GROWING UP WITH McCARTHY
One of my earliest recollections of the McCarthy era was an FBI raid on the Jewish Day School that I attended. On the front wall of our classroom hung two photos of famous Yiddish writers;
The teacher was arrested for displaying photos of Lenin and Stalin in a public area. Lenin and Stalin? Or was it Stalin and Trotsky? And if so, why would the two mortal enemies of each other be hanging on the same wall? We learned at an early age that FBI agents were STUPID!
THE IRONY OF IT ALL
But, maybe not…. both of these writers were ‘subversive’ in their own rite. I want to say a bit about particular book that was written by Shalom Aleichem, Tevya The Milkman. The book was the inspiration for the Broadway Play and film known as Fiddler On The Roof.
The film was aired on an Israeli cable TV station last night. I had never seen it before and was genuinely shocked at the content. It was as if I was watching a documentary of present day Palestine. Aside from the religious decrees forbidding the socialising between a Jewish girl and a non Jewish man, there was the Nakba in full living colour.
Here is an image from the Play of Jews being expelled from their homes and village by the Tsarist forces….
Here is one of Palestinians being expelled from their homes and village by the zionist forces…. (descendants of those very Jews depicted in the first photo) …. taken from real life, not from a play
McCARTHYISM RESURFACES ITS UGLY FACE IN ISRAEL
Was nothing learned from the humanistic writings of the two mentioned above? Was nothing learned from the suffering inflicted on the Jews of Eastern Europe?? Was it nothing but a training session on how to inflict similar suffering on others???
The present day racism in Israel has become a way of life for too much of the population.
Dissent against the hatred in Israel is punishable by prison. Speaking out against Apartheid or supporting a Boycott is a crime. A return to McCarthyism?
Ironic? Worse than that!!
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January 1, 2011 at 13:36
Laughably -the premise of this article is that there should be some sense of fairness or fair-play in the world. Or perhaps the premise is that those who suffer the wrath of injustice at the hands of others should simply wail about it, in order that this might somehow relieve their suffering? OMFG!
Either way, those who labor under such premises -will all too soon come to realize -how short life really is -while they wait in vain for some positive result.
The increasing over-population of the world is going to cause a great many more ethnic-cleansing-driven mass exoduses as tensions rise and ethnic hatred spreads envy and greed about habitable land.
Romeo, Romeo! Where for art thou? I grow hornier and hornier in my menstruous cycle and want to get with child fast! It is like a plague upon me, Romeo! Oh, Romeo!
Gentrification is what they almost-clinically call it here in the US, as whole swaths of peoples are moved wholesale out of urban neighborhoods by rising housing prices and property taxes that drive the poor folk to ruin.
You can blame it just as much on that lazy, horny SOB Romeo too.
And again it has been called white-flight as throngs of the more swarthy folks invade the suburbs surrounding our American cities. Yikes! Look who’s coming to dinner! Why, it’s Amos and Andy!
It is violent here in the U.S.?
You can bet your life it is violent here in the U.S.
Does it often look like a scene out of the Hollywood movie The Grapes of Wrath? Only rarely does it. But the effect is just the same.
Today the minions of people-producers mindlessly talk about Peak Oil, the price of Gold and the collapse of the economy. These are trivialities.
All the while the push for growth in the economy is guarantying the day Peak Population will be brought upon us -and all the boner-headed Romeos in the world are left howling like alley cats and fighting like dogs.
It will be much worse than hell on earth long before then.
Just look in the picture above, and you’ll see that.
No, life is not fair.
And no, there is no such thing as fair-play.
And more-so, the guy who wrote that play about fairness in the world -Romeo and Juliet- he only made something we should recognize as being exactly like TV.
And TV is not real, Beaver Cleaver.