Dear Editor,
Jews lived with Arabs Comfortably in the United States.
Arabs lived with Jews Comfortably in the United States.
Since coming down his golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, Trump has been fomenting hatred. Can you believe this has been going on for almost a decade?
First it was All Muslims and Mexicans.
Following the Unite the Right, president Donald Trump’s remarks about the rally generated negative responses. Initially, Trump condemned the “display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.” He first statement and his subsequent defenses of it, in which to the consternation of most was when he also referred to “very fine people on both sides” following the rally, were criticized as implying a moral equivalence between the white supremacist protesters and the counter-protesters.
Now he is the champion of Jews. Really?
The rally occurred amid the controversy which was generated by the removal of Confederate monuments by local governments following the Charleston church shootings in 2015. Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, shot and killed nine members of a Black church including the minister (a state senator), and wounded a member of the church.
The participants of the rally chanted Jews will never replace us. None of the White supremacists were picked up by ICE. However, when Palestinians speak up, in vain, about the number nearing 50,000 of their fellow countrymen being killed; they are arrested even though others have created the problem.
I ask, if the roles were reversed, shouldn’t Jews or Israelites be able to speak out about the plight of their countrymen?
My first assignment with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was in the City and County of Los Angeles. During my assignment in L.A. the Watts Riot occurred. The clinic work at was close to Watts; and a colleague from Minnesota and I decided to walk to Watts to see what was happening. On our way, a Black Man warned “you should not take your friend there.”
Mary’s and my apartment were almost five miles away from Watts; near the University of Southern California and the Coliseum. Even so, the National Guard patrolled our neighborhood with rifles and machine guns; it made for both a frightening and helpless situation.
In comparison, as little as the patrols were, I cannot fathom the fear of bombs exploding all around me.
It is insane what we are allowing to happen in America today. If ICE, whisking people off the street without the person haven’t committed a crime is unconstitutional; an expedited review by the Supreme Court is warranted.
I have no idea why people are shouting at the person executing the practice.
Clyde L. Younger
Watertown Resident
Not an easy read, I confess.
About the first two paragraphs, some levity is in order:
https://genius.com/Tom-lehrer-national-brotherhood-week-lyrics
Onto the “very fine people” myth, shall we? In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were “very fine people on both sides,” referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be “condemned totally.” So there, stop perpetuating falsehoods. I got MSNBC for that.
What’s with capitalizing ‘Black’? Should we write White supremacists. No, I didn’t think so. Incidentally, I highly suspect ICE wasn’t looking for the white protesters.
Who is shouting at what practice? Do you mean Palestinian/Hamas supporters yelling at ICE? Or the anti-Musk/Doge fanatics shouting at Tesla Centers today?
Dear Mr. Younger,
Nothing has been going on almost a decade because President Trump didn’t serve as president between 2020 and 2024. Joe Biden did. I wish I could forget it, but I can’t. In the year between Oct. 7, 2023 and the 2024 election, the ADL counted more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents across the US—the highest they ever recorded. As you can see, “the roles were reversed”, and still Jews were victimized on college campuses around the country.
It is also unclear what you mean by “they are arrested even though others have created the problem”. Mahmoud Khalid very much created the problem, in direct violation of terms permitted by his immigration status. He will get his day in court, and also I blame the feckless Columbia University administration for letting him get away with threatening students and disrupting classes, but the fault is his.
President Trump is undoing years (the last four, at least) of rot. Students overstaying visas and fomenting violence, drug dealers and cold-blooded killers infesting our cities and towns, the homeless cast out on the street to make room for those here illegally. And still judges—and Boston’s Mayor—try to stop him at every turn. This will go to the Supreme Court, I’m pretty sure. And we’ll either have the rule of law or we won’t.
Thank you, Clyde, for writing in. I would like to add one important point. Before the 1940s Jews and Palestinians got along in Palestine (now called “ Israel”). They were neighbors, social friends, business partners, and they intermarried. I’ve heard a number of situations in which a Palestinian breastfed the child of a Jewish neighbor who could not produce sufficient milk. And Jewish mothers did the same for their Palestinian neighbors. The children grew up as “milk brothers/sisters”. There was no issue between them until the Zionists started cleansing the indigenous population so that they could hold the power. And now, in our Fascist country, speaking in support of human rights is being called “support of Hamas” or “antisemitism”. Deport -ing people expressing their view is totally wrong. And tragic.
Did anything happen to Jews in the 1940s that changed things? I seem to recall reading about it. I’ve also read about Jewish immigration (“Aliyah”) to “Palestine” throughout the ‘20s and ‘30s, and violent Arab opposition (pogroms) to their increasing numbers. (See Hebron Massacre and Arab Revolt.) Britain stopped Jewish immigration to “Palestine” in 1939, when countless Jewish lives might have been spared from (real) Nazis. My curiosity piqued, I read further to learn that almost a million Jews were expelled from Arab lands, and their property seized, after centuries of living in peace.
With Europe out of the question, the Arab Middle East ditto, and even the USA turning away refugees from (real) Nazis, where, I wonder, were Jews supposed to go? South America? Many did. But many returned to the land of their ancestors, the patriarchs and matriarchs of Israel. Not “Israel”: Israel. I’m old enough to remember when the world celebrated that monumental achievement of a people exiled from their homeland for millennia returning to reestablish their nation, as they had done throughout history. And to protect it and themselves from invading armies over the following three-quarters of a century. Thank goodness we can still read about it before the radical left expunges it from the record. And people think the miracles of Exodus are hard to believe!
Our country is not fascist. Hamas and those who support it are, and subject to deportation if on student visas.
Not wrong, not tragic. Just enforcing the law.
There’s going to be a protest called “Hands Off” in the Boston Commons on April 5th if people want to do something https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764606/
Thanks Hannah! If people can’t go to Boston Common, then there are others close by in Waltham, Newton, Billerica, Arlington, Framingham, Bedford, etc. I will be 20 minutes north of Watertown and will have to go 15 minutes East in the afternoon, so I will be at one of these.
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/?end_date=2025-04-08T03%3A59%3A59.999Z&is_virtual_flexible=false&start_date=2025-03-31T04%3A00%3A00.000Z
Are Occupy Wall Street (or anything else), Antifa, BLM and similarly situated activists part of these protests? Or is it just retired white boomers who want relive their liberal college days? Aside from the professional activists getting paid for showing up, of course.
How come no protests in Roxbury, Mattapan, Chelsea, Lawrence? Just curious.
Roxbury and Mattapan are Boston, and Chelsea residents are less than 30 minutes away. For Lawrence, people can pop over to Haverhill. Carry on!
You think there are a lot of Tesla dealerships in those communities?
And I’m eager to see your evidence of “paid activists” at the Watertown protests. I’m sure it’s locked up tight with all the evidence of the stolen 2020 election. It’s always scare tactics with you people. Occupy Wall Street was almost 15 years ago. Maybe some new material? Won’t hold my breath.
Thanks for the invite – but I don’t think so. I do want to do something, but it is quite the opposite for which “Hands Off” stands.
The Boston Commons can be a worrisome venue. Please don’t let Rep.Clark’s daughter vandalize anything or assault a police officer again.
Please encourage illegal aliens to participate. ICE would like that very much.
Don’t worry. ICE will just arrest anyone who looks like an immigrant. You and I have no worries. And of course Trump and his thugs will just ignore the courts when they demand due process. Or he and his MAGA minions will threaten to impeach the judge!
How’s your 401K doing with the stock market collapsing?
Here you go again with “you people”. Pejorative again? I guess that’s to be expected from a low level bureaucrat.
And how my 401K is doing is none of your business.