Let us not forget the Nazi sympathizers in countries like Canada, Australia, Britain, and the U.S. who marched through the streets denouncing the Jews in the 1930's. There was no Israel then. Jewish refugees from Germany were turned away from those countries and many were forced to return to Germany and the concentration camps. It is ironic that today Israel is vilified for strongly defending itself, when the Jews of the 1930's were accused of going meekly to the gas chambers. Antisemitism has never been and never will be rational.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s quote is never recalled and yet is never out of place or inappropriate:
The line between good and evil runs right through every man, or words to that effect.
The revulsion I feel welling up inside me as I consider the parallels between today and Germany in the 1930’s should quickly remind me that, there but for the grace of God go I.
I have a relative whose Facebook avatar says: ‘I hate Nazis’.
Yes. Only thing I would add is that the links between Nazism & the Palestinian-Arab cause - violently opposed to Palestinian-Jews - began well before Israel was even created.
The founder of the Palestinian-Arab movement against Palestinian-Jews, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, was paid by the Third Reich throughout WW2 to translate and spread anti-Jewish propaganda throughout the Middle East. He met with Hitler on 28 November 1941 to ask for help opposing the establishment of a Jewish national home at the height of the Holocaust.
Hitler told him that, after Germany had ‘solved its Jewish problem’ within Europe, ‘Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power’. Browning, Christopher R. (2007). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942.
When Al-Husseini escaped to Egypt after the war, he was given a hero’s welcome. Al-Banna: ‘Hitler’s and Mussolini’s defeat did not frighten you. Your hair did not turn grey of fright, and you are still full of life and fight. What a hero, what a miracle of a man. We wish to know what the Arab youth, Cabinet Ministers, rich men, and princes of Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli are going to do to be worthy of this hero. Yes, this hero who challenged an empire and fought Zionism, with the help of Hitler and Germany. Germany and Hitler are gone, but Amin Al-Husseini will continue the struggle.’
Yasser Arafat was the younger cousin of the Mufti. And the Mufti's comrade in arms and sometimes rival was Izz ad-Din al-Qassam whose name was given to the military wing of Hamas.
Anyone claiming this is about land or Israeli actions or anything other than a centuries-old religious-ideological hatred of Jews is either ignorant or deliberately deceiving you.
Oh and even the forced wearing of the yellow star wasn’t a German invention but an Islamic one. introduced in the Umayyad Caliphate by Caliph Umar II in the early 8th century
Let’s agree there are people from the entire world that hate Jews/Israel. It is terribly sad, and will no doubt lead to great shame and tragedy.
But, while fewer in number, can we also agree that there are people from the entire world that love, support, and would risk their lives in extremis, for Jews/Israel also?
The people within both groups not only come from every part of the world, but also from every socioeconomic group, as well as the full spectrum of religious belief/non-belief.
There are professing Christians in both groupings and I believe it would be accurate to say that it is from these ranks that the majority of supporters/lovers of Israel come.
As an American Evangelical Christian-Zionist, I can’t speak to the reality experienced by those from within other sub-groups. But I know from bitter experience that Christians who love and support Israel are often challenged, mocked, vilified, reviled, and rejected; and most vehemently so by other professing Christians.
Though not (yet) physical, the attacks professing Christians make against Christian supporters of Israel take many forms and use a variety of approaches.
The ‘Christ killers’ one is only used against mature, sound, Biblically literate, Bible-believing Christians by those who are not, as it is reflected back in their faces quite easily.
In arguments, most of the tropes that are commonly asserted by those who are opposed to Israel, many of which are listed in Kelli’s piece, devolve into claims/counter-claims, and the opposition is remarkably resistant to actual facts and truth.
But one angle of attack that is very often used, with particular vehemence, is to highlight the often deplorable, even disgusting, attacks against Christians by Jews/Israelis.
All of this is grievous to the hearts of those who know and love the G-d of Israel as we who worship Him through the life-giving sacrifice and power of His Son, Yeshua/Jesus do.
But, above all commandments relating to human relationships, we are called to follow His example of loving others, even those who are hateful, and seemingly ‘unlovable’:
Matthew 5:43-48 (CJB)
"You have heard that our fathers were told,'Love your neighbor—and hate your enemy.'
But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! Then you will become children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun shine on good and bad people alike, and he sends rain to the righteous and the unrighteous alike.
What reward do you get if you love only those who love you? Why, even tax-collectors do that! And if you are friendly only to your friends, are you doing anything out of the ordinary? Even the Goyim do that!
Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
Well said. I think our Labour UK government is complicit in this, they have a history of anti semitism, and their actions speak for themselves. They let these idiots regularly march, rant, have offensive banners and threaten people. Conversely if you are a supporter of the Reform Party you are called a far right nazi! We have 2 tier justice here. The progressive Nazis also hate the UK and it's proud history. I fear we will end up with a civil war.
The rise of the Nazis fell on fertile ground because Germans needed a scapegoat for their fuck up from WWI, not unlike the Arabs need a scapegoat for their eternal fuck ups. But this too was preceded by hundreds of years of pogroms and societal alienation to varying degrees, and early propaganda like the Protocol of the Elders of Zion that is a bestseller in Arab countries. Along Hitler’s Mein Kampf of course. Just as a side note.
Excellent article. The terrorist mob accuses Jews of exactly what they are doing themselves. Islam colonizes. Islam wants a genocide. And now Islam wants to train dogs to rape. I would not put it past them for having that sick idea.
Canada once shut its doors to Jews fleeing Nazi terror, claiming “None is too many.” Today, the government postures as neutral while vilifying Israel for defending itself and downplaying years of antisemitic incitement by its enemies.
History is repeating—not in gas chambers, but in moral cowardice and policy appeasement. Have we learned nothing?
It's astounding to me that the penny hasn't dropped for these 'social justice warriors' that they're the modern-day Nazis. They've just been doubling, tripling and quadrupling down in their idiocy for almost two years now.
Did we not make enough Holocaust films? Perhaps we didn't make enough about the lead-up to the Holocaust - because that's the history that's repeating right at this moment. And perhaps we didn't make enough about the aftermath of the Holocaust - because it didn't work out so well for the Germans, especially the German women.
Literally no population in the history of Jewish persecution has ever been better off after expelling or exterminating their Jewish communities.
I think that’s the key Elly. No understanding that the Nazi view became the popular view. Just normal people duped by propaganda. The German Nazi supporters also believed they were in the right.
People do well to understand that the historical teachings we receive about the Holocaust are themselves a particularly noxious brand of revisionism.
The ugly truth about European antisemitism is that Nazi rhetoric against the Jews in the 1930s was hardly out of step with broader European society. Countries such as Poland were hardly welcoming of Jews returning to their homes after being liberated from the concentration camps.
The darkest part of the Nazi legacy is the extent to which people across Europe agreed with them (and still do).
If you’ve ever wondered how millions of seemingly ordinary people could have enabled centuries of vicious anti Jewish persecution, through the first pre Israel Holocaust and culminating in the Oct 7 massacres and beyond, now you know.
Tucker Carlson claims to have Jewish friends. He literally never names any—because keep my fuckin name out your mouth Tuck Tuck. I can’t imagine anyone is lining up to be that guy’s token Jewish friend.
Candace Owens makes no such claims of Jewish friendship. I believe her.
Let us not forget the Nazi sympathizers in countries like Canada, Australia, Britain, and the U.S. who marched through the streets denouncing the Jews in the 1930's. There was no Israel then. Jewish refugees from Germany were turned away from those countries and many were forced to return to Germany and the concentration camps. It is ironic that today Israel is vilified for strongly defending itself, when the Jews of the 1930's were accused of going meekly to the gas chambers. Antisemitism has never been and never will be rational.
Excellent point.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s quote is never recalled and yet is never out of place or inappropriate:
The line between good and evil runs right through every man, or words to that effect.
The revulsion I feel welling up inside me as I consider the parallels between today and Germany in the 1930’s should quickly remind me that, there but for the grace of God go I.
I have a relative whose Facebook avatar says: ‘I hate Nazis’.
I wonder if he sees the moat in his own eye.
Yes. Only thing I would add is that the links between Nazism & the Palestinian-Arab cause - violently opposed to Palestinian-Jews - began well before Israel was even created.
The founder of the Palestinian-Arab movement against Palestinian-Jews, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, was paid by the Third Reich throughout WW2 to translate and spread anti-Jewish propaganda throughout the Middle East. He met with Hitler on 28 November 1941 to ask for help opposing the establishment of a Jewish national home at the height of the Holocaust.
Hitler told him that, after Germany had ‘solved its Jewish problem’ within Europe, ‘Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power’. Browning, Christopher R. (2007). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942.
There are photos of Husseini meeting with Hitler & touring the Nazi death camps - again all BEFORE Israel was created. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-06-15/ty-article-magazine/revealed-photos-of-palestinian-mufti-visiting-nazi-germany/0000017f-ef6e-d0f7-a9ff-efefa25a0000
When Al-Husseini escaped to Egypt after the war, he was given a hero’s welcome. Al-Banna: ‘Hitler’s and Mussolini’s defeat did not frighten you. Your hair did not turn grey of fright, and you are still full of life and fight. What a hero, what a miracle of a man. We wish to know what the Arab youth, Cabinet Ministers, rich men, and princes of Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli are going to do to be worthy of this hero. Yes, this hero who challenged an empire and fought Zionism, with the help of Hitler and Germany. Germany and Hitler are gone, but Amin Al-Husseini will continue the struggle.’
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/the-nazi-roots-of-islamist-hate
Yasser Arafat was the younger cousin of the Mufti. And the Mufti's comrade in arms and sometimes rival was Izz ad-Din al-Qassam whose name was given to the military wing of Hamas.
Anyone claiming this is about land or Israeli actions or anything other than a centuries-old religious-ideological hatred of Jews is either ignorant or deliberately deceiving you.
Oh and even the forced wearing of the yellow star wasn’t a German invention but an Islamic one. introduced in the Umayyad Caliphate by Caliph Umar II in the early 8th century
Clementine Ford should be placed on a plane and taken immediately to live in Gaza. Let’s see how long she’d last.
I would pay to see that. What a horrible human she is.
I’d chip in for the airfare.
Excellent analysis. In some ways it is worse than the thirties because today the entire world hates us whilst back then there were some who didn’t.
And at least in the 30s they didn’t dress it up as anti Zionist.
Let’s agree there are people from the entire world that hate Jews/Israel. It is terribly sad, and will no doubt lead to great shame and tragedy.
But, while fewer in number, can we also agree that there are people from the entire world that love, support, and would risk their lives in extremis, for Jews/Israel also?
The people within both groups not only come from every part of the world, but also from every socioeconomic group, as well as the full spectrum of religious belief/non-belief.
There are professing Christians in both groupings and I believe it would be accurate to say that it is from these ranks that the majority of supporters/lovers of Israel come.
As an American Evangelical Christian-Zionist, I can’t speak to the reality experienced by those from within other sub-groups. But I know from bitter experience that Christians who love and support Israel are often challenged, mocked, vilified, reviled, and rejected; and most vehemently so by other professing Christians.
Though not (yet) physical, the attacks professing Christians make against Christian supporters of Israel take many forms and use a variety of approaches.
The ‘Christ killers’ one is only used against mature, sound, Biblically literate, Bible-believing Christians by those who are not, as it is reflected back in their faces quite easily.
In arguments, most of the tropes that are commonly asserted by those who are opposed to Israel, many of which are listed in Kelli’s piece, devolve into claims/counter-claims, and the opposition is remarkably resistant to actual facts and truth.
But one angle of attack that is very often used, with particular vehemence, is to highlight the often deplorable, even disgusting, attacks against Christians by Jews/Israelis.
All of this is grievous to the hearts of those who know and love the G-d of Israel as we who worship Him through the life-giving sacrifice and power of His Son, Yeshua/Jesus do.
But, above all commandments relating to human relationships, we are called to follow His example of loving others, even those who are hateful, and seemingly ‘unlovable’:
Matthew 5:43-48 (CJB)
"You have heard that our fathers were told,'Love your neighbor—and hate your enemy.'
But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! Then you will become children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun shine on good and bad people alike, and he sends rain to the righteous and the unrighteous alike.
What reward do you get if you love only those who love you? Why, even tax-collectors do that! And if you are friendly only to your friends, are you doing anything out of the ordinary? Even the Goyim do that!
Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
Am Israel Chai!
Well said. I think our Labour UK government is complicit in this, they have a history of anti semitism, and their actions speak for themselves. They let these idiots regularly march, rant, have offensive banners and threaten people. Conversely if you are a supporter of the Reform Party you are called a far right nazi! We have 2 tier justice here. The progressive Nazis also hate the UK and it's proud history. I fear we will end up with a civil war.
Same in 🇦🇺
Thank you, Kelli, for your ethical and strong voice. You provide so much comfort in a world that seems to have gone mad.
The rise of the Nazis fell on fertile ground because Germans needed a scapegoat for their fuck up from WWI, not unlike the Arabs need a scapegoat for their eternal fuck ups. But this too was preceded by hundreds of years of pogroms and societal alienation to varying degrees, and early propaganda like the Protocol of the Elders of Zion that is a bestseller in Arab countries. Along Hitler’s Mein Kampf of course. Just as a side note.
Excellent article. The terrorist mob accuses Jews of exactly what they are doing themselves. Islam colonizes. Islam wants a genocide. And now Islam wants to train dogs to rape. I would not put it past them for having that sick idea.
Absolutely 100% CK.
A powerful warning indeed! Thank you for your clarity and insight.
Thank you Suzanne.
Canada once shut its doors to Jews fleeing Nazi terror, claiming “None is too many.” Today, the government postures as neutral while vilifying Israel for defending itself and downplaying years of antisemitic incitement by its enemies.
History is repeating—not in gas chambers, but in moral cowardice and policy appeasement. Have we learned nothing?
Where are the leaders with spine?
Thank you, Kelli. You are so knowledgeable. And clever
Thank you 🙏🏻
It's astounding to me that the penny hasn't dropped for these 'social justice warriors' that they're the modern-day Nazis. They've just been doubling, tripling and quadrupling down in their idiocy for almost two years now.
Did we not make enough Holocaust films? Perhaps we didn't make enough about the lead-up to the Holocaust - because that's the history that's repeating right at this moment. And perhaps we didn't make enough about the aftermath of the Holocaust - because it didn't work out so well for the Germans, especially the German women.
Literally no population in the history of Jewish persecution has ever been better off after expelling or exterminating their Jewish communities.
I think that’s the key Elly. No understanding that the Nazi view became the popular view. Just normal people duped by propaganda. The German Nazi supporters also believed they were in the right.
People do well to understand that the historical teachings we receive about the Holocaust are themselves a particularly noxious brand of revisionism.
The ugly truth about European antisemitism is that Nazi rhetoric against the Jews in the 1930s was hardly out of step with broader European society. Countries such as Poland were hardly welcoming of Jews returning to their homes after being liberated from the concentration camps.
The darkest part of the Nazi legacy is the extent to which people across Europe agreed with them (and still do).
If you’ve ever wondered how millions of seemingly ordinary people could have enabled centuries of vicious anti Jewish persecution, through the first pre Israel Holocaust and culminating in the Oct 7 massacres and beyond, now you know.
Tucker Carlson claims to have Jewish friends. He literally never names any—because keep my fuckin name out your mouth Tuck Tuck. I can’t imagine anyone is lining up to be that guy’s token Jewish friend.
Candace Owens makes no such claims of Jewish friendship. I believe her.
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