If
you were a supervisor in a kindergarten and a 4-year old came to you and said,
give me candy because little Johnny sitting back there wants me to get him
candy, you'll think this kid is so lacking in judgment at this age, he'll grow
up and be good for nothing.
Well,
my friend, what if I told you there exists a professor holding a chair at
Columbia University endowed with a level of judgment that would make a 4-year
old sound like a genius? I know it's hard to believe, but you must believe that
there is one such professor. See for yourself. Her name is Rebecca Kobrin, and
she holds a chair in American Jewish history at Columbia.
Totally
oblivious as to how transparent she is –– asking as she does for something
that's so obviously self-serving, yet pretending to help others –– Kobrin
wrote: “Why the lessons of Kristallnacht must guide our debate over migrants in
America today,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “We're risking
repeating a grave mistake from the past.” It was published on November 10, 2018
in the Washington Post.
It
would be a stretch to draw parallels between events that happened far away and
long ago, against events happening today when the differences between the two
incidents are so stark. But to go further and exploit the misery of a people
who are trying to settle in a safe place –– by repeating word for word the
talking points that Jews list when they write about the Holocaust –– is an
exercise in juvenile delinquency.
Check
it out yourself. There are thirteen paragraphs in the Kobrin article, eleven of
which are entirely about Kristallnacht, and two are weak attempts at drawing
parallels between the story of Jews seeking asylum in the United States eighty
years ago, and the story of South Americans now approaching the US border,
looking for a new home in which to settle. Look how the writer began each of
the eleven paragraphs:
(1)
Eighty years ago, an anti-Jewish riot broke out in Germany: Kristallnacht. (2)
Kristallnacht may seem like an event in the distant past with little relevance
to the United States today. (3) Racism and bigotry in defining asylum
eligibility is nothing new, as Kristallnacht itself highlighted. (4) But
Kristallnacht vividly revealed to the world that Jews were walking around with
targets on their backs. (5) Deploying rhetoric that cast Jews as spies, the
State Department sent a message that Jewish asylum seekers were not welcome.
(6) The tragic journey of a German ocean liner carrying 937 Jews fleeing the
Nazis exemplified the American response. (7) This decision sealed the fate of
over 250 people who were recognized as refugees. (8) Today, the United States
must reflect on Kristallnacht as it thinks about families at our borders seeking
asylum. (9) Why do our leaders cast families at our border as terrorists
invading our country? (10) Because racism and nativism persist and remain
central to the Trump administration's understanding of the asylum system. (11)
Eighty years ago, racism, bigotry and anti-Semitism in America made it
impossible for Jewish asylum seekers to find a new home and condemned them to
death.
This
is not the work of a writer pleading the case of someone in distress; it is the
work of a writer keeping alive the memory of an ancient event. Her pleadings
will not advance the cause of the South Americans by one inch because that was
never her intention; it's only her pretense. As to her real intention, it is
the standard staple behind all the Jewish activities. That is, the Holocaust
has been the gift that keeps on giving to the Jews as long as they keep milking
it. And what Rebecca Kobrin has done, is take her turn at keeping the memory of
Kristallnacht alive so that the Holocaust can be milked again and forever.
Had
Rebecca Kobrin honestly intended to plead the case of the South American
caravan (as it has come to be known,) she would have started her article by
describing the atrocious journey on which these people have embarked, forced as
they were to grab their children in haste and flee conditions that were even
more atrocious than the journey they were to undertake. But that's not what
Rebecca Kobrin did. Instead, the following is how she started her article:
“In
1938, thousands of members of the Nazi police force and Hitler Youth torched
synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, looted Jewish-owned businesses, destroyed
schools and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of the destruction, some
30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps”.