Old Hatreds
Anti-Semitism comes to its natural conclusion in the Holocaust Museum, when James Von Brunn, and 89 year old bigoted loon, opens fire in the lobby today. His bio, on a white supremecist website, reads:
In 1981 Von Brunn attempted to place the treasonous Federal Reserve Board of
Governors under legal, non-violent, citizens arrest. He was tried in a Washington, D.C.
Superior Court; convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison
for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal. He
served 6.5 years in federal prison.
Is this the far-far-right reacting to Obama’s election, as a commentator on MSNBC asserted, or is this simply the innevitable result of the hateful ideology of anti-Semitism, which the Holocaust Museum attempts to memorialize?
In the discussion that will inevitable occur for days and days on the cable news networks, we cannot lose the fact that this attack had Jewish targets; that just a few weeks ago, synagogues in NY were targeted. We cannot deny the specifically anti-Jewish nature of these attacks by ascribing them to the general decay of the economy or the right reacting to our first black president. There is a specific history at work here and we cannot ignore it. In spite of our small numbers, there are a lot of people in this world who do not wish the Jews well.
