The following was shared on Facebook by Sherry R. Condon Brumgard, who wrote: “A moment to assure one’s self of one’s sanity! We all need them from time to time. Never give in to despair! ❤️”
The following was written by Hillel Fuld:
Having a bad day. Like a really bad day. Struggling.
I have these moments from time to time. I look at the world and all I can do is shake my head in disgust and despair.
As my father likes to say, “People have such open minds, their brains fell out.”
The problem is, if you’re told enough times that you’re insane, you begin to ask yourself if you are actually insane.
And when you are outnumbered a thousand to one, you start asking yourself if they’re all the crazy ones, or maybe they’re right, and you’re the crazy one.
That, my friends, is how propaganda works.
They drill it into your brain over and over and over and over until you start to say to yourself, “Well if everyone’s saying it, it must be true.”
Note to self: IT IS NOT TRUE, YOU ARE NOT CRAZY, THEY ARE NOT RIGHT, YOU ARE NOT WRONG, AND THEY CAN OUTNUMBER YOU A MILLION TO ONE AND THAT WON’T CHANGE THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH IS, HILLEL, YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY!
Sorry for the caps lock there, I just have to yell at myself sometimes to make sure I hear the sound of moral clarity. It’s often times drowned out by the sound of global moral bankruptcy.
So, no, I don’t care how viral the “All eyes on Rafah” campaign is. I don’t care if they have a million or a billion shares. It doesn’t make it less ridiculous and dishonest.
I don’t care how big the encampments are or how scary the mob is that lit the Israeli embassy in Mexico City on fire. They are criminals who have chosen to side with murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. It’s as simple as that.
Nothing you’re going to say, no viral campaign, or Hollywood hypocrite is going to make that behavior moral or ethical. You cannot convince me, no matter how hard you try, that siding with Hamas is just. I don’t care how pink your hair is, how many piercings you have, or how short your belly shirt is, you are not a human rights activist. You call yourself woke? You are asleep! Human rights? ON what planet is siding with mass murderers a moral thing to do? You’ve lost your way long ago.
So yea, I scroll my X feed and feel like throwing my hands up and giving up. Not gonna lie.
But I keep reminding myself that the sky is blue no matter how many people tell me it’s yellow. It is BLUE and you guys can scream till your vocal cords fall out. You will never convince me or any human being with a moral compass that Hamas is anything other than what they say they are, an organization dedicated to the destruction of the west and all the values we, the normal people, hold dear.
So yes, those lunatics, and sorry for the label but that is what they are, total lunatics, make a whole lot of noise. They dominate our feeds and attack us on all fronts. It’s easy to lose hope. It’s easy to think we’re the crazy ones.
When the platforms blatantly discriminate against the pro Israel crowd by banning accounts that are trying to spread light, we begin to question ourselves again.
All of this is part of their strategy to cloud our moral clarity. And I’m not gonna lie, they are very good at it. Like world class good.
But you know what is stronger than their very sophisticated propaganda? Our morality!
Yes, that’s right. They challenge us and sometimes they win a battle here and there, but they will NEVER win this war because the vast majority of normal rational human beings understand that rape is not resistance, it’s just rape!
Murder is not an uprising. It’s just murder!
Terrorism is not freedom fighting. It’s just terrorism!
So, Hillel, it’s ok to have a hard day. They bank on it. But do not let it seep in, not even for a second.
Folks, step back and try to remember that we are deep in what is surely the most significant historical event of our lifetime and we must take a wider view on it all, a historic view.
And yes, in Nazi Germany, the majority supported Hitler. Those who didn’t were the outcasts and surely questioned themselves daily, but the real judge is history and history, my friends, is on our side, no matter how many views our enemies get on their TikTok videos.
We are right. We are good. We are moral. We are strong. We are united. We are the good guys.
This isn’t our first rodeo, we’ve been down this road more times than I can count. And in each one of those horrible flare ups, when antisemitism rose above the surface after hiding for a long time, we were scared, we were worried, and yes, we were often hopeless.
But the words Am Yisrael Chai aren’t just words. They are a historical reality and they are a promise, a promise that our enemies will perish and we will flourish. Our enemies will disappear into the history books, the history books that we will write!
They will continue to bring their darkness and we will continue to extinguish it with our light. They will continue to glorify death and we will continue to celebrate life. They will continue to destroy and we will continue to build. They will continue to terrorize and we will continue to innovate.
Nothing anyone or any online campaign will tell me can change the truth and the truth is, we are the good guys. We always have been and we always will be.
And to our enemies I say, you have forgotten what the Jewish people are made of. You have forgotten what Hashem has done for us. You will soon be reminded when you unite with your friends from ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and so many others.
You have forgotten three very important words that are more powerful than any Instagram campaign.
Am. Yisrael. Chai, you FOOLS!!
As for me, remember how I said that I’m having a hard day? Well I feel a lot better now. Thanks for letting me vent!
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