The Liberty Affair and the Problem with the Truth of History
This perhaps is the most appropriate place for me to note in passing that I insisted on Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jewsas the title for my latest book because it reflects two related truths for our time in seven words. The first is that the giant of classical anti-Semitism is being re-awakened in the mainly Gentile Judeo-Christian world. The second is that a prime cause of the re-awakening is the behaviour of Zionism’s aggressive and self-righteous child, Israel.
If that was only my Gentile view (or only the view of any Gentile), it could easily be dismissed and trashed by Zionism’s spin doctors. So on public speaking platforms as well as in my book, I almost always quote the warning words of a remarkable Israeli – Yehoshafat Harkabi. He was Israel’s longest serving and most enlightened Director of Military Intelligence. In a seminal book, Israel’s Fateful Hour, published in English in 1988, Harkabi wrote the following (my emphasis added). “Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewishstate is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.”
I am driven by the belief – it’s the reason why I devoted more than five years of my life to researching and writing Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jews – that the only way to stop the monster of classical anti-Semitism going on the rampage again at a point in a foreseeable future if Zionism continues to have its way, is by telling the truth of history, to show, among other things, why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of a minority, hard core Zionists in Palestine that became Israel.
In my view, the real key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between Zionism and Judaism.
Zionism asserts that they are one and the samein order to make the charge, sometimes explicitly, sometimes by insinuation, that all criticism of Israel is a manifestation of anti-Semitism.
The truth is not only that Zionism and Judaism are total opposites, but that the return of Jews to the land of biblical Israel by the efforts of man was PROSCRIBED by Judaism. After my wife, my second best friend in the world is my very kosher Jewish accountant. Until this Gentile told him, he didn’t know that Zionism was proscribed by Judaism. I wonder how many other Jews don’t know.
I also wonder how many Jews, and Gentiles, are aware of the following. Many if not most of the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. The incoming Zionist Jews were mainly foreign nationals of many lands, descended from those who became Jewish by conversion to Judaism centuries after the fall of the ancient Jewish kingdom of Israel and what is called the “dispersal” into “oblivion” of its people. The notion that there aretwo entire peoples with an equally valid claim to the same land is an historical nonsense. The relatively few Jewswitha valid claim were, are, the descendants of thosewho stayed IN Palestine through everything. They numbered only a few thousand at the time of Zionism’s birth; they regarded themselves as Palestinians; and they were fiercely opposed to Zionism’s colonial enterprise because they rightly feared that it would make them as well as the incoming, alien Zionist Jews enemies of the Arabs among whom they had lived in peace and security.
Judaism is the religion of Jews and, like Christianity and Islam, it has at its core a set of ethical principles and moral values.
Zionism is not only a secular, colonialist ideology, it makes a mockery of, and has contempt for, the ethical principles and moral values of Judaism. Which is why those most often described as “ultra orthodox” religious Jews say, and I believe they are right, that Zionism is destroying Judaism.
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