I read this piece by Tom Watson and thought I would share it.

[lapucelle]

You have allies.

A Time for Choosing

Pure ice-cold antisemitism is guiding a lot of what you're reading and seeing in the last week. It's a crude hatred of Jews for being Jews, and it is as old as the hills.

When I was a young reporter in the Bronx, I often interviewed survivors of The Shoah - the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany, an ordered and relentless human extermination program that shipped Jews of all ages to vast death camps, where they were gassed or otherwise murdered. The men and women I interviewed had been mostly children or young adults at the time (this was the late 80s and early 90s) and the camp survivors among them bore Nazi tattoos on their wrists. Numbers, like tags on livestock.

The overall abiding theme of all of these interviews was Never Again.

We have arrived at Again

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No more.

Pure ice-cold antisemitism is guiding a lot of what you're reading and seeing in the last week. It's a crude hatred of Jews for being Jews, and it is as old as the hills. It is the motivation for butchery and child murder by death squads. It’s a sick blood lust for hating and killing Jews, the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since the gates opened to the camps in 1945. It has nothing to do with Palestinian nationalism or liberation. I refuse to be silent about it within the word fog of geopolitical discussions and protest slogans.

https://theliberaltomwatson.substack.com/p/a-time-for-choosing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1088116&post_id=137957757&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1qdwfc&utm_medium=email


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There are many of us. We stand with the people of Israel and with Jews around the world.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. K&R

[lapucelle]

2. ...

[northoftheborder]

3. Disturbing and sad

[sheshe2]

4. Good article, the painful truth

Elie Wiesel once said that “to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” So I don’t think we should easily dismiss this vast crime against humanity, even as we hope for peace, and ask for reasonable measures by Israel to protect civilians as it defends its right to exist. As J Street said this week, “We must recognize that the interests, safety and basic rights of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples are intertwined, and struggle for a solution that guarantees true freedom and self-determination for both peoples.”

[brer cat]

6. K&R

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. I agree with Watson

and I'm tired of the repetition. We need to quit arming and supporting fascist countries who really don't want peace. They just want control.

[JudyM]

8. Just now seeing this. Thank you for posting it, lapucelle.

I can’t put words on how bad some of these posts feel, and some seem to be exulting in the temporary latitude to express that freely.