Chutzpah Gone Missing
Dear Editor:
The NY Times’ newest outrage “Times ‘Hatchet Job’ Video Whitewashing Hamas Condemned” is only the latest in its decades worth of relentless obsession with false smears of only Israel. What is the difference between Jews being physically assaulted on our streets, and this rag’s false demonizing of Israel as apartheid, as a killer of Gaza’s children, as an aggressor and usurper? There is no difference. This rag fosters genocidal hatred, slaps, beats up Zionists, Israel and Jews with its Big Lies. Jewish writers and organizations repeatedly write to this rag, pointing out corrections to their false “reports” and nicely ask the editorial board to be fair. Camera.org even went so far as to put up huge bill boards opposite their offices saying “Your Bias Is Showing.” THIS ISN’T WORKING. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”-attributed to Albert Einstein.
It is beyond time for Manhattan’s rabbis, and sane Jewish organizations, world wide to “put aside their differences” and do this. Form ongoing, picket lines in front of this Jew hating rag’s offices; storm their offices, flood them with leaflets detailing their false reporting as outlined by Camera, and refuse to leave until the editorial board meets with heads of every single Jewish group, and agrees to hire writers from Camera and Algemeiner; begin pickets in front of the owners homes with loud bullhorns, leaflets. We need to get arrested. We need to be loud. We need to NOT STOP until this rag STOPS.
We Jews are too soft, too civilized, too polite, too…complacent…we have forgotten what it is like to have chutzpah, courage, to be brave, to stand tall, to put ourselves on the front lines. If there ever was a time for aggressive, non-violent protest, this is it. I call for all Jews, young, old, retired, working, all of us to demand our leaders organize this. And if not, we need to form our own grass roots Mobile Action Group.
We are so used to being reactive we have forgotten what it is like to be proactive. What else will it take for us to rise up? They are already killing us and planting the seeds for the next round of up of anyone who is a Zionist, who supports Israel’s right to exist and even if you don’t, if you are a Jew, today, that’s enough cause to have the crap beaten out of you. This rag reaches millions daily. That’s millions more being poisoned by their Jew hate. They are loading us up onto the rail car once again with their Big Lies. Let’s not go quietly this time.
Sincerely
Margot Kuthwraite
Freedom of Speech for Anti-Semites Only???
Dear Editor:
Anti-Zionists hijack and hide behind ‘Freedom of Speech’ to spread their real anti-Jew agenda which is slowly eroding the infrastructure of our democracy. In September, Columbia University, NYC, defended inviting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, a “self-described proud anti-Semite and Israel-hater” as freedom of speech. Mohamad is known for his public denial that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, describes Jews as being “hooked nosed”, claimed that “Muslims were not responsible for 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but rather that the U.S. staged the events.” His latest ignorant tirade, “Muslims have “a right to be angry and kill millions of French people” just hours after an attacker yelling “Allahu akbar!” beheaded one woman and killed two others in a church in France.”
Our “freedoms” come with responsibility. Freedom of speech also means saying NO to inviting bigots to speak which lends credibility to their hate speech, and gives it a platform. Would Columbia or other universities also invite Hitler to speak? Or Neo Nazis? Or White Supremacists? Yes, Mohamad and others like him have a “right” to speak. But not a “right” to be invited to speak at any university or anywhere else where civilized people gather. Freedom of speech has been hijacked to mean you can now invite only one kind of bigot to speak on your campus- rabid, vicious, anti-semites.
This has nothing to do with Israel or its policies. This has everything to do with the lack of moral leadership of our University Presidents, pressured by anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, Jew hating students, going down the abyss of moral relativism’s moral bankruptcy. It’s peace and love time for everyone but Zionists and Jews, once again.
Sincerely
Robert Lopichansky
Obscene Appropriation of Revolution
Dear Editor:
New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome says “we will burn it down if we don’t get what we want…violence is sometimes necessary in these situations…this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution? So for any American to accuse us of being violent is extremely hypocritical.” “Black Lives Matter and Antifa radicals have no intention of slowing down. They’re just going to keep ramping up the violence…”
Newsome’s appropriation of moral equivalence to the American Revolution’s revolt against British rule with BLM’s use of violence, threats and intimidation, even after most Americans literally bent a knee and are still bending over backwards to make amends for “racial injustice” is an obscenity. Newsome and BLM’s leaders openly state their goals of socialist and communist rule, overthrowing all of America’s laws and institutions. And just what is Newsome qualified to do other than threaten once his “revolution” takes over and all your hard earned wealth, all the goodies are re-distributed?
I guarantee he will be like most elites of the French and Bolshevik Revolutions, Mao’s Communist Cultural Revolution, N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un, a gluttenous, obese, cruel despot, sitting pretty in a mansion, eating luxury goods, now denied to the populace who are enslaved in factories owned by the state. The communist leaders want their chimney swept. They just don’t want you to own the soot, said a wise man, Father Brown. These ignorant mob “leaders” only know how to repeat the worst of our history because they failed to learn all about it in the first place, in school.
Sincerely
Eloise Kandrowitz
