The Proof that Anti-Zionism is Usually Nothing but Anti-Semitism
By
David Gottfried
The following video is obliquely related to the issue under discussion in this post.
Much of the world is going through the throes of orgiastic rage toward Israel. 1 People profess to hate Israel for its allegedly poor treatment of the so-called Palestinians. 2
Many Anti-Zionists speak and act as if Israel were the source of all evil in the world. In fact, this sorry sphere is cluttered with many abused peoples, but the Arabists “care” only about the so-called Palestinians.
Why do the defenders of Hamas care so much about the Palestinians and care so little for other abused peoples in the world ? Because Hamas and the Arab world are fighting the Jews, and the hordes of anti semites will always raise the banner of whatever force fights the Jews.
People who are not in conflict with the Jews garner the sympathy of virtually no one:
1) The Chinese Communists have been rounding-up Muslims, in Western China, and throwing them into Concentration Camps for years. The world is virtually silent. Why do Muslims in Gaza matter so much and why do Muslims in China matter so little ?? Because the perverse pundits and pontificators who dominate the poisonous “liberal” media just want to stick it to the Jews.
2) Serbians allegedly persecuted Muslims, in Bosnia and in regions in close proximity to Bosnia, in the 1990’s. Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave (Redgrave was gung-ho about defending Muslims visa vis Israel, and when she accepted the Oscar for best supporting actress in the film “Julia,” she said that Zionists were nothing but “hoodlums.”) were too busy polishing their Oscars to give a damn.
3) Muslims have persecuted and slaughtered Maronite Christians in Lebanon for the past few decades. The lords and ladies of Martha’s Vineyard liberalism yawned and continued eating their quiche (or whatever it is that chic bastards eat nowadays). I suppose they did not like the Christians in Lebanon because they disapprove of Christian patriarchal tendencies – of course these la di da liberals give the Muslims a pass on their barbaric misogynism.
4) Dittos the Muslims slaughter of Christian Copts in Egypt.
5) Ditto the Muslim genocide of the Armenians.
6) Ditto the Muslim slaughters of Hindus.
7) Did they care about the Vietnamese Boat People. Mon Dieu, we are Frenchmen, or American pseudo intellectuals who know three French words which we utter about 9 times per day, and we are dripping with too much affectation and snootiness to ever care about Vietnamese boat people.
8) Did they care about the half million Tutsis, slaughtered by the Hutus, in Rwanda in the mid-1990s. Of course not. After all, that was a case of black-on-black violence, and we may assume that it offended their “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” liberalism to admit that black people can do wrong.
9) Did they care about the slaughter of blacks in Darfur by lighter skinned Arabs from Northern Sudan. Don’t be ridiculous. They are too au courant to forget that we must never criticize Arabs.
10) Did they care about the two to three million Cambodians killed by the Khmer Rouge in the 70’s. Don’t be silly. Well-heeled students in places like Columbia only care about the sorts of things that limousine liberals are supposed to care about.
The world’s focus on the alleged plight of the Palestinians, coupled with its abject indifference to other oppressed groups, is, in large measure, a problem created by the media.
The media does not necessarily report on that which is important. Rather, they report on what they think their viewers are interested in or what suits the political convictions of the owners and/or managers of a media outlet. The examples of skewed media coverage are legion, and they subvert our political discourse:
1) In the autumn of 1982, the American media gave us tons of coverage regarding deaths from the consumption of Tylenol. For whatever reason, the dingbats who run CBS, the New York Times and all the other idiot media outlets, from the far left to the far right, thought that 4 deaths from Tylenol were more serious than AIDS which, at that time, had already killed one thousand Americans and was poised to soon strike millions. (In 1982, bright people knew the epidemic would soon mow down millions because, in the early 80’s, a wealth of data indicated that we had only encountered the tip of the iceberg: For example, in the early to mid 80’s up to 40 percent of homosexuals in Los Angeles had low T4/T8 ratios, an aberration that fit squarely within the constellation of deviations seen in AIDS.) The media mentioned AIDS, fleetingly, about once every six months, until 1985 when it was revealed that Rock Hudson had AIDS and 40 million moronic women cried, “Oh, but he was such a dreamboat.”
2) Many Trumpers, and people who only are Trumpers because the supposedly liberal media does a hideous job of articulating the liberal point of view, believe that the “Deep State” was prejudiced for Hillary – and now Joe Biden – and spewing slander against Trump. However, it’s the other way around: In the autumn of 2016, the FBI announced that it was investigating Clinton for possible wrongdoing regarding e mails. However, the FBI did not announce that it was in fact investigating Trump for illicit activities committed with the aid of the Russian Government. The American people thought: Hillary is being investigated while Trump is not being investigated. Ergo, Hillary is dirtier than Trump. The media never gave the American people a clear narrative. Had they done this. Hillary would have won by perhaps 5 million votes, and not merely 3 million, and that sort of margin might have given her the electoral college as well.
3) Likewise, the media is bizarrely selective in its coverage of racial issues in the United States. For example, in a short documentary entitled “The Secret of Selling the Negro,” (The Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Jet and Ebony, 1954), black people are portrayed as a striving, eminently successful group of Americans who are rapidly rising up the economic ladder and enjoying unprecedented wealth. Many people would take issue with that characterization, but the film sought to enhance marketing to blacks and so it conveniently obfuscated the reality of black poverty. A link to this film appears at the beginning of this essay.
4) Sometimes, the most reprehensible crimes are not reported by the Media because the villains are so especially reprehensible. For example, all inhabitants in the Syrian City of Hana were liquidated by the Syrian government in the early 1980’s. (The government thought that the inhabitants were Muslim fundamentalists who might rebel against the government.) There was virtually no coverage of this incident in the American media.
Of course, this incident was well-documented in the New York Times and the Washington Post, but the overwhelming majority of Americans have never read these periodicals. In America, a news story does not exist unless it is on the boob tube or in a video on the internet. Pictures rule in this era in which we regress to preverbal stages of development and soon all begin to act like Donald Trump screaming in his playpen, “Lock her Up.”
In any event, the Syrian government did not let newsman roam about the country on their own. Hence there were no photos of people killed by the Syrian military. No pictures mean no presence on the trashy news programs of dumbed down America. And so more vile regimes, like Syria, will get a pass by outlawing the electronic media, while Israel will be blamed for every blemish in its society because it allows the media to gather all the dirt that is not fit to print.
My use of the word orgiastic may be perplexing as the term is suggestive of pleasure and sexual orgies. However, many of the pro-Arab protestors enjoy their protests. They seem to be on a high of manic hate (Psychiatric diagnostic guides will tell you that when one is manic, one’s exuberance need not be restricted to exuberant joy and that sometimes the manic phase is characterized by a frenzy of very enjoyable hatred. The pro-Arab activists are revved up with the manic hate of people about to start a pogrom.
I preface the term Palestinians with the compound word “so-called” because I have always accepted Golda Meir’s contention that Palestinian identity is a contrivance designed to delegitimize Israel. The so-called Palestinians do have a fierce identity and that identity is as Arabs. However, there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation or people as a) There is no language unique to Palestine; b) there is no religion that we associate with Palestine and no other nations, c) there never was a Palestinian state ruled by people who considered themselves Palestinians, d) the word Palestine did not come from Palestinians or anyone in the environs; it came from Titus who renamed the region Palestine to erase the memory of ancient Judea, and e) from 1948 to 1967, when the Gaza strip and the West bank were ruled by Egypt and Jordan respectively, no one argued that Egypt and Jordan were depriving the Palestinians of their homeland and sovereignty.