The Question that carries its own Answer

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen and Daniel Schwammenthal ask the question: “Do Jews Have a Future in Europe?” In response, instead of giving the answer that everyone knows is this: “It all depends on what the Jews will do,” the questioners repeat the old demonic arguments, and reach the old satanic conclusion to the effect that the Europeans along with the rest of humanity are sick and need fixing because the Jews can do no wrong.

This is how the two authors put it: “Anti-Semitism is always symptomatic of a more profound problem in society, something that might start with Jews but will not stop there.” This thought, together with a long presentation are stuffed in an article that has the title: “Do Jews Have a Future in Europe?” and the subtitle: “Jihadists are not the only threat.” It was published on June 11, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.

After blaming the European societies for what is happening there, Benzaquen and Schwammenthal propose a plan in four points to combat what they call anti-Semitism. All the suggestions they make require governments and civil societies to do something, but not one word is said (absolutely not a single word) as to what will be asked of the Jews to participate in heir own rehabilitation. It is as if the Jews were totally blameless in this recurring phenomenon that has plagued them throughout the ages, everywhere they went on this planet.

Benzaquen and Schwammenthal fail to see what is missing in their thinking despite the fact that they report this: “According to the French league of Human Rights, nearly 50% of all racist acts in France are anti-Semitic, even though Jews represent only 1% of the population.” Did it ever occur to them asking the question: Why is that? And following with this one: What are we doing wrong that keeps inviting such responses from every race at every epoch since the beginning of recorded history?

The answer is no, it never occurred to them for the simple reason that if they did answer those questions, there would be no need to ask them. This is true because the reporting on the phenomenon of “anti-Semitism,” is the spark that lights up the anti-Semitic sentiments. To put it bluntly, if they just shut up, the problem will go away by itself. So why don't they shut up? Most ordinary Jews do, but their leaders refuse to remain quiet because to team up with governments and civil societies in an effort to solve the problems they themselves create, is big business. Making it their full time preoccupation gives them a cushy job that pays well, and the opportunity to live the high life at the expense of what they call their people.

In fact, what these leaders seek to do is shut everybody up while blabbering the plight of their so-called people. A paradox, you say? Look how they do that. First they complain that Jews are being attacked every time that someone utters a benign something that might relate – however remotely – to the Jews or to Israel. This is how they describe these occurrences: “Such attacks take place in the context of a public debate.” They don't say what the debate is about; they don't participate in it to give their side of the story; they do something else.

What the Jewish leaders do is call every such debate “an anti-Semitic discourse” that has the effect of forging “the most unlikely of alliances.” In other words, they say that any debate regarding the Jews or Israel can only be carried out by Jews. A non-Jew that seeks to participate in the discussion is by definition a conspirator that is united with other conspirators “by their animosity toward the Jews and the Jewish state.” This effectively shuts up everybody, and leaves the field to the Jews to do as they wish. In fact, this is what has been happening in North America for some five decades now, the reason why the continent has become a cultural mess.

But how do they shut everybody up? This is how they do it: “In early May, Mr. Louis organized a conference to unite French and Belgian anti-Semites [they mean debaters], which the Belgian authorities canceled at the last minute.” But if they fail to shut somebody up, they whine about it like this: “Government attempts to silence Dieudonne and his followers by prohibiting his shows have failed, largely thanks to the internet.” And they are whining about this website too, having blacklisted me for nearly half a century already.

And so they admit that: “The authorities can ban events but not sentiments.” And the consequence is that the attempt to get the government to silence the people is precisely the spark that lights up the antisemitic sentiments, maintains them and escalates them. The remedy would be for the Jewish leaders to shut up rather than try to shut everybody else up. The tragedy is that they will not do that. They haven't done it in centuries and they will not do it now. Thus, the escalation keeps building up till something drastic happens; something like a pogrom or a holocaust. Here we go again.