https://drive.google.com/open?id=17RhbYpC6RRzouV2PKMd2LZpN09bK57P_

I’ve been retired five years. You would think I wouldn’t have to teach this lesson every year then and every year since.

But it needs to be taught because it obviously hasn’t registered in some dark places.

Using a word like “disloyal” is so pernicious. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, sentenced to Devil’s Island after a court-martial that brought France to the brink of civil war, was accused of disloyalty.

Statelessness would be one of the canards that would be used to excuse the persecution and attempted extermination of European Jewry.  The flip side of that canard is the suggestion that somehow being an American Jew—in other words, an American—requires loyalty to Netanyahu’s Israel, to his particular brand of chauvinism, which has such ironic precursors.

“Jews will not replace us,” the crowd, made up of fine people, chanted in Charlottesville.  Students in an Orange County’s Pacifica High School were recorded, in a video released earlier this week ,giving the Nazi salute.

I don’t understand the kind of stupidity that embraces deliberate forgetting. I never will.