Einstein nailed it when he gave 3 reasons why he was proud to be Jewish
- The Quest of knowledge for its own sake.
- A nearly fanatical love of justice.
- The pursuit of personal independence
These are the motives of the Jewish tradition that makes me feel that my affiliation with the Jewish people has been a gift from the heavens"
John Adams, the second President of the US wrote, “They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this earth. They have influenced the affairs of mankind more than any other nation.”
In 1933, almost half of Berlin’s doctors were Jews. Globally 29% of all Nobel prize winners have been Jews. In Vienna, Freud founded a new way of treating mental disorders and in Switzerland, Einstein reimagined the nature of the universe.
And the success continues - Google, Oracle, and Facebook had Jewish founders. In Hollywood there is Goldwyn, Warner, Fox, and Mayer.
Globally 29% of all Nobel prize winners have been Jews.
In Australia more than 30% of those named in the top 20 richest on Australia’s Rich List, are Jews! The number of Jews in the professions such as law and medicine are disproportionately high.
The numbers
The Global population figures are 5.7 billion people
- 2.3 billion Christians,
- 1.8 billion Muslims,
- 1.1 billion Hindus,
- 500 million Buddhists, and
- 15 million Jews, roughly 0.2% of the global population.
In Australia
Based upon the 2021 Australian Census, the Jewish population in Australia represented approximately 0.46% - 116,967 Jews out of a total population of 25.4 million.
Is it the “success” itself which brings the virus of anti-Semitism?
Antisemitism and genocide
The ultimate goal of anti-Semitism is the elimination of the Jews.
In 1933, Hitler pursued his program to rid the world of the “Jewish pest”, executing his ruthless “final solution” to accomplish the total destruction of the Jewish people. What causes this virus? The “crime” of the Jews was their values and their success.
There has been a global rise in anti-Semitism since 7 October 2023. It is a virus which infects people throughout the world, including in Australia.
According to the 1988 charter of Hamas, Muslims should “Fight Jews and kill them”.
After October 7, a Hamas leader warned, “We will do this again and again”.
In 2001, Ayatollah Khamenei stated, “It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region”.
In 2012, the Iranians chief of staff announced, “The Iranian nation is committed to the full annihilation of Israel”
and in 2021, Iran’s Brigadier said, “We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel. We want to destroy Zionism in the world”.
On October 7 2023 , Hamas carried out the most violent pogrom since the Holocaust. It was the third deadliest terror attack in modern history, murdering more than 1,200 civilian Jews and taking more than 250 hostages back into Gaza, giving rise to the Israel-Hamas war.
After the attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians who were raped, burned alive, tortured, shot and decapitated, the Sydney Opera House (SOH) was illuminated in the colours of the Israeli flag.
However, protesters massed at the SOH, flying Palestinian flags and chanting “Gas the Jews” and “F..k the Jews” (bizarrely interpreted after “careful” investigation by Australia’s enforcement agency as “Where’s the Jews”).
Notably, these protesters were not part of Hamas but were “Innocent Australian Palestinian citizens”!
It was Sydney’s night of shame.
And yet in Israel’s fight against Hamas, there has been no end to accusations of “genocide” by Israel.
After the firebombing of a childcare centre plus many other anti-Semitic incidents, including arson attacks and the targeting of synagogues, restaurants, private homes and vehicles - the Albanese Government has recognised that this virus needs to be eliminated in Australia and has instituted measures to outlaw and eradicate the virus of Antisemitism!
The Jews have Survived and Thrived
- 3,300 years ago, Egypt enslaved the Jews.
- 2,500 years ago, Persia declared genocide but the Jewish people survived and rebuilt the Second Temple.
- 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire crushed Jerusalem, destroyed the Second Temple, slaughtered over a million people and exiled the survivors.
- For 1,300 years, the European Christian Empire persecuted the Jews through pogroms, forced conversions, inquisitions and ghettos but the Jews adapted and survived.
- Despite Hitler’s “final solution”, the 1,000 Year Reich crumbled and
- the Jews emerged and re-established the State of Israel.
After World War II, much of the Islamic world took on the battle against the Jews, but the Jews have prevailed and built an amazing country and democracy in the Middle East that is Israel .
Jews had lived across the Arab and Muslim world for centuries, not as equals, but as “dhimmis”,second-class citizens. When the State of Israel was born, nearly a million Jews were expelled or forced to flee from Arab lands. Jewish communities that had lasted for millennia vanished almost overnight.
The Jews returned home after 2,000 years in exile, not to conquer someone else’s land but to reclaim their own.
They are indigenous to the Land of Israel. Their language was born there. Their ancestors prayed there facing Jerusalem. They did not colonise the land. They revived it.
Today Jews live in a post-October 7 world. It is a world where the Jews are done with apologizing and done with seeking approval. Anti-Semitism did not prevent Jewish success. It caused it.
“Never Again” is not a slogan. It is a doctrine.
Inspired by an article by my friend Mike Lyons
https://mlyons.substack.com/p/the-virus-of-anti-semitism
