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Persha K. Valman

Why The Hatred? – Herman Brusselmans

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“…I see a picture of a Palestinian child crying and screaming completely beyond all senses to his mother lying under the debris, and I imagine that this child is my son Roman, and the mother is my friend Lena, and I am so angry that I want to push a sharp knife in the throat of every Jew I come across” –
Herman Brusselmans.

When you see the images of Ukrainian children bombed in the Kyiv hospital, do you imagine that one of them is your son?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Russian you meet?

When you see the Arch of Titus and Jewish slaves captured from their homeland in Judea, do you think of your ancestors?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Roman in history?

When you see Assad’s slaughterhouse prisons of Sednaya in Syria, do you think of your father?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Alawite you meet?

When you see the barbaric killing of Christians on their holiest of days, Christmas, by Islamists in Nigeria, do you think of your Christian friend?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Muslim you meet?

When you see the tiny shoes of the Jewish children dehumanized and gassed in the Holocaust, do you think of your Jewish neighbour?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every German you meet?

When you see the Druze children bombed on a soccer field in northern Israel by Hezbollah rockets, do you think of a childhood friend?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Shiite you meet?

When you see the Iranian Regime executing women for fighting for their rights, do you think of your partner?

Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Iranian man you meet?

When you see Hamas filming the massacre of Israelis, burning babies in ovens, raping men and women at a music festival, do you think of your music loving friend?
Are you so angry that you want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Palestinian you meet?

When I see your irrational hatred and proclivity to violence against innocent Jews on your street as a response to a defensive war in the Middle East against an organization that abuses and uses their own children and women to protect their terrorists, I am reminded of those intellectuals past and present who have used the protection of their ivory towers and “freedom of speech” to foment violent ideas that bloody the streets of their millions of unknown victims.

I am angry enough to take up a pen and ram your morally bereft intellectualism down your throat.

You may want to check your prejudice before picking up that knife, Herman.

About the Author
Persha Valman led the Finance team at Chorus.ai until their exit in 2021. She has over 25 years experience in Finance and HR across global settings. She is currently a Fractional CFO for multiple startups in Israel and the US. Persha concurrently lectures and runs courses on the Jewish wisdom around work and money, and is writing a book on the topic.
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