On The Self-Delusion of Anti-Zionist Jews

The anti-Zionist Jews are up in arms. For years they have had the intellectual playing field almost entirely to themselves - in the media, in academia and in literary circles throughout Europe and the States. The "post" and anti-Zionist terminology and rhetoric has achieved near hegemonic status in all these fields. Whenever someone called their hatred and negationism for what it was - they balked. "We're just critics of Israel", they say, or "We just criticize Israel's policy in the territories/policy towards its Arab citizens/its Zionist nature".

Recently, Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld has called a spade a spade. In a thoroughly documented study, he demonstrates the virulent, hateful and annihilationist rhetoric spewed by "progressive Jews" on a regular basis. Their response is exactly the same as before. They hide behind the grain of truth in their accusations to justify the fabric of pointless and stupid venom.

At this point, this argument is not just annoying, it is an insult to the intelligence of anyone above the age of three. If you support the "Right of Return", the creation of a bi-national state between the Jordan and the Sea, or deny the Jews any moral agency or national rights in the land of Israel, then you can no more call yourself a "critic" of Israel than a rabid atheist can call himself a "critic" of religion. They are calling for the state's dissolution, and it would be better if they stood up and were counted as opponents and negationists, not "critics" of one type or another.

A similiar thing can be said for those who do nothing but condemn Israel as the worst thing ever created by humankind, who call it "Nazi", "an apartheid state", but say "but I defend Israel's right to exist" in whatever form. This too is an insult to the intelligence of thinking human beings. It is like saying that Voltaire's disgusting, hate-filled and wholly negative essay on Jews is "not anti-Semitic" because he said at the end of it "Still, we ought not to burn them".

"Criticism" that does nothing but villify in the worst possible terms, leaves the other side utterly blameless and refuses to posit any useful advice or attach positive traits to the object of its "criticism", is hatred, pure and simple. Anti-Zionist Jews would do well to keep that in mind.

Website Recommendation

There are a lot of current events sites in Israel, but only a few are worth taking seriously. One such site, which discusses issues in Israel in depth is Omedia. Here's a link to one of their English-language articles, discussing the nature of popular political culture in Israel.