If Zionist Israel is surrounded by enemies, it cannot be explained by some primal ancient anti-Semitism. Modern Israel was founded on a weird mixture of idealism and injustice . No modern " democracy " can be founded on ethno-centrism . You find American Jews claiming land in Israel ( populated by Palestinians ) as their own. Were they persecuted in New York City ? Just where are they persecuted and underprivileged in the Western world today ? Everywhere they are quite prosperous relative to the rest of the population and politically connected.
Yet Netanyahu invites them all to the " Promised God " - as if the God of monotheism authorized in the past permanent real-estate deals . The Holocaust is an unctuous excuse for Israeli state terrorism .
[ Influential " leftist " Jews intimidate even the British Labor Party with baseless accusations of anti-Semitism. No socialist party " persona " myself ,I was recently banned from the World Socialist Web Site as their " resident Catholic , anti-Semite , fascist ". Of course , the fact that the Socialist Equality Party cult leader , David North , operates under his real name of David Green, Jewish capitalist owner of a non-union printing company is completely irrelevant .]
Is not this fatuous state worship a form of idolatry ? In the past many intellectual Jews were socialist internationalists. But since the 1967 war you can see the corrupting influence of " The Arrogance of Power " ( applied by Senator J. William Fulbright back then to the Vietnam War ) . From Jewish professionals to " professional Jews ".
And GROUP THINK on this topic of Israel among Jews has become downright totalitarian. Rare exceptions to this GROUP THINK were the late Professor Howard Zinn and in recent years Anti-Zionist professor Norman Finkelstein. I will also mention MIT's Noam Chomsky.
The leading Democrat Senator Schumer declares that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism - end of discussion. Schumer also sees himself as Israel's " guardian angel ". Nancy Pelosi is also a prominent " friend of Israel " . You won't find that " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders critical of Israel or openly supportive of the oppressed and dispossessed Palestinians.
The journalist Christopher Hedges has been black balled by the mainstream news media ( he a Pulitzer Prize winner ) for his articulate and eloquent anti-Zionism.
How many US politicians are literally in the pockets of the Israel lobby ?
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