Be it a plague or a war, a flood or an earthquake, a revolution or a financial meltdown, in the end, there is always one culprit – the Jews. In America, too, many already blame COVID-19 on the Jews, as is the case with the riots engulfing the tormented country.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Jews stood shoulder to shoulder with the African American community in its fight for equal rights. No one remembers that and no one gives them credit for it. Now, too, they stand shoulder to shoulder with the protesters. But no one will remember this and no one will give them credit for it.
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The Jews donate more money to various charities and NGOs than any ethnic or racial group. But what do people say? "First they stole it, now they're giving us the crumbs to buy our gratitude." Of course, not everyone says it, but a great many do, and an even greater many tacitly agrees with such statements. It has always been like that and it will remain this way until we learn what fundamental flaw we Jews have in our approach.
Jews are the only nation that has ever been tasked with bringing peace and love to the entire world. We gave the world the most altruistic motto ever conceived, "Love your neighbor as yourself," yet we display the complete opposite of it: Internal enmity and odium. We may sympathize with strangers' pains, but we loathe our own coreligionists. And even though they don't verbalize it, deep down, this is what Jew-haters hate about Jews – that Jews hate each other.
When we became a nation, we were given a task: Unite "as one man with one heart," and thereby become "a light unto nations." For centuries, we have been trying everything to avoid our vocation. We talk about morals, ethics, justice, but we refuse to talk about love.
Morals are a miserable surrogate for love. Just as a mother doesn't need morals to tend to her child because her love guides her, if we cultivate love among us we won't need morals, and we will treat each other beautifully. Then, and only then will non-Jews say, "Now we respect them."
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