age accumulating reflection on diverging sources may create ' slow motion epiphany '....
i recall from senator joe mccarthy days how high school dissent turned toward Ayn Rand as the only allowed radical right to free speech... a verging cliff in view from REALITY TV America ("USA TODAY")...
I constantly oscillate between trying to convince myself that social media makes it seem worse than it is and then wondering if I’m like the European Jews who buried their head in the sand in the years leading up to the war… but that seems too alarmist and paranoid and so the cycle continues.
"What people have been doing to fight Jew hatred has been grossly ineffective and I hope there is a revolution in that space because this is reaching the point of no return." - what would you suggest people doing so it does become effective? It feels at times a losing battle... do too much and it makes people believe their "powerful" stereotypes. So what to do??
Thank you so much for this. I am a non-US Jew (Zionist as the vast majority of us are) who was born and lives in the diaspora Jewish community with the most Holocaust survivors per capita outside Israel. I went to school with the grandchildren of Schindler Jews who are featured on screen at the end of Schindler's List at his grave in Jerusalem. I had uncles and aunties with Auschwitz tattoos and their stories would make your blood curdle. I am a proper Jewish Jew with connections to community and practices in ways many of us believe American Jews drown out, given their number. (There has never been an outmarriage in the history of my family ever.) I have been to Iran - LOVED IT. We all love diaspora Iranians/Persians (and Kurds). Anyway I just wanted to say I've never felt such a chilling fear in my life as I have for the last 2 years. Jewish premises such as shuls, restaurants and childcare centres here have been firebombed on multiple occasions. The graffiti has been direct (Die, Jews). The substitution of the words Zionist and AIPAC for 'Jew" is widely acknowledged. References to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion pop up on my feed. We are terrified (nOt aS tErRiFiEd aS A cHiLd iN gAzA). This whole thing feels like a nightmare.
word & lable
myth & fable
chair & table
but to a central point of your perspective :: epistemology grounds ontology ;; what is believed depends directly upon how it has been learned, indoctrinated or simply absorbed from family &
'significant others' by insistent rote repitition..
the case for nuance ambiguity & a mind open to expanded vistas requires more than platitude cliche` respect for 'critique', 'dialectic' & sundry Sunday television debate...
epiphany moments do occur to bend a trodden path, or age accumulating reflection on diverging sources may create ' slow motion epiphany '....
i recall from senator joe mccarthy days how high school dissent turned toward Ayn Rand as the only allowed radical right to free speech... a verging cliff in view from REALITY TV America ("USA TODAY")...