WHAT WE ARE DOING AS JEWS TO FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOT WORKING
Tennis a major preoccupation for me, but fighting anti-Semitism is a passion. As an 84 year old Canadian Jew, I am profoundly shocked and demoralized by the anti-Semitism I am currently seeing in parts of the west. It is a completely irrational action by people with no valid reason to hate Jews.
EXAMPLES NEEDED- France, Germany U.K, rise of the extreme right. Demonstrations, attacks on synagogues, Jewish Day Schools, Jewish citizens. We Jews are not strangers to irrational hatred and attacks, they have plagued us for 2000 years, but over the last 70, we have begun to feel a sense of security and belonging, particularly those of us living in North America as we have become involved and accepted in every facet of political, social and economic society.
This is great but in so doing we have become complacent while rabid anti-Semitism is growing in strength and numbers of adherents. Jews have not seen this degree of vile hatred since the holocaust. We cannot stand idly by in the hope that it will never come here, or again reach the levels of horror that we`ve seen before.
Western Europe is a centre today of anti-Semitism on a grand scale. Jew hatred is part of the life-style of a sizeable minority in Europe for reasons completely illogical. Jews do not deserve this prejudiced attitude. Anti-Semitism has expanded with the success of Israel, a Jewish democratic state and it is hidden under the guise of anti-Zionism and branding Israel an apartheid state Nothing could be further from the truth.Yes, there are organizations trying to fight this trend but obviously they are not successful. Our strategy must change. The problem must be attacked but not in the ways of the past.
Jews number approximately 15 million people or .0001% of the world population. As long as its only Jews and very few others who care about Jews, haters will be able to act with impunity. Where can we find help to fight anti-Semitism?
Jews need allies We need to educate
Anti-Semitism is almost unknown in Asia. Countries like China , India and Korea. are free of this deadly hatred and people from these nations are found in great numbers in our universities. Here in march there is an event called anti-apartheid week where Israel is branded as racist. Nothing could be further from the truth and I am working with an organization called CLIC, Connecting Leaders In Communities. At present CLIC is bringing Israeli minorities to Canada to talk to Canadian University students that the anti-Apartheid week is a fraud . These people consist of Druids, Kurds, Ethiopian Jews ,Christian Arabs and others. There is no apartheid in Israel. In addition CLIC with the help of Schwartz/Reisman Foundation and other Canadians will be bringing from our universities Indian, Chinese Vietnamese Canadian students to Israel and learn the truth to tell their own people. JEWS NEED ALLIES. People with no history of anti-Semitism.
If you want to help our cause you can write a cheque to the Jewish Federation UIA Sumiko Yabushita CIJA 45 O`Connor St #730 Ottawa KIP IA4. This is a long-term project to reach people with no history of anti-Semitism. Let me repeat this is an attempt to make allies of people with no history of anti-Semitsm.
This method of fighting anti-Semitism is completely new. What we have done before is not working. Look at Europe!
