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lapucelle

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Sun Oct 15, 2023, 06:23 PM Oct 2023

I read this piece by Tom Watson and thought I would share it. [View all]

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.


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K&R LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #1
... lapucelle Oct 2023 #2
Disturbing and sad northoftheborder Oct 2023 #3
Good article, the painful truth sheshe2 Oct 2023 #4
Post removed Post removed Oct 2023 #5
K&R brer cat Oct 2023 #6
I agree with Watson SouthernDem4ever Oct 2023 #7
Just now seeing this. Thank you for posting it, lapucelle. JudyM Oct 2023 #8
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