Look how Jed Babbin shot himself in the foot at the start of a discussion he thought he could use to convince the audience that antisemitism exists, not because there are fundamental reasons for the sentiment to exist, but because vicious individuals create it and spread it willy-nilly according to him. As it happened, Jed Babbin did the self-shooting in two steps like you’ll see in what follows:
As a
first step, Babbin wrote that, “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tried to justify Hitler’s
genocide against Jews. He said, ‘They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being
Jews and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true’”.
Even
without looking at the second step, the first should strike you as an
upside-down and weird statement. It’s because to claim that the Jews were not
exterminated because they were Jews justifies their extermination, or that the Europeans
did not hate the Jews because of who they were but because of another reason, need
thorough explanations that Babbin did not provide in any adequate way.
Then
came the second step in which Jed Babbin wrote that, “Mr. Abbas continued, saying, ‘Even
Hitler said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money.’
He argued that for Hitler, ‘this was not about Semitism and antisemitism’”.
Looked
at separately or when Juxtaposed, the sum total of the two sayings seems to be
that Jed Babbin and those like him are desperate to make humanity believe it
hates the Jews and has been exterminating them since the beginning of time, not
because of what the Jews do – which they can change if they so decide and become
like everyone else – but because of who the Jews are, which they cannot change
anymore than a colored person can change the color of their skin. The ludicrous
claim is that Jews are trapped in their Jewishness, unless and until they find
a deep pocket to marry, at which time they’ll ditch their Jewish beliefs and start
worshiping the greenback.
These
are such clumsy and self-incriminating arguments, they give the vicious and the
authentic Jew-hating people of the world an opportunity to argue that the Jews
are complaining, not about being hated or exterminated, but about the way to
interpret the act of antisemitism. The aim is to force the Jews to stop loving
money, according to Jed Babbin — even change their names from the toxic
Goldstein and Silverstein to names as innocuous as Blacksmith and Carpenter. In
fact, the true haters will say that the Jews would rather end up in the
crematorium as Gold than end up in a soup kitchen having a free meal.
Whereas
to cement their arguments and render them relevant, people everywhere in the
world engage in serious discussions, Jed Babbin approached the next phase of
his debate with a nonchalant insouciance that allowed him to turn reality into
a kind of monkey talk. The following is what he should have said while talking
honestly but did not because distorting the meaning of what they say has been
the stock-in-trade by which these people self-incriminate again and again. Here
is what Babbin wrote:
“As Palestinian Authority president Yasser
Arafat preached peace, he signed the 1993 Oslo Accords under which the Jews
agreed to end the occupation, which proved to be a false promise. The reason
why the Jews didn’t keep the promise was simple. They could accuse Arafat and
Mr. Abbas of rejecting the false agreements that Israel was ramming down their
throats rather than adhere to those they had negotiated with the Palestinians”.
This
done, Jed Babbin then engaged in the usual polemic that gives the impression
the Jews went out of their way at least on three occasions, and tried to return
to the Palestinians what they had stolen from them, except that the latter refused
to take the deal. It is unclear why the Jews would come up with this kind of idea
but it was said on several occasions by different people that the polemic
carries within it the racist suggestion that the Palestinians have come to love
living under Jewish occupation, preferring it to living in freedom or living
under Arab rule.
As if
this were not enough to put down a people that have become the most victimized
in the history of the planet, Babbin attributed to the Palestinians the
character that the Jews had proudly been attributing to themselves for
thousands of years but has fallen out of style in these modern times. In fact,
the Jews used to say it was the character that made them superior to the rest
of humanity. That was the ability and will of the Jews to inflict terror on the
innocent when they deem them ripe for murder and plunder. Here is how Babbin distorted
reality and told lies using sanitized words:
“Three times Israel has tried to offer the ‘land
for peace’ deal but the Palestinians rejected it. It would have established a
Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as well as East Jerusalem. Instead,
Arafat launched a terrorist campaign at the same time as he was urging his
followers to violence”.
And
then, not realizing that occupation is the ultimate form of terrorism, Babbin
asked this question: “Why did Mr. Abbas choose to make that statement
now?”