I won’t apologize for being Jewish. I will remember who stood silent

What’s interesting to me, and by interesting I obviously mean disturbing, is that nearly 99% of my so called “friends” never, EVER, react to my posts about Israel, antisemitism, and my existential anxiety made ever more acute since October 7th , 2023.

Does that mean they don’t care, disagree, disapprove of-or/and condemn-the whole Jewish people for all the world’s evils? As a result I am seriously considering leaving Facebook.

I am increasingly convinced that my concerns , (to use a mild euphemism), are of zero interest to my “friends” or , even more disturbing, that they share my contradictors’s , ennemies’s, whether hidden or in plain sight (you name it), conviction that Jews are an evil, genocidal, monstrous lot (after all we account for less than 0.01% of the world’s population, a real threat to human kind) responsible for humanity’s demise.

If these feelings weren’t strangely reminiscent of the Nazi ideology, I’d analyse them differently, with more objectivity and perhaps even more self doubt. But they do make the whole “it’s ok to be antisemitic again” feel terribly painful, to say the least.

So, to all my Facebook “friends” who happen to tumble upon this post, if you don’t care about any of the feelings and concerns expressed above, or if you agree with all the Jew haters out there without daring to say so to my face, here’s your chance.

Just unfriend me. To be honest, I won’t even know you did. If I’m left with 10 real “friends”, I’ll value them all the more. In the name of the more than one hundred members of my family exterminated in the Nazi death camps, in the name of my grand father Lazare and of my whole tribe who fled the Russian pogroms to find a home in France and paid it back a hundred fold, Am Yisrael Chai! (Israel lives).