So maybe the trope is overplayed, maybe not, but you know how people look at 1930’s and even 1940’s Germany and say “why didn’t they leave? Didn’t they know what was coming???” The answer is ostensibly no. Their paradigm did not allow for the possibility of the Shoah, it was incomprehensible and incompatible with the systems of Pogrom and discrimination under which they lived. And yet, it still does not seem entirely unfair to say they should have left, should have fled. I’m aware that at that point in history there were many who attempted and got turned away, or could not even have attempted. But the fact remains, the writing seemed to be on the wall.

That brings me to present day. Every day we see signs, protestors, students discriminating against the Jews. Colombia is overrun with leftist terrorist students to the point that classes had to be held virtually, and Jewish students are not able to be protected. The world looks all too similar to 1930’s Germany, and though our present paradigm doesn’t account for a tragedy on the scale of the Shoah, all too easily it could happen. Imagine an intifada in all corners of the earth, by these hundreds of thousands of so called “Zionist haters” the writing seems to be on the wall. This time something is different, we have a state, a country. There is a place for Jews to go, and a sovereign military where children are served on a silver platter of the protection of Am Yisrael. Are we going to be the people that are read about as people ask the question, “why didn’t they leave” “why didn’t they go to Israel”.

I don’t know man, maybe I’m just feeling doomerist, but I’m usually an optimist. The whole Columbia things feels like a huge escalation, and my campus which has been pretty good (the President even disbanded SJP on solid grounds, but it feels like a gotcha nonetheless. He’s been consistently supportive) held a huge die-in on Friday. The US and abroad seems to be turning its backs and it feels like it’s time to book a one way ticket to Israel. IDK. Am Yisrael v’Medinat Yisrael Chaim

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521645&forum_id=2#47610630)