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BACKSTROKING ON LAKE STUPID

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27.05.2026

Once upon a time there was a young Indian boy who lived next to a huge, icy lake.

He was lonely and sang Indian love songs across the lake.

One day, he heard the beautiful voice of a girl singing back to him. They sang back and forth and fell in love.

After a few years, and because he was so in love, and he wanted to see her, he jumped into the icy lake and swam towards her.

Ever since that time, they named the lake after him: LAKE STUPID.

Jew-hatred and anti-Israel attitudes and violence in America are exploding. Yes, over the centuries Jews have been persecuted, but the speed of the turn here in America is alarming. The Democrat Far-Left despises the Jews with a progressive, intersectional rationale, the Republican Far-Right promotes conspiracies and applies Hitler-era narratives, and the Muslim world hates Jews based on fundamental radical religious dogma.

At a time of rampant antisemitism, pro-Palestinian street and campus demonstrations chanting anti-Zionism curses, it feels like we are now living close to a very dangerous, very icy lake.

So, who are some of the American Jews splashing around in Lake Stupid?

The one third of New York City’s Jews who foolishly voted for Mamdani must be treading water in Lake Stupid. Already Mamdani celebrated Nakba Day and skipped the Israel Day parade. His choice for a liaison for the Jewish community is Reconstructionist Rabbi Miriam Grossman. In 2023, she proclaimed, “We will not let the rhetoric of so-called two sides distract or detract from the reality that one side has enacted a brutal military occupation, ongoing colonization, and decades of apartheid and disregard for Palestinian life, all of that with the........

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