Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Elder of Ziyon
The usual reasons given for this day are so that we won't forget the evils of antisemitism, and we solemnly pledge "never again."
Unfortunately, much of the world already has forgotten the lessons and support the rights of those who want to see it repeated.
Today's antisemites who style themselves as being merely "anti-Zionist" or "pro-Palestinian" say that they have learned the lessons of the Holocaust, so much so that they can give instruction to the Jewish state as to how it hasn't learned those lessons. They strenuously deny being antisemitic, and they have lots of "proof:" they have Jewish friends, they have Jewish members, they have seders, they are acting according to Jewish morality, they quote "Justice, Justice thou shalt pursue."
And for the most part, the world that claims to be horrified by the Holocaust believes their denial of being motivated by Jew-hatred.
Henry Ford, who also published the Protocols, strenuously denied having any negative feelings towards Jews as well. He only pointed out how Jews were behind all wars and the Jew is "the money maniac." (NYT, October 29, 1922):
But they aren't the only ones who have denied being antisemitic.
This 1990 Canadian news story shows that a neo-Nazi skinhead also denied hating Jews:
He didn't hate Jews. He just didn't want them around anymore.
The Soviet Union also denied hating Jews. Soviets were only anti-Zionist, and they defined “international
Zionism” as a “shock detachment of imperialism,
colonialism and neo-colonialism" that happened to be led by the "Jewish bourgeoisie."
Nazis denied discriminating against Jews as well. In the run-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, they claimed that they would allow any Jewish athletes to compete. The only problem was that sports clubs in Germany didn't allow Jews, and they didn't want to interfere with their decisions.
And one couldn't expect Germany to support Jewish sports clubs, because they were...Zionist!
"It is hardly fair to expect that state support be given to purely Jewish organizations, which, being composed almost exclusively of Zionists, are even today in sharp political conflict with the government," said Hans Von Tschammer und Osten, the German minister of sport.
Like the Soviets, the Nazis were merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish!
Father Charles Coughlin amassed a huge radio audience in the 1930s and emphasized that Jews were behind the Communist revolution. He published a magazine, Social Justice, which serialized the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But he denied being antisemitic as well. (NYT, November 28, 1938)
It turns out that of you take them at their word, there are no antisemites at all. Palestinians don't hate Jews, they just want to ensure Jews have no political power. Louis Farrakhan isn't antisemitic, he's just pointing out that most Jews belong to the Synagogue of Satan - but not all of them.The Arab nations didn't hate Jews, they say that all their Jews left voluntarily after listening to Zionist lies.
Most of these can point to Jews who support them and who agree that they are not antisemitic, only misunderstood.
By the same token, Haman didn't hate Jews, he was just concerned that they have different laws than the rest of Persia. Pharaoh didn't hate Jews, he was just concerned about a fifth column in ancient Egypt.
It is easy to laugh at the denials of antisemites from decades or centuries past; their lies are transparent. Yet today, a large percentage of people are more than willing to accept the current denials of antisemitism from the anti-Israel crowd, as if their current excuses for singling out most Jews have any more validity than those of the antisemites of the past.
It isn't only today that antisemites dress up their hate in the garb of nationalism, or social justice, or morality, or science, or protecting the interests of "victims" of Jewish actions.
They've always done it.
