One of the most cherished myths of liberals/leftists/progressives is that criticism of Israel should not be equated with Jew-hatred.
It’s just, uh, constructive criticism, or, and this is my favorite, tough love.
Sort of like a man who beats his wife to a pulp and claims that he does it because he loves her so much.
In short, these critics love Israel so much that they spend every minute of every day pondering—actually, inventing—the Jewish State’s numerous crimes.
Seraphic Secret has long maintained that the unceasing assaults on Israel is classical Jew-hatred—often coming from renegade Jews—using anti-Zionism as a convenient fig-leaf.
For instance, nine Turkish Jew-hating Muslims are killed by the IDF in self-defense.
Liberals/leftists/progressives go nuts.
But in that month alone 50,000 men, women, and children have been murdered in Congo.
And in the Arab/Muslim world we can’t even count the number of women murdered by their fathers, brothers or mothers in so-called honor killings.
Of course, in Gaza, Hamas has most certainly tortured and murdered far more than nine people—in any month.
And just yesterday, In Uganda, over 74 innocents were slaughtered by Al Shabab, Muslim terrorists, in synchronized bombings.
Where is the storm of outrage?
Is the U.N., calling a special session.
Of course not.
The focus on Israel/Jews can only be described as an obsession, an obsession of hate.
The Jews of Malmo, Sweden, all 750 of them, are fleeing that city because the violence, threats and intimidation from Muslims has reached critical mass.
The oh-so-tolerant Swedes are about to trade a productive and loyal group of Swedish Jewish citizens for a seething sharia yearning mass.
In the coming years, we will see this pattern repeat itself all over Europe.
And in fifty years, Europe will, at last, fulfill its dream of a Judenrein soil.
And then, in spite of Obama’s NASA outreach to Muslims—talk about condescending—a new Dark Age will consume Europe.
MALMO, SWEDEN — At some point, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that often greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the 107-year-old Moorish-style synagogue in this port city forced the 32-year-old attorney to make a difficult, life-changing decision: Fearing for his family’s safety after repeated anti-Semitic incidents, Eilenberg reluctantly uprooted himself and his wife and two children, and moved to Israel in May.
Sweden, a country long regarded as a model of tolerance, has, ironically, been a refuge for Eilenberg’s family. His paternal grandparents found a home in Malmo in 1945 after surviving the Holocaust. His wife’s parents came to Malmo from Poland in 1968 after the communist government there launched an anti-Semitic purge.
But as in many other cities across Europe, a rapidly growing Muslim population living in segregated conditions that seem to breed alienation has mixed toxically with the anger directed at Israeli policies and actions by those Muslims — and by many non-Muslims — to all but transform the lives of local Jews. Like many of their counterparts in other European cities, the Jews of Malmo report being subjected increasingly to threats, intimidation and actual violence as stand-ins for Israel.
Full story here.
Folks- there is something more than hate and obsession in the actions against State of Israel.
There is a psychological chain reaction ungoing at least since 1973 ,and in Sweden since 1967
This is a powerful and successfull propaganda war
in the best Goebbels style,propaganga war modulated and modernizated by Sovjet and marxists.
This is explosion of the common uncouncious,something impossible to stop by information,explanation or discussions.
By media brainwashing, the antiisraeli desinformation machine
culminates in the probably most terrible lie and distortion of reality in human modern history.
Why do you think nobody cares about this gigantic
koncentration camp called North Korea ? Why no Ship to North Korea ? Why no demonstrations against
starvation of the millions of people ? Why no outcry against crimes against humanity in this
country ? Do you know,that doctors perform amputations in hospitals
without anasthetics ? Who cares ?
Because all the humanists and moral cynics
are concerned with Israel.
Because the brainwashers won,and Goebbels won from his grave.
It’s always so nice to hear from you in this comment section. I appreciate your replies.
I did finish the book this afternoon. It had a wonderful ending.
My next book is going to be “Winds of War” by Wouk and then the sequel, “War and Remembrance.”
Let me know how you like “The Hope” & “The Glory.”
By the way, Mr. Wouk is 95 and still in the Land of the Living. Apparently, he and his wife live in Palm Springs, California.
So what is the answer? Move or engage these people in war?
And if it is happening in Europe, how much longer are the American Jews so safe and sound? and shouldn’t they pre-empt and move to Israel?
By moving to Israel, we are handing these cowards the best defeat possible.
David:
I’m pretty sure that during both WWI and WWII, people caught transmitting information to an enemy to facilitate adjustment of artillery fire were treated as spies and executed in a pretty summary fashion. By all sides.
Two points:
1. The unrelenting international pressure on Israel has reaped rewards for the Jew-haters. Israel currently goes soft on traitors and spies.
2. There is a death penalty in Israel, but it has been reserved only for Adolf Eichmann. I believe this is a mistake. The death penalty is necessary in a just society.
Ben David:
Have they ever visited before? How much of the lies about Israel do they believe?
It’s called: The Stockholm Syndrome.
“al-Jazeera personnel in Israel were caught red-handed making such recordings and transmissions, and were arrested by Israeli authorities for violating censorship rules”
I’m pretty sure that during both WWI and WWII, people caught transmitting information to an enemy to facilitate adjustment of artillery fire were treated as spies and executed in a pretty summary fashion. By all sides.
The saddest part of this article is that the Jews involved aren’t very enthusiastic about Israel.
Have they ever visited before? How much of the lies about Israel do they believe?
I have encountered the same I-was-dragged-here-by-circumstance attitude among some other European immigrants here, some of them married to Israelis.
West Bank Mama:
All across Europe, France, England, Belgium, and Scandinavia, the majority of Muslims are on welfare. They live off the resources of the Socialist state even as they undermine its very existence. The excellent blogger/journalist Daniel Greenfield has written an articulate piece, The Way of the Cuckoo,” describing this destructive process. Here’s the link:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/07/way-of-cuckoo.html
Morey:
Thanks so much for directing us to your excellent post about Swedish Jewry.
Beth:
I have not read these Wouk novels. But I’m putting them on my list.
Bill:
Thanks for the link. It’s always nice to find some decency from a European intellectual.
Miranda:
Tough love is reserved for israel/Jews and not for truly totalitarian or genocidal states because there is no price paid for Jew-hatred. In fact, you will be invited to speak at Brandeis or Columbia.
David:
I agree. Once upon a time American universities did actually educate instead of indoctrinate. One can still get a decent education at a small cluster of private colleges.
According to the article, there is 80% (!!!!)unemployment among the Moslem immigrants in this city – mainly due to the fact that the Moslems do not speak Swedish, which is a pre-requisite to employment. Don’t the Swedes have an sense of self-preservation??What do they think is going to happen to their country?
Time to get the Jews out and let them all “hock each other up” as my grandmother used to say.
Dozens of people injured by Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel sued al-Jazeera news outlet yesterday for allegedly helping the terrorists aim their deadly missiles.
The Manhattan federal court suit — which seeks $1.2 billion in damages — says al-Jazeera journalists “repeatedly and intentionally” transmitted “real-time audiovisual footage” of bomb strikes in the Holy Land during July and August of 2006.
Broadcasts of the “precise impact locations” on the Arab-language satellite network allegedly allowed Hezbollah fighters to adjust the direction and trajectory of their crude projectiles, which lacked any internal guidance systems.
“On several occasions, al-Jazeera personnel in Israel were caught red-handed making such recordings and transmissions, and were arrested by Israeli authorities for violating censorship rules,” court papers say.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/missile_suit_vs_jazeera_0LpNlAVxOSK5SpUxfyqZIM#ixzz0tZgNF4FB
Robert..”now American universities are the place to go in order to cultivate this oldest of hatreds”
I’m afraid that academia, *as it now stands*, tends to attract people who are bitter and resentful toward their society and their fellow citizens. I don’t think think this way *always* true; once upon a time, most people choosing academic careers did so because of a genuine interest in teaching and learning. But today, the bitter incumbents attract bitter recruits. And wherever there is an atmosphere of bitterness and resentment, classical hatreds such as anti-Semitism re-emerge.
It’s just, uh, constructive criticism, or, and this is my favorite, tough love.
How come they don’t feel any tough love for the Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Congoleseor the Russians?
And in fifty years, Europe will, at last, fulfill its dream of a Judenrein soil.
Probably less than 50 years. Only problem (for them) will be, they will discover that their dream is a nightmare, when they have to live under the Arabs.
There was a profound commentary by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez entitled “ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ” a few years ago.
If you haven’t read it you can find it at
http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/articles/Rodriguez-2005-09-23.asp
I read it and realized how true this is.
What a sad commentary –of the culture lost and what could have been…
Speaking of Zionism, am I just now finishing the 2nd book in Herman Wouk’s historical novels about Israel, “The Glory.” The first book is called, “The Hope.” I highly recommend these two books as Wouk beautifully weaves engaging fictional characters with the historical facts that start with the War of Independence in 1948 through the Raid on Entebbe. (I don’t know how it ends, but I’m almost finished.)
I am sad to come to the end of the book — I wish there was a third.
Unfortunately the Sweden situation isn’t new. I wrote a short piece on Swedish Antisemitism last year on my blog, for anyone interested: http://moreyaltman.blogspot.com/2009/08/sweden-for-swedes.html
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21473
“June 26, 2010: An Arab language satellite TV channel (“Al Aqsa TV”), originating in Gaza, has been blocked from the satellite delivering the channel to France, because the French government deemed al Aqsa’s material anti-Semitic. Several Arab governments protested this move, insisting that al Aqsa was merely saying what most Arabs believed (that Israel should be destroyed and Jews killed). ”
Rhiannon:
Thanks so much. I will check out the link.
Stroker:
Great video, thanks so much.
PCD:
As always, it is intellectuals, Jewish and non-Jewish, who are in the vanguard of malignant Jew-hatred.
Pre World War II the reason given was that Jews are “rootless cosmopolitans” who have no country. Now the Jew-hatred flourishes because Jews do have a country.
Europeans used to lead the pack but now American universities are the place to go in order to cultivate this oldest of hatreds.
Beth:
In a few years, when Muslims feels emboldened, look for coordinated pogroms all over Scandinavia with the leftist collaborators turning over Jews to the mobs in the name of, um, human rights.
Johnny:
The Islamists and their leftist allies are always on the offense. Hence, no area of life is exempt from Jew hatred. Munich was a an accurate harbinger of the horrors to come.
Malmo is the city where they decided to play the Davis Cup match between Israel and Sweden with no spectators because the city could not guarantee the safety of the Israeli athletes. How bad is a city that it can’t let a tennis match take place because some Jews might be involved? Gee, I wonder who they were rooting for when the athletes were murdered and taken hostage in Munich in 1972?
Robert, what’s happening in Sweden is really sad when you think that during the Holocaust, when Germany tried to round up all the Danish Jews, the Danes coordinated with Sweden to ship them to Sweden to safety during the night. When the Gestapo came in the morning, they were gone — all except the ones who chose to stay in Denmark.
That’s horrible. Truly abhorrent.
Your post reminds me of a book I recently read called “Why I Am a Zionist” by Gil Troy. I don’t know if you’ve read it already, but if you haven’t then I should tell you that it’s quite good. Troy brings up a lot of the same points you do.
Here is a link to the book’s prologue: http://www.giltroy.com/zionismandisrael/prologue.htm. I would recommend reading the whole thing if you haven’t already. The section that your post brought to mind was entitled “I Am An Anti-Anti Zionist,” if you would like to just skip down to that instead of reading the whole thing (it’s pretty lengthy).
Perhaps I might also mention that I got the book from my seventeen-year-old cousin, whose high school used it as a textbook of sorts for their new Israel Advocacy class. I found it impressive that Jewish high schools are now deeming it necessary to take it upon themselves to educate their students in these matters. It gives one hope.
Jew hating is the family sport of the “Intelligencia”. I often marvel at how they profess to think so highly of themselves when they are so miserable they have to scapegoat Jews for everything in their lives.
I think you will find this video speaks in part to what you are saying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGHUZ-8DWw