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Anyone who knows my work well knows that articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction hardly exist. I chose to buy a book, and I was just going to write about my critical thinking of social security when a new news headline struck my attention hard.

How fear of ‘critical thinking’ drives Christian nationalists’ ‘rising authoritarianism’: ex-evangelical. How many Americans even noticed that. And last night I was reading about what the freedmen went through because of fear and white supremacy.

I read this last night. A white minister from South Carolina shot and killed a freedman when the latter objected when a Black man “objected to the expulsion of another Black man from church services.” Are we not in a civil war right now? I also read in the news online how an Imam was selected by the Trump team (not Biden) to give the invocation at Trump’s inauguration as “a radical, antisemite” and who had “a significant history of extremism.” That cleric supports Trump over Trump’s opposition to gay marriage. And last night as I read how freedmen were citing the Declaration of Independence and its famous clause “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and particularly, at times, happiness when it was badly needed.

Trump has not fought to ban gay marriages at all, although he has lots of evangelicals and others in his camp, especially now. I could not find a precise reference to antisemitism in the article, but it probably had something to do with Hezbollah and Israel many years ago. This material comes from The New York Post which is a huge supporter of Donald Trump. I later found out from another source that the Imam had called Saudi Arabia an “agent of the Jews” (The NY Post probably chose not to write it) because of a Saudi attack on Yemen. So, he went beyond mentioning Zionism and brought up the Jews.

I am not impressed about any of the religious leaders who will be speaking at the inauguration, and I have personally spoken to Pastor Sewell of Detroit who months ago told the press and me that someone else in his congregation invited Trump. That could be entirely true, but I wouldn’t invite Trump to my home. Sewell must have been completely backing that invitation. And Sewell spoke at the Republican National Convention in July, opposing Kamala Harris’s nomination. He has been passing Trump’s loyalty test. Sewell is concerned and mentioned the low reading skills of people in Detroit. Maybe he should have concentrated on teaching the entire city how to read better? I would love to watch him in action. Sewell is just another Black man quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and having either his blinders on or not knowing just how Donald J. Trump was posting things that were posted by White Supremacists. I expect his loyalty to be repaid in some other ways by Trump.

And about literacy and Pastor Sewell, I found this “Partnered with Pam Good and the Beyond Basics program which now gives hope and a future to the students that attend Pontiac area schools with one-on-one tutoring and mentoring.” Pam Good, I read, was going to help 10,000 of the 12,000 high school students in Detroit. So, what happened pastor? That was taken from an article in Detroit in October 2019 and the results portrayed by Pastor Sewell are not indicative of success for Detroit. Could it be that the tutoring was not as good as the pastor expected? Tutoring in Virginia under Governor Youngkin, a Republican, did not work out well and that was a warning to other states. There were no results listed on the pastor’s webpage.

By the way, the average income of people in Detroit is half that of others in the state. Could it be that Trump’s first four years really didn’t help Detroit much?

Southern whites beat a Black soldier who said he was proud to have served in the Union army

From 1965-1967 there were 1,000 murders of Blacks by Whites

A Texas lawyer killed a Black man who refused to be bound and whipped

There was “pathological fear” of the former Black slave

Freedmen were assaulted and killed for all kinds of reasons and there was a lynching of 24 Blacks as well

It makes you wonder if Florida includes information like this in its curriculum of Black history (American history). Is Praeger U. providing this kind of content? And would Congressman Donaldson, a huge Trump supporter, object to teaching this?

Keep in mind that freed Blacks were calling for much more than Emancipation. They wanted full rights such as voting and serving on juries in court (justice)

And this bit of information hit hard. White Virginians were told that “our fathers as well as yours were toiling in the plantations on James River.” That was a reference to 1619 when America started to build the American nation that had nothing to do with Marxist revisionism. It was Black people talking “common sense” that Whites did not wish to hear. And today, we often read about Republicans citing to not look at the past and just let US move forward. They don’t know that we started teaching American history that way in New York City in the 1970s. And that Crispus Attucks, a Black man, was the first man killed in the fight for freedom that led to a new nation. American history was Marxist without Marx, because of the oppression that was taking place. Even long before Marx, in Brandywine in Delaware, a member of the Dupont family was killed by his employees because those workers faced danger and death in mining gunpowder and their safely was not a priority of the boss.

If you read about The Spanish Holocaust, you will see the universality of the horrific behavior of the landowner who killed several farm workers there to keep his workers under control as the Spanish Civil War started. We can also think about Stalin and what he did to the kulaks in Ukraine. Mass murder!

Opponents also decried the proposal as socialism. The proposal being social security in 1935. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Senator Thomas Gore (D-OK) asked “Isn’t this Socialism?” She replied that it was not, but he continued, “Isn’t this a teeny-weeny bit of Socialism?”

Excluded from the benefits of unemployment insurance and old age pensions were most women

 Job categories not covered by the act included workers in agricultural labor, domestic service, government employees, and many teachers, nurses, hospital employees, librarians, and social workers.

Also  denied coverage were individuals who worked intermittently.

 These jobs were dominated by women and minorities

Women made up 90 percent of domestic labor in 1940, two-thirds of all employed black women were in domestic service

Half of the working population was excluded

Two-thirds of all African Americans in the labor force were excluded

In the South, 70 to 80 percent were not covered

About half of all women employed were not covered by Social Security

 The NAACP protested the Social Security Act, calling “a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through.

And today, Republicans are often talking about women staying home to raise children. There is a huge blame game, And today, Republicans are pushing charter schools and there is a huge blame game there, too.

Gettng rid of social security and unions that cost business more money is to them “common sense.” Socialism-communism is to blame. Now wait a minute! You know you make me want to shout about things here.

There were no Marxist schools in Civil War and Reconstruction. Blacks went on strike for higher wages or spread collective petitions for higher wages. Where? New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, and Columbus, Georgia.

When the crops failed for sharecroppers in 1866, Blacks were upset and cried out for “one-half of what was due them.” Again, it wasn’t Marxism, it was the universality of a system that was hurting workers.

And we have to use our “critical thinking” skills much more here. Thank Malcolm X and the knowledge that he brought forth about the two types of Negroes who worked for the plantation owner. Freed blacks insisted that the land belonged to them and left as they were asked to sign labor contracts. They also would tell the “master” that the kitchen in the plantation house belonged to he who cut the timber to create it. That they, black people were “joint heirs” as a Tennessee planter said that blacks made their residence “in the rooms of my house.” And this was universal thinking. There was a real demand for reparations.

Those were difficult times amidst the Civil War and a nation that was changing a century in one year. And there were the elderly blacks who spent their lifetime on the plantation. How would they survive, especially as old age took its toll and without social security? How? Those elderly wished to be supported during those years by the same planters that enslaved them. As you can see, Blacks created or discovered or wished for social security. The result was that they didn’t achieve it or obtain it, even during the Great Depression.

Notice how similar that was to social security, Not the same, of course. Our social security checks give US more freedom than that.

I wish that I could communicate with those who speak about the slave names given to blacks as I read about free blacks who took new names such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson among many others.

Blacks were also looking for long lost family members who were sold and moved. Jewish people must think about just how our people did their best to find loved ones deported under Nazi rule. Reuniting families is universal also in history. I noticed a name Cardozo who turned out to be a black man who had a Jewish father. Here was a man who acted on the principle that Free Blacks and the Freedmen were equals (there were all kinds of divisions between them) and that mulattoes did not progress more rapidly toward education than blacks. Also keep in mind that Free blacks did not want their children to go to school with Freedmen.

 And here goes the strong movement in New York that had its impact on our nation.

“By the early 1900s, the institutional groundwork for a powerful Jewish Socialist movement had been laid. One of the most important institutions of the movement was the Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring), which began as a mutual aid society in 1892 and was reorganized as a multi-branch fraternal order in 1900.

The Workmen’s Circle provided its members with material assistance, such as health and death benefits, and its branches served as venues for social interaction and cultural expression. Branches also supported their members who were on strike, and the order as a whole aided striking unions and Socialist causes. Members were permitted to hold whatever political or religious opinions they liked, as long as they did not vote for the candidates of a bourgeois party. The order itself was resolutely secular.”

Keep this in mind, in 1867, Jews formally received full equal rights in Austria thanks to liberalization efforts. This is where my grandparents came from. Russian Jews experienced heightened antisemitism In Ukraine in 1881, after Jews were scapegoated for the assassination of Alexander II, violence broke out in 166 Ukrainian towns, thousands of Jewish homes were destroyed, many families reduced to extremes of poverty, large numbers of men, women, and children were injured and some killed. For three years, these attacks continued as government and police even got involved against the Jews.

Jews and Blacks had their similarities, and we can go back, for example, to Memphis, Tennessee in 1866 to see that. “(Among the leaders of Memphis’ religious and benevolent societies, the majority were unskilled laborers.)”

Self help meant that the destitute among other Blacks got help.

Nashville, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta, and rural areas helped create orphanages, soup kitchens, employment agencies, and poor relief funds. Even donations were made to poor Whites.

There it is for you. And then the rise of the KKK slowed and stopped progress. Huge amounts of people were in need for social security by 1935, especially during The Great Depression, but the need was always there. And the need today is great as huge percentages of people face poverty right now.

The starting point is Forty Acres and a Mule. Who am I thinking of? This is a kind of important part of Civil War history and Emancipation. But who am I thinking of? Do you know?

There was lots of talk about land reform during the Civil War which meant taking the land away from the planters who were not loyal to the Union. Therefore, forty acres was implemented on plantations to help the newly freed human beings and even “refugee” whites (as you will see).Just like the migrant crisis right now across our nation, it was extremely hard to figure out just how to bring the former slaves into the workforce so they could earn a decent living. Subsistence wages were the norm in lots of places and wages therefore varied. Lincoln had no plan. And voting rights was a critical issue talked about. The most highlighted transformation on voting rights which I read about last night took place in Florida on an island that I’ve enjoyed going to, Amelia Island where Blacks and Whites voted alongside each other in local elections.

My reading progressed from forty acres to forty acres and a mule. Anyone could predict that it was coming. It’s like hearing the song Beat It and then a Michael Jackson impersonator appears or even Michael himself. This history was part of General Sherman’s destructive march to the sea. Sherman told later on that the land grants were only temporary and would terminate at the end of the war and the mules could be obtained as a loan from the army. I repeat that there was nothing permanent about all this although others told the blacks that they would take possession of the land.

Were you thinking about Mr. Do the Right Thing, or that black film maker who started “Forty Acres and a Mule” as his film company in Brooklyn, New York. Someone should ask Spike Lee if he knew the history well.

Now we can turn to Greenland and Mexico thinking about Trump news. One of my readers precisely thought about Putin and his attack on Ukraine. Then I read Rex Huppke , whose new article should be read by millions of people to learn more about Trump and Greenland. The humor provided in that article is outstanding as he wrote “YES! I was predominantly a one-issue voter, and that issue was the exorbitant cost of seal meat. By threatening our ally Denmark and using military force if necessary, the Trump administration can proudly claim Greenland as a U.S. territory, dramatically lowering the cost of seal meat for American consumers like myself.  That will allow me and my fellow MAGA supporters to affordably make Suaasat, a Greenlandic soup, AS IS OUR RIGHT AS AMERICANS!”

Then Charlamagne tha God made Trump supporters feel great again as he pointed out just how powerful Trump’s assault on Greenland is. He either liked that a lot or he wrote to wake up the Democrats to what he considers is great behavior on Trump’s part. This is what tha God said “

As I’ve been saying for years, the language of politics is dead, and Donald Trump killed it. Period.” Ask him, also, about “Forty Acres and a Mule” and “Do the Right Thing.”

Trump has attacked our “ally” which plays into Putin’s hands, and we are actually at war with Russia, but Trump is not.

Now let’s visit Mexico and naming the gulf the Gulf of America.

Now knowing Jewish and world history, it wasn’t long when I thought of this, hoping that tha God, Jews who voted with Trump on a new migrant law (praising those who didn’t), and thinking about Benjamin Netanyahu who backed away from supporting Trump’s wall while Trump was in office (and lots of others including black Congressmen). Mexican Gulf-American Gulf, which is a continuation of Trump’s attack on Mexico and his America First program (Hitler made).Mexican Gulf-Oświęcim and American Gulf-Auschwitz. The Polish name was replaced by the German after Germany forced Poland to surrender quickly.  Let the Spanish name stand, remove all the Confederate monuments, and make peace in our nation. My Way! Trump’s move burns like a KKK cross now against Mexico at a moment when it not only has a woman president, but also it’s first Jewish president. The Jews of Mexico reasoned with Netanyahu over his support of Trump’s wall and the Israeli backed away. Trump? He should resign even now. And Netanyahu and Tha God should have a podcast seen worldwide to clear things up.

And there is much more to share, since Trump’s Homeland Security appointee, General Kelly did not wish to deport some immigration violators and strongly recommended his own deputy, Kirstjen Nielson, as the new secretary. She had passed the test in both houses and the president had to sign off on her and he did that. Kelly told Trump that he was going to attend her swearing in. That must have been like Kamala Harris just now passing the torch of power to Trump as the electoral votes were counted and Trump was declared the next president.

By the way, Fox News and those cold ICE Council members were upset at Trump. They had just endorsed Trump in 2016.

Let’s not forget the Panama Canal and the hostages held by Hamas. Let’s clear up the hostages first. Trump is saying that “all hell will break loose” if there is no hostage deal before he takes office. Let’s hope he does not take office! He has a small selection of sayings that he keeps repeating such as “I didn’t know that woman” when there is lots of proof that he did. He also says, “that wouldn’t have happened under me.” It did remind me of a Republican who has criticized Trump repeatedly and that is Chris Christie. Just in case you did not know this about Christie, the ex-governor of New Jersey, he said while in office that no cop is going to be killed while he is in office. And guess what? I believe that no cop was killed while he was in office (in New Jersey). Lots of cops were killed all across the USA in those days (in Blue and Red states). Wouldn’t you want to see Trump say that no cop will be killed while I am in office and see what happens? Of course, Trump has declared what he did say while he was no longer in office. But I sensed the danger for Jews in Israel while Trump was in office, and I wrote about it. Trump lacked greatness in relation to Israel and the Mexican border. And now he is after the Canadian border so we can expect “all hell to break loose” over there as well. Hamas started making its plans while Trump was in office (seven years ago).What we wanted was a situation where Hamas would not make any such plans. Trump was part of that delivery system to 1,200 killed and hundreds of hostages.

Then Panama is being treated like Korea. Have you read Fear by Bob Woodward who Trump is suing right now. Korea and the Mexican border in the book are right next to each other. It took a quick read of pages only that were side by side. When we had the Trump-un situation, Trump said this IF (it was if) the US in the North Korea situation is attacked or forced to defend itself, “we will have no choice to totally destroy North Korea.”

Trump said that “You’ve got to show strength.” So let’s go on with “show.”

Lindsay Graham suggested that China should kill Un and replace him with a puppet general. Trump also told Tillerson, his Secretary of State, that he shouldn’t waste his time negotiating with Un, but in 2016 Trump said that he would negotiate with Un over a “hamburger.” And now in 2024, North Korean troops were ordered to Ukraine to fight for Trump’s great friend Putin. And I guess you could call what had taken place under Trump “hamburger diplomacy.”

And those troops are being killed in great numbers and Trump has done nothing since his credo is “that would not take place in my administration.” North Korea wants to grab South Korean.

Why can’t North Korea grab Panama, and the USA can grab South Korea? I am only kidding, but on second thought maybe that would work. The power of the USA, the total power, against North Korea instead of a South Korea is need of great help. Consider it an extension of Flushing, Queens and a message to Koreans everywhere and our allies that the United States is with you. And if North Korea in Panama moved against our interests (we know that China has great investments and strength in Latin America and the elsewhere) then the Monroe Doctrine could be invoked. Right now, it seems that Trump’s attack on Panama which is causing “a heat wave, a tropical heat wave, the temperature is rising” so it shouldn’t surprise you that that what Trump is doing in more like Marilyn Monroe that James Monroe. Leave Panama alone and make Republicans cause Trump to resign. And he should take JD and others with him.

Trump would do our nation a great thing and he has the make up on already and his hair is blonder now, so why can’t he put on a dress and reenact the Marilyn Monroe version of the song made popular by Ethel Merman and Ethel Waters by going on a tour and stop all that campaigning that is contributing to hate across the USA and around the world? If Bruce Jenner did it….?

And North Korea fired missiles under Trump and while he was not in office. And the beat goes on!

And trying to clear up this problem will also take lots of work, especially with Democrats who have voted Yes on the Laken legislation. And I just sent an article to the National Ice Council about antisemitism and hate. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who opposed the bill, acknowledged the terrible tragedy of Riley’s murder in a post on X. But, he said, “Attempting to honor her memory by passing a bill that requires mandatory detention without criminal charges–and without access to a bond or bail hearing–is a blatant assault on American values.” American values seem to be Trump values that were held precious by strong men like Hitler and Stalin. I don’t want to be held by any police jurisdiction without evidence and charges and I hope you would not wish that on me or anyone.

“I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people not be let in—as for instance, , the very intelligent , and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks…But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone.”

March 13, 1864

We are now facing Make America Great Again which failed before and will soon face its “manifest destiny.” I can see it shaping up as I read the news by Trump. That is America’s destiny. And you will find the name of the author of that quote later on. Go back to read it again when you find the name of the man.

Timothy Snyder wrote this in 2024.

“Trump disqualified himself from office by taking part in an insurrection and thereby seeking to substitute the rule of fear for the rule of law.

The historian Eric Foner was the first to connect the storming of the Capitol to Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which bans oath-breaking insurrectionists from holding office.  The legal scholars William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen made the case for disqualification, exhaustively and convincingly, in a law review article posted last August.”

Eric Foner wrote the book that I am now reading. True “Reconstruction” remained unfinished and now even Black people around Trump have bought into ideas that America was Made Great as they focused on “Keep America Great” when Biden clearly won. And the Republicans have created a “Constitutional Crisis” which is going to affect the world adversely.

Eric Foner wrote that what happened to Black people in the Democratic North was a “pogrom.” I read about that period in another book which did not state the word “pogrom” at all. Racism and war over jobs were major parts of the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Immigrants of all faiths participated in that evil behavior.

There were no ovens, but Black people were burnt alive. Children were torn from their mothers’ arms and killed in various horrific ways. Women on their first day of motherhood were beaten. Hitler must have loved reading this kind of material (if he found it) since these are facts that were known but not taught to US. Even the last book, I read about New York City’s race riots didn’t spell things out more.

Troops were sent in after the victory at Gettysburg to put down the rioting.

Let’s switch over to another channel to see what our nation was really like. But keep in mind that it was Donald J. Trump who wanted “Norwegian” types to enter America. Keeping out Black people then is the next lesson. In Ohio, its “Enquirer” wrote, “Slavery is dead…the negro is not, there is the misfortune.” And we should think about Ohio where the Haitians, Donald J. Trump said, were eating cats and dogs. There Republicans raised their voices against the talk, but probably voted for Trump on Election Day. And now that Haitians have fled and not dead, what did those very same voices do and what will they do to protect the Haitians there from taking flight in the face of fear? It’s the civil war that has never left. It’s the insurrection that Republicans claim never was.

Unfinished business indeed! I am wired in a different way. I know the educational gaps that have been created and I have tried hard to make America a much better place. Let’s go back to 2013 even before Trump. Forty million adults in our nation who never completed high school. The average annual expectation to help people catch up was 400,000 (out of 40 million, I repeat) high school equivalency diplomas annually or more. In a great year the number would exceed 600,000 before a new, more challenging test would appear. Now there are still 40 million adults in need of a diploma and 150,000 diplomas given out by the GED Testing Service annually. What a disaster for our nation’s families. So, one percent (400,000) shrunk to probably one-half percent annually (there is the HI-SET high school equivalency to consider). This drastic failure needed my help and guidance from the beginning in 2014 as the numbers fell in very good GED states. And to make my point stronger is this. Governors failed. I learned how to detect things when others didn’t. Eric Foner was on the mark as a historian. Timothy Snyder too. And history and current events matter since history repeats itself.

And don’t forget that the Party of Lincoln, the Grand Old Party (GOP) that helped free the slaves around 1864 advocated segregation in 1964 under Barry Goldwater. What will happen in 2064?

And in Indiana, women marched with the banner “Fathers save us from nigger husbands.” Again, it was Democrats and repeatedly Democrats, but why the “Norwegian” types by Trump recently which is almost like yesterday and should be mistreat immigrants and migrants because it is his commandment. What about the real Bible? What about the story of Joseph in Egypt? Is that long forgotten by Catholics, Christians and Jews? He had lost his coat of many colors a long time before that.  And Cardinal Dolan, a friend of Trump, recently spoke words of praise for Trump’s religious faith. Stop selling those autographed Bibles and live by it.

And with that said there is more on this plate to share. Iowa, Indiana, Oregon, and Illinois were states (Democratic held) where it was decided to close their borders to blacks. Sound familiar today? Has the governor of Texas really read the Bible and people everywhere today who objected to the migrants.

Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York City were places where Blacks were confined to the poorest, unhealthiest quarters by discrimination including schools and jobs. Blacks were just 2 percent of the population in the North back then.

In May of 1865, Massachusetts passed the first major law to permit Blacks the equal use of public transportation. How did that happen? National attention was needed and Robert Smalls, a “black war hero, after being thrown off public transportation in Philadelphia had to walk three miles to his job in the navy yard provided that. Philadelphia did not act until 1867, but Cincinnati, New York City, San Franciso, and Cleveland desegregated during the war. And I have been in voice in the wilderness for education for 20 years.

There is lots of information in The World the War Made in the book on Reconstruction. Inflation and tariffs took their place, and the poor were badly hurt as prices went up. Tariffs helped pay for the war expenses, but it impacted so severely that crimes were committed. Tariffs on China resulted in people paying money to the federal government, but Trump made people believe that China was paying for it. And Trump won. Learn the lessons of the Civil War. War brings inflation and the costs of the recent pandemic did, too.

Check this out. I found the inflation rate in the U.S. under Obama and Trump and the inflation was often similar. Then suddenly in 2020, the inflation rate did drop a lot, but it suddenly rose and doubled and tripled in the remaining months of 2020. It was an average low of about 3 tenths of one percent for those three months before doubling and tripling. So, it was on its way up to greet the Biden Administration.

I hope that Americans will learn much more. It’s not about the college educated against those without degrees. It’s about knowledge that we can count on that is universal and not about those “fake news” proponents.

I was going to finish this article, but I read more highly interesting information. The border states  and dilemmas captured my attention. Louisiana should be mentioned first although it was last on the historian’s list. Black people held slaves and here is one example. Antoine Dubuclet owned 100 slaves, and he was sugar planter. The French and Spanish influence in Louisiana was so great and lots of light skinned descendants of White men and Black women identified with European culture. And there were mulatto emigrants from Haiti. As you can see, back in those days, it was unlikely to hear some clown talk about Haitians eating cats and dogs.                         

Then there were Tennessee, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia to learn more about. The ideas were all over the map or various. What should be done then and after the Civil War was over. The Structure of the South was failing apart due to the war and class resentments. Communism wasn’t even a factor since wealthy planters dominated in politics. At the rate things were going, the planters would soon have to pick their own crops as there was huge destabilization due to the war.

At the top of this list, I decided to place that freed blacks would have their own territory which I will get to later. Emancipation could be slow or faster from one locality to another. Voting rights discussed were in favor and against for blacks. In courts blacks could testify in court against whites and elsewhere localities would not allow that. Emancipation did not mean gaining full political rights in many or most cases. And this was before Jim Crow. I guess it was some other form of Crow. Public schools were set up for the first time. Blacks could be excluded from that. Deportation, already mentioned in my last article, was on the table. Emancipation was considered “unconstitutional” as well. Expulsion also was proposed. People were making “America Great.”

As I woke up this morning very early, things hit me. What if blacks had been removed to some territory or worse such as deportation? Names popped into my head and ideas. Wilt Chamberlain, Sugar Ray Robinson, Michael Jordan, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, Israel, the Nazis and Hitler in particular soaked my brain. It’s possible that we would have heard about and learned about all of this the way things happened, and I forgot about Jack Johnson and the “Great White Hope” concept. And Albert Einstein.  What if blacks had been moved into their own territory? We could imagine lots of changes in life and history.

Would that territory continue to exist and if it existed what direction would all things go in?

Would it be called the United Negro States of America or some other similar name? Would its great scientific minds who created lots of important things and usually didn’t get credit for it create more things including the atomic bomb which was the work of The Manhattan Project? Would Einstein have joined the black nation in that effort after fleeing from Nazi Germany? Would Hitler have been more aggressive in working with neo-Nazis in America in the 1930s because of the existence of that black nation. Would the nation fall under the guidance of The Nation of Islam, which could have had its development sped up after the Civil War by decades. Would blacks there join against Germany, Japan, and Italy in World War II, jumping past World War I. Would the nation be part Islamic and part Israelite since we are told that blacks were the original Jews?

And in sports, wouldn’t that speed up the development of black athletes who might have been better than the men (think women as well) on the list. May I say kindly “you never know.”

I guess we could ask just how many blacks would have remained in the United States of America, if….And thinking about Israel and what it has gone through since 1948 surrounded by hostile Arab nations, would the UNSA just mentioned defensively react the way that Israelis react who are under constant pressure facing that world? My thought process just ended with the word “genocide” circulating in my mind and finding its place right here.

Oh, the quote. Abraham Lincoln, 16^th president of the United States. And where is the clown. Send out the clown!

The subtitle of the book is The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo. The American Police at the Service of the Gestapo.

Two of my books arrived, the one just mentioned and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. Where do I begin to tell the story that is older than the sea (Trump and others like him) of America that we see. Hate! I decided to start both books, hoping to find great material. Hoping? All it took was reading two pages and I found this “Without making improper comparisons (improper? Maybe we will see something?), the Roundup of the Vel D’Hiv is a very current topic. I have already mentioned Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia because the governors are very concerned and are taking action against deportations “mass deportations,”

And then two pages later in this foreword appeared a paragraph devoted to a “clown” who “our parents’ generation was replete with jokes about another clown who shouted obscenities at Munich (Springfield, Ohio recently), and Nurenberg (think of any city where you live now in Red and Blue states),,,”

I left out “How can we fail to make the connection to Donald Trump’s policy toward Mexican and Central American refugees?” That was written in February 2017 in Jerusalem. Trump took office in January and January is back with vengeance. Michel Warschawski also wrote about the Muslim ban in that foreword.

I did it again. I picked a book to read and write about with the world. The governors of those students and others will soon be informed about this proper comparison. I will leave it to Fox News to continue to make improper comparisons to the “Roundup” that took place in France.

The first chapter concludes with talk about concentration camps to hold the tens of thousands of Jews and others and then raids were going to come. The first stage was that Jews were ordered to appear at police stations, but there were indications of what was to be even before that. Actually, long before that because hate against Jews ran deep. And we have to appeal to or demand of those police right now who may never have heard of this history.

Oh you want to learn something about the history of America’s Unfinished Revolution. You just had one unit, but let’s turn now to hate in American during the Civil War. I am going to tie this also to French history in a way. President Lincoln, in 1862, made an agreement with “an entrepreneur of dubious character” where  5,000 blacks would settle on the Ile a Vache in Haiti. There were four hundred (453 in the abstract about this colony) who reached that island and in 1864 “those fortunate to survive returned.”

This plan was similar to indentured servitude and at the end of four years great benefits would accrue to those blacks who worked on the cotton plantation, including receiving 16 acres of land and wages for their work. I did research online to find that material.

I just read that 350 blacks returned in an article “During one Cabinet debate over colonization proposals,

in reaction to a suggestion of compulsory deportation,

Lincoln emphasized, ―Their emigration must be

voluntary and without expense to themselves.‖90 This

unwavering belief in colonization as strictly a voluntary

measure further demonstrates Lincoln‘s earnest

conviction that blacks would be inclined to pursue

emigration. On paper, Île à Vache was the ideal

opportunity to do just that.”

You can find the entire article by searching April 2014

Île à Vache and Colonization: The Tragic End of

Lincoln’s “Suicidal Folly”

Graham D. Welch

Georgetown University

And what crime had Black people committed? Being Black and being free were keys to understanding just how America First Lincoln’s America was. Hitler learned most of what he did to the Jews and others from the American experience. Leaving the other out and deporting good people is what we are facing right now. I have been actively involved for over 20 years as a defender of the immigrants. The time to wake up was in the past, but we have to catch up now and eliminate the mistakes, particularly the one just made by Trump in which he demanded his men and women not to pass the border security bill. Sink the Bismark, I say. Do you get that little comment?

The third book that I ordered has not arrived. That one is Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Report. After reading Elie Wiesel’s Night, I wanted to know more. Congress has to learn much more!

Provoked by a reader in Florida who told me she is on “pins and needles” waiting for what I would write,  had not even thought about writing about Carter. His death at 100 years of age almost seems biblical as I approach my eightieth-year next month. Then I called a long-time reader of mine, a call to a major city in Georgia which I had visited on a car trip. He had not answered the phone for days and I was worried. The sky cleared and the sun came out as he answered the phone and we spoke about Jimmy Carter, FEMA, the hostage situation back then, and more. More will be coming since I told him that I would call him after wishing him a Happy New Year.

My readers know that I often place important information that comes in at the last minute to support my articles and that information is usually at the end of my article. This time, the latest news deserves mentioning up front. But first let me share this.

Carter and Trump failed, thinking about the latest war in Gaza which would not have happened under Trump. My position is that Trump is one of the worst presidents we have ever had. His popularity, as many know, is based on  his constant campaigning or willingness to fight. His mistakes have been legendary, but his support is HUGE. People will tell you he says stupid things but his policies work and he keeps his promises. I have never been impressed. Okay! With that said, look what I learned about yesterday and found in The New York Post.

Hamas spent 7 years collecting intel on security cameras, guards and even a kindergarten in Israeli communities massacred on Oct. 7: report

Story by Ronny Reyes • 2d • 4 min read

As you can see, it was only a matter of time and timing for the attack on Israel and the Jewish people to take place. Jewish people everywhere. Has Hamas had adequate information in 2020, the attack could easily have taken place. And it shows just how stupid The New York Post was for even writing what you have just read, keeping in mind that important things were held back from the world during WWII about Stalin and his massacre of 19,000 Polish officers.

Stop the world, I wanna get things straight. There should be a new election before the Trump inauguration. I know that we are facing a constitutional crisis since it’s in the news often. The word arrest means to stop, and the harm done by the Trump Administration has been HUGE. Trump should resign and now or he should be “arrested” somehow. If this new evidence about Hamas had not come forward and if The New York Post had not written about it, my case would have been much weaker since we need lots of evidence.

Let me come back to my senses since I got carried away by my emotions. As you know well, Jimmy Carter was president from 1977-1981 and he was defeated after one term and he never returned to office. It was around those years that I started to get much more creative. I suffered from arthritis in my toe joints, and I decided to drink S.C. to comfort me, which is a play on words. I had gotten into tennis in a big way after watching Guillermo Vilas win tournaments, mostly on clay. I was possessed and started to play tennis. That S.C. helped, but I also had what I would call “revelations” which was this. I could walk away from the office at work and in seconds an idea was revealed to me, an idea which I acted on. This combination propelled me to reach out to the world. You can read that I spoke to famous people on the phone, including Milos Forman, Stanely Kramer, and my late friend Mark Warren. I spoke to lesser-known people, of course, including the son of Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem. I was acquiring badly needed knowledge in the 1980s which Jimmy Carter apparently did not have.

The New York Post had already been on my mind yesterday as I read an article by Delano Squires in which he wrote this “They (Black people) were bombarded with messages during the presidential race smearing Trump as a racist bent on rolling back civil rights and giving police who kill black men in cold blood immunity from prosecution.” Focus on the word “smearing” here. Has Squires forgotten that message to police about Freddy Gray’s death in Baltimore about roughing up Black people and is it not true that police have wanted “immunity” in the performance of their duties? And is it not true that police loved Trump (older retired Black police officers did not share this viewpoint). And that Trump favored “Norwegian” types over immigrants coming from “shithole” nations or other nations designated something similar by Trump in his own words. Squires is conservative by his associations including The Heritage Foundation.

Squires is educated, but he needs more and here is information that he can write about in an article to start the New Year off right. Professor Lipstadt in Antisemitism Here and Now on page 46 which says A Taxonomy of the Antisemite “Let’s start with Donald Trump…” She quickly references Trump’s responses about the KKK in that chapter and she points out how he posted White Supremacist information. Trump apparently could not recall calling David Duke “a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean , this is not exactly the people you want in your party.” Since making to the White House, Trump’s memory had failed him. And it kept on failing him. There is not honest reason to protect Donald Trump on this issue. The truth must be spread.

If conservatives say and mean it that our college campuses need an infusion of conservative college professors, then why can’t my own views be expressed for a week in The NY Post since among other things I know where Bloomberg, DeBlasio, and Adams have gone wrong and that doesn’t mean that the city should have Sliwa, Cuomo, Malliotakis, etc. to lead the city.

With all of that said, let me take you back to the Carter Administration.

This is what I read about in 35 pages in the chapter The Carter Presidency: The Pursuit of Peace and Constant Tension with Israel.

I did my homework and learned about the hatred of Israelis for the Arabs. I learned and wrote and told Reagan supporters that there would be no peace in the Middle East since revenge was a major factor. Tell me that I was wrong in 1987 when I moved in conservative Middle Village and spoke out to the few people that I knew. I was not community minded until years later and my efforts were helping people as I became famous. Even after my fame died out, it was my idea to bring Smoking Joe Frazier together with Muhammad Ali to fight for the education of 40 million adults in the United States who had never finished high school (can you see the headlines in The New York Post?) That newspaper, in my opinion, is mediocre at best. I used to buy it until its headline was that Trump was clean when he was not.

My own messaging had to get stronger, and it did. From writing about the Massacre of Hebron in 1929 and the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin in my work back then, I realized that it took more mentioning those two important facts.

Finally, I wrote that the 1929 Massacre of innocent Jews (like the massacre of 1,200 on October 7, 2023) should have been an integral part of all newspaper reporting such as The New York Post and the Arab American News in Dearborn, Michigan. And that means the information should go out worldwide (I just wrote to Pakistan where a huge demonstration full of Palestinian flags was held in Islamabad). What have worldwide Jewish organizations done? What? Are you getting a sense here of the mediocrity that I express to a few friends or others right now?

With that said he is summary of those pages in the book that I read years ago that

“For anyone who cares about U.S. Israeli ties, this is a must-read.”

Madeline Albright, 64^th U.S. Secretary of State

You will now go back in time to learn what was going on from 1977-1981.Can you relate to those things? Are you informed? Did you vote in 2024 and know much or all of this?

Taiwan-China

Afghanistan-Soviet Union

Gaza

West Bank

Lebanon

Yemen and its civil war

Egypt

Jordan

Saudi Arabia

Middle East Middle East and oil OPEC

Iran

Iraq

Jewish leadership in the USA

Sadat-Begin

Camp David (no mention of Mar-A-Lago)

Rabin, Arafat, Shimon Perez, Ariel Sharon

PLO/Fatah

Kissinger-Brzezinski-Vance

Oslo

Resolution 252

Drones

Jordan

Now you can learn more about Jimmy Carter and what he was about. Dennis Ross used lots of quotes directly taken from the diary of President Carter, but he was also there at the time. Ross is Jewish and he was young at the time (about 28 years old), and his book was published in 2015.His book has been repeatedly mentioned in my articles, but I have shown the weaknesses in the Jewish leadership based on his work, a weakness that continues to exist four years after Trump as Trump begins again. OMG!

Ross points out that Carter expressed this. He wished that he had gotten involved in the Civil Rights Movement. He was from Georgia and Georgia was segregated and kept African Americans back from achieving equal status. Ross writes about Carter’s feeling “guilt.” This section of the chapter needed more documentation, but Ross wrote,”He (Carter) saw Israel as the country occupying Palestinians and as the one mainly responsible for the perpetuation of the conflict.”

This information, presented in the same chapter under the title Carter’s Mind-set and approach, came from Stuart Eizenstat, a Jewish member of Carter’s team when Carter was governor of Georgia and then who ran the policy operation toward Carter’s victory in the Election of 1976. After that, Eizenstat was the White House “senior domestic policy advisor.”

Here is an example of things that Carter was writing (thinking) about Israeli leaders.  “I sent Begin and Sadat a congratulatory message after they received the Nobel Peace Jointly. Sadat deserved it: Begin did not.” And in the next paragraph, Ross gave lots of praise to Carter for his hard work and it was Carter who “literally drafted the Egyptian-Israeli part of the accords and held the summit together at the moments when it might otherwise collapsed.”

Trump told the world that he was looking at both a one state and a two-state solution when he was taking office in 2017 and recently, he spoke that Abbas wanted peace more than Netanyahu did. Same old, same old. Look again at what I wrote in late 2020 about the Abraham Peace Accords. Look world!

Posted December 23, 2020

And behind all this were the Arab leaders who often would not even raise the Palestinian issue at meetings during the Bush years. This chain of thought permeates Dennis Ross’ work and book. We can see some of it right now in the Abraham Peace Accord which may or may not be real peace. The bottom line is that Donald Trump who told the world that he was looking at a one state and a two-state solution in the Campaign of 2016 did not deliver. His deal making abilities fell far short and he had to reach into a back pocket to show the American people the huge progress that he made. Even the new deal with Morocco was made with a nation that was rich in supporting its Jewish population.

If Dennis Ross, the former diplomat knew it, Netanyahu knew it, I knew it, and countless others knew it, it had to be explained to Trump by someone familiar with the Middle East. Jared Kushner could easily have thought of his Abraham Peace Accords if Hillary Clinton had won the Election of 2016 and presented it to her in the name of world peace and she would have taken credit for it. Kushner already had a strong relationship with Netanyahu and things could have happened without Trump. And is it possible that Jared Kushner had read what I knew by reading the same book (Doomed to Succeed copyright 2015)?

And I wrote that almost three years before this new Gaza War.

Carter and Trump were losers here. MAGA lies cannot help bend the truth. And if millions of people who never attended the Ivy League 3 schools and other colleges had learned it since Carter’s time, why blame it all on the colleges. Even Condoleezza Rice (Ross wrote about her in the chapter on George W. Bush) referred to “apartheid” by Israel. And that was a Republican Administration. Carter was for human rights and Condoleezza Rice was able to balance her views by thinking of all the horrific terrorism that Israelis had to face.

Here is an example from that chapter. Has this been part of the news since the October 7, 2023 massacre? Ross called it the single worst terror event in Israel’s history which took place called the Coastal Road Massacre (38 civilians dead, including 13 children). The PLO team was in Lebanon and three days later there was retaliation as an Israeli team was sent there to clear out the PLO. Carter sent his condolences to Israel. Carter also would condemn the Israeli response. A UN team was later sent in (called UNFIL) and Ross says that Carter “could not know that UNFIL would be ineffectual.”

I decided to search for recent articles on the Coastal Road Massacre and I found one that took place after the October7, 2023 Massacre, but it seems the article had been prepared before the latest massacre and there was no mention of it.

I admit that my own memory had not stored that information until now. Was it not important? History matters! Doesn’t the attack by Putin matter for those who know the history of Hitler’s attack on Poland? Doesn’t the history of Jim Crow matter from its beginning to its end? And Trump cared more about sending troops to the border instead of helping Ukraine (Putin was and continues to be his great friend)?  Maybe they can both resign and go into the real estate business together? Or…serve time together somewhere. My memory is not that great for lots of things, but my writings turn up important things for the world to know.

The Arab world and Israel back then were fighting for security (from one another and from the growing influence of the Soviet Union). Fighter planes, financial aid, and more were needed. The idea of a Palestinian state was brought up and you can see the loud noise worldwide for that. Have you seen what I saw taking place in Islamabad, Pakistan? Just as I have presented material here from a major source of information, the Trump Administration must be carefully documented for US to read on the Abraham Peace Accords.  David Friedman wrote the book about his work to secure that “peace” accord which I called a trade agreement.

Look at what Ben Shapiro said about this peace in the Middle East. “When David Friedman took office, the Middle East was seen as a place of intractable conflict. When he left, the Middle East was blossoming into peace between Jews and Arabs. David Friedman was the right historic figure in a tumultuous, chaotic, and ultimately transformative time. In Sledgehammer, David tells the inside story of how the Trump administration changed the Middle East for the better.”

As you can see in 2022, he and others were proud of the “peace” and expected many more years of “peace.” And that was before the October 7,2023 Massacre which Trump says would never have taken place under him. Now let’s turn to Mark Levin. “In his book, Sledgehammer, David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, provides his intriguing firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary peace initiatives President Trump and his team, in close coordination with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, launched, leading to the historic Abraham Accords. Friedman was at the center of the most diplomatically successful, pro-Israel administration since that nation’s founding. I encourage you to get a copy. Sledgehammer is a must-read.”

My own reaction to the Trump Accords was entirely different. Did I want it to fail? No! I had already read Dennis Ross’s book, did not feel that Jimmy Carter was antisemitic because of his diplomacy with Israeli leaders (I would have opened my mouth ,and written about that in Jewish Business News or in The Force 2020 DDT. I expected serious trouble as early as 2019. And there was trouble and even later much more big trouble. Trump failed.

Jimmy Carter had other urgent problems arise such as Iran and the Iran hostage situation and Dennis Ross explains just how the administration was not well equipped to deal with that matter since its concentration was on Israel and Palestine and the Camp David Accords.  Ross in his conclusion, anticipating “turmoil” in the Middle East also wrote “a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians-now looking increasingly less likely-would have little effect- on any of these issues if they were to materialize.” And “removing the Palestinian conflict as a moral issue for Israel and as a source for additional instability would be a good thing….” Trump went the other way and the rest is history. He accomplished good things in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan. Go back to the list of countries in this article and you will see that the most problematic countries for Israel remained right up to today. Happy New Year and learn more!

Remember the beginning of the article and my contact from Georgia. Well, he has a lot on his plate, and we will devote a separate article to the memory of President Carter. I noticed that Nauseous (Nassau) County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a HUGE Trump TRUMP supporter has refused to lower the county flag half staff for Carter. He also has not released a statement. I think that it is time for Blakeman to resign. Yes resign and take TRUMP with him.

“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all promises, to the Jewish people.”

Oprah Winfrey highly promoted Night in 2006, a book that was written in 1950 and was hardly known for many years. The book was eventually known worldwide (published in 30 languages and sold 10 million copies).

The Holocaust Memorial Museum gives The Elie Wiesel Award is given by The Holocaust Memorial Museum to “internationally prominent individuals whose actions have advanced the Museum’s vision of a world where people confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity”.

Wiesel was also known for this “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”

Then there is George Clooney and Wiesel. In September 2006, at the UN Security Council, Wiesel spoke about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Clooney wrote upon learning about Wiesel’s death, “We had a champion who carried our pain, our guilt, and our responsibility on his shoulders for generations.”

And about Hamas and using children as human shields, he took action. He was determined to publish an ad in The Times and six other newspapers. The Times refused to publish the ad over this “The opinion being expressed is too strong, and too forcefully made, and will cause concern amongst a significant number of Times readers.” I love strong messaging, and I recently pointed out in writing that the Nazis used human shields in Paris in World War II against the French people’s fight in the streets.

In 2018 someone placed graffiti on the house where Wiesel was born. Please take note that that person most likely did not attend the Ivy League 3 which I have written about repeatedly.

Wiesel was a defender of Israel and much of it was related to his deep faith in the Bible. East Jerusalem settlements was a topic that he was not opposed to.

That quote which you should look at again below the title of this article needs more explanation now. It was not Elie Wiesel who stated that in the concentration camp. The title, with the Spanish equivalent to Nobel Prize was derived from my love of the music of Juan Luis Guerra and thinking about Latin American evangelicals and I had taken action less than an hour ago about that. I thank Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin for his article which I sent out before starting to write here.

Hitler kept his promises made me think of the numerous times I have heard Sean Hannity, and others talk about how Donald J. Trump has kept his promises. Thinking about that and “mass deportations.”

What actually happened in that concentration was a quick discussion that had taken place. Wiesel spoke to his “faceless neighbor” who indicated that Hitler had made it clear what he was going to do with the Jews. At this moment, it looked as though the Allies were going to close in against the Nazis and win. Wiesel said, “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?” That man stared at the fifteen years old Wiesel with “cold eyes” and spoke that strongly worded quote.

With the cold of winter rushing in and knowing that four Palestinian children just died of hypothermia in Gaza, I read about Night. Wiesel and his father decided that they would take their chances by going on the march as they were herded like animals away from the concentration camp they were in. Marching 20 kilometers of more in freezing weather, people who were “corpses” walking and sometimes running, hoping to escape death went on and on some dropping dead in the snow, and other dropping and having a dead man or a live corpse drop in him. Even a small building along the way, that seemed like a place to protect or aid these Jews, did not do that. To fall asleep there or outside risked almost certain death.

Juliek, who was known to Elie Wiesel, was there and actually carried his violin on this march. The former played part of a Beethoven concerto in the snow and among the living, dying, and dead. The next morning Eli woke up and faced Juliek who was lying there dead. It appeared to Wiesel that the violin had died as well as it was trampled as many men had been trampled to death.

After all that was this. The men stayed in Gleiwitz for three days without food and water. And then there was selection or those who would be sent to cremation (those on the left) and those who would continue on (those on the right). Wiesel’s father was sent to the left and Wiesel disrupted the process and luckily was able to secure places for his father and him on the right.

A train was waiting to take the remaining Jews into the heart of Germany. A hundred per car in a roofless cattle car with no food or water. Just snow!

Corpses would be tossed off the train as it moved along and probably live corpses. Wiesel saved his father by resisting as his father, weak with dysentery,

His father opened his eyes. Twenty corpses were thrown away as the train rolled. Humanity failed as the men fought over crumbs and existence. Of 100 men in that original group, 12 survived. It was now clear that Hitler was keeping his promise to the Jews. But 12 did survive and other Jews were liberated elsewhere. The trip was around 500 miles from Eastern Poland into Germany, near Weimar. Wiesel’s father died months before the liberation of the camp.

In Oslo, Norway on December 10, 1986, Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

He had hope to Israel, the Jewish people, and the Palestinians. He spoke that “Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood.”

He was sensitive to the plight of Palestinians, he said, but not to the terrorism afflicted on the Jewish people and others of Israel.

He called for terrible things to stop and included his faith in Israel to stop it. I, in New York, with less knowledge and much less passion than Wiesel, knew (I thought strongly) that there would not be peace, and I wrote about it.

Yesterday, I thought again about all those Jews who talk about The Holocaust in relation to the October Massacre that led to the current War in Gaza. It has been just like someone trying to place a round object in a square hole which will not fit. I told my readers that what had happened was directly and strongly related to the Hebron Massacre of Orthodox Jews in 1929 which was four years before the rise of Hitler.

And in May, I wrote after completing critical readings about the surrender of Warsaw to the Nazis, that Hamas and Palestine should surrender. That surrender should have taken place months before I even made my conclusion which would have spared the great loss of life by Palestinians in that war.

Why do I keep thinking about Donald J. Trump? Why? And some people know that we have to not only combat his evil with words, but also with deeds. . Call it resistance! Some Democrats are inclined to go along with Trump, citing the wishes of their constituents. Elie Wiesel has a note for Tom Homan who along with others supporting Trump is telling US we are heading for “mass deportations” and that people who resist will be arrested. This point comes directly from The Holocaust views of Elie Wiesel, and I feel like a living corpse right now myself.

There is a call not to remain silent now or to not be an accomplice.

Prevent human suffering and humiliation.

Do not be neutral

Help the oppressed who are victims (not thinking about any band of White Supremacists, etc.)

When human lives are endangered and when human dignity is in jeopardy

When people are persecuted for their race, religion , or political views

This is a moment for placing the struggle against the deportations “as “the center of the universe”

And “as long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true” Wiesel spoke. That included Nelson Mandela and others. Wiesel as you can see “emerged from the Kingdom of Night.” And “Our lives no longer belong to US alone: they belong to all those who need us desperately.” I capitalized us for our nation as I oppose America First one more time with the little strength that I have left. Wiesel spoke that we need one great man to make a difference in this world. We see great men and women planning something for the Trump-Homan team. What we are doing is what Make America Great (again or whatever) must be about.

And the living corpse shouts Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Thinking about Mr. Homeland Security and law and order!

Yes, I started Elie Wiesel’s book and this morning I read an article by Larry Strauss in USA Today, an article that all of Los Angeles should read. Larry Strauss has written many articles in USA Today and I liked aspects of his work. I wonder what he was writing when I wrote about Fiddler on the Roof many years ago. Strauss just watched the movie again with his family. And he wrote about the final scene that I wrote about, and he wrote about Stephen Miller who will head up Trump’s deportation team. I wrote about Miller and how his plan would have been praised by the Nazis in the 1930 and I did that when he worked for Trump in the White House.

The most important line was missing from the article by Larry Strauss. The rabbi was asked “Is there a prayer for the Czar?” And the rabbi answered, “May God bless and keep the Czar far away from US.?” I wrote that about Trump a long time ago, Larry. Do you comprehend far away?

Larry Strauss wrote important things such as undocumented immigrants having the right to education which states went along with. I used to say that the adults had the right to take the GED and if hurt on the job, undocumented immigrants could obtain workman’s compensation. How could they be illegal if they have rights? Immigrants have the right to fight to change their immigration status, even in cases where they have been deported. And I still watch pro-immigrant rights people in community meetings talking about having compassion for the immigrants without expressing powerful illustrations. I watch these things on You Tube since I do not know what and when is taking place in support of the immigrants that I learned how to serve.

I even helped get a Salvadoran buried in El Salvador by connecting Ambassador Rene Leon of El Salvador with the head of the New York City Central Labor Council many years ago. Hello Brian McLaughlin wherever you are.

Fiddler on the Roof was the free will of people to leave Russia for America. Neil Diamond’s song explained that in his own words. Mitt Romney wanted the immigrants to self-deport and that was not nice. Trump built on that in office. Now Larry Strauss and others are building resistance to Trump. That is a great thing.

I sent this to the Catholic Church and got no response. Catholics are divided and slightly more than half voted for Trump. Latino evangelicals gave more support to Trump recently, but one of its national leaders pointed out how upset they are by Trump’s “mass deportation” talk and they have hope. Hope is one thing. Resisting is another and here is what I wrote and sent to the Catholic Church weeks ago.

And before I start, I consider people who support Trump “potential antisemites” since they support Trump and his immigration policy. Ex-Governor George Pataki is now in that category after being on WABC radio with John Catsimatidis. Even Jews (others as well) have obtained this status. And I ask would Trump have kept out the Jews in the 1930s in their greatest hour of need? His policy would have done just that.

Let me show you from own work just how the church handled the deportation situation in 1943 in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria’s Jews Saved from Deportation

Posted August 14, 2019

The Balkan people in Bulgaria were quite xenophobic, but they refused to hand over Jews for deportation.  And today Jews are fighting to prevent the deportations ordered by Trump.  Under extreme pressure, Jews were saved in the final hours though, but Jews in Macedonia and Thrace were less fortunate.

Among the major sources of help at that moment in history was the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Stefan (he was ready to give his life on the railroad tracks to stop the deportations).  And there was a lack of “popular” anti-Semitism and resistance by Jews.  The Star of David was to be worn by Jews, but a tactic put in place was to wear photos of the king and queen, among other things.  So, in March 1943 there was no deportation taking place, even though the plan was in place for years to accomplish deportation.

Ready to give his life on the tracks to stop deportations. We should learn from strong positions and not from weak ones during these extremely difficult times.

Night and Deportations.

Clearly, the “mass deportations” being planned and talked about are not equal to what you know and what you would read in Night. But those deportations are significant and make US think of Nazi Germany.

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

And almost our entire nation has remained silent or worse. We have to learn much more about the commitment of Los Angeles, watching closely the divisions that we have seen since repugnant governors bussed migrants across America.

Elie Wiesel wrote about the SS beating his father in the head, which he watched and did nothing about. And he admitted that he was angry at his father for making noise and causing the SS to go after his father. And he said this, “I shall never forgive myself.” He was silent. And where are the Jewish organizations in Los Angeles now? What percentage of Jews (and others) will be silent in support of Trump and some other form of ignorance?

Wiesel describes where he was at and where he ended up in two chapters. He was studying Torah intensely and finally he was forced to leave that school (synagogue), passing from Hungary to Czechoslovakia, and ending up in a train station called Auschwitz where “nobody had ever known that name.” The Germans had overrun Poland in 1939 and now the Polish name for that station was not used.

Wiesel details the behavior of a woman that he knew on that train. Those 80 people in the cattle car, deporting Jews were from the same blocks in town and the woman used to come to his home. Mrs. Schachter had been shattered by her husband’s deportation along with two older sons. That early deportation was an error. Now she, in her fifties, with a ten-year-old son with her (amazing age to have a ten-year-old son).

Several times the woman called out on the train these words or something similar, “Jews, listen to me…I see a fire. I see flames, huge flames.” The Jews in her car looked out the window and didn’t see anything. They tried to hush her up during that long trip.

Mrs. Schachter was soon bound and gagged to keep her quiet. She was also beaten, and she was quiet now. People even shouted their approval when she was tied and gagged. Jews!

Later in the evening, the woman started up again and this time nobody acted against her. The deportation was traumatic.

Now in Auschwitz Station, there was one more scream from that woman as the Germans entered the cattle car and reality set in more deeply.

“Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames.”

Now all the Jews saw for the first time. Do you see it, too. They stared at the flames in the darkness and the cattle car filled with the smell of death as human flesh was being burned before them.

In 2004, I spoke out and said that if Jews had known we could have smuggled our people across the Mexican border, we would have done it to save lives. Migrants in danger need that now. I have written about the women who were raped and people who have been killed since Trump took office. And suicides because of family separation. Los Angeles. Chicago, New York City, and our nation needs more help to reverse the harm that Trump has done and will do soon. He has done enough bad already just like those Nazis who made Jews border that train in the first place.

As those Jews entered those cattle cars there was also a spirit of optimism since the word had gotten out long before that the Nazis were losing the war. There was hope for them that they could live out their lives instead of being killed and dumped in ravines or graves.

This is a wake-up call to all Americans to learn more, much more. Larry Strauss’s article was okay, but it definitely lacked the great anti-Semitic language of the sponsors of that original American piece of legislation that kept Jews from fleeing here before 1940. I decided to get the book that inspired me to become more forceful to quote it. An important part of learning more from history is right before you.

Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism by Daniel Kupfert Heller ©2017.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who is known for his call to arms in defense of Israel and Jews. “Of all the Zionist leaders, Jabotinsky was virtually alone in seeing where all this was leading.” Jabotinsky’s call for Polish Jews to save themselves was a call to flee to Palestine, called by Heller the Jewish-state-in-the-making. That would have saved three million Jews.

What is not revealed in the book is that most Jews had a great contact with family members in New York City and elsewhere. My grandmother taught me that she had lost her “entire” family in the Holocaust. There was not a single example of a life saved by my own family while I was growing up. My mother sponsored the family of a relative after World War II. And it was already well known about the Arab-Nazi connection in Palestine where half the Arabs favored the Nazis who would take care of the Jews.

By 1940 even France was no longer safe for Jews as Hitler took over many nations including France in Europe. Spain and Portugal were neutral, but also had a close contact with Hitler. Italy would not pass racial laws against Jews until 1943.

The logical choice, like the Neil Diamond song, was to flee to America, but America treated Jews as un-American for more than a decade (since 1924 officially by immigration restrictions). Our schools did not teach that the way, I now do because the Republican sponsors in the House and Senate were Republicans who spoke out against Jews. Doesn’t Netanyahu know the song? Heller makes it clear that Netanyahu was just taking Jabotinsky’s words and giving it a new meaning, his meaning. It was not better in Palestine than it was in the United States and more Jews had family members in the United States, significantly more, than in Palestine with its much smaller population. If Netanyahu cannot speak up about this truth, we must ask why. And he blamed Polish Jews that has affected much of Israel and thinking elsewhere. The USA has to take part of the blame.

Hitler lost and now Trump has to lose. There is resistance in Los Angeles and elsewhere (six major cities are mentioned). People all over the United States must do much more to help. What was recently done if Springfield, Ohio to help Haitians did not help enough as Trump won there. I had no faith in Republican leaders in that town and state before the election in November. They are, after all, Republicans and Trump was their only candidate. And now he is “their” president.

Jabotinksy actually said, “Let anyone save himself as long as there is still time, and time there is very little.” There was no call to head straight to Palestine (by the way Netanyahu’s father was Jabotinsky’s executive assistant). So, it’s time for everyone in America to save the migrants and immigrants from Trump and his MAGA nonsense. I only learned this in the last year, and I am close to my eightieth birthday right now. It’s great to learn more about truth. Let’s turn night into day for the migrants in America now.

Notre Dame was just back in the news, and someone was there that I wish would have stayed home in Florida. And I had recently been showing a few people my photos of the Notre Dame reconstruction that I took in May.  Or that person could have attended the event as a private person.

You will soon see what I mean. My next to last reading about President Francois Mitterrand has taken place and that chapter on antisemitism was worth the price of the book. It did mention Dreyfus, the affair that took at the fin-de- siècle or 1898 which was at the end of the century.  Ellie Wiesel’s friendship for Mitterrand was mentioned (his book Night is waiting to be read next). And Israel, Palestine. Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Ashkenazi (Ashkenzic), Vichy, concentration camps, Begin, Arafat, Rabin, and more were quickly mentioned. But this was not an event about the reconstruction of Notre Dame. It was the construction about part of its great history. The death of President Francois Mitterrand.

The most important thing to strike me which I will reveal right now is what I have written about often in my blog. Students have to know more. It was 1994 and in the section I read named The Young Generation And The National Memory Of Vichy it was mentioned that the younger generation knew little about Vichy as school and media did not present much on that important subject and Mitterrand hid information because of “possible traps” for him and his plans to get elected as president.

Trump and his “traps” should come to mind, but the politics was worse in ways since Trump was convicted of felony and more was about to happen. The clock ran out! Mitterrand’s time ran out on earth and a political storm resulted.

The national mass was held in Notre Dame in Paris, which was officiated by Cardinal-Archbishop Jean Marie Lustiger.

Lustiger was born in 1926 in Paris.

He was invited to Israel in 1994 where he planned to address “The Silence on God” and attend the ceremony at the memorial of Yad Vashem.

All of this stirred up a major controversy. He was born Aron (Aaron) Lustiger, and his parents were Polish Jews who like lots of other Jews hid him to save him in the Catholic Church. Even rabbis did that.  He was baptized in 1940 after learning more about Christianity  (the war began in September 1939), so his conversion was fast and the Jewish community in Israel objected strongly to his planned visit and speech. Jews made it known during those war and hateful years that they objected to the conversion of their children. I had to search for some of this information which was not in the book I am reading. His sister, too, converted. His father tried, after the war, to get his son’s conversion annulled and did not succeed.

The invitation to the Yad Vashem was not extended and so he went there as an individual or “one face in the crowd” or as a private citizen. He signed the guest book Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, a man who had never forgotten his Jewish roots.  And he would say “we Jews” to people and many did not wish to hear that from him.

The biggest voice in the storm was Meir Lau, Grand Rabbi of Israel who survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp and whose mother died at Auschwitz and lost other family members both in Buchenwald and other camps. The Grand Rebbe spoke that Lustiger “betrayed his people and his faith during the most difficult and darkest of periods.”

And his career took off but there were obstacles since Archbishop Lefevre objected to the nomination of Lustiger as Archbishop of Paris stating that the position was being given to “someone who is not truly of French origin.” Another rabbi said that Lustiger had done more harm than Hitler did. Lustiger supported the State of Israel when others did not, including the Vatican. And even the ADL’s Abraham Foxman was critical of Lustiger.

Lustiger gave up his Judaism and Mitterrand gave up his Catholicism (declared agnostic).

On the other hand, he was blessed by the Bobover Rebbe and received honors from the World Jewish Congress, among other things.

This is the epitaph of Lustiger in the Notre Dame Cathedral.

I was born Jewish.

I received the name

Of my paternal grandfather, Aron.

Having become Christian

By faith and by Baptism,

I have remained Jewish

As did the Apostles.

I have as my patron saints

Aron the High Priest,

Saint John the Apostle,

Holy Mary full of grace.

Named 139th archbishop of Paris

by His Holiness Pope John Paul II,

I was enthroned in this Cathedral

on 27 February 1981,

And here I exercised my entire ministry.

Passers-by, pray for me.

† Aron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger

Archbishop of Paris

Mitterrand spoke about Israel’s right to security, and he called for a Palestinian homeland. The Begin and Shamir governments “violently” rejected the latter.

Ten years later, Rabin reached essentially that in the Oslo Accords with Arafat’s PLO.

When Begin’s Israeli government raided and destroyed Iraq’s nuclear site in which a French citizen was killed, Mitterrand said, “We condemn the raid, not Israel.”

Mitterrand had planned a trip to Israel which he cancelled and decided to go to Saudi Arabia instead. Begin became “difficult” after that, but I have no details about that for the moment.

Mitterrand protected Israel against a planned boycott by the Arab League.

Mitterrand felt that Begin had lied to him about the “limited aims” of its incursions in southern Lebanon in June 1982. Ariel Sharon wanted to eliminate the Arafat organization.

Remember that French government was inclined toward the Arab nations because of oil. Oil was king!

Elie Wiesel, a good friend of Mitterrand, was disappointed from 1980 on over the lies and manipulation of Mitterrand in the production and publication of their Memoires in Two Voices.

And what about Vichy? Lots to learn more about it. In the 1950s my mother (ma) only mentioned Vichy in connection with its waters and only once. What a history lesson! And there were no lessons in school about Vichy (none). I have read about Vichy and now I am sharing critical information for those who seek the fountain of knowledge. Immigration is on my mind and Vichy had an immigration problem.

October 3, 1940 Vichy Jewish Statute also known as Raphael Allbert Law. This law was even harsher than the equivalent German (Nazi) law which made Vichy vicious. The German law was a guide for Marshall Pétain who controlled Vichy.

This is what took place under law and order. Oh, you noticed my reference to law and order.

The Nazis wanted to dump German Jews into Vichy

Jews in Vichy were now registered

Jews were excluded from job

Jews were sent to camps, particularly immigrants (foreign Jews)

A Jew was defined based on the number of grandparents

Jews were banned from civil service

Jews were banned from teaching

Jews were banned from the court system (I wonder if there was a call like no justice no peace)

No Jew could be editor or write in the press

In scientific journals too

Jews could not work in positions of responsibility in theater, radio, or cinema

Francois Mitterrand had worked in Vichy after being incarcerated by the Germans and hanging over his head was that fact. Was he a traitor or a collaborator people wanted to know? Was he hiding things? So, after decades in government and shortly before his death things were getting hot for him in relation to Vichy. And keep in mind that things turned worse in Vichy because of the infamous roundup of Jews who were sent East to their deaths. This was the revenge of the “old elites” who were collaborators, fascists, and Nazi sympathizers in France against Jews, republicans, Socialists, communists, and Popular Front government. Francois Mitterrand grew up in a family that naturally could lead him to work with the former.

This whole affair centered around a Frenchman who got the job of Vichy’s chief of police, René Bousquet. So, from those days on into the 1980s Mitterrand was friendly with Bousquet.  Bousquet had organized the Vel d’Hiv dragnet or roundup of Jews by French police. This information was provided in 1983 by Serge Klarsfeld, famous for hunting Nazis. Mitterrand continued to see Bosquet until 1986. There were protests by Jews and others and soon Mitterrand finally distanced himself from Bosquet. But those questions, many of them, remained for Mitterrand to deal with.

At this time, I can tell my readers that I did receive an important email yesterday from an elected official in France. All these activities make me think more about Vichy and my trip in May to Drancy where the Jewish people were sent after the roundup. I realize now that I have a much more intense desire to read, perhaps a book, on the dragnet or roundup. I also know more about what elected officials in France have been doing about the antisemitism on campuses there such as the Sciences Po. Knowledge matters!

There were four cases related to Vichy during the Mitterrand presidential years.

Klaus Barbie the “Butcher of Lyon” who was convicted with world-wide publicity in 1987.

Paul Touvier, who had been hidden and protected by church organizations for decades, was sentenced to life in prison in 1994.

Maurice Papon was convicted in 1998.

And

René Bousquet was indicted in 1991 and soon assassinated, apparently by a deranged person.

Vice President Al Gore attended the funeral for the United States in the Notre Dame. I wish he had just been at the reopening of Notre Dame instead of Trump.

Who would think that this important topic to our nation would suddenly come into my hands? It happened because I spend lots of time reading, studying, learning, and sharing. I do it because of caring for our nation.

There are people who see more of the last difficulties of a president (this president) than others. Let’s go study the information.

This president had constant pain, and he faded “in and out of awareness.”

This president became a “virtual recluse.”

This president went over in the office of the president only “the most pressing appointments and papers” with his staff.

This president only saw “a few aides.”

This president had trouble initialing documents.

This president soon “dreaded weekly council of ministers’ meetings…(national defense council, for example) and visits by heads of state.”

This president feared sitting up for hours at meetings which would result in leaks to the press if he appeared to or just failed somewhat.

This president lost his voice on at least one occasion and could not finish a sentence.

Do you believe that all this information and more has fallen into my hand.

This president could fall asleep after finishing a sentence with family or friends or his attention wandered.

This president sent a message to the people that next year a new president will greet them and that he would not leave the people even in death. This could be called the force of spirit or in French “les forces de l’esprit.”

This president, I should say, was raised as a Catholic.

And there was, of course, the president’s doctor.

The problem started when this president entered his office and not when the public found out about it.

There was supposed to be published “regular medical bulletins” about this president.

For the good of the state, lies were told.

The actual physical condition had a life expectancy of from three months to three years. You will learn more later.

All of this left a big question in politics as it had happened before. No party was innocent. And people wanted “transparent” government.

Should there be “confidentiality” of medical problems, a “state secret” or another choice which is that of the choice of bringing about public debate for the higher good.

This president appeared to be irreplaceable to the nation. Both nationally and globally, there would be problems caused by destabilization. A missile crisis in existence had to be taken in account.

This president’s actions were lightly questioned by courts and the media.

Legal decisions were about the invasion of privacy of the family of the president. Medical ethics was hardly touched.

In this brief reading it was mentioned a couple of times that in America the public had the right to know.  That comparison got my attention.

This president did not resign, and the rest was history.

This president caused a conflict between “medical and political ethics.”

There was “a violation of the doctor’s ethic of medical confidentiality” and it was learned that during this president’s years in office that the doctor had repeatedly lied, filing false medical reports. The doctor finally had his medical license revoked over the furor and the lies.

You will learn more about that soon.

The missile crisis actually was this. NATO had a united front, and his resignation was viewed this way. It would make conditions more dangerous in Europe if he had resigned.

This president wanted this life to be judged on its success in handling national and international affairs.

The condition went into remission and this president went eleven years without even the anticipated surgery. There were lies in medical reports.

This president held his office for 14 years and in the last years as his cancer returned and he suffered greatly, he made it clear that he would resign only if he could not carry out his duties.

There was great resentment against this president in the last years.

I gave a clue here and there. This president was not an American president, but the information is clearly significant. The president is…do I hear a drum roll or even a station break on television to pause for a sponsor.  I will return in a minute… no I won’t. It was Francios Mitterrand of France.

And before writing that last paragraph, I watched Stephen A. Smith with Mark Levin on the internet and Smith was so hot about Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden that he would consider voting for Trump which he did not do. Smith needs much more education, and I have written about Mark Levin before. Mark Levin said that he loves Smith, but I do not. Levin called Smith a very smart guy. Yeah. Maybe Smith should replace Trump in the White House. How about that?

And FDR was failing, but he also left the United States for over a month to attend a conference with Churchill and Stalin and he was not around to be with aides, meet with other world leaders, and interact with the press. Truman did a damn good job, and the Democrats lost the Congress a year after 1946) Truman helped make America great.

It’s amazing to wake up in the morning as a hundred million Americans do and see the warning in the news of Trump’s great friends talking about being nuclear at this moment in history with wars going on in Ukraine and the Middle East. The United Nations is very concerned since Russia used to support something much different. And I am sure that Trump’s friend could just give North Korea the nuclear material and know how to create an atomic bomb which would threaten the United States only if it has a non-Trump Administration. I guess you know what I mean by now about “this would not have happened under my administration” Trump. Now “Maccabee” Adams, who has been compared to Trump many, many times, appears to be ready to move toward the Republican Party.

This news, which comes more than a month after the Election of 2024 and the publicized results that more Jews in New York City voted for Trump.

I am groaning out loud. Have you read my last article Drones and Groans?

Trump is a King of Israel and now Adams is a Maccabee. I wonder if I should call him The Big Mac. Nope, that would be infringement of the big burger chain. What else would the Big Apple do? A modern-day Maccabee has to be much more than a warrior, a police department that investigates, arrests, and provides evidence in court leading to convictions. It has to fully realize as the public does that education is the key and that has to be everyone’s mind.

The leadership that he is claiming to possess needed much more to be done since October 6, 2023. He failed at that, even though I give him some credit for his handling of the migrant situation. You would have to look back on many of my articles (so would I have to remember it all). I think with great certainty that I was the person who gave him the idea to send a team of people to Texas to campaign against Governor Abbott which made news, but he had no follow up. I also called for New York and other states to sue those Southern governors for sending the migrants to New York, Chicago, Hyannisport, and other places to make political conditions worse for Adams (New York), and elsewhere. Migrants should have been respected as human beings and not treated as illegals. Jews were made illegal by Hitler. Black people in America were made illegal on lots of counts with this exception called “separate but equal.”

And that takes me to the Catholic Church, and it is no surprise to me that the man Trump has been anointed to lead our nation against the migrants is a Catholic who failed to remember the story of Joseph in the Bible and that Egypt took in Joseph’s brothers even after they had betrayed him over jealousy. And that is Catholic Church where I have written to Bishops Seitz and Soto about doing much more to help the migrants. Will they do much less in fighting this war on American soil?

Donald Trump deserves no immunity and Tom Homan, his border czar who could have been imported from Russia, maybe deserves excommunication from that position. In other words, the Catholic Church might be fighting what the start of World War II in France was called the “phony war.” France was overrun by the Nazis, occupation in the North and Vichy in the South. I hope that the Catholic Church does a lot more even though the Catholic majority just voted for Trump.

Would anyone really wish to buy an autographed Bible signed by Trump ($60) after learning more about his corruption of that Holy book?

And that brings to mind Harris Faulkner of Fox News who was amazingly not on point as she called the warnings and summons violations to Jews during the pandemic the “roundup” of Jews, comparing that to the pre-Holocaust work of the police rounding up Jews in Paris and elsewhere to send off to concentration camps (deported). This was a gross violation of Jewish history since we were trying to save lives including Jewish lives during the pandemic and Jews insisted on doing whatever they were accustomed to (not all Jews, not most Jews). DeBlasio and the police were not deporting Jews anywhere and Adams’ Jewish population were not cooperating. Does Adams even know that the chief rabbi of Israel came down with COVID-19 later on and his message was that Jews have to respect COVID since it was a bad dude (okay he didn’t say it that way). That reporting of Harris Faulkner was part of Fox News’ contribution to keeping American free under America First. Hitler would have approved of all that jazz.

That freedom did result, as reported in the news, in a greater proportion of deaths in Republican or MAGA states than in Blue states.

In other words, the disease that people thought that they were protected against including things like having the blood of Jesus later resulted in more illness, immense suffering, and death. Never forget this since it is predictable that another pandemic will come, and I am not saying hysterically that another pandemic is coming (meaning now).

And what truth is there that Republicans in Congress have helped fight antisemitism on campus and does The Big Mac even know one thing that has helped, Think about this. NYU and Columbia are in his jurisdiction. Has Congress appropriated funds for protection, provided a template of help for his city’s institutions, or done anything else besides ask for information from the institutions so that Congress could write a report. Any historian could have done just that, and things have gotten worse. It should remind the mayor that the Southern governors made things much worse for him than things would have been as migrants came up on buses hired with other state money (America First dollars).

Fascism is on the move in a different form. Read Professor Timothy Snyder’s work and ask yourself this. Who in Big Mac City has read The Black Earth (in the Adams Family there) and knows what this paragraph is about?

We can give Adams some credit since he spoke, correctly, about this “We’re committed to rid our city of any form of hate, antisemitism, hate against Sikhs, hate against African Americans, Islamophobia — hate against any other group,” Adams said. I heard that yesterday and read this and other things in the Forward News online and I know about its author as well. Here is a hint for this “modern day Maccabee” which is that the Congress only concentrated on antisemitism and that helped things become worse, particularly after they rejected free speech on campus (thinking about The Ivy League 3) when our nation’s institutions were severely attacked knowing that the problem was all over New York City and elsewhere among all population groups for years and that should also take up back to Professor Snyder who knows about the integral part in destroying Western institutions being made by Putin, Trump’s close friend and ally.

There is a new article and a new settlement of claims of antisemitism and Islamophobia that was just announced, and the most important conclusions were that colleges have to act faster, and that people need training to handle complaints better. I have already written about antisemitic cases that have been settled even in England.  The major cases reported about include UCLA and Brown. The former had violence on campus which I learned about while I was in Paris in May. The article included the fact that some students were called “jihadists” for example, noting that the first Congressional hearing referred to students calling out “genocide” to Jewish students. In other words, free speech was upheld in the decision by the Justice Department. There was no ruling against students one way or the other over hateful speech at this time.

Now had the Congress been intent on fighting hate against Sikhs, African Americans, Islamophobia, hate against others in the last year, the results might have been and should have been much better for the city that Adams serves. Did he even open his mouth as those Repugnicans in Congress only favored Jews when it is the obligation of people in office to protect all ethnic groups, religions, and others. And now Adams is thinking about joining those people? Why? Over “law and order?” It was law and order that resulted in the death of millions in the Nazi concentration camps. It was law and order that deported Jews, including Jews that fled from Eastern Europe to Europe’s great democracy in France where police rounded up Jewish people to send them back. Yes, Trump’s policy is almost a repeat of what the Nazis did. Republicans and others in New York know this because I sent it to them by email many weeks ago.

The paper trail during the last year speaks for itself (December 5, 2023, House & Ed Workforce Committee controlled by Virginia Foxx and others). That could have been Fox News conducting the hearing. And the clock is ticking!

This article started with Putin at the U.N. and now you and the world have to know much more about Putin and his attempt to defeat the West when he and others could not achieve it under communism. What he did was turn the politics toward fascism and that is where we are with him, Trump, and like-minded elected officials. And that is where we are when Trump says that he doesn’t want Ukraine to join NATO as part of his peace for the world plan.

As I think about things more, I know that there are Jews that agree that Adams is a Maccabee, but they are mostly Jews who still have not figured out that Congresswoman Foxx and her Republican leadership have done nothing to fight for Jewish students on campus in the Campus War.  A “Big Mac” designation for Adams? I think of him as a much less “Little Mac” or a “Little Mac-Lite.” The failure to fight this war on every front is similar to a mayor who has not done enough to fight crime legally, control the rat population quickly and effectively, turn the lives of homeless people around, keep school youth engaged in their studies so they can graduate and be college ready, and lots of other things. The article that I read about Adams says students on campus support Hamas and we know immediately that Jewish students who support Palestinians are not Hamas supporters (Algemeiner today).

I wish that Mayor Adams, who I have written to lots of times  without even a single reply, would have learned more. The alternative for him could be to join the Republican Party which he has fought so hard against during his political career. I learned a while ago that a fascist could become a communist and vice versa in a single day. And those of us who have knowledge need to spread the knowledge much more. Education matters!

Maybe Mayor Adams could tell those Republicans in Congress and across the city and state that the mass deportation of immigrants proposed by Donald J. Trump was proposed in France in the 1890s for Jews (Arabs were temporarily favored) and then Hitler deported Jews to greater danger East to concentration camps. Trump’s plan (mass deportation), thinking about the 1930s, aligns with the murder of 3 million Jews while we were safe (I was born in 1945). Trump was not even born then. America Jews were also saved from World War I since lots of Jews lost their lives in Europe decades before the Holocaust.

Adams could have told the city and suburbs and our nation that Black people had an “underground railroad” to freedom. Jews needed concentration camps to be overrun by Allied troops to be free (with the exception of places where the Soviet troops arrived. And now the “freedom party” is demanding mass deportations. The migrants long to be free too.

 Stop blaming all migrants for the crimes committed by a small percentage of people and permit asylum which was not permitted to Jews. And do much more to fight hate on campuses. Apply what we know about Jew hate to others in great need. The lesson for our nation is that it never stops with the Jews and even Jews have to learn more.

It’s really interesting to share this since I was just wondering if college students are actively engaged in antisemitism in our streets or off campus and the news came on. A student at George Mason was plotting the bombing of the Israeli Consulate in New York.  I wonder if he is a resident of New York. There are two wars going on. Of course, the planned bombing will be declared as anti-Israel and not antisemitic by many people. Of course, a statement by that student of hate for Jews will be needed for what was happening to be declared antisemitic. It’s a part of the “hate crimes” structure. Another lesson is this. Calls for the destruction of Israel and other attempts to toxify Israel are also antisemitic, but we still have to  learn more about the motives of this student.

I know that our universities still need to learn about how to handle antisemitism because I was in touch with one school in Michigan during this week about an antisemitic situation.

City Elected Officials and Staff Need Training in Fighting Antisemitism

Posted April 10, 2024

In my reporting recently, I wrote that in my large outreach to fight antisemitism I have learned that Jews do not know much about doing that. There are Jews and non-Jews on the city council and on the mayor’s staff who may know the long history of antisemitism, but that is not the same as successfully fighting it. We see antisemitism mixed in with free speech. We saw it in Charlotteville with “Jews will not replace us” and we see it in recent pro-Palestinian protests calling for a boycott of Israel which is picking up more steam than existed a couple of years ago. I repeat that the latter is a form of antisemitism.

Now that there has been much more publication of the problem and not just what Fox News and its call to stop antisemitism on campus which deflected attention away from right wing antisemitism (we can read about antisemitism K-12, in the home, in the workplace, and all across the USA instead of just in those “elite” “Ivy League” “liberal” institutions. It was everywhere and well documented in December when Congress met and focused only on the plight of Jews. That was a tragic mistake for a nation whose elected officials are supposed to protect all constituents including members of the Muslim faith.

I am no Maccabee. Those were my words more than eight months ago. And my thoughts are many, as always. Trump perverted the Bible during COVID-19 as he fought to keep the economy open. He didn’t do nearly enough to save lives. Trump holds up that Bible and now sells his autographed Bible which is a perversion and a contamination of the Bible. And Republicans go along with him. When I speak about the story of Joseph and his brothers from the Bible to religious people their minds light up because they have not applied that. In Oklahoma where religious fanatics have taken over, will they tell the story of Joseph and Egypt taking in immigrants (migrants)? My other main thought to share right now is that an Allied invasion of Russia may be needed to help Ukraine, thinking of the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944 (possibly much more technological one), that Americans are proud of. Can you see your future commander-in-chief learning anything from these important lessons? And what about the Catholic Church that I have repeatedly called and emailed?

It’s actually a moment for Christians, Muslims, and Jews to ask or tell Donald Trump to resign before taking office again. And I understand the Constitutional crisis involved in that. Trump made the crisis. He is no “King of Israel” because he couldn’t make a deal for a two-state solution.

I wrote briefly about the article in the Algemeiner news, but the Forward had a great article on the history of Palestine, and I shared my comments with the editor of the Forward who called that article “powerful.” Let me share a moment of that with the world.

These are the words Yirmiyahu Danzig, a Black Jew with Caribbean and Palestinian roots.

“My great-grandfather was born in Jerusalem in the final years of the Ottoman Caliphate. His life was scarred by the dehumanization to which he was subjected simply for the crime of being a Jew in Judea; arbitrary arrests, being forced to dismount his donkey when he passed a Muslim, constant verbal and physical harassment with the looming threat of death if he stepped out of line. “

And this

“It was this humiliation that inspired him, and the vast majority of native-born Palestinian Jews, to embrace Jewish refugees and their dream of national liberation — Zionism.”

Don’t you think that what is written here could be shared with college campuses, including George Mason? And in the Middle East? I will not elaborate more here, but I have, in two articles, asked what Jewish leaders will say and do.

He writes about massacres as I have specifically cited the Hebron Massacre of innocent. Orthodox Jews in 1929 and I wrote to the people behind Ta-Nehisi Coates about these things and there has been no reply. Danzig’s article was about Coates and his lack of knowledge that you have just read. The truth will set you free, we are often told, but the lie and deception are everywhere controlling people.

Southern governors have deliberately made a mess for major cities up north and it even played out in Chicago this week where several or more speakers wore those Red shirts supporting Trump. The problem for them began when migrants were bused into Chicago and Congress did not act to help our nation’s cities. The American people should not be deceived any more by MAGA politics.

Before publishing, I read an article about Hanukah and a great quote from Golda Meir about the killing of children. That article, just like Adams’s Maccabee claim falls far short. That kind of thinking is much more common than the truth that took place against Jews in Palestine, even before the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Black people begin with slavery and the slave trade telling the truth about history and the truth did not begin with the Israel War for Independence in 1948.

Hitler and Mussolini are gone. Japan was allowed to keep its Emperor as Japan surrendered after experiencing horrifying and painful deaths. Putin has to go, and Trump must go with him. Dictator on day one? No! Resign on day one!