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Since the Holocaust, American Jews’ collective cry has been: Don’t let history be repeated. That starts with zero tolerance for inflammatory speech. Trump’s campaign is made of little else.

ed note–but as you read this, remember 2 things–

A. It’s all ‘a hoax’, and we know this because some really smart self-appointed ‘experts’ in this movement say so. Some of them also say that Putin is ‘secretly working for the Jews’ and that the real cabal controlling everything are the Jesuits.

and–

B. Jews–as we are told all the time from organized Jewish groups such as the ADL, etc–despite their overwhelming power within the mainstream media in America, play no disproportionate role in American politics. Nor do they try to control the political process in America through the process of media-induced brainwashing, and anyone who says the opposite is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.

Haaretz

What did we see when thousands of Donald Trump supporters obediently raised their right arms high in the air to pledge support for him? It’s unlikely that many American Jewish voters saw that as just another election rally scene. The visual echoes were visceral, immediate and repellant.

More than any theological belief, the one shared value that has characterized the American-Jewish worldview of the 20th and 21st centuries is ‘Never Again.’

The historical imperative to never repeat the Holocaust has served as a core component of the education of American Jewish youth for three generations. We visit Holocaust museums and memorials and some – actual death camps. It seems as if half of our Jewish education is devoted to text and traditions; the other half to bearing witness to our recent collective trauma, vowing communally that never again will we fall victim to persecution, never again will we allow such evil to take root.

But when does ‘Never Again’ start?

That’s the challenge of extracting lessons from the Holocaust and proposing contemporary parallels: You can’t judge backwards, when the cattle cars are already running. You have to look to the roots, to the foundation that allowed a destructive system to grow. But if the roots, nourished by fear and prejudice, are already established, it’s too late. You have to look back further and identify the seed that sprouted those rotten roots.

Language is the seed, and “Never Again” begins with zero tolerance of inflammatory speech. Symbols, gestures and images matter, too – they are the precursors of action. So while an impromptu rally pledge can’t be blown up to suggest an American Reich is imminent, our history tells us that when paired with demagogic rhetoric, it’s not harmless either – and can’t be ignored.  

Our Holocaust education touches on the social circumstances in which a vulnerable Germany was manipulated into becoming a murderous nation. But in most of our conversations and depictions, we tend to focus on the blaze of the Final Solution, rather than on the small, early sparks that ultimately caught fire. We say “Never Again” when we look at Auschwitz, but perhaps we have not paid enough attention to the first incendiary speeches that set it all into motion.

When language breeds and abets violence, we must condemn it. Donald Trump’s campaign is made of such language.

I understand Trump’s appeal: We have all, at some point, been charmed, amused or invigorated by his unfiltered rants. His candor, when not offensive, is often refreshing. You may admire his ability to cut through the political clichés that numb us. You may be sick of the inertia and pettiness of government; you may seek someone who can press ‘restart.’ You may simply hate every other candidate.

But if we as Jewish Americans are to honor our own history and the lessons pulled from the ashes, we must reject him. Any Jew that supports Trump and has said “Never Again,” has said those words in vain.  

To be very clear: I am not saying Donald Trump is, or will become, Hitler. “The Art of the Deal” is not “Mein Kampf.” But the point is this: Hitler was once Donald Trump – an impossibility until he was a reality. And he built the bridge between the two with words, gestures and symbols that lifted up certain people and degraded others, that identified scapegoats, and that gave people permission to turn against their fellow citizens.  
And what of our words? When does our mantra of “Never Again” move from slogan to action?

It’s a tricky tightrope. We don’t know if or when the blame and anger Trump feeds off will sprout into something more tangibly sinister. But if we take history seriously, we have to accept that the seeds Trump is planting are like those planted by charismatic figures like Stalin and Putin and Mao, who watered them with generic promises of greatness paired with the toxic manure of bigotry and nationalism.

Our own history offers strong evidence that Jews and all other minorities never win in such situations. “Never Again” means we cannot wait around to find out. So it starts now.

13 thoughts on “Heil Trump: When Does 'Never Again’ Start?”
  1. Here the bunkum …” Hitler turned people against their fellow citizens ” .That is a lie .
    Everything Adolf Hitler did…and I mean EVERYTHING was to create unity among the Germans .
    He wanted / achieved this by abolishing systems which divided ,so the Jews could no longer exploit their dialectic.
    The Jews chose to divide themselves from Germany and every other nation ,putting their loyalty to any system over how much they could rule it .
    The Jews chose / choose to be at war with every Gentile patriotic system ,and declared war on their own , ” fellow citizens ” in Germany with boycotts ,subversion ,and requests for war on the Reich .

  2. JEWISH MENTAL ILLNESS BECOMING MORE AND MORE SEVERE.
    I think the Judaists, who are already severely mentally ill, as they sit around a piece of garbage called the Torah containing insane rantings of a a mentally deranged gang (band) of habiru (Akkadian for bandit, or gangster), in their Synagogues and bow down to this piece of garbage, called the Torah, a vile text, that does not belong in a civilized society, a most barbaric text per Jewish author Samuel Benjamin Harris, are now becoming more and more mentally ill.
    Their delusions of the fake holohoax is making these mentally deranged criminals barbarians the laughing stock of the world. They need to be on anti-psychotics, these barbarians.

  3. What starts now?
    Israel will treat the Palestinians as humans? Even equals? The jews of Wall Street will develop morals and business ethics? The jews of Hollywood will stop pumping out filth and violence? AIPAC will stop intimidating and harassing congressmen and senators? Israel will dismatle their nuclear weapons and submit to international inspections? The jews will cast off their arrogance?
    Aren’t these the seeds?
    We’re waiting, jews.

  4. FACTS ARE FACTS:
    WHO ARE THE HATERS OF GOD THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE HATERS OF GOD;S SON THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE SEPHARDIC THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE ASHKE NAZI THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE NAZIS _ THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE HOMOSEXUALS _ THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE PEDOPHILES THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE TRANSGENDER THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE ANTI SEMITE THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE BOLSHEVICKS THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE JESUITS THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE SECRET SOCIETIES THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE SERIAL KILLERS THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE DECIVERS THE THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THEONES THAT HATE HUMANITY THE JEWS
    WHO BELONG TO THE SYNOGOGE OF SATAN THE JEWS
    WHO PRACTICE BESTIALITY THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE BIGGEST THIEFS THE JEWS
    WHO CONTROL AMERICA AND MOST GOVERNMENTS THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE ABORTIONIST THE JEWS
    WHO ARE THE ONES THAT PRINT THE WORLDS MONEY THE JEWS
    SO I KNOW THAT THERE A LOT OF OTHER GOOD CHARACTER LABLES THAT JEWS HAVE
    BUT I DON’T HAVE ENOGH ROOM TO LIST THEM ALL

  5. Hmmm
    It has already started. It will go into high gear if Bernie Sanders gets elected……..He who controls the electronic voting machines wins. Donald Trump does not control those boxes. The agents behind Bernie Sanders do.

  6. It looks like the controlled opposition sites like this one are burning their assets and losing their veneer over Trump. He may really be a legitimate alternative candidate seeing how many controlled news sources are exposing their true colors to attack him. Even Veterans Today is throwing their operatives under the bus to try to slow Trump down.

    ed note–both on this website and my radio program, I speak often about the ‘unstable’ elements within this ‘movement’ who make creating a consciousness/consensus about the problems we face somewhere between difficult and impossible with the inane, senseless things that they say. This post is a perfect example of what I have been talking about.
    Our ‘analyst’ here, Russ, claims that this is a ‘controlled opposition’ site, using as ‘proof’ his assertion that we are ‘exposing’ our ‘true colors’ by attacking Trump.
    If “Russ’, assuming that is his real name, bothered to pay attention, he would note fairly quickly/fairly easily that this site runs on average about a dozen stories/opeds PER DAY in support of Trump and what he is doing, while at the same time, also exposing how organized Jewish interests are pulling every dirty trick they have out of their black bag in trying to destroy Trump, who is a threat to their agenda.
    The reprinted story that seems to have gotten Russ’ panties in a knot is exactly that, one of hundreds of pieces we have run on this site showing how Trump must be a ‘good guy’ when we consider just who is against him. Was Russ able to do the very simple math in deducing this?
    No. Instead, Russ–like so many other unstable elements within this ‘movement’ whose imagination most of the time trumps (pun intended) their ability to think logically, immediately seized upon this as an indicator that this website–HATED by the establishment and by the powerful organized Jewish interests that we expose on a daily basis–was ‘controlled opposition’.
    And unfortunately, Russ is not alone. I could write a book just dealing with the cornucopia of crazies I have personally dealt with over the years and who should be kept as far away from the internet as an addict should be kept away from his poison of choice.

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    A: Let’s clear this up. I believe that by “this site” Russ meant the article in Ha’aretz, NOT TUT. If so, easy does it, Ed…. Don’t shoot before identifying the target.:-)
    What say you, Russ? Am I right or am I right?

    ed note, post script–no, I do indeed think Russ meant TUT by lumping us in with Veterans Today which is also part of the ‘alternative’ media.
    ____________________
    A: Based on all of Russ’ previous comments I believe you called it wrong. In this comment he didn’t “lump us with VT”–on the contrary, he said VT is trying to slow Trump down even at the expense of throwing its own operatives under the bus. Let’s hear from him.

  7. But who is telling you guys this? Muslim friends? I am opposed to the whole western policy directed by Jews at Arabs which causes “terrorists” to retaliate in France or California when Libya, Iraq or another country has thousands murdered by the Jewish run west and I have a problem with Trump’s stance towards the Arab world (not his immigration stance though, which makes sense). That said, he is the best hope for a fair stance towards Arabs since Jimmy Carter and he is the best hope for Europeans (whites) to take back control of their own countries.

  8. MG, you diagnosed perfectly in a recent program the nature of the problem–in this movement there are stinkers and there are thinkers, and the stinkers outnumber the thinkers by a factor of about 100 to 1, and that is being generous.
    The Russ’ of this ‘movement’ unfortunately are becoming more and more the norm, and not just those leaving comments, but those running their own websites and writing their own ‘analyses’. The internet has become a free for all for every type of intellectual abnormalcy the human mind of capable of conjuring up and this does not help us. What’s worse are those who claim that ‘freedom of speech’ sanctifies any and all commentary, no matte how stupid and counterproductive to the cause of truth it may happen to be.
    You, Mike Piper, Jonathon, Mark Dankof and a handful of others are the only people I’ve encountered who consistently hit the mark on the issues we face without any deviation, which is why TUT is one of only a handful of sources I utilize in feeding my brain. You all have both my support and my sympathies for what must be a very difficult vocation.
    ed note–Thank you for the kind words, which are of course very much appreciated. Yes, it is lonely work indeed, but as Jesus Christ once said, the path to the truth is narrow and walked by very few, whereas the path leading to destruction is wide and traveled often, and as you pointed out, unfortunately by a good number of people making the pretenses of being ‘truthers’.

  9. Unstable… I like it. Me and Trump, LOL. I don’t really believe Trump is the new coming of Andrew Jackson, nor even a JFK… but if the establishment really hates him as much as they portray, he may be more than an empty suit… but I really think of pro wrestling when I see these “elections”, lights and noise, no real substance. My previous post was aimed at the writer of the Haaretz nonsense and the “alternative” njews sources. and yes VT is one of them, “all the truth you can be trusted with”… “or we think you need” So many truthers are tied to the phony Judea/Christian perversion. No two religions are more diametrically opposed than are Judaism and Christianity. Like any parasite, Judaism must have a host and the hijacking of the “Christians” was absolutely critical for their success, and a coup of inestimable consequences. Losing the “Christian” servitude would indeed be an existential issue. Sometimes me thinks TUT tries too hard to fill pages, somewhat like Before It”s Nonsense… er I mean News. While I’m not big on censorship, I do believe in maintaining theme.
    ed note–yes, that’s the word I used–‘unstable’, and not because of your opinions of Trump, but rather the manner by which you wound up in the wrong solar system vis a vis TUT being ‘controlled opposition’ for our reposting a story underscoring how Judea is shitting its collective pants over his candidacy. A person who reacts first without considering just what exactly is being said is indeed ‘unstable’ in the sense that they allow their imagination to get the best of their reason and in the process come to conclusions that are 180 degrees out of sinc with reality, which is precisely what you did and which–tragically–is becoming far too common within this ‘movement’.
    Now, if indeed (as you claim) you were referring to the article in Haaretz, which is by NO MEANS WHATSOFREAKING EVER ‘opposition’ in any sense of the word, then you have my sincerest and humblest apologies, but as of this moment, I believe that my initial instincts were correct and what you were doing was to associate this website with VT and other forms of false opposition.

  10. Mark, I think you are big enough to afford to say, “oops, I read that one too hastily, sorry.”
    Clearly Russ referred to Ha’aretz as “controlled opposition”– which it is: it is what Dante calls “Jew Left.” As for opinions on Trump, are we going to cast away and call unstable/stupid, etc everyone who happens to (1) applaud Trump for (a) giving the Jews the scare of their lives and (b) awakening people’s discontent with the “Establishment,” while at the same time (2) not going into full cult mode over him until more evidence is apparent that he is capable and willing to risk everything to become America’s Savior? If so, I qualify for unstable and stupid too.
    I don’t think badgering works as a persuasion tool and it may harm us more than the recipient. Critical admiration beats blind adulation. That applies to Trump and to whoever holds the flag aloft on the ramparts of what you call the “movement.” When asked why he left Rodin, Brancusi said “In the shadow of oak trees only weeds grow.” I am saying this with utmost admiration and respect for all you do.

    ed note–you’re right Ar, I am big enough to admit when I am wrong, but as of this moment I am not yet convinced that in this case that I was or am, which I’ll explain now.
    There is no way to put Haaretz into any classification other than what it is–100% Jewish, 100% Israeli, 100% Zionist, and DEFINITELY 100% anti-Trump. It makes no pretenses of being opposed to any of the aforementioned items, in fact, doesn’t even make any pretenses about being down the middle of the road, so there is no way anyone could put it in the same category as an alternative site such as TUT which is indeed opposed to all those aforementioned items.
    Furthermore, the piece in question that was the original source of this thread was unabashedly anti-Trump, 100%, complete with all the usual business involving Hitler, holocaust, racism, etc, etc, etc, which it uses with as much frequency in its daily pieces as an Italian chef uses garlic.
    Now, were it indeed an ‘alternative site’ such as VT than ran it in an unqualified way as an OpEd that was obviously aimed at bringing bad light on Trump, then truly anyone would be justified in suspecting that such an ‘alternative’ site was indeed controlled opposition.
    No, I think the more realistic explanation for this is that our dear reader ‘Russ’ read the title, maybe even read the piece and jumped to certain conclusions to which both his imagination and paranoia have acclimated him, and for perfectly understandable reasons, given that the ‘movement’ is chock full of people who either wittingly or unwittingly are vessels of disinformation and confusion.
    As I said, if indeed I was wrong, than Russ has my sincerest apologies, and I would hope that the same apologies would be forthcoming from him if indeed he did err in the aftermath of jumping the gun as it were.
    …but as of right now I don’t think I am…

  11. Ed… I will give you that… I am wrong about classifying Haaretz as controlled opposition it is a shill rag through and through. I obviously think some of what you do is good, I’m subscribed to your site. (Don’t get too complacent, I subscribe to BIN too, LOL.) I may have come on a little strong and unclear. After watching Gordon Duff rant about Trump destroying the Repubs party and maybe America too, (good I say If he takes out the Demos too), it’s kind of weary hearing all the “trumped” up nonsense when any other alternative is even worse. I don’t buy into the lesser of evil motto. If anyone thinks Trump(or anyone of the others) is going to save us, I think they are delusional. You two need to get along here, individual egos are not needed. I’m not hurt here and the Eds message probably needed said about “unstables”.

    ed note–and, VOILA–Russ gives it away–
    ‘I think some of what you do is good’…
    Which also means conversely, that most of what we do is bad, or at the very least ‘not good’. From here we are then free to infer that Russ views what we do here in an adversarial (or at least suspicious) manner, which then means that my original interpretation of his ‘controlled opposition’ comment was exactly what it appeared to me to be.
    Sorry Ariad, doesn’t seem to be much ‘wiggle room’ on this one.

  12. Not necessarily, Ed. I think he voiced his criticism of what he thinks is less than good before, namely that some of the material in TUT is scattershot. Not issues of principle but of editorial focus. I’d have to scroll up and look for it but I retained the impression that’s what he meant. I’d hate to come up with examples that would inevitably hurt the feelings of hard-working editors (including my own, except I am not all that hard working) but TUT does go for quantity. We do publish every news item that shows Jewish malfeasance, no matter how minor, so every day, if there is a major event with a good intro and commentary it will invariably be drowned in 20-30 others about Jews who soiled themselves on an airplane, etc. I am just as culpable with occasional satires on nugatory issues of “Jewishness,” but the issue of tight focus should perhaps be of concern. Another issue is that working independently, editors sometimes come up with the same news item form different sources and you have two articles on the same topic. Another waste of space and clogger.
    If someone says “some of what you do is good” that’s the full half of the glass. Let him drink that. It doesn’t mean that the other half is bad, just not that riveting to him. We can live with that, can’t we?
    Personally I dislike both your calling commenters “unstable” for not agreeing with you 100% and Russ calling your view of Trump “delusional” for seeing in him something he is not able to see.
    I think the fundamental issue, the bedrock on which we stand, can only be the disastrous, nefarious effect of Jewish power and ownership of the Western world (and big chunks of the ME and beyond) and the imperious need to unmask it, resist and eventually vanquish it, and to educate as many people as possible about it. Those of us who agree on that are on one side and whatever differences of opinion we have about strategy, tactics and political personalities in the game should be discussed with mutual respect.
    ed note–Ariad, as defense council for Russ, you get an A+ for effort here, but it is beginning to border on what is often referred to as grasping at straws.
    Russ meant exactly what his statement said–‘controlled opposition’. He wasn’t talking about Haaretz, he was talking about TUT, otherwise he would not have further qualified it by saying he ‘came down hard’ with his comments. For those of us who follow the Jews in the news, who apologises for ‘coming down hard’ on Haaretz? No one, and there would be no reason to, given what it is and the agenda it is pushing.
    So, fine, he wants to think that TUT is ‘controlled oppo’, that is his right/his choice.
    At the same time, as much as he is free to think/say what he wishes concerning this little operation here, I have the right to respond with my own criticisms and responses, and based upon my own extensive experience in dealing with this very matter (i.e. the daily accusations alleging ‘controlled opposition’ and ‘disinfo’ and ‘paid shills’, etc, etc, etc) that are completely baseless and without foundation, I have become something of a minor expert in seeing right away when I am dealing with someone who indeed does exhibit a certain degree of, hmmm, what’s the best word to use here? –‘instabilty’–in their thought patterns and conclusions.
    And I don’t accuse those who don’t agree with me 100% of being ‘unstable’, this very tete a tete with you being proof of that. However, when I am accused of being dishonest and of being some sort of ‘agent’ for the other side, well, you can understand why–considering all that I have done and all the risk it has bought to my personal safety and liberty (not to mention that of my rather large family–I might take a certain amount of offense at that. After all, I am not hiding behind a pen name, using a false voice or a false image of myself. You can type my name into any search engine anywhere and come up with literally a million hits that pinpoint exactly who I am, where I live and all sorts of other personal particulars about me, and so when I live everyday of my life with a target painted on me and my loved ones as a result of what I do and the result of this is someone with nothing to lose comes here and throws around the accusation that somehow I am involved in some kind of fraud or intellectual chicanery designed to assist the very same evil agenda I have risked everything to oppose, you might understand why I consider such persons to be–hmmm, what’s a good word to use here?–‘unstable.’

  13. I didn’t call his view of Trump delusional, I called America collective, delusional to believe we can vote in change or change our foundational issues with voting. Voting is the illusion of choice. The CEO of Starbucks wrote a letter to all of his employs, 150K, to “just vote”, he doesn’t care who they vote for. Doesn’t anyone see that the message to just vote is to keep the little people “franchised”, believing in the system? I say if you DO vote you have no reason to complain. I don’t believe Trump is “unowned”. I have never liked him before this pro wrestling match we call elections… however, if the Neo-parties, especially the Republican, really hate like they say, I may have to revise my opinion. When Adelson, Soros, and the Kochs won’t donate to any of their “chosen ones” that is kind of curious. The two of you shouldn’t part ways over this, even if all you do is half good, that’s quite an improvement over any mass njews source. BTW Ed , you me and Dupree are only rearranging deck chairs. Until the fiat economic system breaks, burns down, is replaced by a debt free money system, like BRICS, nothing we say will do anything.

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