From the tireless Anne Bayefsky comes another jaw-dropping illustration of the UN's balanced, sane and unprejudiced attitude towards the Jews. She reports that the UN invited along to advise it on antisemitism a bunch of.. well, antisemites, including a couple of Israelis (the assumption that Jews cannot hate their own people with a murderous venom is, of course, historically as well as currently false).

The result was a UN document which will become the orthodoxy on combating antisemitism. It not only says anti-Zionism is different from antisemitism ( true in theory but very often not in practice) but this:

'The genuine Zionism of many Jews helps to explain the fact that many people wrongly feel that most Jews lend their unconditional support to Israeli policies. That is why we have seen attacks on synagogues, arson attacks on schools, desecration of cemeteries, for reasons that have nothing to do either with religion, or education, or the peaceful rest of the deceased, but that have a great deal to do with a political and a territorial conflict. . . .

In other words, if antisemitism is to be avoided Jews must denounce or abandon Israel in its struggle to prevent the mass murder of Jews and the annihilation of the Jewish state. As Bayefsky comments:

'Simply put, Jews are responsible for anti-Semitism. Or, if it weren't for Israel's annoying insistence on defending itself, on the same terms as would be applied to any other state faced with five decades of wars and terrorism aimed at its obliteration, Jews would be better off.'

The document also tells a further bare-faced lie:

'In the past, anti-Semitism as a phenomenon was absent from the Arab-Muslim world.'

This is simply untrue. Jews were repeatedly persecuted, attacked, murdered and ethnically cleansed under Muslim rule; at best they lived as 'dhimmi' or enslaved, second-class citizens. And then the document instructs Jews thus:

'. . . The leaders of Jewish communities should also act to distinguish defence of the State of Israel from the fight against anti-Semitism. . . .Contextualising the memory of the Holocaust with that of other genocides and serious events in contemporary history in order to make sure that at the end of the day everyone can feel the Holocaust as their own tragedy, both Jews and non-Jews.'

So Jewish leaders are to dump on Israel and relativise and thus diminish the Nazi Holocaust, a unique event in human history. As Bayefsky observes:

'In other words, according to the U.N. experts' draft report, discrimination against individual Jews is bad, while "anti-Zionism"--the denial to the Jewish people of an equal right to self-determination--is not. Since it is the perception of unconditional Jewish support for Israel that leads people to attack a Jewish cemetery, and anti-Semitism was absent from the Muslim world prior to the Arab-Israeli conflict (the mufti of Jerusalem and his friend Hitler notwithstanding), the way to defeat anti-Semitism is for Jews to cut loose defense of the state of Israel. And by the way, anti-Semitism will diminish if only we stop emphasizing the unique horror of the Holocaust.'

Indeed. This is monstrous stuff. It shows once again (remember the obscene Durban conference on antiracism which turned into a carnival of Nazi-style antisemitism) that the UN, far from upholding decency and justice in the world, is itself a principal motor of Jew-hatred. Now let's see how many snivelling defenders of this corrupt and vile 'international order' have the elementary decency to object to this example of institutionalised racism, which will legitimise further terror and bloodshed against the Jews in the official name of the world.

Posted by melanie at November 19, 2004