Jews Are the “Coal Mine”

This is not about anti-Semitism, even though there is truth to the old statement that “Jews are the canary in the coal mine.” Historically we can see that if a culture accepts anti-Semitism, it soon accepts all forms of hate. And this is what we are now finding in Western culture, as evidenced by the AP article, which portrays Hezbollah as innocent victims, denying the many thousands of attacks that they have launched at Israel and their repeated commitment to destroying that nation.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

The Value of Jews/Israel to the Western World

You don’t have to like Jews individually or as a group. But if you are an honest and moral person, you will concede that Jews and the Nation of Israel are inextricably intertwined with the Old Testament (the Torah). That book introduced the world to God and laid out God’s commandments (both Noahide and the Ten Commandments), defining people’s moral obligations to God, to each other, to themselves, and to the natural world around them.

When evil people deviate from those core moral values, the first group they attack is the Jews because the Jews remind them of their moral failures. And after the Jews—always—the evil doers go after everyone else. (As the saying goes, first they come for the Saturday people and then for the Sunday people.)

Because Jews are the canaries in the coalmine whenever tyranny becomes ascendant, everyone, Jewish or not, should worry about the venomous blood libel that alleges that Charlie Kirk, rather than being killed by a trans-loving leftist, was a victim of shadowy Jewish terrorism.

By Andrea Widburg, Antisemites are going to town with Charlie Kirk’s death.

The Immortal Jew

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendour, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in the twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

Mark Twain, Concerning the Jews, Harper’s Magazine, 1899

What is the Jew?

The Jew is the symbol of eternity. … He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.

lLeo Tolstoy, What is the Jew? printed in Jewish World periodical 1908

The Importance of Jews in World History.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I  were an Atheist, and believed in blind eternal Fate, I should Still believe that Fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential Instrument for civilizing the Nations.

John Adams, second U.S. President, in 1809 letter. Cited by Dennis Prager,The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses,  pg.428.