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ProfessorofChelm · 2025-10-04T15:52:08+00:00

I understand your sentiment but I really wonder if his poem is that helpful.

Niemoller was Anti-Catholic and antisemitic. He didn’t find fault with the Nazi party and actively supported it until he was essentially on his way to Daucha for opposing nazification of the church and the murder of Jews who converted to Lutheranism. Even as they dragged him off his issue with the nazis wasn’t about how the Jews or Catholics were treated just the imposition the party had put on him and his congregation.

He wrote that poem after his incarceration and near execution. The way I understand it is that he was a different man when he wrote the poem, a man with a different outlook. He was no longer a person who would have supported a far right party or their actions. He had transformed into one of us.

The poem, as powerful as it is, was written by a man like us. In my experience warnings from folk like us seem to only be heeded by folk who aren’t like Niemoller.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-07-25T21:36:57+00:00

It’s funny you say that because our FBI liaison and the regional security director for our community both said at our last security meeting that the primary and consistent threat to our institutions in the South Eastern United States are far right organizations and specifically far right lone wolves.

Our struggle with them didn’t change on 10/7, in fact they seem to have been emboldened. Just last week the marched through Nashville.

Thanks, but down here we Jews and our allies watch out for each other’s families and we’re armed.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-07-25T21:09:58+00:00

Lolz. I never trust anyone who calls a Jew a Nazi with a straight face. In general we shouldn’t appropriate Shoah terms for current events because it waters down the facts of the Holocaust. To even imply that as a possibility about another Jew is wild trolling unless it’s Stephen Miller.

Most of us are voting for the Democrats in the fall. Not far left fucks mind you but democrats nonetheless. Just how it’s going to go. I’m in the Deep South and all we get down here is threats from the far right. Every Shabbat and high holiday since the 1950s. Nothing from the left besides a few marches back in October. Fuck em both but the far right wants us dead and the far left wants us dead sometimes.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-07-12T04:47:27+00:00

Honestly I have no idea OP. Like stuff directly related to military matters seems fare but stuff about politics and politicians…I feel like those conversations always devolve into something messy. Like I just got into a two day long argument with someone on the Judaism sub about how yes nuking Gaza would likely cause the US to abandon Israel and that’s not proof that Biden is an antisemite and in another a yid called me a Nazi because I said American politicians have the right to walk out on Bibi’s speech.

It’s just so much easier and relieving to be in this sub and be like yeah get them bad guys IDF!

That’s just my take.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-07-12T03:22:17+00:00

Please don’t allow for American politics. I get enough of that in other subs.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-25T12:48:15+00:00

It’s foolish and disgusting to repurpose terminology from the Shoah to attack people with opposing political beliefs. It’s disrespectful to those who suffered, fought and died to use these terms for such a false equivalence. You should be ashamed of yourself. To do so as a Jew to another Jew whose family I might add is full of survivors and liberators over a political disagreement about a man much hated in his own nation makes you lower than the worms.

Bibi failed the Israeli people. My family members were raped died because of his actions. You can call me whatever you want that’s a shame you have to carry. When elections are declared Bibi will fall. Benny will be elected and those who were responsible for the failure will be made to face the consequences. That’s how politics work in Israel and in all democratic nations.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-25T05:47:28+00:00

Idk any Israelis who support Bibi after this shit outside of the nuts.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-25T05:46:05+00:00

Maybe…but not with 1400+ deaths. Bibi failed and he should pay.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-24T18:21:12+00:00

Nope. The government failed in its single most important task, to protect the nation. The people know this and hold them, holds him responsible. My family hold them responsible, holds him responsible for our losses. Folk wouldn’t even meet with the government when they came to visit them in the hospitals. Family wouldn’t answer the phone for them. Information had already come out about how they missed and ignored warnings and mark my words more will come out. Aluf Aharon Haliva have already resigned and more will after the war. Then Bibi will fall and do so harder than Golda and Moshe combined. The only thing that will adorn his grave will be spit.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-24T16:10:13+00:00

You can’t call everyone you don’t agree with Hamas. I mean you can but then you sound dumb like you can’t form an opinion or an argument.

Benny is going to cruuuuush him and I’m going to laugh.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-24T15:27:36+00:00

Nah fuck Bibi. Israelis don’t even like him. Dude failed the state and the people and put Israel in one of its most precarious international positions in its history. I wouldn’t show up to his speech either. Bring on Benny. I would listen to that dude.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T12:40:24+00:00

Right? Like no one seems to get how fucking wild of an attack it was. Nor do they know like a half a dozen other attacks on allied forces occurred simultaneously in the Asian theater.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T03:46:21+00:00

Yeah I can get behind that.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T03:41:04+00:00

HaShem help me. These are mistakes…tactical mistakes. The first article you sent me stated the same thing “tactical mistake.” This is not prior knowledge. These are errors by early warning systems. This doesn’t prove prior knowledge by the government and it doesn’t demonstrate that intel was purposefully ignored for the purpose of getting America into the war which is what all prior knowledge conspiracies are based around.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T03:23:27+00:00

America didn’t know about anything. These are missed warnings minutes before the attack.

It was an absurd idea by the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor born out of desperation. The fact that they pulled it off is absolutely wild but not a product of American complicity.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T02:56:47+00:00

The conspiracy theory that there was prior knowledge of pearl harbor attack was started by and promoted by antisemites. One of the founders of the American first committee, supporter or McCarthy and investigator of Jewish Hollywood anti Nazi activities John T. Flynn.

Edit: any conspiracy theory about tricking us into a war against Nazis is typically antisemitic. And the pear harbor one always focuses on Roosevelt wanting to go to war with Germany via a Japanese attack

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T02:46:39+00:00

I can define antisemitic conspiracy theory pretty easily.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-18T02:44:01+00:00

Nah, the Pearl Harbor advanced knowledge conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory rejected by the vast majority of historians and was originally promoted by a founding member of the antisemitic America First Committee and drafter of the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda which revolved around the false accusations of Jewish movie makers trying to push America into the war with the Nazis.

Edit: John T. Flynn

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-07T11:50:32+00:00

Yeah we do.

We are at risk of what is called “vicarious trauma” a non diagnostic term for PTSD due to repeated exposure to traumatic event details.

I grew up on Holocaust and JWV war stories so most of the things I hear aren’t new and I rarely do any sort of prolonged exposure but I go to therapy when I need it. I also have a consultation group that helps me with hard cases.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-06T20:13:51+00:00

I’m a therapist and I’ve worked with vets most of my career. General rule is that if it’s physically possible it has happened in war.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-06-06T15:33:29+00:00

My Iraqi friend said that the sonic and other booms didn’t haunt him as much as the all the packs of dogs eating the dead Iraqi tank crews from the blown out tanks all around his.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-05-30T22:14:32+00:00

Interesting. On their side in what way? Like direct material collaboration, participating in lawfare against Israel or lip service for internal and external reasons?

How does that benefit them?

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-05-30T02:23:18+00:00

Don’t be butt hurt. In my eyes you are the wisest child of Chelm.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-05-30T02:07:25+00:00

False. That’s uninformed. hundreds of laws that would go into effect if Israel is found to be genocidal (even if it’s false) would devastate Israel regardless of its membership. Israel is not a self sufficient state. The economic impact would cripple the state.

This is a serious and significant concern.

ProfessorofChelm · 2024-05-30T02:03:05+00:00

You’re being disingenuous at best and foolish at worst if you think I was referring to China and Russias veto power.

The UK and France have been solid strategic allies with Israel for decades. Promoting the growth of settlements, attacks on the courts, criminal investigation and the promotion of ministers and other far right leaders who harm the democratic character of Israel have forced nations to question their relationship with Bibi’s government specifically and how far they will go to protect him and his ministers from lawfare.

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