Why aren't we fighting back against antisemitism?

Dear Editor:

I once had a discussion with someone in the leadership division of Chabad, the world wide Jewish organization.

I asked about Kabala, the Jewish mysticism part of Judaism, which has great powers.

I asked this person, “Why didn’t the Jews familiar with Kabbalah not use it to destroy Hitler in the 1920s after what he said he was going to do to the Jews in Germany?” I didn’t mention the czar or the popes who instigated horrible pogroms against the Jewish people. 

He looked at me and said, “Kabbalah is not used for evil.”

I was shocked at his reply and I said, “Hitler wasn’t evil? He killed 7 million Jews, including 1 1/2 million Jewish children and you don’t consider him evil?”

After I said that he never gave me an explanation that I could fathom and it reminded me of the story of the Warsaw Ghetto when the Jews were preparing to fight the Nazis. This was in 1943 and the Ghetto was established in 1939 and hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been sent to the death camps.

The Jewish leader spoke to the chief rabbi of the Ghetto and urged him to join with the Jews fighting the Nazis. The chief rabbi replied, “I believe in God and God will take care of us.”

I think its unfair to place the responsibility totally on rabbis who have been spending their entire lives studying the Torah and practicing righteousness over evil. But the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, long before they were forced into this tiny enclave and lived on top of each other, were hated by the Catholic Poles long before they were ever hated by Hitler’s killers.

Actually Germany was considered the epitome of civilization of all European nations and see how it degenerated into rank barbarism and horrors.

Can it ever happen in America?

There are enough people in America who hate Jews from the White neo-Nazis and White supremacists to the people that most aided the Black people starting in 1909 with the foundation of the NAACP. Jews have given their treasure and their lives and have been betrayed by the Blacks once they became aware of their political power long before Malcolm X or Louis Farrakan.

Yesterday two synagogues were vandalized in N.Y. state and religious Jews in Brooklyn or New York City were deliberately run over. I saw the video of the attack on TV.

I don’t know the condition of those injured, but when are the Jews going to stop this slaughter time after time?

Do I have solutions? Yes I do and have already told some major Jewish organizations that I can stop all this within three months.

Their response? They would prefer to continue being slaughtered rather than fight back.  

If you were the haters would you stop?

William. J. Levy

Ormond Beach, Fla.