Amnon Rubinstein identifies the intellectual genocide against the Jewish state being attempted by ‘intellectuals’ which parallels the nuclear-tipped one being threatened by Iran:

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, by former BBC foreign correspondent Alan Hart, is a lengthy - 600 pages in the first volume - diatribe against Zionism, the Balfour declaration and the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine. The title is taken from a motion discussed in a symposium organized by London's Evening Standard, in which the mainly Jewish audience voted for the motion. Hunt, quite rightly, sees this debate and vote as an event of historical significance and develops this thesis into a two-volume treatise.

Jacqueline Rose's The Question of Zion and John Rose's Myths of Zionism are two similar attacks against Zionism. Professor Tony Judt of New York University also wiped Israel off the map in the New York Review of Books in October 2003 by writing that 'Israel is an anachronism' and by proposing that it be replaced by a binational state.

Perhaps following Judt's lead, Prof. Ilan Pappe of Haifa University eradicates Israel in his article in the French L'Essentiel (summer 2005) in which he hopes that the return of the Palestinian refugees will give rise to 'one unitary secular and democratic state' which would replace Israel. Naturally, Pappe surmises, the Jews will live happily ever after as a minority in a secular democracy, of which there are so many in the Middle East...

There are also those who do not advocate eradicating Israel, but work to remove any shred of justification for supporting the Jewish state. To the long list of Israeli academics who vilify their country, is now added a new opus: Suppressing the Guilt by Daniel Dor of Tel Aviv University. The source of guilt, of course, is Israel's actions in the West Bank and the suppressors are the Israeli media, who conceal the truth from their readers.

I took part in that Evening Standard debate, and a sickening event it was. To be accurate, however, the reason the motion against Zionism was carried was that it talked of ‘Zionism today’, thus allowing the other side successfully (if dishonestly) to redefine Zionism as ‘the occupation’ post 1967. This sleight of hand was eagerly accepted by the audience which was baying for Israel’s blood from the start. The reason that debate was sickening was that it set Jew against Jew, the wonderful new spectator sport for ‘hands-clean’ Jew-haters. The striking thing is how many on this list of infamy are Jews. Rubinstein comments:

Their attacks against Zionism are compulsive, non-academic, full of half-baked truths and barely disguised hysteria. Indeed, Israel-bashers use a style which is very similar to the language used by anti-Semites: Israel is inferior and should not enjoy the rights accorded to other peoples. Formerly it was the Jewish person, now it is the Jewish state. The Nazi refrain was ‘the Jews are our disaster’; now, the Jewish state is being portrayed as the world's disaster. Consequently, all these eradicators, whether they are Israeli, Jewish or distinguished professors, are objectively - if one may revert to Marxist terminology - biological anti-Semites.

There have always been Jews who hate the Jews, for a variety of shocking and even more shocking reasons. Now they hate the collective Jew as represented by the Jewish state. They have a great deal of traction. They are delivering an evil agenda. The Jewish community has been too silent about and towards these people. They need to be exposed, systematically and forensically, for the intellectual charlatans they are.

Posted by melanie at November 18, 2005