...it will not be popular to say it, but what we see today "is a template for a holocaust... Can a Holocaust happen in the United States of America? "Yes," say Rabbi Lazer Brody of the award wining blog Lazer Beams and Shifra Hoffman, Executive Director of Shuva , The Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement. Both stated, in back-to- back interviews with Tamar Yonah on Israel National Radio's Weekend Edition show, that a holocaust could be just around the corner ...in the United States. "People think that a holocaust starts with concentration camps." Hoffman said. "[But] that's where it ends. It doesn't start with that. It starts with graffiti; it starts with murmurings in the bar, as the late [Rabbi] Meir Kahane used to say, 'When times are good, the Jew-haters hate the Jews quietly. When times are bad, they hate Jews loudly, and when times are economically terrible, they hate Jews violently.'" Both interviewees opined that the Wall Street meltdown, alongside the devastation from the last two hurricanes Gustav and Ike, throw the future of the American economy into uncertainty. "I pity the poor brokers in America that don't have emunah [faith] and personal prayer to fall back on," says Rabbi Lazer Brody, who served in Israel's most elite IDF Matkal unit. "In a bar off Wall Street, the stock brokers were drowning their woes in their wine at the close of the market. And one broker commented very prophetically, that nothing will be like it was before." " Hashem [G-d] is making big changes in the world and thousands are being laid off in the high tech and other fields," Brody stated. With the recent reports of the U.S. Government having to bail out banks and companies to the hundreds of billions, Brody stated, "We see here, America elects itself a Republican administration, and they end up getting something that is more socialist than the democrats, something more liberal than almost communism." He added, "The Bush administration is not at fault; it's Hashem doing this." With banks collapsing, mortgage closures, layoffs, and people losing their homes, " Hashem is talking to us loud and clear," he states. Brody stated that he knows it will not be popular to say it, but what we see today "is a template for a holocaust , but people don't want to know about it. They want to know about the World Series, what's for dinner, and what's on TV tonight. But we have a template like pre-holocaust Germany." Shifra Hoffman agrees: "American Jews, wake up, they mean what they say, and they mean YOU." Hoffman recently put out an ad in several international publications: "Warning! American Jews are in danger. As the monetary crisis in the United States worsens with leading banks failing, countless neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are spreading their venomous message on the internet and at public demonstrations blaming Jews for America's economic and racial problems as well as the war in Iraq. Calling themselves 'true American patriots', these Jew-haters praise Hitler as a hero, and advocate violence. American Jews, wake up! They mean what they say, and they mean you! Come home to Israel now, before it's too late." The ad ends with a quote from The Ethics of our Fathers: "Who is wise? Those who see the future." To listen to or download the show, click here .
