This weekend in Philly, Ed Sheeran, the millennial’s Temu Dylan, broke down on stage after a week of abuse from the DEI crowd. Sheeran had fired his opening act, the white rapper Macklemore, after Macklemore engaged in an anti-Semitic rant at a previous show. Sheeran was brought to book by Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts. Kraft, who is Jewish, told Sheeran that he would not be allowed to play the stadium if Macklemore remained on the tour. Kraft also informed Sheeran that he was in touch with a number of other venue owners, all of whom agreed with his action.
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Sheeran, given no real choice, folded and fired Macklemore, which he should have done in the first place.
This raises a couple of points. First, that any attack on Israel is ipso facto an attack on Jews. Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. It was revived after nearly two thousand years as an explicit response to the Holocaust, a guarantee that Jews would never again be defenseless. When you attack that, you attack the Jewish people as a whole. Macklemore may not have called for the annihilation of the Jewish people. He may not have repeated the blood libel. He may not have called for death camps. But all that is implicit in whatever he said.
The second point brings us to Hermann Göring. Fat Hermann was Hitler’s right-hand man, a convinced Nazi, commander of the Luftwaffe, and a true believer in Hitler’s mission. What he was not was an anti-Semite. Göring employed a number of Jews in his organizations, most notably Erhard Milch, chief of research for the Luftwaffe. When Himmler informed Göring that he was sending Milch to the camps, Göring defied him: “I decide who is a Jew here.”
So does this make Göring a great guy? No, it does not. He was not an anti-Semite. He was something worse.
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To Göring, playing at anti-Semitism was a smart career move. He went along to get along. He posed as a Jew-hater to impress Hitler and fit in with the other Nazis, all the while ignoring the deportations, ignoring the camps, ignoring the torture, the murder, the genocide. The others, with exceptions such as Speer, were all mental defectives to one degree or another, psychotics, psychopaths, and obsessives. Göring was not one of them. He had a choice, and he made his choice.
The same, I contend, is true of most of the “anti-Zionists” making the rounds in music and entertainment. They don’t know a damn thing about Gaza, about Palestine, or the Middle East as a whole, for that matter. They don’t know and they don’t care. What they do care about is their careers, about fitting in, about not being left behind, about staying on top of the wave. And if Jew-hatred is a part of that, if that’s what makes you the epitome of cool, then they’re fine with it. They too have made their choice. They will have to live with that.
It’s a great thing that Robert Kraft acted as he did, and that so many others offered to join him. One of the clearest signs of a truly revived America will be when our Jewish countrymen can sit beside their vine and fig tree, and be not afraid. Let it be so.
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