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    "The Anti Zionist madness of our time" (or, how the victims victimise)

    We are in this age witness to the vilification of truth-speakers. See Extract from Melanie Phillips "Zionism and Bigotry" article

     On Zionism and Bigotry, 28 May 2012

     In the wake of the festival of Shavuot, when Jews have been celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai from where he presented them to the Jewish people camped at its foot, I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in Britain and the west.

    For many in these societies, Zionism has now become equated with racism. This group libel, once regarded with revulsion by decent people when the Soviet-Arab axis got the UN to endorse it in 1975, has now become the prism through which the BBC, academia, the artistic and theatrical world and much of the rest of the cultural establishment now frame all references to Israel...

    This is as grotesque as it is terrifying. Zionism is no more nor less than the self-determination of the Jewish people -- as a people, and not just as adherents of the Jewish religion. Jews are in fact the only people – as a people -- for whom Israel (ancient Judea and Samaria) was ever their national homeland. Those who deny Zionism thus deny Jewish peoplehood and the fundamental right of Jews to live as a people in their own ancestral homeland, Israel...

    The anti-Zionist madness of our time is thus far more pernicious even than hatred of Israel, pathologically obsessive and malevolent as that is in itself. Bad enough that for so many people in Britain and the west, Israel has been successfully demonised as a pariah state on the basis of a unique systematic campaign of falsehoods, distortions and libels about its history and behaviour, untruths which have nevertheless become the unchallenged basis for public discussion.

    But far worse even than this is the assumption underlying this lazy defamation, that Zionism is a creed that is itself a particularly aggressive kind of racism or colonialism. This vicious prejudice has turned truth, reason and decency inside out. The right of the Jews to their own historic national homeland has been recast, entirely falsely, as a usurpation of the ‘right’ to that land of ‘Palestinians’ – who never actually existed as a discrete people in the first place. Those Jews who are Zionists now find themselves as a result cast as racists and social pariahs – merely for asserting the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their own historic homeland.

    Those who are driven by a vicious and bigoted hatred have thus been allowed to cast the victims of their hatred as themselves hateful people

    Is Jordan Palestine?

    Hey, stop this dangerous candidate! He's told the truth! , 12 Dec 2011

    Jordan is Palestine, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2012

    For an alternative view:

    Jordan is not Palestine, Al Jazeera, 4 July 2010

    King Abdullah II: Jordan will never be Palestine, Jerusalem Post, 9 Dec 2011

    For a much needed corrective to ideological imperialism, a 15 minute video ("Give Peace a Chance") on the international legal dimension on Israel is available:

    On Zionism and Bigotry, 28 May 2012, Melanie Phillips - extracts

    For further resources:

    European Coalition for Israel

    For an intelligent analysis on the politics of victimhood, see

    "Victim Chic? The Rhetoric of Victimhood" (March 2006)

     

     

     

     

     

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