OPINION:
Although our disease of polarization has largely brought paralysis to our governing institutions and family systems, the antisemitic propaganda born on our university campuses has metastasized into a twisted togetherness of all warped political extremes (“Iran is globalizing second war against the Jews,” Web, Oct 31).
For millennia, power-hungry psychopaths have utilized antisemitism as a convenient and reliable vehicle to achieve authoritarian rule. When in doubt, an exceptionally successful and acclaimed Jewish minority making up roughly 2.4% of the population is a prime candidate for the ire of a resentful 60% majority of hate crimes.
An anger that has gone neglected by our plutocratic and petty politicians for decades has now morphed from an ugly national underbelly of hatred to an international movement of Jew haters. It is no surprise that these envious extremes resent the Ukrainian Jewish leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s David-style crusade against the Goliath-sized invader of Putin’s Russia.
The global antisemitic movement has reopened the 75-year-old myth that the Jews have oppressed the Palestinians — when it has been their own terrorist leaders all along doing the oppressing. Of course, growing majorities in communist China now buy into conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual theories that Jews control the global capitalist system. Our global enemies feed upon the apathy of our fellow Americans. They beg us to join their malevolent, misguided Marxist ranks.
But with our voices, 2023 does not have to become a repeat of 1933. As an American Jew and a public servant, I will not cower before cowards. Where is your show of support for the Jewish people? Your silence is deafening. America has the power to convert our hope to heroism. I have faith that we can steer our ship of state away from the impending iceberg of ignorance that translates to true genocide, but it will take your brave voices to change course.
HENRY WILSON
Washington
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