What happens to a society that has more mercy for their animals than for their own citizens? What values are ingrained in a person who would rather save his pet than another human?
At last Europe has thrown off its mask. No it still isn’t politically correct to hate Jews publicly or to say so directly. Europe isn’t about to make a declaration of anti-Semitism. The shadow of World War II still hovers over the continent and the names like Auschwitz Majdanek and Bergen-Belsen still cast an insidious shadow. So for now they are taking humanitarianism and turning it into a weapon against the Jewish race. For years the avodah zarah of so-called “human rights” has been used as a weapon against Israel and now there is a new mantra: “cruelty to animals.”
The first-stage goal is to prohibit Jewish ritual slaughter. It’s clear that once the Netherlands passes the anti-shechitah law shechitah is liable to be outlawed throughout Europe especially the “enlightened” nations of Western Europe. We can expect a domino effect as the old familiar anti-Semitism makes a comeback under the guise of “animal rights.” And for those who think I’m exaggerating that I’m an incurable paranoid who has yet to recover from the Holocaust allow me to demonstrate that I am looking at this from the point of view of gedolei Yisrael.
Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein ztz”l rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Slabodka both in Europe and in Eretz Yisrael was once visiting Germany. He observed a woman sitting on a park bench kissing her pet dog. In shock he predicted: “They’ll be slaughtering people in this country one of these days. For it says in the pasuk ‘Butchers of people will kiss calves” (Hoshea 13).
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