- In a recent comment in The Guardian "Anti-Zionism
Is Not Anti-Semitism" http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1098625,00.html
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- Brian Klug, an Oxford research fellow and founder member
of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, states that "It
is a staple of anti-Semitic discourse that Jews are a people apart, who
form 'a state within a state'." He goes on to ask "What is anti-Semitism?"
He defines an anti-Semite as one who sees Jews as "an alien presence,
a parasite that preys on humanity and seeks to dominate the world. Across
the globe, their hidden hand controls the banks, the markets and the media.
Even governments are under their sway. And when revolutions occur or nations
go to war, it is the Jews - clever, ruthless and cohesive - who invariably
pull the strings and reap the rewards."
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- Klug contradicts himself. He rightly identifies 'anti-Semitism'
as due to the Jews who consider themselves "a people apart, who form
'a state within a state'. " Let's consider this for a second. When
push comes to shove, such people are indeed traitors to their birth country
- they will act to serve the needs of Israel first, which clearly endangers
security in their birth country. (According to former Mossad agent Viktor
Ostrovsky*, Israel can tap the significant and loyal cadre of the worldwide
Jewish community outside Israel through a unique system of sayanim, volunteer
Jewish helpers.) Mossad's motto is: "By way of deception, thou shalt
do war."
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- Is this 'anti-Semitism' wrong? Shouldn't patriotic Jews,
say in England, not only loudly denounce Israel's inhuman policies, but
burn their Israeli passports or renounce any possibility of being part
of this racist state?
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- Then he defines anti-Semitism in a completely different
way as the belief in the conspiracy of Jews to control the world economy.
Two very different kettles of fish. He calls the conspiracy a "fantasy",
not an argument which can be supported (or refuted) by historical facts,
and insists we must not refer to 'Jewish influence'. Who says so? A lot
of facts can be mustered to support the so-called fantasy and Jewish cultural
influence around the world in the 20th c.
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- But he brushes this aside to focus on Israel and the
Zionists as the main source of prejudice today, "the unequal treatment
of Jewish colonisers and Palestinian inhabitants", as if it would
go away if the 'colonisers' were a bit nicer to the 'inhabitants', somehow
ignoring the meaning of COLONIZERS.
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- So what really causes the age-old prejudice against the
Jews? We can agree with Klug that the Zionists and Israel's brutal imperialism
are the main cause for the GROWING prejudice against Jews these days, along
with the sense by non-Jews that Jews who support Israel are effectively
traitors to their birth country (unless that happens to be Israel), since
Israel's policies are the direct cause of terrorism against the West. If
Israel can be persuaded to halt its genocidal policies in the Middle East,
this would surely go a long way to reduce this prejudice. The Jewish diaspora
supporting a benign, modest Israel would not be seen as so treasonous by
non-Jews.
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- But the tradition of prejudice against Jews is really
hatred of the stereotype, or better ARCHEtype of the usurious, vengeful
Shylock, the clever social parasite who hides his disdain and loathing
of society at large behind a hypocritical smile. Just as in psychoanalysis,
the only way to rid ourselves of such prejudice is to confront it, to remove
its origins. Hitler committed the error of misplaced concreteness by trying
to wipe out the physical manifestation of the archetype - the Jews themselves.
But while society is based on usury, the archetype will survive, though
it would have to attach itself to another group if there were no Jews.
So that's not the way. No, the practice of usury and associated economic
injustices must be abolished.
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- But that alone won't solve the problem. As long as Jews
continue to hold themselves apart from and above society, and maintain
that Christianity and Islam are false religions, there will be prejudice
against them. Both Jesus and Mohammad must be recognized by all (OK, atheists
excepted) as legitimate prophets, messiahs, whatever, to end this senseless
religious anymosity.
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- And as for the actual word for this prejudice, let's
abandon 'anti-Semitism' once and for all, since Semites include not only
Sephardic Jews but Arabs, which makes the Zionist Ashkenazy Jews (who are
not Semitic) the real anti-Semites.
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