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One of the most preposterous claims that Judaism makes is that there will always be anti-Semites, and that eventually, they will always lose. There is something baked into the nature of humanity that turns the Jew into a canary in the coal mine, revealing in its own inordinate suffering the heavy state of humanity as a whole. The proclivity to hate is revealed in how Jews are scorned and beaten. The human capacity to stereotype and to malign also bubbles through the surface in references to Jews \u2013 physiques, income, subterranean influence. These projections of bigotry are not so much reflections of Jewish reality as they are projections of human fear and rage. Like all forms of bigotry, anti-Jewish racism reveals the rotten core of the vicious, the victimizers, and the bullies.<\/span><\/p>\n

As absurd as such an idea might be, it is both ancient and potent. The Prophet Isaiah reveals God\u2019s promise that \u201call who become angry with you shall be shamed and humiliated; those who fight with you shall be like nothingness and shall perish.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s spend a moment reflecting on this extraordinary claim: that those who indulge in Jew hatred destroy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

One need not be a professional historian to note two remarkable facts about Jewish history.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is the unique example of a people who have survived across millennia, despite the lack of a political power of their own, a living language, their own defensible state. Wandering across North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and on to the other continents of the world, the Jews lacked all the tools that other peoples use to survive: neither government nor army of their own. All we had to take with us in our wanderings was our faith, our Torah, the commandments, and a commitment to the history and destiny of the Jewish people.It is amazing that we are still here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second extraordinary fact is that Israel\u2019s enemies, while possessing all the apparent power, wealth, influence, culture, and land, disappear. Pharaoh\u2019s Egypt, Assyria\u2019s empire, the Chaldean empire, the Roman empire, Byzantium, the Inquisitors, the Bolsheviks, the Nazis. All these hateful kingdoms rose up, assaulted the Jew, and then vanished from history, never to rise again.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the Jewish people persisted. Against all odds. Against all probabilities. Without any of the props used by others to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

God, Torah, mitzvot, and each other. That didn\u2019t shield us from the vicious attacks of others, nor does it now. But it sustained us, gave us purpose, and kept us together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah reminds us that the ancient promise still has kick: \u201cI have chosen you and not rejected you. Fear not, for I am with you. \u2026 I have strengthened you, even sustained you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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