Heads up, liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees
By Joan Swirsky
RenewAmerica.com
“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.”
Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of
1982, directly to the Democrat senator from
Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli
Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations
Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to
Israel.
That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment
of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22
war-mongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only
35 years after the Holocaust savagely
murdered––tortured and gassed-to-death––six-million
Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator
Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the
world with his menacing ultimatum.
Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in
judgement, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime
antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been
exhaustively documented, most recently by Shmuel
Klatzkin (Biden’s
Hostility to Israel––read the whole
article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is
a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American
Jews?).
EXAMPLES ABOUND
Levy
reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s
consistent anti-Israel policies:
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They interfered with the 2015 Israeli elections
with the goal of defeating the Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu;
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Their State Department granted $350,000 to OneVoice,
a radical anti-Israel organization that supports
the terrorist group Hamas;
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They fully supported the boycott, divestment,
and sanctions (BDS) movement to destroy Israel
economically;
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In 2016, Biden pressured
Ukraine, an abstainer, to vote for UN
Security Council measure 2334, which claimed
that ancient and historic Jewish sites were
“illegally occupied”;
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They approved the same UN measure, which
condemned Israelis building
settlements––emboldening the Palestinian
Authority to call for the ethnic cleansing of
Jews from Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish
Quarter, reversing decades of U.S. vetoes
against such moves.
Today, candidate Biden pledges to reopen the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in
Washington, D.C. And he vows, incomprehensibly, to
rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, in which the most
dangerous terrorist state in the entire world has
vowed to exterminate the State of Israel.
In addition, Levy points out that while Biden has
given lip service to repudiating anti-Semitism, he
has been thunderously silent when his fellow
Democrats Reps. Ihlan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI),
Ayanna Pressley (MA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY)—and simpatico Jew-hating activists Linda
Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and others––spew their
undisguised anti-Semitic bile for all the world to
hear.
“Biden
said he could never be silent on anti-Semitism,”
Levy writes, “but raised no objections, as
vice-president, to more than 60 White House visits
by Al Sharpton, who [had] incited
anti-Jewish riots in New York City in the
1990s.” That’s the same Al Sharpton, I might add,
who writer John Perazzo documents as
being responsible for the horrific Tawana Brawley
racial hoax, called the first black mayor of New
York City a “ni—er whore,” and delivered a speech at
Kean College saying: “We built pyramids
before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture
was…. [W]e taught philosophy and astrology and
mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos
ever got around to it.”
You get the picture of one of Joe Biden’s favorite
pals.
LESSONS OF HISTORY
I was a very little girl––younger than six––when I
first asked my parents why they were running
frantically to meeting after meeting every evening,
opening their checkbooks, delivering impassioned
speeches, wringing their hands, and shedding copious
tears.
They told me what few American-Jewish parents ever
told their children, so numb were they from
disbelief and so eager to protect them from the
ghastly truth, which was that adults and children
just like them, just like us––six million of
them––had been savagely murdered by Adolph Hitler
and his "willing
executioners" in Germany, Poland, all
over Eastern Europe, and even in “civilized”
countries like France, simply because they were
Jewish.
Jews who managed to flee Europe and come to America
before the Holocaust––like my own and my husband
Steve’s grandparents––and those who survived the
killing camps and landed on our shores by sheer good
fortune, thought they died and went to heaven on
earth. For the first time in their lives––in fact,
in Jewish history––they were free to breathe, to
create, to pursue their dreams, to worship, and to
raise their children without fear.
Yes, there were things like quotas
in colleges and graduate schools, Holocaust denial,
and today an upsurge in Jew hatred, but
nothing stopped Jews from succeeding and excelling
and contributing disproportionately to American
society and to the world, just as the Jews in the
state of Israel––only 72 years old––do today.
THE LEGACY OF PERSECUTION
But over 3,500 years of persecution exacts a heavy
price. To understand, just think about the
long-lasting toll the following events take:
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A one-minute gunshot,
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A two-hour bout of chemotherapy,
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A three-week recovery from open-heart surgery,
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A four-month lay-off,
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An eight-month (so far) pandemic lockdown
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A five-year recession.
All of the above are life-changing, diminishing,
often devastating, sometimes annihilating.
Yet Jews continued on, their survival instinct
stronger than the most crushing circumstances of
their long and besieged history of being haunted,
hunted, and often destroyed in, among
other cataclysmic events:
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The Crusades.
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The Inquisition.
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The expulsion from Spain.
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The Holocaust.
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And always, the diaspora.
After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed
politics––most did and still do today––were forced
to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask:
Is it good for the Jews? Meaning, will this or that
statement or policy or law lead to another
Holocaust?
After all, the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s
enjoyed tremendous success––in business, academia,
the arts and sciences, society in general. Unlike
the United States today, every college and
university did not feature violent anti-Jewish
protests or professors who taught anti-Jewish
propaganda. Until the rise of Hitler, there were no
elected officials––as there are in the U.S.
today––spewing Jew hatred, not only with no
disapproval from the powers-that-be, but with total
impunity.
TO ASK THAT QUESTION TODAY
Is Biden’s candidacy good for the Jews? I can say
unequivocally and without hesitation that
scandal-plagued Joe Biden, his inexperienced and
effortlessly alienating VP pick Kalamity Harris, and
the truly regressive Obama-clone platform he’s
running on––including high taxes, a weakened
military, the support of terrorist groups like Black
Lives Matter and Antifa, an anti-fracking
return-to-energy-dependence, open borders,
confiscation of your guns, and a viciously
contentious relationship with Israel––would be
terrible for America and disastrous for the Jewish
state.
If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull
the lever or mail a write-in ballot for Biden—don’t!
Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very
survival and that of your family are at stake!
© Joan Swirsky