Q&A: Boo or Douze Points
Boo or Douze Points
Question
Amid all the chaos, in recent days we got a bit of a breather around the Eurovision festival.
Last night, with the final results, many people I asked had a hard time explaining
the logic behind the countries that did or didn’t vote for Israel.
Ukraine, for example, which on the face of it identifies with us, gave us zero.
And countries like Britain or Belgium, countries with growing Islamic influence
and saturated with anti-Semitic demonstrations,
gave us the highest scores.
I’d be glad to know what the Rabbi thinks about this.
Answer
We really are sinking pretty low here, trying to explain phenomena this shallow. But it’s an opportunity to clarify something important.
First, it’s possible that people are voting on the merits, based on the music and not on politics. But beyond that, the picture we get here, according to which the whole world is against us, is not correct. There is a loud, shrill, and funded minority that is driving the riots at universities and more generally. A huge public all over the world is with us, and so are most of the governments of democratic countries. It’s just that the news and the press focus on the noise (“man bites dog”).
I’ll say even more. Even the people doing the shouting are not necessarily anti-Semitic. It’s a combination of ignorance and lack of thought, together with progressive stupidity that has lost touch with the facts and operates according to weak-strong, deprived and oppressed, and fads.
Discussion on Answer
https://twitter.com/mulisegev/status/1789216548143386994?t=52c2oqYT3AgK8RdTeoDcqQ&s=19
And one more important thing. There are also justified criticisms of us and of our conduct. Killing civilians without purpose and without any goal will not win sympathy and support in the world. At the moment, it doesn’t seem that we have a target we are striving toward. No wonder there is criticism.