To Be a Zionist
by Yancey Ames
Currently the Israeli propaganda apparat pretends that to be anti-Israeli is to be anti-Semitic. But as any student of Zionism knows, to be a Zionist one must believe that the anti-Semites are right.
This claim is so shocking in its audacity that it requires irrefutable documentation. The documentation comes from unimpeachable sources – the Zionists themselves. From Lenni Brenner's book "Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal" we quote from the subsection entitled "The Appeal of the Blood Idea." According to the biographer Emil Ludwig:
"Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, but he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine. You know, the coming of the Nazis was rather a welcome thing. So many of our German Jews were hovering between two coasts; so many of them were riding the treacherous currents between the Scylla of assimilation and the Charybis of a nodding acquaintance with Jewish things. Thousands who seemed to be completely lost to Judaism were brought back to the fold by Hitler, and for that I am personally grateful."
Second the opinion of Ludwig was the renowned poet of Zion, Chaim Nachman Bialik. He wrote:
"Hitlerism, the poet feels, has rendered at least one service in drawing no lines between the faithful Jew and the apostate Jew. Had Hitler excepted the baptized Jew, there would have developed the unedifying spectacle of thousands of Jews running to the baptismal founts. Hitlerism has perhaps saved German Jewry, which was being assimilated into annihilation. At the same time, it has made the world so conscious of the Jewish problem, that they can no longer ignore it.
"Indeed it is quite true that Judaism, by penetrating into all the nations actually did undermine the remnant of that sort of idolatry. . . but perhaps the strongest force in this process was an 'apostate' or 'assimiliated' Jews of all types who entered into the very body of Christianity and stirred its very bowels and went on slowly undermining the remnants of paganism as a result of their Jewish volition and Jewish blood. I, too, like Hitler, believe in the power of the blood idea. These were the men – although often the names of great men – Jews are called in their stead – who smoothed the roads for the great movements of freedom all over the world. The Renaissance, Liberalism, Democracy, Socialism and Communism. . . Anti-Semites sometimes have a clear disconnect. Jewish influence has indeed been very powerful in this connection; we ought not to deny it." [pp. 59-60]
As damning as these statements are as to the essential similarity of Zionist and anti-Semitic ideology, they cannot compare with the classic formulation of Chaim Weizmann, the most famous and influential of all Zionist leaders. In discussing his relations with Sir William Gordon, the author of implicitly anti-Jewish, anti-alien legislation, Weizmann wrote as follows in his autobiography, "Trial and Error":
"Our people were rather hard on [Gordon]. The Alien Bill in England, and the movement which grew up around it were natural phenomena. . . Whenever the quantity of Jews in any country reaches the saturation point, that country reacts against them. . . The fact that the actual number of Jews in England, and in their proportion to the total population, was smaller than in other countries was irrelevant; the determining factor in this matter is not the solubility of the Jew, but the solvent power of the country. . . this cannot be looked upon as anti-Semitism in the ordinary or vulgar sense of that word, it is a universal social and economic concomitant of Jewish immigration, and we cannot shake it off. . . though my views on immigration were naturally in sharp conflict with his, we discussed these problems in a quite objective and even friendly way." [p. 4]
Finally, to make absolutely clear the Zionist position to even the most feeble-minded, Jacob Klatzkin made what might be termed the classic "Zionism for Dummies" statement in 1925:
"If we do not admit the rightfulness of anti-Semitism, we deny the rightfulness of our own nationalism. If our people is deserving and willing to love its own natural life, then it is an alien body thrust into the nation among whom it lies, an alien body that insists on its own distinctive identity, reducing the domain of their life. It is right, therefore, that they should fight against us for their national integrity. . . Instead of establishing societies for defense against the anti-Semites, who want to reduce our rights, we should establish societies for defense against our friends who desire to defend our rights."
The Zionists have hoodwinked a great many gullible people into believing that Israel is a part of Western civilization in the Middle East. But as these documented statements demonstrate, the Zionists regarded themselves as refugees from a Western civilization which rejected Jews.
Given this historical mentality behind Zionism, it is small wonder that Zionism has always bitten the hand which feeds it. The Zionists turned against the British who had granted them the title deed to Palestine; they spit on the United States which supplies them with super-abundant money, technology and arms. Zionism was to have solved the age-old "Jewish problem"; but it has merely transplanted it to a particularly sensitive part of the world.
One of the appeals of the Zionists in the World War One era was that a Jewish state in Palestine would dampen Jewish world-wide enthusiasm for the Bolsheviks in Russia. Instead Zionism in Palestine has subjected the Arabs to the same terror that was imposed on the Russians.
Zionism has fulfilled none of its original promises. Its original ideology has been forgotten because it conflicts too blatantly with contemporary sensibilities. It does not follow that the Zionist conception of the incompatibility of Jews and non-Jews was necessarily wrong, although the conception of planting a Jewish state in an Arab land very clearly was wrong.
The question now before the world is: Quo vadis, Zionism and Israel? Israel is certainly proving itself incompatible with the rest of the world. Shall Zionism solve the "Arab problem" with the same apartheid in once insisted was the answer to the "Jewish Problem"? That appears to be its intent.
Zionism certainly believes that Jews are as incompatible with Muslim Arabs as they once were with Christian Europeans. Zionism, in a sense, is once again proving that the anti-Semites were correct. Jews will never reform and Zionist Israel is the proof. What an ironic comment on the ultimate failure of Zionism.
A Sense of Peoplehood is not a Pathology
It is not racist for a professor such as Alan Dershowitz or for a professor like Kevin MacDonald to advocate for their ethnic group interests.
The words for bigotry, that are often used, such as: ant-Semitic, anti-white, anti-black, anti-Arab, anti-feminist, anti-gay and hundreds of other labels, are for the most part overstated. Instead, it should be seen as pro-white, or pro-Jewish or pro-women or pro-traditional family and not be ashamed of it.
These "pro" sensibilities are part of the human condition, not to be pathologized into an "anti."
It is about group interests.
A race or an ethnie without a sense of peoplehood or ethnichood will end up being used to achieve the goals of other ethnies. (Yes, ethnie, not ethnic).
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