With Dear Leader DRUMPF, an Emissary
By Melanie Nathan, March 28, 2025.
Shirtless, stacked high, one on top of the other, humans! Reminiscent perhaps of that to which we said “never again?” Krtisti Noem, in El Salvador, U.S. Secretary for DHS, who carried out the command of the Chief orchestrator of this scene, Donald trump ( formerly Drumpf). Noem, Among her qualifications for such cruelty, the shooting of her untrainable puppy dog, poses proudly, asserting the defiance of the regime she serves for the decimation of the rule of law, and further cementing inhumanity into the history of the American experiment, now ever more on its recent path, a clear Nazi trajectory.
As Jews it is hard to watch. Yet some turn a blind eye. Knowing that makes it even harder to watch unfold. It is those few Jews and many Americans who continue to support this that squeezes the brain so tightly, a bursting clot still waiting to explode. Fortunately most Jews, such as the 88% women and 72% in general who voted for Kamala Harris obviously do not support this! But the rest of them? How many of the 25% still do? Seeing this happening in real time? Do they get the imagery? Do they know what it all means to us too?
The American experiment is rooted in immigration, (lest we forget the colonization – but let us turn a blind eye, for the purposes of this discussion, and dismiss thoughts of those who this experiment in democracy has already hurt along the way) to make the overwhelmingly neglected point that this moment in our history is being orchestrated, by a family of ideologues who changed their name from DRUMPF to TRUMP. The irony of those new letters housed in the word “TRIUMPH.”
As noted by Sydney Blumenthal in his article in The Guardian, interestingly dated for OCT 07, (2024):
“Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake:” …. “The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate” ….. “If genealogy is destiny, as Donald Trump believes, then “poison in the blood” – a phrase Trump repeatedly uses – determines the fate of nations. By Trump’s logic, “blood” is the true and final measure. Trump, like Hitler, appears to classify people and countries by “blood” on a scale of their innate racial characteristics. Those features define the essence of nations, which are themselves delineated on a racial pyramid, with the purest and whitest, the most Aryan, at the pinnacle. True to his doctrine, the Nazis on his family tree must explain his penchant for Hitlerian rhetoric.”
Here we are …….. THIS IS a #NEVERAGAIN moment…
Now what’s next? We cannot be silent – and must share these thoughts – with the person sitting next to you at Shul, at your Seder table, social media ….
Amidst the great irony that he must be seen – not as Hitler (G-d forbid ) but as Hitler’s new emissary – and even more legacy in the making – (as in thpoo thpoo thpoo- the old yiddish spit spit spit) – from the old land to the new land – WATCH OUT THEY ARE HERE NOW!
And if they start well “he is good for Israel” and “look what he is doing for Antisemitism,” unlike during the campaign period of rhetoric and promise, ‘the proof of the pudding is (now) in the eating’. You now have the ammo you need to serve the truth that his incompetence, his own antisemitism, his transactional, unconditional, self serving, isolationist white dominant power grab can never serve our interests.
You ONLY have to note the following in making the arguments:
1. Israel: Already he has endangered Israel through his incompetency as a leader – the appointment of an unqualified cabinet, where security Chiefs directly risked the lives of Israeli operatives in Yemen.
SIGNALGATE hurt Israel – even if you believe that Trump and his cronies have any unconditional non-transactional goodwill for Israel, nothing can fix the dangerous mess-up! Never before in the history of the United States of America has a more incompetent Cabinet been placed at the helm. None of us could have imagined it would be THIS bad. Israel supplied intelligence for airstrike discussed in Signal chat that went awry hurting assets in Yemen. The Houthi missile expert was tracked with help of Israel-linked human source in Yemen. A HUMAN source. A key operative. Now potentially exposed. Certainly set to inhibit further critical intelligence. That story HERE.
2. Antisemitism: Roping the Jews into his crackdown on Muslims, who he despises, is not for his love of Jews, evidenced by how he props up the anti Jewish white supremacy, and KKK, and US Nazi gangs such as Proud Boys, etc. – He is using the campus antisemitism shield for his hate of Muslims. In doing this he is using us Jews as tools, implicating Jews in his lawlessness. How would any Jewish person subscribe to the fascist methods we are witnessing in our name? Much online opinion can be found on this:
Eliana Goldin, as reported in The Forward, has been pushing Columbia University to take stronger action against mounting antisemitism for months. But last week, as the university agreed to ban face masks and take other steps demanded by President Donald Trump’s administration in an effort to preserve $400 million in federal funding, Goldin found herself grappling with a hollow sense of vindication.
“Trump was doing the thing we wanted him to do, which is crack down on antisemitism,” she said in a phone interview on Sunday. But, she pointed out, the White House is politicizing the issue, empowering those who disagree with Trump to also downplay the escalation of antisemitism on campus. Here
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Weaponizing antisemitism makes students ‘less safe,’ says drafter of definition: …..”
“It puts pro-Israel Jewish students in a situation where they may be seen as trying to suppress speech rather than answer it,” Stern said. …. He also said that the definition is being distorted and used to silence anti-Israel critics. He was the lead drafter of the definition in 2004-2005 to help European countries have a common definition to track data on antisemitism. Then it was officially adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016. Stern acknowledges the existence of antisemitism on campuses but believes that the Trump administration’s approach could create a much worse situation.” HERE.
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