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By Lieba Nesis
In May 2018 when the Gazans began six weeks of violent demonstrations attempting to breach the border fence antisemite Howard Horowitz referred to it as the “Gaza Massacre” and was the first to write a letter to the Israel Action Committee of his Westchester synagogue saying we “As Jews must atone for the killing of Palestinians for the past 70 years. We must teach the Nakba in our Hebrew schools and take a stand against the violence perpetuated by Israel.” How could a Jew raised by two orthodox parents vilify his own people in such a demonic fashion? The self-hating Jew concept has been prevalent for years beginning with the Holocaust where kapos reveled in their sadism. However, unlike 1940’s traitorous Jews who were faced with death; Jews Howard Horowitz, Felice and Yoram Gelman, and George Soros voluntarily fund the Jew hatred and violence spilling onto campuses and streets throughout the world.
Horowitz’s Wespac (Westchester Peace Action Committee) along with his main executive Palestinian Nada Khader, run the 501(c)(3) organization which was founded in 1974 by Connie Hogarth and Charlie Schneider. As of its 2023 IRS filling its revenues are $2.4 million as key employees include Jeanne Shaw, Marina Guvenc, Latifa Williams, Delia Marx, Gayle Dunkelberger, Ema Froning and Andom Ghebreghiourgis. The main funders for the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime (WOL) along with contributing to If Not Now, Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), Wespac’s revenues are minimally in the tens of millions.
Comparing groups SJP, JVP, WOL, CAIR, and CUAD to the Nazi regime is not as farfetched as it seems. The propaganda of the Nazi regime took hold between 1933 and 1945 and started with Nazi essays and slogans which called for the boycott of Jews; peaking in April 1st 1933 when Hitler inaugurated a day of boycott of Jewish stores-analogous to the BDS movement Horowitz and Soros have funded which has resulted in the vandalization of Jewish restaurants and businesses and led to divestment from Israel at Columbia’s Union Theological Seminary. In 1933 Hitler’s speeches spoke of defending Germany from its foes including hostile countries, Communism, liberals and cultural decay never overtly mentioning Jews-akin to the student groups who call for the death of Israel and Zionists while claiming to eschew antisemitism. While only a minority of Germans were Nazis the majority were preoccupied by feelings of Germany’s victimization making the Jews a popular scapegoat: just like the current anti-Israel movement that accentuates the Palestinian’s and even Hamas’s victimhood.
Pivotal to Nazi hegemony was convincing the population Jews were subhuman: likened to termites, rats and vermin. A German Jewish woman recalled a Nazi march in the 1930’s where they sang “when Jewish blood squirts from my knife.” Columbia and other campuses are not that different as calls for “Jews to go back to Poland,” “To repeat the October 7th Hamas massacre thousands of times”, to “annihilate Israel and the Jews” have reverberated thousands of times. Who can forget esteemed tenured Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi’s 2017 WBEZ radio interview stating that Jews were “infesting the Trump government” akin to vermin without any repercussions. Or posters at Columbia’s campus containing skunks accompanied by Israeli flags. Columbia encampment leader Khymani James calling for the murder of Zionists was astounding, equally surprising was Columbia’s inaction until the Columbia hearing became public six months later.
The Columbia protestor handbook produced by Horowitz and others told agitators not to engage with Zionists or make eye contact-the ultimate manifestation of dehumanization. Who can forget images of students linking arms to eject Zionists from pro-Hamas encampments immediately conjuring the Nazis who did exactly that at the University of Vienna, Austria in 1938. Finally the dreaded “kristallnacht” meaning “crystal nights” occurring on November 9-10th 1938, where shards of glass littered the streets of Jewish owned stores and businesses as the Germans looked on without intervening was most analogous to Columbia’s April 30th break-in at Hamilton Hall where windows were broken and bystanders threatened as keffiyeh clad students reigned without interference for close to 24 hours. Attackers during both the 1938 and 2024 uprisings justified their desecration of property with sledgehammers: during 1938 it was to protest a Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan’s killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath; in 2024 it was to demand divestment from Israel and for Israel to stop defending herself from rape and murder. Anti-Israel violence may currently be fueled and funded by a minority but so was Nazism in the 1930’s-a scary reminder of the consequences of underestimating your enemy.
