Anti-Semitism is a virus that survives by mutating. In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated because of their religion. In the 19th and 20th centuries they were hated because of their race. Today they are hated because of their nation state, Israel. Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism. It is why Israel—the only fully functioning democracy in the Middle East with a free press and independent judiciary—is regularly accused of the five crimes against human rights: racism, apartheid, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and attempted genocide. This is the blood libel of our time.
Newsweek The argument goes like this. After the Holocaust, every right-thinking human being must be opposed to Nazism. Palestinians are the new Jews. The Jews are the new Nazis. Israel is the new crime against humanity. Therefore every right thinking person must be opposed to the state of Israel, and since every Jew is a Zionist, we must oppose the Jews. This argument is wholly wrong. It was Jews not Israelis who were murdered in terrorist attacks in Toulouse, Paris, Brussels and Copenhagen.
Jews have been hated because they were different. They were the most conspicuous non-Christian minority in pre-World War Christian Europe. Today they are the most conspicuous non-Muslim presence in an Islamic Middle East. Anti-Semitism has always been about the inability of a group to make space for difference. No group that adopts it will ever create a free society.
THE TEN REASONS why anti-Zionists and anti-Semites are the one and the same:
Israel Today (1) Before 1948, anti-Zionists rejected an independent Jewish state as the best approach to solving the Jewish question, but they nevertheless understood that Zionism was a movement for Jewish national self-determination. Since 1948, anti-Zionists have grossly mischaracterized Zionism, branding it as an example of European imperialism; supremacist, racist and genocidal by definition; and necessarily linked to oppression worldwide.
(2) Before 1948, Jews were not subjected to litmus tests over their views on Zionism. Since 1948, they have been, first in the Soviet Union, then in most of the Arab world and now among the illiberal academic and activist left. The Jews today must either hide their Zionism or publicly renounce Israel. Otherwise, Jews will be shamed and excluded from numerous public spaces.
(3) Much as white supremacists insist that Jews are exercising power from the shadows to replace white people with minorities, the intersectionalist left insists that Zionists work from the shadows to keep white supremacists in power and minorities oppressed. In both instances, Jews are charged with perniciously exerting control through proxies. This is the famous Russian forgery, often quoted by Muslims – The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion helped to spread the disease of antisemitism throughout the world. The protocols are a document that purports to represent the ideas of a secret society of Jewish elders and was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in 1905. Its lies about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to circulate today, especially in the Arab world. The individuals and groups who have used the Protocols are all linked by a common purpose: to spread hatred of Jews.
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(4) Anti-Zionism today is premised on traditional fears of Jewish power and dual loyalty, antisemitic tropes that emerged during the Enlightenment and culminated in the Holocaust and Stalin’s campaign against “rootless cosmopolitans.”
(5) The imagery and rhetoric deployed by anti-Zionists is virtually identical to those used by traditional antisemites. It is no accident that “Jewish supremacy” is now a term favored by anti-Zionists.
(6) BDS entails boycotting 50% of the world’s Jews, which means discrimination against a collective of millions of individuals simply because of where they happen to have been born and their ethno-national lineage. This is racism.
(7) The Jews are the only nation whose self-determination is being denied and negated decades after self-determination was achieved and long after the UN recognized Israel’s independence. No other nation has to justify its right to exist as a state on a daily basis.
(8) The Jewish people are the only ethno-national community that boasts a significant number of activist members who are working to undo the community’s right to self-determination. They do so because non-Jewish activists have vilified Zionism as imperialist, racist and genocidal. Thus, non-Jews continue their millennia-old tradition of claiming the right to define what is acceptable and what is unacceptable Jewish behavior. Jewish “social justice” advocates have accepted this, even though they have granted every other minority the right to define its own oppression and shape its own destiny.
(9) Most countries in the world do reprehensible things from time to time. But the anti-Zionist left believes the Jewish state is uniquely reprehensible. This is a double standard and double standards constitute bigotry.
(10) The preceding nine points indicate that the world continues to see the Jew as a pariah, which has been the norm in Western Christendom for over 1,500 years, even though the ostensible reasons have changed. The “othering” of the Jews predates the demonization of any other minority community and is a global phenomenon. Much as Christianity defined itself in opposition to the Christ-killing Jew, much as Nazism defined itself in opposition to the degenerate conspiratorial Jewish race, the social justice left portrays Zionism as a transnational ideology that impedes the realization of a just world. Thus, the Jewish state and its supporters preclude the liberation of humanity.
Yes, these ten examples lack nuance. This is precisely the point, because like all antisemites, anti-Zionists reject nuance through double standards, stereotypes and demonization. Searching for nuance among racists legitimizes racism.
Take a look at Joe Biden’s appointees who have long records of demonizing Jews and trying to harm the Jewish state.
Why is there no outcry from liberal Jewish and political leaders, the media and others over the far worse actions of other officials and former presidents who cavort with and even honor and praise vicious antisemites? Why is there no outcry when they outrageously appoint Jew-haters to high positions where they can do permanent damage that causes increased antisemitism and endangers Israel, as well as Jews at home and abroad?
President Joe Biden, for instance, has honored and appointed numerous people hostile to the Jewish state to powerful positions where they are undermining Israel’s security and sovereignty at every opportunity and mainstreaming antisemitism.
To give just a few of many examples: Biden appointee Hady Amrsaid he “was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” that is, the terror wars in which Palestinian Arab terrorists murdered or maimed 10,000 Jews; falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing”; called for a deal with Hamas; and worked as an anti-Israel group’s national coordinator.
Where is the outcry over Biden elevating this Jew-hater to a new top position dealing with Israel and the Palestinian Arabs?
And where is the outcry over Biden’s appointment of antisemitic BDS activist Maher Bitar as senior National Security Council intelligence director, even after Bitar taught a seminar on “how to demonize Israel” and served on the executive committee of the antisemitic hate group Students for Justice in Palestine, which harasses and torments Jewish students on college campuses?
Where is the outcry over Biden appointing Tamara Cofman Wittesto USAID’s Middle East arm, when Wittes has claimed that the Palestinian Authority’s despicable “pay to slay” payments of hundreds of millions of dollars per year to Arab terrorists who murder Jews and Americans is a welfare program?
Where is the outcry over Biden’s appointment of Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran, despite Malley’s longstanding demands to uproot Jews from their homes; promotion of Hamas; opposition to Iran sanctions that curbed anti-Jewish and anti-American terror; and promotion of Iran’s nuclear program, which threatens to wipe out millions of Jews and others?
And where is the outcry over Biden’s failure to publicly condemn powerful congressional Jew-haters Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Betty McCollum, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Ayanna Pressley and others?
And why was there silence when Biden praised Tlaib in May 2021, saying, “Rashida, I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion and I admire your concern for so many people. … You are a fighter, and God thank you for being a fighter”?
Where is the outrage over Secretary of State Antony Blinkenhonoring overt Jew-hating Israel-basher Ilhan Omar by bringing her to the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar? And why is there silence on Blinken’s plan to speak to the Israel-bashing lobby J Street?
Where was the outrage when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on a Feb. 2019 Rolling Stone cover together with antisemites Omar, Tlaib and AOC, and refused to remove these bigots from their committees?
Why is there no outcry over former President Barack Obama’sinfamous 2005 photo with vicious antisemite Louis Farrakhan, the two of them standing together and smiling from ear to ear? Or over Obama helping to organize Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington? Or over former President Bill Clinton sharing a stage with Farrakhan and shaking Farrakhan’s hand at Aretha Franklin’s funeral in 2018?
This double standard is unconscionable. A “free pass” should not be given to politicians who associate with and elevate antisemites. We need to combat and condemn all forms of antisemitism—left and right. As Trump declared in his Feb. 5, 2019 State of the Union address: “We must never ignore the vile poison of antisemitism, or those who spread its venomous creed. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.”
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allanivarsson says
Wow! BNI, an excellent informative presentation.
BareNakedIslam says
It’s been bothering me lately because there has been a surge in anti-Semitism in this country. Part of the reason is the influx of Muslims, and their public displays of Jew/Israel hatred have emboldened the formerly closeted white and black anti-Semites. There’s hardly a week that goes by when I don’t hear about some kind of attack on religious Jews in NYC, the most obvious Jews.
What’s more, the Muslim Democrats in Congress seem to be influencing several of their fellow Democrats to stop their support for Israel. And as I included in the post, Joe Biden’s appointees are fanning the flames.
allanivarsson says
BNI, I sensed that something was happening against Jews, when in overview, I observed that Biden’s policies were anti-Jews & anti-Israel.
USA needs a younger Trump.
I am not very impressed with what is happening in Australia. The new younger generations are not caring about our country. As you know, I am getting old with increasing health problems. I know what to do for Australia, but I don’t have the energy levels to do the Project Management corrections for our country. Even research writing is starting to tire me out.
A large percentage of my era, the Baby Boomers are either deceased or getting too old for solution activity.
I posted volumes of information to help the younger ones fix Australia’s problems. Problem is… the younger Australian’s have been brain wrecked by Authoritarian Socialism and many are more interested in gimme, gimme policies than in doing something right for their country.
My posts have volumes of essential solutions that need attention to save Australia, but the young ones with rare exceptions, don’t want to read the wisdom that exists and the solutions that need attention. My Australian following has dropped 50% over the last 12 months and my American following has increased three times the Australian readers.
It seems, I should have become a Yank when I was younger. That idea saddens me, because I love this once upon a time great lucky country that Xi Jinping is striving hard to own and control.
If USA does not get a strong leader in 2024, I fear the West will perish.
BareNakedIslam says
Allan, I saw a very scary headline last night. It said that Australia is the “new Taiwan.” I didn’t have time to read it, but if you want, I’ll find the link and send it to you. My readership is a lot less than years ago when Islamic Terror was in the news everyday. Don’t give up, it only takes one shocking event to bring the readers back. Despite Biden’s alleged vow to protect Taiwan from China, I don’t believe he will which is why China will make its move before Biden is out. And I fear Australia is next in the crosshairs 🫤
allanivarsson says
Thanks, BNI. If you are able to find the link, please post it here. I will check in. That idea has crossed my mind previously when I watch the character of Xi Jinping. I have not given up, but I do feel frustrated.
Yes, I do not trust Biden support in a crisis. And we are vulnerable before 2024.
BareNakedIslam says
Actually, it’s a 14 minute video:
allanivarsson says
Thank you BNI, this is an excellent video presentation of things I knew, but also of another well identified checklist of evolving serious concerns in the short-term. [A different Truth.]
I shall study this again in ‘Think Tank’ and again and again and look for other interfaced concerns out on the web, to look for new insight.
I won’t pass it forward just yet until I do more needed interface homework. Even if I published it on my website, young Australians would not react to it, and will hide their apathetic minds in the sand, refusing to recognize the danger.
I have to find another way to wake up young Aussies.
My old age is my problem. And I am not rich, just comfortable.
Ps. When I run with it, BNI will be acknowledged.
BareNakedIslam says
Twitter and Instagram seem to reach more young people than individual websites do.
allanivarsson says
Yes, BNI, I believe you are right.
I post now on Twitter. But I am reluctant to use Instagram because it is linked to Facebook.
Young people seem to want easy communication, they want fun rather than learn the truth about life.
BareNakedIslam says
Just don’t use Tik Tok, owned by Chinese govt.
Ghulam says
Allan
Today’s generation measures its self-worth by the number of followers and subscribers to their Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts.
The advent of social media has caused large sections of young people to abandon reality in favor of their own make-believe world. The only things that matter now is how many likes, retweets and upvotes your posts received.
There is no parallel to this shallowness throughout human history. But social media is just about a decade old +3-5 years.
It doesn’t behoove a gentleman of your age and wisdom to feel bad about not being able to reach out to today’s generation.
Franz Kafka was largely unknown in his lifetime. He died in obscurity in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Today his works have influenced modern literature to such an extent that term Kafkaesque itself has found a place in the dictionaries of English, French ((kafkaïen/kafkaïenne), German (kafkaesk), and other languages.
Who doesn’t like H.P. Lovecraft? The Call of Cthulhu is sheer genius. But even he died in anonymity. You might find a kindred association with Lovecraft as many of his works have centered around cosmicism.
Today’s pathetic generation thrives on INSTANT VALIDATION. They cannot be helped at all. It doesn’t behoove a wise sentient being like yourself to compete with social media-addicted zombies.
I would advice you to bequeath your website to serve as an information base in perpetuity. Your immediate family can help.
Regards
Ghulam
allanivarsson says
Ghulam, excellent encouragement advice. Thank you. You are right. It is interesting you mentioned Lovecraft. This is my history post associated with him.
https://allanivarsson.com/2021/06/24/cosmicism-how-the-word-evolved/
Aaaa says
The High IQ Jews are mostly Ashkenazi Jews
BareNakedIslam says
My parents always told me that their parents came from Russia – Kiev. I didn’t release until the Ukraine war that Kiev was in Ukraine. But I guess back then it was all considered Russia. My grandparents spoke several languages.
Martelson says
At that time, Kiev was in the Russian Empire and had been for at least several centuries. As for Jews and the area – the connection goes back to about the 10th century, and it is not too far from the Pale, that area where Jews were intended to stay. Your grandparents probably saw a lot as pogroms were quite the thing during the late 19th century into the early 20th centuries. And remember Tsar Nicholas II was on record saying one-third of the Jews would be converted, one-third deported and one-third killed.
Madness in the area, and (it seems) still is.
BareNakedIslam says
My grandmother always use to tell me: “Never trust the (Russian) bear.”
Martelson says
Indeed, and in these matters neither trust the Ukrainians too. You know Kiev is the ancestral root background for Russia. It was settled by Viking overlords who became Slavs. Guess, I ought to tell you – because of this heritage of mine, I am very distant cousin of Nicky and wife Alexandra. If all is correct – descendant of Vladimir of Kiev. Part Viking, part Slav and first Christian of the Rus.
Your grandmother was correct. I trust very little coming out of eastern Europe. They keep long memories, and sharp knifes.
BareNakedIslam says
Yes, they were a lot smarter than this young generation.
Ghulam says
Did I tell you.. all Muslims are secretly JEALOUS of Jews?
What’s not to be envious about?
1. Jews have got money and class…..and Muslims usually lack in both departments.
Wealthy Muslims are TRASHY with very few exceptions. Lot Hadid and his two temptress daughters – Gomer and Rahab (a.k.a Bella and Gigi) 😁 😆😁 😆
are a case in point.
2. Jews have produced scientists like Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr and Wolfgang Pauli.
99.99% Muslims can’t even comprehend their scientific contributions. I once heard a sermon by a Saudi Mufti where he pronounced Einstein an agent of the Shayaaṭins (شَيَاطِين) [evil monsters dwelling in hellfire] — can’t find that link. It’s an old video in Arabic language.
3. Jews run Hollywood and American television industry
While Muslims would consider Hollywood an evil institution corrupting pious Muslim teenagers (Iran’s Mullahs are an example), we’re jealous of the fact that Jews run the largest media and entertainment industry.
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I could go on and on.
So let me just pronounce a FATWA on the Jews.
I hate you cause you always appear so much better than us. Can’t be true – Allah has lied to us.
{sic}
BareNakedIslam says
Ghulam, you crack me up!
One point on the Hollywood dominance. When Jews first started arriving here in great numbers, late 19th, early 20th century, they were not welcome, as many immigrant groups were not welcome back then. Many Jewish immigrants were highly educated but still could not get jobs with large corporations (mostly WASP-run), banks, or educational institutions because of the prejudice against them.There were even strict quotas on Jews being admitted to prestigious universities. The neighborhood I grew up in had been restricted against any Jews living there before my parents were able to buy a home there.
As a result, Jews had to find other ways of making a living which is why many of them opened small retail shops, which led to larger retail business growth and their future reputation as good businessmen.
Hollywood was in its infancy back then and wasn’t run by big corporations as it is now, which is why Jews saw it as an entreprenurial endeavor they could pursue without being subjected to WASP discrimination. Needless to say, the movie and entertainment industry in America became very successful, and by then, Jews dominated the field.
allanivarsson says
Ghulam,
https://allanivarsson.com/2018/04/04/a-great-man-the-muslim-by-birth-that-rejected-islam/
Ghulam says
Allan
I have a very receptive mind. You can rest assured a lot of your FREEDOM VALUES ideas are sinking in here.
Where does my ideas differ from yours? You champion Western values whereas I believe that Western civilization and Western values are reeking with hypocrisies at all levels.
Western civilization has been the general cause of discontent and dissatisfaction among millions.
There have been studies where ancient primitive tribes lost their mental balance after their first contact with Western civilization. The more urbanized they got, the more they took to alcoholism and drug abuse.
Maybe Islam is the answer to humanity’s problems? Maybe not.
Perhaps the ancient Chinese civilization has something to teach the rest of humanity?
Maybe our answer lies with the ancient Hindus who composed a masterpiece like Rig Veda.
I don’t have a DOGMATIC belief system. I wouldn’t be on a website like this with a closed mind. 😁 We’re all EXPLORERS.
allanivarsson says
Ghulam, “You champion Western values whereas I believe that Western civilization and Western values are reeking with hypocrisies at all levels.” I agree.
“I don’t have a DOGMATIC belief system.” That is good news Ghulam.
True some good ancient primitive tribes did lose their sense of balance after first contact with Western ideas.
BareNakedIslam says
Allan, I think what Ghulam is referring to is Western “far-Left values.” “Values” as in abortion rights up to the day of birth, growing glorification of anti-science transgenderism/multi-genderism, paeodphilia (of late), drag queen parties for children, destruction of the nuclear family, support for government rather than parental control of children’s belief systems, anti-all religions – especially Christianity, and most of all these days, opposition to freedom of speech unless it agrees with the Leftist agenda.
allanivarsson says
Good point BNI that makes sense. In Australia it includes ‘Net Zero Target’ which is destroying our economics and sending us down the road of becoming poor, to support ‘Green Mentality’ Climate Change Activism which is not that Green.
I think Australia is copying ‘California’ USA & UK.
Ghulam says
I would add the following inventions of Western civilization as major contributors to today’s decadent age.
1. The age of social media;
Its consequences are the present Influencer culture, ME-TOO movement, body-shaming, passing judgment on strangers you’ll never meet in the real world.
2. The mainstreamig of alternate cultural fads such as body tattoos, piercings, hip-hop music, and the worship of personality cults.
Had Hitler been around in the 2010s, Nazi Germany would have ruled the entire world. It’s far easier to control large numbers of people today than it was three decades ago.
3. This stupidity of FACT-CHECKING. It might appear important but fact-checking is a nonsense activity.
There was a time you’d go to a local library and trust what the Encyclopedia Britannica wrote. Today’s generation aren’t convinced about a fact’s veracity unless they look up multiple sources – that ends up confusing them even more.
I have never seen more confused minds than in the last two decades alone.
BareNakedIslam says
Can’t disagree with you there.
Martelson says
Yes. Well done coverage of the present-day anti-Jewish left. You really can’t be anti-Israel and claim you aren’t a anti-Semitic. This present administration is the most anti-Semitic White House we have seen in many, many years.
ME Infidel says
The worldwide population of Jews is only slightly over 15 million people yet the one area that they truthfully dominate is in brain power. They have won 212 Nobel prizes out of 934 in all six categories which is almost 23% of the total.
The first award was won ironically in 1905 by Adolph von Bueyer the same year that the “Protocols” was first published. (If I pointed out that of the 1.8 billion Muslims living today, they only have a total of 13 prizes but that 7 of those were for peace, 3 for science and 3 for literature, would I be an considered an Islamophobe?)
The world might be a far better place if the anti-Semites and anti-Zionists focused more effort on creating concrete, scientific achievements to benefit mankind rather than their spewing of incessant, ignorant drivel.