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Fighting Jew Haters
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here is an anecdotal story
about the Roman emperor
Titus.
A Jew, walking past the emperor,
bowed. Titus was enraged and told his
attendant guards to execute the Jew.
Another Jew, observing what has just
transpired, walked past Titus, without
bowing. Titus was enraged that a Jew
should not show him respect. Again,
he ordered the Jew's execution.
The emperor's adviser requested an
explanation of this contradictory
action. Responded Titus: "I hate the
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Jews, and will find any excuse to
destroy them!"
Such has been the logic and motiva-
tion of anti-Semites throughout history.
Anti-Semitism has been diagnosed as a
disease, for which there is no cure. In
the Passover Hagaddah, it was written
that in every generation there arose
anti-Semites who wished to destroy the
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Philip Vainik is a resident of
West Bloomfield.
Jews. The Jews are an eternal people. It
has been said that they have stood at
the graveside of those who would bury
them.
Pharaoh, in ancient Egypt, enslaved
the Hebrews. His rationale: the
Hebrews would multiply, and join
forces with the enemy. Amalek attacked
the weak and stragglers as the Hebrews
departed from Egypt.
Moses' ,injunction served as a watch-
word for future generations: "Remem-
ber; do not forget what Amalek did to
you!"
Haman tried to destroy the Jews of
Persia, but was foiled by Divine provi-
dence. Mordechai and Esther were
able to circumvent his evil designs as
described in the book of Esther.
Christian priests incited the ignorant
and crude populations of Europe to
plunder and murder the Jews, whom
they accused of causing the death of
Christ. Passover became an annual night-
mare, when mobs would attack the Jews
on the trumped-up charge of drinking
the blood of Christian children.
Churchill called the Holocaust
In 1903, a pogrom in
"The greatest crime in world
Kishinev, Russia, occurred
history"
when drunken Russian peas-
Like the phoenix, the Jews
ants went on a rampage in the
recovered,
and rebuilt their
Jewish village. Chaim
homeland in Israel. From the
Nachman Bialik, the Jewish
barren soil, the Israelis have
national poet, was delegated to
forged a modern, thriving,
write a report on the pogrom.
PHILIP
democratic state.
In a devastating poem, called
VAINIK
After the Holocaust, it
"In the City of Slaughter,"
Community
appeared that anti-Semitism
Bialik harrowingly depicts the
Perspective
was on the decline in the
brutality and massacres.
world. However, in the past
But he also castigates the
few years, anti-Semitism has again
Jewish community for not fighting
raised its ugly head, especially in
back. Scornfully, he writes: "They, the
Europe.
descendants of the Maccabees, hid like
Continued bloodshed between the
rats in the cellars."
Palestinians and the Israelis has fostered
This poem galvanized the Jewish
rabid Jewish hatred in the Arab world:
resistance groups, which later were to
Even the fabricated Protocols of the
write one of the most glorious chapters
Learned Elders of Zion, which originated .
in Jewish heroism during the Warsaw
in Russia a century ago, is now being
Ghetto uprising in World War II.-
shown on TV in Arab states, depicting
The German anti-Semitism of the
Jews as planning to take over the world.
1930s and the atrocities that led to the
A strong and independent Israel is
Holocaust were unmatched in their
the
main antidote to anti-Semitism.
diabolical cruelty and devastation. Six
million Jews were murdered. No Jewish Jewish minorities throughout the world
know that they are no longer defense-
poet has arisen who could depict the
less victims, as long as the State . of Israel
depravity and the inhumanity inflicted
is vigilant to protect their rights. ❑
by Hitler and his henchmen. Winston
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