It Must Have Been Something I Said! Jo Wadsworth of
the Anti-Palestinian Brighton and Hove News
Threatens to Report Me to the Police!
The Met arrest stall holders selling a book with a Swastika and Zionist
Star of David Intertwined - Who the Hell are These Thick Bastards to
Decide What We Can and Cannot Read?
All I did was to send Jo Wadsworth of Brighton
and Hove News an email giving a link
to my blog. True I headed it ‘ENJOY RACIST SCUMBAG’ but that was no
reason to respond in the way she did:
Oh no, Tony "notorious
antisemite" Greenstein has called me a bad name. How will I ever recover?
To which I responded that this was a good question. I suggested that
the answer lay in Wadsworth ‘Probably (by) gorging on the blood of the children in
Gaza. I should think that would be good recipe for you to try’.
She had after all been perfectly
happy with a multitude of comments defending Israel’s bombardment of hospitals,
ambulances, homes and schools, its food, water and fuelblockade and the murder of over 6,000 children
and thousands of adults. In other words collective punishment, a flagrant
breach of international law.
Orthodox anti-Zionist Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Sharim Display the Palestinian Flag - If they had been Palestinians the Police would have opened fire
It appears however that Ms Wadsworth is a more sensitive soul than I had
given her credit for. She didn’t seem to take my comment that she was wallowing
in the blood of thousands of children at all well.
Okay Tony I usually find your insults entertaining
in a pathetic kind of way. But that's crossed a line. I'm now asking you not to
contact me again and if you persist I will report you to the police.
It seems to have become the latest fashion amongst Zionists to report
anything I say to the police. In fact I’m thinking of saving them the trouble and
time by designing a handy form which they can email to the Police explaining
why they have problems with freedom of speech.
First there was Heidi
Bachram and now Jo Wadsworth. Who will be next?
At the same time the Metropolitan Police have decided that they have the
right to decide what literature can be openly sold on Zionism at today’s
demonstration and what posters can be displayed. According
to the Met:
Images were shared on social
media showing literature being distributed which featured a swastika inside a
Star of David. Officers later spotted the same literature at a stall in
Whitehall and arrested four people on suspicion of distributing material likely
to stir up racial hatred.
The people
they arrested were from the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist
Leninist[@cpgbml]
I wasn’t
aware that intertwining a Swastika and a Zionist Star of David graphically was
a criminal offence. As I wrote in my book, Zionism
During the Holocaust:
In
the spring of 1933, Baron Leopold von
Mildenstein, a member of the SS, and Kurt Tuchler of the ZVfD [German Zionist]
Executive and their wives, boarded a train at Berlin to travel to Palestine.
Tuchler had tried to persuade Mildenstein to write ‘something positive’ about
Palestine in the Nazi press. Mildenstein agreed, provided that he was able to
visit Palestine first. He stayed for six months and was clearly impressed by
the “new Jew”.
On his return, Mildenstein published a
series of 12 articles in Joseph Goebbels’ paper, Der Angriff, from 26
September to 9 October 1934 under the by-line ‘von Lim’ [Jacob Boas, ‘A Nazi Travels to Palestine’]. This trip was
the subject of an article in the eminently respectable History
TodayofJanuary 1980. Mildenstein served as
head of Abteilung 112/II,the Jewish department (Judenreferat) of the Sicherheitsdienst, [SD] from the summer
of 1935 to August 1936. Indeed so pleased were the Nazis with the trip that
they struck a medal to commemorate the trip.
It is perfectly legitimate to argue
that Zionist ideology and Nazi ideology share a lot in common. The Zionists
admitted this themselves. On 21 June 1933, the German Zionist Federation wrote
a letter to Hitler in which they explained that:
Zionism has no
illusion about the difficulty of the Jewish condition which consists above all
in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of an intellectual and
moral posture not rooted in one’s own tradition… an answer to the Jewish
question truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with
the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims at a social, cultural and
moral renewal of Jewry… On the foundation of the new state, which has
established the principle of race... fruitful activity for the fatherland is
possible. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and
sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial
realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these fundamentals,
because we too are against mixed marriages and are for maintaining the purity
of the Jewish group… The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by
resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda…
is in essence fundamentally unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle
but to convince and to build.’
The full letter can be
found in Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust
Reader, pp. 150-153.Who the hell
are the Metropolitan Police to decide we can and cannot read? Of course it will
give offence to Zionists to be reminded of the times when they had close fraternal
relations with the Nazi State. However this is part of the historical record
and only in Police States do thick coppers decide what people can and cannot
read and see.
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As Zionism During the Holocaust shows the
Israeli state and Zionist groups, even after the holocaust, continued to work
with neo-Nazi groups and governments. Major Nazi war criminals such as Walter Rauf, who was
personally responsible for the death of over 100,000 people and the inventor of
the gas truck, was employed
as an Israeli agent after the war. They even paid his passage to Ecuador to
escape prosecution as a war criminal.
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During the period of
the Argentinian Junta (1976-83) Israel supplied
weapons and training to those who were, at the very same time, murdering up to
3,000 Argentinian Jews.
March by the Mothers of the Disappeared in Buenos Aires - Israel was a Major Supplier of Arms to this Genocidal neo-Nazi Regime
You will also read
about why the accusations against Ken Livingstone, that he was anti-Semitic for
mentioning the collaboration of the Nazis and the Zionists, in particular the Ha'avara
trading agreement, was false. When world Jewry was building a Boycott of Nazi
Germany campaign, which had already inflicted major economic damage on the Nazi
economy, the Zionists rode to the Nazis’ rescue with an agreement which
resulted in 60% of capital investment in Jewish Palestine between 1933 and 1939
coming from Nazi Germany.
NEW - Justin Trudeau blames Russian propaganda for Canadian Parliament honoring a Nazi.
"Obviously, it's extremely upsetting that this happened... this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada...
Canadian
Parliament Gives SS ‘Hero’ a Standing Ovation
This has been the week
when the hypocrisy of Western foreign policy was on display for all to see with
the honouring
of Yaroslav Hunka, a volunteer in a Ukrainian Waffen
SS unit.
Speaker
of the Canadian Parliament Anthony Rota introduced
Hunka as a Canadian and Ukrainian war hero who fought for the Waffen-SS Galicia
Division or the SS 14th Waffen Division.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, posed with a Banderite Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) flag in February 2022. Image credit: Sputnik News/Wyatt Reed
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is a long standing supporter of Canada’s Ukrainian neo-Nazi exiles. See ChrystiaFreeland: Canada’s fascist queen
It was
neither a mistake nor an accident. In his introduction Rota said that Hunka ‘fought for Ukrainian independence against
the Russians.’ And who was it who fought against the Russians in the Second
World War if not the Nazis and their collaborators in Eastern Europe?
The
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of Stepan Bandera was prominent in that fight
just as it was prominent in the holocaust and mass murder of hundreds of
thousands of Jews and Poles.
The West,
including Israel, has openly
armed and trained Ukraine’s armed forces knowing full well that they have
integrated the neo-Nazi Azov Brigade (now upgraded to a battalion) and other
far-right forces into them. In the process the West and the Zionists have
transformed Nazis into nationalists.
The fact
that Ukraine is the only country in the world which has a national
holiday in memory of a Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera should have been
enough in itself. But that too was simply ignored.
The Anti-Defamation
League, America’s premier Zionist organisation, has openly set about
whitewashing Ukraine Nazis. In an interview
by Andrew Srulevitch, its Director of European Affairs with Dr.
David Fishman, we were told that ‘“When Ukrainian nationalists and Jews
look at those red and black flags, we see two different things.” He was
referring to the Nazi colours black and red.
Fishman
went on to say that
For Ukrainian
nationalists, UPA and Bandera are symbols of the Ukrainian fight for Ukrainian
independence. The UPA allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union for
tactical – not ideological – reasons.
Walter Rauf - The Nazi Agent that Israel Employed Post WW2
“Bandera
envisioned the Ukraine as a classic one-party state with himself in the role of
führer, or providnyk, and expected that a new Ukraine would take its
place under the Nazi umbrella.”
“The OUN had played a leading role in the
anti-Jewish pogroms that broke out in Lviv and dozens of other Ukrainian cities
on the heels of the German invasion, and now they served the Nazis by
patrolling the ghettoes and assisting in deportations, raids and shootings.”
In 1943,
Banderite members of the OUN formed their own militia, the Ukrainian Insurgent
Army, or UPA. The UPA began the ethnic cleansing and extermination of Poles
from territories they saw as belonging to Ukraine. See
Separately, the state banned 'Book of Thieves' which
criticizes the anti-Semitic actions of a different national leader for
'inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred'
Activists
of the Svoboda (Freedom) Ukrainian nationalist party hold the photo of Stepan
Bandera in Kiev, October 14, 2013. Credit: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Ukraine designated the birthday of a Nazi collaborator
as a national holiday and banned a book on the anti-Semitic
actions of another national leader.
The Ukrainian parliament last week declared January 1
as a national day of commemoration for Stepan Bandera, who briefly joined
forces with the Nazi
occupation of Ukraine. A nationalist, Bandera hoped the Germans would allow
his country sovereignty from the Soviet Union, though the Nazis later arrested
him.
Some of his supporters at the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists, which he headed, committed countless war crimes against
Jews.
The region of Lviv,
Bandera’s native city, this month declared 2019 “Stepan Bandera Year,” sparking
protests by Israel. Tarik Youssef Cyril Amar, the former academic director of
Lviv’s Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, this week returned an
award conferred on him by the city in protest.
Separately, Ukraine’s State Committee on Television
and Radio Broadcasting banned “Book of Thieves” by Swedish historian Anders
Rydell, which includes critical analysis of the actions of Symon Petliura, an
early-20th century nationalist whose troops murdered countless Jews in pogroms
beginning in 1919.
The December 10 decree banning the book accused Rydell
of “inciting ethnic, racial and religious
hatred,” the Regnum news agency reported Wednesday.
A Russia-born Jew killed Petliura in Paris in 1929 as
revenge for the pogroms.
“The whole book
ban is very symbolic in itself,” said Ukrainian Jewish Committee Director
Eduard Dolinsky. Both communist and Nazi authorities systematically banned
books.
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Talks About Zionism During the Holocaust See:
To the Israeli Government the remaining holocaust survivors, whose
reparations they stole, are just a burden – its far better to spend the money
on weapons to kill Palestinians with
Listen to the
recording of the South Africa PSC and Brighton Book Launches for Zionism During the Holocaust
PSC South Africa Book Launch
I was privileged to be invited to speak
to a meeting of PSC South Africa on 16 March 2023. The meeting was held to
launch my book 'Zionism During the
Holocaust - the Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State & Nation'
in South Africa.
My book tells the story of how the
Zionist movement not only was indifferent to the rescue of Jews from the
claws of Hitler's murderers but they actually OPPOSED the rescue of Jews from Europe if their destination was not
Palestine.
Indeed the German Zionist Federation and the emissary of the Palestinian
Jewish Agency, Feivel Polkes, even went to the lengths of pressurising the Gestapo
not to allow emigrants from Germany to
go anywhere but Palestine.
Brighton Book Launch
I have a section in my book (pp. 300-1)
‘The Zionists Lobby the Nazis to Only
Allow Emigration to Palestine’ in which I describe how Polkes, a Haganahintelligence agent, came to Berlinfor talks with the SD, the SS Security
Service, (Sicherheitsdienst ) and the
Gestapobetween 26 February and 2 March 1937. Polkesoffered to become an informant for the
Gestapo, sharing Haganah intelligence information, in return for which the
Gestapowould pressure the German Jewish communal organisation,
the RVt(Reich Representation of German Jews), the umbrella organisation of German Jewry,
to require emigrating Jews to settle exclusively in Palestine.
The Daily Mail - consistently racist and bigoted
I sourced this from
Professor Francis Nicosia’s article Zionism
in National Socialist Jewish Policy, and his books Zionism & Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany and The Third Reich and the Palestine Question.
This information was obtained from German files captured after the war. The Haganah
file on Polkes is closed to researchers because it is too embarrassing.
According to the cruel logic of
Zionism, what was the point of building a Jewish state in Palestine if Jews
could find sanctuary in other countries? According to the Zionist 'logic' it
was the Jews themselves who were responsible for anti-Semitism, because they
were strangers who had outstayed their welcome in other peoples' countries.
In his pamphlet The Jewish State, Herzl wrote that Jews:
…naturally move to those places where we are not persecuted and there
our presence produces persecution…. The unfortunate Jews are now carrying
Anti-Semitism into England; they have already introduced it into America.
Rescuing Jews in other countries would
simply reproduce the antisemitism that had driven them there. My book tells the
story of Zionist relations with the Nazis, their agreements and collaboration.
It is not a pretty story.
Israel’s Treatment of its Holocaust Survivors
Even today although the Zionists and the Israeli state exploit the Holocaust for propaganda purposes, they are totally unconcerned about the remaining holocaust survivors themselves. Over one-third of Israeli holocaust survivors live in poverty, forced to choose between eating and heating.
Israel spends the second highest amount
per capita in the world on arms with which to kill Palestinians and hundreds of
millions of dollars on settlements built on stolen Palestinian land yet it
cannot afford to give the remaining holocaust survivors a decent standard of
living. Even worse the Israeli state and the Israeli banks STOLE the
reparations that Germany paid in compensation to the survivors.
The Jewish Claims Conference [JCC] was
set up in 1951 as the legal successor to Jews who had a claim against Germany
and Austria. The JCC was generous, at least with itself. In 2004 the salary and
pensions contributions it was paying to its Executive Vice-President Gideon
Taylor,
was $437,811 (£240,000).
Mass Jewish Demonstration In Support of the Boycott
The JCC has been embroiled
in controversies over fraud. Former President Rabbi Israel Singerwas forced to resign in 2007 amid allegations
that he had used his position to embezzle funds. In May 2013 31 people were
convicted of fraud worth more than $57 million. A whistleblower who was
victimised alleged that this was the tip of the iceberg.
However Zionism, which turned a blind
eye to the Holocaust whilst it was happening has never hesitated to wield it as
a weapon against the Palestinians.
In the early 1950s Israelclaimed reparations from Germanyon behalf of the holocaust survivors.
Despite being claimed on the basis of individual need Israel’s first Prime
Minister, David Ben-Gurionwas determined that ‘the major portion of the compensation will be claimed by the Jewish
people as a collective body [i.e. the Israeli state]
not as individuals.’ In 2007 it was
accepted by Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik that Israel should apologise for having
stolen these funds from the Holocaust survivors.
Adolf Eichmann
If Switzerlandwas reluctant to part with the assets of
murdered Jews then the same was true of Israeli banks, which hoped that the survivors
might die first. It was only under pressure that Bank Leumiagreed to pay NIS 20m to the survivors. In
2004, a parliamentary inquiry found that Leumi owed NIS 300m ($71.65m) to
Holocaust survivorsand their families.
Israeli
medical committeeshave done their best to reduce the entitlement
of holocaust survivorsto benefits ‘alter(ing) their disability evaluations in a manipulative way.’ This
is how the ‘Jewish’ state treats the holocaust survivorsand yet none of the official Holocaust memorial
bodies, such as the Holocaust Education Trust, says a word
about these scandals. To them the Holocaust is about the Israeli statenot the individuals who died or survived.
The Lessons Zionism Draws From the
Holocaust are Racist not Anti-racist Ones
As Max Kaiser argues in
respect of Australian Jews,
Arguments
for Israel’s defence are often bolstered by the memory of the
Holocaust. That the Holocaust is an inevitable cause of conservatism and
Zionism has become part of a commonsense idea of, and about, Australian Jews.
But in the 1940s and
1950s 'Holocaust memory was key to a popular Jewish antifascist discourse
that was left-wing, non-nationalist and universalistic.' It is the
pernicious and reactionary nature of Zionism that its conclusions from the
Holocaust are racist not anti-racist ones.
The main
organisation of the Jewish antifascist left in Australia was the Jewish
Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism.
Formed in
Melbourne in 1942, the Jewish Council represented, in the words of historian
David Rechter
in institutional
form the broad-based antifascist leftism enjoying considerable vogue both
within the Jewish community and in society at large.
Today as
Australian Jewry has moved to the right, so the conclusions it has drawn from
the holocaust are ones of Jewish Supremacy and Jewish racism. As Gideon
Levy, Israel's most famous and brilliant journalist wrote:
I have yet to hear a single
teenager come back from Auschwitz and say that we mustn’t abuse others the
way we were abused. There has yet to be a school whose pupils came back from
Birkenau straight to the Gaza border, saw the barbed-wire fence and
said, Never again. The message is always the opposite. Gaza is permitted
because of Auschwitz.
Gary Lineker’s
Crime was Comparing the Tories Refugee Policies to the Nazis – We Must Compare,
Compare and Compare Again
On Wednesday March 15 at 7.30 pm I will be holding the Brighton Book Launch for Zionism During the Holocaust.This will be the first physical meeting around my book that I’ve held in Britain.
OnThursday
March 16th at 5 pm British time there will be a Zoom meeting where I will be speaking with others at a PSC South Africa. Please do register.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Mar 16, 2023 07:00 PM Johannesburg Topic: Zionism During the Holocaust Register in advance for this webinar: https://tinyurl.com/3sf9dyxc
South Africa PSC
was formed as part of an initiative for the (World Conference Against Racism)
in 2000 as a secular initiative to promote the Palestinian cause in South
Africa and to lead an international anti-apartheid movement against Apartheid
Israel. The aims of PSC-SA include the establishment of a secular democratic
state in Palestine.
When Gary Lineker
spoke out against Cruella Braverman’s attack on refugees, what angered his
opponents was the comparison between Cruella’s policies and those of Nazi Germany.
For the ruling class and Zionists the Nazis represent a holocaust divorced from
history. The holocaust began in June 1941 and Lineker referred to the 30s yet
these ignoramuses tied everything into Auschwitz.
From 1933 to June 1941
the policy of Hitler was not extermination but expulsion of the Jews. The ruling
class and the Mail forgets that large
sections of the ruling class supported Hitler’s
anti-Semitism .
In
Nazi Youth in Control [Daily News 4.9.33] Lord Rothermere, the owner of
the Daily Mail wrote that
‘Of all the
historic changes in our time, the transformation of Germany under Hitler has
been the swiftest, most complete…’
'There has
been a sudden expansion of their national spirit like that which took place in
England under Queen Elizabeth. Youth has taken command. On a visit, which I am
paying to Northern Germany I find-, the signs of the new Hitler spirit as
manifest in the most out of-the-way villages as in the largest cities.'
Like
most bourgeois apologists for Hitler Rothermere considered the reports about
Nazi brutality were irrelevant.
‘They have
started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call 'Nazi
atrocities,' which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for him
self, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence.’
It
was merely
‘The
administration of a few doses of castor oil to Communist adversaries.’
For
Rothermere the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Dachau did not exist.
Support for Hitler extended deep into the Tory Party but today anyone who
points this out or the comparison betweenthe demonisation of refugees and Hitler’s demonisation of the other,
including Jews, is beyond the pale.
Some of the
language Gary Lineker has used in the last 24 hours has been really very
unfortunate… I just think there is a special place in hell and for the Holocaust
and I don’t think you should be making comparisons… I think he went too far but
what the BBC does about it is frankly not my business…. It’ll be up to them if
they want to do anything about it.
Yvette
Cooper also preferred to attack Lineker
than the Tories.
Asked
whether she supported what Lineker had said Cooper stated:
‘No
I don’t. No I don’t. That was wrong. I think he was wrong to say that.’
Asked
to elaborate Cooper said
‘I just don’t think you should make comparisons with the
1930s… I just don’t think you should make those sorts of comparisons.’
Asked
if he should be sacked Cooper responded that it was ‘a matter for the BBC.’
Contrary to Cooper and Lady Nugent aka Emily Thornberry we should
compare, compare and compare again. When Israel uses the holocaust to justify ethnic
cleansing and pogroms we should point out that the Nazis also started with
ethnic cleansing and pogroms before moving on to extermination.
Hitler’s sterilisation
and murder of the Disabled were modelled on similar laws in the United States,
Sweden and elsewhere.
Of course Zionists
hate comparisons with the Nazis but they are more than happy to make such
comparisons themselves.
Former Israeli Foreign Secretary, Abba
Eban when arguing against withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, referred to the 48 armistice lines as ‘the Auschwitz borders.’ Norman Podhoretz of the American Jewish Committee
paper Commentary, accused Jewish
critics of the Lebanese War of granting Hitler a ‘posthumous victory’Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatened to give ‘Gaza a taste of the 'shoah’. Menachem Begin portrayed ‘Arafat in
Beirut as Hitler in his bunker in Berlin’ as a reason for bombing Beirut.
In Israel every enemy is a reincarnation
of the Nazis. In the lead up to the Six Day War:
the newspapers continually identified Nasser
with Hitler. The proposals to defuse the crisis by any means other than war
were compared with the Munich agreement. [Tom Segev, The Seventh Million, pp. 390-391].
The Nazi period is a seminal event in world
history. It is the ultimate in capitalist barbarism. It is not surprising that
it is the benchmark by which subsequent events are judged.
Zionist concerns about
a high Arab birth rate in Israel mirror
the Nazis’ racial obsessions. Ideologically Zionism and Nazism drink from the
same poisoned well.
Relationships between Jews and Arabs are
seen as a threat to the racial purity of the Jewish nation/race. More than half
of the Jewish population in Israel believes
intermarriage to be national treason.
In Israel like Nazi Germany opposition
to miscegenation is strong. The Nuremberg Laws outlawed ‘inter-racial’ sex. In
Israel opposition to such relations is a strong social taboo. 75% of Israeli
Jews oppose intermarriage. A
particularly egregious case involved an Arab who was gaoled for 18 months for
rape. The Jewish woman believed that ‘Daniel’ was a Jewish man and thus she had
been raped by deception. In Nazi
Germany a common theme was that Jewish men concealed their Jewish identity in
order to seduce Aryan women.
Israelis often see themselves in the
role of Nazis. Before the massacre in Jenin, an Israeli officer said that:
it is justified
and in fact essential to learn from every possible source…. the commander’s
obligation is to … analyse and internalise the lessons of earlier battles –
even, however shocking it may sound, even how the German Army fought in the
Warsaw Ghetto.
When 41 Israeli Arabs were mowed down
with machine guns at Kafr Kassem in 1956 one of the killers, Shalom Ofer,
proudly proclaimed that ‘We acted like
Germans, automatically, we didn’t think.’
There
is a wider identification with the Nazis in Israeli society. ‘We are no longer Jews today,’ one Israeli wrote. ‘Today we are Nazis.’ He was trying to organise vigilante groups to
attack Israeli Palestinians in mixed cities during Israel’s 2021 attack on Gaza.
The comparison of ‘assimilation’, marrying out or having relationships with non-Jews, to the
Holocaust is a common Zionist theme. Avraham Greenbaum of Bar-Ilan University,
expressed ‘concern that Jewry’s losses
through assimilation were greater than the losses sustained in the Holocaust.’
For Zionism the Holocaust was not a human tragedy but a loss to the Jewish
race.
Assimilation is
frequently described as a ‘quiet’‘silent’ or ‘bloodless’ holocaust. Norman Lamm, President of
the Yeshiva University, wrote that with a diminishing Jewish birth rate and
intermarriage exceeding 40 %, ‘Who says
that the holocaust is over?’ Chief Rabbi, Immanuel Jakobovitz believed that
abortion in Israel was comparable to the Holocaust. Lehava’s slogan is ‘Intermarriage is a holocaust.’
Marriage between a Jew and non-Jew in
Nazi Germany after 1935 was forbidden. The same is true in Israel where a Jew
and non-Jew cannot marry. Hannah Arendt observed that:
Israeli citizens, religious and non-religious
seem agreed upon the desirability of having a law which prohibits
intermarriage… there certainly was something breathtaking in the naiveté with
which the prosecution denounced the infamous Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which had
prohibited intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Jews and Germans. [Eichmann
in Jerusalem, p.7].
Far from comparisons between Israel and Nazi
Germany being anti-Semitic, the exact opposite is the case. Such comparisons
constitute a powerful warning against the direction in which Israel is heading.
The only question is whether they are true.
Comparing a country to Nazi Germany
doesn’t mean that they are the same but that they have certain features in
common.
Today there are demonstrations in Israel where the main
slogan is ‘Death to the Arabs’. How
is it anti-Semitic to compare this to similar demonstrations in Europe in the
1930s?
When Culture Minister Miri Regev described African refugees as ‘a cancer in the body of the nation’
this was a Nazi-like statement. Deputy
Defence Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan explained
that ‘[Palestinians] are beasts, they are not human.’ He also explained the racial hierarchy of
souls: ‘A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a
homosexual.’
Professor Amos Funkenstein, former head
of the Faculty of History at Tel Aviv University, explained why comparisons
with the Nazis are valid. Referring to the refusal of soldiers to serve in the
Occupied Territories, Funkenstein compared them to soldiers in the German army
who refused to serve in concentration or extermination camps. Funkenstein explained:
As a historian I know that every comparison
is limited. On the other hand, without comparisons, no historiography is
possible. Understanding a historical event is a kind of translation into the
language of our time. If we would leave every phenomenon in its peculiarity, we
could not make this translation. Every translation is an interpretation and
every interpretation is also a comparison.
