Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Note: Not written by Elder of Ziyon
What makes Progressive American Jews so dogmatic about “Palestinian”
rights to statehood on Jewish land? Is it that they don’t know that Israel is
indigenous Jewish territory—that the Arabs are latecomers? Or is there
something else in play? Perhaps they feel just a wee bit guilty, as latecomers themselves,
to be living on stolen Native American territory? In supporting the Arab cause,
progressive American Jews may be making a subconscious statement that he who is
last, has dibs, thereby giving themselves moral permission to steal.
They may reason, if they reason at all, that no one expects
Americans to vacate America. Least of all the Native American people. Everyone
accepts that it’s a fait accompli. Today the land belongs to America, whatever
the motives or the rightness or wrongness of the land grab at the
time that it happened. That’s just a fact. To the victorious Americans go the
spoils.
No one does
anything about this. There is simply no impetus for anyone to do anything about
returning the stolen object that is America, to its rightful owners, the Native
American people. If you were to speak about this to someone at a party, you’d
see their disdain, the unspoken words they would be privately thinking: “That’s
a bit silly, isn’t it? Unrealistic, immature, a nonstarter. No one expects us
to just leave. No one. Even THEY, the
Native American people, don’t expect us to go.”
I will be bold: Americans are thieves. They are living on
land that doesn’t belong to them. Yet the Progressive Jews who are supposedly
all about “tikkun olam” don’t do anything about this. They don’t think about it
in the morning when they’re catching up on email; drinking soy lattes; and eating
their almond croissants. And if you think about it, for Progressive American
Jews to disagree with this unspoken yet accepted policy would be, well, un-American.
And the thought that they may not be real Americans, or not American enough, just
may be more upsetting to your average Progressive Jew than the thought of some
faraway cousins being forced to abandon their home to violent squatters.
Because what is tikkun olam to them anyway? According to Nave
Dromi, director of the Middle East Forum in Israel, "[Tikkun Olam] seems
to have overtaken all other precepts formulated in millennia of Jewish life and
tradition, in certain quarters. Its modern use was popularized in the early to
middle of the last century, primarily among liberal Jewish movements in the
United States. It was adopted as a way of finding a way to ensure that Jews
felt common cause with the many social action and justice causes that were
springing up.
“It is an extreme universalist interpretation of Judaism,”
says Dromi, “and, while worthy in itself, holds nothing uniquely Jewish. Many
have argued that it is a way to mold a
frame of Judaism into their already held belief system to provide religious
legitimacy.”
Hence, stealing Jewish land and giving it to “Palestinians”
is tikkun olam, repairing the world, even though it is the exact opposite of
that. Giving asylum to
all illegal immigrants is tikkun olam. And yet some pigs are more equal
than others: American rights over Native American rights. Illegal immigrant
rights over the rights of American citizens in border towns who are already in
the country and are adversely affected by this flood of illegals. And of
course, Arab rights over Jewish Israeli rights.
But that’s not exactly the point of this piece. The point is
the betrayal of Progressive American Jews in putting pressure on Israel to cede
Jewish land to a non-native people with origins in Saudi Arabia. Progressive American
Jews claim to be Jews and Israel is Jewish land. They should be defending
Jewish rights as “tikkun olam.” How sick is it that they demand an indigenous
people—their own—vacate its bustling, modern state? Particularly considering
they themselves identify as belonging to that people.
Perhaps, subconsciously, shilling for the Arabs makes
non-native Progressive “American” Jews feel better about living on stolen
Native American land, rather than on their own.
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