Anti-Zionists don't argue Israeli policy anymore. Now they demand the exclusion of Israel (and Jews), revealing a movement that can no longer agree on whether it is practicing politics or persecution.
Excellent piece. However I have not encountered an anti-Zionist who "opposes Israeli policies while preserving liberal norms." There are many Zionists who fit that description, actually. In my experience, anti-Zionism is exclusionary by its very definition: a movement defined not by its ideals but by what it hates.
Brilliant analysis and so well written! So little has changed through the millennia. Jews have been blamed for everything wrong since the dark ages. This present situation is no different than Jews poisoning the well water as the cause of the bubonic plague.
"What the crowds in Sydney and across much of today’s West were expressing was not opposition to a platform, a vote, or a doctrine. It was opposition to Israel as such,..."
It is way more than an opposition to Israel. It is all part of the Red-Green Alliance. On one side are the Communists, Muslims, WEF and so forth. They are anti-Western, totalitarian and evil.
Israel is in the way just America is. Christianity and Judaism are both considered enemies. And yes, just as there are RINO's there are CHINO's - "Christians in Name Only" like Tucker Carlson, his brotehr and others.
This isn’t about ‘anti-Zionism’, (which is, to my mind, a non-thing, a veil of smoke because it’s never been about Israel, no matter what they say) this is about what it’s always been about - absolute, visceral Jew-hatred.
The utter hypocrisy is beyond frustrating. They don’t have any moral or ideological consistency, such as condemning Israel for the “collective punishment” of Palestinians while the whole anti-Zionist movement necessitates belief in collective punishment. They always say the obsessive focus on Israel is due to American involvement/funding, as if the “protesting” isn’t happening across the globe. Like they’re all just mad at their specific countries. I have no idea how their brains haven’t exploded or how they haven’t realized that they’re full of shit.
As I understand it roughly 20% of Israel's population is non-Jewish. Presumably many of these are, shock, horror, Zionists. Yet it's only Jews around the world that get targeted for protest (and worse).
That anti-Zionism is an anti-Jewish movement is crystal clear at this point.
I have a solution to the worldwide harassment and persecution of Jews, though. Let's find them someplace to live where they can set their own rules and be free of all that . . . Oh, hang on . . .
They have been successful...the Anti Zionists ...at putting Jews on the defensive. And Jews who don't follow Israel, barely paid attention the the war....were at pains to distance themselves from Israel and the war foisted on it by Iran/hamas. "Israel has a right to exist....BUT, the poor refugees, the "murdered" children....the racist "settlers" chopping down olive trees and burning Arabs alive.... "There's a core of Jews who are fully with Israel and they need to stop being self abasing and apologetic and on the offensive. I realized for many years how self contradictory are Arab claims , Arab propaganda for the Land of Israel. Too involved to go into.
The anti-Zionists do not have to be logical, nor do the passive average silent Western citizens in the Diaspora care if it is logical or if it is sheer racism. Their silence indicates that they believe Jews are expendable, easy targets, and deserve what they get. These anti-Zionist fanatics are equivalent to the Red Guards, who acted as tools for Mao, and the movement was only destroyed when they turned on Mao himself. Fanaticism is illogical, whether it is from the jihadists or "useful idiots" of the West, as Muslims call the Red Guard Progressives. Jews should already realize that debates, opinion pieces, Holocaust education, and grovelling to their political leaders has been an absolute failure because this Jew hatred is totally different than the kind we were used to in the last century. Our unelected leaders are living in a fantasy world of the past as are many average Diaspora Jews, who seem to be living in an alternate planet. If we don't get younger, much more competent leaders chosen for their originality, ability to work well in crises, total determination, and ruthlessness, Jews in the Diaspora are doomed, as either Jews will pick up and leave for Israel or our children will hide their identities, become self-hating and totally assimilated to endure the hatred in the West.
How you attack your enemy reveals your ultimate goal.
The call by the Red-Green-AltR Axis is not for exclusion but physical elimination, not of Israel per se, but, more explicitly, of all Jews.
If this sounds a bit radical, consider that Israel is called the Jewish State. Even though it was recreated by Jews on their historical, unceded, ancestral, territorial homeland for Jews.
It is an affliction that rages worldwide after the brainwashing, mandates, poisons and doubts of reality by the dementors right iut of Hogwarts. Only the warriors
of ISRAEL will lead humanity out of the darkness. King DAVID did it with a slingshot, his early life was tortured with humiliations yet Schmuel saw within him the Light of ISRAEL and David's destiny. Let us look into the mirror of our immortal souls, perfect our strengths, in so doing break the chains of all
the JEW-haters throughout time and every menini dementors! As goliath fell every JEW shall master his rock and sling, simply, with magnificence heralding our own beloved people and impenetrable state into freedom of mind, body, spirit.
This is the corridor G-D has opened to us as HE hardens in concert the bloodless hearts of what seems the nephilim, damn every antisemite on the planet! There is no recovery for the kapo for the rest of the true B'rit zachor, remember; in the end G-D is the only Forgiver and we have days (especially during the Counting, set in eternal time for teshuvah. All is defined, it is simle predestiny yet freewill is given to our people to meet the great challenges, the great battle in each given life. Let us unite in this era of facing off against all the foriegn kings, just as we have done before for AYIM SOF stands with us, a shield of wonder that the spiritually blind will never see.
Sadly, what you say is so. It was heart-wrenching to witness all that you have described during Isaac Herzog's visit. There were many vocal and articulate in calling out the situation - and shame on all those who could not leave it alone with Australia's Jews and Herzog himself in mind - and largely the media are to blame for not allowing anybody to forget the UN pronounced sentiments about Herzog's early comments after the Hamas attack and his signing of a bomb shell. These references always snuck in as a reminder and a qualifier. The media were pounced like vultures, just waiting, waiting ... and while waiting, interviewing protesters on site and setting up panel or individual discussions on tv and radio. The ABC in particular very bad with this. They are a scourge on our society.
It has been necessary to be vigilant in protection of President Herzog in the forms displayed and that's because of the hatred that there is, albeit among the noisy minority, and also after being caught out as we were with not enough security attached to the Chanukah gathering at Bondi on December 14, the Australian government could not afford to treat this visit in any other way other than 'extreme' insofar as President Herzog's safety was concerned.
Excellent piece. However I have not encountered an anti-Zionist who "opposes Israeli policies while preserving liberal norms." There are many Zionists who fit that description, actually. In my experience, anti-Zionism is exclusionary by its very definition: a movement defined not by its ideals but by what it hates.
Exactly
Brilliant analysis and so well written! So little has changed through the millennia. Jews have been blamed for everything wrong since the dark ages. This present situation is no different than Jews poisoning the well water as the cause of the bubonic plague.
Yes very well written.
"What the crowds in Sydney and across much of today’s West were expressing was not opposition to a platform, a vote, or a doctrine. It was opposition to Israel as such,..."
It is way more than an opposition to Israel. It is all part of the Red-Green Alliance. On one side are the Communists, Muslims, WEF and so forth. They are anti-Western, totalitarian and evil.
Israel is in the way just America is. Christianity and Judaism are both considered enemies. And yes, just as there are RINO's there are CHINO's - "Christians in Name Only" like Tucker Carlson, his brotehr and others.
Yes! Exactly.
This isn’t about ‘anti-Zionism’, (which is, to my mind, a non-thing, a veil of smoke because it’s never been about Israel, no matter what they say) this is about what it’s always been about - absolute, visceral Jew-hatred.
The utter hypocrisy is beyond frustrating. They don’t have any moral or ideological consistency, such as condemning Israel for the “collective punishment” of Palestinians while the whole anti-Zionist movement necessitates belief in collective punishment. They always say the obsessive focus on Israel is due to American involvement/funding, as if the “protesting” isn’t happening across the globe. Like they’re all just mad at their specific countries. I have no idea how their brains haven’t exploded or how they haven’t realized that they’re full of shit.
Australia is lost. And I'm an Australian. Our education was never good but shii-iii-iit.
.WTF has happened to Australia? Used to be a wonderful country.
As I understand it roughly 20% of Israel's population is non-Jewish. Presumably many of these are, shock, horror, Zionists. Yet it's only Jews around the world that get targeted for protest (and worse).
That anti-Zionism is an anti-Jewish movement is crystal clear at this point.
I have a solution to the worldwide harassment and persecution of Jews, though. Let's find them someplace to live where they can set their own rules and be free of all that . . . Oh, hang on . . .
I hate to raise this issue but: what you sow is what you reap. It strikes back like a boomerang.
The principle of reciprocity dictates that actions often elicit corresponding reactions.
I'm referring to the Israeli Left's despicable protests against our own elected governments and especially the PM and his family for the last decade.
This fundamental concept underscores the importance of mindful conduct in all endeavors.
Understanding this dynamic is crucial for understanding these negative outcomes that caught on globally.
It highlights the interconnectedness of our actions and their consequences. Therefore, conscious decision-making is paramount for our survival.
.The Left in Israel hate their own country like the Left in the U.S. hate their own country. Leftism is a mental disorder.
They have been successful...the Anti Zionists ...at putting Jews on the defensive. And Jews who don't follow Israel, barely paid attention the the war....were at pains to distance themselves from Israel and the war foisted on it by Iran/hamas. "Israel has a right to exist....BUT, the poor refugees, the "murdered" children....the racist "settlers" chopping down olive trees and burning Arabs alive.... "There's a core of Jews who are fully with Israel and they need to stop being self abasing and apologetic and on the offensive. I realized for many years how self contradictory are Arab claims , Arab propaganda for the Land of Israel. Too involved to go into.
Governments are responsible for those bad policies.
Amazingly people have absolutely no opinion on 192 other countries government policies?
The anti-Zionists do not have to be logical, nor do the passive average silent Western citizens in the Diaspora care if it is logical or if it is sheer racism. Their silence indicates that they believe Jews are expendable, easy targets, and deserve what they get. These anti-Zionist fanatics are equivalent to the Red Guards, who acted as tools for Mao, and the movement was only destroyed when they turned on Mao himself. Fanaticism is illogical, whether it is from the jihadists or "useful idiots" of the West, as Muslims call the Red Guard Progressives. Jews should already realize that debates, opinion pieces, Holocaust education, and grovelling to their political leaders has been an absolute failure because this Jew hatred is totally different than the kind we were used to in the last century. Our unelected leaders are living in a fantasy world of the past as are many average Diaspora Jews, who seem to be living in an alternate planet. If we don't get younger, much more competent leaders chosen for their originality, ability to work well in crises, total determination, and ruthlessness, Jews in the Diaspora are doomed, as either Jews will pick up and leave for Israel or our children will hide their identities, become self-hating and totally assimilated to endure the hatred in the West.
Jews cannot gather as jews even in New York city without officially tolerated harassment. https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/can-jews-gather-without-harassment?r=7fvbt&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
.Yet 30% or more of Jews in NYC, including “rabbis,” voted for a Muslim Jew-hater. Jews are their own worst enemy.
They are afflicted w/
self-hatred that was branded into us by our mortal enemies.
Self-haters suffer from Jewish Stockholm Syndrome.
In practice Antizionism is an eliminationist and violent ideological movement, which has nothing to do with debating the merits of a Jewish state.
By whom you attack you identify as your enemy.
How you attack your enemy reveals your ultimate goal.
The call by the Red-Green-AltR Axis is not for exclusion but physical elimination, not of Israel per se, but, more explicitly, of all Jews.
If this sounds a bit radical, consider that Israel is called the Jewish State. Even though it was recreated by Jews on their historical, unceded, ancestral, territorial homeland for Jews.
It is an affliction that rages worldwide after the brainwashing, mandates, poisons and doubts of reality by the dementors right iut of Hogwarts. Only the warriors
of ISRAEL will lead humanity out of the darkness. King DAVID did it with a slingshot, his early life was tortured with humiliations yet Schmuel saw within him the Light of ISRAEL and David's destiny. Let us look into the mirror of our immortal souls, perfect our strengths, in so doing break the chains of all
the JEW-haters throughout time and every menini dementors! As goliath fell every JEW shall master his rock and sling, simply, with magnificence heralding our own beloved people and impenetrable state into freedom of mind, body, spirit.
This is the corridor G-D has opened to us as HE hardens in concert the bloodless hearts of what seems the nephilim, damn every antisemite on the planet! There is no recovery for the kapo for the rest of the true B'rit zachor, remember; in the end G-D is the only Forgiver and we have days (especially during the Counting, set in eternal time for teshuvah. All is defined, it is simle predestiny yet freewill is given to our people to meet the great challenges, the great battle in each given life. Let us unite in this era of facing off against all the foriegn kings, just as we have done before for AYIM SOF stands with us, a shield of wonder that the spiritually blind will never see.
.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. It’s antisemitism.”
Sadly, what you say is so. It was heart-wrenching to witness all that you have described during Isaac Herzog's visit. There were many vocal and articulate in calling out the situation - and shame on all those who could not leave it alone with Australia's Jews and Herzog himself in mind - and largely the media are to blame for not allowing anybody to forget the UN pronounced sentiments about Herzog's early comments after the Hamas attack and his signing of a bomb shell. These references always snuck in as a reminder and a qualifier. The media were pounced like vultures, just waiting, waiting ... and while waiting, interviewing protesters on site and setting up panel or individual discussions on tv and radio. The ABC in particular very bad with this. They are a scourge on our society.
It has been necessary to be vigilant in protection of President Herzog in the forms displayed and that's because of the hatred that there is, albeit among the noisy minority, and also after being caught out as we were with not enough security attached to the Chanukah gathering at Bondi on December 14, the Australian government could not afford to treat this visit in any other way other than 'extreme' insofar as President Herzog's safety was concerned.