People keep telling me I'm crazy to worry about pogroms in America. Those
who say that are blind

My Death Sentence
by Si Frumkin
It never occurred to me that my family and I would be sentenced to death
again for the crime of being born Jewish.


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.


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L'Chaim,
Mimi

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St. Gregory, 4th century Bishop of Nanianzus, wrote:
"A little jargon is all that is necessary to impose
on the people. The less they comprehend, the more they admire."

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