Like other European nationalist
ideologies, anti-Jewish chauvinism plays also an important role in Zionism.
Throughout European history, often when the ruling powers were confronted with a
crisis, the cry went out "The Jew is to blame!" This often became a distraction
for large sectors of the population. They no longer sought the cause of their
problems in the ruling circles but would vent their anger and frustration on
their Jewish co-citizens. They united with the rulers against the designated
scapegoat, "the Jew."
The authoritative Encyclopaedia of
Zionism and Israel (ed. Patai) explains anti-Semitism as follows:
"In the age of growing nationalism, Jews were
declared to be an alien, hostile people, incapable of assimilation. Their
economic activities were especially attacked by anti-Semites, who tended to
regard all Jews as potential Rothschilds. Capitalists and conservatives charged
Jews with radicalism, while Socialists often denounced them as exploiters.
Politicians found in anti-Semitic propaganda a convenient method of marshalling
discontent. There arose specifically anti-Semitic parties, such as Karl Lueger's
Christian Socialist Party in Vienna, whose successes so impressed the young
Of course only mention is made of the
country and historical period where strong anti-Jewish chauvinism was manifest
in the population and where the state was actively engaged in promoting
Judeophobic pogroms. This serves as confirmation of the Zionist allegation of
the genetic Judeophobic "nature" of Gentiles, making Judeophobia a constant and
Even though Zionism maintains its
reputation as working in "defense of Jews all over the world", upon closer
examination, one realizes that Zionism, itself, is one of the nationalisms
practicing anti-Semitism. It is Zionists who have based their ideology on the
notion that Jews are "an alien, hostile people, incapable of assimilation."
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the
founder of modern Zionism, maintained that anti-Semitism is not an aberration,
but a natural and completely understandable response by non-Jews to alien Jewish
behavior and attitudes. The only solution, he argued, is for Jews to recognize
reality and live in a separate state of their own. "The Jewish question exists
wherever Jews live in noticeable numbers," he wrote in his most influential
work, The Jewish State. "Where it does not exist, it is brought in by arriving
Jews ... I consider this development as a Jew, without hate or fear." The Jewish
question, he maintained, is not social or religious. "It is a national question.
To solve it we must, above all, make it an international political issue."
"Recognizing reality" means simply
accepting this as an immutable situation. For Zionism, Judeophobia is not an
ideological characteristic, a chauvinism, which must be learned and therefore
also can be unlearned. Zionism prefers to give Judeophobia a physical character,
created by the mere presence of Jews among Gentiles regardless of anything they
do or do not do. This constitutes mere acceptance of the Judeophobic chauvinism.
But Zionists go much further in their acceptance of anti-Semitism.
Les Levidow, observes:
"As largely or potentially
assimilated Jews, the early Zionists of Western Europe came to doubt the
possibility - or even desirability - of their full assimilation, as they
encountered prejudice and barriers. They came to accept anti-Semitic racial
concepts of the Jews as inherently incapable of integrating into the Western
nations as full citizens. This fatalism was expressed by doctor Leo Pinsker,
with a suitable medical metaphor, when he declared that 'Judeo-phobia is a
disease; and, as a congenital disease, it is incurable' (in Hertzberg, 1966)."
Of course the Pinsker metaphor lends a
permanent justification to Zionism and therefore creates an apparent absolute
necessity for a Jewish state. If the "Jewish state" is necessary to protect Jews
from Judeophobic anti-Semitism, the eradication of Judeophobic anti-Semitism
relieves the Jews of the need to separate from the rest of their countrymen to
go to the "Jewish state." Therefore Judeophobic anti-Semitism must be made to
appear as a genetic characteristic of non-Jews to lend credibility to the thesis
of anti-Semitism being a "national question" and not a question of a chauvinist
In the study "Zionism and
Anti-Semitism" one learns:
" In 1921, Germans in Germany were
“We Jews are aliens… a foreign people in your midst
and we… wish to stay that way. A Jew can never be a loyal German; whoever calls
the foreign land his Fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people“.
This statement was made in 1921
by Jacob Klatzkin, "the second of two political Zionist ideologists in Germany
at the time, where the Jews of Germany were enjoying full political and civil
rights. It was he who had advocated undermining Jewish communities as the one
certain way of acquiring a state."
Judeophobes considered Jews to be non-
or second class-citizens, outcasts, often forced to live in ghettos apart from
the rest of the population. The principle tenet of the Zionist ideology concords
with this view. The basic expression of Zionist Judeophobia is to be found in
the attitude of Zionists toward Jews around the world.
In July 2004 speaking to
visiting American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said: "If I have to advocate to our brothers in France, I will tell them
one thing - 'Move to Israel, as early as possible'. I say that to Jews all
around the world, but there [in France] I think it's a must and they have to
move immediately." He added: "In France today, about 10 per cent of the
population are Muslims ... that gets a different kind of anti-Semitism, based on
anti-Israeli feelings and propaganda."
This interference in French domestic
affairs received a prompt rebuff both from French officials and from French
"These comments do not bring
calm, peace and serenity that we all need, (...) I think Mr Sharon would have
done better tonight to have kept quiet." said Patrick Gaubert, of the
International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra). "It's not up to
him to decide for us," said Theo Klein, honorary president of Crif, which
represents French Jewish organizations.
In all the excitement about the appeal
to emigrate, Sharon's anti-Semitic association drawn between Muslim and
anti-Semite passed unnoticed. With his statement, he shifted the weight of the
blame for anti-Israeli feelings onto the Muslim faith and away from Israel’s
blatant disregard for the human rights of the surrounding Arab populations. This
also suggests: "Israel will not change its policies, it is the Muslims who have
to give up THEIR claims to human rights!"
In fact this repeated appeal for Jews
to leave their homelands to go into exile in Israel is a continuation of the
basic anti-Semitic tenets of historical European anti-Semitism: Jews and
non-Jews cannot inhabit the same territory living in peace and mutual respect.
They must be physically separated. Having accepted this myth as an absolute law
of nature, Zionists intervene wherever possible to induce Jews to leave their
homelands to move to Israel.
"For many years, the State of
Israel and the adherents of Zionism in other countries have maintained the
position that Israel is the “Jewish homeland,” and that Jews outside of Israel
are in “exile,” and that a “full Jewish life” can be lived only in the Jewish
state," writes Allan C. Brownfeld of the Washington Report on Middle Eastern
He gives the following example:
"On a January 1996 visit to Germany,
Israeli President Ezer Weizman declared that he “cannot understand how 40,000
Jews can live in Germany,” and asserted that, “The place of Jews is in Israel.
Only in Israel can Jews live full Jewish lives.”
"Ignatz Bubis, [at the time] the head
of Germany’s main Jewish organization, stated: “I have lived here since l945 and
have met two new generations who simply do not identify with the Nazis. This is
a new generation.”
"Arguing that a Jewish presence in
Germany prevents Hitler from achieving his posthumous victory of a “Judenrein”
Germany, [a "Jewless" Germany] he declared: “The full revival of the Jewish
community in post-war Germany is important.” Weizman was not singling out German
Jews with his comments, Bubis acknowledged: “He says the same thing to American
Jews and Belgian Jews and in all other countries.”
"The former Israeli prime
minister, Yitzhak Shamir, is quoted to have declared: “The very essence of our
being obliges every Jew to live in Eretz Yisrael...In my opinion, a man has no
right to consider himself a part of the Jewish people without also being a
Zionist, because Zionism states that in order for a Jew to live as a Jew he
needs to have his own country, his own life, and his own future.” This quote is
to be found in the book published in 2000, Conversations With Yitzhak Shamir."
The author also explains:
"When Israel was first established,
many prominent American Jews were concerned about the Zionist leaders’ contempt
for Jewish life outside of Israel and their desire for a massive emigration of
all Jews to the new state. In particular, they did not want Israel to interfere
in the “internal affairs” of the American Jewish community.
"An historic exchange in l950 between
the president of the American Jewish Committee, Jacob Blaustein, and Israel’s
prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, sought to allay these fears. As summarized by
the committee, the agreement stipulated that:
“ Jews of the United States, as a community
and as individuals, have only one political attachment, namely to the United
States of America;
that the Government and people of Israel
respect the integrity of Jewish life in the democratic countries and the right
of Jewish communities to develop their indigenous social, economic and cultural
aspirations, in accordance with their own needs and institutions; and
that Israel fully accepts the fact that the
Jews of the United States do not live ‘in exile,’ and that America is home for
"Whatever David Ben-Gurion may have
said in l950, the fact is that ever since the State of Israel has persisted in
promoting the idea that Jews living outside of its borders are indeed in “exile”
and that all Jews should emigrate to the Jewish state. This call for emigration
has little to do with anti-Semitic incidents in countries such as France, for
these calls are as vocal in countries such as the United States as they are in
"(...) This concept, repugnant to the
vast majority of Americans of Jewish faith, who clearly view themselves as
American by nationality, citizenship and political allegiance, and Jews by
religion, should be publicly repudiated by the organized Jewish community."
This is nothing more than the practice
of setting Jews apart from the rest of society, forcing them from their place as
citizens of that country with full and equal rights and inducing them to come
live in a ghetto.
Israeli prime minister Sharon
"has said time and time again that he sees immigration as one of the
government's strategic missions."
Jewish immigration to Israel is the cornerstone of Zionism, says the Jewish
Israel is a country built on immigration whose leaders see the continuing influx
of Jews as vital to its survival.
The well-known columnist for the New
York Times, Flora Lewis, relates the following enlightening anecdote:
"Some years ago, when Chaim
Herzog was president of Israel, he invited me to lunch with a few men to discuss
Israel's evolution. They were not orthodox but they understood the urge to
emphasize tradition and difference in dress, in manner, in meticulous religious
observance. "Why are there only some 15 million Jews in the world, instead of 80
million, 100 million, more after so many generations? one asked. "Its not
because of the holocaust, it's assimilation. Survival is because of the orthodox
who insisted on difference."
But Israel is in a
deep crisis. For years immigration to Israel has been tapering off while
emigration from Israel has been growing.
As Uri Avnery
"'Experts' with computers are
calculating what will be the percentage of Jews in Israel in 10, 25, 50 or a
hundred years time. Will they be less than 78%? Or - God forbid! - only 75%?
Will the womb of the orthodox Jewish woman, in addition to expected immigration,
balance the production of the Arab uterus? And if not, what can be done? Some
propose encouraging Jewish births while resolutely discouraging Arab natural
increase. Some suggest preventing Jewish immigrants from Russia from bringing
with them Christian family members (allowed by the Law of Return in its present
form.) Some demand the immediate expulsion of all foreign workers, before they
settle down and establish families. Some pray for a wave of anti-Semitism in
France or Argentina (but definitely not in the United States), that will push
multitudes of Jews towards Israel. Many, including members of Sharon's
government, support the simplest solution: driving all Arabs out of the
The Washington Post explains:
After a two-year spike in
immigration in 1990 and 1991, when about 375,000 people -- most of them from the
Soviet republics -- poured into Israel, migration patterns remained fairly
stable, with 60,000 to 80,000 new arrivals each year. Then in 2001, after the
start of the Palestinian uprising, the number dropped to about 43,000. Last
year, immigration plunged to 23,200, much of the loss due to a decline in
arrivals from the former Soviet Union, according to immigration statistics.
The Post writes further:
"Avraham Berkowitz, a rabbi in
Moscow who is the executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities in
Russia and other former Soviet republics, claims that a reverse migration is
underway between Israel and the former Soviet republics, with more Jews now
returning than moving to Israel -- an assertion denied by Israeli officials. The
Israeli government does not maintain up-to-date statistics on citizens who move
away permanently.But other data
reveal a remarkable trend: In the last two years, more Jews from the former
Soviet Union have immigrated to Germany than to Israel, according to German and
Israeli statistics. (...) From his
work with Jewish leaders in 13 countries, he estimates that at least 75,000 Jews
have returned to former Soviet republics from Israel in the last five years,
even though many say they hope to go back to Israel someday.
The Israeli daily, Ha'aretz sheds
light on the latest strategy for overcoming this crisis.
The Jewish Agency and the
Absorption Ministry are targeting the Jewish communities of Argentina, South
Africa and France as potential reservoirs of new immigrants, and for the first
time are planning to use economic enticements to try to win immigration from
those three Western countries. (...) France, where the 600,000 mostly North
African Jews, the largest Diaspora community outside of the U.S., have been
encountering a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents and the Agency is counting
on their sense of isolation in a country with 6 million Muslims; and South
Africa, where the country has seen a drastic drop in the standard of living due
to declining foreign investment, as well as a steep rise in crime.
France has potential, say Jewish
Agency officials like Mike Rosenberg, the current Immigration Department chief,
because of the strong links between the community and Israel. But agency
officials admit that French Jewry meanwhile regards the upsurge in anti-Semitism
as a temporary affair resulting from the impact of the intifada. On the other
hand, percentage-wise, immigration from Argentina, due to the economic crisis
there, and France, in the wake of anti-Semitic incidents, surged. (...) The
year saw some 600 anti-Semitic incidents [worldwide], of which 105 occurred in
France. A total of 130 incidents were defined as violent.
The Zionists define their "problem" in
their habitual – ethnic – way.
"Today, about 5.2 million Jews
live in Israel, while about 4.6 million Palestinians live within Israel's
borders, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (...) At current rates, and absent a new
influx of Jewish immigrants, Palestinians could outnumber Jews in less than a
decade, creating what some Israelis see as a demographic time bomb for their
Of course the "time bomb" only
exists to those who define Israel as a state with an ethnically pure population.
Israel is a country with such a mixture of nationalities, races and cultural
traditions thrown together and united only through the fact that each believes
himself to be a "Jew," with each having a somewhat different idea what
constitutes "a Jew." "Ethnic purity" under such conditions is only to be
achieved with slight of hand. That slight of hand is the "union" created in the
acceptance and support of the absolute power of the Israeli state.
The "Jerusalem Post" writes,
"South African Jews are turning to Israel in reaction to a poor economy and
French Jews are fleeing rising anti-Semitism, [Absorption Ministry spokesman
Yehuda] Glick said. He noted that some 40 percent of France’s 600,000 Jews live
close to Muslim neighborhoods."
Despite the economic and
security problems in Israel, the director of the Jewish Agency, Mike Rosenberg,
"believed that adverse conditions for Jews elsewhere in the world would push
them toward Israel. He noted
perceptions [sic] of growing anti-Semitism in France and the uncertain economic
situation in Argentina. (...) 'There
is still a very great reservoir of potential immigrants for Israel,' he said.
'Our job is to create the conditions to harness it.'"
The Israeli journal, Maariv reports
"The Jewish Agency (JA) is about to
embark on an extensive mission to try to persuade French Jews to make aliyah
(immigrate to Israel). In the next several weeks hundreds of JA envoys will
arrive at Jewish districts in Paris as part of an operation named "Sarsel Tehila"
Sarcelles is a suburb of Paris).
Maariv has found out that the Israeli government and the JA are preparing for an
unprecedented operation in an attempt to persuade tens of thousands of Jews to
immigrate to Israel within several months.
A meeting on the subject - held last
weekend - was attended by Immigration Minister Tzipi Livni, the Director-General
of the Prime Minister's Office Ilan Cohen and JA Chairman Salai Meridor. The
head of the JA's Paris delegation Menahem Gur-Ari said during the meeting that
in a survey recently conducted in Paris, about 6% of Jews (30,000 of France's
half a million-strong Jewish community) expressed willingness to come to Israel
because of rising anti-Semitism and the feeling of lack of personal safety for
their children in the future.
During the meeting it was decided to
send hundreds of envoys to different cities across France, especially where a
large Muslim population resides. (...) JA Chairman Salai Meridor said, "It is
highly important to concentrate our efforts on bringing French Jewry to Israel.
We must not miss out on this historic opportunity".
However, according to Roger
Cukierman, President of "Conseil Representaif des Juifs de France" - the body
that represents French Jewry, "Israel is bypassing us, bypassing our community
leaders and I intend to express my objections to the Israeli ambassador".
Cukierman added, "We should calm down. The French government is doing its best
to overcome anti-Semitism and it is not the time to create a conflict with
French authorities". Other community leaders expressed a less diplomatic
approach. "It's a crazy decision", Izo Rozenman - one of the leaders of a Jewish
secular organization in France - told NRG Maariv. "The French government is
doing everything it can to battle anti-Semitism. This decision is
But this is not the only aspect of
earlier European anti-Semitism that Zionism perpetuates. Another is how
Rosenberg and others "create the conditions to harness" the immigration
The second form of Zionist Judeophobic
anti-Semitism involves the means used to force – or induce – Jews to leave their
homelands for Israel.
Not only is Zionism unthinkable
without anti-Semitism or its threat, Israel, as a political/economic entity,
could also not maintain its present course, if it were not for periodic
crescendos in, what becomes generally defined as, anti-Jewish sentiment in
various wealthy countries around the western world with relatively, large or
affluent Jewish populations. These periods of apparent intensification of
Judeophobic anti-Semitism, heighten interest in Israel among Jews around the
world. This interest is then expressed financially (donations, investment)
politically (lobbying, electoral results based upon pro-Israel policy) and
demographically (emigration to Israel). But it also makes official and left
criticism of Israeli policy more difficult, because it becomes immediately
defamed as anti-Semitism and is associated with Hitler. Politicians become more
"receptive" to electoral pressure and lobby money in return for hypercritical,
feigned outrage and breast-beating about the need to combat "anti-Semitism". For
Israel this can also be useful in obtaining concessions in the form of new
weapons systems, foreign policy changes, or special status and preferential
favors not to mention favors of the financial sort.
The distinguished MIT professor Noam
Chomsky explained the recent periodic crescendos in Judeophobic anti-Semitism in
the media of the United States as follows:
"You find occasional instances of
anti-Semitism, but they are marginal. There's plenty of racism, but it's
directed against Blacks, Latinos, and Arabs are targets of enormous racism.
Those problems are real but anti-Semitism is no longer a problem, fortunately.
It's raised, but it's raised because privileged people want to make sure they
have total control, not just 98% control. That's why anti-Semitism is becoming
an issue. Not because of the threat of anti-Semitism; they want to make sure
there's no critical look at the policies the US (and they themselves) support in
the Middle East. With regard to anti-Semitism, the distinguished Israeli
statesman Abba Eban pointed out the main task of Israeli propaganda (they would
call it 'exclamation', what's called propaganda when others do it) is to make it
clear to the world there's no difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
By anti-Zionism, he meant criticisms of the current policies of the State of
Israel. So there's no difference between criticism of policies of the State of
Israel and anti-Semitism, because if he can establish 'that' then he can
undercut all criticism by invoking the Nazis, and that will silence people."
Zionist propaganda has been rather
effective in establishing a link between criticism of Israeli policy and
Statistics another form of propaganda
With the intensification of the
Israeli offensive against the Palestinians and neighboring Arab states,
intensified also the criticism of Israeli policies particularly its gross
violations of human rights. And corresponding to this rise in criticism of
Israeli policy grew also the incidence of "anti-Semitic attacks" in those
countries where criticism is loudest.
There, where there is no tangible
anti-Semitism to be met, a specter of anti-Semitism is created in the media on
the basis of unverifiable anecdotes, statistics, and vandalism, including acts
of terrorism, carried out against Jewish individuals or Jewish property. These
acts of vandalism – often remaining unsolved – become the "tip of the iceberg of
anti-Semitism" in the given society – often targeting a specific group such as
the Muslim sector of the population.
What is hardly apparent at first sight
– and what few would want to believe even on taking a second look – is that
these "crescendos" in what is “perceived” as expressions of "anti-Jewish"
sentiment, are often campaigns initiated by Zionists and their allies.
The factual basis for this growth in
statistical "anti-Semitism" rarely becomes known to the public. Therefore there
is no possibility of verifying the truth of details behind what is being
calculated. Just the same, when one does take a closer look at what information
is available in the public domain, one begins to realize that Winston Churchill
was right when he warned: "there are lies, damn lies and statistics."
Prime minister Sharon's appeal to
French Jews to come to Israel, mentioned above, came shortly after the
disclosure of a highly publicized incident of a young woman, Marie Leoné, who,
in the company of her small child, reported having been molested on a regional
commuter train in the Paris suburbs. She told police that she had been (mis)taken
for Jewish, by a group of young North African Arabs and Blacks and had been
pushed around and threatened with knives. The group, painted swastikas on her
stomach – with magic markers – before fleeing the train. During the attack,
which took place during rush-hour, none of the fellow passengers in the
compartment, came to the young mother's aid or subsequently stepped forward as
Upon receiving news of the attack,
President Jacques Chirac made a press statement in which he said, "I have
demanded that every effort be made to find those responsible for this shameful
act in order to try and convict them with the complete severity of the law."
The State Secretary for Victims'
Rights, Nicole Guedj,
made an appeal for witnesses to
come forward, to help find the aggressors, stressing that it is necessary that
"severe and exemplary punishment be levied in a dissuasive manner." She informed
the press that she had spoken to the victim by telephone.
This outpouring of concern at the
highest levels of government – a concern neither typical nor to be expected for
victims of Arabophobic anti-Semitism or racist attacks – was short-lived. It
turned out that the entire story was a hoax. The entire political spectrum in
France – and its media – immediately jumped on the case, before even awaiting
the results of the police investigations.
As much concern as the
government officials publicly displayed for the presumed victim of this presumed
"anti-Jewish attack," there was nothing but silence and disdain for the fact
that the hoax represented a blatant anti-Arab/anti-Black attack. There was no
call for conviction with the complete severity of the law. These same public
figures are indifferent to Arabophobic anti-Semitism and racism. The only public
personality on record, to have mentioned the victims of this hoax was Mme.
Simone Veil, president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. In her
speech at the commemoration of the anniversary of the round-up of France's Jews
for deportation to Auschwitz, while deploring the rise in anti-Semitism, she
also mentioned the "young Arabs and Africans [who] once again have been
This fact alone helps point out that
the claim that the government is against "'anti-Semitism' AND racism" is only a
smoke-screen cliché to hide the fact that the government is itself anti-Semitic
and racist. They simply make the stipulation that they don't want to be seen as
Sharon's appeal also followed
the publication of statistics, indicating that in the first six months of the
year, (2004) France's Interior Ministry recorded 135 acts and 375 threats
of anti-Semitic attacks compared to 125 acts and 463 threats in all of the
"Racist attacks also rose: There were 95 attacks and 161 threats through June,
compared with a total 232 reported in 2003."
These statistics form the basis for
the allegations – and the assumptions – that there is a rapid and widespread
rise in (Judeophobic) anti-Semitism comparable to the 1930s, if not in all of
Europe then, at least, in particular European nations, for example, in France.
Whereas the statistics pertaining to
"anti-Semitic" acts and threats suffice to produce a major outcry of indignation
and parliamentary resolutions for changes in the law, the rise in the statistics
pertaining to racist attacks are passed over quasi in silence. This fact alone
should place into question the sincerity of those shouting loudest for cutbacks
in civil and human rights. Theirs is not an effort aimed at chauvinism, but a
manipulation of chauvinism in order to strengthen the power of the state against
disfavored or disgruntled minorities within the population. They are using the
"perception" – to use the terminology of the Jewish Agency – of anti-Semitism in
order to roll back democratic gains and move the country closer to a fascist
Chauvinism is chauvinism regardless of
whom it is directed against. The tolerance of chauvinism, when directed against
people of another race – which does not exclude Semites, since Arabs are not
considered as “Aryan” or “white” Europeans – is the best way of measuring the
general level of official chauvinism – anti-Semitism included.
One reason for this discrepancy
between the reaction to a statistical rise in racist attacks and Judeophobic
attacks is a discrepancy based on political consideration.
The question of "anti-Semitism" is
political capital. Political forces have a political interest in quantifying the
level of, and manipulating the perception of what qualifies as anti-Semitism in
a given society.
One usually goes on the assumption
that the original news reports of a suspected anti-Semitic aggression or the
anti-Semitic background to an aggression pans out to have been correct. Just as
in the case of the young French woman, who played out the hoax of an attack in
the commuter train, other cases suspected to have had a Judeophobic anti-Semitic
background, could just as well also turn out to be false. The public was
informed that the commuter train incident was a hoax. Other hoaxes and
misrepresentations are less widely known.
Qualifying anti-Semitism is a major
political enterprise. A key element in this enterprise is the monopoly on the
definition of "anti-Semitism" to exclude all non-Jewish Semites, victimized by
anti-Semitic chauvinism. (See the chapter "Anti-Semitism and Arabs") This
becomes particularly apparent in cases such as the hoax mentioned above or in
the unsubstantiated claims that the culprits behind the terror attacks of Sept.
11, 2001 were from the Arab world.
The second key element is the broad
extension of the term "anti-Semitism" even when referring to what, at first
sight, is apparently Judeophobic chauvinism. The strategy behind the application
of this element is to remove the question of chauvinism from the notion of
Once upon a time, to be anti-Semitic
meant harboring animosity toward Jews, as Jews, BECAUSE they are Jews.
Anti-Semitism is no longer an anti-Jewish sentiment motivating a particular act,
but is now taken to mean the presence of a Jewish "victim". Victim of anything –
including a hoax. The motivation of the culprit – if the identity is known –
plays no role. Chauvinism is rarely mentioned nor considered. More often
mentioned is the fact that the supposed culprit is Muslim and that the
altercation is in some way linked to the Israeli policy toward Arabs in the
Middle East. (See Sharon's appeal to French Jews above.)
When verbal or physical altercations
happen because of differences over money, women, football, the Middle East or
simply because one of the parties is obnoxious, if one of the parties happens to
be Jewish, regardless of which side of the argument (s)he happens to be on, the
statistics can record a new "anti-Semitic" aggression or threat.
If a Jewish person happens to be the
random victim of a mentally deranged assailant, (as in Epinay, France) it
becomes a case of anti-Semitism for the statistics and an affair of state, even
though the SEVEN other stabbing victims of the same assailant were non-Jewish.
When one examines the case of the
commuter train hoax one notices several coincidences:
The hoax implicates – not
neo-Nazis – but young Arabs and Africans, thereby perpetuating the predominant
(Arabophobic) anti-Semitism and racism already widespread in the society, in
order to create a Jewish victimization overshadowing the already existent
Arabophobic anti-Semitism and racism.
The hoax takes place with
grandiose political fanfare – in spite of possible doubts held by the
investigating police. In this case the hoax was staged in close proximity to the
publication of semi-annual statistics on anti-Semitism and racism in France and
the commemoration of the WW II deportation of French Jews to Nazi concentration
camps – thereby creating a false link between the inflated "perception" of
Judeophobia today and that of the 1930s. This draws an artificial link between
the supposed "anti-Semitism" of today with the genocide of the Nazis.
This "anti-Semitic attack" was not
rare or isolated. "Anti-Semitic" hoaxes are a Zionist stock in trade.
Alexandre Moïse, general
secretary of the Zionist Federation of France, president of the Synagogue rue,
St. Isaure and spokesman for the Likud Party in France, confessed in court to
having sent himself threatening telephone calls (for which he swore out
warrants). He explained that he staged the hoax "to render more credible the
danger and risks he felt he was submitted to because of his public engagement."
Moïse was sentenced to two months prison (suspended sentence) and a fine of
Of particular importance among the
"public engagements" was his successful censorship – through the Zionist
campaign for the annulment of scheduled performances – of a popular Afro-French
comedian, Dieudonné by several major stages around France because of his
criticism of Israeli policies and the caricaturizing of Zionist chauvinism.
There was muted protest against this criminalizing of innocent people in order
to create a "perception" of Zionist victimization.
When windows are broken in Jewish
schools or synagogues or other acts of vandalism, when tombstones are smeared
with Nazi symbols, it is safe to assume that these acts of vandalism are
initially recorded in the statistics as acts of "anti-Semitism," even though it
is usually not known who committed these acts.
One must be skeptical about what the
statistics are supposed to represent. The statistics may – but also may not –
have taken into consideration that the motive behind the attack had nothing to
do with ethnic identity. Therefore the statistics purporting to convey the
trend relating to "anti-Semitic" (or even Judeophobic) bias in the society
cannot be taken at face value. They are easily manipulated and are a means of
The French government admits
that most of the recorded "298 anti-Semitic acts" recorded in the first half of
the year 2004 (as reported in August of that year) remained unsolved. This tally
included "162 acts of property damage, such as graffiti or arson, 69 breaches of
media law involving publication of anti-Semitic images or remarks, and 67
physical or verbal attacks." Though some of the cases were still being
investigated in Aug. 2004, "others were dropped because the guilty parties were
unlikely to be identified."
As long as no guilty party is found,
anyone could be a suspect and all suspects are considered innocent until proven
guilty. So until one learns who actually committed the vandalism and if the
vandalism was committed for reasons of Judeophobic chauvinism, it is also
premature to conclude that it is was NOT committed by Zionists in order to gain
credibility for the "perception" of a statistical trend indicating a rise in
It is hardly safe to assume that, when
the acts turn out, in fact, to be hoaxes or Zionist perpetrated, that they will
be adjusted accordingly in the statistical representation. This is one reason
why the cases that the statistics refer to are rarely made public even though
many individual cases are initially loudly proclaimed anti-Semitic. A follow-up
on the case often shows another background, or a hoax.
A Parisian Jewish social center
was torched and destroyed in the night from Aug. 21 – 22, 2004. The fire police
found swastikas, "Hitler was right" and "Death to the Jews"
inscribed on walls and doors inside the center.
Following the arson the French
president, Jacques Chirac condemned "this despicable act" and promised "the
absolute determination of the state to find the culprits behind this
inadmissible deed." And Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin paid a visit to the
scene of the crime and declared that France would be extremely severe with those
who engage in anti-Semitism.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom flew hastily to Paris to hold talks with government officials and Jewish
leaders following the arson. He too paid a visit to the destroyed center. With
the burned-out building as a backdrop, Shalom told reporters "we should leave
the French authorities to conduct their investigation." He added that it was "of
little importance what happened here when we know that during the last six
months there have been more than 170 anti-Semitic incidents [in France].
As principal suspect in the arson
police arrested a 52-year-old Jewish man. Reports the Jewish Journal of Los
The article, from the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, (JTA) gives the following background:
"The Jewish community could have been
excused had its cries of anti-Semitism been isolated to one attack that turned
out to have different motives. But the recent arson is only the latest example
of politicians and community leaders reacting to an event with horror, only to
have to ask questions later.
"In July, an incident in which a young
woman claimed she and her baby were attacked on a suburban train drew fierce
condemnations from politicians and religious leaders ' until it was discovered
that the woman had made up the story.
"Similarly, the recent knifing
of a yeshiva student in the Paris suburbs also apparently was not motivated by
A press communiqué of the French
organization, Coordination des
Appels pour une Paix Juste au proche-Orient, (CAPJPO)
provides details to this case:
“The mentally deranged assailant
had stabbed several persons of various origins (Jewish, Haitian, Algerian, and
Portuguese), but the politicians were interested solely in the Jewish victim and
portrayed the tragedy as an act of anti-Semitism.”
The JTA continues:
And police still are
investigating claims by a rabbi that he was stabbed outside his synagogue in
January 2003, as reports allege that the rabbi may have stabbed himself.
The CAPJPO communiqué explains
Rabbi Farhi falsely claimed that he
had been stabbed by an individual screaming "Allah Akbar" [Allah, is great],
police uncovered a non-anti-Semitic background to the story of someone having
drawn a Star of David on the arm of a young girl in Montpellier, that the film
producer, Elie Chouraqui, had
manipulated a television
report to suppose anti-Semitism of North African high school students in [the
Parisian suburb of] Montreuil.
The article concludes:
"Less in the media spotlight is the
burning last November of an unoccupied annex of a Jewish school in the Parisian
suburb of Gagny. It looks less and less likely that the incident was motivated
"Nevertheless, for Jewish
organizations and for the government, these cases are merely isolated incidents
in a tide of nearly 300 reported acts of anti-Semitism in France since the
beginning of 2004."
How many of those "nearly 300 reported
acts of anti-Semitism" fall into the same category of hoax, Zionist anti-Semitic
attack or random victimization with a Jewish victim?
Neither the president, his prime
minister nor the Israeli foreign minister found it necessary to call for an
investigation into the background – e.g. whether there was a conspiracy perhaps
linked to the Jewish Agency – behind the fire.
Considering that over the same period,
there was also a rise in racist attacks, but without the grand declarations, the
PR visits by heads of state to the bedsides of the victims, it becomes apparent
that there is a calibration of victims: Jews are placed at the very top of
political PR priorities and the other – and possibly more abundant – victims of
chauvinist motivated criminality at the bottom. Government officials have to be
seen as being active against (Judeophobic) anti-Semitism. For the second
category there is no pressing need for intervention by government officials.
Given the political ethic already
apparent behind this manipulation, it can be assumed that many of these cases
are not listed as chauvinist hate crimes. If factually accounted for in the
statistics, these would far surpass the cases of (Judeophobic) anti-Semitism.
This, itself, is a chauvinist crime at state level.
On the contrary, the persecution that
Jews suffered down through the centuries are now openly – and officially – being
visited upon another group of Semites. No "benefit of the doubt" is bestowed
upon the Arab victim of a racist/anti-Semitic attack. Unlike his Jewish
brethren, he, in many cases may have to prove that the attack took place. This
is not demanded of Zionist claims of being victims.
Very telling is the statement in the
"Jewish Telegraphic Agency article that "these [hoax] cases are merely isolated
incidents in a tide of nearly 300 reported acts of anti-Semitism." What they are
saying in essence is, "here we were caught, now try to prove that the others
were also hoaxes or self-inflicted."
These campaigns serve several
purposes. They form the "perceptional" basis of a "catastrophic rise" in
anti-Semitism. This is not only necessary for recruiting new support for the
concept of Israel, "the Jewish state," but it also serves in silencing
civil(ized) criticism of Israeli policy from sectors of the world's populations,
and thwarts diplomatic initiatives at the international level.
This lays also the groundwork
for drumming up support from (non-Zionist) Jewish and left sectors of
populations abroad. They, in good faith in bogus statistics, jump onto the
bandwagon in what they believe is a fight against "anti-Semitism." In reality,
however, this is the promotion of a "perception" of an imaginary – or even
self-inflicted – "anti-Semitism."
The purpose is to lend credibility to Zionists, protesting a given country's
respect for the human rights and the national sovereignty of also Arab peoples
and nations. Defamed as "pro-Arab" and therefore "anti-Semitic" – because
critical of Israeli policy – these nations become targets in media campaigns
claiming a "rise in anti-Semitism".
Sharon and immigration
For those who have not broken down the
Zionist ideology, it would seem a contradiction for Zionists to be fighting to
save Jews from anti-Semitism, by building up a "Jewish state" and, at the same
time, submit Jews in the "Diaspora" to anti-Semitism or to an inflated fear of
anti-Semitism. Actually it is quite simple.
Zionism has nothing to do with saving
Jews from anything – and certainly not from anti-Semitism. The key is to be
found in a misunderstanding.
Whereas Jews, the world over, see
themselves as Jews. Zionists consider only those Jews engaged in furthering the
Zionist cause as being “the true Jews.”
Zionists, (Jewish nationalists), as
demonstrated above, are chauvinist also in relationship to universalistic Jews.
They view them as weak and unwilling to do “the necessary” to create the
“Jewish” empire. Zionists are convinced that only their cause is just. Being, in
their eyes, the only "true" Jews and “chosen people,” they feel entitled to
carry out any and all measures, regardless of how barbarian, to achieve their
objectives. Their claim to speak in the name of all Jews is itself inherent
This is perhaps best expressed in an
interview by Amos Oz in his book
" Poh va-sham be-Erets-Yisra'el
bi-setav" (1982, English title: In the Land of Israel, Vintage, 1984) .
Amos Oz does not mention the
name of Sharon, but uses the abbreviation Z. But the facts furnished by Amos Oz
indicate that the person being interviewed is Ariel Sharon.
Sharon was forced to
resign as defense minister, because of his role in instigating the massacre of
more than 1,000 Palestinian women, children and elderly in the Sabre and
Chatilla refugee camps. Oz's interview-partner gives his view of the "diaspora"
"Let me tell me [sic] what is the most
important thing, the sweetest fruit of the war in Lebanon: It is that now they
don't just hate Israel. Thanks to us, they now also hate all those Feinschmecker
Jews in Paris, London, New York, Frankfurt and Montreal, in all their holes. At
last they hate all these nice Yids, who say they are different from us, that
they are not Israeli thugs, that they are different Jews, clean and decent. Just
like the assimilated Jew in Vienna and Berlin begged the anti-Semite not to
confuse him with the screaming, stinking Ostjude, who had smuggled himself into
that cultural environment out of the dirty ghettos of Ukraine and Poland. It
won't help them, those clean Yids, just as it did not help them in Vienna and
Berlin. Let them shout that they condemn Israel, that they are all right, that
they did not want and don't want to hurt a fly, that they always prefer being
slaughtered to fighting, that they have taken it upon themselves to teach the
gentiles how to be good Christians by always turning the other cheek. It won't
do them any good. Now they are getting it there because of us, and I am telling
you, it is a pleasure to watch."
their palaces will be smeared with the slogan: Yids, go to Palestine! And you
know what? They will go to Palestine because they will have no other choice! All
this is a bonus we received from the Lebanese war. Tell me, wasn't it worth it?
Soon we will hit on good times. The Jews will start arriving, the Israelis will
stop emigrating and those who already emigrated will return. Those who had
chosen assimilation will finally understand that it won't help them to try and
be the conscience of the world."
Sharon’s prognosis is on the way to
Recently, a group of "traditional
Jews" addressed themselves, in an open letter, to the Office to Monitor and
Combat Anti-Semitism, a propaganda organ created in the US State Department.
Noting, first of all, that they
"are thankful that most countries do not endorse or promote anti-Semitism, [they
feel themselves] compelled to express [their] concern for the actions of the so
called 'state of Israel' which promotes anti-Semitism and fear in the worldwide
Jewish community to lure Jews from their homelands."
They write further:
"Without the threat of anti-Semitism
as a motivation for immigration the Zionist state would cease to exist as the
so-called 'Jewish State'.
"Recent analyses of Israel’s
immigration/emigration ratio indicate that without the continued immigration of
Jews to this touted 'refuge for Jews' (which is in fact probably the most
dangerous place on earth for Jews) within a decade the Jewish population will be
in the minority. Historically there has been a direct correlation between
increased immigration to the Zionist state and increased anti-Semitism in other
countries. Without a Jewish majority the state will simply become another
Middle-Eastern country without a 'cause'.
"To retain their power and world
influence the leaders of the Zionist state have a vested interest in the
escalation of anti-Semitism as a motivation for the Jewish immigration needed to
keep a majority Jewish population in their country."
And they draw the conclusion that:
"As the recently created 'watch
dog' for world anti-Semitism your mandate is to investigate, expose, and
sanction countries practicing and promoting anti-Semitism. The Zionist state
called 'Israel' should be at the top of your list. We urge you to take action."
Zionist creation and manipulation of
fears of a rise in "anti-Semitism" is no new phenomenon.
"The case of the Iraqi Jews is
the most well known," writes Jean Shaoul,
and continues: "and is documented in several books (see Moshe Gat's The Jewish
Exodus from Iraq 1948-1951 and Shlomi Hillel's Operation Babylon).
The Zionist underground, backed by Mossad le-Aliya, the forerunner of the
Israeli security service, sent agents provocateurs abroad to create conditions
whereby Jews would leave their homes and come to Israel. As a result of Mossad
activities, in the space of a few weeks more than 120,000 Jews—almost the entire
community in Iraq—were forced to leave their homes and possessions for Israel.
Until the onset of Zionist-Palestinian conflict and the inflaming of political
tensions by Britain's stooge regime under King Feisal and Prime Minister Nuri
Said in Iraq, Jews had lived there without incident for 2,500 years, since the
Babylonian exile from biblical Palestine."
Shaoul explains further:
Israel was not the destination of
choice for the Iraqi Jews. A privileged few, those with money and connections,
went to the West. But the majority lived in Israeli camps, where food and
medicines were in short supply, until homes in “development” towns could be
built on the ruins of Palestinian villages.
In subsequent years, entire
communities of Jews from all over the Middle East and North Africa, who had had
no interest in Zionism and had not faced discrimination or the anti-Semitism so
prevalent in Europe, came to Israel They now form the majority in Israel.
Weber, Mark, "Zionism and the Third Reich"