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Liberalism Is An Actual Mental Disorder. ==> Return of the Old Left-Wing Hatred |
Return of the Old Left-Wing Hatred
By Melanie Phillips
March 1, 2004
Let us all agree on one thing at least. The more Jews warn that
anti-Semitism has come roaring out of the closet, the more people don't
like the Jews. Which is a bit of a problem if you believe, as I do,
that the oldest hatred has indeed alarmingly resurfaced but is hiding
under the respectable skirts of hostility to Israel. This week, the
European Union finally admitted there was a problem with rising
Jew-hatred. While there was no comparison with the Holocaust, said
European Commission President Romano Prodi, some criticism of Israel
was 'inspired by what amounts to anti-Semitic sentiments and
prejudice'. Yesterday, the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity,
reported the second largest rise in 20 years in attacks on synagogues,
cemeteries and Jewish people in Britain.
Yet there were immediate moans in the press of 'grossly exaggerated'
warnings about rising anti-Semitism. In an Economist debate at London's
Institute of Contemporary Arts last week, those issuing such warnings
were accused of being the 'new McCarthyites', waving the shroud of the
Holocaust to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel.
So when a woman said to me one evening, 'I hate the Jews', I should
have dismissed my shock as a 'grossly exaggerated' response. When I was
listed in a newspaper as one of the Jews exercising sinister control
over public debate in Britain, I should have said I brought this on
myself by writing anything at all.
When I heard claims by a radio reporter that the Jews might have
'poisoned the water wells of Egypt' in 1947, I should not have wondered
why one of the stock libels of medieval Jew-hatred was being broadcast
as if it were true, since my concern was obviously shroud-waving.
And when in the ICA debate Tory MP Robert Jackson accused British Jews
of dual loyalty, saying their Britishness was conditional on their
explicit repudiation of the policies of Sharon, it was obvious the
reason he was singling out the Jews as second-class citizens in this
startling way was because they are McCarthyites.
Let's all agree on something else. Some Jews grossly over-react to
perceived anti-Semitic bias. Their campaign of insults is as bad as the
kind of insults which wing their way with monotonous regularity to me.
Nevertheless, as Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks told the EU conference, an
unholy alliance between the Left, the far-Right and the Islamic street
means millions are being told that alone among nations, Israel has no
right to exist and that all the troubles of the world are the work of
the Jews.
At the heart of this bitter disagreement is the conflation of the issue
of Israel with the issue of Jew-hatred. The latter claim maddens people
who feel they can't criticise Israel without risking being accused of
anti-Jewish prejudice. The two, they say, are not connected. In theory,
that's true. In practice, one issue often morphs into the other, both
implicitly in the way Israel is described and explicitly in overt
Jew-hatred.
Criticism of Israel is certainly legitimate, as is criticism of any
country. I am myself critical of its policies. But a line has been
crossed into something else - the demonisation and dehumanisation of
Israel based on
systematic lies, libels and distortions. As a result, a lot of decent
people have been unwittingly caught up in a narrative of hatred.
Former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans tried to show where that
line should be drawn. It was not anti-Semitic, he said, to report
Israeli ill-treatment of Palestinians or Sharon's past, or to deplore
the long
occupation of the territories. It was anti-Semitic to present Israel as
diabolical, to invent malignant outrages, to condemn actions by Israel
while not condemning worse elsewhere, and to vilify Jews so as to
incite violence.
In all four categories, that line has been crossed. Diabolical? Israel
is routinely described falsely as an apartheid or, worse, Nazi state.
While its society is far from perfect, Arab Israelis not only have the
vote but serve in the Knesset, supreme court and army. To label it
'Nazi' is to delegitimise it.
Malevolent outrages? Look at the so-called 'massacre' of Jenin, which
has become an accepted fact even though there was no massacre: 23
Israeli soldiers and 52 mostly armed Palestinians died in that
incident. There are some appalling and inexcusable incidents in Israel.
But that doesn't explain why Israeli self-defence is systematically and
falsely represented as malevolent aggression.
Double standards? British academics try to impose boycotts on Israeli
universities. Yet they organised no boycotts against Kuwait, which
expelled 350,000 Palestinians in 1991; or Jordan, which murdered tens
of thousands of Palestinians; or Syria, which has occupied Lebanon. And
increasingly, people are saying Israel should not exist at all, thus
singling it out alone for destruction.
Inciting violence? People such as Lib Dem MP Jenny Tonge have come
close to excusing the mass murder of Israelis in a manner they would
never apply to the mass murder of other peoples.
Coverage of Israel is obsessive and disproportionate, and marked by a
hysteria and malice not applied to any other conflict. And it cannot be
divorced from the overt Jew-hatred that has now surfaced in Britain and
Europe, particularly the give-away calumny of world Jewish power. The
claim that Jews conspire to dominate the world is one of the oldest
tropes of classic Jew-hatred. Astonishingly, claims made by the
European Left are not far removed. It repeats claims that the 'powerful
Jewish lobby' is now running American foreign policy. When Labour MP
Tam Dalyell observed that a 'cabal' of Jewish power was behind Blair,
he was thought a loveable eccentric. In the House of Lords, a meeting
heard that Jews control the British media. One peer told a Jewish
colleague: 'We've finished off Saddam. Your lot are next.'
The outcome is that an astonishing axis has developed between Islamic
Jew-haters and the Left, marching behind the banners of 'human rights'
on demonstrations in Europe producing chants of 'Hamas, Hamas, all Jews
to the gas'.
Why? The main reason is ignorance of both the Middle East's history and
its present. Next, the Left's hatred of Sharon is so great, along with
its prejudice that America/the West is the oppressor and therefore the
Islamic/Third World the victim, that it can't see what is happening.
Then there's the Left's deconstruction of the very concepts of
objectivity and truth, so that it has become a conduit instead for
propaganda and lies; and finally, its own history of Jew-hatred from
Marx onwards. The final twist is that there are some Jews on the Left
who subscribe to all the above too.
Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu said people were scared to say the
Jewish lobby in America was powerful. So what? he asked. 'The apartheid
government was very powerful but today it no longer exists. Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic and Idi Amin were all powerful,
but in the end they bit the dust.'
So Jews not only have vast power, according to Tutu, but are on a par
with those tyrants. Yet it was Tutu who could publish this calumny
about the Jewish people, and thus incite yet more to hate them. But of
course, any Jews who call this by its proper name are the new
McCarthyites.
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12 Jun 2005 04:51:13 AM |
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Mossad Chief: U.S. to Be Mired in Middle East in Perpetuity
According to Ephraim Halevy, former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence
service and current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence
in the Middle East lasting decades.
You thought I was kidding when I asked "Who Is Congress Listening To?"
Do you get it yet? Has it sunk in? ISRAEL WANTS THESE WARS. Bush lied to you
to send your kids off to die in a war Israel wanted. Even Bush's own
advisers openly admit this.
Do you get it yet? Israel's desires, Bush's lies, your kids' lives.
Israel's desires, Bush's lies, your kids' lives.
Israel's desires, Bush's lies, your kids' lives.
Think about it.
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