> When President Barack > Obama warned of international > Fallout if Israel fails to embrace the latest U.S. > Middle East peace > proposal, > > Newsmax > asked noted author and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz > to comment on the > growing talk of a European boycott against Israel > . > > > By: Alan Dershowitz > > > > Why are so many of the grandchildren of Nazis and Nazi > collaborators who > brought us the Holocaust once again declaring war on the > Jews? > > Why have we seen such an increase in anti-Semitism and > irrationally virulent > anti-Zionism in western Europe? > > > > To answer these questions, a myth must first be exposed. > That myth is the one > perpetrated by the French, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the > Swiss, the Belgians, > the Austrians, and many other western Europeans: namely that > the Holocaust was > solely the work of German Nazis aided perhaps by some > Polish, Ukrainian, > Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian collaborators. > > > > False. > > > > The Holocaust was perpetrated by Europeans: by Nazi > sympathizers and > collaborators among the French, Dutch, Norwegians, Swiss, > Belgians, Austrians > and other Europeans, both Western and Eastern. > > > > If the French government had not deported to the death camps > more Jews than > their German occupiers asked for; if so many Dutch and > Belgian citizens and > government officials had not cooperated in the roundup of > Jews; if so many > Norwegians had not supported Quisling; if Swiss government > officials and > bankers had not exploited Jews; if Austria had not been more > Nazi than the > Nazis, the Holocaust would not have had so many Jewish > victims. > > > > In light of the widespread European complicity in the > destruction of European > Jewry, the pervasive anti-Semitism and irrationally hateful > anti-Zionism that > has recently surfaced throughout western Europe toward > Israel should surprise > no one. > > > > Oh no, we hear from European apologists. > This is different. > We don’t hate the Jews. We only hate their nation-state. > Moreover, the Nazis > were right-wing. We’re left-wing, so we can’t be > anti-Semites. > > > > Nonsense. > > > > The hard left has a history of anti-Semitism as deep and > enduring as the hard > right. The line from Voltaire to Karl Marx, to Levrenti > Beria, to Robert > Faurisson, to today’s hard-left Israel bashers is as > straight as the line from > Wilhelm Mars to the persecutors of Alfred Dreyfus to Hitler. > > > > > The Jews of Europe have always been crushed between the > Black and the Red - > victims of extremism whether it be the ultra-nationalism of > Khmelnitsky to the > ultra-anti-Semitism of Stalin. > > > > But some of the most strident anti-Zionists are Jews, > such as Norman > Finkelstein and even Israelis such as Gilad Atzmon. Surely > they can’t be > anti-Semites? > > > > Why not? Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas collaborated with > the Gestapo. Atzmon, > a hard leftist, describes himself as a proud self-hating Jew > and admits that > his ideas derive from a notorious anti-Semite. > > > > He denies that the Holocaust is historically proved but he > believes that Jews > may well have killed Christian children to use their blood > to bake Passover > matzah. And he thinks its rational to burn > down synagogues. > > > > Finkelstein believes in an international Jewish conspiracy > that includes Steven > Spielberg, Leon Uris, Eli Wiesel, and Andrew Lloyd Webber! > > > > But Israel is doing bad things to the > Palestinians, the European > apologists insist, and we are sensitive to the plight > of the > underdog. > > > > No, you’re not! Where are your demonstrations on behalf of > the oppressed > Tibetans, Georgians, Syrians, Armenians, Kurds, or even > Ukrainians? Where are > your BDS movements against the Chinese, the Russians, the > Cubans, the Turks, or > the Assad regime? > > > > Only the Palestinians, only Israel ? Why? Not because the > Palestinians are more > oppressed than these and other groups. > > > > Only because their alleged oppressors are Jews and the > nation-state of the > Jews. Would there be demonstrations and BDS campaigns on > behalf of the > Palestinians if they were oppressed by Jordan or Egypt ? > > > > Oh, wait! The Palestinians were oppressed by Egypt and > Jordan . Gaza was an > open-air prison between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt was the > occupying power. And > remember Black September, when Jordan killed more > Palestinians than Israel did > in a century? I don’t remember any demonstration or BDS > campaigns -- because > there weren’t any. > > > > When Arabs occupy or kill Arabs, Europeans go ho-hum. But > when Israel opens a > soda factory in Maale Adumim, which even the Palestinian > leadership > acknowledges will remain part of Israel in any peace deal, > Oxfam parts ways > with Scarlett Johansson for advertising a soda company that > employs hundreds of > Palestinians > > > > Keep in mind that Oxfam has provided aid and material > support to > two anti-Israel terrorist groups, according to the Tel > Aviv-based Israeli Law > Group. > > > > The hypocrisy of so many hard-left western Europeans would > be staggering if it > were not so predictable based on the sordid history of > Western Europe’s > treatment of the Jews. > > > > Even England , which was on the right side of the war > against Nazism, has a > long history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the expulsion > of the Jews in 1290 > to the notorious White Paper of 1939, which prevented the > Jews of Europe from > seeking asylum from the Nazis in British-mandated Palestine > . And Ireland , > which vacillated in the war against Hitler, boasts some of > the most virulent > anti-Israel rhetoric. > > > > The simple reality is that one cannot understand the current > western European > left-wing war against the nation-state of the Jewish people > without first > acknowledging the long-term European war against the Jewish > people themselves. > > > > Theodore Herzl understood the pervasiveness and > irrationality of European > anti-Semitism, which led him to the conclusion that the only > solution to > Europe’s Jewish problem was for European Jews to leave > that bastion of Jew > hatred and return to their original homeland, which is now > the state of Israel > . > > > > None of this is to deny Israel’s imperfections or the > criticism it justly > deserves for some of its policies. But these imperfections > and deserved > criticism cannot even begin to explain, must less justify, > the disproportionate > hatred directed against the only nation-state of the Jewish > people and the > disproportionate silence regarding the far greater > imperfections and deserved > criticism of other nations and groups including the > Palestinians. > > > > Nor is this to deny that many western European individuals > and some western > European countries have refused to succumb to the hatred > against the Jews or > their state. The Czech Republic comes to mind. But far too > many western > Europeans are as irrational in their hatred toward Israel as > their forbearers > were in their hatred toward their Jewish neighbors. > > > > As author Amos Oz once aptly observed: the walls of his > grandparents Europe > were covered with graffiti saying, Jews, go to > Palestine . Now they > say, Jews, get out of Palestine ? by which is > meant Israel .. > > > > Who do these western European bigots think they’re > fooling? Only fools who want > to be fooled in the interest of denying that they are > manifesting new > variations on their grandparents old biases. > > > > Any objective person with an open mind, open eyes, and an > open heart must see > the double standard being applied to the nation-state of the > Jewish people. > Many doing so are the grandchildren of those who lethally > applied a double > standard to the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. > > > > For shame! > >
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 05:44:17 +0000
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