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In September 2006, a parliamentary enquiry heard of a sharp increase of attacks on Jews since the war in Lebanon had started. The Times reported Mark Gardener of the Community Security Trust saying: “In July, when the conflict in Lebanon began, we received reports of 92 incidents, which was the third-worst month since records began in 1984.” In 2000 the monthly average was between 10 and 30 incidents. … The July incidents “were more dispersed than usual … It is usually a small number responsible for a large number of attacks, but these were very widespread across the country and included graffiti attacks on synagogues in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The attackers, when visible, are from across society, he said
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For example, this Tuesday in the pub after our local Stop the War Coalition meeting there was a discussion about the US presidential elections, and one well respected socialist activist expressed the opinion that Israel decided who the US president would be, and a member of the Green Party agreed that Jews still controlled most of the world’s money. Of course other people, including myself, challenged these views.
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Part of the reason why reasonable people accept these views is that, from the point of view of empiricism, there appears to be at least a modicum of truth in it. There is a strategic alliance between the United States and Israel, there is a quasi-McCarthyist witchhunt in the US against even bourgeois figures who question that alliance. Special priveleges are granted to pro-Israeli lobbyists in the United States, and also to a significant (though lesser) extent in Europe.
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There vociferous pro-Israel lobby in the United States contains Jews and non-Jews. Many of the Jewish elements have direct ties to Israel, which is hardly suprising since Zionist ideology posits Israel as the Jewish state.
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But this cannot be equated with the ideology that led ultimately to the WWII genocide, when wide sections of the privelged classes of the advanced countries (though not all) believed that Jews represented some kind of subversive threat and a danger of “Western civilisation”, and were prepared for massive repression, and even mass slaughter, of the Jews. *That* ideology is dead. It only survives today in fragmentary, incoherent and electic ramblings among those subjected to oppression by the West and Israel.
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However it’s all too often necessary to distinguish between actual anti-semitism and what Zionists claim is anti-semitism, for the purposes of deflecting criticism of the Israeli state.
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agree that the genocidal anti-Semitism of the Nazis is on a different scale to other less violent forms of anti-Semitism. However, the truth is that in its 2,000 year old history anti-Semitism like all other forms of hatred and bigotry has existed on the level of a general dislike of Jews, danagerous falsehoods about Jews and sporadic outbursts of violence against Jews. It would be foolish in the extreme to look away as the forces of hatred gain in strength.
Anti-Semites have always believed that they are telling the ‘truth’ about the Jews, those who ignored anti-Semitism have always thought there was a “modicum of truth” about anti-Semitic slurs.
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Why is it that the ideology of Zionism has acquired every negative stereotype of the Jew?
Zionists control the media
Zionists control international finance
Zionists secretly conspire to rule the world
Zionists start proxy wars for their own benefit
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#7Why is it that the ideology of Zionism has acquired every negative stereotype of the Jew?
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Zionists control the media
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Zionists control international finance
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Zionists secretly conspire to rule the world
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Zionists start proxy wars for their own benefit
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Zionists kill children
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Zionists are greedy
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Incidentally, people should know that the charge that Jews benefit from antisemitism - that Jews use antisemitism in an instrumental way to increase their power - is an old one. It was articulated in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claimed, in Protocol 9, that the world Jewish conspiracy had said the following:
“Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for their anti-semitism is indispensible to us for the management of our lesser brethren…”
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As I explained on another post I have no interest in increasing the number of anti-Semites. The Zionists do that except they class anyone as an anti-Semite who opposes the Israeli state.
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‘For example, Hess writes that the Children of Israel were originally idolaters whose principle god, Moloch, demanded blood sacrifices… In the course of time, he maintains the Jews passed from blood (dam) sacrificesto money (damin) sacrifices. Shlomo Avineiri, ‘The Making of Modern Zionism - The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State’ p.41,Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1981. Is there any better example of Jewish self-hatred than these Zionists?
Or Jacob Klatzkin, editor of the Zionist main weekly, Die Welt between 1909-11 and one of the founders of the Encyclopedia Judaica. This is what he wrote about Jews outside Palestine:
‘Galut can only drag out the disgrace of our people and sustain the existence of a people disfigured in both body and soul - in a word, of a horror. At the very worst it can maintain us in a state of national impurity and breed some sort of outlandish creature in an environment of disintegration of cultures and of darkening spiritual horizons. The result will be something neither Jewish nor Gentile - in any case, not a pure national type…. some sort of oddity among the peoples going by the name of Jew. Arthur Hertzberg, ‘The Zionist Idea’ pp. 322/323. Herzberg was Deputy Chair of the American Jewish Congress and an ardent Zionist.
Or his most infamous statement that ‘If we do not admit the rightfulness of anti-Semitism we deny the rightfulness of our own nationalism… Instead of establishing societies for defence against the anti-Semites who want to reduce our rights, we should establish societies for defence against our friends, who desire to defend our rights. (B. Matovu, “The Zionist Wish and the Nazi Deed’ Issue, Winter 1966-7. Uri Davies, ‘Utopia Incorporated’ p.
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Yes many Jews do live in the diaspora and that is one of life’s contradictions. What it means in practice is that there is a contradiction between the interests of Jews living here and the interests of the Israeli state. It is a living contradiction and it is something that Zionism cannot overcome other than by attrition. The reality is that Zionism is parasitical on diaspora Jewry and is bringing anti-Semitism in its wake. And if anti-Semitism did ever rear its ugly head again Israel would be no refuge as Argentina demonstrated.
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This antisemitic, Stalinist pile of steaming rubbish is not Marxism.
In Capital, Marx offered an analysis of exploitation which did not rely on a picture of the rich and the powerful conspiring against the exploited. That was his genius. He replaced conspiracy theory with a structural analysis.
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sed by non-Jews, as well as Jews. As to why, that 13% held by the JNF is reserved for Jews, the reasoning as far as I can understand it, before either justifying or condemning the policy is twofold.
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First, there is a context to consider parallel to the aspirations of First Nations in British Columbia, most of which are currently negotiating treaties with both the provincial and federal governments in Canada, First Nations in BC assert that a substantial portion of the lands they receive as a result of the treaty process are to be deemed as communal lands held by a given First Nation as a whole and not deemed as fee simple lands in which any private individual or private interest is eligible to purchase the land from a member of the First Nation who was allocated land as a result of a ratified treaty and later able to sell that land to any other private individual or interest. Of course, the reason that First Nations do not want most or all the land they receive through the treaty process to be deemed fee simple is because of the likelihood that under a fee simple title, much of the land they receive out of a treaty process can be sold out to people who aren’t members of the First Nation minority, thereby defeating the purpose of the treaty process in the first place. Of course much of the right wing opposition to both the treaty process and to any non-fee-simple titled land being transferred to First Nations hinges on the argument that land held communally by any First Nation is racist.
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In what way can the aforementioned scenario in BC be compared to the 13% of state lands held by the JNF in Israel? Well, of course inside Israel, Jews make up approximately 80% of the country’s population and so within the state they can not be considered a minority. However, in the Arab Middle East, from which most of Israel’s Jewish population originated, the situation is altogether different. The ratio of land in square miles held by Arab states that Jews are forbidden from purchasing is about 650:1. For every one square mile in the Middle East owned by a Jew, 650 square miles of land are held by Arabs that Jews are forbidden to purchase or own.
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However, it is so nice to see that this SU blog that had the pretence of a progressive blog just a few month ago, is now officially transformed into a kosher cyber shtettle with the David Taubs, and the Fabians, and the Greensteins, and the Tims, and the Gaswinds. What can i say, well done guys, well done Andy, it didn’t take too long.
You are indeed an impressive bunch of ‘Wondering cyber Jews’.
I ask myself, why can’t you just settle in one blog like us in Pepa?
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The JNF controls a whopping 13% of state land in Israel, not 93%, while 87% of the land inside the 1967 armistice lines can either be leased or purchased by non-Jews, as well as Jews. As to why, that 13% held by the JNF is reserved for Jews, the reasoning as far as I can understand it, before either justifying or condemning the policy is twofold.
First, there is a context to consider parallel to the aspirations of First Nations in British Columbia, most of which are currently negotiating treaties with both the provincial and federal governments in Canada, First Nations in BC assert that a substantial portion of the lands they receive as a result of the treaty process are to be deemed as communal lands held by a given First Nation as a whole and not deemed as fee simple lands in which any private individual or private interest is eligible to purchase the land from a member of the First Nation who was allocated land as a result of a ratified treaty and later able to sell that land to any other private individual or interest. Of course, the reason that First Nations do not want most or all the land they receive through the treaty process to be deemed fee simple is because of the likelihood that under a fee simple title, much of the land they receive out of a treaty process can be sold out to people who aren’t members of the First Nation minority, thereby defeating the purpose of the treaty process in the first place. Of course much of the right wing opposition to both the treaty process and to any non-fee-simple titled land being transferred to First Nations hinges on the argument that land held communally by any First Nation is racist.
In what way can the aforementioned scenario in BC be compared to the 13% of state lands held by the JNF in Israel? Well, of course inside Israel, Jews make up approximately 80% of the country’s population and so within the state they can not be considered a minority. However, in the Arab Middle East, from which most of Israel’s Jewish population originated, the situation is altogether different. The ratio of land in square miles held by Arab states that Jews are forbidden from purchasing is about 650:1. For every one square mile in the Middle East owned by a Jew, 650 square miles of land are held by Arabs that Jews are forbidden to purchase or own.
