The world is coming close to cementing the view that
the Zionist movement is nothing more than the aspiration of a centuries-old
organized crime syndicate.
To free yourself of old prejudices and misconceptions
about Jews and the Zionist movement, you need to reject off-hand the argument
that says Jews ought to be loved as a group because of who they are. It is
imperative to do such rejection because if you hold the view that Jews can be
loved as a group, you imply that they can also be hated as a group, and not
regarded as individuals, each to be judged according to his or her character.
It flows from this point of view that he who says he
loves Jews as a group just because they are Jews and nothing else, implicitly
asserts that anti-Semitism is a natural sentiment that must be preserved and
never questioned.
Jonathan S. Tobin that has demonstrated time after
time he loves to wallow in the warm and velvety feeling of being hated, has
written a piece through which he advocates that Jews be loved regardless of the
person's character. He thus helps to perpetuate the hatred of Jews, as well as
serves himself with the warm and velvety feeling of being hated, something he
can no longer live without.
Tobin wrote: “Is there something wrong with people
liking Jews?” an article that also came under the subtitle: “Some denounced
Trump's envoy on anti-Semitism when he called for philo-Semitism. Are they
right to consider those who admire Jews as dangerous?” The article was
published on May 7, 2020 in the online publication, Jewish News Syndicate.
What prompted Tobin to write this article is that the
State Department held a press call during which its spokesman promised to
combat anti-Semitism by promoting philo-Semitism, which means by advocating the
love of Jews as a group regardless of the individuals' character. And so, after
going through a rambling elaboration of the subject, Tobin concluded what was
expected he would conclude: advocating the love of Jews is a good thing to do,
regardless of the consequences.
To understand why philo-Semitism leads to
anti-Semitism, we need to know where the idea came from in the first place.
Well, it all began when the Hebrew nomadic tribes that were roaming the deserts
of the Middle East and North Africa, decided they wanted to be respected the
same as the citizens of the magnificent empires of the time, such as Egypt,
Persia, Assyria, Babylon and so on.
But because the Hebrews did not have an empire of their
own to associate with and display their pride, they invented the idea of a God
that's greater than the rulers of the existing empires combined, choosing them
to be his favorite children for no reason but that they are who they are. And
since an inquisitor that wants to verify the assertion cannot do so without
talking to God, no one has contradicted the Jewish claim because no one was
able to get in touch with God. And so, the idea has remained cast in stone like
this: The Hebrews are the chosen children of a powerful God who will protect
them against those that hate them and wish to harm them.
The Hebrews made that construct the cornerstone of
their system of beliefs, and migrated in droves from the Middle East and North
Africa to Europe. Given that they looked physically different from the
Europeans and were discriminated against for it, their priority was to make
themselves look like the Europeans without being assimilated. The way they did
this, was to shed their Hebrew identity, which was the source of their problem,
but stick with their Jewish identity, which they bestowed on the locals who
converted to Judaism.
Now calling themselves Jews rather that Hebrews, they
found that the easiest group of locals to convert to Judaism were the street
children whom they kidnapped or lured into the walled ghettos they built for
themselves. They raised the children, shielded from outside interference, and
went on to indoctrinate them with the precepts of their system of beliefs. When
the children were old enough to procreate, they crossbred with them, producing
“Jewish” offspring who increasingly––generation after generation––came to look
more like Europeans than Middle Easterners. And so, they started calling
themselves European Jews.
Confident that they can now go toe to toe with the
local Christians competing against them in every field of endeavor, the Jews
tried to strengthen the advantage they had by reviving the old idea of being
chosen by God to be his favorite children, therefore entitled to be loved without
question. However, rather that love them, the locals began to resent them.
Instead of backing off, the Jews doubled down on their claim, buoyed by the
fact that the Arab Civilization was now ascending. The Jews associated
themselves with the Arabs on account that they were their Semitic cousins. And
this is how the resentment of Jews became the hatred of all Semites.
During the subsequent centuries, the Arabs conquered a
good part of Europe but were eventually pushed back. The anti-Semitic sentiment
that was reserved for the Arabs began to erase, but remained alive for the Jews
who maintained their way of life, and refused to assimilate while continuing to
claim they were the chosen children of God, entitled to privileges no one else
can have.