A number of years ago I went out to lunch with some Jewish friends who were very active politically on all fronts, including Israel. A woman, I guess someone invited along for the ride, asked me as soon as she saw me what my ethnicity was and I told her I was half Polish, and didn't even get a chance to tell her about the rest of me. When I told her she immediately said, your people killed my people, always the victim. I told her my people were in this country for a very long time, poor, in both, and I doubt they had nothing better to do then run around killing Jews, and said to her lets talk about killing Palestinians. That shut her mouth. I think there are too many Jewish people who are raised on a sense of their victimhood as a people which blinds them to the fact they can be culpable in victimizing others. Always innocent, and any one they kill no doubt meant them harm. Often when people write about the holocaust implemented by Hitler a whole lot of groups get left out of the discussion and the focus is solely on the Jewish population. I think all of this blinds them to their very obvious capacity to victimize others since they look to the past for a pardon. They along with the rest of the world were also inculcated with the prejudicial views of Arabs which helped them from the beginning to implement a genocide of their own, The nakba.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. I see it in movies and books. Really disgusting. There were plenty of others that were targeted in the Holocaust. Yes, the Jews may have been the main focus for Hitler and his henchmen, but the Roma(gypsies), homosexuals, mentally/physically challenged children and adults(euthanasia programs were in different places in Germany and Austria, I believe at the time for the sole purpose of extermination of these people, especially the children), Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Communists among others. Yet most of these movies and/or books or articles don’t focus on these populations like they do the Jews. It shows the biasness of our corporate mainstream media and the companies/publishers/writers/directors etc. I mentioned Ukrainians above b/c even though a lot of them did cooperate with the Nazis, like the Banderites did, there were many I’m sure who did not. One example of this is a recent episode of Law & Order that depicted pro -Palestinian protesters as antisemitic in that in this episode a Jewish professor was brutally murdered by a pro -Palestinian activist encouraged to do it by a woman of middle eastern heritage. It was so blatantly obvious as to what the producers of the show were trying to depict right up to the ending where two young men get in fist fight in the courthouse after the trial. One was of Muslim or Arab ethnicity and the other I presume was Jewish. It’s so blatantly biased in this way.
"I told her I was half Polish, and didn't even get a chance to tell her about the rest of me. When I told her she immediately said, your people killed my people, always the victim."
So, was this woman accusing you of a blood libel? I thought that was supposed to be a bad thing, or is that only sometimes?
I don't care what her accusations are based on. It was an inappropriate question that had no relevance to me but to further her own prejudices and play victim.
I love the idea that Americans look back to where they came from:
It doesn't mean shit. All you will find is that immigrants were treated badly!
In the global world we have all come from somewhere......why is it that US citizens deride there origins in Europe but NEED to know where they come from?
People in the US shit upon Europeans who came to America to find a better life.
You call Europeans names that frankly you have no knowledge of.
IF the Europeans had NOT come to your country who would have?
There were indigenous citizens already in your country...........who you wiped out.
I suppose the Europeans should be blamed for this?
In many cases: The Irish famine was caused by colonialism by the British BUT in the US you treated them like 2nd class citizens. The same with the Polish people/Ukranians.
All it was about if you take time to read is MONEY
Immigrants coming into the USA NOW are worth nothing.
I have a number of degrees in several areas, so screw you, and by the way I don''t know any religion that can look back on it's history and make the claim we were always a peaceful lot. So screw you again.
Here's another band of merry idiots, but they are heart and soul better then you who espouse murder and death.
You are the Nazi now!!!
Pro-Palestinian Jewish group wants to see end of US funding for Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace is determined to see a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to US funding for Israel. Since October 7th the group has used mass protest as well as personal calls to US politicians to advocate for changes to US foreign policy – specifically targeting the influence the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has in US politics.
Why are you even pursuing this since it bares no significance to what is going on, and what is going on is a genocide, a very violent one indeed implemented by Israel against the Palestinians.
A number of years ago I went out to lunch with some Jewish friends who were very active politically on all fronts, including Israel. A woman, I guess someone invited along for the ride, asked me as soon as she saw me what my ethnicity was and I told her I was half Polish, and didn't even get a chance to tell her about the rest of me. When I told her she immediately said, your people killed my people, always the victim. I told her my people were in this country for a very long time, poor, in both, and I doubt they had nothing better to do then run around killing Jews, and said to her lets talk about killing Palestinians. That shut her mouth. I think there are too many Jewish people who are raised on a sense of their victimhood as a people which blinds them to the fact they can be culpable in victimizing others. Always innocent, and any one they kill no doubt meant them harm. Often when people write about the holocaust implemented by Hitler a whole lot of groups get left out of the discussion and the focus is solely on the Jewish population. I think all of this blinds them to their very obvious capacity to victimize others since they look to the past for a pardon. They along with the rest of the world were also inculcated with the prejudicial views of Arabs which helped them from the beginning to implement a genocide of their own, The nakba.
Well said Fran, and good for you!
Thanks!
I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. I see it in movies and books. Really disgusting. There were plenty of others that were targeted in the Holocaust. Yes, the Jews may have been the main focus for Hitler and his henchmen, but the Roma(gypsies), homosexuals, mentally/physically challenged children and adults(euthanasia programs were in different places in Germany and Austria, I believe at the time for the sole purpose of extermination of these people, especially the children), Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Communists among others. Yet most of these movies and/or books or articles don’t focus on these populations like they do the Jews. It shows the biasness of our corporate mainstream media and the companies/publishers/writers/directors etc. I mentioned Ukrainians above b/c even though a lot of them did cooperate with the Nazis, like the Banderites did, there were many I’m sure who did not. One example of this is a recent episode of Law & Order that depicted pro -Palestinian protesters as antisemitic in that in this episode a Jewish professor was brutally murdered by a pro -Palestinian activist encouraged to do it by a woman of middle eastern heritage. It was so blatantly obvious as to what the producers of the show were trying to depict right up to the ending where two young men get in fist fight in the courthouse after the trial. One was of Muslim or Arab ethnicity and the other I presume was Jewish. It’s so blatantly biased in this way.
Wow, great coverage Sylvia!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I told her I was half Polish, and didn't even get a chance to tell her about the rest of me. When I told her she immediately said, your people killed my people, always the victim."
So, was this woman accusing you of a blood libel? I thought that was supposed to be a bad thing, or is that only sometimes?
I don't care what her accusations are based on. It was an inappropriate question that had no relevance to me but to further her own prejudices and play victim.
I love the idea that Americans look back to where they came from:
It doesn't mean shit. All you will find is that immigrants were treated badly!
In the global world we have all come from somewhere......why is it that US citizens deride there origins in Europe but NEED to know where they come from?
People in the US shit upon Europeans who came to America to find a better life.
You call Europeans names that frankly you have no knowledge of.
IF the Europeans had NOT come to your country who would have?
There were indigenous citizens already in your country...........who you wiped out.
I suppose the Europeans should be blamed for this?
In many cases: The Irish famine was caused by colonialism by the British BUT in the US you treated them like 2nd class citizens. The same with the Polish people/Ukranians.
All it was about if you take time to read is MONEY
Immigrants coming into the USA NOW are worth nothing.
Capitalism is the name of the game.
I am not quite sure whom you are on about, but I was born in a pile of hay on the upper floor of a barn, and I lived much of my adult life in europe.
I have a number of degrees in several areas, so screw you, and by the way I don''t know any religion that can look back on it's history and make the claim we were always a peaceful lot. So screw you again.
Here's another band of merry idiots, but they are heart and soul better then you who espouse murder and death.
You are the Nazi now!!!
Pro-Palestinian Jewish group wants to see end of US funding for Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace is determined to see a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to US funding for Israel. Since October 7th the group has used mass protest as well as personal calls to US politicians to advocate for changes to US foreign policy – specifically targeting the influence the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has in US politics.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/4/pro-palestinian-jewish-group-wants-to-see-end-of-us-funding-for-israel
Why are you even pursuing this since it bares no significance to what is going on, and what is going on is a genocide, a very violent one indeed implemented by Israel against the Palestinians.
Yes. Buddhism (Theravada) Look at Myanmar/Thailand/Sri Lanka!
I do not see a link?
I don't spend time or entertain people who think they can be abusive using their sense of anonymity to do so.