??In Europe’s streets, fear and persecution are turning the Jews into ghosts without yarmulkes and the sounds of Hebrew. In Europe’s houses, Jews are opting for cultural and religious suicide.
Giulio Meotti, INN
The latest numbers on Europe’s Jews are Adolf Hitler’s dream coming true.
According to a Rabbinical Center of Europe’s research, over 85% of European Jews assimilate and intermarry with non-Jews, 80% do not attend synagogues, 75% of Jewish children in Europe do not receive a Jewish education, and over 90% of European Jewish students have no connections with the Jewish community. A memory, a community, a tradition, a liturgy, a history, a faith, a patrimony are all perishing as a result.
This is a most impressive report on the status of Europe’s Jews. Rabbi Shimon Elitov, a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council, rightly said that “assimilation in the shocking numbers that we see is worse that the physical Holocaust that we saw”.
These numbers clearly show that Europe’s Jewish communities will have neither the strength nor the means to counter this scenario by themselves. There is nothing on the horizon to reverse the integration of Europe’s Jews into Western secularized and Islamicized environment. The circle of assimilation under multiculturalism is self-reinforcing.
It is the story of Moses Mendelssohn. He was cultured, cosmopolitan, Jewish, but his story became emblematic of the progression from emancipation to assimilation. Four of Mendelssohn’s six children and eight of his nine grandchildren were baptized. But unlike Mendelssohn’s children, the current Europe’s Jews will require no baptism. Just vanishing and dying out.
Jewish writer Arthur Koestler came to the same conclusion after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, maintaining that Europe’s Jews were left with only two options; emigration to Israel or assimilation. Koestler opted for the latter and took his own life.
The latest numbers on Europe’s Jews are Adolf Hitler’s dream coming true. What Nazism didn’t manage to do is happening now in the European Diaspora with this horrific assimilation.
In Europe’s streets, fear and persecution are turning the Jews into ghosts without yarmulkes and the sounds of Hebrew. In Europe’s houses, Jews are opting for cultural and religious suicide.
Europe’s Jewry has always been doomed from the beginning: the brutal amputation of more than one third of Jewry in the Holocaust had created a precarious condition of Jewish weakness. Jews then made a conscious effort to end their existence as Jews. This is the meaning of the current assimilation record.
Is this Europe’s Jews only viable option? First, assimilation will feed a new wave of shocking anti-Semitism. Hitler wanted to kill the intermarried Jews as well and the Jews who felt themselves the most integrated, the most accepted, the most German, suddenly realized that German society had always viewed them only as Juden. Jews.
But if in the ‘30s the Jews didn’t have a chance, they can now buy a one-way ticket to the Tel Aviv International Airport.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He has just prblished a book about the Vatican and Israel titled “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books.
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I have been working on this for 6 very hard years and I am very tired not getting any responses from the Jewish, Israeli and American communities. So I need your help!
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robin@longhornproject.org Said:
I dont understand your posting: are you quoting someone or is it your view. Who here is abandoning and betraying Israel?????robin@longhornproject.org Said:
I dont understand this statement.I cannot support those who term Jewish settlement as illegal or illegitimate, and do not defend Jewish rights at least in words if the power is not there to do it in action. If you want to give land away then first own it and then give it away but there is no reason for any Jews to delegitimize the rights of Jews in Israel in order to give it away. better to say it belongs to the Jews but we cannot fight the swindling powers against us.
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
yamit82 Said:
I do not agree. It is only in recent times that there is any split in Us Jewry towards the behavior of Israel. the leading vehicle of anti semitism in the diaspora is based in anti Israel and anti zionist propaganda and the state of Israel DOES NOTHING to counter these libels in their diplomatic capacity as I specifically enumerated. I never even mentioned the complete negligence of any lawfare strategy. Hence, they give wings to the libelers of Israel AND the Jews.yamit82 Said:
On the contrary: Ignorant diaspora Jews, such as myself, look to the state of Israel as their FIRST source of accurate info. Upon seeing that NOTHING emanates from that source they look to Israeli media. Israeli leftist media dominates the global media as the PRIME source of Israel media repeatedly cited by global mainstream media. Hence, Haaretz is regularly quoted by MSM as a credible source and authority. After that we have the same biased info flowing from a potpourri of Leftist 5th column NGO’s. You confuse assimilation and Judaism with the current wave based on anti zionist and anti Israel as a new form of anti semitism which seeks, and is successful, at splitting the Jews. If the GOI undertook their obligations on this issue you would see a major swing towards the support of Israel by Jews in the diaspora.
yamit82 Said:
You are confusing the issue. I do not blame the GOI for any of these things. I was very specific in actions I believed the GOI should have taken to avoid the current situation and these actions have a major effect on the diaspora. YOu cant blame the diaspora for an incredibly negligent, less than minimal performance on these issues. Most of what I recommend are only words but used repeatedly would state a clear positon for diaspora jews. I have not even mentioned many other things the GOI should be stating and following, for one: There should not be one iota of discussion of palestinian refugees until there is discussion by all parties of the jewish refugees. The repeated discussions of the pals problems and ignoring of the Jews is facilitated by GOI behavior.
yamit82 Said:
I did not confuse these. I did not mention the cause of the lack of action on these specific immissions by the GOI. I merely stated that they have not done these most basic of behaviors that any gov would do on their own behalf to set the record straight and counter libels. Remember,libels always preceded pogroms and slaughter against the Jews and the GOI is absolutely 100% a major portion of the current wave of libels against the Jews and Israel due to their glaring omissions. I do not think you read what I wrote:
bernard ross Said:
yamit82 Said:
I do not agree, the current wave is completely based on anti Israel and these libels go unchallenged by the GOI. there should be no diplomacy of any kind until these libels are repudiated and the rights of Israel and jews demanded from foreign govs in signed treaties. When the Eu asks for something they should in return demanded to fulfill their treaty obligations with Israel AND world Jewry according to the letter of the documents. I HAVE NEVER HEARD THE GOI DEMAND OF THESE SWINDLING GOVS TO FULFILL THEIR TREATIES. any serious and legitimate gov in this world would be expected to speak out and act in their own behalf. I repeat that if the successive GOI’s operated as I state much of the confusion of diaspora, and possibly Israeli Jewry, would be greatly reduced. ten years ago I would not have ever considered that this strange state of affairs exists in israel but my ten years of reading Israel media has driven this home to me. Imagine a typical diaspora jew who reads his MSM and Israeli gov statements and sees nothing from Israeli gov statements that even begs to differ with the libels of detractors.
Viiit Said:
This is a surprise to you????? Bernard your a cherry!
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
Government of Israel
Viiit Said:
Hitler was wrong in his definitions as to who is a Jew, and so is everyone who uses Hitler’s definition.
I do not support allowing Hitler to define who is a Jew.
Who is a Jew can only be defined by the Torah and it is explicit in it’s definition. Even later rabbis I believe are in error although I understand their reasoning for the expansion.
There is a difference between belonging to an Israelite people and being a Jew. Passover and Shavuot lay down who is a Jew and who is not. Certainly not Hitler or any other Jew Hater has that right.
What is GOI?
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
The World Anti Semitism came from the Arabs and their Oil money. That they used on Wall Street to promote World Anti Zionism that was understood as Anti Semitism. The Oil money came from you and all other Americans.
Please, do not make Israel responsible for America Jewish assimilation and lack of education about Israel and Judaism. It is not the first time it has happen in History.
bernard ross Said:
Only partially. Much if not most of American Jewish animus and or lack of support for Israel and active support for the Palis, is a product of centuries of diaspora Jews who have removed the national aspect of Judaism. They have made Judaism into a form of christianity, a religion based on arcane rituals. Judaism is not a religion and never meant to be one. It’s corruption and distancing from it’s core beliefs and practice under the influences of other religions and cultures have brought Jews for the most part to their current state.
Most Israeli Jews Sabras have never experienced personal and direct antisemitism. Big difference in how we here and you there perceive ourselves and the world.
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Comparatively few Jews take their cues from anyone except Liberal Protestants whom they try to emulate in all things. Were they today to do a 180, and support Israel so would most of the Jews who don’t today. For the last 250 years the Jew has had primarily 3 goals, safety, prosperity and assimilating into the cultures they lived. Their Judasim reflects those aims. They have made Judaism a reflection of themselves and not the converse.
Zionism was and still is the only barrier to cultural assimilation of the Jews and if they want assimilation they will choose assimilation and reject Zionism. Arguments over international law and rights in my opinion will not sway or matter to the vast majority of Jews. Anything that might conflict with their status, financial state and comfort will fall on deaf ears. They do not want to be conflicted and to do anything that might call attention to themselves with attendant fears of bring up the specter of Dual Loyalty accusations.
Israel never stood a chance against the weight of assimilation and the overriding Jewish need to be just like the majorities where they reside. You can’t blame the GOI for over 80% intermarriage in the west among Jews. You can’t blame the GOI for Jews donations to charity where ony 10% go to anything related to Jews and Israel and the rest to causes totally unrelated to anything Jewish. You can’t blame the GOI for the lack of Jewish education in America and the West when they chose the Public Schools over Jewish Day Schools and 3 generations have grown up with a min of any Jewish input in their lives.
Antisemitism has been around a lot longer than Israel or the GOI. It’s a stretch to blame the GOI for global antisemitism.
Confusion yes but so are Israelis confused, so are Americans and European confused, so are Russians and Chinese etc. Everyone is confused, but there are many factors contributing for confusion.
Don’t confuse ineptness and even corruption with design. Little coming out of Israel good or bad is by design. Policy of Israel and it’s leaders is to muddle through and hope for the best. based on results they haven’t done too bad. 😛
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
I believe that this is the fault of the GOI. The GOI never makes statements regarding the legitimacy, legality, or rights of settlements in YS according to international law. The GOI never calls in the euro govs and demand that they fulfill THEIR obligations to “facilitate the immigration and encourage the close settlement of the Jewish people” in the Palestine mandate territory. They never point out to the signatories and guarantors that they are in violation of treaties. They never point out that “illegal settlement” is a libel on the Israel and Jews. World jewry takes its lead from the GOI and in the absence of any leadership on those issues it instead follows Haaretz and Euro funded anti zionist NGO’s in Israel.
Israeli gov is the source of the current global anti semitism and the confusion of diaspora jews.
Ted Belman Said:
therefore, we are all under surveillance!
The article is ignorant about Hitler.
He was not against Jewish religion, tradition, or culture. He was against the Jewish “race”.
For Hitler it made absolutely no difference if a Jew converted to Christianity, or assimilated. He was still a Jew because his parents were Jewish.
“Good Jews don’t support Israel”, this was a newspaper headline in England. It could put their lives in danger on the streets of England. In America it is true for different reason. Many America Rabbi’s and Jews have divided minds, half of it supports Israel and other half supports the Palestinians. My question? Supporting Palestinians to do what? Kill more Jews, Israelis or their Arab brothers?
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