The last week of my life has been quite illuminating. It was not on purpose. It sort of happened organically, but once I started to engage it took on a life of its own and in the process shined a light on a brain rot I always knew existed, but what I have learned the last few days is that it’s not until you swim in the swamp that you get a full taste of the creatures who reside there.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a simple meme which was a defiant statement about Israel. Basically do whatever you want, we are still here. It seems someone with a massive following had reposted it and that led to others doing the same. It has been viewed now by a thousand plus people maybe more I really don’t know nor do I care much about that sort of thing. It’s not that I didn’t believe it or that I didn’t want people to see it, but I have never been a crowd chaser and I don’t validate my existence by likes or views. What this week has reiterated for me however, is when you lay with dogs you get the fleas too. I know people like Ido Singer, Uri Kurlianchik, Jonathan Sacerdoti, Laura Meizler and Yonah E deal with this sort of nonsense every day, but for me it was almost like a deep social experiment and sadly, a commentary on the cesspool that is social media.

When I was coming up, like most Jews I knew, I wondered how it could be an entire country, maybe even more than half a continent did nothing to curb the rise of Nazi Germany. I am not talking about World War 2. I am talking about 1933 to1938, before the war while all the propaganda was being generated to set the stage. Where was everyone? How could they not see, not hear? For years it baffled me. I am not confused anymore and this week I got to truly see the world through the peep hole of history. I get it now. I know why nothing was done to curb the hatred. All it took was a few well placed bots and the Pharaoh of Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar, Constantine, and Mohammed were reborn, their hatred dressed as moral outrage, their righteousness clothed in any means necessary slogans and actions.

Truth is, most of these people who sent their vile vomit my way are miserable leeches who feed off the virtual blood of their prey. “f*** you, k*ke” or “Can’t wait til the Chinese or someone else run your country over so you will know how it feels” or something stupid like that. I suppose it was lost on that troglodyte that we already know how it feels to be expelled from our businesses, our universities, our homes, and our land. Been there done that. For some of our people, it has begun again. There are others who add their two cents of Jew-hate, “stop with your cry-baby victimhood” or “Jews are always playing the victim.” Of course there is the requisite “it’s not Jews I hate it’s zionists, or the zionist government…” as if my lived experience doesn’t know what that camouflage actually means. My response to all of them is quite simple. The last thing you can accuse the Jews of is wallowing in their victimhood. The land and the people of Israel have answered that question profoundly. USB flash Drive, cherry tomatoes, Epilator, mobile eye, Pillcam, Waze, Iron Dome, David’s sling, Drip irrigation, text messaging…these are not the actions of victimhood. These are the inventions of a people who have indeed been oppressed and a target of disdain, but have dusted themselves off and carried on despite the hardships that may have accompanied our people throughout the........

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