The Self-Gassed Jew: A Reply to Ethan Perel-Wertman
I recently saw this opinion piece from a jewish student named Ethan Perel-Wertman at Beloit College in response to the alleged ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ there in 2017. I thought it would be fun to deconstruct and reply to it as a confirmed anti-Semite.
To wit:
‘I got home at 1:00 am on Saturday morning. I saw an email that said a note had been placed under a student’s door in Peet. The note said, “Kike, You should be gassed for what you say & do on this campus. Be worried CUNT”.’
This rather staid journalistic preamble is typically pointless; except for the fact that it rather forces me to make a bit of an asinine point.
I mean how sad do you have to be in order to be checking your emails at 1 a.m. on a Saturday morning?
‘Kike, I hadn’t heard that word for a while, a part of me hoped that it was out of fashion these days.’
You haven’t been on the internet much: have you?
I mean you don’t even have to go on the internet much to understand that. You’d just have to ask your communal institutions like the ADL, (2) but hey why let good old fashioned reality get in the way of bawling your eyes about the myth of progress being… well… a myth.
‘I guess I was wrong. I spent the rest of the night fuming.’
Someone called someone else – i.e., not you - a nasty name and you are so triggered that you spend the whole night ‘fuming’?
My my… aren’t you quite the special circumcised snowflake.
‘I posted on the Beloit Student Group page and told the person who wrote the letter to fuck off.’
Yup: you were triggered by a nasty name.
‘That was all I could do at 1:00 in the morning.’
Why did you have to DO anything?
Oh wait… you were triggered by a nasty name.
‘The next morning as I was leaving home I decided to wear a yarmulke, something that I have not done in public for years.’
Oh how revolutionary.
Where on earth did you get that novel idea?
‘I wanted to hide my fear behind courage.’
How is it courageous to wear a kippah on campus?
Oh yes, I know… all those reports of Nazis on American university campuses beating jews up for openly wearing their kippot and tzitzit.
Oh wait…
‘I wanted this person to know that they could not make me, or the other Jews on campus, cower.’
You just admitted that they did.
I personally doubt this was their motive anyway, but good job on using the strawman fallacy since you don’t know what they intended or even if it was actually a genuine ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’.
I have my doubts as I have previously documented. (3)
‘This incident reminded me of what my Zaida, a Holocaust survivor, used to say, “They will never leave us be, why they hate us I don’t know, but they always will.”’
So just about every major civilisation and religion that has come into contact with jews doesn’t like them and occasionally gets angry enough to do bad things to them. Oh but of course it isn’t anything to do with the jews. Rather it is everyone else’s fault in regard to why the jews get blamed and suffer the consequences for things that they do or are perceived to have done.
I wonder: have the jews ever done anything wrong in your view?
If, as I suspect, you can’t really say they have (outside of maybe canonical aspects of the perfidy of Israel in the Tanakh) then I rather think you might have just discovered just a little bit of the reason that people dislike jews.
People aren’t born disliking jews. They tend to come to it through experience of dealing with or being around them.
‘Unfortunately he was right, I remember being called a dirty Jew by a group of three kids on the playground when I was twelve. They kept asking me why I killed Christ, and when I had no answer they tried to beat me up.’
Thingsthatneverhappened.wav
‘I remember being told not to speak Yiddish in a gas station in Iowa by my father. I can only hope that this event will serve as a wake up call to the Beloit community that anti-Semitism still exists.’
You were speaking Yiddish, were in Iowa and are now in Wisconsin?
What are you? Ultra-Orthodox? Did you live in Postville or something? (4)
Iowa is deep Christian Zionist country anyway: so why on earth would you ‘feel afraid’ to speak Yiddish there?
‘Jews are a small minority who continue to be hated by a large segment of the population.’
Why is that?
Or could it be that the reason that thirty percent of Americans believe that jews are more loyal to Israel than the United States. (5) In spite of the barrage of propaganda designed to counter that perception to which they are subjected is that jews as a group are indeed more loyal to Israel than to the United States.
Oh no… sorry that is wrong because it is an ‘anti-Semitic canard’.
‘This is a fact that is often overlooked or ignored by many people today; in Beloit and around the world.’
Not really.
I think you’ll find the reality is perhaps worse.
Nobody cares anymore.
You and your people have spent the last eighty years screeching hysterically about ‘anti-Semitism’ - which is not defined as it academically (if it were few would be considered such) (6) and applied to literally anything that you dislike – and as such people are tired of it.
Therefore they do not assign it any value as a label beyond what they perceive to be to their own advantage personally and/or professionally.
‘I hope that after this particular hate crime people will begin to realize that Jews as a group are both vulnerable and targeted.’
How vulnerable is a group that effectively rules Hollywood, controls the Federal Reserve and runs the most influential and successful lobbying system in history?
‘Ignorance of anti-Semitism only helps to propagate it.’
Perhaps a stupid question to ask, but how does this work?
If I am ignorant of what is anti-Semitism is and is not then how can I increase or decrease my deliberate or accidental propagation of it?
If I need to be ‘educated’ about what ‘anti-Semitism’ is then it begs the question: why is ‘anti-Semitism’ so evil that the fact that it must be relentlessly extirpated – but yet is apparently so irrationally persistent - something that cannot itself be questioned?
It reminds one heavily of Stalin’s jew-heavy elite in the USSR (8) and their murderous purges of dissenters who were believed – rightly or wrongly – to be dissidents or in some way anti-social: does it not?
‘I have been humbled by the outpouring of support by the Beloit community in the wake of this crime. There has been no better feeling than the countless messages and the expression of solidarity. As a Jew, I personally have always felt that combating anti-Semitism was a job that Jews would be forced to do alone, because who else would care. I am forever grateful to the Beloit community for standing with us.
I want other minority groups on the Beloit Campus to know that we stand with you as well.’
Ah so you are not for the White majority, but instead declare that you will fight with minorities against the majority.
Nice to know, but just a teensy bit racist: no?
‘This crime means that Jewish Life has to be more involved in combating hate on campus, and you can bet we will do just that.’
How is this incident a ‘crime’?
‘I myself have grown complacent, and maybe I unknowingly bought into the idea that there is no more anti-Semitism.’
Since when has a jew actually believed that?
Witness the plethora of histrionic books about how ‘anti-Semitism is spreading globally’ that are published every year. Or maybe go and read the hysterical works of people like Alan Dershowitz, Phyllis Chesler and Gabriel Schoenfeld.
‘But we all know that’s not true.’
So you didn’t believe it, but you secretly really believed it and now you really, really believe it?
‘So when the dust settles on this crime, I ask the Beloit community to remember it as we Jews remember the Holocaust. Remember that there are people in the world who would do harm to your fellow students based on their religious/cultural identity, and please continue to stand with us.’
You mean all the Boer people who get strung up and gutted in their homes for simply being White?
Oh no… I am sorry. They don’t matter, because they aren’t jewish… right??
‘As for me, I am going to keep wearing a yarmulka around campus for the foreseeable future.’
Goodo. You’ll be a nice clear target for the alleged ‘anti-Semitic Nazi conspiracy’ on your campus then: won’t you?
‘If anybody wants to talk about what happened or has questions about anti-Semitism or Judaism, shoot me a message, whether you’re Jewish, or not feel free to get in touch.’
How about: why do most of Judaism’s religious holidays openly celebrate the murder of non-jews? (9)
‘Finally to the perpetrator of this heinous crime. You must not know your history.’
Oh, but I am sure they do. I certainly do.
‘Your side always loses.’
I don’t know, but if memory serves: didn’t the Romans, for example, win?
Or are you claiming that jews brought down the Roman Empire?
‘The inquisition failed,’
The Inquisitions – plural not singular my dear boy - weren’t targeted at jews: they went after Christian heretics and primarily Protestants.
‘the pogroms failed,’
The pogroms were spontaneous local revolts against jewish overlords (both literal and figurative). By the standards of the time and their very limited objectives: they were actually largely successful.
Didn’t read that in your ‘Jewish History 101’ class: did you?
‘the Holocaust failed.’
That’s because it was never attempted.
‘My Zaida and Nana had children, their children had children, and that child is here today.’
Oh scary. I am shaking in my jackboots.
‘My family’s blood is littered throughout the fields of Poland:’
That is because they come from Poland: isn’t it?
‘My great aunt bled out with a machine gun in her hand on a street in Warsaw;’
Congratulations: your great aunt was literally a terrorist who got what she so richly deserved.
Or would you – like so many of your confreres – have the chutzpah to whine about the Palestinians celebrating their martyrs when you worship your own as heroes?
‘many others lie in unmarked graves,’
Are you seriously trying to jew other people out of money for your family’s funerary expenses?
‘their bodies thrown there by people like you.’
Well at least we did the hard bit for you. The least you could do is pay for the funerals.
‘But their children and kin are living and will continue to live.
The history of the Jewish people is rife with those who have tried to do us harm. But we are still here.’
That’s because no one tried to actually exterminate you. They merely asked you to shut up, sit down and live honestly in harmony with everyone else.
You did the opposite. So people occasionally tried to beat some sense into you or simply deport you.
That failed to get the message that you needed to reform your ways into your people’s thick skulls.
‘“Am Yisroel Chai” means “The People of Israel Live” in Hebrew.’
It is as true today as it was a thousand years ago, and as it was in 1945, when the dying were liberated.’
And then proceeded to exterminate millions of Germans for the crime of being German and try to exterminate millions more for the same reason.
‘I am living proof of the Nazi’s failure and I intend to go on living.’
No: you are living proof – going on what you have written – of why anti-Semitism occurs and why it seems ever more likely that your behaviour will trigger a real ‘Holocaust’.
It’ll never be your fault though: will it?
‘AM YISROEL CHAI.’
Juden Raus!
References
(1) http://beloitcollegeroundtable.com/2017/01/31/jewish-student-reacts-to-anti-semitism-on-campus/
(2) http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/cyber-safety/c/the-internet-is-making.html
(3) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/hoax-alert-the-beloit-college-note
(4) Cf. Stephen Bloom, 2001, ‘Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America’, 1st Edition, Mariner: New York
(5) http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/press-center/adl-survey-attitudes-towards-jews-in-us-2013.pdf
(6) See comments and analysis of Albert Lindemann, 1997, ‘Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews’, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press: New York.
(7) http://www.timesofisrael.com/who-said-jews-run-hollywood/; http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/156146/yellen-at-the-fed; http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/so-just-how-powerful-is-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us-8478432.html
(8) For example see the statistics and then draw the obvious extrapolation from Bernard Wasserstein, 2012, ‘On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War’, 1st Edition, Profile: London, pp. 63-65
(9) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/the-symbolism-of-murder-in-the-jewish