The Jewish people have suffered from Enemies Within (traitors) in every generation.
It is so sad that a people who have excelled/contributed so much in so many lines of human endeavor ... have not learned how to deal with traitors
(which is such an elementary lesson to grasp)
A. Lord:
Jewish self-denial:
Kurzweil and Mordechai Shalev already noticed in the early 1950s, the destructive role that Marxism plays in the life of the youth in the country, in the negative impact it has on the personality of the sabra. "The extreme left [referring then to Hashomer Hatzair and the unity of labor. A.L.] has a very real, very practical idea, though also very foreign to the spirit of our people and its tradition," Kurzweil wrote in his famous essay (1953) on the Canaanites: "... As for Marxism and its chances, there is no exaggeration. In the Israeli adaptation, it is consistent to the point of suicide. And it is so realistic and very alive among the youth." Even today we would say "to the point of suicide." So, in the early fifties, it was an adherence to the very end, a deep identification with Stalin's leadership, with the world of Soviet of tomorrow. Today, it is the psycho-political dependence on the PLO's mouthpiece and the provision of automatic ideological theoretical protection for every act of murder and every occurrence within the Jahiliyah of the Palestinian Authority.
If we trace the ideological thought of the left in Israel, we find that there is a second thread that runs from the days of Stalinism at its peak to the present day. First, it is the intellectual mechanism that enables people to identify with their oppressor to the end. Second, and most specifically, Stalin's curse on Zionism has driven the anti-Zionist and anti-Israel flywheel that generates hatred of Israel in the Western world to this day. This, of course, connected with the curse of Hitler, which was very popular and well-liked by the Arab national movement, and especially the Palestinian one. Since then, endless "Prague trials" have been conducted against Zionism, and only the language is constantly updated. The interesting question, to which there is no absolute answer, is: to what extent did the intellectual-political patterns of behavior of the Communists permeate the left as a whole.
Translated at DP, Poisonous Stalin's anti-Zionist Marxism at radical left minority in Israel