Jew-hate in Israel; what’s the antidote?

In an 1871 Pogrom in Odessa, Russia, ultra-right-wing non –Jewish intelligentsia incited for and then justified killing Jews. During the early years of Nazi rule in 1930’s Germany, non-Jewish German intelligentsia rushed to join Nazi right-wing anti-Semitism. In 2012, Western Leftists continue this shameful history with their own version of Jew-hate.

Leftists love humanity. They love Man. They love peace; so it seems odd that Leftist intellectuals should betray their professional belief in humanity by demonizing another human— the Jew. Their love of Man is so powerfully flawed that, like their Nazis predecessors, they see no hypocrisy whatsoever when they exclude ‘the Jew’ from humanity. They don’t flinch when someone calls for war against Jews. They don’t wince when the world’s only Jewish state—an endangered species if ever there was one--is attacked at UN Humanitarian conferences. Apparently, the Jew is too repulsive to be protected by humanitarians.

But as shocking as it may be to watch lovers of humanity behave with such hate, that shock pales when compared to Jewish Leftist reaction to that hate. True, according to Ben Zion Netanyahu  (The founding fathers of Zionism,  2012, Balfour Books, Noble, OK), Jew-hate is not new. The birth of Jewish nationalism in mid-19^th century Russia

was born within a context of Jew-hate. Worse, Jewish nationalism itself was motivated in part by its own form of Jew-hate: Jewish secular animosity towards Judaism. But as disturbing as such internecine animosity might have been, Russian secularists were not like today’s Jewish Left. This modern ‘intelligentsia’ is not just secular and anti-religious; it is also rabidly anti-nationalist. Where the early Jewish intellectual rejected only his religion, today’s Jewish Leftist rejects everything Jewish. He prefers instead to embrace those who would kill him.

Would you marry someone who wants to kill you? Such a preference might give insight into Leftists’ understanding of marriage. But it shocks the rest of us. Jewish Leftist rejection of ‘Jewish’ is nonsensical because, taken to its logical extreme, the only place a Jew can go when he rejects everything Jewish is self-contempt; and the only place self-contempt leads to is the existentialist’s ultimate solution—destruction. The French existentialist Sartre created a character about whom he said, ‘she was so self-effacing, she disappeared.’ The same might be said about the Jewish Left: they are so self-hating, they will self-destruct.

How? In America, there is something called, ‘suicide by police’, where a man who hates himself provokes local police to shoot him. Israel’s Left behaves the same way, except it won’t be police who kill: an old Arab friend of an old Sabra (Israel-born Jew), once told that Sabra that, ‘when we [the Arabs] take over, the first ones we kill will be the Leftists; because if they betray their own people, how do you think they’ll treat us?’

Jewish-Leftist self-hate empowers fatal attractions.

The Jewish Left contorts morality. Recall Larry Derfner’s essay (‘The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror,’ Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2011):  he justified Arabs killing Jews for political ends.  He committed two sins with that declaration: first, he openly justified killing Jews; and second, he broke the Left’s code of silence by actually stating publicly what many Leftists dare only whisper.

This support for killing Jews reveals the Jewish-Left’s morality.  To support the Arab, the Jewish-Left cries for justice and peace, neither of which condones murder; but when it comes to Jews, the Left changes the rules: Arabs can murder Jews if that’s good for Arabs.

If you are looking for a definition of moral bankruptcy, this is as good as it gets.

The Left dedicates itself to national suicide. Every ‘peace’ idea the Left has promoted in the last twenty years—Oslo, Arafat and Gaza--have each been a disaster.  Perhaps 1,600 Jews have been murdered by Arabs because of these initiatives, all of which were promoted by Leftists as a ‘cure’. To put these numbers into perspective, they are equal, on a percentage basis, to approximately 75,000 murdered Americans (close to three-hundredths of one per cent of total population).

The body-count is staggering.

What’s the Left’s reaction to this slaughter? Israel Leftist, Ehud Barack, has recently announced a proposal for yet another unilateral withdrawal—this time from Judea-Samaria. The last time Israel implemented such a Leftist plan for peace was with Gaza (2005). The peace dividend from that decision—perhaps 12,000 rockets terrorizing a million Israelis—looks more like war than peace.

 Jewish Leftists submit to our enemies. They prefer to preach self-hate and national suicide. They will not defend their people. They will not join the IDF. They join Arab boycotts.

Sorry. I don’t do self-hate. I don’t create ideologies that promote a fatal attraction to my enemy. My Judaism teaches me that such behaviours are unG-dly. I also do not submit to those enemies: it’s against my religion.