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Criticizing Zionism: Naked Anti-Semitism?
by
Kurt Nimmo
Dissident Voice
October 18, 2003
It's okay to call Muslims worshippers of Satan. That's essentially what far
right Armageddon happy Lt. Gen. Boykin -- newly appointed deputy undersecretary of
defense for intelligence -- did recently. It seems to be okay with Rumsfeld,
Boykin's boss. It's more than okay for the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry
Falwell, and other Islam-hating Christian-Zionists. For them, denigrating
Muslims is an industry.
"That's the way we
live," Rummy
told reporters Thursday during a Pentagon news briefing. "We're a free
people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country. And I think that for
anyone to run around and think that that can be managed and controlled is
probably wrong... Saddam Hussein could do it pretty well, because he'd go
around killing people if they said things he didn't like."
Of course, it depends on who you
criticize.
Remarks of Malaysian
prime minister Mahathir Mohamad aside, there is a campaign to portray
criticism of Zionist state violence against essentially defenseless
Palestinians as creeping anti-Semitism. "Liberals and leftists,
traditional champions of the underdog, engage en masse in a form of
fashionable, politically correct anti-Semitism by condemning Israel's 'racist,'
'apartheid,' 'Nazi' regime, portraying the tiny Jewish state (with 0.1 percent
of the Mideast land mass) as the brutal aggressor Goliath, while casting the
Arab world (with 99.9 percent of the land, and all of the oil) as David,"
writes Whistleblower Magazine.
Never mind that it's true
-- Israel is a racist state.
Can you imagine the
outcry if Americans passed a law denying citizenship to people of African descent
who marry US citizens? The Israeli Knesset passed just such a law July 31,
forcing Palestinians who marry Israelis to live "separate and
unequal" lives from their spouses. "This law comes to address a
security issue," Gideon
Ezra, an Israeli cabinet minister, declared. "Since September 2000 we
have seen a significant connection, in terror attacks, between Arabs from the
West Bank and Gaza and Israeli Arabs."
Get the connection here?
Arabs are a "security issue," they are terrorists -- all of them,
from the Hamas suicide bomber to the Israeli Arab grocer.
In fact, the state of
Israel is predicated on racism and religious exclusivity. Consider Israel's
1950 law of return, which allows any person "born to a Jewish
mother," or one "who converts to Judaism and who is not a member of
another religion," to immigrate to Israel. "The fourth basic law is
Israel's status law, which gives Israel's citizens with 'Jewish nationality'
certain rights and privileges which are denied to Israel's citizens with 'Arab
nationality,'" writes Shaw
J. Dallal. "Chief among these rights is the ownership or use of the
very land which was expropriated from the Palestinians."
But it's not simply Arabs
who are discriminated against in Israel, but all Gentiles.
"I had personally
witnessed an ultra-religious Jew refuse to allow his phone to be used on the
Sabbath in order to call an ambulance for a non-Jew who happened to collapse in
his Jerusalem neighborhood," writes Israel Shahak, a Hebrew University professor. The
Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem ruled that the man had acted properly.
"We need to
recognize that in Israel the real issue is discrimination not only against the
Palestinians (including those who serve in the Israeli army, police and [the
Israeli counter-intelligence and internal security service] Shabak), but
against all non-Jews. This discrimination has the same character as that which
the anti-Semites want to apply against the Jews," writes Shahak. "Until the beginning of the Jewish
Enlightenment all Jews firmly believed that non-Jews should be discriminated
against whenever possible. It now turns out that the Jewish Enlightenment
failed to change the attitudes of all, or perhaps even of most, Jews in this
respect. Many completely irreligious Jews still believe that for the sake of
the Jewish tradition which commanded discrimination against non-Jews, the
latter should be discriminated against in the 'Jewish state' forever."
It's forbidden to say
such things.
Simply pointing out the
reality of state-sanctioned Israeli racism against non-Jews is considered
anti-Semitic. "The Left continues to spin out this 'Good Jew/Bad Jew'
dichotomy in its baseless distinction between Judaism and Zionism," writes
David Rosen, a professor of anthropology and law at
Fairleigh Dickison University. "The return to Zion is a central part of
Jewish discourse and cannot be exorcised from Jewish life... The crucial issue
is whether the criticism respects the Jewish right of self-determination and
Israel's existence as a sovereign state."
In other words, the theft
of Palestinian land and the murder of Palestinian children "cannot be
exorcised from Jewish life" and criticism of it disrespects "the
Jewish right of self-determination and Israel's existence as a sovereign
state."
Bush and Rumsfeld are
promoting Zionist racism with the appointment of Lt. Gen. Boykin, who likes to
go around saying the Judaic-based God adopted by the Christian-Zionists is
better than Allah (according to Boykin,
Muslims worship an "idol" and not "a real God").
"According to God's
distribution of nations, the Land of Israel has been given to the Jewish people
as an everlasting covenant," declares the Third
International Christian Zionist Congress. "The Jewish people have the
absolute right to possess and dwell in the Land, including Judea, Samaria, Gaza
and the Golan."
Remember: according to
Zionists such as Yaffa Ganz (and Alan Dershowitz) before the Zionists
grabbed Palestine, it was "a poverty stricken, forlorn, empty area."
So empty was Palestine that, according to census figures taken during the
British mandate, 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs lived there.
Simply questioning such
absurdities as the Zionist slogan -- "Land without people for a people
with no land" -- means you're an anti-Semite and you want to push the Jews
into the sea.
"Are we not allowed
to criticize the Jews if they do things which are wrong?" Mahathir Mohamad asked after he was accused of
anti-Semitism. "If Muslims can be accused of being terrorists, then others
can accuse the Jews of being terrorists also."
Not in America, Mahathir.
Ahmed Yousef and Betty Molchany: "For more than 50 years,
Americans have been taught to hate through Hollywood, television, the radio,
and print media. Throughout these years, more than 800 movies have depicted
Arabs and Muslims unfavorably, with no positive attributes. Many television
programs, such as Law and Order and The West Wing, also present negative
portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. It has been an unrelenting campaign of
defamation and instigation prompted and inflamed by right-wing Zionists and
extremist Christian coalitions which are unconditionally allied with Israel --
no matter what crimes she commits, no matter how many UN resolutions she
violates, no matter her illegal occupation of other countries, no matter her
possession and use of weapons of mass destruction. The objective of both the
Christian and Jewish Zionists is not only to remove all Arabs, Christian as
well as Muslim, from Palestine, but also to allow Israel to control the
neighboring countries. To accomplish this, these political Zionists are
determined to remove the voice of Muslims in the United States and with it any
support for Palestinians and neighboring Arabs. Political Zionist
organizations, such as the Project for a New American Century, create
unjustified fear of countries, such as Iraq, which are predominantly Muslim and
push for pre-emptive attacks, assassinations, war, and domination."
It's forbidden to say
such things... even if they're true.
Kurt Nimmo is a
photographer, multimedia artist and writer living in New Mexico. To see his
photo work and read more of his essays, visit his excellent “Another Day in the
Empire” weblog: http://www.drmenlo.com/nimmo/
Other
Articles by Kurt Nimmo
* Shock Therapy
and the Israel Scenario
* Cuba
and the "Necessary Viciousness" of the Bushites
* Bush's
Speech: Internationalizing the Whirlwind
* The
Imam Ali Mosque Bombing: Round Up the Usual Suspects
* Iraq's
WMD: The Lie that Will Never Die
* UN Bombing:
Terrorism or National Liberation?
* Saddam
Hussein: Taking Out the CIA's Trash
* The Bug Exterminator
Goes to Jerusalem
* Bread, Circuses, Uday and Qusay
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