Be active advocates for Israel
To my Jewish friends, particularly you young adults, who do not appreciate that Israel’s safety and security is important to your own safety and security, and to those who do appreciate this but fail to do anything proactive to help Israel survive and thrive: Wake up! The anti-Semitic demon has escaped the sewers and shadows of America, as it has in Europe, and as it has in the Middle East, and in the United Nations. Very clearly it now has a growing presence on our own college campuses. While it is a beautiful thing that many of our non-Jewish neighbors are appalled at anti-Semitism and would like to see it stop, the demon is nevertheless widespread, and is growing, rampant online and openly expressed in public. Anti-Semitism is clearly on the rise everywhere and by every measure.
So, please reflect on how much more emboldened this evil will become, and how it might affect you and your family if the Jewish State of Israel is destroyed or even weakened or isolated and can no longer be a safe haven for Jews from everywhere. Please, stop for a moment and ask yourself if the standing and safety of Jews in America and elsewhere is tied to Israel’s standing and safety. We in the Jewish world have to be active advocates for Israel, and for a strong relationship between our countries, as best we can in our own personal sphere of influence. We can no longer be complacent or sanguine. We cannot allow the political issues of the day to turn us away from our support for Israel and the Jewish people. If we are not for ourselves, who will be for us? If not now, when, folks?
Victor A. Bergman
Overland Park, Kansas
