- A Bloodless Holocaust –

There is a Yiddish phrase my grandparents used to say which transliterates roughly to: besser tzu shtarben staiendik aider tzu leben oif di kni. It translates to "better to die standing than live on your knees." This phrase always touched a nerve in me, especially since both of my grandparents are survivors. The phrase paints a portrait of a strong open-eyed people, a community of Che Guevaras! A community of people ready to do anything it took to fight for what they believed in, even if it meant death.

But I knew better. Although the phrase may sound nice, it was never actually put into practice by many Jews. The Nazis told the Jews to do something and the Jews did it, some even volunteered. I suppose it took 60 years to finally come to the realization as to what this phrase really meant. I believe the phrase wasn’t an outright lie, but rather, oblivion or delusion. The Jewish love for life and peaceful existence was so strong they would rather die falsely standing than live on their knees. It became Jewish practice, as a community, to deny reality. The ability to ignore what is actually going on, and don blinders to the world, became unprecedented and were only closely matched by the Cambodians in the 1970’s. The reality was that the Jews never fought as a unified community against the Nazis because they were so busy convincing themselves it would never happen that when it finally did occur it was too late to fight back. So much for dying standing with pride.

It was this flaw within the Jewish mentality that allowed the Holocaust to occur as widespread as it did and it is this same flaw that is destroying the Jews once again, 60 years later. Inter-faith marriage is decimating the Jewish population. 50% or more of marriages are inter-faith. The numbers are clear: In the 1980 American census, Jews constituted 2% or 5-6 million people in America. As of the latest census, the number has halved to 3 million, or half the number of Jewish victims of the holocaust. The American population got larger and the Jewish population got smaller. This is easy to comprehend. If Jewish parents have a son who marries a non-Jew, the Jewish population one generation later has lost 5.5 people (the mother, father, son, and potentially 2.5 children).

Just like the Jews of yesteryear were desperate to live peacefully, the Jews of today are desperate to please their children, allowing them to do anything, including inter-faith marriage. And once again, 60 years later, the Jewish population has done almost nothing on a unified communitarianist level to stop this bloodless holocaust. The Jews of today would rather bicker about kashrut certificates and the supposed rise of anti-Semitism (anti-Semiitism does not ebb and flow, it is a constant) than admit what is happening to our population and people – this sounds like a familiar plan my grandparents know all too much about.

During World War II, the chances of surviving the war as a Jew were a mere 7%. The chances of surviving the war as a Jewish resistance fighter was 85%. It is better to die standing then to live on our knees. The question is, when are the Jews going to stand?

Gandhi Was anti-Zionist!

This article: here speaks about Gandhi and his relation to Zionism. Now my conservatism reflex is to vilify Gandhi for his pro-arab mentality. But then I thought about it more.

To be fair, this was 1938 in a non-globalized world speaking to a man in a 3rd world nation - so if he wasn't grasping the full extent of the soon-to-be Jewish annihilation, I don't know if I entirely blame him. After all, if the American Jews didn't really know what was going on, then why would Gandhi?

Furthermore, I don't entireley disagree with his theory that the Jews should have fought for their rights in Germany. As I've stated in numerous prior posts, I believe that if you never fight back and always get kicked around, how stunned can you be when they kick harder one day? The basic theory here is that, the sadness is not that Gandhi was against the British opening up Palestine to Jewish refugees, but rather that Jews needed Britain at all in the first place.

Around the world, every time we even utter the word "Mohammed" a Muslim man beheads 5 people and burns down a couple of [insert structure here]. Why? Because they don't fuck around. Now I'm not saying that the Jews should have been as drastic, but I have a feeling if they were, the holocaust never would have happened. Imagine if every time a stone was thrown through a Jewish stores' window, the community would wake up to find 5 Lutheran children hanging in the public square? You wanna fuck with those guys? I don't.

In a way, Gandhi was preaching what he did. He fought back. However he did it is irrelevant, but he believed in rights, and fought for them. The Jews believed they had and deeserved nothing, and thus had nothing to fight for. Now that I think about it, Gandhi, I see your vision - if you truly believe in your own dignity, then its worth fighting for. But no one will just hand it to you, not Britain, or Germany. Gandhi realized that and took his peoples dignity back. Why didn't we?