I wrote the following a few days ago and have added /removed very little to this article. Dear friends -
Amongst these thousands of “FB friends” there are those of you who will perhaps understand this. I’m writing this stunned by but knowing it is unmistakable that I am a Jew. My people are a nation of people. This doesn’t negate or undo my being an American, a New Yorker, Magyar or woman. It is not an issue of loyalty.
It simply is. Like a willow tree is a willow tree and an oak is an oak. There is no envy or intent to overtake or be more beloved by the Forrest canopy or the soil my body becomes and then grows from. “I am..Groot.” Thought makes me giggle. “I am Jew.” Makes me Giggle.
I am deeply soul sad. Makes me weep. But … I am Jew.
Some thoughts on those who wish us annihilated from the planet- not only Hammas. The anti-human, angered, soul sad but juvenile cowards…that have been wanting this for as long as we chose our choices to choose god over and over and over. For eternity- contained in a single lifetime, without longing for death.
I am Jew.
It is said, by many, that in part the justification for Jew hate can be found in the writings and brilliance of people like Nietzsche. However this, just like every justification when seeking the answer to why are Jews so hated, by intellectuals, pseudo intellectuals and their pawns and pupils is not only shallow, but false.
What I find remarkable as of late is how many justifications often cite, adopt, even claim ideas and language and declarations that are uniquely part of jewish wisdom and spirit, preserved by my people for millennia or - bastardizations of non Jewish but equally thoughtful, wise, brilliant
and complex ideas but without any hatred or even, what is worse than hate, contempt for my people they apply to these thinkers, artists and more (and therefore, since I am inseparably Jewish both in truth and according to those whose passion for my people often seems only to show itself in our death, dead or murmur of annihilation- I don’t only mean Hamas here) and therefore “Jew lover” is also treated with
the utmost contempt by the reframing of their ideas because they dared simply not to hate us.
I’ve heard this before. Haven’t you?
It reminds me, oddly and ironically and heart breakingly of course too, of so much of the last three years.
Remember Mass Formation? The Political Witch Hunt Ritual? The warnings and cries of Never Again is Now or if you don’t like comparisons don’t do comparable things? Remember masking? Masking children? Vaccinated children? Shunning neighbors? Murder? Indifference? Trivialization of life?
Hamas boasted that they began planning Oct 7 three years ago
no shit- remember the ignored voices from Israel? Remember them when you point fingers at politicians and governments Because they like all those on the ground in the Freedom Movement, not only writing or whispering online but THERE face to face trying to be seen and plead to humanity - we all were ignored
Remember that as blame and demands of accountability are declared. Where should this accountability begin? I’ve my thoughts. More than if I’m honest I’ve demands- not that anyone will listen to them, I’m not deluded that I could hope for such a power nor would I want it No one should It weighed heavy for those at Nuremberg who had to find a word for crimes before never seen. Did you forget? Some of you did. Dead Jews are useful when they serve what you wish to have For some of you….this is how clear as day. Stark to face for many of us -Jew and not alike
There are those who fall into mob mentality and then…there are those, who know their own ineptitude, and jump at the chance to fuel it.
“Unable to create art they will see their failure as creators only as a failure of the world.” Wrote the Weimar born LA poet Bukowski.
He knew a thing or two about what can happen to a society struck by the horrors we are seeing far too closely now.
When I say we are ALL Jews now - this isn’t glib.
Is this literal? Of course not. But if you are laser focused on such a false reality as literalism then - I’m not speaking to you but about you.
We are all Jews now.
Some of these great thinkers who had, they thought, the debate advantage by being neither masochists nor sadists (all who fit the bill of Bukowski’s Genius of the Crowd quoted just above are to varying degrees truly masochists or sadists - and so is their art) nor Jewish - say very similar things.
Still this war on memory has had its eyes squarely upon this “problem” for millennia.
To not talk about this problem is to deny the existence of Jews and therefore actually hate Jews not protect them as so often is protested - this isn’t my thinking , it was said by Eugene Ionesco of Sartre and his other contemporaries in 1967. Imagine. He remarked on the strange phenomenon we see now then in so many ways and was search idk and pleading for our existence to not be trivialized as he wept also for his Paris and all of mankind and the end to his culture he feared was irreversible. While he was not a jew (nor would he need to be to see the tragedies unfolding that got us to now) he was adept at seeing systems of authoritarian idiocy remarkably and unapologetically and painfully. He saw what happens to good men and women He saw the strength it takes to not succumb and how rare it is for anyone to be uncommon and how, he said, this was necessary to understand to understand totalitarianism.
Yet - here we are. As if the three years, never happened. Hatred of my people is as fresh as the new day snow I left behind when I fled to Florida from those who would have rather I be dead. And now - where do I go? How do I manage this promised dark death by people ready and willing, clearly, to do it and do it for you as the audience?
Why? We are a people who have no image for our belief. Or simply put…what’s in here, ❤️🧠, the bastards can’t take.
Sometimes we can even be bastards- but we are, after all, just like you - human
“All revolutions destroy culture. All revolutions destroy libraries of Alexandria” wrote Ionesco from Romania as he watched his beloved Paris begin its decent to what we see now.
Yet still...my people’s amalgamated wisdom and anti-nihilism and hope (distinct from optimism) has made us not only formidable, but unable to be - as a people or as a nation an easily manageable variable or subject for this ongoing and undeniable dark experiment of methodology to spread Revolution- the life blood (or Eucharist) of Liberation Theology and its partner - Transhumanism, despite how much we have been used and abused (along side so many but also even more than so many) in the Stalinist experiment and technique created in Romania, in a prison experiment at Pitesti called - unmasking.
What is that? That doesn’t mean truth or revealing
It doesn’t even mean the existence of a mask to unmask - it means tortured - until we display an animalistic impulse after impulse and nothing more, that appears to show that there is nothing, no difference between the human being and any other natural object. To appear as simply reactive meat sacks; and useful eaters.
I know this experiment because I’ve always known it. We all are living in the results of this experiment.
My enemy is not any singular identity. My enemy is one kind of person. The deceivers - I’ve asked before what’s worse? The monster or the creature that delivers it its prey? Not by necessity. But by pure sadism?
Christians often call this type of person lucifarian. For us, it isn’t that simple.
However I will say my belief would say they are, indeed, satanic and those they train to do their bidding appear demonic.
It is horrifying. It is deeply, soul crushingly, terrifyingly lonely. One would imagine that the “but just asking questions” childishness brought forth by
those who have mastered this art over millennia - longer if we are to be factual than our wisdom became a shared wisdom, gaze at my broken heart and tears and think “ahhh. See. There. The Jew is unmasked.”
And then - if they notice that they are seeing something that might appear as what they set out to do, their deepest Purpose finally brought to life through the knowing and fear of death and oblivion and nothingness…but a spark of untouchable and unknowable and certain - not only life, but the impossibility of true loneliness and an eternal strengthening of the power of CHOICE - the rage and terror either strikes, or shrinks away until the next moment it thinks its time to be redeemed before spectators (and they cannot understand solitude so alone they sit in wait) or falsely relish their unattained “consciousness” which is simply a deeper awareness that they are far from supermen or new men.
In that mysterious knowing my people share, they see what they are unwilling to not know. They see the truth - that the deepest truths are hidden. They rage at this reality and in their screams of why as they reach out to what they ask they turn in disgust.
“Unable to love fully, they will see your love as incomplete, and then they will hate you.”
And their hatred gives them a moment of why. Then it fails. Again and again and again. And they don’t know why. Cycle, spiral over and over again as long as my people have stood together and took action…and then heard and was given The Book. It is ours. Torah is our text. Talmud is our oral teaching - and those who cannot penetrate it, refuse to remain in the unknowing believing somehow something must be there that we are keeping from them.
Like dark physicians they think if they splay us up, bleed us, demand of us, account of us, scapegoat us- the truth shall be revealed in our innards. They despise and see ya as disgusting creatures but some- will even shove their phallus inside of us to figure out why..why WE REFUSE TO DIE.
Here is the philosopher often cited for what inspired Hitlarian man.
Thank you to, another Gentile who sees that being Chosen is not something to be envied…no.
Our gentile family sees why…in the unknowable, we are deserving of more than simply their fondness, but protection and love and…most of all…shared journey maintaining the spark of hope, in choosing one another, sometimes despite one another, as a human family over and over and over again - in a real hope for sharing God’s kindness and love and hope and mystery created for his creation and for existence again and again.
Baruch haschem.
“Of the people of Israel. Among the spectacles to which the coming century invites us is the decision as to the destiny of the Jews of Europe. That their die is cast, that they have crossed their Rubicon, is now palpably obvious: all that is left for them is either to become the masters of Europe or to lose Europe as they once a long time ago lost Egypt, where they had placed themselves before a similar either-or. In Europe, however, they have gone through an eighteen-century schooling such as no other nation of this continent can boast of and what they have experienced in this terrible time of schooling has benefited the individual to a greater degree than it has the community as a whole. As a consequence of this, the psychological and spiritual resources of the Jews today are extraordinary; of all those who live in Europe they are least liable to resort to drink or suicide in order to escape from some profound dilemma something the less gifted are often apt to do. Every Jew possesses in the history of his fathers and grandfathers a great fund of examples of the coldest self-possession and endurance in fearful situations, of the subtlest outwitting and exploitation of chance and misfortune; their courage beneath the cloak of miserable submission, their heroism in spernere se sperni, surpasses the virtues of all the saints. For two millennia an attempt was made to render them contemptible by treating them with contempt, and by barring to them the way to all honours and all that was honourable, and in exchange thrusting them all the deeper into the dirtier trades and it is true that they did not grow cleaner in the process. But contemptible? They themselves have never ceased to believe themselves called to the highest things, and the virtues which pertain to all who suffer have likewise never ceased to adorn them. The way in which they honour their fathers and their children, the rationality of their marriages and marriage customs, distinguish them among all Europeans. In addition to all this, they have known how to create for themselves a feeling of power and of eternal revenge out of the very occupations left to them (or to which they were left); one has to say in extenuation even of their usury that without this occasional pleasant and useful torturing of those who despised them it would have been difficult for them to have preserved their own self-respect for so long. For our respect for ourselves is tied to our being able to practise requital, in good things and bad. At the same time, however, their revenge does not easily go too far: for they all possess the liberality, including liberality of soul, to which frequent changes of residence, of climate, of the customs of one's neighbours and oppressors educates men; they possess by far the greatest experience of human society, and even in their passions they practise the caution taught by this experience. They are so sure in their intellectual suppleness and shrewdness that they never, even in the worst straits, need to earn their bread by physical labour, as common workmen, porters, agricultural slaves. Their demeanour still reveals that their souls have never known chivalrous noble sentiments nor their bodies handsome armour: a certain importunity mingles with an often charming but almost always painful submissiveness. But now, since they are unavoidably going to ally themselves with the best aristocracy of Europe more and more with every year that passes, they will soon have created for themselves a goodly inheritance of spiritual and bodily demeanour: so that a century hence they will appear sufficiently noble not to make those they dominate ashamed to have them as masters. And that is what matters! That is why it is still too soon for a settlement of their affairs! They themselves know best that a conquest of Europe, or any kind of act of violence, on their part is not to be thought of:
but they also know that at some future time Europe may fall into their hands like a ripe fruit if they would only just extend them. To bring that about they need, in the meantime, to distinguish themselves in every domain of European distinction and to stand everywhere in the first rank: until they have reached the point at which they themselves determine what is distinguishing. Then they will be called the inventors and signposts of the nations of Europe and no longer offend their sensibilities. And whither shall this assembled abundance of grand impressions which for every Jewish family constitutes Jewish history, this abundance of passions, virtues, decisions, renunciations, struggles, victories of every kind whither shall it stream out if not at last into great men and great works! Then, when the Jews can exhibit as their work such jewels and golden vessels as the European nations of a briefer and less profound experience could not and cannot produce, when Israel will have transformed its eternal vengeance into an eternal blessing for Europe: then there will again arrive that seventh day on which the ancient Jewish God may rejoice in himself, his creation and his chosen people and let us all, all of us, rejoice with him!” -Nietzsche
I do agree that the radical change in public sentiment towards the Jewish people does remind me of COVID and the Summer of Floyd. Conventions we all knew our entire lives like non-violent protest just get reversed over night and only a fraction of us seem to notice. Shocked to see people like my sister who went to the Jewish Community Center with me to learn to swim, for summer camp, and for preschool all of a sudden have forgotten how we benefitted from as you put it, the Jewish liberality of the soul. A Good read as always.