Most Poles were Anti-Semites

Alan Dershowitz wrote an excellent article titled 'A Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel's Importance' in the Gatestone Institute.

You can read it here.

One of the comments coming from a man with a Polish name Wiktor Janowycz, seemed to object profusely about Alan's claim that Poland was an old hell of Europe. He mentions that Poland was a paradise to the Jews during the 14th century. Further that is was thanks to Germany (not Poland) that the Jews suffered during the Holocaust. He correctly asserts that most righteous Gentiles were Poles who risked their lives to save Jews. (That makes sense since Poland had by far more Jews than any other country in the world). 

I felt that my response was worthy of writing in my blog. It's obvious that Wiktor was clearly offended. I have met many other Poles like Wiktor. I think it's time (it's always time) to set the record straight on Poland.

Have you seen the movie 'Two Barns' ? You can read about it here: https://cjhsla.org/2015/01/25/two-barns-english-version/
I urge you to watch it. It elaborates on my point. That  tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by Poles and other eastern Europeans before the nazis decreed 'The Final Solution'.
The documentary is about how hundreds of Jews lived together in peace and friendship with their Polish neighbours for hundreds of years in a small rural town. But one day decided to round up all the Jews and lock them into a barn and burn them alive! The story is even worse than that but I'll let you watch the movie yourself to learn more.

My response to the Wiktor's of the world:

We all know that Germany invaded Poland. We also are well aware of the many righteous Gentile Poles who risked their lives in order to help save poor Jewish souls. But what some of us might not know or prefer to forget were that far too many Poles welcomed the Nazis with open arms. Why? Because they shared their murderous, irrational hatred of Jews. Among the hundreds of nightmarish stories that my late mother and Holocaust survivor told me of the war, the one that stood out the most was as follows:
My mother was a Jewish Pole. She was born in beautiful Zakopane in the 'Polish Alps'. She was about 17 when the war ended. She decided to head back to her home town to look for survivors by train. Lucky for her she was blond haired and blue eyed and did 'not look' Jewish. On the train she heard a group of Poles talk about Hitler's failure. He failed to kill all of the Jews. Although she was trembling like crazy inside - she tried her best to be still and look unfazed. She knew then that her life depended on it. Had she 'looked Jewish' she would have been raped and killed on the spot - after the war by Poles. Does that mean that all Poles were bad? Of course not. But statistically many in fact most were.
Years later in Canada when she was asked where she was from by a stranger she'd answer 'I'm Jewish'. As a young child I asked her why she responded with her religion when asked where she was born. She replied: I'm a Jew who just happened to be born in the most anti-semitic country in the world.
With all due respect, I choose to listen to my mother!

Footnote: I'm not advocating hating the Poles today for what they did yesterday. But I am advocating telling the truth as it was and not sweeping the facts under the carpet because they were so disturbing.

Crisis: Islam Has Invaded Our Schools

I’ve often written that we need to keep our eyes on the ball. Focus on the important issues and not get tangled up in academic arguments.

I’ve stated that the # 1 problem facing humanity currently is radical Islam and all of its supporters which are many. Newsflash: It isn't global warming. Helping a terrorist state like Iran obtain nuclear weapons is perhaps the greatest existential threat to not only Israel but the world at large. Likewise is Islam's conquest of the West by immigration.

But what helps fuel this anti-Semitic and anti-Christian, pro-Islamist world view? There are many contributing factors but I’m going to focus on the most important one: Our schools.

Since I live in Toronto, Canada I will use York University as an example.

Since 2007, the Egyptian born engineer Mamdouh Shoukri has been the president of York University in north Toronto. In the 1980’s York University had a large Jewish student body and staff (per capita) but thanks to Shoukri and others, York U has turned into a hotbed of hate if you happen to be Jewish or pro-Israel. 

A case in point is a mural displayed currently at York called ‘Palestinian Roots’ which won a competition by the BDS dominated student body clearly depicting an Arab holding stones, contemplating attacking Israelis which is the daily norm while watching a bulldozer about to knock down an olive tree. This painting is not in some back room office but is displayed prominately where the student body is forced to see it. Equally disgusting are the notes around the painting by the Muslim student which includes hateful and a one sided message aimed to discredit the Jewish Israelis with their ‘expansionist settlements’ while promoting the fiction of ‘indigenous Palestinian heritage and THEIR olive trees’. The nerve of the administration to bombard the student and staff bodies with this incitement to hate Jews and Zionists has reached a crisis. 

Click here to view the entire mural + description from York University.

Despite the plea from many students and people like Paul Bronfman to Shoukri to remove the offensive mural, it's still proudly displayed. Prominent Jewish organizations like CIJA are silent on this and in fact seem to want the Jewish student body to keep silent as well.

Currently York U has teemed up with East Jeruslam’s Muslim university Al Quds. This ‘university’ is proud to glorify suicide bombers to kill innocent Israelis and promotes the destruction of the Jewish state. In fact we as taxpayers help to fund this collaboration. 

I can list many nasty, attacks against Jewish or pro-Jewish students and staff as well as pro-Israel speakers at York. Suffice it to say, that if you identify as being Jewish by wearing a kippah or try to attend a pro-Israel event, you could get physically assaulted as many have been in the past.

Organizations like CIJA are out of touch with reality as are so many other left wing groups. They are great at organizing expensive fund raisers for themselves by calling on wealthy Jews and corporations to listen to mainstream lectures designed to be politically correct and inoffensive, all the while patting themselves on the back.

When it comes to really helping some of us who need their help, like the Jewish students at our universities who are or feel threatened, you can count on CIJA not to help. I applaud Paul Bronfman who threatened York U president Shoukri to either remove the offensive mural or risk losing his funding. 

York U is not an aberration. It stands as a typical model for most universities throughout the entire world. Schools that promote BDS and identify Israel as an apartheid state. These schools silence any debate about this. Their political science professors are mostly anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-Islamic, anti-Christian, anti-Western, and often receive funding from terror sponsoring states like Saudi Arabia, Iran and other wealthy Gulf states. 

While we sit silently, our own children are being slowly, methodically and sometimes not so subtly hypnotized into believing their anti-Israel (read anti-Semitic) agenda. These are the future leaders of our collective world. Had we prevented our schools of higher learning and more recently those of junior grades as well from this terrible disease, we probably would never had allowed some of our leaders to coerce us into such doomed positions. 

Like the Muslims in the Middle East who continue to promote vitriolic hate and murder to their young children at their schools, no less brainwashing children to become suicide bombers by killing innocent Israelis for a cause they absolutely have no understanding of and thus breeding generation after generation of haters, we in the West must put a stop to Islam from invading our own schools. This fight is no less important than stopping Iran from getting nukes. 

Emboldening Iran or It's too F'n late!

Did you know that since negotiations with Iran, there have been more arrests, torture and murder inside Iran by Iranian officials? Meanwhile outside, Hezbollah, Hamas and dozens of other Iranian sponsored terror groups have been ratcheting up their terror game as well.

There is nothing wrong with attempting to defuse a volatile situation with peaceful negotiations. In fact it's an honourable thing to do. But one must always use common sense as to when to negotiate and if it makes sense to do so, how to go about it.

In the current Iran deal fiasco, secret negotiations were started years ago by the Americans. They had no business starting the dialogue. While the Nazi like Ayatollah administration was finally feeling the heat of sanctions and concerned about their future as leaders in Iran, the US came by grovelling for a deal. Just by the mere act of negotiations, the States and their partners in crime, emboldened the Iranian rulers to not only continue their past aggressions but to increase them.

This deal has sent Iran the best possible message. Continue what you are doing and in fact do it better and more often than before. A lot of people are talking about the deal and dissecting it apart to get at all the details. The fact is that even if Donald Trump wrote the deal himself, it would be meaningless. It's just a useless piece of paper that Iran will certainly ignore. They can't be trusted to keep their word. Surely the entire world must recognize this by now. So I will not waste my breath here, identifying the numerous, insane details (like Iran gets to do its own inspections) that make the deal dangerously bad. The much larger issue is what this entire fiasco has caused:

1. Islamist terror is way up. The # of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem for example is at an all time high. Yea I know you haven't seen it reported on CNN.
2. Like in corporate America or international markets, just the promise of capital can raise the value of stock prices exponentially. The converse is of course also true. So even if the deal falls through by some miracle (sadly I'm pretty sure it'll pass in the States), it's too f'n late! Many countries like China, Russia and European states have already started the ball rolling with regard to making billion dollar trade deals with Iran. The promise of sanction relief has opened the floodgates of cash into Iran.
3. This could be the worst: The Obama administration has stooped to an all time low with it's nasty insinuations that anyone who is against the deal is either a warmonger or a disloyal American. Many American Jews and in particular American Jewish politicians have been accused of caring more about Israel than the safety of Americans. This sick, racist and in particular anti-Semitic policy is wrong at every level and is dangerous for America. Funny how many black Americans had no issue voting for Obama despite either not knowing his policies or even disagreeing with them simply because he was black. No one dared to accuse them of being disloyal Americans.

As I read of numerous American politicians taking bribes from the Iranian lobby on both sides of the aisle, I want to vomit. Let's hope my vomit lands on that useless piece of paper!

Antisemitism Marches on While the World Looks the Other Way

Thank G-d for the internet. I live in Toronto, Canada. The year is 2014.  I have cable TV at home with over 100 channels. Likewise at the cottage we have satellite TV with hundreds of channels. Most of our news channels are American. The main news headlines are as follows:

Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Malaysian airliner near Ukraine. 

Israel is in the midst of finally trying to quiet the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

The war continues in Syria killing and displacing hundreds of thousands.

I've been following local and international news for many years. There is little to no mention of the antisemitic events that continue to occur throughout our world in any of the mainstream news media. If it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't even know that antisemitism exists anymore! 

Here are just a few items that should have been reported in the mainstream TV news:

Fatah leaders of the Palestinian government claim that Jews offer sacrifices made from the blood of Arab children.

Muslim demonstrators in Paris armed with axes, chanting 'Death to the Jews', tried to storm a synagogue.

Still in Paris: a Molotov cocktail was thrown into another synagogue; a 17 year old Jewish girl was pepper sprayed in the face by a man shouting 'Dirty Jewess, inshalla you will die'; a Jewish man was beaten up by 3 men who scrawled a swastika on his chest.; in 2006 a young Jewish man was kidnapped, tortured and murdered; in 2012 a Muslim murdered a rabbi and 3 children; this year 4 Jews were killed in a Jewish museum in Brussels by a Muslim; Jews were driven out of the Swedish city of Malmo by Muslims.

In Turkey (see photo above), Jews have been served notice 'to be very afraid and to get out', this after living in relative peace after 500 years. Their Muslim leader supports these fanatics. He, by the way, is considered to be Obama's best friend (his words, not mine).  

Here in Regina, Canada,  a peaceful rally in support of Israel was interrupted by pro-Hamas demonstrators who tore Israeli flags out of their hands and knocked down and attacked a woman just the other day. There was no mention of this in the news. In Toronto last week, a Jewish man who was peacefully demonstrating against Hamas was attacked by Arabs and then taken to jail by police. 

I could write a very large book documenting such despicable events. They have and continue to occur in almost every country in the world. I myself have been served up Jew hatred both as a child and as an adult looking for work and I live in Toronto! 

There are 2 very different worlds that I'm exposed to. Mainstream news like CNN and my national, government sponsored news CBC which has a decidedly anti-Israel and antisemitic bias and the real news which I get via the internet  through such knowledgeable people and organizations such as: Daniel Pipes, Caroline Glick, Arlene Kushner, Honest Reporting, Melanie Phillips, Ideology of Islam, Media Scan, CAMERA and thankfully by many others.

Why are these incidents not reported? Are they too painful to report or does nobody care? Perhaps we've reached a saturation point. When something happens so often that it becomes commonplace, nobody cares. If one Jewish girl gets attacked via an antisemitic act, it might get reported. But when it happens every day, hundreds or thousands of times per day in fact, nobody cares. Maybe it's simply because the world hates us. Some more than others for sure but I've been seen that little bit of Jew hatred subtly displayed by far too many people from all walks of life. From colleagues at work, to many world leaders. The constant barrage of antisemitism is insidious. It's crept into many well meaning, left leaning people and the brain washing continues. 

Make no mistake, these are not anti-Israel attacks, these are clearly attacks against Jews. Anti-Israelism is the new antisemitism. Little, if anything, has changed since the Holocaust. If fact, now that the world continues its love affair with attacking the tiny Jewish state, it's gotten a whole lot easier to hate Jews. 

It's so embedded in our culture that even I would be surprised to see any one of such events reported on mainstream media. Although one can search for anti-Israel or antisemitism on the internet and you wouldn't be able to read all of the items in your lifetime. Today, many Jews and righteous Gentiles would be shocked to hear such events and many intelligent folks don't even recognize the antisemitism when they hear or see it.

Six million Jews are turning in their graves!

The Climate Gets Ugly

One doesn't need to look too hard to find headlines like:

Iran continues to develop nuclear bombs to destroy Israel

Hungarian MP wants Jewish members of parliament to be identified

Syrian's stockpile of chemical weapons may end up being used on Israel

Hamas uses ceasefire to rearm for next conflict against Israel

Egypt's Arab Spring will mean the end of it's peace agreement with Israel

Greece's National Socialism party uses Jews as scapegoats for its problems

Swedish artist uses Jewish ashes stolen from death camp in painting

Brazil sponsors Israel hatefest in Porto Alegre

Finnish MP spreads Jewish conspiracy: US controlled by wealthy Jews

The UN continues to bring more resolutions to condemn only Israel

The EU condemns Israel for building houses in east Jerusalem

Arabic newspaper in Toronto publishes Anti-Semitic cartoons


I could go on and on, listing similar headlines from every country in the world. I'm not so sure that these headlines existed in such abundance and in such an incredible distribution throughout the world back in pre-world war II days as they do today.

The world can and should be a beautiful place. And from time to time I am rewarded by meeting beautiful people with open hearts and minds. Mostly I find beauty in nature as I am blessed to be living in a large country filled with some of the most magnificent natural beauty that G-d has ever created.

But sadly the world is also filled with ugliness. The constant anti-Semitism and attacks on my Jewish homeland are ugly stains that refuse to wipe clean. All this while most 'good' people (Jews and Gentiles) remain painfully unaffected. While I was forced to endure anti-Semitism while growing up in a modern, liberal, democratic country, Canada, I fear that the world's morality is sinking ever deeper and my children will have to endure more of the same. Or worse.