Lester Golden
4 min readJan 29, 2025

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I'm a proud Jewish Zionist atheist who loves prosciutto, lobster and calamari. So you're telling me I'm not Jewish. My secular Zionist grandfather was in Palestine in 1918 as part of the Jewish Legion of the British Army. My native Yiddish speaker father hated going to synagogues, and was totally Jewish. Without secular Jewish comedians--Marx Bros, Berle, George Burns, Jack Benny, Alan King, Billy Crystal, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Rodney Dangerfield, Woody Allen, Jon Stewart, Carl Reiner,Jerry and Ben Stiller, Seinfeld, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, Larry David, Lenny Bruce, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Marty Feldman, Adam Sandler--your world would stop laughing.

https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-famous-jewish-comedians/famous-jews

Definition of Yiddish: German with a sense of humor.

Your ignorance of us is total, which is why you fit right into these definitions of anti-semitism: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism, accepted by 40+ governments around the world, including Muslim Albania.

You need to watch this interview with Dara Horn, the author of People Love Dead Jews:

In People Love Dead Jews, novelist and historian Dara Horn cites her readers to explain how insulting and unconsciously hateful this gentile invention of Jewish identity is. In secularized Christian narratives….

“We expect the good guys to be “saved.” If that doesn’t happen, we at least expect the main character to have an “epiphany.” And if that doesn’t happen, then at least the author ought to give us a “moment of grace.” All three are Christian terms. So many of our expectations of literature are based on Christianity — and not just Christianity, but the precise points at which Christianity and Judaism diverge. And then I noticed something else: the canonical works by authors in Jewish languages almost never give their readers any of those things….These (Yiddish novels) are stories without conclusions, but full of endurance and resilience. Readers who demanded that “coherence” from literature about the modern Jewish experience were essentially insisting that Jewish suffering was only worth examining if it provided, in the words of my reader’s memorable message, “a service to mankind.” In retrospect I am stunned by how long it took me to understand just how hateful this was. Consider, as I only very slowly did, what this demand really entails. Dead Jews are supposed to teach us about the beauty of the world and the wonders of redemption — otherwise, what was the point of killing them in the first place? That’s what dead Jews are for!” (Horn, page 65–66)

Amsterdam’s Anne Frank house isn’t there for Jews, but for gentile guilt expiation.

“There is an exculpatory ease to embracing this “young girl,” whose murder is almost as convenient for her many enthusiastic readers as it was for her persecutors, who found unarmed Jewish children easier to kill off than the Allied infantry. After all, an Anne Frank who lived might have been a bit upset at her Dutch betrayers, still unidentified, who received a reward for each Jew they turned in of approximately $1.40.” (Horn, page 19)

Celebrity survivor Elie Wiesel’s book was similarly deformed by Christianizing redemptive rage removal, to render the author and his family murdered by gentile indifference worthy of gentile attention in death they’d been deemed unworthy of in life:

“Wiesel first published his memoir in Yiddish, under the title And the World Was Silent. The Yiddish book told the same story told in Night, but it exploded with rage against his family’s murderers and, as the title implies, the entire world whose indifference (or active hatred) made those murders possible. With the help of the French Catholic Nobel laureate François Mauriac, Wiesel later published a French version under the new title La Nuit — a work that repositioned the young survivor’s rage into theological angst. After all, what reader would want to hear about how his society had failed, how he was guilty? Better to blame God.” (ibid: page 20)

Jews’ only logical conclusion after nearly two millennia of this is:

“We’re done explaining our right to exist” tells those demanding such explanation from us, but not from other nations, you’re a double standards anti-Semite. Those inventing fictional Jewish identity with Nazi-adjacent stories about Ashkenazi DNA so college encampment simpletons can chant “go back to Poland!”, do the same.

After giving you Moses, David, Isaiah, Jesus, Spinoza, Marx, Mahler, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller, the Marx Brothers, Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Hollywood, the Manhattan Project, the computer industry (Andy Grove and Johnny von Neumann) and modern photojournalism (Capa and Kertesz), we’re a tiny minority living rent-free in a behemoth-sized space in your imagination. That doesn’t mean you get to tell us who we are and force us to explain our right to sovereign existence. Get over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MBWJ9ErcXU

After 4000 years, you don't decide who we are. We do. https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/what-did-mohsen-bevin-king-hussein-azzam-pasha-arafat-say-6dc7e8f8ccd3

And we have you surrounded: Moses, Christ, Maimonides, Spinoza, Marx, Trotsky, Einstein, Teller, Szilard, Fermi, Feynmann, Oppenheimer.... Get over it because if you embrace anti-semitic anti-Zionism, and there is no other kind,this is your society's fate: "Show me what you accuse the Jews of, and I'll show you what you're guilty of."--Vasily Grossman

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/anti-zionist-your-societys-fate-is-4a519752c67a

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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