OTHER VIEWS Fighting Jew Haters T 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 • 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 , 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. 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