A Call To Jewish Leadership Around The World!
At the end of World War II, the gruesome horrors, in all their cruelty, were slowly revealed to a disbelieving world. The Jewish communities of Europe had been eradicated. Among the victims were parents, siblings, and children. Genocide, according to a plan executed with deceit and German precision, had not been seen in all of the world’s history. An entire people went up in smoke. By the light of the Holocaust of our millions, we swore: ”Never again!” To our disgrace, we have all too quickly forgotten this oath. Until October 7 came along to remind us that history does repeat itself, and in particular, Jewish history is monotonous in its repetitive behaviour. Yet what is the response of most Jewish leaders in the Diaspora? Where is the honest distress? Where is the understanding of what happened in Israel on October 7? Where are the alarm bells to awaken the heart and senses from our slumber in view of the October 7 aftermath? Indeed, Jewish leadership should be shaking heaven and earth in an attempt to warn the Jews of the Diaspora of the coming anti-Semitic tsunami.
These leaders are awash in outdated perceptions of the non-Jewish world, in a quandary, doing nothing of substance without a plan for the life of Jews enslaved to the fleshpots of gentile nations. Indeed, the crisis hunting our people is fatal, exasperated by a lack of genuine leadership that refuses to initiate action in an effort to rescue confused and fearful Jews.
The Jewish people, regardless of its ineffectual leadership, must mobilise with all their might and fight, given their survival is on the line. The leaders are presiding over the disintegration of the Diaspora as they ignore the estrangement of young Jews, their alienation from Jewish values and the rejection of the Jewish State. Yet it appears the Jewish leadership prefers to remain silent, content with preserving their ivory towers even in the face of all the evidence of a crumbling host society legitimising anti-Semitism under the guise of woke-liberal values. No lesson seems to have been learnt from the Holocaust, whose recent characteristics appear to be similar to those that have afflicted us since the October 7 crisis.
The Jews of southern Israel on the border of Gaza did not know what was awaiting them. Ignorant in the belief that the Arab nationalists were brothers in their liberal values, they could never believe what happened was possible. They refused to listen to their national religious brothers when they would warn them that these Arabs were not enlightened people but beasts awaiting the moment of butchery, rape, and imprisonment of their children, parents, husbands and wives. The Arabs, who daily worked and traded with Jews in the kibbutzim, cunningly hid the truth from their victims. Knowing very well that ignorance about their tragic end would make their extermination easier. Now, the Jews of the Diaspora are committing the same fatal mistake by believing it could never happen to them in an enlightened West.
These leaders still hang onto a belief that for all the Jew hatred we witness today, we live in normal times and circumstances. How wrong they are as they delude themselves by saying ”Never again”.
If these failed leaders were to redeem themselves, then all they would have to do is stress the bond between the Jewish people and the Holy Land, admonishing them to return to the Land of Promise.
