All my life I have reminded fellow Jews in America that we are the luckiest Jews to have ever lived in a non-Jewish country.
I know what I’m talking about. I wrote a book on anti-Semitism, taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College, and fought anti-Semitism since I was 21, when Israel sent me into the Soviet Union to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out Jewish names.
Even after the massacre of 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, this assessment remains true.
But the greatest massacre of Jews in American history is a unique American tragedy.
It is a tragedy in part because America has finally made the list of countries in which Jews were murdered for being Jews. While this was probably inevitable, given that 330 million people live in America, it is painful—equally for me as an American and as a Jew.
And second, while there is no difference between the murder of Christians at a church and the murder of Jews in a synagogue with regard to the loss of life and the suffering of loved ones, there is something unique about the murder of Jews for being Jews: Anti-Semitism is exterminationist. Anti-Semites don’t just want to persecute, enslave, or expel Jews; they want to kill them all.
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2 comments:
What, pray tell, is this guy banging on about?
Most Jewish folks ARE liberals!
Most antisemitism you find in America is coming from what is called the "Alt-Right"... as in RIGHT WING.
Remember the "blood and soil" march that caused so much controversy? Antifa clashing with Alt-right....
Which group was antisemitic? Please tell me?
Prager is so deluded. He has to be constantly dizzy from spinning so much.
No no no. I must disagree with the previous comment. Totally agree with the author of this article. That's why the writer referred to someone wearing the yarmulke. That person is conservative and he can mostly be counted as a Biblical Jew or an observer of his or her faith. The Barbra Streisands are those who claim their Jewishness by family background and traditions. Or let's say the observant Jews and the non-observant Jews. Same can actually be said of Christians actually. Is someone a true follower of the faith or Christian in name only. Talking about majority, though, it's the big mouths we hear and the obnoxious ones we see and these are they on whom your judgment may be coming.
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