Jews are the canaries in the coal mine. When a society is sick at its core, Jews become easy scapegoats. It may start with the Jews, but it rarely ends there as history has demonstrated.
Soon, the targets of hate are blacks, gays, immigrants and minorities. We need only look at Germany in the 1930s to know this can only end badly. How, you say, can we compare with Germany? We have low unemployment, low inflation—quite the opposite of times past. Yet we have a charismatic leader who speaks a simple language and delivers powerful messages to a waiting audience of extremists on both the left and right. What we are lacking is moral leadership. An unambiguous message that our president will not tolerate an America where Jews are stabbed, shot, beaten and humiliated. That message is not forthcoming from President Donald Trump or our Republican leaders.
Do not wait for it. Remember the words of Pastor Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
— Marla Cowan, Glenview
Note from KBJ: This woman is clueless and vile. Nobody—and I do mean nobody—has been more vociferous in condemning anti-Jewish violence than President Donald J. Trump. His daughter is Jewish, for God's sake!
