Distorting anti-Semitism

By Khalid Amayreh
in Occupied East Jerusalem


Zionist apologists and hasbara doctors have been trying
of late to convince the European public opinion
that opposition to Israel’s brutal treatment of
the Palestinian people amounts, more or less,
to a new form of anti-Semitism.

This week, the Israeli foreign ministry,
in cooperation with Zionist circles in North America,
announced the creation of the so-called
“International Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism.”

“We’re witnessing a new, global, virulent and even
lethal anti-Semitism without parallel or precedent since
World War II,” said Canadian MP Irwin Colter, one of
the organizer. “It is not only essential to sound the alarm,
but it’s time to act.”

However, from reading in between the lines, it becomes
amply clear that the real target these Zionist supremacists
have in mind is not the morbid hatred of Jews for being
Jews, otherwise known as anti-Semitism. It is rather
the growing global awareness of and opposition to Israeli
apartheid, criminality and genocidal policies being pursued
in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In fact, it is not anti-Jewish racism that these liars are
really seeking to fight; it is rather anti-Palestinian Israeli
racism that they are trying to defend and protect. Racists,
after all, are qualified to combat racism as much as pyromaniacs
are qualified to fight fires.

Today, Israel, more than any other country on earth, is the
number-1 generator, inducer and encourager of anti-Semitism.

Israel calls itself “the Jewish state” and claims to represent the
Jews of the world. And as such, Israel’s Nazi-like actions and
behaviors are bound to boomerang in one way or the other.

In the years following its misbegotten creation, Israel sought
largely successfully to induce hatred for Jews in their
respective places of residence in order to get them to fulfill
Zionism and emigrate to a land made unholy by decades
of lies, oppression and murder.

Now, Zionism is trying intimidate Europeans, especially
European states, into endorsing Israeli Nazism, or at least
playing deaf and dumb and looking the other way while
generations of helpless Palestinians are murdered on a
daily basis as the entire future of the Palestinian people is
being decapitated in full view of the entire humanity.

In so doing, Israel and its hasbara mouthpieces is actually
seriously cheapening anti-Semitism and helping, knowingly
or unknowingly, the true haters of Jews.

True anti-Semites used to be those who hated Jews for
being Jews. Today, the rabid dogs of Zionism would want
us to believe that anti-Semites are also those who speak up
in defense of human rights in Palestine, people, like Christian
peace activists in Hebron, who escort terrified Palestinian kids
to their schools, lest they be attacked by a ghoulish breed of
Zionist Jews called “hilltop settlers.”

Well, who do these depraved Zionists think they are any way?
Do they think they have a license from the Almighty to murder,
lie, and steal, and when people speak up against these evils, all
they have to do to stop them is to shout anti-Semitism!
Anti-Semitism!

It is therefore imperative that all men and women of conscience,
including thousands of honest Jews whose devotion to justice and
morality always comes first, make clear to Israel and her tribal
supporters that anti-Semitism will no longer be allowed to be
used to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

In the final analysis, we should be living in a moral universe,
and if rejecting Israeli crimes in Palestine is anti-Semitism, which
of course isn’t , then this proverbial “anti-Semitism” should itself
become a moral obligation of the highest order upon all
conscientious men and women around the world.

It may well be true that there are those who utilize legitimate
criticisms of Israel to promote real anti-Semitism. But who is to
blame for this outcome? The Palestinians, the victims of
Zionist racism, or the child-killers in Gaza and the West Bank
who want the world to atone for one holocaust by allowing and
enabling Israel to obliterate an entire people, the Palestinians,
just as the Nazis had wanted to obliterate another entire people,
the Jews, more than six decades ago.

But, likewise, is it not also true that “anti-Semitism” is often
utilized to the fullest by many Zionist Jews to silence legitimate
criticisms of this evil state that murders, lies and steals and
then claims to be the only true democracy in the Middle East
and a light upon the nations.

Some Zionist propagandists, who lie as often as they breathe,
are also trying to make analogies between classical European
anti-Semitism and the so-called Islamic anti-Semitism.

This is a cardinal lie as many honest Jews would readily admit.
Muslims don’t hate Jews for being Jews. And Judaism enjoys a
clear historical and religious legitimacy in Islam.

In fact, the Quran, Islam’s holy book, challenges Jews to live
up to the sublime teachings of justice and morality that the
Israelite prophets preached.

In recent history however, Zionism nearly succeeded in alienating
hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world who share
with Jews many fundamental beliefs, including the belief in
the oneness of God and the centrality of justice and
morality to human behavior.

Moreover, many Zionists Jews these days, especially in
North America, are making strange bed-fellow with
Pseudo-Christian lunatics who claim that Muslims have no souls
and ought to be wiped off from the face of earth.

So, how does Zionism expect Muslims to react to this
venomous enmity? Can Muslims, or indeed the rest of
decent human beings, give Israel the benefit of the doubt
under these circumstances?

To be sure, real anti-Semitism, along with Islamophobia and
other forms of racism, should be rejected and fought relentlessly.

However, Israel and Zionism can’t create and consolidate
the “cause” and then complain vociferously about the “effect.”

Besides, the time when Zionism could easily manipulate
and blackmail the collective conscience of humanity is over for good.