Please name me ten cases wherein:
There was going to be probably murderous antisemitism (not just words, but actions)
Before it could happen, and of their own accord, non-Jews intervened and stopped it from happening.
These cases can be from anywhere and anytime.
Because if you can't, well--if you can't show me even ten times where non-Jews have showed concern for Jews and saved us--what the fuck kind of hope do we have?
And for what it's worth, here's a non-exhaustive compendium of cases where that didn't happen. For courtesy, I'm only counting it after 1440, when Gutenberg invented the printing press, as a communication breakthrough close to where modern times are generally stated to begin. (This also gets me out of listing the seventy bajillion medieval blood libel cases.) I am, unless on an unusual scale (so, not cities but countries) not counting expulsions. just assume a constant drumbeat.
1450s: Jews burned at the stake, Breslau
1460s: Jews of Fez, Morocco, massacred.
1470s: Jews slaughtered in part of Sicily. Over 300 die
1480s Spanish Inquisition begins.
1490s: At the urging of preacher Muhammad al-Maghili, Jews of Tlemcen, Algeria are killed; Thanks to al-Maghili, Jews of Tuat, Algeria, are killed; Jews expelled from Spain; Jews in Mali offered the choice of conversion, expulsion or death. Judaism illegal in Mali. This at the urging of guess what preacher?; Killed, Mecklenburg, Trnava, Mecce; Expelled, Portugal
1500s: Killed, Lisbon. Or maybe it was Christians accused of being Jews. I'm counting it; Burned at the stake, Berlin
1510s: Killed, Apulia, Hebron, Tsfat
1530s, 40s, 50s: expulsions, so damn many. also martin luther's on the jews and their lies. few small killings. jews barred from entering russia.
1560s: goa inquisition; killed for not converting, polotsk;
1570s: Mexican inquisition
1630s: killed, krakow, leczyca, peru
1648-55: chmielnicki genocide. 100k+ jews die.
1660s: killed, istanbul, lviv
1670s: exile of mawza, yemeni jews sent into the desert to die
1680s: various massacres, hungary; killed, worms, prague
1690s: killed, majorca and portugal
1720s: ashkenazim barred from jerusalem along with those who look ashkenazi. jews expelled from ukraine
1730s: haidamaks attack jews, ukraine; killed, jaroslaw
1740s: jews expelled from ukraine, again;
1760s: uman masscare. later, r' nachman of breslov will choose to live in uman, to help the souls of the murdered move on.
1770s: killed, hebron, basra
1780s: expelled, morocco; killed, libya
1790s: killed, tetouan (in morocco); killed throughout morocco; confined to the Pale by catherine the great
1810s: killed, algiers, denmark, latvia, bohemia, the latter three as part of the hep-hep riots
1820s: jews kidnapped from parents, russia, as young as 8 or 9, forced to serve in military; pogrom, odessa
1830s: killed, tabriz, tsfat, tsfat again, mashhad
1840s: very nearly blood libel, damascus, syria; averted with jewish effort
1860s: gen. order #11; jews killed, marrakesh, fez, barforush, tunisia
1870s: killed, demnat; pogrom, odessa, again
1880s: killed, tlemcen, algiers, petach tikva; wave of pogroms, including in kirovgrad, kyiv, warsaw, balta, ekaterinoslav, nizhini novgorod, called "storms in the negev"; may laws issued
1890s: killed, corfu, zakynthos, hamadan, iran, tripolitania, oran, algiers; dreyfus affair
1900s: wave of pogroms, most infamously in kishinev, but also odessa, dnipro, kyiv, simferopol, romny, kremenchug, nikolayev, nizhni novgorod, kerch, rostov-on-don, minsk, gomel, bialystok, siedlce, kishinev again, etc., etc; killed, casablanca
1910s: killed, shiraz, fez; leo frank killed; genocided in russian civil war, including in bender, tiraspol, kharkiv, kyiv, vitebsk, bratslav, chernihiv, kremenchuk, lviv, ovruch, zhytomir, proskurov, balta, chernobyl, elysavet, kodyma, uman (again; this time nachman was dead), bila tserkva, pinsk, vilna, and elsewhere, often several times in one city
1920s: killed, jerusalem, jaffa, oran, hebron, tsfat; expelled, mongolia; mein kampf published; ford falls for protocols
1930s: pogrom, balti, grodno, przytyk, brest, constantine, yaffa, tiberias; nazi takeover and subsequent persecution; thousands of afghani jews expelled; nuremberg laws; anschluss pogroms; kristallnacht
1940s: shoah, duh; seriously the shoah; could mention a bazillion things but I won't, suffice to say it's one giant flashing "we can't trust you"; farhud; jedwabne; babyn yar, iasi; wannsee conference; killed, benghazi, croatia, cairo. pogroms, manama, aleppo, aden, jerada, tripolitania, tripoli, egypt, krakow, kielce, kunmadaras (did I mention those three were of shoah survivors coming "home"?). expelled, jewish quarter, jerusalem. many of those in arab lands were due to "antizionism".
1950s: civil-rights-movement related shul bombing
1960s: more civil-rights-movement related shul bombings; all egyptian jewish men placed in concentration camps and kept there for over two years due to the actions of israel, they're antizionist not antisemitic; wave of antisemitism, poland, as if they weren't satisfied with killing 90 percent of their jews; jews persecuted under the guise of being antizionist, ussr, nothing familiar here. around now jews are expelled from libya.
1980s: various attacks and bombings
1990s: a few bombings and such, most notably AMIA bombing in argentina
2000s: a few bombings. jews have mostly left arab countries but that doesn't stop there from being bombings
2010s: occasional killings; 2018 pittsburgh synagogue shooting where I live
2020s: a few shootings, approximately seven bajillion attacks, stabbings, etc. Hell, in the past two weeks alone, three people have been killed and twelve injured. That's more than one death/injury per day, and this hasn't been particularly unusual!
If you can't find instances where such plots were foiled without the urging of Jews--
and if I can find a bazillion where they weren't, often committed by the authorities--
is it not reasonable to say Jews can't trust non-Jews for our safety?
And that, therefore, we must have a state?
Because that's what Zionism is.
Not "I fully support Israel."
Not "I don't think Palestine should exist"
Not "fuck Gazan children".
But "We cannot trust you and so we need our own state where we can be safe. Where the authorities won't kill us."
And if you're opposed to that, despite the mountains of evidence in the form of corpses that not doing so does lead to Jews being killed because they can't go anywhere--
Is it so wrong to call you antisemitic?
