Why its ok to Call a Jew a Nazi In New York City
I live in the East Village of New York City, unlike most of the people in my neighborhood I am not a pod person, in that I know what being democratic and liberal really mean, not the Obama simplified kindergarten version that the left has become. I support the United States, and as my family originates from the middle east, Iran to be exact, I appreciate the freedoms I have been afforded. Walking back to my apartment on Sunday evening, I was wearing a green Israel IDF T Shirt, similar to lets say a United States Army shirt, and a young man about my age of 30, called out and said “ Hey Zio-Nazi”. Ironically enough I had just purchased Oriana Fallaci’s The rage and the Pride”, and perhaps as a result I decided to turn around and went up to him and asked if he could explain what that meant.
Slightly startling him, a sick rambling of how Israel is a Nazi like state that is a fascist dictatorship ensued, with me then asking are you confusing the 22 Arab countries around Israel perhaps? With that he smugly responded that America funds all of them, to which I asked including Iran, Syria, and Libya no doubt? Even in the face of my reason and facts in explaining to a stranger that having family from Iran, and having made many visits to Egypt, Jordon and Israel, I can easily say that Israel is not a dictatorship, and is the most liberal of any of the countries in the middle east. Yet all of my logic that I gave fell on completely deaf ears. He was so arrogant in his disposition and stated that after visiting Israel and the West Bank he had been fired by IDF troops, while his friend indicated that he had served in the IDF for three years, thus he is able to conclude without doubt that Israel is a Nazi like state, and then using the 1st Amendment as his defense he is able to call me, a stranger on the street anything he wants. Now keeping in mind it was they who initiated this encounter, they grew weary of my lecture, and decided to walk away, I told them they would easily (insert expletive here) find themselves on the first train to New-Auschwitz in the future with their self hating logic. And fuming inside I wondered how after 65 years Jews are now being referred to as Nazis on the streets of New York City in the most liberal of areas. If this guy was shot at by the IDF it’s a damn shame they missed.
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