The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of
civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel’s
disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from
Palestine.
If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend
to demand justice in Israel and Palestine – in Cape Town, Washington,
D.C., New York, New Delhi, London, Dublin and Sydney, and all the
other cities – this was arguably the largest active outcry by
citizens around a single cause ever in the history of the world."
The above are the words of the much-praised humanitarian and freedom
advocate Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu who passed away this week in South Africa.
It was published a few years ago in the Haaretz newspaper, the
well-known Israeli platform of providing comfort to the enemy.
The match between the two is perfect.
Haaretz also published a front-page appeal by prof. Sternhell, a
renowned Israeli academic who urged the" Palestinians" to murder Jews
only beyond the green line in order to not lose the sympathy of
moderate Israelis for their cause. Tutu, Sternell, and Haaretz - may
live on different continents but they share the same passion. They loathe Israel, the Jewish country.
Why?
I will not attempt to examine the murky depths of Tutu's Israel
hatred or for Haaretz's self-loathing. It remains a mystery of sorts.
Proud Jews not plagued by the unique malady - Jewish guilt, do not
understand the self loathers. Thankfully in Israel, the large
majority of Israeli Jews scoff at them today.
The Oslo calamity and the brutal, senseless Jewish expulsion edicts have taught the average Israeli that academic titles and high government positions no longer enjoy a monopoly on public credibility.
On the contrary, we are nearing a place where thanks to social media
and untold tragic policy directives, relying on "experts" with titles is a fading phenomenon.
Jews who hear the likes of Tutu compare Israel to the very worst
actors in history don't need Haaretz to explain to them that we just don't understand the nuance and tough love.
He was an Israel hater. He didn't hate Jews because of Israel. He
hated Israel because of the Jews.
How do I know?
He never used the same poisonous rhetoric for any other people or country. Has he not heard of North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Pakistan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Syria, Iraq, etc..?
They did not reach the levels of evils that Israel did. They did not deserve according to Bishop Tutu, "the largest outcry in the history of the world"
He may have heard of those countries but he was too busy pointing his
finger at the worst criminals on earth - the state of the Jews.
As in the USA and other places, South Africa's Jews were at the
forefront of the struggle for Black rights in South Africa. I wonder
if those same Jews accept the fact that according to Tutu their hero,
the Jewish state deserves the "largest outcry in the world"?
Progressive Jews have a difficult time identifying anti-Semites who are not White men with shaved heads and swastikas on their necks.
BLM and Tutu surely must have real grievances against Jews; the kind
that we are too obtuse or privileged to understand. It can not be that
they are anti-Semitic. It just doesn't fit the model.
To all my normal Jewish brothers and sisters out there: It's perfectly
legitimate and indeed necessary to identify your detractors. whoever
they are; Black, White Jew, or Gentile, professor or bishop.
No fear.
My book, Jews, Israelis, and Arabs" is available
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