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It
is time once again, G-d help me! to
expose the contrived foolishness of the new Jewish
"peace movements", those
obnoxious groups comprised of bored liberal Anglo-Jews with too much time on
their hands. Ironically, the activism of many of these individuals is a
definite consequence in some cases of the supposed “exploitative capitalism”
many of them rail against. Yet foolishness often comes to those with the sense
that one has time on his hands, or with those who harbor the notion of a unique
message or teaching they must offer the world. Narcissism and nonsense often
mate.
An
amalgam of names: “Alternative Action”,
LAVI, The Home, and a handful of others come to mind. The oft mentioned
calls for a “New Generation” to have a “New Conversation”. They often overlap
with one another and engage in joint projects. And despite their insistence
that they are not the peace industry, they are precisely that. The names may
vary, as do their respective platforms, but they are birds of one feather.
The
difference is that these peaceniks have another delusion. Unlike the “two-state
suicide” camp of the classical left, these groups maintain another lunacy. The
idea that we can coexist in one state with those who wish to destroy us, if we
allow the other side (the Arabs or Muslims) to experience “their own personal narrative”.
As they see it, if we abandon our “white, western, identify” and identify with
a greater “Semitic” sense of self.
Here
are some keys words which make up the skeletons of their nonsensical ideologies:
1.
“Narrative”- Generally refers to
the moral relativism of identifying and empathizing with the Arab sense of
Jewish wrong-doing. Often such people apologize for Arab violence and blame it
on western interference.
2.
Indigenous- A cursory definition
of a term I have discussed elsewhere and will not harp on. A selective
interpretation of this nonsense term. Unlike others, these people self-identify
as such but also grant the same status to Arabs. Hence the need to insist that
we can coexist. Unlike other such pro-Israel activists, these activists add
stupidity to silly sociology which believes in such a notion, which has as much
validity as phrenology.
3.
Conversation- The fantastical
belief that talking with select, token, polite Arabs and drinking coffee will
solve real problems, which as the late Rabbi Meir Kahane always noted correctly
were “immutable” problems.
4.
Western-The sense that the
west is evil and everything “middle eastern” is wonderful. Of course,
Arab/Islamic barbarism worldwide must be minimized and ignored, and is rarely
addressed honestly. So, these liberals
must ignore genital mutilation, stoning’s, throwing homosexuals from roofs,
castration, sexual slavery, classical slavery, honor killings, martyrdom. Once
again, a classic mirroring of western liberalism in our contemporary period.
5.
Semitic Movement-The racial obsession
and self-loathing which requires a magical belief in a shared “race”. According
to this belief, since we are both Semites we must get along.
6.
Colonial- The enduring Arab
jihad be damned. Western colonialism is the greatest evil. The Arabs don’t
really hate us. The West creates this hate. The massacres of Jews in the 20’s
and 30’s up to and including the barbarism of today has no place in their
conversation. Not to mention the horror of dhimmitude since the times of
Mohamed.
A
marriage of magical non-intellectual thinking, pseudo-scientific idiocy, and
liberal naivete. The idea that if we drink Turkish coffee with Salam, suddenly
real grievances will disappear. The Jews of pre-pogrom 1929 Hebron also enjoyed
the company of some of their neighbors. Until one day. That is why these groups
ignore, minimize, or apologize for Arab/Islamic barbarism. It is the fault of
the “WEST”, never the Amalekites on this side of the pond who detonate themselves
on buses in our cities.
The new peace fools are on the move. This is the inevitable
result when self-appointed gurus, peddle corrupt notions of justice to the
deluded masses. The irony is that these silly Jewish indigenous rights
advocates are poster children for western liberalism. Their self-identification
is premised on the guilt-ridden liberal's creation of the notion of indigeneity
(a false concept) which fuels multicultural reverse discrimination. And their
obsession with peace, with those who only understand terror, is yet another example of the
distorted liberal mindset.
In
a recent Facebook post, I noted that the pseudo-babble of these
"Alternative Peace" Jewish Indigenous activists often sounds like
this:
"The paradigm of
intertribal aggression is a symptom of retrograde ionization of the spherical
schemas of our oppression. Because of colonial maladaptive dystopia
deprivation, the oppressed class is subjugated beneath the heel of capitalism's
boot, and thus lashes out to his/her/it's equally exploited peers in a version of cosmic counter-maneuvering to avoid the real
problems. Squares are only squares because the white man told us they were. By
deconstructing the false narrative of Eurocentric privilege, squares can become
round, and round can also be triangular. By allowing my understanding of
cosmological interpretation to allow yours to contradict mine, our lives take
on meaning and we become one. When Hassan says “Itbach El Yahud”, we Jews need
to process his feelings through his prism of active consciousness, and thus
reinterpret perceived aggression as a symptom of our own subjugation by
Europeans. By rejecting European fruit and replacing them with majul dates and
halva, we redeem the shared narrative of Semitic symbiosis and indigenous
hegemony.”
Silliness aside, to my Caucasian Ashkenazi
colonized ear, they sound precisely like this.
These “new peace” activists may think they are "raging
against the machine", but in truth they are an amalgam of "fools on
parade". But the college campuses are inundated with such people, and
these are their target audiences. The kinds of people who may try to reconcile
their Jewish identify in a liberal, progressive, manner which satisfies their
essential beliefs. So, the obligation is to expose these groups and show the
un-Jewish nature of these groups. Far from being eastern, they are naked
byproducts of the excesses of western liberalism, married to the soft-boiled
science of morally relativistic sociology.
Some things you may not know:
·
On the Facebook
page of one Yehuda
HaKohen, a self-styled Jewish indigenous rights activist involved with
the “Alternative Action” peace movement he empathized with the Arab nakba by
noting: I’m not interested in belittling anyone’s pain but I think the
message of Naqba Day would be a lot more powerful and easier for Israelis to
empathize with if it didn’t occur each year on the [solar] date of our
anti-colonialist victory against England. Why not mark the date a Palestinian
community was destroyed or the day Israel decided you aren’t coming back? By
marking the date the British left and the Jews declared independence, you make
it easy for us to believe that this is more about us and less about you (and
some of us really don’t need such assistance).
- ·
(Minute
14:05) "And Palestinians are
caught in the middle of all this. They're obviously victims of this, too."
- ·
(Minute
17:00) "There's a blind spot. We do have a blind spot when it comes to
Palestinians. We're completely insensitive to their pain. It's true."
- ·
(Minute
1:25:34)"The Palestinian
narrative is also true,"
- ·
(Minute
1:25:55) "In
terms of values, I agree with 90% of what the SJP is saying."
- ·
(Minute 1:30:45) "They are people who are
legitimately experiencing an occupation and want to resist it, and I as a human
being can't blame them."
·
(Minute 1:36:40) "I live in Beit El..And there's a fence
around Beit El, and I don't see any reason for that fence."
Alternative Action’s perspective on peace
explains much: “Alternative Action views
conflict between the Jewish people and other natives of the Middle East as an
unnatural situation brought about by external forces. Because the closest people in the world to the Jews are the other
indigenous peoples of our region, we strive for unity and peace as
an ideal stemming from our belief that the Semitic peoples are brothers bonded
together by common culture, ancestry and values.”
Some other fun facts to know:
- ·
LAVI and others support the racist thugs of the BLM movement who essentially
function as a black KKK in America.
- ·
Alternative Action praised Fidel Castro as a great man when he died. A
veritable butcher of innocents, and they saw fit to praise him!
I have opined on the threat of Arab nationalism and Islam
many times before. And yet the examples of barbarism never end. Though his
favorite meal is Jewish blood, the Arab/Islamic Amalekites will spill the blood
of anything they deem antagonistic to sharia law. Including British
school-children at an Ariana pop concert in Manchester. No one is safe, not
even those clueless European anti-Semites who favor the savage over the Jew,
and who sympathize with the mythical "Arab plight". We are dealing
with the epitome of evil, a corruption so thorough and complete it usually
negates the possibility for rehabilitation. This is the lesson of Amalek. Deal
with evil totally and destroy it, or be totally consumed by the very same force
you refused to recognize.
- Tragically, many mainstream, respectable right-wing hasbara
personalities are flirting with these movements. When violence strikes Israel,
such types will step away for a time, but their willingness to attend some of
these events and give credence to these organizations and people, is a
troubling example of the fickle nature of people. And of the continued
inability of Jews to face ugly truths.
These new groups love hashtags
because it appeals to millennials who often see these groups as an avenue to
express their Judaism, in a manner which satisfies their liberal proclivities.
So, for any free-thinking liberals, here are a few hashtags of my own. They
contain essential truths which Jewish history has shown time and time again.
*The
author would like to thank a certain someone, who wishes to remain nameless,
for sharing his considerable research.
