(A friend, fellow Montrealer and member of Independent Jewish Voices, Scott Weinstein has sent in the following post. Worth a read.)
By Scott Weinstein, July 11, 2011
Remember the wacko U.S. statement in Vietnam after years of madness: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."?
2011 will mark the year the Israel Lobby destroyed the fight against anti-Semitism in order to save Israel.
Funny friends of the famous Simon Wiesenthal Center who watch too much Don Rinkles, just compared Hitler to Canadians organizing the Gaza aid flotilla challenging Israel’s blockade ("CANADA'S "SEA HITLER" SET TO JOIN GAZA FLOTILLA").
I'm no holocaust scholar, but I'll bet the Wiesenthal experts 5 to 1 that Hitler wasn’t a Canadian human-rights activist committed to non-violence. Neo-Nazis should thank the Israel Lobby for their efforts to make “Mr. Hitler” respectable.
Timed just before Quebec's Just for Laughs Festival this week, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism released their long delayed report. Despite contrary evidence from their cherry-picked witnesses of university leaders and police chiefs, they claim anti-Semitism is a growing menace in Canada. Especially in universities. Especially by Palestinian human rights organizations.
Even the stalwartly pro-Israel Globe and Mail newspaper thought that was cute.
Jewish Zionist leaders iced a deal merging with the powerful Jew-despising Christian Zionists to create the Mother-of-all Israel Lobbies. These being the Christians that have a plan for us Jews. They pray for the End of Days when Jews return to Israel, slay the Muslims, and then the Rapture wipes out all remaining non-believers in Jesus Christ (i.e. Jews). Imagine the pitch by the Jewish machers selling the merger: "OK, first they give us all of Palestine, then we become their soldiers for Armageddon, like reverse Shabbos goys, and only after do they plan to exterminate us. But we can finagle the last bit. What could possibly go wrong?"
The Israel Lobby is bored with civil rights, civil discourse and even liberal Zionists. This year, a new umbrella agency for Jewish and Israel advocacy snuffed out the Canadian Jewish Congress. It's 24/7 Israel now.
Do you think their anti anti-Semitism shtick is a joke? They’re laughing all the way to the bank. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Anti Defamation League and the B'nai Brith rake in $millions to ‘fight’ anti-Semitism.
I think they got busted too often embellishing stories of antisemitic incidents. Like the car salesman who hustled my grandfather to buy a new Oldsmobile every five years, the Israel Lobby upgraded the definition to include "the NEW anti-Semitism". Now those of us organizing against the Israeli blockade of Gaza and Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are dangerous anti-Semites. Somewhere, a clever Zionist is getting a car payment because of my activism.
What will the desperate Israel Lobby think of next? Loyalty oaths to Israel? State sanctions against Jewish organizations supporting Palestinian human rights? That was Israel’s government’s agenda last year. The main difference between North American and Israeli politicians? Israeli politicians are not afraid to criticize Israel.
So the next time someone like Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper affirms his righteous fight against anti-Semitism, appreciate his sense of humor. He’s got a plan.
1 comments:
"These being the Christians that have a plan for us Jews. They pray for the End of Days when Jews return to Israel, slay the Muslims, and then the Rapture wipes out all remaining non-believers in Jesus Christ (i.e. Jews)."
Israeli Jews and their supporters are willing to take that risk. We will wait for the end of times, and observe who arrives first: the Messiah or Jesus's second coming. Until that time when all these questions of whose God is better is sorted out, there is no reason why Jews and Christians cannot be friends, help each other, join hands in the service of a good cause: the continued safe and prosperous existence of Israel, the Jewish state.
I'm willing to bet that the writer of this sputtering, hate-filled epistle (making fun of Jewish memories of righteous declarative eliminationist antisemitism based on manufactured protocols cannot be defined as anything but sheer, unadulterated hatred) considers himself a clear-eyed atheist whose analysis is based on logic, not magical thinking, yet he seems to have no problem flinging theological threats at Jews in order to score a cheap point. I expect this kind of thinking from an ultra Orthodox Jew, not an enlightened, "humanitarian" asajew. But then, to channel Howard Jacobson's latest protagonist, being an "ASHAMED Jew" is all the rage on the rococo Left these days. So I guess Scott Weinstein is cat's whiskers these days.
As Hannah Arednt said: "As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct,we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the
core."
Let me repeat:
"only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
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