To accuse a student newspaper of exaggerating its presentation of the Palestine-Israel dispute, Alan Dershowitz used the term: “Blood libel” obviously thinking that this is not an exaggeration. This prompts us to juxtapose the two ideas to see which one is an exaggeration and which is not.
In an article he wrote under the title: “The Harvard
Crimson Normalizes Growing Campus Antisemitism,” Alan Dershowitz has accused
the Crimson editors of practicing blood libel because they said they now support
the BDS movement which resembles the anti-apartheid movement that was instrumental
in liberating South Africa from the grip of apartheid. The Dershowitz article
was published on May 6, 2022 in the Jewish online publication Algemeiner.
As to the meaning of blood libel, we find that it
originated in Europe during the Dark Age when Jews (who lived in ghettos to
protect themselves from the aggressive populations that did not like their Jewish
looks, attacked them for who they are) came up with a solution to their
predicament that backfired on them.
What the Jews did was change their looks by crossbreeding
with the Europeans. To this end, they devised a scheme according to which they
kidnapped the street children that were abandoned by their parents, raised them
as Jews in the ghettos and crossbred with them when they grew old enough to
procreate. While this scheme succeeded in changing the “hook-nosed” Jewish look
to that of the natural European appearance, it created other problems for the
Jews.
It is that, knowing about the Jewish kidnapping of Christian
children, but not knowing why the Jews kidnapped them, the European populations
connected this act with stories that the Jews were telling about the Passover.
This was a time when the Jews smeared blood on the doors of Egyptian households
containing the children that must be murdered. The Jews did this while baking
the unleavened bread they were famous for. Thus, the European populations could
not avoid the conclusion that the Jews were making bread with the blood of
Christian children. Ever since that time, the Europeans maintained that belief and
held it against the Jews who saw it as the worst libel ever devised and used
against them.
Back to the Alan Dershowitz contention that to equate Israel’s
treatment of the indigenous Palestinians it has under occupation, with the Afrikaners’
treatment of the indigenous population of South Africa — is an exaggeration. That is, to accuse Israel of practicing
apartheid is the same as to accuse the Jews of murdering Christian children to
make bread with their blood.
Has this man lost his mind,
or is there some sort of logic to what he is doing? To find the answer to this
question, we study what Israel has been doing that Alan Dershowitz has always approved
of. By annexing the West Bank — which the Israelis call Judea and Samaria — a piece at the a time, the Jews hope to create a Jewish
state that extends from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea. In response
to this scheme, the Palestinians came up with the cry from the heart that goes:
From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be free.
This is the vision that the Jews fear the most. A
democratic state modelled after post-apartheid South Africa where a majority of
Palestinians and a minority of Jews share the governance of a country where
everyone will have the opportunity to live a tranquil life, and freely pursue happiness.
Instead of this, what the Jews want is a state whose population will always be
composed of an imported Jewish majority ruling over a continually diminishing
Palestinian minority.
These two competing visions were developed because Israel
made it so that the two-state solution became extremely difficult to realize.
The Israelis did it by confiscating Palestinian lands and building Jewish
settlements on them in such a way that it will not be possible to create a
contiguous country for the Palestinians. This left only the one-state proposition
as a viable option.
The problem with this is that it demonstrates the Jewish
approach to doing things. They think up a scheme which they believe came to them
as a revelation from God. They rush to implement what turns out to be a
ballistic bullet whose trajectory cannot be deviated or aborted. It keeps going
unguided till it hits something, causing whatever damage will result.
This is what happened to the Israeli scheme. They created
a monstrosity that trapped them as would quicksand. Unable to move in any
direction that will help them solve a condition that’s boiling furiously, and
promises to explode, the Israelis are pulled down into a condition that may be impossible
to describe with certainty, but is not too difficult to predict will be soaked
with blood.
Given that for half a century, it was Jewish leaders such
as Alan Dershowitz who put the Israelis in their current impossible condition
by exercising an absolute dictatorial control on all works that dealt with Jewish
or Israeli themes — only to be exposed as false and destructive by the
advent of the internet, Dershowitz saw that he would be working against himself
if he tried to silence all those who will emulate the Harvard Crimson, by slamming
the Crimson at this time. And so, what he did instead, was to whine about the
220 words that were edited out of his 890-word article.
Here again, Alan Dershowitz seems to equate editing out a
slice of a single pro-Jewish article one time, with silencing other voices time
after time for half a century.