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Breaking: Jews Still Failing to Prove They’re Not a Global Menace
From the Rosenbergs to Campus Blacklists: The Persistence of Political Persecution
“Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.” Source: Britannica.com
The world doesn’t believe Jews. But don’t worry, the world doesn’t believe a lot of people. It keeps life interesting.
Take Julius and Ethel Rosenberg¹, for instance. Lovely couple, devoted to each other, and — would you believe it? — loyal to their principles right up until the part where they were strapped into an electric chair. The United States, fresh off saving democracy from tyranny, decided the best way to celebrate was by frying a pair of Jewish intellectuals for allegedly handing out nuclear blueprints like Halloween candy.
The evidence? Circumstantial. The trial? A carnival. The verdict? Inevitable. And when given the opportunity to save themselves by snitching, the Rosenbergs did something unthinkable: they didn’t. Not even when they paraded their children before them, little faces solemn with the knowledge that they’d soon be orphans. What kind of people refuse a deal like that? Certainly not the kind who…
