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The Beginning of the Night
By David Solway
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Be none of these, my sons
My sons, be none of these
Be gunners in the Israeli Air Force
Irving Layton, For My Sons, Max and David
National officials, press barons, journalists, Internetians, “Human
Rights” agencies, public intellectuals and a growing segment of the
vox populi are tapping increasingly into the poisoned aquifer of
anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist feeling. Yet what is perhaps even more
disconcerting is the comparable attitude of many in the Jewish
community today, mainly of the Left, who have made common cause with
their enemies, defamers and traducers.
There is not much question that what we are observing is a pathology
of the first magnitude, what the Talmudic sages called sin’at akhim,
or brotherly hatred, an element of Jewish life sufficiently
pronounced to merit a name of its own. From Amalek, the grandson of
Ezra, who sired the Israelites’ most implacable tribal foe, to
Johannes Pfefferkorn who partnered Martin Luther’s anti-Jewish
ravings, to the Russian Jew Jacob Brafmann who furthered the career
of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the present moment which
sees a swelling brigade of influential Israel-bashing Jews—from way
back then to right up to now, the travesty persists.
It is almost as if our “non-Jewish Jews,” in Isaac Deutscher’s
telling phrase, have taken their marching orders from the Muslim and
Christian scriptures, internalizing Koranic surah 5:64 which says of
Jews that “They spread evil and corruption in the land,” or
concurring with Saint Paul who wrote in I Thessalonians 2:15 that
“they please not God, and are contrary to all men.”
This degree of self-abhorrence must be nearly unprecedented, for
rarely, if ever, has an ethnic or national collective turned against
an entire nation made up of people with whom it shares an ancestral
tradition and a millennial archive. History furnishes many examples
of a social or intellectual group targeting a particular class of a
society with which it is in one way or another associated or
identified. But to defame an entire country with whose inhabitants
one shares a cultural or genealogical relation, to dispute its
founding principles, to cast suspicion upon its moral character, to
support its enemies and to question its right to existence is surely
a unique phenomenon. Even those Germans horrified by the abominations
of the Nazis, or Russians sickened by the excesses of the Communists,
rarely went to the extremes of repudiation evinced by the truants of
the Jewish faith.
The late Harold Pinter won a Nobel Prize, not for his over-rated
plays, but for his anti-Israeli (and anti-American) posturing.
Equally influential are fellow Jewish anti-Zionists like Noam
Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Naomi Klein, Joel Kovel, Tony Judt, Ilan
Pappe, Tom Segev, Sara Roy, Henry Siegman, Avrum Burg, Jaqueline Rose
and Richard Falk, to mention only a sparse handful, whose
denunciation of Israel is so extreme and untextured as to be scarcely
distinguishable from antisemitism.
Such apostates do not scruple to trade in apocrypha when indulging
their animus against their own people, even when they can be readily
exposed. In Fabricating Israeli History, Efraim Karsh has abundantly
demonstrated how left-wing Israeli “New Historians” have cooked the
documents they work with. The lamentable Naomi Klein falsely accuses
Israel of having cynically profited from “endless war” and calls for
academic and economic boycotts. Noam Chomsky’s gross fabrications
have been outed by Peter Collier. The list goes on.
The recent example of Jacqueline Rose is an especially salient one in
this respect. Reputable scholars like Walter Laqueur (TLS, April 21,
2006), Paul Bogdanor (FrontPageMagazine, September 4, 2006) and Alvin
Rosenfeld (American Jewish Committee, December 2006) have exposed
Rose’s attempt in her The Question of Zionism (hardback edition) to
establish an ideological kinship between Adolf Hitler and the founder
of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, by placing them in the same Paris audience
attending a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin in 1895.
Apart from the fact that this would prove nothing anyway, Hitler, who
was born in 1889 and would have been only six years old at the time,
did not enter Paris until 1940 with the conquering German army. The
trouble is that such Jewish anti-Zionist propagandists, bigots who
traffic in all kinds of outright libels and distortions, are by no
means in short supply and their names are practically
interchangeable. A Rose by any other name would smell as foul.
