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EFS's avatar

I've never understood people who need to publicly announce their personal decisions. I neither need nor care to hear their reasons.

My ears (or eyes) might open a bit more though if they opened with, "As a Jew, I've decided to abandon the community I was raised in, so I can prove to those who want to annihilate us that I should be spared." Because that is what their words mean to me.

These "Jews" ignore and trash Jewish history, culture, and traditions in their desire to protect themselves. They should excise themselves completely, and stop identifying as Jews altogether.

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I have many friends (mostly in NYC and LA) who are Jewish writers and artists and they are under constant intense pressure now to denounce and disown Israel, and thus they hide behind things like hating Netanyahu and/or opposing "genocide/apartheid" and/or being "anti-Zionist not anti-Jewish".

I always ask them: why are every people of every other faith and ethnicity allowed to have their own homeland but not Jews? why is the Jewish state painted as the world's most evil when there are many worse malefactors? how is keeping people out of your country "apartheid" when the last time this was allowed they blew themselves up on buses and inside restaurants? how is it "genocide" to fight a war against an enemy that hides behind their own people and builds bases inside or under schools, hospitals, apartment buildings? A war they started!?!

Of course I'm met with either mumbling or vague platitudes about how "no one wants to see an innocent person/child wounded"—they can't argue/think clearly here because this isn't an intellectual or moral response but a fear response.

What young urban educated Jews are waking up to in the West is that the shared faith of their cohort—Social Justice, which is supposedly a movement meant for Oppressed victims and their allies to fight all forms of Oppression, usually based on race and sex—has decided that Jews need to be humiliated if not eliminated, as they are too wealthy and successful and their existence has harmed too many members of the "marginalized", especially Muslims and Palestinians, who are poor brown people who just want liberal democracy like the rest of us, but are being held back by the Jewish boot on their necks.

I feel sorry for these young liberal Jews and what they're going through—it's like waking up one day to find out that your family hates you and wants you dead. Right now they seem to be in the denial or bargaining phases but hopefully soon they will wake up and accept that the people they considered friends and allies commited to "Justice" are just garden-variety Jew haters, no different than any previous believers in "If we just kill the Jews, all will be well", and should be treated as such.

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