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Gerry Glazer's avatar

I have thought of that period that led up to the Holocaust many times during these past 7+ months since the Oct/7/2023 massacre. I was in Israel when it happened and shortened our trip visiting family all over the country. We were urged to leave and return to Toronto earlier than originally planned but, we left with broken hearts only to arrive home to a city and country along with much of the Western World that has gone utterly mad. I began contemplating the idea of making Aliya with my wife who was born in Israel but has lived almost her entire life in Canada having arrived in Montreal as an infant with her parents in 1964. With our children living here, a major move like that wouldn't be a simple matter nonetheless, I have not dismissed the notion.

My parents were survivors that lost almost all of their siblings and parents in the camps. Each having survived horrible things until they were each liberated. My mother in Bergen Belsen after having been marched from Aushwitz and my father from Gunscheirchen (Mathaussen). I am strangely thankful that neither are alive to witness what has been happening all around us.

The world is upside down and when I tell people that this is reminiscent of what happened in the 30s in Nazi Germany and other countries as well since there were supporters of their agenda, yes, plenty of antisemites proudly displaying swastikas in North America and other parts of Europe, I'm told that perhaps I'm over reacting. Over reacting? Nothing makes sense.

Institutions that we should be able to turn too for moral clarity and support provide none of it. The UN is the most corrupt international body in the world and it's evident that the UN Watch has its hands full trying to expose their corruption, outright antisemitsm and never ending vile hatred towards Jews and Israel. How else does one explain a UN Vote affirming that "Zionism" is racist?????

Universities in North America have lost their way. They no longer serve their intended purpose, instead they have become indoctrination camps managed by those that want the destruction of western civilization, to end crtitical thinking and any sense of moral clarity. The intersectional relationships are absurd! Queers for Palestine??? In what world could that make any sense at all?

The token Jews that support these crazy extremists are so misguided and uninformed that they have no idea that they are truly the "most useful idiots" among the mobs of openly pro-Hamas vigilanties. They may very well get what they deserve should what's left of rational and informed people be completely and effectively sidelined. Those useful idiots are too stupid and too lazy to learn what happened to the Jews for Hitler and others that said "he isn't that bad". We also have the horrible leadership in Canada and the USA that pander to the votes of the radicals that are incapable of taking a moral stance and living up to those requirements especially when challenged. They swing in the wind and the loudest (those that blow the hardest) win their support!

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The saddest thing ever has been watching progressive Jewish celebrities I once admired try so hard to show they’re “one of the good ones.” People with a lot of clout but little understanding of Israeli history, the Arab wars, and Israeli politics —and the travesty of the UN’s treatment of Israel—just out there putting their ignorance and disapproval of Israel on display. And then they don’t like when they’re called self-hating Jews. Truth hurts. Wish they’d wake up.

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