55 years ago: Polish communist leader admits that "anti-Zionism" is antisemitism

From the Daily Telegraph, July 10, 1968:

The Guardian adds more detail:

Today's left-wing anti-Zionism is rooted in communist "anti-Zionism" which was obviously thinly-disguised antisemitism from the post-war years. The number of stories of Soviet and other communist country repression of Jews are well known. Here's an account from 1949 that was originally published in the New York Herald Tribune:

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R' Soloveitchik on Yom HaAtzmaut, 1968

Here is audio of  Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, one of the most prominent rabbinical figures of the twentieth century, discussing the theological significance of Israel, in a 1968 lecture.  Text is below.

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I always enjoy  when I read in the general press - I don't know why I enjoy it, perhaps its vanity on my part,  but I believe it is more than vanity - when I read in the general press  that no statements were issued by the Israeli government in Yerushalayim  because it is the Sabbath today and all offices are closed. 

I enjoyed very much when I read in the (Boston) Globe yesterday  that actually the proclamation of the State of Israel was on the 14th of May  but since the State of Israel observes the Hebrew calendar, it was the fifth of Iyar,  and since the fifth of Iyar coincided this year with Friday  they were afraid that the Shabbos not be desecrated by the celebrations, [so] they advanced it to Thursday.  Particularly when the Christian Science Monitor [wrote it]. 

This means kiddush Hashem.  

Alright, I am not completely in agreement at all times with the government of Israel,  there are many policies which are wrong and fallacious.  However, we have to have a look. Those are small details, peripheral matters.  The main idea is correct  and there is no doubt that hashgacha (Providence) is planning something  it is far from geulah (redemption) yet, but hashgacha is planning something  something in hashgacha holds something in store for us  I don't know. We are still groping in the dark  I don't know what will...  to me the chapter has not been closed yet  It is as if we are in the middle of the writing of a chapter  The hashgacha is in the middle of writing a chapter...  What the continuation will follow, what the continuation will be I don't know;  no one knows.  I have faith in God that it will lead to geulah sheleimah (the complete redemption).

 Whatever happens and transpires is magnificent, and has tremendous significance  to the Jewish community as such and to individuals as well.  Not only the community as such, but every Jewish individual.  After all, Jewish nevuah (prophecy) has been realized - certain prophecies have been realized, I wouldn't say in full [but]  certain prophecies have found their fulfillment and realization.Not every generation in the last 2000 years  could take pride in the fact that ...this time a prophecy by Isaiah was realized.  Our generation has been fortunate that somehow the hashgacha found it necessary  to implement certain prophecies,  and we have been waiting for it thousands of years.

You will ask why our generation?  Why not the generation of the Vilna Gaon?  This question has been raised. This question has been raised by the Satmarer.  If, actually, the establishment of the State of Israel is so important,  you say it is actually a result of the will of God,  not, as they call it, the will of the Satan, (we have Satanists somehow in the house, Satan as an autonomous power which rules the world.)  He actuality has a duality, the man has a certain duality of darkness and light. It’s a very strange, strange distorted philosophy he advocates  Never mind his argument with Zionism, I'm not interested in that  The question should be answered - the question should never be thrown into a waste basket.  If you don't know how to answer a question, say that you don't know. 

Don't try to ignore a question; this is one of our shortcomings, particularly of Orthodoxy  We ignore questions. The question which is unpleasant, we ignore. We don't care.  We don't hear the question.  A question addressed should either be answered or one should admit that it is insolvable  There are many equations in mathematics which are insolvable  but still mathematics retains its dignity  If mathematics should try to ignore an equation which is insolvable (....) 

The same thing with Orthodoxy; ask a question of a Rosh Yeshiva, the question has got to be answered.  "No, ah..." this is no answer.  Either answer the question, resolve the problem or admit your inability, that you are not competent to answer certain problems 

The problem is a big problem: This great miracle not happen in the 12th century when Maimonides was alive  Is it because our generation is worthier?  More worthy than the generation of Maimonides,  or the generation of the Vilna Gaon, or the generation of the Baal Shem Tov?  Why did this happen now? 

Because Maimonides could get along without Eretz Yisrael  and as a matter of fact we did get along without Eretz Yisrael!  We got along very well without Eretz Yisrael.  Chazal says מדברך נאוה (Shir Hashirim.)   We interpret מדברך נאוה [to mean] "Your speech is pleasant"  Chazal say מדברך נאוה means "your desert is pleasant".  Chazal say that in the exile the Jews have excelled themselves  have exhibited excellence,  displayed so much tenacity and so much consecration, and so much loyalty 

The Jews in the first commonwealth  could not stand up and claim as much credit as the Jew in exile in Germany during the Crusades  or in 1648 during the Khmelnitsky pogroms  The Jew in exile was a proud Jew, a Jew who was ready to sacrifice 

But however, after the Holocaust of Hitler,  six million people disappeared, actually one third [of the world's Jews] perished  Missionaries...you don't know what was going on in European countries  In America it was not so noticeable because we live in ...Jewish ghettoes  But the Jews living in France, in England, in Italy, there was actually a swarm of missionaries who descended upon them  "Don't you see that the words of the Gospel has been fulfilled? That God is angry at you?"  "Do you still believe that your attitude vis a vis Christ was the right one?"  "Now, if you will just accept baptism all problems will be resolved" 

I'll tell you if not for the State of Israel, I don't what would have happened to the small communities throughout Diaspora  Shmad (spiritual destruction), assimilation.....  disintegration, because of black despair.  Because of simply not being able to understand what happened.  Do we understand what happened?  Can you explain, can any theologian explain it? Can any philosopher interpret?  Just accept the will of God.  But for the real believer, for the man who has indomitable faith in God, alright, it's possible,  but for the people who are just on the borderline,  we don't understand what happened, we cannot explain it.  It was a time of hester panim, complete hiding of the Face, God actually turned His back on our people.  If not for Eretz Yisrael...it's impossible to imagine what would have happened to the Jewish diaspora, with the dispersion.  That's why our generation has something which previous generations didn't, because our generation was in despair and was in need of it.  

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24 years since the PLO fooled Clinton into thinking they amended their charter

On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton was bamboozled by Yasir Arafat into believing that the PLO had changed its charter. 

The very moment of the sham was captured in the photo above, as a roomful of Palestinians in Gaza pretended to vote to rescind the articles of the charter that called for the destruction of Israel.

We know that the charter never changed. The 1968 Palestinian National Charter calling for the destruction of Israel is still on the PLO website. It is still on the official Palestinian Authority press agency site. And no charter without those clauses has ever been published.

It still says, "The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time." It still says, "Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit." It still insists on the "liberation of Palestine" including the destruction of Israel. 

There is another way to know that there was no vote on December 14, 1998.

Heba Beydoun researched the incident in 2020, and compared the "vote" with what the PLO's own rules say are needed. She proves beyond a doubt that the entire roomful of people were play-acting for Clinton.

The only entity that can change the charter is the Palestinian National Council, in an official meeting.

That 1998 gathering is not counted as an official meeting of the Palestinian National Council, which didn't meet between 1996 and 2009.

The official invitation to the meeting didn't indicate that it was anything other than a gathering to listen to Clinton speak. It never claimed to be a Palestinian National Council meeting. Unlike official meetings, there was no opening session, no count of a quorum, no agenda, the president and vice presidents of the National Council did not attend as they must, the secretary didn't lead the session, there was no final statement at the end of the meeting, and it was never recorded among the records of official National Council meetings.

Many of the people who did attend and "voted" were not even members of the PNC - Arafat handed out invitations to members of terror groups and others to fill the room to make it look more impressive for Clinton.

Moreover, many of the other requirements for amending the charter never happened. The Palestinian National Council didn't form a committee to amend the Charter, and the proposed charter was never referred to the Legal Committee in the Council for consideration, and the Palestinian Central Council had not met for to discuss the issue, even though Arafat claimed that it had before the sham vote.

It was no accident. It was theatre, clearly planned by Arafat to deceive the President of the United States. And boy, was Clinton deceived. He said in his speech immediately afterwards:

I know the way is often difficult and frustrating, but you have come to this point through a commitment to peace and negotiations. You reaffirmed that commitment today. I believe it is the only way to fulfill the aspirations of your people and I am profoundly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Chairman Arafat for the cause of peace, to come here as a friend of peace and a friend of your future, and to witness you raising your hands, standing up tall -- standing up not only against what you believe is wrong, but for what you believe is right in the future.

...I thank you for your rejection -- fully, finally and forever -- of the passages in the Palestinian Charter calling for the destruction of Israel. For they were the ideological underpinnings of a struggle renounced at Oslo. By revoking them once and for all, you have sent, I say again, a powerful message not to the government, but to the people of Israel. You will touch people on the street there. You will reach their hearts there.

Palestinian leaders think that they can say one thing in Arabic and another in English, they can lie with impunity to the West, and they will get away with it, with no real consequences. They even believe that they can create an entire fictional drama, complete with actors, to fool the entire world into believing a fiction.

History shows that they are correct. They did it with Clinton, they did it with Al Dura, they do it with "Pallywood," even today the English pages of their media portrays them as innocent victims while the Arabic pages say they are mighty soldiers planning to annihilate the Jews.

The West keeps getting fooled because they want to be fooled. The Palestinians have learned this lesson well.

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The difference between a "Palestinian" and an "Arab Palestinian" - according to the PLO

The 1968 Palestinian National Covenant (Charter) has an interesting paragraph:

Article 6:

The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians.

The Palestine Ministry of Information notes that the year of the "Zionist invasion" is considered to be 1917. It does not appear that they are including descendants of those Jews, so the issue is moot, but it points to something interesting in official Palestinian language.

This is one of the few uses of the word "Palestinians" in the document. Most of it refers to "Palestinian Arabs." So, for example:

Article 3:

The Palestinian Arab people possess the legal right to their homeland and have the right to determine their destiny after achieving the liberation of their country in accordance with their wishes and entirely of their own accord and will.

If the only people that have the legal right to the land are Arabs, then the Jews - even those they call "Palestinians," who had been there continuously for thousands of years - do not. 

In other words, the Charter gives legal rights to Arabs that it withholds from non-Arabs. 

Isn't that apartheid?

This is besides the explicit antisemitism in the charter itself - which has never been revoked - that denied the existence of the Jewish people to begin with. "Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong."

Now look at the 2003 Palestinian constitution. There, they refer repeatedly to the Arab Palestinian people. The first paragraph of the preamble says:

The continuous attachment of the Arab Palestinian people to the land of their fathers and forefathers, on which this people has historically lived, is a fact that has been expressed in the Declaration of Independence, issued by the Palestine National Council. The strength of this attachment is confirmed by its consistency over time and place, by keeping faith with and holding onto national identity, and in the realization of wondrous accomplishments of struggle. The organic relationship between the Palestinian people, their history and their land has confirmed itself in their unceasing effort to prompt the world to recognize the rights of the Arab Palestinian people and their national entity, on equal footing with other nations.

Why the need to emphasize "Arab Palestinian people"? By 2003 (and unlike 1968), the term "Palestinian" was well known. 

It appears that the term is used specifically to exclude Jews from calling themselves "Palestinian."

The Palestinian Arabs are well aware that the term "Palestinian" usually referred to Jews before 1948. They want not only to make sure that they are the only "Palestinians" with rights to the land but to ensure that they assert that Jews have no historic or legal rights to the land.

That explains why they call themselves "Palestinian Arabs" or "Arab Palestinians." 

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