Nurit
Greenger
Antisemitism is hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons
connected to their Jewish heritage. A person who holds such views is called an
antisemite. Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from
expressions of hatred of or discrimination against Jews to organized violent
attacks on individuals or the entire Jewish community. Extreme instances of
persecution of Jews include the Pogroms, which preceded the First Crusade in
1096, the expulsion of Jews from England, in 1290, the massacres of Spanish
Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Jews by the Spanish Inquisition, the
expulsion of Jews from Spain, in 1492, the expulsion of Jews from Portugal, in
1497, various Russian pogroms, the Dreyfus Affair, and Hitler's Germany Final
Solution for the Jewa and its result the Holocaust and official Soviet Union anti-Jews
policies.
The term antisemitism was coined in the late 19th century, in Germany, as a
more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"),
and that has been its common use even since then.
Antisemitism is simply the hate of Jews and all that is Jewish and that
includes hating and targeting the modern nation state of the Jewish people,
Israel.
The winds of antisemitism are blowing in particularly strong from and in
Europe. The European continent that had
long ago taken the lead of leads in antisemitic behavior is leading this
treacherous 'movement' again. There, heads of state and the people on the
street have reverted to systematic antisemitic slurs and conduct. And now with
the growing European-Moslem communities, who, by nature and gene are
antisemitic, it appears as if the Europeans have practically imported antisemitic
aides to help them in their old age racist and bigoted practice. As of recent,
in France, a European Moslem gunman, on a motorcycle, killed a rabbi, his two sons and anther little girl only because they were
Jews.
The Europeans' antisemitic practices are manifested in verbal and physical
attacks on Jews and vandalizing their properties and even graveyards, painting Nazi
swastika images on property, headstones walls and gates.
As for the practice of antisemitism that targets the State of Israel, it is
manifested in political and diplomatic bias, treating the Jewish state as a
pariah and expecting her to act according to standards no other country would
abide by; also excluding cooperation with Israel wherever and whenever possible
leaving Israel with no option but to have to make extra unnecessary efforts to
be welcome among nations. More so, the
Europeans formed all kind of NGOs, mostly funded by European governments so
they can conceal their open antisemitic sentiments and practice behind these
organizations, that use a gamut of activities against Israel.
These groups organize protests against the Jewish state in which many
Moslems participate; they burn the national flag of the state of Israel and
call for her destruction. They invented the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions-BDS movement its goal is to damage the Jewish State's economy and they
organize flotillas and flytillas as a mean to attack and disrupt Israel's right
to defend itself and hamper her sovereignty.
In summation, they diligently demonize and delegitimize Israel, using
any mean available to them and can be invented.
The antisemitism has spread to academia where professors vilify Israel and
Jewish students are singled out in any way possible just because they are
Jewish.
The media has not been sitting idle either and it is constantly publishing
biased and bigot articles about Israel. The leading media outlets of bias
against Jews and Israel are the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times
and the Scandinavia printed media and the big screen. Unfortunately this list goes
way longer.
With the state of Israel being the target of collective antisemitism, the
antisemites, camouflage their antisemitic sentiments under the guise of
anti-Zionism, which is is
no more, nor less, than the self-determination of the Jewish people - as a
people, and not just as adherents of the Jewish religion. Jews are in fact the
only people – as a people – for whom Israel, ancient Judea and Samaria, was
ever their national homeland. Those who deny Zionism, thus deny Jewish
peoplehood and the fundamental right of Jews to live as a people in their own
ancestral homeland, Israel.
The antisemitc world has not come to grip with the idea that Jews now have
a sovereign state and can defend themselves and thus cannot be bullied, at
least not when they live in the sovereign Jewish state, Israel. A growing
number of people in the world believe that the creation of the state of Israel
was a mistake that requires correction, which is dismantling the Jewish state.
The world has developed a voracious need for oil and the Arab- Moslem
states own much of the world's stock of this desired black gold liquid. Islam is an antisemitic religion-ideology and
the Arab-Moslem states are the inherent enemy of the state of Israel. The combination of westerners' embedded
antisemitism, their nation states' crude oil consumption needs, and thus the
dependability on supply from the oil producing Arab-Moslem antisemitic states,
has created a lethal cooperation its fundamental basis is well greased by
antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments.
Then there is the United Nations Organization-UN, which is the most
virulent antisemitic organization on earth, its main target is one of its state
member, Israel. If there was no Israel,
the UN countries' envoys would be scratching their heads for they would have
less than half of work cut out for them, which is passing resolution after
resolution condemning Israel while the world is falling apart in front of their
eyes.
Last, but not least, is the Jews and Israelis who undermine the Jewish
people and their state, Israel. What
makes a Jew self hating and an enemy of his or her own homeland is an enigma yet
to be solved.
Last night I attended the Los Angeles premier of the documentary movie
Unmasked Judeophobia, the threat to civilization, produced and directed by
Gloria Z. Greenfield, President of Doc Emet Productions, Inc: http://www.unmaskedthemovie.com/. Unmasked: Judeophobia trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkuftsbDiU
Apart from being an excellent reportage on antisemitism, presented by a
long line of pundits, it is an AWAKENING documentary to all those who are still
asleep at the wheel, preferring to ignore that antisemitism is out of its
hideaway and is ready to attack and is attacking Jews and all that is Jewish.
The documentary opens with the words of Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Jewish-American Holocaust survivor
writer, professor, political activist and Nobel Laureate: "Since 1945 I was
not as afraid as I am now; I am afraid because antisemitism, which I have
thought belonged to the past, somehow survived. I was convinced in 1945 that
antisemitism died with the Jewish victims in Auschwitz and Treblinka. And now,
I see, no, the Jews perished but antisemitism in some parts of the world is
flourishing. What is it about that plague of humanity that is so strong, so
resistant that it survives everything else? Antisemitism is hatred and hatred
is contagious; it usually goes like cancer, from cell to cell, from limb to
limb, from person to person, from group to group, from culture to culture."
The
Holocaust was a result of the Nazis' goal, which was to rid the world of all
Jews. After Germany was brought to its submission, there was a hope among Jews that
this vile practice against them had come to a bitter end when a third of the
Jewish population of the world was killed by the most brutal Nazi-German methods.
But that hope was short lived. For the
first thirty some years after the systematic butchery of the Jews, during WWII,
antisemitism went into hiding. The world
wanted to take the spot light off its complicity in Hitler's Final Solution plan
and in many countries any act of hate towards Jews became a felony. But that was short lived and as William E.
Grim wrote in his essay several years ago about Germany of all countries: 'The
return of anti-Semitism to Germany, it never really left' -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734384/posts.
So
when it comes to antisemitism almost nothing is new under the sun. What has changed is the founding of the state
of Israel. Where, in the past antisemitic behavior was directed against
individual Jews or Jewish communities, such as the Kishinev massacre of Jews in
Russia, since 1948 the Jews have given the world a new Jewish target to hate,
which is the Jewish state of Israel.
History
attests that Jews who were in the medical profession invented cures for
diseases that took the lives of millions in the world. For one was Jonas Salk who created the first
effective Polio Vaccine; then Albert Sabin who developed the oral vaccine for Polio;
Selman Waksman, who discovered the Streptomycin and coined the word
'antibiotic'; Baruch Blumberg who discovered origin and spread of infectious
diseases and the list goes on. Since its establishment many of Israel's medical
research teams have discovered and invented effective methods to cure or bring
to a halt many diseases from which millions in the world still suffers. All that
has save and improved the lives of mamy. But antisemitism is an old age disease
that millions in the world suffer from and there is no cure for it in sight. Since
it is an obsessive lethal emotional disease, expressed in the hate of Jews, we
cannot expect that a Jew will find a cure for it. The cure must come from the
people who harbor this hate for Jews for no rhyme and reason but for the sake
of hating Jews.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian Lutheran
pastor and anti-Nazi. He became known for his resistance against the Nazi
dictatorship strongly opposing Hitler's euthanasia programs and the genocide
against the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of the Abwehr-the
German Military Intelligence Office, to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer
was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by hanging in April
1945, 23 days before the Nazis' surrender.
Unless
a Jew finds a cure for this hatred for Jews, which is very unlikely, it is upon
us, Jews, to awaken the consciousness of the entire world because 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to
speak. Not to act is to act.'—Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
No other piece
of land has ever suffered so much as the Land of Israel. It has seen very little peace times and much
wars. After the Second Temple was
destroyed in 70AD, by the Romans, and the Jews were expelled from their land,
the land where the Kingdom of Judea once stood, has gone through a slew of
conquerors' hands, turned into desolated barren land. At the end, in 1948, against all odds, the
third Jewish commonwealth was declared and the Jewish state, Israel, began its
journey as a nation among all other nations.
No matter how many wars and how much disruptions of growth it has
suffered and is still suffering, from the world in general and its surrounding enemies
in particular, the Jews, now called Israelis, in short 64 years of having a
homeland have made their state a miraculous and impressive success; a beacon of
hope. There was no looking back only
forward and with pride.
No other
people in the history of the world have suffered as much as the Jews have and
yet they have put that sufferance
behind them, regrouped and went on with life on the most positive note and as
much as the world wants to ignore it, the results show in all aspects of life,
worldwide.
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