by Audrey Lichter
Reflecting on a trip I recently took to“Jewish Spain,” I was thinking about the fact that there was little to see about Jewish Spain since the Jews were expelled in 1492 and most (if not all) of their buildings had been repossessed, and most of their holy sites are buried and lost under highways and buildings. However, unlike the Nazis who hunted down Jewish blood to parents, grandparents, and even relatives attempting extinction, the Jews in Spain were given the “choice” of renouncing their Judaism and converting to Christianity… the blood libels came much later with the “New Christians.”
Both the Nazis and the Spanish Church were vehemently anti-semitic, two sides of the same coin, although mass executions were practiced by the Nazis while the other seemingly more humane type of antisemitism was repeated in history by many other countries in Arab lands, Russia, and others.
What we are witnessing today on the college campuses and on the left is the Spanish type of anti-semistism. You’re ok to be in our club if you renounce your Zionism. Try getting a college appointment as a Zionist. Things are already turning more violent. We are witnessing a violent anti-semitism and calls for a “global Jihad” that puts every Jew anywhere in the world at risk. Both kinds of anti-semitism end up in death and destruction. So while we may not be at Berlin in 1940, we cannot be complacent about the other side of the coin. Both end of disastrously for Jews and eventually for humankind.
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