Anti-Semitism and the 'moral' disguise

Zionism sought to provide a safe haven for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. And indeed, Israel aims to defend all Jews, not just Israelis. In addition, under the Law of Return, every Jew can receive Israeli citizenship upon arrival in Israel. However, the fact that Hungarian billionaire George Soros is Jewish, doesn't mean that we have to defend him whatever he does. And what does he do? He funds organizations that seek to strangle Israel financially, diplomatically, scientifically and militarily. Missiles and terrorism are not the only methods used to try to annihilate us.

The battlefield is changing. It is shifting into cyberspace, among other things. But one thing hasn't changed: anti-Semitic libel. These days, it is disguised as anti-Israel criticism. But it is not just Palestinian organizations that vilify Israel; Israeli groups are also actively slandering their own country and their military around the world, spreading all sorts of blood libels. These libels, in turn, are used by terrorist organization as a "moral" excuse to wage war against us.

Soros and his friends are promoting the Durban strategy -- adopted in 2001 by a forum of NGOs at the U.N. World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in the South African city of Durban.

The Durban Conference was preceded by a preliminary meeting in Tehran, which served as the basis for the declaration that was ultimately adopted. The declaration focused on Israel, of all countries, characterizing it as an "apartheid state." The declaration called for "the imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargoes, the full cessation of all links (diplomatic, economic, social, aid, military cooperation and training) between all states and Israel"

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Parts of the Israeli Left (and many liberals in the U.S.) tend to take the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement and similarly anti-Israel "human rights" organizations a bit too lightly. They tend to mistakenly believe that these groups focus solely on settlements. Ostensibly, Soros is a righteous man, because his goals align with theirs (and it doesn't hurt that he donates a lot of money). In fact, he's "just" the enemy of the Right. Isn't he-

Norman Finkelstein, a son of Holocaust survivors, is one of Israel's greatest haters. In 2009, during Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, he told Turkish daily Today's Zaman that "Israel is a vandal state. ... [It] is Genghis Khan with a computer. I feel no emotion of affinity with that state. ... Sometimes I feel that Israel has come out of the boils of hell, a satanic state."

In February, 2012, he spoke out against the BDS movement, which he had previously supported. He argued that the boycott movement wasn't combating the Israeli "occupation" but instead questioned Israel's right to exist. This position, he asserted, undermines the movement's effectiveness because the international community recognizes Israel's right to exist.

In an interview with a pro-Palestinian activist in 2012, Finkelstein said: "They don't want Israel. They think they are being very clever; they call it their three tier. We want the end of the occupation, the right of return, and we want equal rights for Arabs in Israel. And they think they are very clever because they know the result of implementing all three is what, what is the result? You know and I know what the result is. There's no Israel!"

"It's not an accidental and unwitting omission that BDS does not mention [the recognition of] Israel. You know that and I know that. It's not like they're 'oh we forgot to mention it.' They won't mention it because they know it will split the movement. Cause there's a large segment of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel," he said. A testament from inside the BDS movement.

It is groups like this that Soros funds and supports.

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Parts of the Israeli Left have claimed that Israel's government should have come out in Soros' defense when the Hungarian government recently launched an ad campaign targeting him (some have accused the campaign of having anti-Semitic overtones while others claim it was purely political, since Soros is actively involved in Hungarian politics through his organizations). Wrong. Obviously we must combat anti-Semitism and protect the Jews wherever they may be. But we must be able to recognize those who have been taken from us and turned into our enemies, even if they are a part of our people.

In an op-ed rife with criticism, Haaretz columnist Chemi Shalev defended poor Soros, accusing Israel's Foreign Ministry, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of "throwing him to Hungary's anti-Semitic dogs."

"[Netanyahu's] rhetoric that he and other right-wingers use against Jewish critics of the occupation, self-hating enemies of the state who serve foreign interests, is often uncannily similar to the vocabulary employed by European anti-Semites," Shalev wrote. What a shame.

He isn't saying that there are some general similarities between the Israeli Right and European anti-Semites, but that the two are "uncannily similar." Her refers to the very essence of these two groups and concludes that deep inside, we are exactly like our worst enemies. That is what happens when you let you hatred for Netanyahu guide your typing hand.

When the Sabbath ends, Jews perform the havdalah ceremony -- a ceremony that separates the holiness of the Sabbath from the mundane weekdays. It is a historic mission that we, as a people, have taken upon ourselves -- to distinguish between truth and lie, between what is human and what is inhuman, between worshipping God and idolatry. The fact that most Israelis despise Jews who dedicate their lives to undermining the Jewish state simply attests to our mental health. It is not "uncannily similar" to the anti-Semitism directed at Jews in Europe. The anti-Semites hate all Jews wherever they may be, while the majority of Israelis reserve their criticism for a select few organizations, and only because these organizations contribute to the strategic front fighting against Israel.

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But that was not enough for Shalev. He chose to conclude his article with an insane insinuation about Netanyahu's upcoming visit to Hungary. Netanyahu is to be a guest of the Visegrad Group states -- Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia -- as part of his international efforts to deconstruct alliances that, until recently, fought against Israel. He is engaging country after country and striking alliances, bringing them over to our side.

But Shalev sees something different: "Small wonder that Netanyahu will stand besides [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban next week at a welcome ceremony near the Danube, where Hungarian fascists murdered thousands of Budapest's Jews. ... The sounds of the Hungarian marching band that will play 'Hatikva' will help Netanyahu ignore the voices of the blood of his brothers, many of them liberals and even anti-Zionists, who will be crying out to him from the once-red river."

You see, Soros was just the excuse for Shalev to spew his venom on Netanyahu, spraying most of the conservative Right in Israel along the way. Didn't you know? Netanyahu's upcoming visit to Hungary is actually a tour of sympathy for the Hungarian murderers of Jews! Just as Abel's blood cried out to Cain from the ground, the blood of Budapest's Jews will cry out to Netanyahu from the river, where they were murdered by the Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944!

It is hard to believe that this sick text didn't stir more of a firestorm in the media, much to the delight of Israel's haters around the world. Apparently, we've gotten used to it.

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