Jewish US Army Private: I Was Beaten by Anti-Semitic Soldiers

Ugly and banal....these things happen in the U.S. Army...and Tzahal as well. The socioeconomic strata tapped for the former is not the highest. Antisemitism may well have been part of the lessons taught at home. In tough economic times where NYC and "Wall Street" are involved, antisemitism is more easily evoked also.

I served in Tzahal in 1970 and knew very little Hebrew (I learned pdq, though). I and other new immigrants were made fun of due to our heavily accented Hebrew. One really shouldn't expect alot of sensitivity in the military, but antisemitism should not be tolerated. Needless to say, antisemitism in the form of hostility to the Orthodox exists in Tzahal.

For me, things turned out well....Left Tzahal for Medical School, went back in to complete my service. Met some great people and did some crazy stuff...all in all it was a great experience.

Hope things turn out better for Pvt. Handman. Maybe he should have chosen Tzahal....Michael might have found himself and his roots, enjoying it more. From experience I can tell you one thing: The girls are alot prettier there.

Some things don't change. I encountered organized Anti-Semitism at Ft.Jackson, South Carolina in 1973.  I enlisted in the National Guard and began my Army basiic training in late February.  There were sixteen Jews in my basic training class of approximately five hundred.  In the beginning of our seventh week of an eight week training session we were granted a three day pass to observe the first two days of Passover.  This happened to coincide with field training.

That afternoon, our basic training company was assembled in formation.  The Comapnay Commander ordered "all Jewish personnel fall out."  The sixteen Jewish trainees were assembled facing the rest of the company formation.  The Company Commander announced that the balance of the company was going out to the woods for a few days of field training while the "Jewish personnel were going home for their holiday."

We immediately knew that we were in touble.  And so we were.  

Upon returning to Ft. Jackson three days later, we were transported to the campsite in the woods.  We arrived two hours after sundown and were ordered to assemble our two-man tents and bed down for the night. Thus eight tents were set up on the perimeter of the campsite that had been set up by our fellow trainees during our three day furlough.

In the middle of the night whie we were sleeping, out tents were torn down and we were beaten with shovels by our comrades.  Several "Jewish personnel" were hospitalized. The rest of us only required first aid.

Unlike the current case, none of us thought to seek the assistance of an elected official or any other civilain authority..

 The U.S. is pro- Israel, yet they beat up Jews for fun?!  Ironic, no? I guess they don't mind Israel just as long as all the Jews stay over there and don't live in America. If that is the case then what is America going to have for entertainment? Well there goes half of Hollywood. Oy gevelt!

The Company Commander announced that the balance of the company was
going out to the woods for a few days of field training while the
"Jewish personnel were going home for their holiday."

We immediately knew that we were in touble.  And so we were.  

Upon returning to Ft. Jackson three days later, we were transported
to the campsite in the woods.  We arrived two hours after sundown and
were ordered to assemble our two-man tents and bed down for the night.

And that, sir, is why you always have your entrenching tool, knife, flashlight and garrison belt with you. Put up trip wires and post a guard. If you're going to get the shit kicked out of you you might as well be ready and take a few of them with you. Or at least leave some marks and get a good look so that you can take care of business later. 

but, while the actions were terrible and should be punished, isn't the whole point of basic training to introduce normal Americans to the goal of learning to kill quickly and efficiently without remorse.  It really is a tough mean place.

For more on military religious discrimination--and I mean a LOT--see Jewsonfirst.org. They do a really great job of documenting these events in great detail. It seems more widespread than any of us would like to imagine.

Hey, Anon, what about "unit cohesion"? What about heroism and defending the guy next to you? I'm pretty sure that's a major point of basic training, too. Or at least it was in the 1980s when my ex went through it.

before, none of us anticipated we would be subjected to a well coordinated assault by members of our own basic training company in the middle of the night.  Moreover, our tents were within the company encampment perimeter. 

Our shelters were torn down over us and we were outnumbered by better than twenty to one. As a result, we lacked the capacity to undertake any meaningful defensive--let along retalitory--action at that time.

It's a damned shame and a disgrace for the US Army. I hope that at least someone here will learn from what happened to you and be better prepared.

A friend went back into the Army a while back as a medic. He's not exactly pale and was a Muslim at the time. Within a few weeks he got an honorable discharge, benefits and everything. Men in his unit had let it be known that when they got to Iraq they were going to - and I quote - "Kill the niggers, especially the towel-head." 

It should not be built on hate or scapegoating one of you own soldiers. It should be built on the pride of achieving together as a team.

I believe you had no reason to  expect such heinous conduct from your fellow soldiers.

Too bad you couldn't do a "smicha" on the officer who precipitated the event!

i was sitting in a little bar in a rural town, just down the road from a navy base...

sitting there drinking my beverage, wearing my Kerry for pres. button and engaging anyone and everyone i could about the election...

There was a girl in there..at the time i couldnt get my head around it, i knew her to be a single mother, in the Navy, who was fixin to be deployed to Bahrain shortly. She struck me as bright friendly and aproachable, so i struck up a conversation with her, and with her up-coming deployment the conversation easily moved to politics and the way... Her strident support for Bush's policy's were jarring... it all flew in the face of logic... Iraq? No "Al Qaeda", no WMD's bogus intel leading us there (Feith and Wolfowitz) and yet she was vigorously in support of the military operation there...

It never occured to me that her support was because she was a Zionist Jew.

Helping fuel a war decidedly NOT in America's interest.

And how about that Jewish goonsquad torturing Arabs at Abu Gharaib as a means of inflaming the local populace as an excuse to drop more "daisy cutters" on innocent people, all for the sake, or at least a sizeable part (aside from naked greed) for the Zionist enterprise? I cannot put myself in the shoes of this particular soldier, i do not know his motivation for being in the US army... Perhaps neither do some of the soldiers he serves with... 

I somehow don't see Americans denouncing American-Vietnamese nationalists or American-Korean nationalists for supporting our interventions there, but I suppose it takes a "special" kind of person to see that Jews must be some kind of a special case when it comes to any of them supporting Mid-East interventions. 

I started experiencing violent anti-Semitism at about age five. Seeing and reacting to it is second nature.

Cheney and the PNAC Zionist mafia are the ones responsible for all the middle-east mess, now that they have been outed they folded up their tent and can now be found camping out at places like the "American Enterprise Institute", and "Heritage Foundation", or in groups like the DLC (democratic leadership council)

Facts is facts...it was people like them...Dov Zakheim, Cheney, Wolfowitz, the Zio-cons at the CFR...the same Zio-clowns responsible for the false flag terrorist attack on 9/11... like Bruce Ivins and his little anthrax party for Israel....

and ya gotta love the fiscal raping the banks are providing us...do you know who these bankers are? Who those congressmen and senators are? I do....

Zionists are a drag...

Kennedy and the other ringleaders of the Celto-Zionist cabal for South-East Asian Hegemony!!!!

The Irish are a drag. Always bringing the country down through their endless quest for war and American military infamy.

It all started under the command of the bellicose commander of the War of 1812 and later president, Scots-Irish descendant Andrew Jackson, and our country went downhill from there.

Seriously, you can fuck off and die now.

It would be a merciful death compared to the alternative of letting your miniscule brain explode with the details of all the ethno-religious conspiracy theories one could jam into that gut locker of a contraption. Your neuron storms need more space to breathe.  

Easy.

Virtually all of my Jewish basic training compatriots came from the NYC metropolitan areaa--where did you group up?

Eastern Washington, Tri-Cities area. Acquaintances from Montana, Alabama and Georgia pronounced it one of the most redneck places they'd ever been.

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