It's difficult for me to separate anti-Zionist Jews with political Progressives, which seem to go hand in hand. When Peter Binert, a pro-Palestinian apologist talked about his beliefs regarding the Gaza/Israel conflict, he never failed to include the 'right wing' policies of Netanyahu. He emphasizes that he is an Orthodox Jew who keeps Kosher, as if all of it make his opinions more believable and palatable. Jews like Brad Lander from New York, who was also pro-Palestinian, campaigned with Mamdani thinking he would be rewarded with a position in his cabinet found out he wasn't even considered and it was given to someone else. When will these Jews learn that no matter what they do, they will be last in line, if on line at all?
Maybe when they’re in ovens or gas chambers, or being starved, abused, beaten, suffocated and raped in a dark and airless tunnel under Gaza for two years.
Outstanding essay. I maintain a kind of “there but for the grace of…go I” about antizionism. I was a bit on the agnostic side about Israel until 10/7. Sort of a squirmy Zionist. But no more! I literally felt the understanding dawn on me in a physical way, that we are all Jews in the end and nothing I say, do, support, vote for, or anything else matters more than my Jewish identity and connection to our history. Furthermore, my now deceased parents didn’t survive the Shoah for me to spit in the face of our people and every ancestor who survived persecution for 2000 years. Thank you for elucidating more of the reasons why there is no other way.
LUCY, you have written an astonishingly good piece. Were you well connected and if this were maybe 40 to fifty years ago, the NY Times might publish it as rebuttal M. Gessen's full page anti Zionist screed's in that paper. And in the anti Zionist New Yorkers. Not for nothing that post Jew Wallace Shawn is llife long virulent anti Zionist. Add to that Mandy Mamaloschen, Jon Stewart, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Frye, Peter Beinart....and many more of our "good Jews" who claim to tell us what our best friends, the Gentiles, won't tell us. Oh but they do! And with great self righteousness do white men and women with no connection to Jews or Mid East adopt the pal table cloth and the whole narrative of "Palestine" I wonder how we have survived with even 16 or 17 or 20 million if you count fathers who are Jews.....and not 700 like the Samaritans. Israel is surviving and thriving no matter the opprobrium the good Jews cast its way. With tales of "apartheid" or perhaps the rude Israeli cab driver....who may have been Arab. I'll stop here ....I could say more.
I read this article when it came out on Lucy's Substack. It is a tremendous piece that makes a very important point. Anti-Zionist Jews have always been the most potent weapon in the arsenal of antisemites. Anti-Zionist Jews think that if they show how loyal and assimilated, they are and if they distance themselves from Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, Gentiles will embrace them. But that logic has been proven to be wrong every single time. There were the group of Jews in Nazi Germany that claimed the persecution of the Jews in Germany was "exaggerated", took pains to show they were assimilated and were loyal to the Third Reich and denounced Zionism as harmful to the German Jewish community. They all ended up being arrested and sent to concentration camps. Helene Mayer was chosen to be the token Jew on Nazi Germany's Olympic team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich to prove that the Third Reich didn't persecute Jews. This despite the fact her citizenship was stripped from her by the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. After the Olympics were over, she immigrated to the United States and wouldn't return to Germany until 1952. The USSR from its earliest years, set up committees of Jewish Communists to dismantle Jewish cultural, communal and religious life. That way, they couldn't be accused of anti-Semitism since it was Jews closing down synagogues, abolishing community institutions, and arresting Zionist leaders. By the early 1950s, the USSR no longer had any use for any Jews at all, and plans were drawn up to mess deport Jews to prison camps. The plan was to justify it by publicly releasing letters signed by Jews denouncing Zionism and urging the state to act against "traitorous" Zionist Jews. In Nasserite Egypt, Jews were forced to denounce Zionism if they wanted to be protected. Then they were expelled anyway. In Poland, anti-Zionist purges were done of Jewish party members and intellectuals. Iraq hung Jewish businessman Shafiq Ades who was anti-Zionist and an Iraqi patriot after a bogus trial where he was falsely accused on selling arms to Israel and being a member of the Iraqi Communist Party.
There is no doubt about it, the link between Zionism and Judaism is undeniable and well-documented in history. The longing for Zion has existed since the Babylonian exile in 536 BC. Jews said in their prayers for centuries "next year in Jerusalem." About 300,000 Jews were still living in the promised land when the first Arab settlers arrived. Jewish law, language, calendar, prayer, and collective memory are all inextricably linked to the land of Israel. All the major Jewish holy sites are located in Israel including the Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall, the Cave of Patriarchs, Rachel's Tomb, Mount Zion, and the City of David. Jerusalem is the undivided and ancient capital of Israel. Just pick up the Bible or the Koran if you want to find proof that the land of Eretz-Israel belongs to the Jewish people or just pick up a history or archeology book. Biblical figures like Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Moses, Joshua, Joseph, Mary, Jesus of Nazareth, King David, and King Solomon affirm the Jewish people's connection to the land. Neturei Karta are anti-Zionist extremists who even the most anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews disown and denounce. They serve as tokens for dictators and terrorists so they can claim they aren't antisemitic. Groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, Jews for Justice in Palestine, and Independent Jewish Voices are paraded in front of the media as if they represent the vast majority of global Jewry which they do not, they are a small radical fringe. Heck, half the members of JVP aren't even really Jewish. All the above-mentioned groups are bootlickers begging Gentiles for acceptance. No amount of begging will get them that though and the historical record proves it. Prominent bootlickers like Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Hannah Einbinder, David Cross, Bernie Sanders, Odessa A'Zion, Ilana Glazer, Jon Stewart, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Glazer, Max Blumenthal, and Miko Peled are great examples of the kind of people Lucy is writing about here.
Assimilated Jews are still Jews and are disposed of when they cease to be of use to those in power. The destination is the same, even if they are on the last bus.
Many grew up in religious homes or experienced Jewish education as indoctrination and left what they perceived as a cult. In rejecting that inheritance, they often distance themselves from anything that reminds them of it while attempting to reconstruct a Jewish identity on new terms. Leaving under conditions of self-rejection increases susceptibility to another ideology that promises superiority and absolution.
Progressive ideology offers exactly that: it's future-oriented, utopian, and grounded in blank slate thinking, a vision of moral renewal divorced from history. It offers acceptance contingent on allegiance to the cause for those seeking disruption, not continuity. In doing so, some reject Judaism as a religion while becoming religious zealots in service of a self-destructive belief.
lol, top drek indeed! on Lucy's stack yestiddy I shared a few that came ta mind--you'll wreck-og-nize, surely, The Fink, the Pap (llan), the Chump (Noam), the Burn, the Disinfo Russian-Funded Bloomin' idiot (Max)...an' Oh Mandy... All but the last one lie--poor Oh Mandy is jus' deranged (he's got the TDS too). There are others...an Oh, cain't fergit Glenn Greenwald. (Oy, an' what a shonda that viddeo he released...lickin' the feet of the fella in the HamAss pinney...gob smackin' embare-assin')
it's horror-BULL that these folks are dragged out like poster children fer "good joos"--the rest've us? chopped liver?
You forgot Pez (Klein), Tom Afraid man (Friedman), the Axeman (Axelrod), and the loser in California running for Pelosi’s seat as well as Cam Kasky in NY.
I never thought I would have to vote against and despise the positions or success of other Jews. These useful idiots, unfortunately, make it easy!
Thanks Lucy. Like many I am appalled at the prominence given to the anti Zionist Jewish council by the left media. They speak for a tiny number of Jews in Australia but are made out as if they are mainstream rather than a far left fringe of virtue signallers.
Sadly, the phenomenon of the self hating “kapo Jew” is not uncommon throughout Jewish history. Whether through profound ignorance or some deep seated psychological need (ie Stockholm Syndrome) such individuals turn their backs on their own people, land, culture and history. What they never understand until it is too late is that there is no great success in being on the last train to Auschwitz.
Sadly, many of us live among what we once called “the self-hating Jew.” Unfortunately, external behaviour mirrors internal awareness of self. They need to deal with their anger, shame and resentment on a couch. Not at our expense. And not in our name. Great piece. Thanks!
It’s 03,15am in the morning and my brain is asleep, yet my eyes are perusing the blogs I enjoy reading.
Reading about Jewish anti-zionism, its way over my head. I fail to grasp the meaning, description or consequences of such lunacy. I realise these morons exist, but in my eyes Jewish anti-zionism is an utter disgrace .. like putting 2 and 2 together and claiming the answer is 5.
It's difficult for me to separate anti-Zionist Jews with political Progressives, which seem to go hand in hand. When Peter Binert, a pro-Palestinian apologist talked about his beliefs regarding the Gaza/Israel conflict, he never failed to include the 'right wing' policies of Netanyahu. He emphasizes that he is an Orthodox Jew who keeps Kosher, as if all of it make his opinions more believable and palatable. Jews like Brad Lander from New York, who was also pro-Palestinian, campaigned with Mamdani thinking he would be rewarded with a position in his cabinet found out he wasn't even considered and it was given to someone else. When will these Jews learn that no matter what they do, they will be last in line, if on line at all?
Modern day incarnations of shabtai tzvi. They will never learn.
I’d say more like Pablo Cristiani who was a leader of the Inquisition.
Maybe when they’re in ovens or gas chambers, or being starved, abused, beaten, suffocated and raped in a dark and airless tunnel under Gaza for two years.
They are kapo plain & simple, utterly vile claiming themselves as JEWS. No, they are not.
They’re Jews alright - When you’re a Jew, you’re a Jew. They’re just horrible Jews that should be banned.
I have never understood this. Turning against your own never results in what you hope for. It is cowardice pure and simple
An outstanding article. It makes an ironclad case for Jews, no matter their religious beliefs, to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people.
Outstanding essay. I maintain a kind of “there but for the grace of…go I” about antizionism. I was a bit on the agnostic side about Israel until 10/7. Sort of a squirmy Zionist. But no more! I literally felt the understanding dawn on me in a physical way, that we are all Jews in the end and nothing I say, do, support, vote for, or anything else matters more than my Jewish identity and connection to our history. Furthermore, my now deceased parents didn’t survive the Shoah for me to spit in the face of our people and every ancestor who survived persecution for 2000 years. Thank you for elucidating more of the reasons why there is no other way.
Gad Saad has an excellent explanation for those “Jewish Wood Cricket”. With suicidal empathy.
LUCY, you have written an astonishingly good piece. Were you well connected and if this were maybe 40 to fifty years ago, the NY Times might publish it as rebuttal M. Gessen's full page anti Zionist screed's in that paper. And in the anti Zionist New Yorkers. Not for nothing that post Jew Wallace Shawn is llife long virulent anti Zionist. Add to that Mandy Mamaloschen, Jon Stewart, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Frye, Peter Beinart....and many more of our "good Jews" who claim to tell us what our best friends, the Gentiles, won't tell us. Oh but they do! And with great self righteousness do white men and women with no connection to Jews or Mid East adopt the pal table cloth and the whole narrative of "Palestine" I wonder how we have survived with even 16 or 17 or 20 million if you count fathers who are Jews.....and not 700 like the Samaritans. Israel is surviving and thriving no matter the opprobrium the good Jews cast its way. With tales of "apartheid" or perhaps the rude Israeli cab driver....who may have been Arab. I'll stop here ....I could say more.
I read this article when it came out on Lucy's Substack. It is a tremendous piece that makes a very important point. Anti-Zionist Jews have always been the most potent weapon in the arsenal of antisemites. Anti-Zionist Jews think that if they show how loyal and assimilated, they are and if they distance themselves from Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, Gentiles will embrace them. But that logic has been proven to be wrong every single time. There were the group of Jews in Nazi Germany that claimed the persecution of the Jews in Germany was "exaggerated", took pains to show they were assimilated and were loyal to the Third Reich and denounced Zionism as harmful to the German Jewish community. They all ended up being arrested and sent to concentration camps. Helene Mayer was chosen to be the token Jew on Nazi Germany's Olympic team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich to prove that the Third Reich didn't persecute Jews. This despite the fact her citizenship was stripped from her by the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. After the Olympics were over, she immigrated to the United States and wouldn't return to Germany until 1952. The USSR from its earliest years, set up committees of Jewish Communists to dismantle Jewish cultural, communal and religious life. That way, they couldn't be accused of anti-Semitism since it was Jews closing down synagogues, abolishing community institutions, and arresting Zionist leaders. By the early 1950s, the USSR no longer had any use for any Jews at all, and plans were drawn up to mess deport Jews to prison camps. The plan was to justify it by publicly releasing letters signed by Jews denouncing Zionism and urging the state to act against "traitorous" Zionist Jews. In Nasserite Egypt, Jews were forced to denounce Zionism if they wanted to be protected. Then they were expelled anyway. In Poland, anti-Zionist purges were done of Jewish party members and intellectuals. Iraq hung Jewish businessman Shafiq Ades who was anti-Zionist and an Iraqi patriot after a bogus trial where he was falsely accused on selling arms to Israel and being a member of the Iraqi Communist Party.
There is no doubt about it, the link between Zionism and Judaism is undeniable and well-documented in history. The longing for Zion has existed since the Babylonian exile in 536 BC. Jews said in their prayers for centuries "next year in Jerusalem." About 300,000 Jews were still living in the promised land when the first Arab settlers arrived. Jewish law, language, calendar, prayer, and collective memory are all inextricably linked to the land of Israel. All the major Jewish holy sites are located in Israel including the Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall, the Cave of Patriarchs, Rachel's Tomb, Mount Zion, and the City of David. Jerusalem is the undivided and ancient capital of Israel. Just pick up the Bible or the Koran if you want to find proof that the land of Eretz-Israel belongs to the Jewish people or just pick up a history or archeology book. Biblical figures like Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Moses, Joshua, Joseph, Mary, Jesus of Nazareth, King David, and King Solomon affirm the Jewish people's connection to the land. Neturei Karta are anti-Zionist extremists who even the most anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews disown and denounce. They serve as tokens for dictators and terrorists so they can claim they aren't antisemitic. Groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, Jews for Justice in Palestine, and Independent Jewish Voices are paraded in front of the media as if they represent the vast majority of global Jewry which they do not, they are a small radical fringe. Heck, half the members of JVP aren't even really Jewish. All the above-mentioned groups are bootlickers begging Gentiles for acceptance. No amount of begging will get them that though and the historical record proves it. Prominent bootlickers like Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Hannah Einbinder, David Cross, Bernie Sanders, Odessa A'Zion, Ilana Glazer, Jon Stewart, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Glazer, Max Blumenthal, and Miko Peled are great examples of the kind of people Lucy is writing about here.
Assimilated Jews are still Jews and are disposed of when they cease to be of use to those in power. The destination is the same, even if they are on the last bus.
Many grew up in religious homes or experienced Jewish education as indoctrination and left what they perceived as a cult. In rejecting that inheritance, they often distance themselves from anything that reminds them of it while attempting to reconstruct a Jewish identity on new terms. Leaving under conditions of self-rejection increases susceptibility to another ideology that promises superiority and absolution.
https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/cult3
Progressive ideology offers exactly that: it's future-oriented, utopian, and grounded in blank slate thinking, a vision of moral renewal divorced from history. It offers acceptance contingent on allegiance to the cause for those seeking disruption, not continuity. In doing so, some reject Judaism as a religion while becoming religious zealots in service of a self-destructive belief.
Jews who turn against their fellow Jews should learn a lesson from history - misplaced loyalty doesn't end well.
https://substack.com/@thinktorah/p-151338295
Bernie Sanders...
https://substack.com/@thinktorah/note/c-77748905
Well written. Should have named some of the top drek. On YouTube the anti Zionist/anti Israel Jews have bigger followings than the pro Israel ones.
lol, top drek indeed! on Lucy's stack yestiddy I shared a few that came ta mind--you'll wreck-og-nize, surely, The Fink, the Pap (llan), the Chump (Noam), the Burn, the Disinfo Russian-Funded Bloomin' idiot (Max)...an' Oh Mandy... All but the last one lie--poor Oh Mandy is jus' deranged (he's got the TDS too). There are others...an Oh, cain't fergit Glenn Greenwald. (Oy, an' what a shonda that viddeo he released...lickin' the feet of the fella in the HamAss pinney...gob smackin' embare-assin')
it's horror-BULL that these folks are dragged out like poster children fer "good joos"--the rest've us? chopped liver?
You forgot Pez (Klein), Tom Afraid man (Friedman), the Axeman (Axelrod), and the loser in California running for Pelosi’s seat as well as Cam Kasky in NY.
I never thought I would have to vote against and despise the positions or success of other Jews. These useful idiots, unfortunately, make it easy!
An excellent article!
Thanks Lucy. Like many I am appalled at the prominence given to the anti Zionist Jewish council by the left media. They speak for a tiny number of Jews in Australia but are made out as if they are mainstream rather than a far left fringe of virtue signallers.
So well said.
Sadly, the phenomenon of the self hating “kapo Jew” is not uncommon throughout Jewish history. Whether through profound ignorance or some deep seated psychological need (ie Stockholm Syndrome) such individuals turn their backs on their own people, land, culture and history. What they never understand until it is too late is that there is no great success in being on the last train to Auschwitz.
Sadly, many of us live among what we once called “the self-hating Jew.” Unfortunately, external behaviour mirrors internal awareness of self. They need to deal with their anger, shame and resentment on a couch. Not at our expense. And not in our name. Great piece. Thanks!
It’s 03,15am in the morning and my brain is asleep, yet my eyes are perusing the blogs I enjoy reading.
Reading about Jewish anti-zionism, its way over my head. I fail to grasp the meaning, description or consequences of such lunacy. I realise these morons exist, but in my eyes Jewish anti-zionism is an utter disgrace .. like putting 2 and 2 together and claiming the answer is 5.