I wish I had gone to Mandalay
Last night I went to Mandalay.
Actually, I didn’t. I wish I had, for, despite the odious Mrs. Danvers, it might have been more uplifting.
Yesterday, I saw “Cancelled,” the documentary that everyone but the Jews should see, but in reality only the Jews will see because it has, itself, been cancelled. These days, the post October 7 days, we are used to only the morally pure and virtuous Jews being programmed and platformed. That is to say, the ones who have denounced Israel and Zionists as being embodiments of the original sin and consequently the others must be, if not entirely eradicated, then certainly deplatformed, deprogrammed, and shoved into a corner, or some other place, where they will be neither seen nor heard and certainly not read.
“Cancelled” is a documentary that shatters your heart and those shards scatter everywhere. It is a testament to the resilience of the protagonists, to their bravery and determination to fight on and not view themselves as victims of a modern day Salem. It is probably easy to succumb to victimhood, to retreat into oneself and not, as they say these days, pivot to something else, to be someone else. But each of them has chosen to fight, whilst not wanting to be viewed as brave or courageous which they indubitably are,
Courage takes many forms. Courage, or what I have termed (as have others), the Queen Esther moment, manifests in different ways. I saw another movie yesterday about a young impoverished Roman Jewish woman who, during the war, warned the Jews of the ghetto that they were about to be deported. No one believed her as she was thought to be “ mad.” They were deported. Few returned. She too was deported and was murdered in Auschwitz.
And when does cancellation turn to something else, something worse? When does courage define who we are and who we want to be?
As I write this, the US midterms have taken place and the results are in. Islamists have been elected to both the House and the Senate. A Hamas-flag-waving woman has been elected to the House and El-Sayed to the Senate. He who proclaimed that “hurt people hurt people” after the attack on the Temple Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield, in March 2026. He showed no compassion for the attempted murder victims and for what could have been. He has demonstrated a hatred of Israel and Zionists that will now become acceptable in the Senate and no doubt in the House as well.
Who will show the courage of standing up and denouncing him as a bigot? Who will condemn him for his use of tropes in claiming that the cost of bananas was due to US aid given to Israel? Who? Who will be that person?
The citizens of Germany were fed antisemitic bile and the result was that they accepted that their Jewish friends and neighbours could be cancelled, excluded, deported and murdered because they were race contaminators.
The Islamists and Progressives have swallowed up the Soviet era antizionist libels that have been rife in academia and have come together in joyful union to cancel and rid the world of Israel and Zionists as they embody all that is evil. The libels of apartheid, colonialism and of course genocide have no connection to reality but just as Goebbels’ propaganda was inhaled by the masses, so the antizionist libels have been swallowed whole and now its proponents demand cancellation and removal. Removal and cancellation. Sanctions are demanded. Zio free spaces are becoming de rigeur.
Exclusion and discrimination are now seen as enlightened and morally virtuous.
There is no other god than….
There is no virtue stronger than the one which rids itself of the evil Zionist.
And now, watch as that virtue moves to exclusion.
Watch as exclusion becomes cancellation which becomes eradication.
And in years to come, after the Zionists have left and the few dhimmi Jews are left, seeking acceptance and revelling in their dhimmihood, someone might ask, what happened to the Zionist Jews?
But that will require courage.
Who will have it?