What Lies Beneath
By Joan Swirsky
AmericanThinker.com
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When I was a nursing student decades ago, a doctor
friend told me about an interesting case in which he
performed a routine yearly checkup on a 12-year-old
boy, including blood and urine tests, and to his
surprise, this healthy-looking preteen had blood in
his urine. The doctor promptly ordered an
intravenous pyelogram (IPG) — now in medicine’s
dinosaur museum — which revealed that in one of the
youngster’s kidneys, the renal medulla — the
innermost region — and the renal cortex — the
outermost region — were reversed, and as a result,
the aberrant kidney took four hours longer to
collect and then empty the body of urine.
But the doctor told me that the funniest thing was
his mother’s reaction. “She said, ‘How did this
happen? What did I do?’ And I told her that maybe
she had the same thing, but she never had an IPG!”
Speaking of kidneys, I learned years later that a
distant relative found out in his late forties,
again as the result of a modern medical test, that
he was born with only one kidney! And sticking with
the theme of hidden phenomena, I recently learned
that a former neighbor went to a neurologist with
hand tremors, and the MRI the doctor prescribed
revealed a hemangioma — a cluster of blood vessels —
in his brain!
“How did this happen?” he asked the doctor.
“It might have been there for twenty years,” the
doctor said, “even maybe since you were born!”
LESSON: There are approximately eight billion people
in the world, just about all of whom know
nothing about what’s going on inside of
their bodies — an undiscovered tooth high in the
gum, an insect embedded in the skull, an undetected
stroke. I even knew a man in his eighties — a
friend and neighbor — whose doctors found a deeply
lodged bullet!
What does all this have to do with
politics? Everything!
After World War II, the unspeakable, malignant
horrors of the Holocaust were revealed for all the
world to see: six million Jews, from infants to
centenarians and everyone in between, rounded up,
crammed into suffocating cattle cars, hauled off to
concentration camps, and gassed to death in Hitler’s
crematoria, effectively eliminating half of the
microscopic Jewish population of 12 million in the
entire world.
Surviving Jews all over the world dared not tell
their children of this catastrophe, the better to
shield them from lifelong paranoia, dread, and
depression.
But what followed — from the war’s end in 1945 to
the miraculous advent of Israel becoming a state in
1948, and for about a decade or more beyond — was
encouraging to these protective parents. Not one
word of Jew-hatred or vicious stereotypes or calls
for the death of the Jews.
Aha, these
naïve Americans — and Jews throughout the world —
believed. Humanity has learned its lesson. We
finally, at last, after almost 4,000 years, have
nothing to worry about. Baruch Hashem!
What Lies Beneath
What Jews didn’t realize was that it was not
benevolence or compassion or empathy that motivated
the behavior of many in the outside world, but
rather the self-interested preservation of the image
they wanted to convey — of decency, tact,
discretion, moral clarity.
But just like the clandestine kidney and the hidden
hemangioma, the pathology — of Jew-hatred — was
there, probably, as the above-mentioned doctor
speculated, for decades!
Inculcated early — in homes, houses of worship,
schools — and magnified when the State of Israel was
established, it was mostly manifested in certain
institutions, professions, even country clubs that
enacted quotas that excluded Jews, in a few vicious
media stereotypes and in personal insults.
But it wasn’t destructive enough to stop this
minuscule minority — most of whom fled to America
with no money and no knowledge of the English
language — from flourishing wildly in every avenue
they pursued. From science and medicine to business
to law to literature and other arts, the list is
long.
When denied entry into medical schools, they built
the finest hospitals in the country...to this
day! When denied entry into top law firms, they
established their own. When denied opportunities in
the entertainment industry, they literally created
Hollywood.
By the 21st century, Jews had more than
arrived. Although still a tiny minority of 5.8
million — or 2.4 percent out of a total population
of 345 million — they have occupied several
seats on the U.S. Supreme Court, served in
great numbers as U.S. senators and
members of Congress, enjoyed full professorships at
America’s top colleges and universities, contributed
mightily to America’s health through their discoveries
and innovations, and founded massively
successful businesses, among them Dunkin
Donuts, Dreamworks, Estee Lauder, Facebook, Google,
H&R Block, Home Depot, Starbucks, Slim-Fast, and on
and on and on. And in recent headlines,
in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA)’s Final Four, three
of the coaches were Jewish.
The Cesspool Erupts
Then October 7, 2023 happened.
To be accurate, this subhuman-initiated catastrophe
was preceded by a phenomenon never before seen in
America: the entrance of blatant, virulent, noxious
Democrat antisemites not only being elected to the
U.S. Congress, but blaring their toxic,
Jew-detesting Israel-loathing racism for all to see
and hear.
And without one single solitary word of disapproval
from a
sitting Democrat, including nine
Democrats in the Senate — and Senate minority leader
Charles Schumer — and 21 Democrats in the
House. And don’t let them tell you they sent out
press releases of disapproval. They mean nothing!
The sole defender of Israel and condemner of his
party’s racism has been Senator John Fetterman
(D-Pa.), whom the rest of the Democrat party has now
marginalized, if not dismissed.
Even worse than this Democrat travesty, which was
ultimately rejected by 77 million people in their
thunderous election of President Trump last
November, is the true pandemic of antisemitism that
has transcended the clandestine kidney and the
hidden hemangioma.
Now the once hidden hatred is out in the
open. World leaders, most recently in France,
the United Kingdom, and Canada (but they
are not alone), have given us a vivid picture of
their psychological and racist hatred of Jews from
their metaphorical X-rays, sonograms, MRIs, and PET
scans. They have let us look inside their hearts
and minds to see clearly their hatred — and probably
jealousy — of Jews and of their biblically inherited
homeland, Israel, is again, as the aforementioned
doctor speculated, from birth, and no doubt in their
DNA!
Here, Yonah
Elias skewers these moral cowards.
The Lesson
There is not a baby in the world born with hate in
his heart. Hate is taught. Hate is learned. What
we have been witnessing — really since Obama made
his ignominious debut in our body politic — is that
the hate that is learned has remarkable staying
power. It transcends education and objective
reality and cold, hard facts. It is animating and
energizing. After our most powerful emotion, fear,
come jealousy and hate, which are often in desperate
competition.
And there’s nothing quite like the bandwagon effect
to mobilize these haters into action. Hence the
great number of people who conveniently forget that
it was Israel who was savagely attacked by the
terrorists whose very charter pronounces genocide as
its major goal!
But history doesn’t change. The world hated Jews
when they were defenseless, and now, they especially
hate Jews when they fight back. And prevail!
From now on, when you look at the pro-terrorist
politicians and media whores and United Nations
shills, don’t be surprised. Just shrug your
shoulders or turn to your friend and say:
“Hemangioma, probably since birth!”
Joan Swirsky is a New York — based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.