Anna posted: " Hanukkah had already passed without me popping in to say hi (even though I meant to, I promise), but this is still a good time to wish everyone a happy holiday season. May our light shine brightly and chase darkness away. Right before and during" Domestic Felicity
Hanukkah had already passed without me popping in to say hi (even though I meant to, I promise), but this is still a good time to wish everyone a happy holiday season. May our light shine brightly and chase darkness away.
Right before and during Hanukkah it became clearer than ever to me that we're dealing with an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. An online author event I was going to participate in was canceled because the organizers were afraid to expose participants to social media trolls. When I started contacting people in the hopes of organizing an alternative event, I discovered some are legitimately afraid to "out" as Jews. There have been other outrageous happenings, like the Zenner club in Berlin refusing to host a Purim party.
It's like a very thin, flimsy cover of civilization and tolerance has been yanked off, and Jew-haters are running in a pack again, this time dressing their antisemitism as "anti-Zionism."
These hateful individuals are forgetting the sad failure of Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, the Inquisition, Nazi Germany, and other nations or movements that tried to erase the Jewish existence or the Jewish spirit. They won't succeed... but it's almost certain they will keep trying.
It also seems that the West is on the brink of much more serious chaos than a few anti-Semitic marches. I won't be surprised if an epic storm of you-kn0w-what might hit the fan in the upcoming years, and we'd all better be prepared. Today, I'm convinced that the survivor won't be the lonely guy with a bunker full of supplies for the next 100 years, but the resilient community of people who help each other out.
Stay safe, my friends. Wishing you all a very happy and successful 2024.
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