Wednesday, June 4, 2025

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/what_lies_beneath.html

What Lies Beneath

By Joan Swirsky

When I was a nursing student decades ago, a doctor friend told me about an interesting case in which he performed a routine yearly checkup on a 12-year-old boy, including blood and urine tests, and to his surprise, this healthy-looking preteen had blood in his urine.  The doctor promptly ordered an intravenous pyelogram (IPG) — now in medicine’s dinosaur museum — which revealed that in one of the youngster’s kidneys, the renal medulla — the innermost region — and the renal cortex — the outermost region — were reversed, and as a result, the aberrant kidney took four hours longer to collect and then empty the body of urine.

But the doctor told me that the funniest thing was his mother’s reaction.  “She said, ‘How did this happen?  What did I do?’  And I told her that maybe she had the same thing, but she never had an IPG!”

Speaking of kidneys, I learned years later that a distant relative found out in his late forties, again as the result of a modern medical test, that he was born with only one kidney!  And sticking with the theme of hidden phenomena, I recently learned that a former neighbor went to a neurologist with hand tremors, and the MRI the doctor prescribed revealed a hemangioma — a cluster of blood vessels — in his brain!

“How did this happen?” he asked the doctor.

“It might have been there for twenty years,” the doctor said, “even maybe since you were born!”

LESSON: There are approximately eight billion people in the world, just about all of whom know nothing about what’s going on inside of their bodies — an undiscovered tooth high in the gum, an insect embedded in the skull, an undetected stroke.  I even knew a man in his eighties — a friend and neighbor — whose doctors found a deeply lodged bullet!

What does all this have to do with politics?  Everything!

After World War II, the unspeakable, malignant horrors of the Holocaust were revealed for all the world to see: six million Jews, from infants to centenarians and everyone in between, rounded up, crammed into suffocating cattle cars, hauled off to concentration camps, and gassed to death in Hitler’s crematoria, effectively eliminating half of the microscopic Jewish population of 12 million in the entire world.

Surviving Jews all over the world dared not tell their children of this catastrophe, the better to shield them from lifelong paranoia, dread, and depression.

But what followed — from the war’s end in 1945 to the miraculous advent of Israel becoming a state in 1948, and for about a decade or more beyond — was encouraging to these protective parents.  Not one word of Jew-hatred or vicious stereotypes or calls for the death of the Jews.

Aha, these naïve Americans — and Jews throughout the world — believed. Humanity has learned its lesson.  We finally, at last, after almost 4,000 years, have nothing to worry about.  Baruch Hashem!

What Lies Beneath

What Jews didn’t realize was that it was not benevolence or compassion or empathy that motivated the behavior of many in the outside world, but rather the self-interested preservation of the image they wanted to convey — of decency, tact, discretion, moral clarity.

But just like the clandestine kidney and the hidden hemangioma, the pathology — of Jew-hatred — was there, probably, as the above-mentioned doctor speculated, for decades!

Inculcated early — in homes, houses of worship, schools — and magnified when the State of Israel was established, it was mostly manifested in certain institutions, professions, even country clubs that enacted quotas that excluded Jews, in a few vicious media stereotypes and in personal insults.

But it wasn’t destructive enough to stop this minuscule minority — most of whom fled to America with no money and no knowledge of the English language — from flourishing wildly in every avenue they pursued.  From science and medicine to business to law to literature and other arts, the list is long.

When denied entry into medical schools, they built the finest hospitals in the country...to this day!  When denied entry into top law firms, they established their own.  When denied opportunities in the entertainment industry, they literally created Hollywood.

By the 21st century, Jews had more than arrived.  Although still a tiny minority of 5.8 million — or 2.4 percent out of a total population of 345 million — they have occupied several seats on the U.S. Supreme Court, served in great numbers as U.S. senators and members of Congress, enjoyed full professorships at America’s top colleges and universities, contributed mightily to America’s health through their discoveries and innovations, and founded massively successful businesses, among them Dunkin Donuts, Dreamworks, Estee Lauder, Facebook, Google, H&R Block, Home Depot, Starbucks, Slim-Fast, and on and on and on.  And in recent headlines, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s Final Four, three of the coaches were Jewish.

The Cesspool Erupts

Then October 7, 2023 happened.

To be accurate, this subhuman-initiated catastrophe was preceded by a phenomenon never before seen in America: the entrance of blatant, virulent, noxious Democrat antisemites not only being elected to the U.S. Congress, but blaring their toxic, Jew-detesting Israel-loathing racism for all to see and hear.

And without one single solitary word of disapproval from a sitting Democrat, including nine Democrats in the Senate — and Senate minority leader Charles Schumer — and 21 Democrats in the House.  And don’t let them tell you they sent out press releases of disapproval.  They mean nothing!

The sole defender of Israel and condemner of his party’s racism has been Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), whom the rest of the Democrat party has now marginalized, if not dismissed.

Even worse than this Democrat travesty, which was ultimately rejected by 77 million people in their thunderous election of President Trump last November, is the true pandemic of antisemitism that has transcended the clandestine kidney and the hidden hemangioma.

Now the once hidden hatred is out in the open.  World leaders, most recently in France, the United Kingdom, and Canada (but they are not alone), have given us a vivid picture of their psychological and racist hatred of Jews from their metaphorical X-rays, sonograms, MRIs, and PET scans.  They have let us look inside their hearts and minds to see clearly their hatred — and probably jealousy — of Jews and of their biblically inherited homeland, Israel, is again, as the aforementioned doctor speculated, from birth, and no doubt in their DNA!

Here, Yonah Elias skewers these moral cowards. 

The Lesson

There is not a baby in the world born with hate in his heart.  Hate is taught.  Hate is learned.  What we have been witnessing — really since Obama made his ignominious debut in our body politic — is that the hate that is learned has remarkable staying power.  It transcends education and objective reality and cold, hard facts.  It is animating and energizing.  After our most powerful emotion, fear, come jealousy and hate, which are often in desperate competition.

And there’s nothing quite like the bandwagon effect to mobilize these haters into action.  Hence the great number of people who conveniently forget that it was Israel who was savagely attacked by the terrorists whose very charter pronounces genocide as its major goal!

But history doesn’t change.  The world hated Jews when they were defenseless, and now, they especially hate Jews when they fight back. And prevail!

From now on, when you look at the pro-terrorist politicians and media whores and United Nations shills, don’t be surprised.  Just shrug your shoulders or turn to your friend and say: “Hemangioma, probably since birth!”

Joan Swirsky is a New York — based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com

Monday, May 26, 2025

 

Solemn Memorial Day, Not Happy Memorial Day

Henry Mark Holzer 

I send these remarks every year close to or on Memorial Day because they are a useful reminder that the Day is not a “happy” one. As well intentioned as some people are, associating the word “happy” with Memorial Day is not appropriate.

Memorial Day, the last Monday in May each year, is a federal holiday established to remember those who died while members of our country’s armed forces (unlike Veterans’ Day, which celebrates those who served).

With the Day’s genesis in Decoration Day – when volunteers laid flowers at graves of the fallen – Memorial Day is not a time for family barbecues, baseball games, or garage sales.

It’s a Day for all Americans – those who wore our Nation’s uniform and those who were not so privileged – to memorialize by thought and deed the heavy, irredeemable price deceased Americans have paid . . . and how much we owe them for what they lost in every war from the Revolution two-hundred-fifty-years ago to our government’s shameful flight from Afghanistan.

Memorial Day is very different from America’s birthday. Independence Day (not the “4th of July”) should be celebrated with fireworks, patriotic songs, and loud band concerts.

But not Memorial Day, a time of remembrance too solemn an occasion to be “happy.”

Requiescat in pace.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 Jane Fonda opened her big mouth again. See "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North Vietnam.

See janefondasite.com 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Thursday, November 28, 2024

 

Shall We Not Revenge?: A Jon Willard Novel (Jon Willard Novels Book 6) Kindle Edition


WHAT CAN A GOOD LAWYER DO WHEN
THE LAW COLLIDES WITH
JUSTICE?


During the Vietnam War, many American POWs were tortured to produce propaganda and intelligence.

Or for fun.

The worst North Vietnamese guard was nicknamed “Torque.” His worst crime was the deliberate murder of an Air Force colonel.

Thirty-five years later, the CIA learned that after the war, the sadist had escaped Vietnam and faked his way into the United States as a refugee.

With the president’s blessing, the CIA director concocted a plan to find Torque and try him for first-degree murder in an American court.

The government then drafted New York criminal defense attorney Jon Willard to prosecute.

At the trial, Willard faced a mysterious federal defender named Danielle Hong.

But Hong's devious but dramatic courtroom tactics ended the trial with a shocking twist that even wily legal veteran Jon Willard never saw coming...


Don't miss these previous suspenseful courtroom novels in the Jon Willard series:

Book 1:
THE PALADIN CURSE by Erika and Henry Mark Holzer

Book 2:
A FOOL FOR A CLIENT by Henry Mark Holzer

Book 3:
JUSTICE DELAYED, IS JUSTICE DENIED by Henry Mark Holzer

Book 4:
ABUSE OF POWER by Henry Mark Holzer

Book 5:
THE RIGHT TO DIE by Henry Mark Holzer


And don't miss Erika Holzer's previous bestselling novels, also available on Amazon:

Freedom Bridge -- a gripping Cold War spy thriller, chosen as a Literary Guild featured selection, and . . .

Eye for an Eye -- a white-knuckle vigilante crime thriller, which became a major motion picture starring Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, and Ed Harris.

Monday, September 23, 2024

 By my friend Joan Swirsky. Every Jew worldwide should read it.

 

September 23, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/suicidal_jews.html

September 23, 2024

Suicidal Jews

By Joan Swirsky

When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness.

But how to explain group suicide?  There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:

  • In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, many of the Jewish fighters besieged in the “bunker” at Miła 18 committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender to the Nazis.
  • In 1945, about 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany, committed mass suicide after the Red Army had sacked the town.
  • In 1978, 918 Americans — including 276 children — ingested cyanide in the Peoples Temple, after being exhorted and compelled to do so by their cult leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana.
  • In 1997, 39 followers of the Heaven’s Gate cult in California died in a mass suicide, believing they would travel on a spaceship that followed comet Hale — Bopp.

Clearly, some groups took their lives en masse for ideological reasons, whereas others — particularly vulnerable people in dire need of a “leader” — simply followed orders.  In all the mass suicides in recorded history, dozens, hundreds, and up to one thousand people took their own lives.

But today, when looking at suicidal Jews, the numbers could be in the millions!

Currently, out of a worldwide population of eight billion people, there are about 15 million Jews — approximately seven million in Israel, almost seven million in the United States, and one million throughout the world.  This is, by any measure, a few grains of sand compared to the massive total population of the world.

According to U.S. voting patterns, Jews are overwhelmingly liberal — up to 80 percent — which means they vote in huge numbers for leftists like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.  These people’s staffs have comprised, almost exclusively, career antisemites, who have done everything in their power to effect anti-Israel policies like the Iran nuclear deal, knowing that the fanatical mission of the mullahs in Teheran was — and is to this day — to wipe Israel off the map and exterminate every Jew in existence.

As Karin McQuillan explained in “Leftist Jew Hatred Has Come to America,” “the Left began with blacklisting and boycotting conservatives.  Now American Jews are in the crosshairs, no matter how liberal their politics.”

But they won’t jump off the bandwagon, she wrote, because that would mean “losing your friends, being shunned at synagogue, and stunting your career[.] ... [C]hanging party affiliation is such a tall cliff, it feels suicidal, that is the loss of their entire identity.”

McQuillan quotes the estimable Daniel Greenfield: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”

Look no farther than the full-bodied ideological and financial support that liberal — suicidal — Jews lend to virulently anti-Israel organizations, many of them founded and financed by leftist Jews, such as the Women’s MarchBlack Lives Matterthe fascistic AntifaJ StreetIf Not NowAmericans for Peace Now, B’TselemBend the ArcBreaking the SilenceNew Israel FundJews for Racial and Economic Justice, the newspaper The Forward (recently defunct), Michael Lerner’s Tikkun magazine, Reform Action CenterT’ruah (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights), Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, et al.

Why? Because it’s hard to be a Jew, and liberal Jews are simply not up to the task.  The desperate need to be liked, accepted, admired, and embraced is the historical downfall of weak Jews.

That is why so many Jews adored President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who stacked his administration with Court Jews and then stabbed every Jew in the world in the back, refusing refuge to the few who escaped Hitler’s murderous onslaught by turning away thousands from our shores and sending them back to their grisly deaths.  And he counted on — who else? — weak liberal Jews and a complicit leftist media — to cover for his mortal sins!

WHO HATES THE SUICIDAL LIBERAL JEWS?

  • Black leftists.  According to historian Rafael Medoff, “American Jews played a significant role in assisting the African-American community throughout the past century — having a central role in creating the NAACP, building more than 5,000 schools for rural African Americans from 1914 to 1932, and participating actively in the black civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.”  But when the Black Power movement arose in the mid-’60s, the first people blacks irrationally turned against were the Jews.
  • The World Council of Churches, which represents 350 member churches in 110 countries, and half a billion Christians throughout the world, fully embraces the vicious Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) campaign to destroy Israel.
  • Amnesty International, which obliterates Jewish history.  The organization, as you can read here, has gone full-blown antisemitic.
  • Doctors Without Borders prides itself on its neutrality but consistently launches venomous anti-Israel political campaigns.
  • Airbnb, an American company offering short-term lodging services to lease or rent internationally, removed all listings of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria (AKA the West Bank), although not in other disputed territories owned by Turks in Cyprus, Moroccans in the Sahara, Chinese in Tibet, or Russians in the Crimea, et al.
  • The American Friends (Quakers), who “boast” of their history of nonviolent activism, yet work to destroy the Jewish people and their ancient homeland, Israel, by inciting others to strive for Israel’s annihilation, often through violence.
  • The unhallowed halls of academia are a hotbed of virulent antisemitism throughout the country, with Columbia University leading the pack.
  • The Anti-Defamation League under the leadership of Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Soros employee and Obama official.  As Daniel Greenfield expresses, “[o]nce upon a time, the ADL was a Jewish civil rights organization.  Now it’s just another generic lefty group that pretends to care about Jewish causes only long enough to fleece some of its donors.  As the Left goes antisemitic, the ADL is becoming a threat to Jews.”
  • The United Nations, a cesspool of tin-pot dictators and antisemites on 1st Avenue in N.Y. City, which has a virtual fetish with the “Palestinian” issue, and just the other day issued a Resolution calling for the Old City of Jerusalem to be free of Jews, which passed by a 124-14 margin.
  • The heads of the Women’s March: Linda Sarsour (“nothing creepier than Zionism”), Tamika Mallory (“white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy”), and Carmen Perez — all ardent admirers of hate preacher and head of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan (Jews are “termites”).  All of them share Ms. Mallory’s sentiment that Israel doesn’t have the right to exist, as do Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.),  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and many others who have joined this hate fest, and let’s not leave out Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who has called these Jew- and Israel-haters “the suffragists of our time.”

We Jews are taught by our sages to accept and embrace all Jews, no matter their flaws or shortcomings.  We are a tiny people, and only by understanding the imperative for unity will we survive.  Look for the good in even the most egregious behavior of our fellow Jew — does he help the poor, take in the widow and orphan, donate generously to charity, etc.?  Then accept that Jew, embrace him, love her.

In Genesis 12:3, God tells Abram (before he becomes Abraham): “I will make you into a great nation[.] ... I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”

Personally, I don’t embrace the quisling Jews and other antisemites who opt for the toxic American liberalism that vilifies Jews and Israel.  I curse them.  And I promise them that their determination to destroy the Jewish state — because of their rancid hatred and obsessive jealousy — will fail as thunderously as all attempts over the past 5,000 years have failed.

Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author.  Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.