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ABE WON’T BE SILENT -
A Passover Reminder: We're Still Here, So Get Used To It or Get Bent!
“Let’s face it — if Jews were meant to be wiped off the face of the Earth, we wouldn’t have survived forty years wandering the desert after being enslaved in Egypt, building those fucking pyramids. The constipation from the matzah alone should’ve taken us out.” - From my memoir, “Won’t Be Silent - Don’t Stop ‘til It Matters”.
This Passover, just know: we shall overcome and find our way through this quasi- Egypt moment we’re slogging through.
Let’s consider these antisemitic Islamist vermin as the Eleventh Plague — yet another opportunity for the Jewish people to prove our resilience in the face of evil. (I mean faceless — since they’re covered in dime-store tablecloths.)
We will rise — we always do — despite this latest crop of misguided, propagandized, terrorist-loving, helicoptered, far-left, democracy-abandoning lemmings, and their sad little cadre of wannabe poor man’s Nazis threatening to wipe out the Jews.
Trust me: they will not win in the end.
It’s the good karma we Jews have — which obviously annoys the world — of surviving whatever the schmucks throw at us. Time after time.
We are here. We show up. We find humor in the face of existential threats. And we light candles to remind ourselves — and the world — that we are the light that shines through the darkest times.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
May our plagues be few, our wine glasses full, our tables surrounded by chosen family.
Wishing you a sweet and meaningful holiday.
Chag Pesach Sameach!
(ABE GURKO is the executive producer of a documentary “LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change,” about the extraordinary Women of Protest Music streaming on MAX. He's an Opinionator who hosts a podcast, "Won't Be Silent," engaging in conversations from the edge of democracy. Abe is a contributor to CityWatchLA.com. [email protected].)
