Posted on 03/21/2010 7:18:48 AM PDT by Clive
Lorrie Goldstein
Vilifying Jews is nothing new: Goldstein
In every era, the haters find new ways to spout the same old evil
Following last week’s column on Israeli Apartheid Week, a number of readers have asked if I’m arguing anyone who participates in this annual event is a Jew hater.
No. There may well be those who participate in IAW, which started at the University of Toronto in 2005, out of a genuine humanitarian concern about Israeli policies toward the Palestinians.
They may also be genuinely unaware the IAW campaign — as British Conservative MP Michael Gove noted during a Canadian tour last fall — uses an age-old tactic employed by Jew haters throughout human history.
That is, to take the founding paradigm of any era, that which we say we most value or believe in, and twist it to portray Jews not just as capable of wrongdoing — since that can be said of anyone — but rather to portray Jews as the most evil people on Earth.
Our paradigm today — what we say we value most — is human rights.
That’s why, to the Jew hater, it’s vital, through IAW, to portray Jews not just as human rights violators, but as the world’s worst violators.
Hence the unrelenting, unfair comparisons of Israel — the Jewish state — in its treatment of the Palestinians, to the most publicly reviled human rights violator of the modern age — apartheid South Africa.
This without any qualifiers — the security threats to Israel posed by Arab and Islamic terrorism — or context — how human rights in Israel compare to the Arab and Islamic dictatorships surrounding it.
Why? Because for Jew haters, none of that matters.
To the contrary, it’s perfectly acceptable to them when Muslims violate the human rights of other Muslims, Christians, or Jews, or when the state-run media in much of the Arab and Muslim world constantly spout Jew hatred.
That’s because Jew haters don’t care about human rights, only about maliciously depicting Jews not just as human rights violators, but as the world’s worst violators.
Similarly, they attack the legitimacy of Israel as “the Jewish state” in a way they would never attack, say, the Islamic character of “The Islamic Republic of Iran”.
None of this is new.
Go back to the Second World War when our emerging paradigm was the supremacy of science over religion.
That’s why the Nazis, even as they were exterminating six million Jews (and millions of others), sought to “prove” through “scientific” means, including medical experimentation (torture), that Jews were not simply an inferior race, but the most degenerate race on Earth. Not just that they were flawed, but irredeemably corrupt.
Go back hundreds of years to when religion was our founding paradigm and we see Jew haters portraying Judaism not just as a flawed religion, but as the most evil religion on Earth, with Jews even accused of using the blood of non-Jewish children (the “blood libel”) to make Passover matzah.
The message of Jew haters has always been consistent.
It’s that Jews aren’t merely fallible, as is everyone. Rather, Jews are unimaginably evil and thus hating them is justified.
So, yes, it’s possible some IAW enthusiasts aren’t Jew haters, just as it’s possible some people who deny the Holocaust are merely ignorant about history.
That said, it’s a given many, if not most, Holocaust deniers are Jew haters.
Why? Because anyone who wants to portray Jews as the puppet masters behind every major global conflict of the past century, of, absurdly, being the simultaneous instigators of tyrannical communism and corrupt capitalism, and of controlling both the international banking system and what movies Hollywood produces, has to discredit the Holocaust.
Why? Because if the Jews are so all-powerful, why did they allow it to happen?
Hence the Jew haters’ argument that not only is the Holocaust a hoax, but that the evil Jews have now fooled the world into feeling guilty about something that never happened and stolen billions of dollars in reparations in the process.
So yes, it’s possible some folks who attend IAW events aren’t motivated by Jew hatred, just as it’s possible some who deny the Holocaust aren’t, either.
It’s just that in so many cases, it’s not probable.
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Notice there are no protests when palestinian launch barages of rockets to kill innocent civilians, when they lop off the heads of people they’ve captured in an “unjust” war fomented by Jews and the U.S.
IMHO
No moral outrage when Pali’s name a park after a homicide bomber who explodes a bus with children riding, BUT a few Jews want new apartments, oy...
Never again is ringing hollow! Kapos in the White House.
North American Jews should be more careful with their voting habits ...
Villifying jews is nothing new=today’s entry in news of the obvious.
I would say Catholics need to be equally as careful.
It’s the Jooooooooooooooooosssssssssssssss *ping*
Catholic and Jews are together in this -— it seems to me we have many of the same weaknesses, same strengths, same vices, same virtues -— even (erk) similar voting habits-—
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... I would say Catholics need to be equally as careful..
Agree up to a point.
When 80% of the Catholics vote for a guy with a Mooslime name while there are stridden and sustained screams for their eradication then, you will have a full point.
WWII style Kapos are still among us ...
You’re absolutely correct. In my opinion, we are witnessing the destruction of our beloved country and we can kiss our freedom goodbye. We’ve destroyed our children and grandchildren’s futures.
I’m disgusted with the useful idiots that have participated in their own destruction.
“No moral outrage when Pali’s name a park after a homicide bomber...”
Dontcha know that homicide bombers are noble beings?
Dontcha know?
(The homicide bomber pulls the string, sets off the bomb and ends up at the pearly gates, confronted by St. Peter.
He tells St. Peter, “Ah, now I am ready for the seventy virgins that were promised, your excellency.”
St. Peter apologizes and informs the terrorist that there was a mistake in the translation. The promise was for seventy Virginians, not virgins.)
And hopefully, they’ll all git thar arses whipped for eternity, by seventy angry, hostile, Americans from Virginia.
IMHO
Great post - thanks.
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