It
boggles the mind that most Jewish leaders are surprised that anti-Semitism has
returned. And it boggles the mind that only a handful of them are now
discovering that anti-Semitism never left.
You
get a sense of all that and more when you read the article that came under the
title: “Caricaturing Jews, Hating Jews, Killing Jews,” and the subtitle: “It
never left.” The article was written by John Podhoretz and published on April
29, 2019 in Commentary Magazine.
To
carry on with the discussion, I need to tell of an incident that remained stuck
in my memory for a long time. In fact, memory is all I have of the occurrence.
It means that I can only give a broad description of it and not much detail.
So, it must have been during the 1980s that I wrote –– and circulated but not
published because I was blacklisted then as I am now –– that the World (or
maybe the American) Jewish Congress was, by its behavior, encouraging the rise
of anti-Semitism. And as was the custom at the time, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation stole my idea without giving me credit, invited the patriarch of
the bootlegging family who was the president of that Congress, and questioned
him.
At
some point during the interview, the journalist asked: Aren't you encouraging
anti-Semitism when you do that? And the Jew gave the typical kind of smart
Aleck and evasive answer that the Jews give out in the name of clarity. He said
this: It is anti-Semites that encourage anti-Semitism. Too bad the journalist
did not have the presence of mind to ask if this means he is an anti-Semite at
heart, and doesn’t even know it.
My
reason for telling this story is to show that when John Podhoretz proudly
reveals, as he does in his current article, that it was “in February 2002 that
COMMENTARY” published an article under the title: “The Return of
Anti-Semitism,” the editors of the magazine were at least 20 years too late in
recognizing what was happening in America. In any case, some of the Jewish
leaders seem to know it now, but they have not yet made the next necessary
leap. That would be to start looking for a solution to the problem of
anti-Semitism, however they define the term, within themselves ... in their own
behavior.
In
fact, the entire Podhoretz article is a vivid display of what the Jews do to
deny themselves the opportunity to recognize that they are the architects of
their own eternal misery. And without taking this crucial step, they will keep
haggling their way around the point without ever getting to the point where the
solution sits, as it has for centuries. It's been there waiting to be embraced,
put into effect, and give the Jews not another temporary lease on life, but one
that will be as permanent as it is for the rest of the human race.
What
follows is a very condensed version of the relevant passages in the Podhoretz
article, showing how the Jewish frame of mind is shielded against the idea that
the key to changing the paradigm of Jewish misery is in the hands of the Jewish
leaders. Instead of working to put an end to anti-Semitism, which they can
easily do, they constantly work to frustrate attempts made by others to
eliminate the problem. And so, instead of the Jews being welcomed into the fold
of the human race, they are kept out of the tent by their own leaders. Here is
the compilation of those passages:
“Anti-Semitism has returned and feels like it never left. It was
quieted in Western societies for a while. You can insist on standards of
conduct at workplaces, institutions, schools and public discourse that leaves
it in the heart and the conspiracist's brain. That's what happened. Law firms
became populated with Jewish attorneys. Ivy League colleges had Jewish
presidents. These circumstances are fraying. The energy of Jews has caused us
to rise, threatening others. An editor of the New York Times ran a cartoon in
which Netanyahu was drawn as a dog leading a blind Trump. The idea that Jews
are only a few generations removed from near-destruction and that sensitivity
is required in depicting them may not have occurred to that editor. We know
about the unique criticism of Israel for behaving in ways that other countries
behave when it comes to contested territories. Critics of the only Jewish state
tend to hold no other state to any standards”.
Believing
that the events of World War II had taught the Jews a valuable lesson, and that
they will never again instigate wars by pitting one nation against another, or
pitting a government against its own people to better serve the Jews, Western
societies fell into the trap of doing more than compensate every charlatan that
pretended to be a Jew, and every Jew that pretended to be grieving. Those
societies bent backward to accommodate both the authentic Jews and the fake
ones by conferring on them a status so special, it shocked the “nativist”
groups that never dreamed of being so pampered, because they went through life
thinking that they could only have what they earned.