The precincts from which we learn that America and Israel are racist dystopias are disgorging people who, with beatific pleasure, trumpet the mass murder of Jews.
Theodor Adorno coined the term "left-wing fascists" to depict these poeple. Now I'm wondering what the heros who signed the Jerusalem Declaration of Antisemitism have to say. After all, Omer Bartov (a famous historian and a former Zionist who eviscerated Norman Finkelstein's conspiracy theories 20 years ago but has now become no less anti-Israel than Finkelstein himself), presented this Declaration as a way to protect pro-Palestinian students from evil Zionists who stifle free speech on campus!
These people have some souls searching to do. It reminds me of Jewish Maoist activists who were shocked after the Munich attacks in 1972. I interviewed some of them. They couldn't believe that their "comrades" on the left were praising this massacre. They soon rediscovered their Judaism and repudiated their anti-Zionism. By the late 1970s, they had become "new philosophers" (a more sophisticated version of American neocons) and some of them became pationately (and sometimes blindly) pro-Israel! Who knows? I won't be surprised if one day, a JVP members becomes the new head of AIPAC!
Best,
Bernard Bohbot
PS
I still can't find any meainstream media in the world that does not show schandenfreude by arguing that what happened in a "consequence" of the occupation. None of them mention that Hamas has destroyed Israel's peace camp. And of course, don't count on them to mention that the PA has rejected three peace plans calling for the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders (in 2001, 2008 and 2014)!
Theodor Adorno coined the term "left-wing fascists" to depict these poeple. Now I'm wondering what the heros who signed the Jerusalem Declaration of Antisemitism have to say. After all, Omer Bartov (a famous historian and a former Zionist who eviscerated Norman Finkelstein's conspiracy theories 20 years ago but has now become no less anti-Israel than Finkelstein himself), presented this Declaration as a way to protect pro-Palestinian students from evil Zionists who stifle free speech on campus!
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2021-03-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/criticism-of-israel-and-its-policies-isnt-antisemitism/0000017f-e649-dea7-adff-f7fbb6a50000
These people have some souls searching to do. It reminds me of Jewish Maoist activists who were shocked after the Munich attacks in 1972. I interviewed some of them. They couldn't believe that their "comrades" on the left were praising this massacre. They soon rediscovered their Judaism and repudiated their anti-Zionism. By the late 1970s, they had become "new philosophers" (a more sophisticated version of American neocons) and some of them became pationately (and sometimes blindly) pro-Israel! Who knows? I won't be surprised if one day, a JVP members becomes the new head of AIPAC!
Best,
Bernard Bohbot
PS
I still can't find any meainstream media in the world that does not show schandenfreude by arguing that what happened in a "consequence" of the occupation. None of them mention that Hamas has destroyed Israel's peace camp. And of course, don't count on them to mention that the PA has rejected three peace plans calling for the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders (in 2001, 2008 and 2014)!
Thanks, this is very sobering. How would you suggest to proceed?