As many as 100 Jewish headstones were vandalized in Philadelphia and more Jewish headstones vandalized in St. Louis. And now bomb threats by phone to Jewish centers around the country.
In my humble opinion I feel we live in a free nation but how can we be free when hatred lifts its’ head to undermine our precious freedom.
When one of our brothers and sisters is hurting we are all hurting.
I call for a powerful voice from all of different religious beliefs and to speak out against anti-Semitism.
Let’s remember what it says in the Declaration of Independence which in part says.” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Those evil-doers who commit these despicable acts are purely un-American and ought to be ashamed of themselves. In closing remember this too : Evil thrives when good people do and say nothing !
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
Mineola
Writer is Grand Knight
of St. Anastasia Knights
of Columbus Council # 5911.
