This e-mail came to me at my website dedicated to Juergen Moellemann. Moellemann is the first major-party politician in post-war Germany to pick fights with the Jewish community in order to pick up votes in a federal election.
Subject: Der JudenspuckI'm not sure of the precise translation of Judenspuck, except to say that Juden means Jews and spucken means to spit . If this writer's delusions are caused by an organic disease, I hope he gets proper medical treatment. He claims that there is a causal link from the actions of the Israeli government to present-day anti-semitism. But then how would this explain the Czarist pogroms and the Nazi Holocaust, and the Spanish Inquisition and Henry Ford and countless other pogroms and pamphlets and blood libels that occurred when there was no Israeli government? So it's hard to imagine what historical lessons one can derive from so many situations that have little in common. Except that they all have one obvious common theme which also runs right down the middle of this man's letter. Oddballs, misfits, crackpots, jealous local officials and paranoid despots will always find some scapegoat to demonize, and there is a long and rich tradition in which the Jews are the people chosen for this treatment. Rich Jews, poor Jews, weak Jews, strong Jews, modern Jews, primitive Jews. It doesn't really matter, somebody else has already compiled a list of ways to blame the Jews. So the Jews are an especially good scapegoat for those who are neither clever nor innovative.
It's about time somebody in Germany has the guts to take on that odious, prevaricating, avaricious, and sadistic regime in Israel. The lie that there are no logical reasons for "antisemitism" is so blantantly false when one observes the behaviour, statements, and actions of the "chosen" people.
Unfortunately, since "they" never learn the historical lessons, they will have to repeat those lessons and suffer the awful consequences.
Do the Jews need to "learn the historical lessons?". I have no idea what lessons the writer has in mind. But I believe that many Jews have learned some important lessons, especially in the last 60 years. Namely, that whenever people like this writer express perverse ideas about Jews, we expose these ideas in public where they can be disinfected by the sunlight and fresh air of truth and reason. When people commit crimes against us we press charges. And when we catch people in the act of trying to kill us, well, look at the LAX shooter and the multiple terrorists caught in the act in the West Bank. We simply defend ourselves, just like anybody else would. The writer apparently disapproves of Jews defending themselves. To which I say: deal with it.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 22, 2002 01:16 PM