{"id":126644,"date":"2025-12-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=126644"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:30:03","slug":"18-09-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=126644","title":{"rendered":"The People of Forever Are Not Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liel Leibovitz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After another massacre, Jews are reminded of a truth our enemies never grasp: History belongs to those who refuse to disappear<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Alex Woz \/ Tablet<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Like so many Jews, I was woken up in the early morning today to news of the massacre in Bondi Beach, Australia. Like so many Jews, I personally knew people who were hurt in the attack. And like so many Jews, I grieved for the victims and raged as public officials who cheered on the policies that made the attack possible rushed to publish sanctimonious denunciations, as if they had failed to understand that the shooting was precisely what was meant by \u201cGlobalize the intifada.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But amid the profound sadness and the righteous indignation, one timeless truth mustn\u2019t be forgotten: We Jews are going to be just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Attack us, as Hamas did Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and you\u2019ll soon discover that Jewish blood is no longer cheap. For more details, kindly consult with Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Nasrallah, or the gentlemen in charge of Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We\u2019ll continue to grow stronger because we draw our courage and our resolve from that ancient covenant that charges us, always and forever, to spread God\u2019s light.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Try to scare us away from being Jewish\u2014as the marauders attempting a pogrom outside Manhattan\u2019s Park East Synagogue did recently, chanting \u201cMake them scared\u201d as they violently harassed Jews attempting to enter the building\u2014and you\u2019ll discover that you\u2019ve accomplished just the opposite. The formerly loosely committed among us are now walking around with enormous Star of David necklaces, and the Simchat Torah Challenge, which encourages Jews to come together and read the weekly Torah portion together, drew tens of thousands of members and is growing exponentially. These are two anecdotes; there are many more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We\u2019ll mourn the dead, we\u2019ll comfort the afflicted, we\u2019ll carry on. It\u2019s been millennia now; we\u2019ve gotten good at it. And we\u2019ll continue to grow stronger because we draw our courage and our resolve from that ancient covenant that charges us, always and forever, to spread God\u2019s light and love to a benighted, blood-soaked world. Our great prophet Micah captured the mission statement perfectly long ago: \u201cThey shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make\u00a0them\u00a0afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken\u00a0it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet, in each generation, some clearly fail to get the memo, believing instead that it\u2019s possible to make them\u2014us, the Jews, and with us, the entire world\u2014afraid by means of brute force. How does that work out? A brief history lesson tells the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rome, the former empire that showed us no mercy, is now a sweaty, smoggy city depending on tourist dollars to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spain, birthplace of the Inquisition, has let in some 600,000 migrants a year since 2022 and now faces the highest unemployment rate on the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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England, having been the first to expel the Jews in 1290, now arrests people for making true statements on social media while turning a blind eye to the mass\u00a0rape<\/a>\u00a0of its own daughters by gangs of vicious migrants slowly devouring the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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France, Germany, Canada, Australia\u2014it\u2019s the same story everywhere you look. A West too weak to define, let alone defend, its own values, and hordes of marauders settling in and reshaping the culture in their violent, hateful image.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So don\u2019t worry about us. Worry about Sydney, Toronto, Paris, and the other former capitals of culture and innovation that are now drowned by waves of angry savages cheering on murder and sowing chaos and violence. Worry about the kind folks in Germany who let in hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of multicultural benevolence, only to be told that they may no longer enjoy their Christmas markets because their new neighbors may feel inclined to blow them up, shoot them up, or ram them with cars. Worry about the politicians who continue to take suicidal symbolic steps, like recognizing \u201cPalestine\u201d or prattling on about \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d even as they drain their nations of their freedoms and securities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Almost immediately after the shooting in Sydney, some on social media took to sharing the famous photograph of a menorah in a window in Kiel, Germany, in 1931, with the Nazi flag hanging from the facade of the party\u2019s regional headquarters across the street. The photo is indeed worth a thousand words: Hanukkah has never been a holiday of passive faith. It commemorates a moment when Jews refused to surrender their identity to those who demanded conformity. Hanukkah teaches that Jewish survival is not rooted in denial of danger, but in the courage to affirm who we are anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nearly a century later, we still light menorahs with joy and conviction, whereas the Nazi flag and those who believed in it are all gone. Nearly a century later, the Jewish state leads the way in everything from innovation to birthrates to happiness, while the birthplace of Goethe and Schiller finds its fertility in free fall, its politics in turmoil, and its future darkened by violent invaders who despise its culture and show it no fealty or gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today\u2019s Nazis will soon meet a similarly grim ending, their green-red-white-and-black flag tossed to the same dustbin of history as the swastika. Let the savages ululate their blood libels as they always have. Let them accuse the Jews of whatever they want. The people of forever aren\u2019t afraid.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Liel Leibovitz<\/strong> is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and the host of its weekly podcast\u00a0Rootless<\/a>\u00a0and its daily Talmud podcast\u00a0Take One<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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