October 7
I declare at the outset of this post, my unreserved support for Israel and Jews. I cannot think of a group of peoples that has been as attacked historically as these peoples.The history of the development of western culture is the story of the leaders trying to eradicate or enslave jews.
From Babylonian times, then Persian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Christian, Muslim, Russian, German and now back to Muslim cultures have tried to eliminate the Jewish people or Israel. I cannot nor can I even want to rationalize this treatment. There is no cause for it other than difference. You’re different, you need to die. Or be enslaved. Either is simply inconceivable to me and my beliefs.
Instilled with the Judeao-Christian ethic of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, the only response I have to this ongoing attack is defence. I want my right to exist defended therefore I must defend those under attack. Simply ignoring the situation or signalling a qualification in support, ‘of course I support Israel’s right to defend itself, but…’ only furthers the cause of those attacking. The current situation beginning with the attack October 7th, 2023 is just the latest in a long history of attacks.
This one is deferent though for several reasons. The attack itself is no different, a barbarous day with 1,500 dead and hundreds more captured to be tortured and killed later. The support for the acts of these terrorists is what has changed. The questioning of Israel’s response in its right to defend itself and the outpouring of support at the university campus and the town square in the West is what is startlingly different.
A year ago we had encampments on university campuses across North America. Columbia University, University of Toronto south and west to University of Southern California all required intervention to break up the supporters of this terrorism. This was not the same free speech student rally’s of the 1960’s and ’70’s drying the US involvement in Viet Nam, these were well organized and well funded events meant to scare Jews and other civilized people as well. If you were a Jew on campus or supported one you were a Zionist, an apartheid supporter or a terrorist yourself.
There was nothing organic about this movement. Everything was choreographed, or so it seemed to the casual observer. Chants and signs were generic across the campuses as were the demands of the students, many of whom were not actual students, that the Universities denounce Zionist Israel and divest of all investment in Israel or Jewish businesses. Messaging very similar to the anti-aparthied fights against South Africa in the 1980’s.
In the sixties and seventies, boomers attending University were inundated with the progressive message. Big government and big business were bad and you, the lowly student, and your voice could change the world. Success on campus emboldened the leaders to move these protests to the town square and with the support of a complicit media implemented a generation of change in the West. Not a new tactic this methodology of driving change worked for the Bolshevik’s, the Nazi’s and the Iranian religious fundamentalists who overthrew the Shaw in 1980. Students are very malleable so control over universities is invaluable.
But one would think that the authorities would step in and shut down these violent outbursts of vile antisemitism. Sadly, government has been as infiltrated as the universities of the west. In the United States the radicalness of The Squad leads the ant-semitic rhetoric war. In Canada the Liberal Government is the leader of this tact with the recognition of a Palestinian State at the UN.
Sharia courts have been established across Western Europe and North America. Fatwas are regularly dispensed and updated by local mufti. These ‘laws’ supercede any of the actual laws of the country they are enforced in and the local police and courts seem to turn a blind eye. No one speaks of these religious courts.
And while our governments works hard at creating the religion of atheism, Islam grows rapidly across western society.
A war has been waged on Christianity and Judaism for a thousand years and now it seems finally to be coming to an end. Western culture has been invaded without a fight. Our ‘white’ guilt keeps us from seeing the truth, that our way of life is close to becoming finished.
We are not yet lost. We are wakening to what we have and what we can lose. Bullies might win in the immediate, but the long term is where their weaknesses will show.