In response to criticisms of Israel from members of the Jewish community, such as those expressed by Salomon Kalmanowitz in an article for the Colombian national newspaper El Espectador, and similar sentiments shared at the  Oscar’s by Jonathan Glazer, it is important to address these public demonstrations of dissent. This is a translation of a compelling article from  Jack Goldstein’s blog, a dear friend, which serves as a counterpoint to the views presented by Kalmanowitz, Glazer and all those who in a way or other fall into the category of  מלשינים traitors and snitches whose actions have caused significant harm to their Jewish counterparts.

“This year, as I read about the four sons at the Passover Seder, I will also remember the words of the Salomon’s and Ursula’s of our community fauna (and other minds that forgive the president in his string of anti-Semitic transgressions, for the blind love they profess for Change). They will personify the Rasha the wicked son who appears in every generation to embarrass us with the burden of their postmodernist, peripheral, and renegade consciences.

רָשָׁע מָה הוּא אוֹמֵר? מָה הָעֲבֹדָה הַזֹּאת לָכֶם? לָכֶם – וְלֹא לוֹ

They carry the heavy complex of years of wanting to be something without knowing what, and they seek to ingratiate themselves with what they consider a humanist environment, not understanding the poison from which they drink and unwittingly feed. Their voices appear now, when their usual stance has been one of complicit silence.

They remained silent on the 7th when we were attacked. They stayed silent on the 8th when we hadn’t yet responded and already the masses, blinded by hatred, clamored for more of our blood in streets we considered safe until yesterday. Their arguments start with “I’m Jewish, but…” or “As a child of a survivor, I cannot remain silent…” in order to claim a moral high ground with which they aim to capture the attention of their followers. They may be experts in music theory, show business, fine arts, or bourgeois Marxism, but they are not knowledgeable in military strategy, history, or certainly not in sanity. They are mere parrots of the enemy’s “talking points” and the naïve. They hide in silence when unable to respond to interlocutors, rather than learning about the subject to engage in meaningful debate. They care even less about the consequences of their imprudence when they dare to improvise, pretending to be balanced. They suffer from the pathology of cognitive dissonance, which naturally occurs more often among illustrious minds than among those who admit they know nothing. They are uncomfortable in the chaos of their intellectuality. For next time, I suggest an article titled “I’m a clumsy, and this is too much for me.”

They expect a perfect war from Israel, but they concede much to the enemy because, according to Guterres, “nothing comes from a vacuum.” They do not know how to criticize or admit mistakes without surrendering their soul to those who will not respect their humanity, nor do they recognize how highly self-critical we are known to be. In this case, we are with Israel like the responsible father who corrects, educates, criticizes, and even punishes the child, but never betrays or abandons him. The truths they might outline, which I can also share, do not justify the suicidal radicalism they exude. Their diasporic complex makes them prefer to remain defenseless, advocate for the ambiguous and nefarious “proportionality,” and hand Hamas a second, third, or fourth pogrom on a silver platter, as they have promised to do to us. They do not realize that their advice is music to the ears of Hezbollah and Iran, eager to destroy the State of Israel, as are all the leftist fools who are today the faithful allies of radical Islam.

The great millennial asset of the Jewish people has been our unity and the defence of each fellow countryman. Today, these misguided souls serve as useful idiots for those who collect videos of Naturei Karta, Jewish Voices for Peace (a misleading name, as most of its members are not Jewish), or Students for Justice in Palestine shouting their animosity towards Zionism to the four winds. In the world of RT: they pretend to be the majority among us. They are far from it, but they fuel the thirst of the anti-Semite (yes, anti-Semite) and embolden them, knowing that they now have the support of prestigious economists, journalists, or artists.

Golda Meir rightly said that she could forgive the enemies for killing our children, but she would not forgive them for making us kill theirs. This is the time of existentialist war, as not experienced in 75 years, and there will be civilian deaths, unfortunately. This war, unlike others in Gaza or Lebanon, must be clearly won, without armistices forced by international pressures. Hamas should not be given the chance to rearm again. Otherwise, like in soap operas, we will be condemned to wait for the next episode of “To Kill a Jew.”

You do not speak for me, nor for my late mother who survived the Shoah

The economist may know about statistics, but he also knows that they can be used to manipulate the truth. In just 6 hours, Hamas massacred 1,200 people and took 250 hostages; per hour, that is much more than the theoretical 30,000 in over 5 months of bombings, tanks, and heavy artillery. Gaza has seen twice the tonnage of explosives dropped compared to those Palestinian deaths – including those murdered by Hamas, and those killed by stray Hamas rockets, like the fictitious 800 at the Al-Shifa hospital. This, among other reasons, makes this an urban war like never before. Where does this leave the cases of Aleppo, where the Russian air force leveled and exterminated hundreds of thousands in support of Assad? In Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, or Iraq, civilian deaths in relation to jihadists have been at proportions that quintuple those in Gaza. An army with genocidal thirst and air superiority would not have entered with infantry, sacrificing hundreds of soldiers. This war is fought in tunnels under hospitals, schools, universities, and mosques that emerge in kindergartens or homes. The war is fought this way to minimize civilian casualties, as many as there are.

“Do we need 5,000 trucks a day?” says the professor with suspicious erudition. Before the 7th, 500 trucks entered, and that was enough for irrigation equipment, factories, restaurants, supermarkets, and luxury hotels; it was enough to furnish homes and fill dealerships with modern cars, in what they call “the largest open-air concentration camp.” We have seen the videos of how beautiful Gaza was before the war and what they did with their irrigation pipes. 500 trucks a day, and they dared talk about a blockade. But those trucks also brought everything needed to build tunnels and rockets instead of houses. And more weapons entered through the tunnels. I could go on with more data, but let’s leave it at that for today. Someday, this war will be studied as an example of urban warfare, if the West does not first succumb to its own foolishness. And perhaps, if they are wise, the Palestinians will know how to rebuild a Gaza like what happened with Germany and Japan after the Second World War. Everyone deserves a second chance, as the saying goes.

Today, the banker defends a ceasefire, yesterday at the Oscars some idiots proudly wore pins with a red hand, thinking it was the symbol of peace for Palestine, when in reality it recalls the massacre of Israelis during the Intifada. Such is their weak grasp of history.

Ursula, for her part, went out to defend the life of every Palestinian (literally), but did not know how to defend that of her own people. She never showed interest in learning the history of her people, yet vehemently claimed to know that Zionism was not for her. Nonetheless, she is clear about the chicken or the egg dilemma and does not hesitate to cast the first stone. She defended the rights of women worldwide, yet remained silent about her sisters who were raped, kidnapped, and tortured. Not only that, but she was certain that 99 was the maximum number of days Israel could attempt to search for its kidnapped; beyond that, it was futile barbarism. To top it off, she has spent years acting scorned when she minimized every expression of affection, support, and integration, only to later argue that the community did not welcome her. Her self-victimization is her best ally, and “self-hate” serves as her balm.

None of them cried out for the safe return of the kidnapped. None criticized the genuine genocidal intentions of Hamas that are inscribed in its founding charter. Their souls did not fall apart at the sight of the orgasmic pleasure with which we were massacred, captured on body-cams for posterity. None condemned the cowardice of Hamas dressing as civilians and hiding in tunnels under schools. None took the time to contextualize the history since Israel left Gaza 19 years ago, as Guterres should have, or to recall that a ceasefire did exist on day 6. None remembered the multiple plans for a Palestinian state that have been offered since 1946. None had so much decency.

They emerged from their glass dens and were exposed for what they are, so we may remember them thus. I wish they never need the support of a brotherly hand, but let them know that when they come for us, they will also come for them, and yet, there will always be an Israel that knows how to defend them when their leftist buddies have already forgotten them. There will always be a corner in the annals of our community to record their treachery.

You do not speak for me, nor for my late mother who survived the Shoah, nor for the vast majority of Am Israel, nor for that multitude of coherent people – who are not Jewish – who understand very well the latent risk, who regret the war, mourn the innocent victims on either side, who accept a ceasefire in exchange for all hostages, and who are capable of making thoughtful critiques when warranted, without falling into the regrettable and unnecessary mistake of becoming the Rasha of the Haggadah.

Not in my name“