Another Thing for Jewish Moms to Worry About

I thought Jewish Moms must be mostly concerned about their kids' safety at a time like this - I was wrong. They've got much bigger problems.

How did I find out? I asked a question in the famous MACA Facebook group (Mothers Against College Antisemitism). So far there are over 200 comments packed with tons of info for people who want to know how bad things are getting. There's the escalating antisemitism on the one hand. And on the other, good Jewish kids are supporting the pro-Palestinian protesters, and trying to disassociate themselves from anything Jewish.

This is the question I asked the community of 60K (!!) Jewish Moms:

We had posts here in October about Moms being concerned that their kids are supporting the protesters - is that still a thing? Are Jewish kids being influenced to turn against Israel?

Does the following sentence I'm using in a presentation resonate? "Our youth are being brainwashed by the hostile non-Jewish external environment they come into contact with on a daily basis now, and then one morning we discover that our children are pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionists, who may also convert to Islam."

Our youth are being brainwashed by the hostile non-Jewish external environment they come into contact with on a daily basis now, and then one morning we discover that our children are pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionists, who may also convert to Islam."

You can join the discussion to see all the shocking stats I received on what's really going on.

Here are a few of the first comments just to give you an idea .....

"My first thought when all this started on campuses was that every parent should just cut their kids’ phone service. That would have been enough of a distraction to end it in five minutes. But my point was they are in a cult environment and need to be deprogrammed. They need to find importance and acceptance and that very necessary belonging and dopamine from other sources. They need to be away from the mob. And it’s not about any single parent. It’s about every single parent. Parents I know have been afraid to talk to their kids strongly about this because they are afraid of losing their kid. There is just so much emotional manipulation it’s very difficult to counter."

They need to find importance and acceptance and that very necessary belonging and dopamine from other sources.

"Many of our kids, Jewish or not, have been indoctrinated in their K-12 years by propal educators discretely promoting their Islamic ideology and Jew hate. Propals have been infiltrating our schools (K-12 and college), and work and educational unions for decades. (Look at the NEA, AFT, AAUP, MSA (Mass educational union)."

"From my recent experience as a college student, 99% of the Jewish students in my college were anti- Israel, anti-Zionist and Pro-Palestinian."

"I am a public school educator and the things I see some of my Jewish students (who are now in college), post in their stories is awful. They are the worst anti Zionists."

What's The Real Problem?

After reading tons of the comments, I see it's no longer enough to keep these kids safe, they need to understand what's really going on and what we're really dealing with. They need engaging and uplifting sessions, and also need to learn about Islam's true intentions toward us.

And no one knows how to do this. No one understands that only a combo of security and education can fix this.

One of the commenters posted this clip from the J-Ventures Antisemitism summit, with an interview featuring Jonathan Greenblatt >>here are the highlights of what he said -

We still have to own that we have to try new stuff

The same old techniques and tactics are not working

We need to be inventive

We need the ingenuity that has powered Jewish excellence

Courage that allowed the Zionist experiment to work 

We need to muster those forces now

This is the fight of our lives

Anyone who thinks that America is going to be like it is - it could happen here

How do we learn from this and do things differently?

We need new approaches more than ever …. 

We want to talk to anyone about how we can do more together.