Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of the late Senator/US Attorney General, has long been an anti-vaxxer. What he believes about vaccines is his business. At a recent anti-vaccine rally in DC, he said this: "Even in Hitler's Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did..it was possible (to escape). Many died, true, but it was possible." When I read that, I did not know what to make of it. Is RFK Jr. really that stupid? You could hide in an attic? Anne Frank was murdered by the Nazis, at about age 15. You could cross the Alps? It was possible to escape? How many escaped compared to the 6 million who were murdered in the Holocaust?
Maybe he is just another antisemite, comparing the loss of one's job if not vaccinated to the murder of 6 million Jews. I have previously said that I do not want people losing their jobs over the vaccine mandates. But what kind of comparison is that? Does he not know that his own father was assassinated by a Palestinian terrorist named Sirhan Sirhan, because his father supported the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Did RFK Jr. "inherit" his grandfather Joe's antisemitism?
Kennedy's wife, actress Cheryl Hines, perhaps said it best: "My husband's reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own." Reprehensible indeed. I'll leave it at that.
Al Franken was a United States Senator. In expressing his displeasure recently, at the failure of the Senate to pass Biden's voting legislation, Franken said this: "This is a serious one, and I just think other people are feeling it, it feels like, I don't know, 1933 Germany...And I'm just like, in a tavern, looking over the table and there are guys in black jack boots and Nazi uniforms, and I'm going like, 'Hmm. This looks bad, wonder how bad it can get.'" I know, Franken is Jewish. But it was bad enough when Biden compared those objecting to his voting legislation to George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis. But a Jew goes even further and compares the objection to the rise of Nazism. We are in a world gone mad.
For 18 years there have been weekly protests on Shabbat outside a Jewish synagogue in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The protesters would carry various nasty, antisemitic and anti-Israel signs, such as: "Jewish Power Corrupts," and "Zionists Picnic While Palestinians Starve," and "No More Wars For Israel." To borrow a word from Cheryl Hines, these people and their signs are "reprehensible." It took 18 long years for the Ann Arbor City Council to finally pass a resolution condemning these protests. "The Ann Arbor City Council condemns all forms of antisemitism, and in particular the weekly antisemitic rally on Washtenaw Avenue." The Council went on to "declare its support for the" synagogue.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) just filed a civil rights complaint with the US Department of Education, against the Fairfax County Public Schools. The allegations include students being subjected to "Heil Hitler" salutes, being called "fucking Jew ass whore," fucking Jew," and "dirty Jew," among other antisemitic epithets. In addition, swastikas were seen at school grounds. Various special school related events were held on the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. One school board member is alleged to have made false anti-Israel comments, which would amount to antisemitism.
Here we are in 2022, at a time when racism is roundly condemned (yes, there are fringe idiots who are racists), but antisemitism seems to be alive and well in respected segments of society. And I have not even discussed the antisemites in Congress and in universities and the mainstream media. Author, and TV and radio commentator, Mark Levin, was recently discussing the Wannsee Conference, which was a meeting of German government officials, who were planning to coordinate the carrying out of Hitler's "Final Solution." My point in bringing this up is not to compare Nazi Germany to the USA. I have repeatedly said that the USA is the best country in the world for Jews, outside of Israel.
No, my point is to say that those in attendance at the Wannsee Conference were not only government officials in the most advanced country in Europe, and one of the most advanced in the world, but also to point out that 8 of the 15 in attendance held advanced doctorate degrees. The point is that academia here is not insulated against antisemitism by virtue of having advanced degrees. Often, those with advanced degrees are the worst. The same applies to those in the MSM and even some in Congress - regardless of how "educated" they may be.
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