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Dear American Jews: This Has All Happened Before, And It Will Happen Again

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Emanuel Engelmayer
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Antisemitism is far from a new phenomenon, both in the world and specifically in the Americas. It has been around long before America gained its sovereignty from England. Despite the protections afforded to all religions in the Constitution, the hatred of Jews has existed throughout American history.

What is new in the reality of Jew hatred in America is the way politicians have turned it into a coined term to attack political rivals, accusing them of being 'antisemites.' In reality, the problem is far above any current political discourse; the issue is widespread and gaining steam as it follows patterns that have existed for centuries in Europe. The truth is, both Democrats and Republicans should be ashamed of politicizing it and be concerned about the welfare of their constituents who are affected by the sharp and rapid rise in antisemitism.

As most already know due to nonstop news cycles, artist and former billionaire Kanye West is on some sort of weird defamation campaign against the Jewish people of America using ancient tropes about Jews controlling everything from the media to the banks. Over the past few years, West has worked hard to manufacture an image of himself as being highly controversial and at times mentally unstable. From time to time he has even boasted about being bipolar as a means to reinforce that image.

As part of this controversial branding, Kanye has slowly aligned himself with politicians like former President Donald J. Trump and right-wing America. Why Republicans and Conservatives accepted his support and help, knowing that he is a problematic figure comes down to the devout following West has amassed within a demographic conservatives have tried and failed to penetrate. Again, politics before all else. 

West’s desire to go “death con 3 on the Jews” is simply the next stage of the artist’s long and winding road in trying to stay relevant and in the headlines. By the way, he is doing a fantastic job. Nevertheless, the mostly left-leaning Jewish American population along with all their allies have been accusing Republicans of permitting the cancerous hate in certain extreme circles, an accusation that is not wrong. What is also not wrong is that extremists on the left, within the ever-more progressive Democrat party, have been for years openly antisemitic, they just mask it as antizionist. Congresswomen speaking in the well of the 'people's house' have often called the Zionist dream a crime against humanity, effectively denying the Jewish people's right to their biblical and ancient beliefs.

American Jews are increasingly making the mistake of aligning with a certain political party to try and avoid the same mistreatment that forced them to leave Europe, North Africa, and all other places from which they came to the United States. That mistake has proven itself in recent history. Germany, throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries was the base of the growing secularist movement in Judaism which led to attempts to integrate into German and other European cultures. The mindset of seeking acceptance via assimilation is not new, and as the Holocaust proved, the strategy does not work.

By the time Hitler was elected in 1933, most German Jews couldn’t be differentiated from your “average Joe” in Berlin. Most identified as German first and Jewish second while convincing themselves that their neighbors saw them as equals. It is well documented in the early days of the Reich, the Nazi party had a hard time selling the antisemitic rhetoric because the Jews in Germany did not match the classic depictions established by the propagandist Nazi academia. 

It was only after the invasion of Poland that Nazi soldiers got the 'thrill' of seeing, and killing, the Jews they were taught to hate for so long. The German Jews were never and can never be blamed for the atrocities that took place, despite their silence as the seeds were being sown for another culling of the Children of Israel. Their blindness and ultimate silence did them no favors. 

75 years later and after achieving impressive collective success in The United States of America, the “German Jew” has returned. The reality of Jews going along with their political heroes and peer groups by condemning their Zionist brothers and sisters is unsettling. Trading in the Judaism of their ancestors for a new religion called “Progressive-Liberalism” is more alarming than any mentally unstable artist wanting to go all “death con 3” on the Jews. 

The writing is clear as day on the wall, antisemitism is on the rise. Antisemitism is not on the rise in Conservative circles or in Liberal ones, but in the entire United States. History has never failed the Jews when it came to the repetitive atrocities that have followed them ever since the Judeans were forcefully expelled from the Holy Land after an edict from a Roman Emporer, and yet American Jewry seems to think this time they will be spared the same fate that has befallen their forebearers in each of the lands they wandered into throughout the centuries. 

The most Jewish thing a Jew can do is deny his undeniable deep-rooted connection to his people - long before there was a Jew there were the Children of Israel seeking out the land of Israel. Almost all biblical prophets, including Moses, did their very best at first to avoid obeying their God-given instructions until they could no longer hide who they were.

History never fails to repeat, and human behavior never fails to forget that.  American Jews who have snuggled up to the anti-zionist crowds, who believe the 'Star of David' is a triggering symbol of oppression are fooling themselves if they believe the hatred will not come to them. No matter how assimilated they become, no matter how removed from their ancestors' traditions they are, and no matter how much they disavow the Jewish homeland, their blood will always be Jewish and that is something they can never run from.

Hopefully, they come to their senses sooner rather than later, their home in the Jewish State of Israel will be waiting. 

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