Almost every week another Jewish billionaire or Jewish organization announces that they are allocating millions of dollars to wage a public campaign against the increasing anti-Semitism in America. They even enlist famous celebrities, Jews and non-Jews alike, in the expensive campaigns.
What total folly! Do they really believe that putting up posters at bus stations and billboards along highways will stop Gentiles from hating Jews? It”s a total waste of money. The Christians of America, and the various groups which stemmed from them, believe that the Jews killed their god. Is a billboard going to change their minds? Is a basketball player, a movie star, or former heavyweight champion going to influence their thinking? A majority of Gentiles grew up with Jew hatred from the time they started drinking milk.
The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, stated the law for all time: “Esau hates Jacob.” It”s in their blood. True, after they slaughtered 6 million Jews in the Holocaust they kept quiet for a few decades, perhaps sensing that their savagery had crossed the borders of civility. They hid their hatred of the Jews in their closets and let the Jews (those who survived) recuperate from the destruction and even enjoy the good life the West had to offer. They even allowed us to establish our own Jewish State – on a tiny, indefensible fraction of the expansive Land which Hashem had bequeathed to the Jewish People.
But a generation passed and then another and American children grew up not remembering the Holocaust and learning practically nothing about it. So, naturally, the innate Jew-hatred returned. The ghosts flocked out from the closets. Once again, if something goes amiss in the world it is the evil doing of the Jews. The old portrait of the satanic Jew has been resurrected and all of the billboards and posters in the world won”t stop it. The Moslems, led by Iran, are another source of Jew-hatred.
The solution, of course, is to flee from America and come home to the Land of the Jews. Tragically however, the Jews of America don”t want to face that obvious reality. Instead of flocking happily home to Zion they do everything they can to remain in the Egypt of today, where they are culturally enslaved by the same materialism which deadened the minds and souls of the Jews who remained in Egypt, 80 percent of the people, who remained deaf to the warnings and inspiring calls of freedom by Moses.
That is the very sad situation of American Jewry today – not to mention the Jews throughout the Diaspora who refuse to see the clear writing on the walls splattered with graffiti and the hatred of Jews.
This Pesach, may the Almighty open our ears to the messages of the Haggadah – this year we are slaves in exile tomorrow free men in the Land of Israel. This year in Jerusalem!
Books by Tzvi Fishman
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