Daniel Ray Spaulding, in a recent Instagram post said that the reason antisemitism is being fomented in the diaspora is to get as many Jews as possible to move to Israel to make it easier to kill as many of us at once. Now that I read your post I see that his post was probably in response to The Guardian article. Maybe?
It's possible -- that was actually one of the early critiques of Zionism from within. If all of the Jews are in one place, it would be easier for our enemies to kill all of us at once.
However, I prefer what my yeshiva boys used to say -- "there is so much antisemitism in the diaspora because the exile is ending, and HaShem wants to bring us all home for the coming of Moshiach."
The data is the data - antisemitism in the diaspora is out of control. But there is more than one way to interpret that data, and I'm still a foolish optimist at the end of the day.
Daniel Ray Spaulding, in a recent Instagram post said that the reason antisemitism is being fomented in the diaspora is to get as many Jews as possible to move to Israel to make it easier to kill as many of us at once. Now that I read your post I see that his post was probably in response to The Guardian article. Maybe?
It's possible -- that was actually one of the early critiques of Zionism from within. If all of the Jews are in one place, it would be easier for our enemies to kill all of us at once.
However, I prefer what my yeshiva boys used to say -- "there is so much antisemitism in the diaspora because the exile is ending, and HaShem wants to bring us all home for the coming of Moshiach."
The data is the data - antisemitism in the diaspora is out of control. But there is more than one way to interpret that data, and I'm still a foolish optimist at the end of the day.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I tend to think like the yeshiva boys as well.
Excellent letter! Succinct and powerful.