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Walter Yannis [OP]

2003-03-21 08:44 | User Profile

This appeared in the [url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-03-22&id=2908]Spectator [/url] 22 March 2003.

Walter

Melanie Phillips says that hostility to Jews is strongest among those on the Left who claim to be fighting racism

Want to make yourself really, really unpopular if you’re a Jew? Try saying that the world is witnessing a terrifying firestorm of hatred directed at Israel and the Jewish people, in which the British and Europeans are deeply implicated.

Since it is now a given in many circles that Israel is a threat to the world equal to North Korea, and that Ariel Sharon is a cross between Martin Bormann and Hendrik Verwoerd, you will find yourself accused of using the Holocaust to avoid any criticism of Israel’s behaviour. Because, well, you know, you Jews always stick together and are mighty quick to deal that persecution card.

Anyone who holds that view may as well skip what follows. More objective and fair-minded souls, however, might be deeply alarmed to learn of the evidence provided at a recent conference on anti-Semitism and the media at the Vidal Sassoon Centre for the Study of Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem.

This was scarcely a gathering of the Ariel Sharon fan club. Among academics and journalists from Israel, Europe, Britain and America were several left-wingers and liberals who were deeply hostile to Israel’s Likud government, believed that the settlements should be dismantled, and were troubled by the behaviour of some of Israel’s military. ‘There’s no doubt that Israel is committing human-rights violations on the West Bank,’ said Professor Yehuda Bauer, the distinguished Holocaust expert.

But there was equally no doubt, from what he and others said, that anti-Zionism is now being used to cloak a terrifying nexus between genocidal Arab and Islamist hatred of the Jews and deep-seated European prejudices.

Anti-Semitism is protean, mutating over the centuries into new forms. Now it has changed again, into a shape which requires a new way of thinking and a new vocabulary. The new anti-Semitism does not discriminate against Jews as individuals on account of their race. Instead, it is centred on Israel, and the denial to the Jewish people alone of the right of self-determination.

This is nothing to do with the settlements or the West Bank. Indeed, the language being used exposes as a cruel delusion the common belief that the Middle East crisis would be solved by the creation of a Palestinian state.

The key motif is a kind of Holocaust inversion, with the Israelis being demonised as Nazis and the Palestinians being regarded as the new Jews. Israel and the Jews are being systematically delegitimised and dehumanised — a necessary prelude to their destruction — with both Islamists and the Western media using anti-Zionism as a fig-leaf for prejudices rooted in both mediaeval Christian and Nazi demonology.

This has produced an Orwellian situation in which hatred of the Jews now marches behind the Left’s banner of anti-racism and human rights, giving rise not merely to distortions, fabrications and slander about Israel in the media but also to mainstream articles discussing the malign power of the Jews over American and world policy.

The Jerusalem conference heard chilling presentations about a phenomenon barely discussed in Britain: the virulent Arab and Muslim hatred of the Jews. This goes far beyond even the desire to finish off Israel as a Jewish state. Anti-Jewish hatred plays a crucial role in the fanatical jihadism that now threatens all of us in the West, pouring out in television programmes, newspapers and religious sermons throughout the Arab and Muslim world, and amounting to a new warrant for genocide.

The dominant message is that Jewish power amounts to a conspiracy to destroy Islam and take over the whole world. Truly mad theories circulate on Islamist Internet sites which have now convinced untold numbers of Arabs and Muslims that the Jews were behind both 9/11 and the Columbia space-shuttle disaster. Egyptian television transmitted a 41-part series which presented the notorious Tsarist forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — which purported to be a Jewish plot to control the world — as the truth. (This has prompted some Arab intellectuals to condemn such propaganda as both untrue and a tactical error, but these dissidents remain a small minority.) Meanwhile, Saudi media and religious sermons incite the murder of Jews.

According to the Arabic scholar Professor Menachem Milsom, this Arab and Islamist propaganda persistently dehumanised Jews by representing them as apes and pigs. A preacher at the totemic Haram mosque in Mecca said the Jews were ‘evil offspring’, the ‘destroyers of God’s word’, ‘priest murderers’ and the ‘scum of the human race’. The mediaeval Christian blood libel — the claim that the Jews kill children and drink their blood — has surfaced time and again in prestigious Arab newspapers.

And Zionism was equated with Nazism; just as the Nazis believed in the superiority of the ‘Aryan’ race, so Zionists (sic) believed they were the chosen people, which justified their own military expansion. This equation was not confined to a marginal few. Abu Mazen, said Milsom, the Palestinian Authority intellectual who is being talked about as Yasser Arafat’s prime minister in a ‘reformed’ administration, wrote as much in his doctoral thesis — in which he also said that the Zionists gave the Nazis permission to treat the Jews as they wished so long as this guaranteed their immigration to Palestine.

These sick outpourings are not so much religious or even fundamentalist doctrines as rooted in a fanatical totalitarian ideology. As Professor Bauer observed, the driving aim is the Islamic dictatorship of the world. Realisation of this utopia necessitates the destruction of the foundation creeds of Western culture, Judaism and Christianity — and especially Israel, the supposed personification of Western global power-lust, which was planted as an incubus on Arab soil as a result of the Holocaust.

Holocaust denial is therefore central to Arab anti-Semitism, the prejudice which such historical falsehood has helped to forge a strategic alliance with Europe. For it absolves Europe of its guilt over the Jews, and replaces it with European guilt towards Arabs displaced as a result of the Holocaust.

Europe has waited for more than half a century for a way to blame the Jews for their own destruction. So instead of sounding the alarm over genocidal Islamist Jew-hatred, Europeans have eagerly embraced the Nazification of the Jews, a process which really got under way with Israel’s disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982. This marked the beginning of the media’s systematic inversion of Israeli self-defence as aggression, along with double-standards and malicious fabrications, which have nothing to do with legitimate (and necessary) criticism of Israel and everything to do with delegitimising the Jewish state altogether in readiness for its dismantling.

So the conference heard about German accusations that Israel was using Nazi methods and (repeating a claim by Hamas) that the Monica Lewinsky scandal was a Jewish conspiracy against Bill Clinton. It heard of the Nazification of Israel in Sweden, where there were charges that the Israelis were exterminating the Palestinians, that the media were controlled by Jewish interests to suppress criticism of Israel, and that influential Jewish lobby groups were ‘spraying journalists with poison’.

It heard that in France Jews were vilified and excluded from public debate if they challenged the lies being told about Israel. It was shown a devastating French film Décryptage (Decoding) — which has been playing to packed houses in Paris — about the obsessive malevolence towards Israel displayed by the French media. It was told about the way the British media described Israel’s ‘death squads’, ‘killing fields’ and ‘executioners’ while sanitising Palestinian human bombs as ‘gentle’, ‘religious’ and ‘kind’. It heard about the cartoon in the Italian newspaper La Stampa during the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, depicting an Israeli tank pointing a gun at the baby Jesus who is saying, ‘Surely they are not going to kill me again.’

And of course there was Jenin, the so-called ‘massacre’ or ‘genocide’ reported as such by virtually the entire media, where in fact 52 Palestinians died, of whom more than half were terrorists, while Israel sustained (for it) the huge loss of 45 of its soldiers. This astonishing media distortion was conceded at the conference by the (extraordinarily brave) Palestinian politics professor Mohammad Dajani, who also observed that a distraught Palestinian public was — on this and other occasions — whipped up by biased and emotional Palestinian reporting which showed little concern for the truth. But the big lie of the Jenin massacre is now believed as fact, contributing to the belief that Israel is a criminal state.

Europeans have thus made themselves accomplices to an explicitly genocidal programme. But an even more striking feature is that, while the old anti-Semitism still festers away among neo-Nazis, the new anti-Semitism is a phenomenon of their sworn enemies on the political Left. So, as the Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler observed, we now have the mind-twisting situation where anti-Jewish hatred is harnessed to the cause of anti-racism and human rights, with Israel being compared to both Nazism and apartheid by those who define themselves against these ideologies. Such a travesty of the facts involves, of course, the implicit denial of the truth of those terrible regimes, quite apart from the prelude to annihilation created by such a lethal defamation of Israel. And even more counterintuitively, many Jews and Israelis on the Left also subscribe to this analysis — and even to the demonology of Israeli Nazism and apartheid — handing an effective weapon to those who dismiss the claim of a new anti-Semitism as Jewish paranoia or Islamophobia.

So what is the explanation for the Left’s position? Partly, it’s the old anti-imperialist and anti-West prejudice. Partly, it’s the view that only the powerless can be victims; so Third World people can never be murderers, and any self-defence by Western societies such as Israel must instead be aggression. Partly, it’s the post-modern destruction of objectivity and truth, which has ushered in the hegemony of lies. And partly, as the Left takes an axe to morality and self-restraint, it’s a golden opportunity to pulverise the very people who invented the damn rules in the first place.

A left-wing Polish journalist at the conference, Konstanty Gebert, got the real point. The Left, he said, could not face the fact that they had totally misconstrued the Middle East because this would undermine their whole philosophy. This was founded on the premise that reason could reconcile all differences; all that was needed in Israel was an enlightened government for reason to prevail. The evidence that we are facing a phenomenon which is not susceptible to reason would destroy that world view. It would also give credibility to the hated Sharon, whose demonisation is absolutely vital to the Left as a protection against the implosion of its whole ideological position.

So the evidence is being denied, and truth is being stood on its head. The result is the defamation of a people, the greater prospect of its destruction, and the disastrous failure of the populations of Britain and Europe to understand properly the threat that all free peoples now face.

Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist.

Walter Yannis

2003-03-21 08:58 | User Profile

**So what is the explanation for the Left’s position? Partly, it’s the old anti-imperialist and anti-West prejudice. Partly, it’s the view that only the powerless can be victims; so Third World people can never be murderers, and any self-defence by Western societies such as Israel must instead be aggression. Partly, it’s the post-modern destruction of objectivity and truth, which has ushered in the hegemony of lies. And partly, as the Left takes an axe to morality and self-restraint, it’s a golden opportunity to pulverise the very people who invented the damn rules in the first place.

A left-wing Polish journalist at the conference, Konstanty Gebert, got the real point. The Left, he said, could not face the fact that they had totally misconstrued the Middle East because this would undermine their whole philosophy. This was founded on the premise that reason could reconcile all differences; all that was needed in Israel was an enlightened government for reason to prevail. The evidence that we are facing a phenomenon which is not susceptible to reason would destroy that world view. It would also give credibility to the hated Sharon, whose demonisation is absolutely vital to the Left as a protection against the implosion of its whole ideological position. **

That's a lot of poppycock. The reason the Left is increasingly anti-Semitic is because the Jews are leaving the Left and taking their funding with them.

It's classic resource competition. As Prof. Benjamin Ginsberg pointed out in "Fatal Embrace", Jews entered into the Left coalition in both Europe and America because it served their interests. In the States, Jews aligned themselves first with unions, then with blacks, then with browns and gays and women who want free abortions in a quest for power. The idea was to implement state programs that would transfer wealth in the form of taxes from the white and Christian majority to the Left coalition that Jews would manage. Thus 40 years ago young Trotskyite Jews like Horowitz and Radosh opposed the Vietnam war because it competed for funding with the Great Society programs that they rightly expected would carry them to power.

Now those same programs are competing for funding with the War on Israel's Enemies, and so the roles have reversed. Jews find that they must leave their coalition partners and their endless demands on the white taxpayer as they seek to divert funding to the war effort.

The gentile members of the Coalition naturally feel hurt and betrayed, and are increasingly angry about it. Thus the rise of anti-Semitism on the Left. There's no need for all of these mental gymnastics. It's clear. The Left was all about money and power - or more precisely the Left was all about putting together a coalition to take money and power from the white and gentile middle classes that produce it. The ideology morphed with the needs of the moment, but the goal never changed. Jews can't share anymore - there's just not enough to go around, and so they're bidding farewell to their darkies and disaffected white gentile fools.

This is where we come in. Every gentile leftist needs a copy of Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique." This is our manifesto. It's gasoline on the fire of every abandoned white, gentile leftist chump who's now pulling his head out of his backside.

The future never looked brighter for us, brothers.

Once more into the breach!

Walter

Centinel

2003-03-21 09:23 | User Profile

Walter (or anyone else in the know),

To what extent do the Russian Oligarchs and Jewish organized crime fuel gentile resentment in Eastern Europe?

I notice Ms. Phillips completely neglected to discuss this in her article.

Walter Yannis

2003-03-21 12:14 | User Profile

Judging from my experience, the Russians understand that the Yeltsin "Family" was Jewish through and through, and that their sufferings under Yeltsin's misrule was greatly compounded by their looting the country. The Russians are generally not shy about voicing their feelings about Jewish influence in Russian history.

It's also understood generally that Putin is putting a firm stop to that. He drove Berezovsky and Gusinsky from Russia, and exiled Abramovich to Chukotka. He put a Russian of German decent in charge of Gazprom, and put the scoin of an old White Russian emigre family in charge of Gusinsky's NTV (since removed from his post). Putin got a handle on Berezovsky's war in Chechnya, and managed to stop enough of the capital flight to make a difference. He rationalized the tax system, lowered taxes, and is slowly cleaning up the courts, police, and army.

He's been an excellent president thus far for Russia, and I wish him and Russia very well.

Walter

weisbrot

2003-03-21 14:42 | User Profile

So what is the explanation for the Left’s position? Partly, it’s the old anti-imperialist and anti-West prejudice.

I'll buy at least part of that. Part of it goes into the "reap what you sow" category.

Partly, it’s the view that only the powerless can be victims; so Third World people can never be murderers, and any self-defence by Western societies such as Israel must instead be aggression.

I'm up for this reason too, again going into the "reap" file.

Partly, it’s the post-modern destruction of objectivity and truth, which has ushered in the hegemony of lies.

Oh, boy. Now this, I have to credit to those terrible gentile right-wingers of the Frankfurt School, while humming the refrain to "Bringing in the Sheaves"...

And partly, as the Left takes an axe to morality and self-restraint, it’s a golden opportunity to pulverise the very people who invented the damn rules in the first place.

Well, the Left has been swinging that axe for a long time, Mel. As for the golden opportunity bit, maybe some folks are getting tired of being dominated/intimidated by a culture that produces such works as [url=http://http://pws.prserv.net/mpjr/mp/sp160202.htm]Christians Who Hate the Jews [/url] (remember the original Spectator graphics, complete with vampire-fanged Anglican bishop?) on a numbingly endless basis.

Yup, a Jewish Zionist columnist writing for perhaps the leading Zionist figure in world media surely has a wealth of objective wisdom to share.

Juan Raymondo Cortez

2003-03-22 01:45 | User Profile

Here's a typical post from Free Republic on this article:

"Let me lay my cards on the table first: I am a believing, practicing and loyal Roman Catholic."

One lesson history proves to us is that if you mess with that Jew God will mess with you!!! LOVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE!!! btw, I am not a Jew, but I thank God for them because they brought the gospel to the world!!!

Exelsis_Deo

2003-03-22 02:26 | User Profile

my friend, you said - "btw, I am not a Jew, but I thank God for them because they brought the gospel to the world!!!"

that is MADNESS !!!!!!!!

The Jews in Jesus' day were children of Satan, as they continue to be, blashpheming and damning themselves by their own Kabbalah and Talmud. Even their Torah which they hold so Precious is only a half-truth in their hands, an unfit puzzle because they are too proud and vain to look back almost 2000 years and believe that their ancestors were looking for a revolutionary hero who would set them free from the Romans. They wanted a pagan War God to deliver them and let them conquer... that itself is an example of why God chose this as a time to give them the lamb. Modern Israel is a misnomer, like calling black=white. 10 of the 12 tribes of ancient Israel had already ceased to be linked, geographically and dogmatically, to the tribes of Benjamin and Judah which controlled Israel at that time for hundreds of years. Jesus said to take the good news of his coming and life FIRST to the lost tribes of Israel. Those lost tribes were at war with the Jerusalem which crucified Christ. Modern Jews, those that truly believe in their dead religion, do not serve a God anymore. They choose to disregard the facts, because through their costume of connection to God they justify many evils which they perform. Then they seek to make you and other Christians that they are somehow God's chosen people and the progenitor of your own faith. THEY LIE. .. Im geting angry, bye for now.

Exelsis_Deo

2003-03-22 02:27 | User Profile

btw i knew it wasn't you I quoted, Juan..just what you said was typical.. I just havent mastered how to quote another member.