Analysis: The Anti-Israel, Self-Hating Jew

By Michelle Cohen

There is a growing trend of Jews against Israel, particularly in Diaspora Jewry. Jews who have chosen to side with Arabs against Israel.  Jews who have chosen to ignore all massacres, deportations and terrorist attacks carried out by Arabs against Jews and Israelis. Jews who even justify those attacks and have condemned Israel for all her actions ever since her creation. Jews who seem to have more compassion for Arabs than for Israelis.  Jews who seem to have forgotten the hardships and the path that had been paved by Jewish refugees—both from Arab countries as well as Holocaust survivors—for new generations in Israel.  Some of these Jews have gone as far as denying the Holocaust or suggesting that the Holocaust catastrophe was "used" in order to create the state of Israel.  Is that really so?


How would one describe a Jewish man who disapproves of and even opposes the existence of a Holocaust museum in the United States, as well as the existence of Israel? 

Norman Finkelstein, an American political scientist and author whose primary fields of research are the Arab-Israeli conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, addresses an audience of Arabs and anti-Semites.  


Finkelstein's parents are Holocaust survivors. Seemingly unaware, he speaks about the Nazi Holocaust in front of an audience of Holocaust deniers whilst deluding himself to believing that he has gained their trust.  


Not only does he minimise the number of Holocaust survivors, he also minimises the number of Jewish Holocaust victims from "5 to 5.5 million" instead of 6 million Jews.  Finkelstein does not believe the Holocaust is unique nor is the massacre of 6 million Jews.  In his opinion, the massacre of 6 million Jews is no worse than killing any other number of people from another group.  In other words, the death of two people of one group is equal to the attempt to annihilate another.  


Finkelstein says, "It is an abomination to say one peoples has suffered more than another."  With this statement, he is basically saying that the suffering of the families of two victims is equal to the collective suffering of the families of 6 million.  


Finkelstein believes that the Holocaust was used to extort from Swiss banks moneys that belonged to Jews.  He claims that European Jewry was not wealthy enough to have had that much money in Swiss banks.   

Finkelstein speaks about America having a museum devoted to the Nazi Holocaust but no museum devoted to the suffering of Native Americans.  It appears Finkelstein is unaware that approximately 45% of the Holocaust Museum's funding is provided by private donations and that 90% of visitors to the museum are gentile.  It appears that, as a self-hating Jew, Finkelstein would prefer if there was no such thing as a Holocaust Museum in the United States—or perhaps anywhere else in the world—so the memory of this tragic historical event may be erased.  Perhaps he prefers people to forget that the Holocaust ever happened.  


Perhaps Finkelstein is unaware of the National Museum of The American Indian.  Located in Washington, D.C., the Museum is devoted to the art and culture of the Native American. 


Were 6 million Native Americans massacred? 

Concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict, Finkelstein believes that Hamas was "democratically elected" and ought not be considered a terrorist organisation.  Without doing any research on the subject, Finkelstein believes Hamas honoured all ceasefires.  Therefore, he believes that tightening the naval blockade — which he thinks is against International Law — and launching Operation Cast Lead were done for "purely confrontational reasons" on the part of Israel.  It is Finkelstein's opinion that Hamas is an honourable organisation and Israel is a tyrant state.  


All information and news about Hamas, including the Hamas Charter, does not faze Finkelstein who continues to believe that Hamas is innocent and only responds to attacks carried out by Israel — not the other way around. 


A blockade is legal according to international law when arms are being smuggled into the blockaded area. The Egypt-Israel blockade is indeed legal and justifiable by any means: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65133D20100602 . 

When Hamas stops launching rockets, the blockade may be lifted. Both Egypt and Israel have better things to do than to impose a naval blockade for no apparent reason.


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Ilan Pappé, an Israeli anti-Israel Jew whose parents are Holocaust survivors, is a professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK.  He claims he does not compare Israel to Nazi Germany but lectures about the "ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for the last 100 years."  He claims to be teaching people about the "attitudes and policies of the Zionists towards the people of Palestine."  


Who are the people of "Palestine?"  Perhaps Pappé does not believe that Christians and Jews also lived in the region. Pappé claims he does not want to demonise Zionists or the state of Israel but calls the Zionist movement and Israel a "colonialist project in Palestine."  As a matter of fact, he has entitled his lecture about Israel 'Zionism and Colonialism,' which means he does not recognise the Jewish link to the Holy Land - as if there is no Jewish history in the region. 


Pappé does not recognise that Israel agreed to the UN partition of 1947, which would have enabled Arabs and Jews to each have a country of their own.  He is obviously in denial about the fact that it was the Arabs who did not agree to the partition.  He claims, with a grin on his face, that his position on the subject is "very radical."  

When he gave a lecture in New Mexico, many students cancelled their attendance after reading the title of his lecture. He refers to himself in a suggestive way as a self-hating Jew and an anti-Semite. 

"The moment Palestine was chosen to redefine Judaism" Pappé says, "Zionism became a development of ethnic cleansing." 


So according to his account, any other region could have been "chosen."  This is yet another indication that Pappé does not believe Jews have any link to Israel.  That throws all archaeological evidence out the window.  

Pappé skims over the subject of Arab's refusal to accept a Zionist entity in the region by claiming that, "Though Zionists bought only 6% of the land, they were not accepted."  


Had he delved deeper into this subject he would have discovered that radical Muslims do not accept anyone other than themselves, particularly when dealing with issues about land and territory. 

Pappé claims he cannot find any Zionist quotes about the Holocaust being the reason for the establishment of the state of Israel, but claims that after WWII, "The Zionist movement accelerated the planing and thinking about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine."  


Therefore, Pappé equates the need for a Jewish homeland, after the massacre of 6 million Jews, to ethnic cleansing of Arabs — as if one could not have been done without the other.  

Pappé also teaches his audience by creating imaginary scenarios in which, "An Arab boy throwing a rock at Israeli soldiers may result in the destruction of 8 homes in his village."  


When creating such visuals for a receptive audience, it is easy to understand how such imaginative information can influence a new generation of people who are willing to absorb all they can in order to delegitimise Israel. 


Pappé claims that, according to Israel, if Arabs would accept the Zionist entity and would not retaliate there would be peace.  


According to Pappé, villages were ethically cleansed around Caesarea, but to this day there are Arab villages in that area. The areas that Pappé claims were "ethnically cleansed" were areas that were designated for the state of Israel. 

Pierre Rehov has interviewed Arabs who claim that it was their leaders who commanded them to leave so that a war may be waged against Israel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4r7ZjG9Nc 


Ilan Pappé's books have been praised by Walid Khalidi, Richard Falk, Ella Shohat, Nur Masalha and John Pilger. Pilger describes Pappé as "Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."  

Is it bravery or cowardliness? 


How brave is it to condemn one's country despite the fact that it is surrounded by enemies?  How brave is it to hold one's country to higher standards than one would expect from any other country concerning the displacement of people?  Is the Middle East the only region in the world where people have been displaced?  Are no other countries guilty of the same charges?  Why is it then that historians such as Ilan Pappé chose to condemn Israel only?  What about Arab Militia? http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/Frantzman-2007-08-16.asp 

In reference to "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs in the region, the first question that comes to mind is, if they were all ethnically cleansed why is 20% of Israel's population Arab? 

Pappé speaks about the "friendship" between Jews and Arabs prior to the establishment of Israel and shows a single film of a Muslim and Jew walking close by each other in Jerusalem. The filming lasts but for a couple of seconds, and it is questionable whether the two men are actually walking together or just happen to be close to one another as they walked down the street. Pappé would have us believe that life for Jews in Ottoman Palestine and British Mandate Palestine was always peachy.  Not so!  

"Following the expulsions from Spain, the Jewish population of Palestine rose to around 25% (includes non-Ottoman citizens, excludes Bedouin) and regained its former stronghold of Eastern Galilee. That ended in 1660 when they were massacred at Safed and Jerusalem." 

"With the advent of early Zionism, just prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Jews had become a small majority in the central Judea region. Many were not Ottoman citizens and were expelled to Egypt at the time that war was declared." 

-That is the story of my grandparents. 

"Under the Mandate, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased substantially with a rise in Jewish nationalism, which encouraged Zionism, a return to the ancient land of the Jews. Arab leaders, particularly the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini), strongly opposed Jewish immigration and employed anti-Semitic demagoguery claiming that Jews threatened the Haram. The result was, in 1920, 1922 and 1929, the 1920 Palestine riots. In 1936, the British Peel Commission advised that the western part of Palestine be divided between Arabs and Jews. The Arabs then launched the Great Uprising against British rule in an effort to end the immigration."

"In the summer of 1929 the Arabs of Palestine initiated rioting and massacres against the Jewish population in several towns. The targets were not Zionists who had dispossessed Arabs of their lands, but for the most part Jewish communities of the "old Yishuv," communities that had lived in Palestine for many hundreds of years. The pogroms were of the same general character as pogroms that had taken place sporadically  in Palestine for hundreds of years, usually referred to euphemistically by Jews of Safed, Tiberias, Jerusalem and Hebron as "Meoraot" — "events." The worst massacres took place in Safed, Hebron, Jerusalem and Motza. Like the pogroms of past ages, these "disturbances" featured angry crowds stirred up over a religious or other dispute, Imams preaching "Kill the Jews wherever you find them" and mobs screaming "Aleihum" (get them) and "Itbach Al Yahood" - murder the Jews. In a few days, over a hundred Jews were murdered and several hundreds were wounded." 

Read more: http://www.zionism-israel.com/Palestine_Massacre_riots_of_1929.htm


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Max Blumenthal, an American liberal investigative journalist, columnist, "documentary filmmaker," and political blogger, claims that the flotilla provocation was set up and that the flotilla video clips were "doctored by the Israeli government and the IDF", yet Blumenthal never questions why it was only the Mavi Maramara that was "attacked" and not the rest of the flotilla.  

It seems to be very important to Blumenthal that terrorists aboard the Mavi Maramara shouted: "Go back to Auschwitz" only once — as if once is not enough.  


It looks like Blumenthal is doing some whitewashing.  

Blumenthal cherry picks his interviews. In his YouTube video entitled 'Feeling The Hate In Tel Aviv', Blumenthal was only capable of interviewing people with no intelligence to speak of — who have the attention span of a gnat.  Undoubtedly, when Blumenthal came across any person capable of expressing themselves eloquently, he chose to simply omit those interviews. 


It would be interesting to find out what Blumenthal feels he has gained from those interviews  and how he feels he is contributing to society.

Furthermore, Blumenthal accuses Glenn Beck and Caroline B. Glick of being "not credible journalists."  He describes Click as "an Israeli government apologist."  Apparently, Blumenthal thinks it is an insult to accuse Glick of being a journalist who writes in Israel's defence.  Would Blumethal have the courage to interview Caroline B. Glick or Glenn Beck? Probably not!   


Are we to conclude that Max Blumenthal, a so-called "journalist", "writer" and "filmmaker" more credible than Glick or Beck?  On what are we to base this conclusion?


Blumenthal claims that Israeli journalists reporting on the Mavi Marmara have "the journalistic integrity of James O'Keefe", but judging by the people he had chosen to interview for his YouTube videos, it would be more accurate to say that it is Blumenthal who lacks integrity.  

Oddly, Blumenthal claims hesitantly — whilst referring to the terrorists aboard the Mavi Marmara — that, "I am not aware of any weapons that any activists had."  

Weapons aboard the Mavi Marmara

It seems Blumenthal is aware only of what is suitable to him as he attempts to delegitimise Israel. 


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Gerald Kaufman, a British Labour Party politician,—like most anti-Israel Jews— uses the fact that his parents lived through the Holocaust as an excuse to condemn Israel.  


Since his first trip to Israel in 1961, Kaufman claims he has travelled to Israel more times than he can remember, (that might be a problem right there). 


Kaufman claims to have known almost every Israeli Prime Minister starting with David Ben Gurion, and claims that Golda Meir was his friend. Establishing a general background of alliance with Israel — as well as claiming that he has friends in Israel, — Kaufman then proceeds to bash Israel in every imaginable way.  


Interestingly, Kaufman also claims to have been friends with Yasser Arafat. 


Kaufman's goal is to turn the United Kingdom against Israel, claiming that, "Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism." He condemns all of Israel and her citizens because of the July 22, 1946, King David Hotel bombing. Unfortunately for Kaufman, Israel only came to existence in 1948. 


Since this is his opinion about Israel, one has to wonder why Kaufman ever travelled to Israel and befriended her people in the first place? 


Kaufman never questions what the British were doing in the Middle East, but quickly passes judgement against Israel. 

He too does not believe that Hamas ought to be considered a terrorist organisation and therefore must not be boycotted. Kaufman believes Hamas is "terrible" but Israelis are "war criminals."  He believes that Operation Cast Lead was carried out because 4 Israelis were killed.  Kaufman chooses to ignore that Hamas launched thousands of rockets into South Israel over a period of 7 years. 


He refers to Arabs living in Gaza as "good and decent people." 

Kaufman believes that Israelis justify the killing of Arabs because of the Holocaust. With such a claim he is apparently assuming all Israelis come from European background.  Unfortunately for Kaufman, many Israeli's, there parents and grandparents, never experienced the Holocaust because they never lived in Europe before 1945.  


Kaufman affirms that he will not be silenced, which is fine, but sadly, he omits a lot of information in order to delegitimise Israel. He calls for the condemnation of Israel and the freedom of "Palestine."  

It is not Israel but rather Hamas that is responsible for imposing collective punishment in Gaza. Israel is simply responding to attacks from Gaza. How can anti-Israel Jews hold Israel responsible for the actions of Hamas, which in turn cause discomfort in Gaza? 


Should Israelis risk their lives in order to make the lives of Arabs more comfortable? Not to mention that their lives are not as "uncomfortable" as they want us all to believe and have obviously succeeded in doing so. 


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Amy Goodman, a left-wing journalist and host of Democracy Now (left-wing independent syndicated program of news and analysis) in New York City, seizes every opportunity to depict all Arabs as innocent little lambs and loyal citizens, and Israel as a tyrant state. She defends the Islamic world but always tries to expose Israel as a rogue state.  She talks about "seeking the truth" but always omits any information concerning attacks against Israel.  Some of the people she seems to admire are Norman Finkelstein — whom she believes has "an enormous amount of courage" — and Max Blumenthal.  

Whilst interviewing Emily HENOCHOWICZ, a young New York art student, Goodman allowed her co-host, Juan Gonzalez, to ask Henochowicz leading questions about Israel. 


Henochowicz lost her left eye after getting involved in a demonstration in Judea and Samaria in which tear gas was used to break up a demonstration that had turned violent.  Demonstrators hurled rocks at IDF soldiers, and tear gas boomeranged from a rock into Henochowicz' eye. 


Gonzalez asked Henochowicz if she was detained or questioned by the Israeli authorities, to which Henochowicz replied: "Detained? I was the victim, why would they (Israel) detain me?"  


Such leading questions clearly demonstrate that Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now are looking to worsen the situation and make Israel look like a totalitarian state.


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Gideon Levy, the son of Holocaust survivors, an Israeli journalist and editor for the Haaretz Leftist newspaper, claims he does not like to talk much about himself, — referring to himself as a "typical product of the Israeli education system and Israeli media." 


Levy claims that, "Israeli's see themselves as the only victims in the Middle East or maybe even the world", not because they have experienced Arab victimisation, but because they have been told they are victims by the Israeli "education system and media".  


In other words, Arab terrorism against Israelis is not the reason Israelis see themselves as victims, but rather see themselves as victims because of Israeli media influence.  


Levy claims that if more Israelis would see what he saw, if more Israelis knew what he knows, if more Israelis faced what he faced he thinks the picture would have looked different.  Yet Levy never explains what he saw, what he knows and what he faced.

It is interesting to note that Levy does not confront Israeli society with his claims but rather reaches out to the "international community" to speak out against Israel.  


Could it be that his international audience is more receptive to his lectures, and therefore affords him his "world fame?"  


Did Levy ever hold a conference in Israel for Israelis? 

Levy claims that Israel has used "leaders" like Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas and terrorist organisations such as Hamas, and Hizb'Allah as "excuses" not to negotiate for peace.  According to him, peace can be negotiated even though all of the above do not recognise Israel.  


Levy seems to be suggesting that Israel has created walls, checkpoints, roadblocks and a naval blockade for the sake of "occupation," — having nothing to do with security for Israeli citizens and tourists.  


He then goes on to speaking about the future of Israel and how much he cares about Israel, but never mentions that our enemies do not want Israel to exist at all in the future. 

Levy thinks that Israel ought to "put an end to the occupation with no preconditions."   


One has to wonder why Levy does not question why Arabs carried out terrorist attacks against Israelis before the walls, checkpoints, roadblocks and blockade?  


Levy believes it is easy to make peace simply because Israel is at peace with Egypt and Jordan.  The question is, are Egyptians and Jordanians at peace with Israel?  


Levy claims that Israeli society is "in a state of coma" with regard to the Arab situation. 

We have yet to meet an Israeli who is unaware of the walls, checkpoints, roadblocks, blockade and even the demolition of illegally built Arab homes, — and about the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.  We have yet to meet an Israeli who is unaware of the IDF's involvement in the breaking up of "human rights activist" demonstrations using tear gas and gunfire. 


Levy claims that Israeli media has "dehumanised" the Arabs in order to "make it easier to occupy their territory and treat them like animals."  

Ironically, in the Koran, Jews and Christians are referred to as "apes and pigs," which Levy is either unaware of or chooses to ignore. 


The difference between Israeli society and Gideon Levy is that Israeli society chooses to face the facts about Arab hatred towards Jews whilst Levy chooses to ignore them.  


Levy claims that, "Israeli society's state of coma will explode in our faces in a terrible way."  


Levy also chooses to ignore that Israelis have already faced explosions caused by Arab terrorist attacks "in a terrible way."  

Levy was unable to attract an audience in Israel so now he has ventured out to attract one elsewhere.


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Avram Noam Chomsky, is an American linguistic, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an institute professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Chomsky repeatedly compares Israel to South African Apartheid.  However, he ignores one significant difference; South Africa did not have Hamas and other militant groups calling on the destruction of Jews.  


He also ignores the fact that there have been numerous Arab terrorist attacks carried out in Israel before the walls and checkpoints ever existed.  


Chomsky declares that the settlements in Judea and Samaria are "illegal" and go against International Law.  Not so!  


"The resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November 29, 1947, and accepted by the governing institutions of the Jewish People is to be seen as the fountainhead of the recognition of Israel as an Independent State possessing sovereignty.  In rejecting that resolution and in declaring war on the nascent state of Israel, the Arab communities and neighbouring states severed all legal connection to claims they did or would, in the future, make.  In a sense, that rejection of the compromise proposal of partition revived the full and inalienable rights of Jews to all the territories included in the Mandate.  These territories include Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

As a result of armed acts of aggressions, the Jordanian entity subsequently conquered portions of the Palestine Mandate and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip district.  The non-Jewish communities of the areas of Judea and Samaria, never having expressed themselves in criteria of nationhood and geopolitical sovereignty previously, never established a state on this territory following the 1947 Resolution and, in fact, requested, at the Second Palestine Arab Conference convened in Jericho on December 1, 1948, that these territories be enjoined to the Hashemite Kingdom.  Indeed, a resolution of unification was signed into Jordanian law on April 24, 1950, which purported to transfer to the Hashemite Monarchy sovereign rights to those areas of Western Palestine not under Israeli control following the 1948-49 War of Independence. That law negated the terms of international law, and, in any case, was only recognised by Great Britain and Pakistan." 
Read more: http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/settlementslaw.html

Chomsky describes both Israel and the United States as "criminal states." 


"There are only two countries in the world", Chomsky says, "that are threatening the use of force and in fact preparing for it, which is also criminal."  

Really? Take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVDOYckCYs

It seems Chomsky has confused "the use of force" with defensive action.  He openly agrees with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel must not exist.


Chomsky claims that in 2001 Israel had rejected or called off peace talks just before they were to begin, but he forgot to mention that in 2001 there was a Second Intifada when a total of 5500 people had been killed during an Arab uprising.  

Chomsky also calls the expulsion of 8000 settlers from Gaza "an effective staged farce that could have been done just like that, you know, a flick of a wrist." 


He claims that if the Israeli government would have announced that the IDF was pulling out of Gaza, "The settlers of Goush Katief would have climbed on the busses provided for them to leave their subsidised homes in Gaza to gain their subsidised homes in the West bank.  But you don't get any propaganda out of that.  What they wanted (the Israeli government) was a trauma, so it was staged — big front page photos."  


He claims that, "The settlers were transferred to the West Bank, which is much more important."  


Chomsky claims that Hamas was "democratically elected" and that after the election, "Israel intensified its hold on Gaza and it was pretty vicious."  He claims, "It got worse later, but I won't go through the details."  — How convenient! 

Chomsky forgot to mention that after being "elected", Hamas immediately began launching qassam rockets into south Israel. 


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What is the real message behind the slogan above? "We have no means to defend ourselves because we do not serve in the army even though we live in Israel. Therefore, the only way we can avoid terrorism and defeat is to succumb to our enemies demands. We are showing you that we do not support Israel and we refer to the region as 'Palestine' ; please notice that we are waving 'Palestinian' flags.  Hopefully you (Arabs) will see the signs and the flags and not hurt us because we appear to be on your side."  The sign might as well say, 'I AM TERRIFIED OF ARABS'.

As written in the Jewish Virtual Library: "Neturei Karta (Aramaic: "Guardians of the City") is a group of Orthodox Jews which rejects Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel. They believe that the true Israel can only be re-established with the coming of the Messiah. They number some 5,000 and are concentrated in Jerusalem. Other, larger groups associated with Neturei Karta but not members of the group, can be found in Israel, London, New York City, and upstate New York State.

For the most part, the members of Neturei Karta are descended from Hungarian Jews that settled in Jerusalem's Old City in the early nineteenth century. They were tradesmen and craftsmen, who devoted most of their time to studying the Talmud and other sacred texts. Most of their livelihood was based on the halukah, or distribution of charitable donations from wealthy Jews in the Diaspora. In the late nineteenth century, they participated in the creation of new neighbourhoods outside the city walls to alleviate overcrowding in the Old City, and most are now concentrated in the neighbourhood of Batei Ungarin and the larger Meah Shearim neighbourhood.

At the time, they were vocal opponents to the new political ideology of Zionism that was attempting to assert Jewish sovereignty in Ottoman-controlled Palestine. They resented the new arrivals, who were predominantly secular, and claimed that Jewish redemption could only be brought about by the Messiah. Among the proofs they brought for this argument was a talmudic Midrash (legend) that God, the Jewish People, and the nations of the world made a divine pact, when the Jews were sent into exile by the Roman Empire. One provision of the pact was that the Jews would not rebel against the non-Jewish world that gave them sanctuary; a second was that they would not immigrate en masse to the Land of Israel. In return, the legend states, the Gentile nations promised not persecute the Jews too harshly. By rebelling against this pact, they argued, the Jewish People were engaging in open rebellion against God."

"While many in Neturei Karta chose to simply ignore the state of Israel, a fringe element took proactive steps to condemn it and bring about its eventual dismantling until the coming of the Messiah. Chief among these is Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, Neturei Karta's self-proclaimed "Foreign Minister," who serves in Yasser Arafat's cabinet as Minister for Jewish Affairs.

Hirsch and his followers oppose Israel on religious grounds. Devoutly committed to their faith, they reject Jews who do not share their level of observance as heretics. Nevertheless, they also maintain that an Orthodox community of Jews can and should be a viable minority in an Arab-dominated Palestinian State. According to their ideology, the Jews were first sent into exile for their sins, so that a secular Jewish presence in Israel could be grounds for further expulsions and exile. At their most extreme, they claim that the Holocaust was divine punishment for the sins of secular Jews, but at the same time they also believe that the time will come when all Jews will repent or be lost and the Messiah will come to redeem them. Their website claims that the Zionists deliberately condemned thousands of Jews to die in Nazi gas chambers, rather than allow them to emigrate to destinations other than Palestine, in order for the Zionists to claim a Zionist State.

They also claim that the mass media deliberately downplays their viewpoint and makes them out to be just a few, while there are a large number of Jews with the same beliefs."


Interestingly,some of the first Jews who were singled out by Nazis were the Orthodox Jews and not the secular Jews.

These are Jews who would prefer living under Arabic/Muslim rule rather than to live in Israel, which they believe must not exist until the Messiah comes.  They have chosen themselves as the "viable minority in an Arab-dominated Palestinian State,"  whilst the rest of Israelis can simply vanish or perish.  


Moreover, Neturei Karta survives solely on Israeli government's financial support (welfare), which is collected from Israeli taxpayers.  Members of Neturei Karta have no employment as they study and pray at Yeshivas all day, and reproduce like bunny rabbits.  


Let us see if Arabs would be willing to give those traitors financial support (welfare) in case there ever was a "Palestinian" state. 

This might be difficult to believe, but there it is: Neturei Karta wearing Arab terrorist neckerchiefs and waving Arab flags at a wedding celebration: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznoYrNzxmw

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So let us examine why there exists such people as anti-Israel or self-hating Jews, — what are their motivating factors?

Appeasement? 

It seems most anti-Israel Jews are Ashkenazi, which means they have not yet experienced the wrath of Islam, as Mizrahi or Sephardic Jews have. They have not been told accounts by their parents and grandparents about the treatment of Jews in Arab countries (including Palestine http://www.mideastweb.org/refugees4.htm) or why they fled.  They seem to be unaware that in the final years before Jews fled from Arab/Muslim countries, they were harassed — their Torah and women were desecrated. Muslims urinated and defecated on the Torah, targeting Jewish men on the streets and beating them — harassing Jewish women in open Arab markets.  Perhaps they know little about the history of Jews in Muslim countries: http://middleeastfacts.com/Articles/history-of-jews-in-arab-countries.php

Perhaps they choose to "recognise the humanity in those who oppose us."  Obviously a sentence such as this one can only be expressed by those who do not have a clue what it feels like to live in a country under constant attack.  These are the words of a self-hating American Jew who opposes Israel's actions from the very beginning and who describes himself as "agnostic."  

Israel is not Mother Teresa nor is she hoping to win a crown for Miss Congeniality. Civilised people look after their own and protect their own from a hostile group who calls for their destruction. Perhaps anti-Israel Jews ought to ask Arabs to respect Israeli's humanity before expecting Israelis to respect theirs, — not the other way around.

Publicity and Profit? 

Arabs and tempered anti-Semites relish in the idea of an Israeli or Diaspora Jew speaking out against Israel and against Jews.  

Anti-Israel Jews have written books on the subject and have had speaking engagements in many universities, in television interviews around the world and in many Arab countries.  They have gained credibility and respect for their anti-Israel enthusiasm — speaking in front of audiences that comprise Jew-haters, Holocaust deniers and extreme Leftists. This affords the anti-Israel Jew the fame an ordinary pro-Israel Jew would simply not acquire.  When speaking out against Israel, especially in universities, there is usually no opponent to challenge their so-called "authority" on the subject of Israel.  Therefore, listeners leave the audience with a moulded impression and conviction that the speaker has provided accurate information only.

Self-preservation?

The so-called "concern" of anti-Israel Jews is actually meant to clear their own Jewish image. They feel something comparable to "embarrassment" with regard to Israel's actions. They want Israel to keep a nice clean image and apologise for her actions so as to gain approval from the "international community" and from her enemies, the Arabs and anti-Semites. That way, they will not have to apologise for Israel or have to explain her standpoint, simply because they do not possess the informational resources or courage with which to do so.

Instead, it is easier for them to simply point their finger at Israel along with all her critics and come across looking like "good Jews" who speak out against Israel. 

All this is obviously done for completely selfish reasons. They want to "play nice" with Islam's radicals and anti-Semites so as to appease them and make themselves look good for the sake of Israel's enemies. 

The Joke is on all Jewish anti-Israel enthusiasts! To Islam, they will always be "infidels" and to anti-Semites they will always be "jews" without a capital 'J', even if they are "good jews" who are against Israel.  There can be no other reason why Jews would concern themselves more with Arabs and their future rather than Israel's.

The anti-Israel Jew can be compared to members of the Jewish Ghetto Police who shoved their own people onto trains on the way to extermination camps. Members of the Jewish Ghetto Police were hoping their lives would be spared for doing the Nazi's dirty work. When their job was done, members of the Jewish Ghetto Police were sent off to extermination camps just like the rest of the Jews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police.  

Somewhere in their subconscious, anti-Israel Jews are probably aware of the impending disaster that hovers over all of us — Jihad on one side and the rise of global anti-Semitism on the other. Anti-Israel Jews or self-hating Jews want to be able to say to Radical Muslims: "Don't hurt us, we were on your side all along." 

This is especially true in the case of the Neturei Karta who do not serve in the military and have no means of self-defence. It is therefore necessary for them to side with the enemy.

Now let us take a look at global Islamic terrorism. 

Self-hating Jews may choose to isolate the situation here in Israel. They imagine that all Arabs want is a small piece of land to call home in order to stay nice and quite forever.  But Israelis are watching radical Islam's every move around the world. Israel does not choose denial, political correctness and naïveté over reality. 

Anti-Israel Jews' rude awakening is just around the corner. They prefer not watching what is going on in the world with regard to radical Islam so as not to be swayed from their current mindset.  Facing facts would simply not fit in with their conclusions. Perhaps someday they will be willing to face the truth when they will inevitably become familiar with radical Islam in their own backyard.  They will then finally realise what this war is really all about. Until then, they can continue horsing around with blinders on.

Islam is the driving force behind radical Muslim mentality. Reading Suras in the Koran can help us all understand what is on the agenda: 

"Unbelievers are described by Muhammad (in the Qur'an) as "the vilest of animals" and "losers." Christians and Jews are hated by Allah to the extent that they are destined for eternal doom as a result of their beliefs. It would make no sense for Muhammad to then recommend them to be taken in as friends by Muslims. In fact, the Qur'an plainly commands believers not to take unbelievers as friends." 

That includes anti-Israel Jews: 

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/009-friends-with-christians-jews.htm

It is not the moderate Muslims — if they exist — but rather the leaders of Islam and imams who call for the destruction of the West. Many Muslims follow this ideology blindly. — Just because they do not talk about it does not mean they do not believe in it.

After listening to some of the anti-Israel Jewish lecturers, it is obvious they have not taken the time to discover that sharia laws have now been implemented in Britain (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4749183.ece ) and that some British teachers are avoiding teaching anything about the Holocaust because it offends Muslim students who have been taught to believe the Holocaust never existed — 

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims: http://current.com/news-and-politics/89557144_teachers-drop-the-holocaust-to-avoid-offending-muslims-going-too-far-for-political-correctness.htm 

The self-hating Jew's resentment only reinforces Israel's convictions and has given her strength and courage to carry on fighting against each and every single anti-Israel enthusiast. Anti-Israel Jews make it evident that there is no better place for Jews than Israel.  They ought to take a good look in the mirror in order to discover why they suffer an internal struggle regarding their irreversible and unavoidable Jewish identity. It might help them reconcile their need to "crucify" Israel for defending herself against well-known enemies who self-hating Jews choose to defend blindly. 

Anti-Israel Jews often accept information at face value from enemies.  The information they acquire is potentially defective and laced with presumptive evidence. Their conclusions are deduced by surmise or guesswork, and this is the information they seem to rely on.  That is why they are to be considered enemies and not simple, honest critics. If they were only honest critics, they would have also pointed out that radical Muslims have committed numerous crimes against Israel and Jews at large.

In conclusion, most of these self-hating Jews use baseless arguments, straight-out lies, false information and recitation of Islamic propaganda against Israel, which they seem to have adopted from a Hamas website.  They have chosen to completely ignore pertinent information that proves Arabs are also guilty of many crimes committed against Israelis and Jews at large. 

To Israelis, Zionists and steadfast supporters of Israel and her policies applied to her enemies, words cannot express how deeply disturbing anti-Israel Jew's lectures are — not because they are accurate, but because even some Jews have bought into the ultimate Arab lie. However, a promise of regret lies ahead for such individuals. 

There will come a day, very soon, when they will live to regret their doubts about Israel, but let us hope for their sake that there will never come a day when anti-Israel Jews will need to find refuge in Israel.