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Deuteronomy 23 states: “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.” This appears in the Torah portion Ki Tetze (Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19). Classic Jewish sources treat this as a clear prohibition on deliberate emasculation/castration and on those so affected marrying into the full congregation in the ordinary way; the broader ban on castration (of humans or animals) is reinforced elsewhere (e.g., Leviticus 22:24 and later rabbinic codes such as Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer 5).

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There is a pattern that repeats across regimes, ideologies, and centuries. When a state wants to manage, neutralize, or liquidate a Jewish population that refuses to stay quiet, it rarely does the dirty work alone. It finds—or manufactures—Jews willing to police other Jews. The result is always the same: authentic self-defense is smeared as extremism, radical independence is pathologized, and the institutions that claim to “protect” Jews become the most effective instruments of their pacification.

The Yevsektsiya and the Judenräte were not accidents of history. They were deliberate technologies of control. Look closely at the funding, priorities, and targeting patterns of mainstream Jewish organizations today in the West—especially the United States and Canada—and the resemblance is not subtle. It is structural. The pattern runs from national heavyweights down through regional federations, local community relations councils, and the newer “alliance” networks that present themselves as the bold alternative while quietly preparing to occupy the same institutional space. Against all of them stands the actual vanguard: JDL USA.

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The Soviet Prototype: Yevsektsiya

In 1918 the Bolsheviks created the Yevsektsiya—the Jewish Sections of the Communist Party—with Lenin’s explicit approval. Officially its job was to bring Marxist-Leninist ideology to Yiddish-speaking workers who had remained stubbornly unenthusiastic about the Revolution. In practice it became a Jewish-staffed apparatus for liquidating Jewish collective life that did not serve the Party.

The Yevsektsiya shut down synagogues, confiscated buildings, closed *chadarim* and yeshivot, banned Hebrew as “reactionary,” disrupted Zionist congresses, arrested Zionist leaders, and used the Cheka to smash independent Jewish institutions. Former Bundists and other left-Jewish activists filled its ranks, proving their loyalty by destroying the very culture and national aspirations that had once defined them. By 1930 the sections were dissolved as “no longer needed.” Many of their leaders were later purged and shot. The experiment had served its purpose: the Jewish street had been Bolshevized, Zionism crushed, and traditional Judaism driven underground.

The pattern is clear. A revolutionary regime that viewed Jewish particularism as a threat created an ethnically Jewish bureaucratic organ to enforce assimilation and political conformity from the inside. Jews who insisted on remaining Jews in any meaningful national or religious sense were the enemy. Jews who enforced the Party line were elevated—until they, too, became expendable.

The Nazi Prototype: Judenrat

Reinhard Heydrich’s September 21, 1939 express letter ordered the creation of Jewish Councils (Judenräte) in occupied Poland. These councils were staffed by local Jewish leaders, often pre-war communal figures, and charged with implementing German decrees: registration, forced labor quotas, property confiscation, and eventually the selection of Jews for deportation.

Some council members tried to mitigate suffering, negotiate, or buy time. Others became functionaries of the machinery. The Nazis preferred Jewish intermediaries because they reduced administrative friction, divided communities internally, and provided a useful layer of moral deniability. Resistance organizations that rejected the councils’ authority were treated as threats to “order.” The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not organized by the Judenrat; it was organized against the reality the Judenrat had been forced to administer.

Again the pattern: an occupying power installs or co-opts Jewish leadership structures whose primary function is to keep the population manageable and prevent the emergence of independent, armed self-defense. Collaboration was not always voluntary, but the structural effect was the same—Jewish agency redirected into channels that served the regime’s interests.

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After October 7, any Jew with a functioning survival instinct should have understood one basic truth: organized Jewish self-defense is not optional. Yet large numbers of American Jews- especially the more white-assimilated ones - still treat the Jewish Defense League USA like we're radioactive.

They call us extreme. They call us racist. They tear down our stickers and post online about how we somehow “make Jews look bad.” Meanwhile, serious Jews are writing us daily, thanking us for making Jews look better. At the same time, the liberals chase soft alliances and “dialogue” with people whose movement cheered the rape, burning, and slaughter of Jews.

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What are they actually afraid of?

The other side includes people who literally worship the ones who burned and raped us. Their project is the elimination of Jewish sovereignty and, in many cases, of Jews themselves. In that reality, teaching Jews how to defend themselves, demanding Jewish pride, and insisting on serious engagement with the Torah is labeled “too extreme.” That is not moderation. That is pure cowardice dressed up as “respectability”.

JDL USA has committed no crimes. We are also completely open about our beliefs. This iteration of JDL is headed by a Black Jewish woman—possibly the only Jewish organization in America currently or ever led by a Black Jewish woman. Yet white-skinned, highly assimilated Jews still brand us racist while they chase fairy-tale “two-state solutions” with those who want us gone.

They have absorbed so much of the surrounding culture’s “white guilt” reflex that they treat Jewish self-assertion as the greater threat. They accept the racialization of Jews pushed by the Palestinianist side and by actual neo-Nazis instead of rejecting it outright. Jews are not a race. We are an ethno-religious people. In the words of Rabbi Meir Kahane: “Being Jewish is the best, but anybody can become Jewish.” There is no racial bar and no racial hierarchy. A convert is 100% a Jew. Full stop.

Contrast that with the actual treatment of Black people in much of the Arab world. Regardless of whatever interpretations apologists offer of Islamic texts, the hard fact remains: Africans are still held as slaves today in multiple Arab countries. In Gaza itself, Black Palestinians are confined to a specific neighborhood known as Al-Abeed - “the slaves.” That is the reality of the societies some Jews are so eager to make peace with while they smear the only group openly training Jews to protect themselves.

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In Jewish tradition, Lashon Hara—the evil tongue—is a grave prohibition. It is forbidden to speak negatively about another Jew, even when the words are true, if the speech serves no constructive purpose. The Chofetz Chaim codified this with precision in Sefer Chafetz Chaim, rooted in the Torah’s command “Lo telech rachil b’ameicha” (“Do not go about as a talebearer among your people”—Leviticus 19:16). Yet the very same verse continues: “Lo ta’amod al dam re’echa”—“Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.” Silence in the face of danger is not piety. It’s complicity.

The Seven Conditions for Permitted Speech (L’Toeles)

The Chofetz Chaim is clear: negative speech is permitted—and often required—when it serves a genuine constructive purpose (toeles). The conditions (from Hilchot Lashon Hara, chapter 10) are strict:

1. The speaker must have firsthand knowledge or thoroughly verify the facts. Rumor is worthless.

2. The matter must be an objective wrongdoing, deception, or danger under halakha—not a matter of taste, aesthetics, or personal preference.

3. The speaker must first confront the person privately and attempt genuine rebuke.

4. No exaggeration.

5. Pure intention: to protect the community, force accountability, or stop further damage—not to score points or revel in someone’s fall.

6. No other effective way to achieve the purpose.

7. The damage inflicted must not exceed what a Beit Din would properly impose.

When these conditions are met, the speech is no longer Lashon Hara. When Jews are being deceived, when trust and resources meant for Jewish survival are diverted, remaining silent violates “Lo ta’amod al dam re’echa.” At that point, warning the public is not gossip. It’s a solemn duty.

How the Jewish Defense League USA Applies These Standards

The Jewish Defense League has been accused of Lashon Hara for exposing certain Jewish organizations and individuals whose actions undermine Jewish security, the defense of Israel, or the integrity of the Jewish people. We wholly reject this false charge. The facts meet the halakhic standard.

We never rush to publicize. We make contact. We seek clarification. We offer the chance to correct course. Only when that effort is met with doubling down, open malice, stonewalling, or deliberate blocking do we conclude that private resolution has failed. We even usually give a few extra attempts at amicable contact.

Then the responsibility shifts. A large portion of the Jewish public respects the JDL name and turns to us for information that polite, politically correct sources will not touch.

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Imagine you and your friends love to play a game, but you have different ideas about the best way to play it.

A long time ago, a group of Jewish people called Hasidim decided they wanted to pray and show their love for God in a very happy, emotional way. They liked to sing loudly, dance, and focus on feeling close to God with their hearts.

Another group of Jewish people looked at this and said, "Wait a minute, we don't think that is the right way." They believed the most important way to show love for God was to sit down, be quiet, and study holy books very deeply with their brains.

Because they disagreed, people called them the Misnagdim, which is a big word that simply means "The People Who Disagree" or "The Opposers."

So, a Misnagid is someone who prefers to focus on quiet studying and following the rules exactly, rather than the loud singing and dancing.

Today, both groups get along much better, but back then, it was just a big disagreement about whether it is better to serve God mostly with a happy, dancing heart or a deep, thinking brain!

The leader who started the Misnagdim group was a very famous and smart rabbi named Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman. Because he was so wise, everyone called him the Vilna Gaon, which means the “Genius of Vilna” (the city where he lived).

He was so dedicated to studying that stories say he only slept for two hours a night so he wouldn’t waste any time!

How They Study Holy Books Today:

The Vilna Gaon taught his students a special way to learn that people still use right now:

The Main Book:They spend most of their time studying a massive library of Jewish law and stories called the Talmud.

The Study Partner: Instead of studying alone, they sit across from a partner called a chavrusa.

The Loud Classroom: They study in a giant room filled with hundreds of people called a Beis Medrash. It is not quiet like a school library! Everyone is talking, arguing, and debating the books out loud with their partners.

Brain Power: They focus on logic and memory, trying to understand every single rule perfectly.

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Labor Day Weekend. Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. We will be there. Proud. Defiant. Unapologetic.

Gather at 3:30pm on MLK Jr. Drive on the 4th.

Plans for the following days will be discussed at the protest.

Jews of America — and every person who still knows the difference between freedom and the boot of socialism —

Hasan Piker is speaking at Socialism 2026, September 4–7, at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago. The conference platforms open hostility toward Jews, Zionism, and the American way of life.

Piker has made statements that target American Jews, saying that if we don't stop expressing support for Israel, that “Someone is going to come along and take action, not against the Israeli State mind you, but against the American Jews”.

We take those words seriously. History has taught us what happens when threats are ignored.

JDL USA & friends will be outside that hotel.

This is a call to every Jew who still has fire in their blood.

This is a call to every patriotic American who rejects communism, socialism, and those who romanticize them while pointing fingers at Jews.

We will stand under the Israeli and American flags.

We will make it clear: Jew haters out.

We will be PROUD AND DEFIANT.

Never Again is not a slogan for museums.

It is a living command.

If you are Jewish and tired of watching antisemites celebrated on the left, come.

If you are not Jewish but refuse to let socialists normalize hatred of Jews, come.

If you believe America and Israel both deserve defenders, come.

Bring your pride.

Bring your voice.

Bring your presence.

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Sami Steigmann’s Story

Steigmann, born in 1939 in Czernowitz (then Romania, now Ukraine), was deported as a toddler with his parents to a Nazi labor camp in the Transnistria region (Mogilev-Podolsky). Too young to work, he was subjected to medical experiments that left him with lifelong chronic pain in his head, neck, and back. He credits his survival to simple luck and never being separated from his parents. During two years in the former Soviet Union, a German woman risked everything by providing milk and food that helped keep him alive.

He later emigrated to Israel, served as a mechanic in the Israeli Air Force, and has spent decades as a motivational speaker educating audiences about the Holocaust, hope, and the dangers of hatred. In the video he reflects on the rising antisemitism he witnesses today—especially on American campuses—and says he never imagined he would see such things again in his lifetime. He remains an optimist, expressing belief that peace in the Middle East will eventually come, and notes the profound moment of seeing a Jewish policeman upon arriving in Israel after the war, which made him feel truly at home.

Yoni Diller’s Story

Diller recounts the chaos of the Nova Festival attack. He realized something was wrong when he saw a young woman named Shani wounded by gunfire. She and others had taken refuge in an ambulance; most were killed when a Hamas terrorist fired an RPG at the vehicle. Diller and friends then fled on foot through the desert for roughly five hours with no food or water. He still carries vivid memories and nightmares of that day, particularly of Shani.

Shared Reflections

Both men speak about the psychological aftermath- nightmares that persist years (or decades) later. Steigmann emphasizes that survival in extreme circumstances almost always comes down to luck, and that the responsibility to prevent future tragedies falls to the next generations. The two survivors note how much they have in common despite the vast difference in their ages and the specific horrors they endured. They end on a note of mutual respect and cautious hope.

The video’s power lies in its rawness. It is not a formal lecture or polished documentary, but a conversation between two men who lived through attempts to erase Jewish life- one under the Nazis in Europe, the other under Hamas in Israel -and who refuse to let those experiences define them solely as victims. Steigmann’s broader public comments (including statements that the deliberate, recorded brutality of October 7 exceeded even the Nazis) underscore the video’s urgency.

In an era when Holocaust memory is fading and October 7 denial or minimization circulates, this dialogue serves as living testimony. It reminds viewers that “Never Again” is not a slogan frozen in the past: it’s a present-tense responsibility carried by survivors of both eras, and by all who listen to them.

Remember this man's voice and his harrowing warning: “EVEN THE NAZIS WERE NOT THAT BRUTAL”.

Every time you see a pro Palestine activist (aka Hamas supporter), remember that they are far worse than the idiotic racists who try to be edgy and praise Hitler to piss off people, not only because they're more likely to get into power, but because their brand of sick brutality has been thus far unparalleled in modern history.

Treat them as such…

NEVER FORGET.

NEVER FORGIVE.

NEVER AGAIN.

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Just like Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, the socialists did not take over that exact night but they made a brutal and lasting psychological impact on the political discourse.

Unlike Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, according to multiple contemporaneous reports (including statements from Detroit Police Department spokesman Jordan Hall), police investigated the December 16, 2023 incident at the Common Pub, but no arrests were made of the pro-Palestine protesters (or anyone else) in connection with the subsequent disruption and brawl. This is what makes this event even more disturbing: It was much more successful in establishing dominance early on than Hitler's event.

The 13th Congressional District Democratic Party’s annual Christmas gathering drew roughly 200 attendees, including U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar. Shortly after Thanedar began speaking, 20–30 protesters from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation stormed in, chanting and confronting him over his refusal to abandon Israel. When party-goers pushed back, the scene exploded into shoving, punches, and bloodshed. Protesters pounded on the windows after being forced outside.

Black Democratic activist Bobbie Avington-Smith (also known as Bobbie Avington-Johnson) was left with two black eyes and a bloodied face. She required hospitalization. Still bleeding, she went live on Instagram and delivered a raw, unfiltered warning:

“The Arabs attacked me. They tried to kill me. They talkin’ about ceasefire. They tried to kill me. Them Arabs in motherf--kin’ Detroit tried to kill me.

I need true Black men to stand the f--k up. It’s a boycott on Arabs. It’s a boycott on them. It’s time. It’s motherf--kin’ time. They came in here and busted me in my head.”

The video, amplified by social media accounts including 5luckyfingers on X under the caption “THE ARABS ARE COMING,” captured the moment the new rules of engagement were announced.

It is no coincidence that the politician whose event was targeted is of Indian descent. Rep. Shri Thanedar was born in India and is Hindu. In the ideological ecosystem of Islamic activists and far-left socialists, Hindu national identity and Zionism are routinely treated as twin evils. Progressive and pro-Palestine literature, campus materials, and protest rhetoric repeatedly frame Hindutva (Hindu religious nationalism) as the Indian equivalent of Zionism—an “unholy alliance,” “ideological cousins,” or parallel ethno-nationalist projects rooted in the same “supremacist” logic.

Signs, zines, and chants equating the two have appeared at protests and events in recent years, casting any Hindu who refuses to denounce Israel’s existence as complicit in the same alleged crime. Targeting a Hindu Democrat who would not abandon Israel fit the pattern perfectly: the same forces that demand Jews renounce Zionism demand Hindus renounce any form of national self-assertion that stands in their way.

The Shockwave Strategy

This was not merely a protest that got out of hand. It was a calculated demonstration of force. By invading a private Democratic event, assaulting attendees, and terrorizing a Black Democratic party activist who refused to submit, the far-left socialists sent an unmistakable message to the broader Democratic base: Denounce Israel’s existence, or face violence in your own spaces.

The tactic worked. Overnight, mainstream liberals who had previously treated the “Free Palestine” movement as a fringe campus phenomenon understood the new reality. Ignore the maximalist demands- deny Israel’s right to exist, treat Zionism as racism, treat Jewish self-defense as aggression- and the socialists will physically bring the fight into your fundraisers, holiday parties, and local meetings.

The fear that followed was not abstract. It was the emotional response of people who watched a bloodied black woman broadcast the consequences of non-compliance.

What began in Detroit has since been repeated nationwide: disruptions of Democratic events, harassment of pro-Israel candidates and staffers, campus and street intimidation campaigns, and the systematic targeting of anyone who will not fully denounce Israel’s existence. The pattern is consistent. The goal is not dialogue. The goal is dominance through fear. This is Maoism in action.

Equal Measures Are Required

The socialists who staged the Detroit action understand power. They understand that one night of successful intimidation can reshape a party’s internal culture for years. They will not be talked out of their strategy with appeals to civility or coalition unity.

Equal measures are therefore required. That means organized, disciplined, and unapologetic counter-pressure: showing up at their events, documenting and publicizing every act of intimidation, defending strong Jewish and pro-Israel voices without apology, and refusing to cede any public or private space to those who treat Jewish national existence as negotiable or a crime. It means building parallel institutions, political muscle, and cultural confidence strong enough to make the cost of further Beer Hall tactics higher than the benefit.

The night Bobbie Avington-Smith was bloodied in Detroit was not an isolated brawl. It was the opening move in an open struggle for control of the Democratic Party, and through that, America as a whole. Those who value Jewish safety, Western traditional norms, and the right of Israel to exist cannot afford to treat it as anything less. The socialists already know what they are doing. The only remaining question is whether the rest of us will match their seriousness.

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We have been patient too long. We talked peace, shook hands, and hoped for better days while they kept burying our people. That time is now finished.

The Islamic Umma has been at war with us for years—bombs, knives, rockets, mass rape, the deliberate slaughter of families, what can only be called kinocide. They do not negotiate. They attack. So we had best stop pretending.

We of the JDL declare a Cold War between the West and the Islamic Umma.

Understand what that means on our side. It is a cultural blockade and an economic one. From this hour we no longer treat any part of the Umma as allies or friends. No more open doors. No more shared stages. No more assuming good faith. The gate is closed.

And it goes further. No one should give their money to stores, companies, or products run by members of the Umma or those who support them, including white supremacists & neo-nazis.

A full boycott of all output by the Umma begins now across the West. We know it will be difficult—supply chains are often hidden, and so much production is controlled by China, which indirectly props up parts of the Umma. Still, we will do everything within our power and ability to cut off funding to those who wish our demise and influence the culture to do the same.

At the same time, JDL USA and our supporters will begin a buycott. We will put our money ONLY behind pro-Jewish and pro-Western products, services, companies, and cultural output—media, music, art. Now is the time for a revival of our own traditions and a clear rejection of the invading worldview that seeks to replace us all with backwards people subservient to an evil ideology.

Any sect or faction inside the Umma that stands up and completely denounces the Neo-Nazi ideology known as Palestinianism and completely denounces terroristic jihad in every form… they may step forward.

If such a group exists, let them come into the light and say it. Let them speak without fear of the terrorists who will brand them traitors. We will listen and judge by their actions, not only their words.

But if no one steps up—if silence is all we hear—then we know what that silence means. You are with the terrorists. If you will not pledge to join the fight against them, we will treat you as part of the threat.

We Jews have been the special target for generations. Pogroms, intifadas, the same ancient hatred dressed in new clothes. But it is not only us. Look to the Christians driven from their homes and churches in Africa and the Middle East. Look to Hindus slaughtered in their temples. Look to every free people who still want to raise their children without brutal sadistic religious totalitarianism.

This is not a Jewish fight alone. It is the fight of every non-Muslim who refuses to kneel. Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, ordinary men and women who still believe life and freedom matter, stand with us. The Umma has made itself the enemy of the free world. It's high time the free world answered as one.

And don't think we have forgotten about the Leftists who have facilitated the invasion of the West. They foolishly believe that the alligator will eat them last, and, much like the Leftists who helped the Islamic militants rise to power in Iran, they too will be slaughtered en masse if our side loses. Their suicidal empathy and hatred of the West and their egregious misunderstanding of what is “capitalism” has warped their minds beyond repair. Therefore, they are also considered enemies in this Cold War and shall be boycotted, shamed and opposed at every opportunity.

We do not want their land or their holy places. They, however, are willing to kill for ours. We want the end of the lie that we can live side by side with absolutely savage chauvinists while they keep raping, brutalizing and killing. From this day we stay awake. We prepare. We answer force with force when we must.

The Cold War begins now. It will not end until the threat is over.

Stand with us—or step aside and wait for them to come for you next…

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Mark your calendar early for Yom Hakahal (Day of the Gathering), taking place Sunday, March 21, 2027 (12 Adar II 5787), from 3–5 PM.

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Presented by Jewish Panthers and HaMakavi Barzel, this upcoming gathering will commemorate Yom Nicanor (13 Adar II), the ancient day remembering Judah Maccabee’s victory over the Seleucid general Nicanor in 161 BCE. The event will bring people together around Jewish history, heritage, pride, observance, and community.

The afternoon will feature Jewish literature, kosher refreshments, and a community vigil with Psalm reading, along with a discussion of Rabbi Kahane’s Five Principles: Ahavat Yisrael, Hadar, Barzel, Mishmaat, and Bitachon and a discussion about Jewish warriors throughout history.

The physical location is TBA, with a livestream available for remote participation in the event and discussions.

Space will be limited, so those interested are encouraged to keep the date open and watch for additional details.

Yom Hakahal 2027 — Sunday, March 21, 2027, 3–5 PM.

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The Kotzker Rebbe left behind no written books, preferring radical truth, deep introspection, and spoken wisdom recorded by his followers. His perspective on the transition of death aligns with core Hasidic ideas reframed through his unsparing, honest lens:

The Next Room: Death is merely a doorway between spaces, implying that the spiritual home we build here prepares us for the next room.

Ego Even at the End: True to his relentless fight against pretense, tradition records warnings that even on one's deathbed, the human ego (the internal thief) tries to orchestrate a holy exit—such as reciting final prayers loudly just to be remembered as a saint.

The Broken Heart: While speaking of the human condition and the pain of loss, he taught that “there is nothing so whole as a broken heart,” acknowledging that fully enduring the pain and fractures of life is the only authentic way to approach the Divine.

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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel viewed death not as an absolute defeat, but as the ultimate self-dedication to the divine, an act of gratitude, and a mirror that gives true meaning to human life. His reflections emphasize living with wonder and treating mortality as a reciprocal offering to God for the gift of existence.

Death as Self-Dedication:

Heschel viewed death as a profound act of gratitude and reciprocity for the gift of life, framing it as the ultimate giving of oneself back to the divine. He argued that life’s meaning is only fully understood in the context of mortality. He also famously suggested that "one ceases to live when they lose their sense of surprise", noting his own daily wonder at the sunshine.

Rather than a defeat, he regarded death as an arrival or conclusion that reflects how one has lived.

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Calling the Western pro-Palestine crowd “Jew-haters” or “antisemites” is a waste of breath. It doesn’t land. It doesn’t stick. The reason is simple, they don’t even fully understand what a Jew is. What they really hate is Judaism.

Most of them do not hold an ethnic view of Jews as inherently inferior the way large segments of the Arab world historically and currently do. They are not operating from classical racial hierarchy in that sense. Instead they gaslight you with the classic line, “Oh I don’t hate Jewish people, see, my friend here is a Jew and she hates Israel.” Smile, nod, moral high ground claimed. Conversation over, in their feeble minds.

I don’t mince words. I tell them directly: you hate Judaism. They can’t really argue with that, because it is true and it cuts through the fog. They are products of a triangular brainwash I break down in my new book The Führer’s New Clothes. They have been trained to reject all tradition, embrace the new ethos, and treat anyone who refuses that narrative as the enemy. Racism is officially the ultimate bad guy in their moral universe, so even when racist feelings sit in their hearts they cannot connect those feelings to their actual behavior. They want to believe they are fighting racism, even while they single out the one ethnoreligious group that has been the historic target of actual white supremacists.

There are vanishingly few old-school white supremacists left with any real power. Hell, there's not even that many white people anymore. So the only visible demographic still somewhat maintaining their traditions, practicing general endogamy, and generally not ashamed of their Nation had to be recast as the new white supremacists. Never mind that most Jews are not white in almost any definition of the term. The inversion is the point.

These people don't hate that you're a Jew, they hate that you're Jewish.

In the Socialist worldview it is acceptable for one to be a Jew, at least for the time being, as long as they don't put too much stock in it, but it's not acceptable to live as a Jew.

That is why it is frankly more accurate, and more effective, to call them neo-Nazis than Jew-haters.

To the untrained ear the two labels may sound interchangeable. They are not. The original Nazis operated under a specific aesthetic, specific slogans, and a coherent worldview. The modern version has a different aesthetic and different slogans, and a somewhat incoherent worldview but the totalitarian approach is exactly the same.

You see, the basis of national socialism is not just being racist but it’s an entire world view which views the individual as a product of his Nation, which in national socialism is defined as the person’s race. This is different from fascism where the individual is viewed as a product of the state and all things are within the state. In national socialism, the system of socialism is only a temporary means to accomplish the goals of enforcing the racial hierarchy. Sound familiar?

This is again why we say that the DSA are neo-Nazis. To DSA types, Socialism is only a temporary means to accomplish the goal of enforcing the racial hierarchy that the DSA believes in. The only thing is it’s a hierarchy in a different order than the original Nazis, but a hierarchy all the same. The end goal, per DSA literature and responsa, is stated as full communism, which is an admittance that they are using socialism as a temporary means. And of course let’s not forget that every element of DSA thought is steeped in racial hierarchy, with a goal to invert the perceived white supremacist system that is portrayed in Critical Race Theory.

Keep in mind CRT has no awareness of biology, much like the transgender movement, so they have created their racial hierarchy based primarily off of skin color and lifestyle rather than actual racial background. Meaning, someone who is not racially white but has light skin and is somewhat assimilated into Western culture will be generally considered white in CRT, whereas traditional white supremacists would have considered that person a minority and of a lower status regardless of self identification. The new Whites, regardless of their very recent induction into the White race, are still considered responsible for all of history’s past societal ills done by white racists. The Fourth Reich will be like the Third Reich, but upside down. They’re weird neo-Nazis, not regular Jew haters.

Yes they hate 95 percent of Jews, so they do qualify as Jew haters, but that won’t resonate in their minds because they don’t fully understand what Jew hate is because they don’t understand what it means to be a Jew. Rather than viewing Zionism as a sacred Jewish tradition being expressed in a modern political sphere, they just view it as a general tradition. It’s just something that’s old and everything old is bad. This is the reason why they also hate Christians. Islam is the newest of the three major world religions, so, for now at least, they deem that one acceptable because it's revolutionary in its claim of abrogating all past texts. You see, they dovetail with the Muslims in believing that the eternal sometimes needs to be rewritten.

These are the next generation of yippies who believe that the true revolution begins when you kill your parents. Things that are new are considered good. If we could just convince them that some type of futuristic Zionism was the cool new thing then they would all follow that like zombies instead. All jokes aside, the reality is that these people hate tradition and ours is the oldest and longest standing tradition and therefore it’s the biggest target.

The national socialists of the Third Reich also believed themselves to be revolutionaries. They were not conservatives or traditionalists although they invoked radical traditionalism as an aesthetic, they were not living traditional lifestyles. Much like the DSA, the original Nazis were often found cavorting in women’s clothing, doing drugs, etc.

Here’s the interesting part. They all identify themselves as anti-fascist because they think Mussolini was a bad guy. Yet they embrace and echo so much of classical Roman fascism. Look at the pain these pro-Palestine activists inflict, many of them members of DSA and JVP and similar organizations. They smash up synagogues, vandalize Jewish property, businesses, and college campuses. Compare that to the Romans sacking the Temple, the Nazis dispossessing Jews and other enemies of the state, and the Soviet shakedowns of anyone labeled an enemy of the people. Same pattern, different slogans. Destroy the sacred spaces, seize or wreck the property, declare the targets enemies of the new order, whatever that order is this year.

So let’s stop calling them antisemites, which is a German based word that was made as a polite replacement for judenhass, Jew hate, and which we should stop using in general, but call them what they truly are: neo-Nazis.

They hate Jewish tradition, they hate traditional Judaism, and much like other historical religiously based Jew hate, they will overlook their hatred once the Jew submits and joins their cult, even if under threat of death.

These are not the old Nazis. This demon is trying to usurp all of humanity in its vision, not just a specific “Master Race”. Rather than gassing Jews like the original Nazis did, they have developed a method of sublimating the Jews. The Jews themselves become the gas, without first having to melt. Psychologically speaking, it's a twisted version of a subconscious defense mechanism that transforms “socially unacceptable” impulses into “socially acceptable” actions, which in normal psychology would actually be a good and potentially productive thing. The issue is, we're talking about a sadistic Neo-Nazi cult which has attempted to normalize terroristic violence, including mass rape and mutilation of your perceived enemy class including minors, painting this as a socially “acceptable concept” and defense of tradition and rule of law into a “socially unacceptable” concept.

The old Nazis created the word anti-Semite even though there was no such thing as a Semite and it applied to them because they also believed that they were Aryans. These neo-Nazis however do not embrace an aesthetic of Aryanism but rather an aesthetic of Bolshevism. Many of them will even admit that they are national Bolsheviks or at least sympathetic to Strasserism.

So let’s stop calling them antisemites, because we are not “Semites” and they believe that they support some imaginary “Semites” in the form of Arabs who identify as “Palestinians”. Let’s stop calling them Jew haters because they love Jews who will grovel before them and submit to their will. Is a dominatrix a “slave hater”? No, they have a perverse mutually abusive relationship. And that’s what we see here.

Back in the day of the original Nazis there were sell-out Jews who would work with the Nazis to inform on other Jews if they thought that it would help them personally survive and we’re seeing it again. So don’t let them walk away smug saying “I’m not an antisemite hahaha those people don’t know what they’re talking about!” Hit them with the truth where it hurts. They hate JUDAISM and they are the new Nazis.

Look at “Jewish” Voice for Peace. JVP is the modern day Judenräte working for the socialists who now call themselves DSA rather than NSDAP. They are the Group 13 of America.

ICYMI: In World War II the Judenräte were the Jewish councils the Nazis forced into existence inside the ghettos. Their job was to administer the Jewish population under Nazi orders, compile lists, organize labor, and ultimately help select who would be deported to the death camps. Group 13 was even worse, a notorious Jewish collaborationist unit in the Warsaw Ghetto that operated as a kind of Jewish Gestapo, running extortion, black market schemes, and actively assisting the Germans against their own people. Today JVP plays the same role for the new socialists. They provide the Jewish faces, the moral cover, and the internal sabotage so the DSA and its allies can attack Judaism while claiming they don't hate Jews.

Their anti-Zionist DSA viewpoint is potentially more destructive than just old-fashioned Jew hate, because it does have the veneer of trying to be some type of humanitarian movement. Most people think of Nazis and think of violence and killing and death, yes, but those things are also associated with communism. The thing that really sticks in their mind is the racism. So since they’re not outwardly racist, they can comfortably think in their head that they’re opponents of the Nazis, which to them is essentially interchangeable with racists.

It is worse than previous incarnations of regular Jew hate for another reason too, it deliberately tokenizes people with one Jewish parent or some nominal Jewish background and weaponizes them against their own relatives. This is kinocide in practice, a purposeful attempt to destroy family units, the same strategy we see from Hamas. Turn the child against the parent, the sibling against the sibling, the “half-Jews” and apostates against the fully committed Jews, and you fracture the people from the inside while claiming moral high ground.

They hate Judaism. Therefore they are our enemies. We are the Jewish Defense League, not the Jew Defense League. We defend Judaism, not just Jews. This distinction is important because many times the Jewish Defense League has had problems with people who are Jews or identify as Jews at least, and some people misunderstand thinking that we’re supposed to just jump in and defend every action by every Jew in the world whether it goes along with Jewish values or not. We defend Judaism, Jewish tradition, Jewish values, not individual people in their various sinful ways.

This is why the JDL is the enemy of the DSA and JVP and vice versa and always will be. Even if the DSA over time had their membership become 100 percent anti-Zionist Jews, they would still be our enemy because they oppose Judaism. From the outside it may seem confusing and you may not know who’s Jewing who anymore, but from where we stand it’s pretty cut and dry, pretty black and white.

Rabbi Kahane did not teach ethno-racial supremacy, he taught Torah. We’re not going to back you up just cause you have some Jewish blood. You don't get to use our heritage as a weapon to attack our peoplehood and traditions.

A person who converted today is more Jewish than an anti-Zionist DSA or JVP member who came from a long line of rabbis, because Judaism is not a race, but a relationship with the Creator. As an aside we should mention how the majority of these JVP/DSA types who identify as Jewish are not considered Jewish by most Jewish denominations, but that's another discussion altogether.

Do not waste endless hours debating these people. Know that they are often violent. Once you reach the point where the contradictions in their worldview become undeniable, their brains short-circuit and the mask slips. Online, name them accurately, neo-Nazis who hate Jewish tradition. In the street, be ready to defend yourself and your people. No apologies. No retreat.

Am Yisrael Chai.

Naamah Devine

National Director, Jewish Defense League USA

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