Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Elder of Ziyon
The entire term "anti-semitism" was coined to hide the fact that the Jew-haters of 19th century Europe hated Jews, claiming that they were only against the racial inferiority of "Semites" - it was objective science, not irrational hate against a religious group.
Even in the early days of Nazi rule, officials strenuously denied persecuting Jews and pretended they were only defending Germans from outsiders threatening their way of life.
The deceptions and the attempts to hide Jew-hatred behind respectable sounding arguments are no less prevalent today. No one wants to be called an antisemite. But antisemitism is the only consistent explanation for the unhinged hate towards Israel we have seen every day since it was founded.
The problem is when the mainstream media reports the smokescreen as if it is the truth.
From the New York Times:
For weeks, Americans in a host of Democratic-led cities have packed their government chambers for marathon sessions, all to demand immediate action from local leaders on a matter nowhere near home: the Israel-Hamas war.More than a dozen U.S. city councils have now passed resolutions urging Israel to stop shelling Gaza, including several in Michigan, which has a sizable Muslim population, and several in California. Among the biggest cities to do so are Atlanta and Detroit.Local resolutions on international affairs largely amount to symbolic gestures that play no direct role in foreign policymaking. But they can send a signal to allies abroad over the domestic political temperature and provide a vehicle for some of the most opinionated voters to say their piece.Those calling for cease-fire resolutions believe that this time, a critical mass of local gestures may ultimately convey to the White House that it has lost support for backing Israel’s military campaign. Especially if the resolutions come from Democratic strongholds that serve as President Biden’s base.“You can see the momentum,” said Eduardo Martinez, the mayor of Richmond, Calif., which was the first city to pass a cease-fire resolution, deploying some of the strongest criticism of Israel and accusing it of “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.”
These people aren't crowding city council meetings to demand a ceasefire. They are there to publicly slander Israel.
The public council meetings allow any crackpot to make any public statement, for the record, televised, and unopposed. It is an ideal way to normalize hate. And that is exactly what is being done.
Demands for a "ceasefire" are a smokescreen. Because the same people had previously demanded resolutions to declare Israel an "apartheid state." And before that to call for boycotting Israel and only Israel. A boycott resolution was proposed at Berkeley as far back as 2002 during the height of the second intifada. The contents of the resolutions don't matter - as long as the public discussion is centered on demonizing Israel. If they win, great; if they lose, they can have the circus again next year.
The BDS Movement even has a guide on how to hijack local city councils and unions for anti-Israel purposes. They give a "menu" of excuses to use, "depending on your context" - for some, "divestment" might be the hook to use, for others, "ceasefire," and for others, "anti-apartheid." These resolutions are an update of the many anti-Israel resolutions that were all over campuses during the 2010s, just with a more public venue.
Some of the resolutions even add language against antisemitism (and Islamophobia) in order to inoculate themselves against those exact charges. But no one passed resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Syria; one would be hard pressed to find resolutions in support of the Uyghurs in China or the Rohingya in Myanmar.
It is always Israel. And that is antisemitism.
Antisemitism is fun. It is pleasurable. It gives one the opportunity to publicly attack Jews while pretending to be moral and "on the right side of history." And when it is done in an official venue like a city council debate, the hate becomes normalized.
That is the entire point.
When the New York Times calls these modern antisemites "cease-fire activists," they are also normalizing antisemitism.
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