Ruth R. Wisse has written many startling things over the
years but this is the first time she came this close to unveiling a hitherto
unseen aspect of the Jewish character. She is chiding the victim for not enjoying
the rape, and castigating the relatives for not celebrating it.
Wisse does that in her article which came under the title:
“Anti-Semitism Is Never Solely About the Jews” and the subtitle: “Radical
Islamists attack Jews as the handiest target in a campaign to destroy the free
societies that jihadists abhor.” It was published on January 16, 2015 in the
Wall Street Journal.
After doing some fancy footwork to show that ideology sets
terror in motion which is why the “attackers” come for someone such as the Jews
before going after someone else such as the pastors in the 1940s or the
cartoonists in the more recent times, she concludes that the unspecified “they”
as she calls them, first target the Jews and then seek to subjugate the free
and open society which is their ultimate foe. Okay, Ruth, whatever you say.
As if this were not confusing enough, however, she
complicates the matter even more by suggesting that anti-Semitism is really not
about the Jews. She goes on to say that if you mistakenly imagine such a thing,
you fall into the trap that the anti-Semites set for you. And she explains why.
She says this deflects attention from the perpetrators to the victims. Great!
Now it is all clear; as clear as the famous Jewish moral clarity can make it.
But she did not take us by the hand and brought us to this
point for nothing. She did all that to show us why she came to the conclusion
that Jews stand “for the liberalizing aspects of individual freedom, democratic
governance and modernity complete with its anxieties.” And this, in her view,
explains why “Anti-Jewish politics aims at the tolerant societies in which Jews
flourish.”
Aha! That's what it's all about. Do you see how she managed
to reverse the narrative? It has always been known that the Jews migrate to the
liberal societies that welcome them. Once established in those societies, they
turn conservative as in “neocon,” and push the society to the right by first
attacking free speech, and then destroying the legal system that ensures equal
treatment for all. They corrupt the political system, and use what they make of
it to climb to the top of the food chain. Once there, they rule with such
tyrannical zeal that the masses revolt and take matters in their own hands,
resulting in tragic outcomes for many – Jews and gentiles alike.
No, says Ruth Wisse, that's not how things happen. To
illustrate her point, she gives the example of Palestine-cum-Israel . But instead of starting
at the beginning of the actual historical narrative, she starts in 1964 when Israel was
already established and the PLO was forming. She mentions the 1967 blitz by
which the Jews brought the Palestinians under their military control, and says
that this was the moment “the PLO focused its terror exclusively against the
Jews.” And guess what upsets Wisse the most. It is this: “money began to flow
to the organization from Arab states. A pure product of ideological
anti-Semitism.” Hey Ruth, let me whisper something in your ear. The Arabs never
gave as much money to the PLO as did America . Are you saying that the
Americans are anti-Semitic?
As weak as this point has been to proving her point, she
builds on it to eventually conclude that the Arab rejection of the Zionist
ideology is akin to the European manifestation of anti-Semitism. And in her
view, this explains why Arab leaders such as the Syrians and the Egyptians took
in German scientists after the Great War. Hey Ruth, let me whisper something
else in your ear: So did your heartthrob Uncle Joseph Stalin of the Soviet
Union, and your other Uncle Sam of the American Republic
But in her view, the Arabs made a poor choice. Instead of
that, she wants to see the Arab leaders welcome the rape of Palestine , thus force the Palestinian people
to accept the notion of Jewish style second class citizenship as being a
splendid model of liberal democracy. This, of course, being the model for which
the American Congress is bankrupting the Republic and killing scores of
innocent foreigners as well as American soldiers to shove down the throat of
humanity.