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This was the law of the lands where the swastika banner flew proudly. The 1000-year Reich lasted just 12 years; then the lights went on again all over Europe for a brighter, happier, productive future for those who had lived through it.
I was just 14-years old. I had memories but, more importantly, I had hope. I had hope that what I had lived through would not be repeated, that I would live a normal life like everybody else -- Jew and non-Jew, that I would acquire knowledge I could pass on to others -- including, I hoped, my children and their children, that I could do something that might make my world -- and everyone else's -- a better place to live in.
My hopes became reality after I came to America at the age of 18. I graduated college, got a job, bought a house, fathered children, made friends, became involved in humanitarian causes, and loved and appreciated the wonderful country that gave me the opportunity -- and the inalienable right -- to pursue happiness.
It had never occurred to me that there might come a time when I and my family might be sentenced to death once again for the crime of being born Jewish. It never crossed my mind that the world would once again be hearing the shouts of "Kill the Jews" and "Jews to the ovens!" I realized that there were some who hated Jews but I was sure that this was a tiny, mindless, insignificant minority -- surely smaller in numbers than those who believed the Earth was flat or that Elvis was alive.
I was wrong.
Hatred is with us again. The legions of haters are proudly waving their flags and flaunting their slogans around the globe. And just like the Nazis of 70 years ago, they are not bashful or apologetic in disseminating the ideology of mass murder. They are dedicated, enthusiastic, committed, and ready to die for their deadly doctrine. One of their religious leaders put it best: "We love death as much as the Jews and Christians love life!"
A less literate, young man at a New York demonstration was even more frightening by waving a misspelled placard that demanded, "Death to All Juice!" The photo brings a smile to most that see it on the internet but it isn't funny. We know that he doesn't want to kill orange juice -- he wants to kill me, my children and grandchildren and all those other "juice".
In Fort Lauderdale, on December 30, hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators protested the Israeli military operation in Gaza. Their hatred encompassed all Jews – "Go Back to the Ovens! You Need a Big Oven" and "Kill All Jews!" (this time spelled correctly), read their placards.
Pamphlets in Denmark demand, "Kill Israel's People", and on the reverse, less correctly, "Kill Jewish People Evry Where in Ther World". In Mumbai, a city with very few Jews, the Islamic terrorists went to the trouble to find a tiny, unmarked Chabad facility to slaughter the 6 Jews there. In Britain the police are unable to guarantee security for Jewish schools. In Amsterdam, in January, a crowd at a rally chanted "Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the Gas!" In Belgium, pro-Hamas demonstrators burned a public menorah and painted swastikas on Jewish-owned shops. In Berlin, the police chief warned Jews not to wear skull caps in public and avoid "acting Jewish." In France, a burning car was rammed into a Toulouse synagogue. In southern Sweden a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a synagogue. And there is more, everywhere...
The hatred is not hiding. On the official Hamas website, on 12/31/08, there were calls for attacking Jews throughout the world, "...a Jewish adolescent boy in an Australian synagogue, a Jewish minister in the Georgian government, a Jewish businessman in the New York Stock Exchange, an illiterate Jew from Ethiopia...they all belong to the same gang and the same nation..." And Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri demanded that Jews be attacked worldwide, "...everywhere you can reach them. Support your mujahedeen brothers and children against them."
The British online forum "Ummah" asks, "Have we got a list of top Jews we can target? Can someone post names and addresses?" And, in response, "Saladin1970" gives a link to 100 top British Jews.
There are those who believe that this isn't anti-Semitism -- just anti-Zionism. Here is a quote from a great and wise man: "When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism" (Martin Luther King, 1968).
I am worried.
(71) MOHAMMED JAMSHED , May 24, 2009
RELATION WITH ALL RELIGION
HI my name is mohammed jamshed i am muslim live in pakistan i beloing from tribles area near afginstan isalm and other religion like peace in all world god give us a brain than use it why we kill oneanother god like peace in all were but we are in totle loss condation god love with those who love with his persons thanks
(70) Taiwo , February 16, 2009
Why Killing the Jews
There is a question we need to ask ourselves that why do some people hate Jews or why do they want jews to be killed? Though it seems some folks hate Jews for reason that no one can has ever brought to clarification. In my own view i think it is not the world that hates the Jews but the so called Arab/Arab Militants who has nothing in their brain but to kill and destroy, there should be an end toall this brohaha. I am not a Jew i'm an African to the brim but i have a feelings that crisis in the middle-east is still one of the major cause of this trouble and the world should see to it, bring those who still has the mind of the goddam Adolf Hitler's past events to damnation. God save Nigeria, God save the Jews, God save the World. Amen. Sincerely Your's Taiwo
(69) Deborah Feinhandler , January 19, 2009
Wake Up!
When will the American Jewish Community wake up and see that Hammas and Hesbollah are here in our country and want us gone. I saw for myself in Anaheim,Calif how many are out there on the streets yelling Hammas for ever and Jews are nazis. The hate is as bad as any hate of the past. You can,t talk to this kind of hate I mean could you have talked to Hitler?
(68) Shoshana Chana , January 18, 2009
Don't Worry. Make Aliyah
B'H I will not say that Israel's current administration is doing anything good for Jews or the Land. However, at least if we all make aliyah, we will know who our enemies are. In the US, there are so many more hidden enemies. If any of us should die in Israel, chas v'shalom, at least we would do so as Jews living in a Jewish land. We cannot be blind to yet another repeat of history, from Esav to Hitler and beyond. My family is working on our aliyah - have you looked into it yet? Am Yisroel Chai!
(67) not born yesterday , January 18, 2009
Do not trust in the world to come to the aid of the Jewish people or your nation. Do not take lightly the threats of madmen. If they attack you, do not wait, make sure they can never attack you again. Enough is enough...no more!