(en) França, Organização Comunista Libertarie (OCL) -
Israel against Jews by Pierre Stambul (fr) [machine translation]
It is an established refrain. You criticize Israel and Zionism? You are anti-Semitic! A
French Jew wants to "live his Judaism"? Was invited to make his "Aliyah" and make its
contribution to the colonization of Palestine. ---- We try to hammer that Jewish history
has been completed and that Israel is the result. Israel operates as an eraser of history,
memory, language, traditions and Jewish identities. Israeli policy is not only criminal
against the Palestinian people. She claims the heir of Jewish history when she disguises
her and betrayed. She knowingly endangers Jews, wherever they are. And turns them into
robots summoned to justify the unjustifiable. ---- Back to the recent past ---- The
history of French Jews has nothing to do with Israel. Regularly robbed, massacred or
expelled by very different Christian kings, the Jews have acquired French citizenship with
Father Gregory during the Revolution.
The last two centuries were marked by a quest for citizenship and equal rights. The
Dreyfus affair revealed that if a part of French society was anti-Semitic, another part
ultimately majority, considered that the acquittal and rehabilitation of Dreyfus were the
target of all those who love freedom and refused the racism. The history of French Jews
was marked by their significant participation in the resistance against Nazism and the
Vichy regime and then by the number of them from engaging in progressive and / or
anti-colonial struggles. Jewish intellectuals of that time were called Raymond Aubrac,
Marc Bloch, Lawrence Schwartz, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Stéphane Hessel. It was a time when
many Jews believed their own emancipation went through that of tou-te-s. It was a time
when racism, fascism and hatred of the other were considered abjections to fight. Jewish
children went to public school, he never would have come to them to be separated from the
others in denominational schools.
Efforts are now in Israel to erase the history of Jews in different country where they
lived. If the Jews have long been seen by anti-Semites in Europe as unassimilable outcasts
and they were persecuted because they were an obstacle to the insane nationalism who
dreamed of ethnically pure societies, they never sought separation but otherwise the
insertion within the societies in which they lived.
A summons to desertion
A few years break we did. At the head of a huge demonstration in Paris supposed denounce
terrorism, there are three war criminals, Netanyahu, Lieberman and Bennet who come to
shine in the massacre of more than 2,000 Palestinian ne s (mainly civil-es of) Gaza during
the summer of 2014. Taking advantage of the emotion caused by the anti-Semitic attack the
Porte de Vincennes, Netanyahu is allowed (by the French government) to declare the French
Jews that they are insecure in France and that they must leave their "real" country, Israel.
In fact, Zionism has never fought anti-Semitism. This has always fed continuously into a
single goal: to make the most of Jews to immigrate to Israel. So, Netanyahu did not
hesitate to endanger the French Jews. He made strangers in their own country, "tourists"
who do not understand that their "homeland" is there. The Jews were ordered to be
"traitors" (the only cause, that of Greater Israel from the sea to the Jordan) or
accomplices. France has always been a failure for Israel: only 80,000 Jews left since 1948
and a half back. While propaganda is deafening. However, if there is indeed a country
where Jews are insecure, it is Israel and it will be so until the destruction of Palestine
will continue.
In "aliyah" (the rise) live to Israel, in addition to this one of the dead. The Israeli
authorities strongly encourage French Jews to bury their loved ones in Israel. Thus the
victims of the massacre at the Porte de Vincennes were buried in the cemetery at Givat
Shaul. This "neighborhood" of Jerusalem, it is the old Deir Yassin, the martyr village of
the 1948 war in which the Irgun militia led by Menachem Begin massacred the entire
population before the town is, like so others wiped. What symbol!
Israel at the forefront of Islamophobia
Jews have lived for centuries in the Muslim world. They were even welcomed by the Ottoman
Empire after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Today, Israel participates in the
demonization of Arabs and Muslims by behaving in model student of the "clash of
civilizations". Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia are expressed openly, politicians have
made it their goodwill and acting out are frequent. Mass crimes as in Gaza or
multiplication of racist (For Rabbi Rosen, the Palestinians are Amalek and Torah that
allows them and kill their wives, their children, their flocks) will leave traces. How to
imagine that what is inflicted on the Palestinians will have no consequences? In Israel
propagandists compete to explain that the Jews have gone through hell in the Muslim world,
masking the fact that anti-Semitism was primarily a European and Christian invention.
Oriental Jews in Israel suffer social discrimination and racist contempt. They were often
humiliated and discriminated upon arrival. They are cut off from their roots and forced to
deny their identity. The expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 is presented as an "exchange of
population", that Zionism is the main culprit, and the Nakba, and departure of Oriental
Jews in their countries.
What Does a Jew in Israel?
The Zionists have theorized the idea that Jews and non-Jews can not live together. This is
completely contrary to everything that has happened for hundreds of years. This goes
against the aspirations of Jews out of the ghetto, the mellahs and juderias to become
normal citizens.
Religious Jews emigrating to Israel seldom encounter religion as it has been practiced for
centuries . The national-religious movement has emerged. This current has completely
revised fundamentalist religion. The "chosen people", it has never meant it more right
than the other, but rather it has more homework. Among the precepts there "do not do to
others what you do not want to do to you" and "love your neighbor as yourself" . "Next
year in Jerusalem" , it does Ever wanted ie perform ethnic cleansing going on, but
"strongly that the Messiah comes" . Hebrew has always been a religious language prohibited
to profane use. Judaism is a religion of "exile". Installation on earth (Israel /
Palestine) before the arrival of the Messiah, let alone the establishment of a Jewish
state were banned. Besides the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 did not go to Jerusalem.
Herzl met with almost unanimous hostility of the rabbis against the Zionist project as
soon as it was a question of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine.
For secular Jews, the dominant values of Israel are the antithesis of what is for them
the values of Judaism. Where do we find in Jewish tradition racism, chauvinism,
militarism, denial of the existence and dignity of the other? What is there in common
between what has been represented major Jewish intellectuals (Einstein, Freud, Arendt,
Kafka, Benjamin ...) and the war criminals who run Israel? What happened in Israel in
memory of those who fought against fascism and colonialism (Marek Edelman, Abraham
Serfaty, Henri Curiel ...)? What Jewish heritage are available to settlers and the
military to justify in advance the violence and crimes committed against the Palestinians?
As written by the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand's book about Yakov Rabkin Understanding
the State of Israel , "the one who sees the continuation of Judaism Zionism would do well
to read this book. But he who believes that the State of Israel is a Jewish state is
obliged to read " .
Some Jews believe that after the Nazi genocide, Israel is the ultimate refuge. On what
Israeli leaders can they wield over anti-Semitism and the memory of the genocide? The
Zionists played only a marginal role in the fight against anti-Semitism and the resistance
to Nazism. Some Zionist leaders even had a shameful behavior during the rise of fascism
(Ben Gurion with agreements Haavara, 1933) and at the time of the extermination (the Stern
Group murdering soldiers and British dignitaries). How not to understand that the memory
of the genocide means "this never happens again" and not "that it will never happen WE",
which corresponds to a tribal vision of humanity totally against all forms of Jewish heritage.
Refuse the assignment and fear, reject all forms of racism and discrimination.
There are confrontations that make sense: the struggle against oppression, domination,
colonialism, for equal rights. We sell today a war that is not ours: that of a world
called "civilized" against "Islamic terrorism". In this "war", Muslims are seen as
potential terrorists and are told to "prove" they are not complicit in Daesh.
And Jews are assigned to support fully a criminal Israeli policies against the
Palestinians and suicidal for the Jews.
This leak criminal before holding by fear. This syndrome ensures consensus to the point
that a Palestinian negotiator (Professor Albert Aghazarian) has been said that the
Israelis are afraid of not being afraid. This irrational fear has won many French Jews.
In the context of the "clash of civilizations" pretext for bloody dominant the world, in
France there is a general increase in all forms of racism. Contrary to the image produced
by the mainstream media, racism affects essentially all "dominated", all victims of social
apartheid: Arabs, Blacks, Roma. It takes a new turn by hiding behind Islamophobia. Since
it is no longer politically correct to say "dirty Arab" is demonizing Islam.
There is also an undeniable and detestable rise of antisemitism. But the different forms
of racism are not treated the same way.
Israeli leaders and France CRIF, actively participate in the stigmatization of Muslims.
They claim against all evidence that there is only one to denounce racism (anti-Semitism)
and we are on the eve of a new "Kristallnacht". They show the Jews as those that power
while protecting the security ideology, the statements of the main leaders and smelly work
pseudo intellectuals seek a single population declared dangerous.
Anti-Semitic stereotypes also feed on the complicity of the CRIF with Israeli policy and
the obvious bias of power. At a time of confusion, the legitimate indignation against
Israeli crimes raises anti-Semitism and the few misfits drawn to the appalling violence
Daesh commit criminal attacks against Jews because Jews.
The fight against racism can not be cut. Choose some "good" victims against others is the
antithesis of the anti-racist struggle. Israeli politics and the total denial of the
rights of the Palestinian people do not protect the Jews. On the contrary. To create the
new Israeli, had to "kill the Jew" , who thought that went through the emancipation of
humanity. As the anti-colonialist Israeli activist Eitan Bronstein: "we will never be free
until the Palestinians will not be the" . By refusing tribalism, French Jews reaffirm a
story in which they can be proud of.
It's tou-te-s together we must fight all forms of racism, any stigma, any discrimination.
It's tou-te-s all it takes to defend the right, in Palestine as here.
Pierre Stambul
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