What Is A Jew to Do?
German Jewish Refugees
1933–1939
It was always tough being a Jew in the old days. But lets just focus on the last 100 years. Before WWII, except for a small number of Jews most had nowhere to go to escape Nazi persecution. As I noted in my article Islam Continues to Infect Europe, as to why more Jews didn't leave Europe before the war began the answer is simple: for Jews, the world was divided into two: places where they could not live and places where they could not go (1).
Then, after the war, after the establishment of the State of Israel, the antisemites in Britain and Europe told their Jews : "Why don't you get out and go to your homeland in Israel." As I noted in my article A World without Israel: "Well, now that the Jews are in Israel, the anti-Semites in Britain and Europe are asking the Jews to get out of Israel! Is there no satisfying these Jew-haters?"
European leftists want Jews to vacate Israel and give it to the so-called Palestinians. But where will the Jews go? Jews are leaving Europe in huge numbers (2) because of the rise of Islam and the consequent rise of antisemitic attacks, so going back to Europe is out of the question.
Sean DeGan at the blog Conjecture and Consequence made this interesting observation: Eighty years ago Jews in Europe were told to wear yellow stars of David on their jackets and sleeves, but today they are told not to wear any symbols of their faith lest they offend Muslims (3).
Wear Jewish badges, don't wear them; leave Europe, go to Israel; leave Israel, but don't go to Europe. What is a Jew to do?
Notes
(1):
Yad Vashem, Why didn't more Jews leave Europe before the war began?
The most straightforward answer is that they simply had nowhere to go. For the Jews of Europe, as noted in Chaim Weizmann's famous remark, the world was divided into two: places where they could not live and places where they could not go. The restrictive immigration practices of the major overseas countries vis-à-vis Jewish refugees reflected a global climate of economic protectionism tinged with xenophobia and outright anti-Semitism. An international conference on refugees at Evian (France) in July 1938, initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proved to be a complete fiasco. Except for the Dominican Republic, none of the representatives of the 32 countries invited offered prospective Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria any hope whatsoever.
(2):
The Jerusalem Post, 12 Sep 2006, Why are French Jews leaving France?
While the reasons for making aliya vary from one family to the next, no one disputes the assertion that being Jewish in France has become more difficult during the past six years. With a tradition of anti-Semitism that dates back to Medieval times and the Crusades, France became a virtual icon of anti-Semitism in the 19th century with the Dreyfus trial - often said to have been Theodor Herzl's inspiration for the creation of modern political Zionism - and the mass round-up of Jews by the Vichy government during World War II. French intellectuals are unabashedly anti-Israel, and the French government has often displayed a pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian bias since Israel's resounding success in the 1967 Six Day War. With the beginning of the second intifada in September 2000, French Jews began to note a sharp increase in anti-Semitism with incidents and violent attacks unlike anything seen since the 1940s. Many of these incidents have been perpetrated by Muslim immigrants. France's National Consultative Committee on Human Rights reported a sixfold surge in acts of violence against Jewish people, property and institutions from 2001 to 2002. In 2003, a popular Jewish DJ was brutally murdered in Paris, apparently by a radical Muslim youth organization. This was followed in 2004 by incidents. For example, a Jewish school bus was set on fire in Strasbourg; a concert by an Israeli singer in Macon was repeatedly interrupted by shouts of "Death to the Jews"; a 14-year-old boy wearing a kippa was beaten near the entrance to a Paris Metro station, with bystanders refusing to intervene; a female Jewish teacher was knocked down, beaten and trampled in central Paris; a University of Saint-Antoine medical school class was interrupted by four men shouting anti-Semitic threats and beating a Jewish student, while the class and professor looked on in silence; and a 12-year-old girl leaving a Jewish school was beaten by two men who carved a swastika into her face with a box cutter. Synagogues were torched, Jewish cemeteries were desecrated, and Jewish institutions were vandalized, damaged or destroyed. The number and virulence of these violent attacks have indeed been reflected in the number of Jews leaving France for Israel: 11,148 between 2000 and 2005, with a 35-year high of 3,300 Jewish immigrants in 2005.
(3):
Conjecture and Consequence, 21 Dec 2012, The Jew of Hevron and The Jew of Copenhagen
Today in Denmark, Jewish envoys implored Jews living in that country not to wear Kippot or any other Jewish symbols around the city of Copenhagen or any of the other areas now completely overrun by peace loving left wing students and placid Muslim immigrants. Things are well in Holland too. In Amsterdam, as long as pot can be smoked, prostitutes can be used, and Jews remain under the radar, peace can flourish. Moving south and across the channel, there are now parts of France and England where Jews cannot go ...
Poll after poll has shown that more than 50% of Europeans believe the State of Israel is the greatest threat to peace on the planet because an age of peace and prosperity and free hybrid cars can only be ushered in once Jews are again stateless and powerless.
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Sixty years ago Jews were so loved that they were told to wear yellow stars of David on their jackets and sleeves. Today, they are so loved they are told not to. You see, Jews are allowed to be Jewish only when it is convenient for the rest of the world. When they are assimilated they are made to identify as Jews so they can be killed, and when they self identify of their own volition they are told their identity is dangerous for the peace of Copenhagen because the last thing that Danish police want to do is offend the SS in the minarets, for they may find themselves in the same position as the SA did sixty years ago.
