Charlie Chaplin, The Jews, and How to Deal With Islamic Terrorism

From Joannna Nissim at Kveller, here's an appreciation of Charlie Chaplin, who, in 1940,  "Spoke Up For Jews When Few Others Would".

"In his film "The Great Dictator," Chaplin warned the world about Hitler.

"Determined to move with the times after being one of the world’s biggest silent movie stars, his first 'full talkie' film, 'The Great Dictator,' was released in 1940, during World War II, when supposedly the world did not know what was happening to Jews across Europe. It was a parody about the evil Adenoid Hynkle (based on Adolf Hitler), the dictator of the fake country Tomania who despised the Jews, along with his accomplice Dictator of Bacteria, based on Mussolini. Together they want to take over the world and, like the actual Nazi party, manage to convince civilization of the evil ways of the Jews, sending them to concentration camps and even at one point discussing their excitement at discovering the benefits of using gas. 

"Not a particularly funny story, I hear you say, but Chaplin’s comical genius gave him a voice to speak up against the Nazi party and try and tell the world of the evils of Hitler by using the medium he knew best. 

"At the time of writing the movie in 1937 and 1938, Hitler was seen by many as a hero who had revived the German economy and was still an ally of America. Advised against making the film, Chaplin stuck to his guns and continued regardless, even going as far as to finance the film himself, as he saw the importance of speaking out and warning the world of what he believed was to come.

"Watching in retrospect, it’s easy for us to see now how the film is a parody of an evil regime, but it was created and aired at a time when the Nazis were at their peak of popularity and power. This demonstrates the visionary that Chaplin was in predicting what Hitler was about to do and the courage that he had to continue making the film. Speaking in a comical gibberish mimicking Adolf Hitler’s language and gestures, Chaplin can mimic an extremely serious subject and get away with it to the masses. 

"It was not long after its release that Chaplin and his films were banned, and he was exposed by the American press to be donating millions of dollars to Jewish causes and helping to rescue European Jews to flee. Chaplin was once quoted as saying, “I am not Jewish and nor have I ever claimed to be. However, I never protested when someone said I was as I would be proud to be one.”

"Amidst a cloud of gloom which we are exposed to daily in 2023, we rejoice when we see any non-Jewish celebrity stand up and decry Hamas’ attack against Israel and the Jewish people, much in the same way that Chaplin did at the time. Chaplin stood by his convictions to what was right and wrong and made a stand at a time when no one else did. "

Winston Churchill was also warning the world about Hitler, even in the 1930s, but nobody wanted to listen. But fortunately, in the 1940s, we had the right men at the right time who knew the difference between the right and wrong, and good and evil, and who were able too defeat the enemy.

Now you have "experts" like the Pope, Kamala Harris, Hollywood celebrities looking for attention, and moronic students berating and lecturing Israel and accusing them, not Hamas, of being terrorists! Were they all asleep on October 7?

Here's what Daniel Greenfield has to say at Sultan Knish: 

"The only acceptable answer to Islamic terrorism is to utterly destroy it while making the terrorist supporting populations pay the largest share of the price for that destruction. Any other answer normalizes terrorism. The failure to commit and then carry out anything short of total destruction perpetuates terrorism. The refusal to imagine that such a thing is possible makes it impossible to end terrorism. And the idea that there is any alternative to this is either a fantasy or a lie.

"Refusing to accept terrorism as the new normal means confronting politicians, even those on our side, with the firm position that we will not accept anything from them short of a plan to win: not incrementally, not to establish deterrence, and not just to 'show the terrorists we mean business'. We will live our lives, but we will not treat Islamic terror as business as usual.

"Bombs, massacres and assaults are not the new normal: they are the new abnormal.

"Our only hope for victory is to treat them as abnormal, to never adapt and accept the idea that being attacked by terrorists is just the price we pay for living in a big city, for our foreign policy, for living in the region, or for a world where madmen can get hold of weapons.

"It’s easy to forget what life was like before Islamic terrorism since the abnormal world foisted on us by Islamic terrorism is all around us. The political distortion has made that world seem normal and any proposals to dismantle it appear abnormal. The chattering class rushes to shout down even the most modest proposals for stopping the terrorists because moral inversion in this abnormal world has made terrorists into the victims. And we forget that all of this is abnormal.

"Our vital resistance is to define this as abnormal, not normal. It is not normal to adapt to terrorism, what is normal is for terrorists to adapt to running for their lives. A lawless society is a place where citizens are terrified and criminals are emboldened. A lawful society however is one where citizens are emboldened and criminals are terrified. Until the terrorists are terrified, we are the ones who are living in a lawless society at the mercy of monsters. We are not physically weak, but morally weakened by politicians who offer mercy to the monsters and none to us.

"Failed politicians have ushered in this abnormal world in which we are afraid and our leaders negotiate with the terrorists and appease them to determine how much they can terrorize us. They worry about what the terrorists and their allies will think more than whether their citizens will live or die when the next terrorist attack rolls around. That is abnormal and unacceptable.

"Muslim terrorism is a norm within Islamic societies, but abnormal in ours. If we continue to accept it, we will end up living in an Islamic society and the abnormal will become the norm.

"What we are fighting for is the abnormalization of not only Islamic terrorism, but its appeasement, any tolerance for it, any acceptance of it and any concern for its perpetrators. 

"All of these things must be made abnormal, from last to first, to restore a normal world."

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Amen to that.  And do not re-elect Joe Biden in 2024, unless you want four more years of his destructive policies as well as further appeasement of evil.