Anti-Semitism in America is rising and swelling, and it is doubtful if either of the candidates for the presidency, if elected, can halt it. That hatred for Jews, which for years was latent and an embarrassment to exhibit, has burst forth in full malice, precisely as a result of the massacre perpetrated on the Jews in their homeland.
The legitimacy of open anti-Semitism was unleashed in the wake of the Israeli war against terrorist organizations and the humanitarian "crisis" that was created in Gaza against its "uninvolved" citizens which the entire world saw reveling on rooftops over the acts of violence and looting. In the fortresses of liberalism and enlightenment, anti-Semitism has been elevated to a central and fundamental banner, where the presence of Jews studying within their academic walls or serving as staff members has become part and parcel of their "academic enlightenment," liberal openness and freedom of speech. How has anti-Semitism and hatred towards Jews become so openly legitimized in America?
Uncommon words were expressed by a former candidate for mayor of New York for the Republican party, Curtis Silva, when interviewed for an Israeli channel in the course of a promotional rally for former and future president Trump. Silva expressed sentiments, surprising to be uttered by a non-Jew, maintaining that anti-Semitism is actually ingrained in the make-up of non-Jews.
As quoted, "I keep on saying to Jews: I am a gentile, it is patterned within our DNA code. You have got to wake up and understand that we will always put the blame on Jews, no matter what happens and despite any peace agreements you will make. You will always be the object of hatred. That's how it is in America and in other places. Even I must occasionally restrain myself, even though I have two Jewish children."
We know the halachah, the ironclad idiom that, "Eisav despises Jacob" does not require any reason, explanation or justification. This animosity is sealed within the gentile being since the time of the giving of the Torah to Jewry, but there are those who are ashamed to acknowledge it.
And yet, here comes a public figure, supporter of Israel, who even admits that he has "two Jewish children", and fully confesses that he must occasionally suppress this innate tendency to despise Jews. Concurrently, it is similarly difficult to admit that such hatred is also ingrained in the psyche of the Jewish ignoramus towards Torah scholars, and if we discover such an anti-Semitic hatred gushing up against the chareidi sector, let us not be surprised. It has always lain latent, but under the cover of this war, has gained public legitimacy.
