Montana has about 1,400 Jews, Mississippi about 1,500, South Dakota 250. If I lived in any one of those beautiful states, I would not be writing this letter to the editor. But I live in New York, home to about 1.8 million Jews, so the politics of being Jewish affects me and my family in a very existential––life and death––way.
It’s quite simple for me, as it should be for all Jews. If we don’t aggressively address the pandemic of anti-Semitism that is galloping around the globe and exploding here in America, rampant on college campuses and even contaminating the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress, then we know from our tragic history that annihilation could be right around the corner.
In fact, today there are more floridly anti-Semitic elected Democrats than ever before in history. Sadly the Democrat Party of old––-JFK, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Sen. and VP Walter Mondale et al––has vanished, replaced by Democrats like “the squad,” who spew their poisonous hatred of Jews and Israel from the House of Representatives itself. And there are those who remain thunderously silent––including elected Democratic Jews like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, Richard Blumenthal et al –as well Democratic representatives from Long Island with a huge Jewish population––Tom Suozzi and Kathleen Rice.
Don’t be fooled by the boilerplate, politically correct press releases written by their aides. Once these statements are made public, these cowards go back to cowering before the radical leftists who now call the shots in the Democrat Party, most prominently the racists who continue to vent their anti-Semitic bile to this day.
Shockingly, most of the Jewish organizations that once supported and defended Jews in America abandoned those roles, having caved to their biggest donors’ conversion to a new religion called “Social Justice.” These are the quislings who reach out to groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and others that wantonly attack synagogues, Jewish businesses and ordinary Jewish citizens walking in their neighborhoods, and brazenly promote the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement to destroy the Israeli economy.
I have always felt safe in America, protected by the powerful principles of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, by the always-reliable police and fire departments in every community where I’ve lived, and by local, state and national leaders of both political parties who fought to preserve our extraordinary way of life through our country’s bedrock foundations of God, family, freedom and safety.
But with the advent of the well-organized and heavily financed emergence of the Jew-hating, Christian-hating, America-hating “Cancel Culture” of the left, what can people do? Yes, they can call or write a letter or e-mail to their elected representative, for which they’ll get back a form letter written by an intern. But a sure-fire cure for this downward plunge into the sewers of our body politic is to vote out every Democrat running for office. Not one of these America-loathing, anarchist-supporting people is worthy of representing either their constituents or America itself.
Nov. 3, 2020, could change your life forever. If you believe in self-preservation, be smart!
Joan Swirsky
Great Neck,
