Author: Blazingcatfur

Europe is simply dealing with its own cultural issues by projecting them onto the current conflict in the Middle East.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas following the latter’s 7 October 2023 terror attack has caused uproar and reaction in Europe. Antisemitism is clearly on the rise particularly among left-wing progressives, while a strong pro-Israel force is defending the Jewish state and fighting the recent surge of antisemitism.

The conflict between Jews and Muslims is indeed steeped in antisemitism; however, in Europe, this term is now used to hide a deeper culture war. On the one hand, it simply conceals a more fundamental anti-Western cultural revolution, and on the other it allows for a newfound national and European courage to mask itself as a progressive crusade against a new Holocaust.

Anyone who knows the history of Jew hatred knows that while it starts with the Jews, it never ends with them.

Today, in Canada, in 2024, you can be accosted and roughed up by what are laughably called “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators, for attending a political event, skating at city hall, shopping in a mall, buying a book at a bookstore, eating lunch at a restaurant, attending university or a municipal council meeting, or living in a “Zionest-infested area.”

I should have written this years ago while the idea was still fresh and I was still young. I think of it now because times are tough for me and my people, and so rather than give in to despair, the better choice is to think back and remember one of the best days you ever had – and that would be Montreal, when the State of Israel’s First Chief Rabbi, Rav Yitzchak haLevi Herzog came to visit.

It was a tremendous event…and for us kids enrolled in Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah, it was like a Shofar blast from Sinai.