EDITORIAL: MANUFACTURING ANTI-SEMITES
Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom, 9/28/02
http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article213.html
The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the
anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic
organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of society,
rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering. Anti-Semitism,
which has hidden itself in shame since World War II, is now riding on a
great wave of opposition to Sharon's policy of oppression.
Sharon's propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all
critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities
with this mark. Many good people, who feel no hatred at all towards the
Jews, but who detest the persecution of the Palestinians, are now called
anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out of this word, giving it something
approaching respectability.
The practical upshot: not only does Israel not protect the Jews from
anti-Semitism, but quite on the contrary - Israel manufactures and exports
the anti-Semitism that threatens Jews around the world. For many years,
Israel enjoyed the sympathy of most people. It was seen as the state of the
holocaust survivors, a small and courageous country defending itself
against the repeated assaults of murderous Arabs. Slowly, this image has
been replaced by another: a cruel, brutal and colonizing state, oppressing
a small and helpless people. The persecuted has become the persecutor,
David has turned onto Goliath…
Every few years, the Jewish lobby "eliminates" an American politician who
does not support the Israeli government unconditionally. This is not done
secretly, behind the scenes, but as a public "execution". Just now this was
done to the black Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a young, active,
intelligent and very sympathetic woman. She has dared to criticize the
Sharon government, support Palestinians and (worst of all) Israeli and
Jewish peace groups. The Jewish establishment found a counter-candidate, a
practically unknown black woman, injected huge sums into the campaign and
defeated Cynthia. All this happened in the open, with fanfares, to make a
public example - so that every Senator and Congressperson would know that
criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide…
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