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Re: “JCC’S, cemeteries, and a president’s angry rants”
As we experience this unprecedented rise in anti-Semitism, a full-on assault on the truth and the assault on our democratic institutions, our foremost expert on Stalin, Hitler and the Holocaust, Timothy Snyder, has written a short book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century."
As Snyder, Professor of History at Yale and author of the seminal work "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" (2010) and "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" (2015) writes: "The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
Re: “JCC’S, cemeteries, and a president’s angry rants”
Thank you, Ms. Towler. The right wing trolls and their usual distortions, diversions and outright lies are wholly representative of our so-called "president" and his minions' assault on the truth, as if we don't know the source of this wave of anti-semitism. America's - and Rochester's - Jewish men and women sure as hell know the source and are not fooled.
Re: “A letter to our readers”
Sure, and maybe Breitbart should declare it's Neo-Nazi leanings.
Re: “Rochester acts to protect immigrants”
"Illegal immigrants," you must mean like Melania Knauss Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump ("45's" mother).
Yes, and maybe we need . . . I don't know . . . some kind of, oh, final solution to these sub-human, highly illegal immigrants.
Re: “JCC threat fits into campaign of terror”
Liar, liar pants on fire:
In a January 17, 2014, interview with Susan Arbetter on WCNY's The Capital Pressroom, Cuomo stated,
{New York Republicans] are searching to define their soul, that's what's going on. Is the Republican party in this state a moderate party or is it an extreme conservative party?... The Republican Party candidates are running against the SAFE Act it was voted for by moderate Republicans who run the Senate! Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are. If they're moderate Republicans like in the Senate right now, who control the Senate moderate Republicans have a place in their state. George Pataki was governor of this state as a moderate Republican, but not what you're hearing from them on the far right."
Re: “JCC threat fits into campaign of terror”
A good example of how Trump's assault on the truth that a troll could think he could expect us to believe that it isn't Trump who is giving aid and comfort to alt right, meaning Neo-Nazis. Call it what it is. America's Jews (and certainly Muslims and Mexicans) sure know where this is all coming from. The object of this hate know from where it originates.
Why, those Holocaust-denier / Nazi sympathizers Patrick Buchanan and David Duke (with whom Steve Bannon fits right in; hey, how 'bout that omission of, you know, Jews, on Holocaust Remembrance Day? keep it classy), were just do devastated by Trump's victory. Oh wait -
Re: “Distinguished educator will not be coming to RCSD”
Nonsense. The overwhelming majority of students care and care a great deal. The overwhelming majority of their parents care and care a great deal. The overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders care and care a great deal. What we DON'T need is any more bile from the I-love-to-hate-the-city-school-district crowd, who love having nothing to offer except their hatred.