I’m suprised how many people don’t know this… the ikkar kiddush hashem is by other yidden. “
People “don’t know” this because it makes more sense that a GOY should be made to recognize that Jews are menschen, because the Jew is usually thought to be pushy and obnoxious by the non-Jew. When we act with derech eretz to people who have not been brought up in our velt, it makes some of them think differently. There was the story told of the Yid who always said good morning to his German neighbor, wh9 barely ascknowledged his greeting. Then the Nazis took this Yid away, and as they were being sent to the right or the left, the Yid recognized his enighbor as one of the Nazi soldiers. he said good morning to him as he always did, and the Nazi looked at him and sent him to safety.