Letters to the Editor

Stockholm Syndrome

Dear Editor:

The maps of Abbas’ Fatah, and Hamas, clearly show “Palestine” as all of the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea-with no Israel anywhere. So how then to explain IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, J Street, Bernie Sanders’ alignment with Arabs who reject all peace offers, who refuse to even accept Israel’s right to exist? Rabbi Matthew Green, Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim chimes in on facebook, “Our presence has given a heksher to bigots. I feel it’s necessary for me as a rabbi to #SKIP AIPAC this year and onward.” He wrote of Sanders: “It excites me that the most prominent Jew in America today reflects the values of the American Jewish future.” Really?

“Sanders addressed the Islamic Society of North America featuring speakers who express hatred of Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities. Sanders’ surrogates are antisemites and anti-Zionists. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Linda Sarsour, Amer Zahr, and Ariel Gold, are relentless Israel Boycott slanderers. Sanders campaigned in London for Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party, an unapologetic antisemite. Rabbi Lord Sacks, recipient of multiple Distinguished Awards said, “Corbyn is an anti-Semite who defiles our politics, demeans the country we love, has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map”.

Sanders aligns with IfNotNow. “fNotNow’s true agenda is to sow division in the Jewish American support for Israel, while providing cover for those who seek its destruction. They received extensive funding from anti-Israel organizations, such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund who also supported Jewish Voice for Peace.”, Camera.org. ADL reports: “Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel group that advocates for a complete boycott of Israel. JVP leaders believe that expressing support for Israel must also be viewed as an implicit attack on people of color and all marginalized groups in the United States.”

So, how to explain these unholy alliances, these anti Israel “Jewish” individuals and groups? ‘The Stockholm Syndrome’ is a psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his or her captors, as well as with their agenda and demands. Perhaps this sheds light on what cannot be explained rationally. If anyone has a better explanation for these ignorant kapo Jews (and non-Jews) endanger us all, do let us know.

Sincerely

Janet Coback

 

 

As We Bear Witness

Dear Editor:

In 1969, age 18, I went to Israel. My aunt took me to Yad Vashem, my first time. I held my tears in until the very last exhibit. I saw a silent towering pile of children’s shoes, worn, scuffed, shoe laces torn. The uncontrollable tears seemed to come from my soul.

In 2015, I went through the Yad Vashem Children’s Memorial, again in Israel. It was hollowed out from an underground cavern, darkly it, with uneven steps, keeping you unbalanced. The ceiling is filled with stars for each of these murdered children. As you walk slowly through, you hear the names of the 1.5 million slaughtered Jewish children called out, one by one, leaving you with a hollow, empty, unbearable ache.

This little girl stays with me. She is never far from my consciousness. The Holocaust documentary shows her trying to roll up the sleeve on her tattered coat, as she was asked to do, to show the tattoo of the number on her arm. She did this with earnestness and intensity, as if to say to the world, to someone, to anyone, ‘if I do what I’m told, if I am a good girl, maybe this nightmare will stop’. It did not stop. As I write this now, my tears well up again, for this little girl, and the millions like her who were butchered just because they were Jews.

And so let us not forget these words, as the Bidens, the Warrens, as all who threaten Israel:

“On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Begin responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Global Antisemitism is rising faster than we can keep up with. Anti Zionism is only the newest form. Do not be silent. Do not allow them to win this time.

Sincerely

Ginette Weiner

 

 

Mainstream Media Ignores Child Abuse

Dear Editor:

Mainstream media, indeed America, Europe, the West, routinely ignores child abuse. ‘Watchdog Group Urges UNICEF to Call Out Palestinians for Use of Child Soldiers’: “An Israeli watchdog group that tracks racism, incitement and glorification of terrorism in the Palestinian media has sent a report to the UN’s international child welfare agency, UNICEF, on Palestinian recruitment of child soldiers and terrorists. This, the group said in a press release, violated international law, which prohibits the use of child soldiers.

The report compiled by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) alleges that the Palestinian Authority deliberately uses media and educational materials to brainwash Palestinian children into admiring and imitating acts of terrorism. The PA, charged PMW, “indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate Jews and Israel, to aspire to the destruction of Israel, brainwashes the Palestinian children to admire murderers, weaponizes the Palestinian children, and promotes their participation in violence.” Furthermore, PMW stated, the PA “pays substantial financial rewards to the child terrorists” and “openly admits that the child terrorists are the PA’s soldiers.”

A quick search on Palestinian Media Watch shows a revolting display of the worst Nazi demonizations of Jews, teaching school children to kill Jews as a holy act of martyrdom, cheering on the destruction of all of Israel and Jews to be replaced by a Juden free Arab state. Yet this goes unreported by mainstream media, by American Jewish newsprint, by American Jewish organizations who are too busy rallying for “progressive” causes to take on the genocidal war calls from these Arabs.

Gee, I thought child abuse, using children as soldiers was a “progressive” cause? I guess not. At least not when it’s not a good enough politically correct “cause” and when you’re too busy taking on the “cause” of all others, except for your own people.

Sincerely

Elyse Trachtberg