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The ugliness of official media antisemitism in England today
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06-10-2011, 11:56 PM
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From news article:
Did you know that the
Jews declared war on Germany
well before the Nazis adopted anti-Jewish policies?
I have to confess that despite my Ph.D. in contemporary history, I was completely ignorant of this “fact” – but that’s because this
particular spin
of the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott of late March 1933 is of course a favorite among people who think the Nazis were right about the Jews.
Just like how Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi Minister of “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda,” felt that there was “intrinsic” truth to the antisemitic forgery known as
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,”
there are still people who see “prophetic qualities” in this forgery, which reads to them like an accurate description of
“the political reality in which we live.”
Such views are not restricted to the far-right fringes and neo-Nazi groups, but are also held by supposedly leftist “anti-Zionists.”
Among the latter type is the Israeli-British jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, who apparently has a lot of spare time that he devotes to expressing his disdain and hatred for all things Israeli and Jewish.
Indeed, a
Guardian
profile of him noted that it “is Atzmon’s blunt anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where his essays are widely read.”
Notable among Atzmon’s admirers is
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan
, who approvingly quoted Atzmon in his dramatic outburst when he attacked Israel’s President Shimon Peres during an event in Davos in 2009.
However, the
Guardian’s
description of Atzmon’s views as “blunt anti-Zionism” is simply an attempt to whitewash Atzmon’s rabid antisemitism. It is plainly not anti-Zionism when somebody rejects comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel by hysterically claiming that such a comparison is really unfair to Nazi Germany because
“Israel is nothing but evilness for the sake of evilness. It is wickedness with no comparison.”
Indeed, in fall 2006, the
Guardian
itself published a piece by David Hirsh, an expert on antisemitism, who made the case that Atzmon’s views represented a “new strain of openly anti-semitic anti-Zionism.”
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