France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Zionism Israel
against Jews (fr, it, pt) [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. ---- Zionism has never fought anti-Semitism
---- 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 participation in the resistance against Nazism and the Vichy regime
and by the commitment of many of them in progressive or anti-colonial struggles. Jewish
intellectuals of the 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 all that. A time when racism, fascism and hatred of others were
considered abjections to fight. Jewish children went to public school, he never would have
come to them to to part in religious schools.
Efforts are now in Israel to erase the history of Jews in the countries 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 few years break we did. On 11 January, the head of the Paris demonstration gigantic
supposed denounce terrorism, there are three war criminals, Netanyahu, Lieberman and
Bennet, who come to shine in the massacre of over 2,000 Palestinians (mainly civil-es of )
in Gaza during the summer of 2014. Taking advantage of the emotion caused by the
anti-Semitic attack in 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.
Aliyah dead
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" or accomplices (the only cause, that of Greater Israel from the sea to the
Jordan). 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 population
before the village is, like so others wiped. What symbol!
Demonization of Arabs
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,
and they were often humiliated and discriminated-es-es on arrival. They and are cut off
from their roots-es-es and pushed 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.
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 never meant
to be complete 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 he has in common with what has been
shown the great intellectual-le-s Jews (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 ".
Tribal vision of humanity
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.
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 Daech.
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) could say 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.
Stigmatization of Muslims
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 the 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 are for
a single population declared dangerous.
Anti-Semitic stereotypes also feed on the complicity of 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 Daech
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 do not be.
" By refusing tribalism, French Jews reaffirm a story in which they can be proud of.
That is all and all together we must fight all forms of racism, any stigma, any
discrimination. It is everyone all right to be defended in Palestine as here.
Pierre Stambul (friend of AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Sionisme-Israel-contre-les-Juifs
