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WHEN AN ANTISEMITE KNOCKS ON YOUR DOOR

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
3 min readOct 28, 2024

You would think the Jew haters from DSA would know the mezuzah on my doorpost means they are not welcome. No one ever accused them of being smart.

I was sitting around at home when the doorbell rang. It was a young man holding a stack of handouts.

“Hi,” he began. “I’m with the Democratic Socialists of America, and I’d like to talk with you about the political situation.”

“I’m a Jew and a Zionist,” I calmly but firmly replied. “Get off my property.”

Why was I so brusque and short with this fellow?

It’s because the DSA is radical anti-Israel and antisemitic organization. Don’t take my word; read what ADL has to say about them, in describing their unbridled Jew hate:

https://lnkd.in/eQ9EY_da

Or, read what a founding member of DSA, Maurice Isserman, wrote in The Nation on October 23, 2023, explaining why he resigned from the group because it had descended into rank antisemitism. Or ask Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar, who did the same after the DSA’s embrace of the October 7 pogrom as a great act; he called the group “hate filled.” (Forbes Magazine, October 12, 2023.)

Check out what
Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) had to say on October 8, 2023, after DSA celebrated the pogrom of October 7, 2023:

“The NYC-DSA held a rally this afternoon in Times Square, glorifying the terrorism of Hamas as “resistance.” Never mind

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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