Look at the following title for an article that was published in the Jewish News Syndicate: “Claims of Israeli ethnic cleansing have no place in a student paper, or anywhere.” Such title tells you these people wish to control who can say what and say it where.
And that's not the end of the
story because there comes the subtitle which reads as follows: “An article in
the 'Columbia Daily Spectator' and too many others like it call us to improve
our tactics and long-range strategy to combat abhorrent false charges against
the Jewish state”.
Thus, having made it clear as
to what can be said and what cannot, the lords and ladies of the Jewish News
Syndicate, now say they need to improve their tactics for achieving those
goals. Note that these are just the headlines of the article that Jennifer
Roskies wrote and had it published on October 1, 2020 in the online magazine,
Jewish News Syndicate.
The occasion for writing the
article is that Roskies was prompted by another article that was written by two
Jewish college students and published in the Colombia Daily Spectator under the
title: “A Jewish Argument for Divestment.” The writers tell how, as toddlers
they were inculcated into believing dogmas, they found untenable as they grew
older and began to think for themselves. Jennifer Rosikes is not responding to
the students' article, but having said that it should never have been
published, she went on to suggest what can be done to silence those who
disagree with the views of the Jewish News Syndicate.
Here is what the students, Eve
Glazier and Yaniv Goren have said under the title: “A Jewish argument for
divestment,” an article that was published on September 23, 2020 in the
Columbia Spectator:
“We write from a Jewish
perspective to address false claims that the BDS movement is antisemitic. These
claims aim to suppress Palestinian dissent. Jewish voices advocating for
Palestinian rights are told they have internalized Jew-hatred, or a desire to see
antisemitism persist. Within Jewish institutions in the US, this notion is
dogma instilled in children from a young age: Israeli flags hung in synagogues,
Israeli soldiers as counselors in Jewish camps, and the conflation of all
things Israeli with Judaism. The truth is that Zionism is a distinct political
ideology akin to other nationalist ideologies of 19th-century Europe. Famous
Jews like Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky, who identified as Zionists earlier in
their youth, came later in their lives to disparage Israel. Albert Einstein
once insinuated that Menachem Begin's beliefs were akin to Nazi ideology. It is
odd that campaigns like BDS have been panned as antisemitic. We believe that
the accusation is itself antisemitic: It equates Jewish people with Israel;
plainly the 'dual-loyalty' trope”.
And so, at a time when
right-wing Jewish organizations – as numerous as grasshoppers – have invaded
the campus landscape, tearing their hair, beating their breasts and blowing
their entrails out of their bellies while falsely claiming that freedom of
speech is muzzled on campus by members of the Left, here you see captains of
the Jewish News Syndicate, who are icons of the Jewish Right, wailing, tearing
their hair, beating their breasts and blowing their entrails out of their
bellies because of an article that did not suit their taste, was publish in a
campus newspaper by students.
No, no, no, says Jennifer
Roskies, people who express that kind of viewpoint must never be allowed to
publish their opinion “in a student newspaper or anywhere.” Instead, she offers
the same old menu that has been rejected time after time by people who think
for themselves. That's because the menu is of the kind that's suitable for the
sewer. When you look at it closely, it unfolds in the manner of a bank robber
that mugs the manager, molests the teller, takes the cash and gets caught by
the cops on his way out.
Now handcuffed, the robber
protests being singled out. He cries out that the city is full of characters
who mug, molest and rob, but are not pursued like he is. And no matter how much
you explain to him that he is punished for the crimes he commits and not those
of others, he still doesn't get it. This is what's reflected in the Jennifer
Roskies article. Here is a sample of that:
“[With regard] to refugees,
Israel's foes wasted no time in calling for the return of Arab refugees, and
they continue to do so to this day, whereas it took decades for the Jewish
world to mount campaigns for awareness of the equal number of Jews who were
driven from their homes in the Muslim world during the same period”.
Even if it is true that an
exact number of Jews were pushed out of Arab countries at the exact moment that
the Palestinians were driven out of their homes at gunpoint by the Hagenah and
Irgun terrorists, the Jews of the Roskies mentality should make their claims
against the Arab countries they say mistreated the Jews, and not try to swap
the real pain of Palestinians for the made-up pain of the Jews; which is what
the Israelis did and said to the Palestinians: Hey, it's even Steven.
To set the record straight,
when the Jews realized they were going to be a minority in the territory
between the River and the Sea, they embarked on a program to bring Jews to
Israel from where they were concentrated. They found them in large
concentration in the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Yemen, and found them in smaller
concentration in the MENA region from Morocco to Iraq.
Israel wooed them all and got
different reactions from each place. Those of Ethiopia and Yemen were too poor
to pay their way to Israel, and so Israel arranged to have them airlifted to
Israel.
As to the Soviet Union where
they had free education from kindergarten to postgraduate studies, the
government demanded that Jews who want to emigrate, pay for the education they
received. That's when the Jews organized the: “Let my people go” shtick that
embarrassed the Soviets enough to let the Jews go.
When it came to the Arab
countries, the Jews were treated as well as everyone else. But in the same way
that the Jews have been migrating from the poorer countries to the richer
countries throughout time, they freely and willingly migrated out of the Arab
countries to other places … never in droves or panic.
Like Jennifer Roskies says, the Jewish world mounted campaigns for awareness trying to extort compensation money from the Arabs, but all it managed to produce –– while the accusers were making their rounds and talking to lawyers, journalists and sympathizers –– were cracked-up bellies that could not stop laughing upon seeing the kind of scam that the Jews were trying to pull.