HURT - DON'T HEAL THE ANTISEMITE
The attempt to disabuse the world of antisemitism has been a monumental failure.
Despite decades of educational outreach things are the worst they’ve ever been.
The hatred against us is at fever pitch and from multiple fronts.
The alleged gains that have been made teaching the world about the Holocaust and antisemitism have not been worth the investment of time, energy and resources.
The facts speak for themself.
We are in the most precarious position any of us have ever experienced, with most of us wondering where our future lies.
To increase our safety we need a new approach.
This new approach requires us to stop projecting our Jewish belief in education onto the world. We need to stop expecting the world to react in the same way we do to the facts, reason and appeals for compassion we present. We need to stop assuming antisemites are simply ignorant and must confront the truth that they simply hate us and that they enjoy hating us.
We need to make this a less enjoyable pastime for them.
The future of Jewish safety is not in teaching the world to be better people - but in teaching them to watch their step. We need to stop attempting to teach our haters to be nice to us, but rather teach them there’s a cost to their transgressions. Putting it bluntly: we need to teach the world that we will fuck up anyone who tries to hurt us. That is the lesson we need to be pushing. It matters not one jot that they know where antisemitism leads for the Jews. We need to show them where antisemitism leads for them, the perpetrators of antisemitism. They don’t need to know what happened to the Jews in Auschwitz so much as they need to know what happened to the Nazis. They need to know the Nazis got fucked up, killed and destroyed. They need to know that Germany got levelled, destroyed and went up in flames. They need to know that German bodies and minds got broken beyond recognition. Antisemites need to know what happens to the antisemite - not the Jew. And we need to show them.
Those who attempt to kill us must be neutralised - and perpetrators of antisemitic speech and action need to have their lives attacked and diminished so that they experience the greatest personal cost we can extract. They need to suffer consequences to their reputations and their livelihoods. They must be shamed, exposed, humiliated, damaged and degraded. They must experience emotional and mental discomfort. The law must be used to punish them. They must lose their freedom if applicable. Whatever means is available to hurt them should be used to the fullest extent. Their suffering must be harsh and without pity and serve as a deterrent to others. If others don’t pay heed to that deterrent - then they must also suffer. And it must be without pity.
Do we risk antisemites not liking us?
They already hate us.
Now let them fear us.
And some of you must stop this narcissistic impulse to want to redeem your abusers. This has nothing to with making the world better. It’s about satisfying your saviour complex and making you feel self-righteous. Stop prioritising your abusers. That in itself is a symptom of the abuse you’ve experienced. You have every right to prioritise yourself. Your abuser has not earned a right to your ongoing time and energy.
Furthermore, trying to generate a couple of feel good stories about an antisemite turned good is an inefficient use of our resources - something we can ill afford when so many active enemies must be thwarted.
It also sends the wrong message. There is no deterrent if they know abusing us is a revolving door that offers them automatic reputational rehabilitation.
Let’s hurt our haters and move on.
Let it be seen they have been hurt.
We need to stop educating people to like us. We need to teach them to fear us. We need to show them we are mean, nasty and will inflict pain without remorse.
We need to hurt antisemites - not heal them.
Do some of you feel a little anxious hearing this kind of talk?
Does a Jew being aggressive and spiteful make you feel uncomfortable and anxious?
Good.
That’s how our enemies should feel.
Maybe then they’ll think twice about fucking with us.
I would say we have nothing to lose because the blood libel is already being used against us. But I do want to talk about the nature of antisemitism, how it's never about the Jews. It's always about projecting the responsibility for a country's or a person's unresolved problems away from anyone who actually should bear the responsibility onto an Other. So one thing I would do is go straight to that. When South Africa accuses Israel of Apartheid, point out that not only does Israel not do Apartheid but that South Africa never resolved their problem. When the US accuses Israel of settler colonialism, ask them how they made reparations for the genocide of Native Americans or the slavery of blacks. And the entire simplistic oppressor/victim logic that has turned Jews into the ultimate oppressor, that has to be exposed as complete horseshit, the premise that as soon as an oppressed minority figures out a way to be successful despite systemic discrimination, that makes them the ultimate oppressor. There are lots of ways to fight back. I doubt the legal system will do much good because laws favor the powerful and now that the oppressor/victim narrative has been institutionalized, the "victim" is now the powerful. But it is pretty important to expose and ridicule and humiliate the antisemites who would have us dead. It is not the only strategy that must be done but it is one strategy that must be done. The thing is, in order to be able to do that, we all need facts at our fingertips. That means we have to research, and that takes time, work and dedication. The mainstream media and our universities just rubber-stamp every Hamas press release, all indoctrination against us, and to be able to fight back we need real facts. So we have to do the work.
I see comments online saying "[JEWISH PERSON] is causing anti-semitism." Fuck you! You already hate Jews and are looking for an excuse to publicly say it.
Jews shouldn't need to constantly prove our humanity as non-Jews threaten us with violence. We don't deserve our humanity because we are "nice" people, we deserve our humanity because we are humans.