Who else but the editors of the Washington Post would be so eager
to make the wrong choice, they printed an article that will do the opposite of
what it promises?
Without making a critical judgment as to the usefulness of
printing Carl Gershman's article without revision, the editors of the Post went
ahead and added one more reason for anti-Semitism to increase and be expressed
more in-your-face. On May 27, 2019, those editors allowed the printing of:
“Ukraine is where the Holocaust began. It should properly memorialize the
victims,” without making changes to the text.
What is dreadfully idiotic about this article is that it threw
subtlety out the window, and flagrantly made the kind of promises that sent the
Jews to their doom throughout the ages. After telling all about Ukraine's
current challenges, which include poverty, corruption and a Russian aggression,
and after telling all about the difficult history that the Jewish population
endured in that country, Gershman turned positive … sort of.
He mentioned what the government of Ukraine might do in
recognition of what the Jews suffered in that country during the first half of
the twentieth century, but then ended the article with this promise: “If
Ukraine can take these steps toward properly memorializing victims of the
Holocaust, it will become a stronger and more unified country, and will
contribute to the moral renewal of our troubled world.” Note the promises that
Gershman made: Ukraine will become stronger. It will become unified. And it
will contribute to the moral renewal of a troubled world.
How will that come about, you ask? It will come about, says
Gershman, when the government of Ukraine will memorialize the victims of the
Holocaust. Well, you don't need to hold a PhD in logic to figure that the flip
side of this argument comes down to saying that today, Ukraine is weak and
disunited; and today, the world is suffering from moral stagnation because
Ukraine has not yet memorialized the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. But the
moment that Ukraine does that, the country and the rest of the world will
instantly transport, as if by magic, into a universe of eternal bliss. This is
so very Jewish! So very flabbergasting!
But it is in keeping with the Jewish habit of promising that if
their never-ending demands –– such as being given East Jerusalem, chunks of the
West Bank, the Golan, cash to promote interfaith understanding, weapons galore,
laws that establish their supremacy, bylaws that strengthen their favorite
status, and so on and so forth –– the world will instantly move from being in
disarray to being a well ordered nirvana. The difference between what the Jews
have been doing up to now, and what Carl Gershman has done, is that he
disregarded all manner of subtleties, whereas they used to be a little more
subtle than him.
Still, there is no doubt that the Jewish behavior over the
decades, contributed to the increase of what their leaders call expressions of
anti-Semitism. This being the case, what Gershman has done will undoubtedly add
a great deal more to the resentment that will lead to an increase in acts of
anti-Semitism. And that will be expressed more forcefully than ever before to
match Gershman's forceful assertions.
History being our guide, we cannot ignore the reality that
whenever a new chapter was started concerning the relations between humanity
and the Jews, things quickly escalated till they reached levels that went
beyond comprehension. For this reason, we should expect that if-and-when the
government of Ukraine will seriously start to shove Jewish matters down the
throat of the population, expressions of anti-Semitism in that country will
quickly escalate to reach levels beyond comprehension.
In addition, we must always be aware that the copycat element
exists in all human beings. This is how children learn, a quality we retain
even in old age. What happens with some young people, however, is that they
pick up on the destructive activities of others, and they try to outdo them
just to prove they can do better than someone. That's how expressions of
anti-Semitism can escalate even without being fed additional fuel. But when
someone like Carl Gershman comes along and says the sort of thing he did in the
article; he does the equivalent of pushing the acceleration pedal to maximum
rancor.
In fact, it is already happening that visions are floating about
the day when Holocaust memorials around the world will be turned into sites
that teach visitors: “This happens when someone tries to con the world.” This
being a reversal of what the memorials were meant to teach, the blame for the
turnaround will be directed at the Jewish leaders who clumsily turned the
“never again,” into a “yet again”.