Why the world reveres Jewish victims but condemns Jewish sovereignty
WE ARE NOT witnessing a new phenomenon but rather the latest iteration of an ancient social pathology. Antisemitism always thrives in emotional contradiction and irrationality. Jews were vilified as both capitalists and communists, as both powerless parasites and dangerous overlords. Now, they are both the ultimate victims of history and the ultimate perpetrators of modern injustice, at the same time.The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Canada
To those who gladly consume these contradictions: Who still cannot connect the dots? Who fails to see the link between these centuries’ old tropes and the modern demonization of Israel?
It is not ignorance that fuels this hypocrisy. It is willful blindness. It is far easier to condemn the sins of the past than to confront the prejudices of the present. It is more convenient to mourn dead Jews than to stand up for living ones. And it is politically expedient to single out Israel for criticism while ignoring the atrocities of its neighbors.
The dots are there for anyone willing to see them. But as long as society continues to indulge in selective morality, as long as it tolerates antisemitism disguised as political critique, the cycle of hypocrisy and hatred will persist.
The question remains: Who still cannot connect the dots?
For Sarah Rugheimer, a professor of astronomy at York University in Toronto, the first sign of the virulent strain of antisemitism now embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada appeared on a lamppost.The modern misnomer of the Palestinian refugee
It was a few weeks after the Hamas massacre of last October 7. Rugheimer, 41, was walking in a park near her home in the city’s quiet Cedarvale neighborhood when she saw a poster of the Israeli hostage Elad Katzir, a 47-year-old farmer from Kibbutz Nir Oz, covered with swastikas.
In the days that followed, as the war raged in Gaza, swastikas turned up all over Cedarvale. They also started appearing on the York campus, where Rugheimer serves as the Allan I. Carswell Chair for the Public Understanding of Astronomy. As fall turned to winter, a swastika showed up in the snow outside the campus building where she works.
An astrophysicist with a particular interest in the origins of life on Earth and the possibility of life on other planets, Rugheimer tended to confine her worldly concerns to scientific matters. So the swastikas came as a shock. But worse was to come.
She grew up in Montana, and her academic career took her around the world—from a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard University to Scotland, England, and now Canada. But until taking up her post at York University two years ago, Rugheimer said she’d never encountered any overt antisemitism. Nor had she given much thought to her identity as a Zionist: Like the vast majority of Jews around the world, Rugenheimer believes in Israel’s right to exist.
Jew-hatred was a phenomenon of the fringes, she reckoned. “It wasn’t on my radar,” she told me. Now, it’s everywhere. “Every week there is a major incident in Canada, and multiple minor ones every day in my neighborhood.”
It was what was happening inside her university that disturbed her the most.
York’s student unions issued a declaration just after the attack calling the barbarism of October 7 a “justified and necessary” act of resistance against settler colonialism, genocide, and apartheid. The student groups found widespread support among York’s professors—some of whom Rugheimer considered friends.
A politics department faculty committee demanded the university enforce a definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” that encompassed any expression of sympathy for the right of Israelis to exist within their own state: “Zionism is a settler colonial project and ethno-religious ideology in service of a system of Western imperialism that upholds global white supremacy.”
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Even at a time when it seems the truth has little value, it’s worthwhile to check the facts. When did the illegal Arab immigrants—the “Palestinians”—invade the Land of Israel?
Journalist Samuel Clemens, best known by his pen name Mark Twain, toured the Land of Israel in 1869 and wrote about it for his readers. Among his reflections, published in the book Innocents Abroad, he wrote that when traveling from the Sea of Galilee to Mount Tabor, “We never saw a human being on the whole route.”
Of Jerusalem, he said, it is “mournful and dreary, and lifeless. I would not desire to live here.” Summing up his visit, Twain wrote that the land “is desolate and unlovely.”
Research carried out by professor and demographer Mustafa Abbasi of Tel-Hai College found that in 1890, before the British Mandate was implemented, Jerusalem had an absolute Jewish majority with 25,000 Jewish residents, 9,000 Muslims and 8,000 Christians.
After they took over, the British authorities carried out repeated population surveys. According to a report submitted in 1937 by the Royal Palestine Commission, better known as the “Lord Peel Commission,” in just six years under British control, the Arab population in Haifa (where I reside) increased by 86%. In Jaffa, the population increased by 62%, and in Jerusalem, it increased by 37%.
Where did these masses of illegal Arab immigrants come from?
In minutes from the Permanent Committee of the League of Nations in June 1935, we find a partial answer to the origin of the “Palestinians.” It records an interview with Tewfik Bey El-Huriani, the governor of Hauran, a region in southern Syria, who said that “in the last few months, from 30,000 to 36,000 Hauranese had entered Palestine and settled there.”
The committee emphasized that these Hauranese had “actually settled” and were not just visiting. Just to get a perspective, the number of Arabs who illegally immigrated to the Land of Israel from just one area in just a few months exceeded immeasurably the number of Jews who immigrated to Mandatory Palestine during an entire year.
That wasn’t the world’s first inclination that the Arab population was rapidly and illegally coming to British Mandatory Palestine.
For Marx, “practical Judaism” equals “huckstering and money,” and if Christians engage in such practices, they “become Jews.” Judaism seeks to achieve “universal dominance.” It alienates men. Jews become the ultimate enemy, and humankind needs to emancipate itself from this Judaism.
Whether or not one accepts Marx’s analysis, what is relevant for today’s crusade of anti-Zionism is that a Jewish state is a pariah. Israel becomes the arch-agent of colonialism—the replacement evil of capitalism—or the true root generator of capitalism. Marx was Jewish and white, yet his theorizing concepts have been adapted, remixed and weaponized to destroy the movement of Jewish nationality—Zionism—and its fulfillment: the State of Israel.
There is, however, one more ingredient in this neo-Marxist framework that drives the assault on Israel and Zionism and it is racism. Marx was class-focused, and therefore, the social and economic oppressions of today, based on gender and race, were left untreated. I am unsure what Marx would think about professed transgender theory or the harassing of Nancy Mace at her congressional offices, and yet, thanks to the tool of intersectionality and the atmosphere of wokeism, his structure has been enthusiastically welcomed by pro-Arab propagandists.
Mehdi Hasan, for example, published an op-ed in The Guardian titled, “Israel is a rogue nation,” demanding that it should be removed from the United Nations. Hasan, a Shi’ite Muslim educated at Christ Church, Oxford, knows very well the difference between a state and a nation. He sought to undermine not only Israel’s membership in the United Nations but to cast doubt on its Jewish nationality.
In the piece he wrote, “Israel only exists today because of a U.N. general assembly resolution.”
Israel, of course, exists because it has succeeded in defending itself. And if, to any degree, that 1947 resolution possesses relevance, since the so-called Palestine Arabs rejected it they shouldn’t exist at all. Logic, though, is never a propagandist’s strong point. Mixing and melding elements of Marxism and wokeism with an underlying layer of anti-Semitism has resulted in a campaign to negate Jewish identity and the right of Jews to maintain a state. In lecture halls, the streets, television studios, theaters and social-media platforms, the cauldron is stirred to produce a counter-message in a fog of filthy air in which fair is foul, and foul is fair.





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