“I’m A Holocaust survivor,” says Stephen Jacobs, and he asserts that “Trump’s America feels like Germany before Nazis took over.”
Using the sufferings of over six million Jews from the Holocaust to malign the President of the United States is disconcerting. One has on the one hand a sense of empathy and sorrow about Jacobs having to endure what he did at the hands of Nazis. On the other hand, his claim that Donald Trump has emboldened an “inflammatory and nationalist campaign” that reminds him of of the days right before the Nazi takeover is not only ridiculously unfounded, but it distracts from the urgent threat of the global jihad.
White supremacists undeniably exist, but the ongoing brutality and suffering inflicted upon innocent people worldwide by jihadists and Islamic supremacists, and their intolerance, supremacy, and expansionary ambitions, demand an appropriate response. Trump has taken this seriously, and gets bashed for doing so.
It is necessary and prudent to stand against the spread of the global jihad. Remember, the countries that were selected for Trump’s temporary travel ban were identified not by Trump, but by the Obama administration.
The Newsweek article asserts:
Perhaps more alarming than the far-right getting braver is the seep into mainstream politics of their hate, their talking points, their rhetoric. “It feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin,” Jacobs speculated…
In speaking of “far-right” “hate” and “rhetoric,” Jacobs is referring to, among other things, attempts to counter the jihad threat. Jacobs is oblivious to the threat posed by the global jihad, and instead claims that the worst threat the world faces is Donald Trump and the “far right,” which Jacobs claims reminds him of the days of Nazi Germany. He goes on to malign Trump personally:
Trump is an enabler. Trump has no ideas. Trump is out for himself…..He’s a sick, very disturbed individual. I couldn’t say that Trump is a fascist because you’ve got to know what fascism is. And I don’t think he has the mental power to even understand it.
The chief concerns in the context of the story, if Jacobs wants to identify who today is like the Nazis, should be about the Islamic drive to obliterate Israel. Says Newsweek:
Stephen B. Jacobs has a warning from the past for America today: It’s happening again.
Indeed it is happening again. Islamic antisemitism is akin to Nazism. The Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah, and Hamas operatives aim to obliterate Israel entirely, which would entail a new genocide of the Jews. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas did his PhD in Holocaust denial, while Yasser Arafat gave the PLO with a mandate to “liquidate” Israel. The World War II-era Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who led the Arab revolt, also worked closely with Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann and other Nazis. They had a common goal of blocking the Jews from returning to their ancestral homeland and instead exterminating them in Europe.
The rise of Islamic antisemitism today also threatens Jews around the world. It should be of particular concern to Jacobs that Iran has expanded its proxies globally. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for “an army of Islam” to destroy Israel swiftly. Some Islamic preachers in Europe, Canada and the U.S. are spreading hatred against Jews, Christians, apostates, gays and others. The President of the Confederation of Jews in France has warned that in a few decades, there will be no Jews in France, since violent Islamic antisemitism is driving Jews out of the country. It is also escalating in Germany and other European countries that have flung open their doors indiscriminately to mass Muslim migration.
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has made significant gains in the West, working through established advocacy and lobbying groups. The MB’s spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi has stated:
Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers.
Then consider the horrors of Muslim persecution of Christians, the murder of over 11 million Muslims by their coreligionists since 1948, the enslavement of blacks by Muslim Arabs, the Sharia-mandated inferiority of women, Islam’s supremacy against other creeds, beheadings, stonings, the sanctioned rape of infidel women, no-go zones in Europe where sharia has taken over. Trump is worse than all that?
Most troubling about Jacobs’ personal attack on Trump and broad accusations against the so-called “far right” is the dissemination of these accusations by Newsweek, even though these sweeping claims are damaging and unsubstantiated. That Newsweek would publish such a clearly partisan piece, using a Holocaust survivor to attack Trump, is as reprehensible as it is dangerous and divisive. Yet it is not the first time Newsweek has done this. In another, rather similar article published about this time last year, Newsweek politicized the legacy of Anne Frank to attack Trump.
The propaganda war against the West has long been waged by an alliance between leftist ideologues and Islamic supremacists. It has taken on a desperate intensity since the Trump victory, and is especially hysterical in the face of his determination to confront the global jihad.
“’I’m A Holocaust Survivor—Trump’s America Feels Like Germany Before Nazis Took Over,’” by Shane Croucher, Newsweek (thanks to Jason), April 9, 2018:
Stephen B. Jacobs has a warning from the past for America today: It’s happening again.
At 79 years old he is among the youngest of the living Holocaust survivors and was born six years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. But Jacobs can remember life in the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald; what the Nazis did to him, his family, his friends.
He worries about what’s happening right now in America, where he has lived and prospered since arriving a couple of years after Buchenwald’s liberation on April 11, 1945.
The American far-right appears emboldened since the election of President Donald Trump, who led an inflammatory, nationalist campaign. Since then, clashes like the one in Charlottesville are becoming almost commonplace.
“Things just go from bad to worse every day,” Jacobs, a successful New York architect who designed the Holocaust memorial at Buchenwald, tells Newsweek. “There’s a real problem growing.”
So much so that Jacobs thinks there’s a “direct parallel” with Germany between the two world wars.
Perhaps more alarming than the far-right getting braver is the seep into mainstream politics of their hate, their talking points, their rhetoric. “It feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin,” Jacobs speculated, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 on Thursday.“Things that couldn’t be said five years ago, four years ago, three years ago—couldn’t be said in public—are now normal discourse. It’s totally unacceptable.
“We thought our country had changed. In fact, it didn’t. We were operating on a misconception. ‘My god, we elected a black president in the United States! Look how far we’ve come!’ We haven’t.”
In Trump, Jacobs says, the far-right sees an “enabler.”
“I’m involved with New York real estate, I know this man personally,” says Jacobs, whose eponymous architecture firm celebrated its 50th birthday in 2017. “Trump is an enabler. Trump has no ideas. Trump is out for himself.
“He’s a sick, very disturbed individual. I couldn’t say that Trump is a fascist because you’ve got to know what fascism is. And I don’t think he has the mental power to even understand it.”
Jacobs calls New York, where he lives, an “island of resistance.” But he says Washington will soon realize too that “fascism has to be resisted.”
“Fascism could have been won in Spain. It could’ve been stopped. But appeasement of fascism is what led to everything,” Jacobs warns.
This is a man who lived what happens when fascism isn’t stopped before it metastasizes……