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Criticizing Israel is not the same as being anti-Semitic

· The Nomadic Viking

Criticizing Israel and the Meaning of Antisemitism

Nothing embodies the hypocrisy of the world that we are currently living in more than the way in which Israel stands above international law. This has gone so absurdly far that they are even able to get away with genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, something which the world community is allowing them to do. It is truly sickening!

As if this was not enough, the Israeli authorities are allowing Zionist-settlers to target Palestinians in the West Bank. The authorities themselves are furthermore using the army to carry on with a campaign of displacing whole communities of Palestinians. In many cases, they are even forcing the latter to demolish their own homes before expelling them from their land.

Any other country than Israel would have faced the same treatment, or worse, as that of Russia after their invasion of Ukraine. Israel is allowed to carry on with their atrocities though, because it is a country that people are barely allowed to even criticize.

I believe some political advocates invoke the memory of the Holocaust in ways that can discourage legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies. That is my criticism of a political tactic, not of Jewish people collectively. This is an extremely dirty tactic which they have been allowed to carry on with for way too long.

To be more precise, the Zionists are using the holocaust to portray themselves as victims that the rest of the world are in some way indebted to. In some political disputes, accusations of antisemitism can be made unfairly, but that does not justify assuming that every accusation is insincere.

Furthermore, as soon as a person barely touches on the subject of Israel being in the wrong, representatives and supporters of the latter will very often start talking about “dangerous thinking” etc. All this is for the purpose of putting themselves above international law, and gain sympathy from the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, in most cases, this is a tactic that seems to work well for them. That is at least the case when it comes to the United States and other countries in the so-called West.

It should be very obvious to everyone that criticizing Israel does not mean that you are being anti-Semitic. As previously mentioned, I believe accusations of antisemitism can sometimes be used unfairly to deflect criticism of government policy, although genuine antisemitism is real and must be taken seriously.

According to Cambridge Dictionary, being antisemitic means the following: “showing hatred for Jewish people, or unfair or cruel towards people because they are Jewish”.

To claim that everyone who criticizes Israel over what is happening in Gaza does so simply because Israel is a Jewish state is, in my view, a serious distortion. There may of course be extremists who genuinely hate Jews, but I believe they make up only a very small minority of those criticizing Israel.

Claiming that the majority of people who criticize Israel are doing so because of the fact that their population is Jewish, that is an insane claim! It is the same as if someone would accuse anti-Nazis of only disliking Nazis because they are white. To have the audacity to come with such claims, that shows just how out of touch with reality that Israel’s political leaders are.

Or, let me rephrase. I think that the aforementioned leaders know exactly what they are doing. Unfortunately, the Western-countries are stupid enough to buy into it. That’s what makes it all even worse, the fact that this cunning approach works. There might also be more to it than we are aware of, as in Israel having leverage over the West in other ways. Let’s have a look at that in a later post. For now, let’s get back on topic.

Political Support and Accountability

First of all, Israel has somehow managed to make sure that they always get the backing of the United States. That is the case no matter whether the US happens to be under Democratic- or Republican-rule. This longstanding political support deserves scrutiny through evidence about foreign policy, lobbying and strategic interests, rather than conspiracy theories, including the ZOG conspiracy theory and similar ones.

But who am I to call it “conspiracy theories”? I do not know all the factors behind US policy toward Israel, and political influence should be assessed using documented evidence rather than assumptions of hidden control. Actually, I just came across myself falling for the famous “antisemitic-trick”, which means that I am uncomfortable expressing my critical view of Israel. I do, however, refuse to allow that to stop me from speaking what I believe to be the truth.

As previously mentioned, in Western countries, the support for Israel among mainstream political parties is more or less universal. The only ones who dare to criticize the Zionist-state tends to be left-wing parties. Even right-wing parties aren’t criticizing Israel despite the ongoing genocide, probably because they have chosen to instead direct all their critique against Islam.

Or rather, if I have understood things correctly, the right-wing movement as a whole is basically divided into two different camps. First are, what tends to be, the populist parties who choose to put all their focus on Islam and its followers. That in turn makes them traitors in the eyes of movements further to the right, since the latter view the former as Zionist-puppets.

As far as I understand, extreme right-wing movements are mainly made up of Neo-Nazis. As previously mentioned, they make up such a tiny percentage of the people who dare to stand up against Israel though, that it is completely absurd to claim that they would in any way be representative of the majority of these people.

Furthermore, because of the events that took place during World War II, right-wing parties have to be more careful when discussing Israel. My theory is that the reason for this is that it is easier for the Zionists to use the antisemitic-card against them than left-wing movements. This most likely bottoms in the fact that the Nazis were right-wing, while the Soviet Union, who defeated them, were Communist.

Government Policy and Jewish Identity

Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that the very, very large majority of people who are anti-Israel are so because of the actions of their government, not because of the fact that its inhabitants happen to be Jewish. To assume such a thing, and not that it obviously is connected to atrocities such as the ones listed below, is stupidity at its worst.

And once again, I do not believe that the Israeli leaders are stupid, they are just pretending to be so in order to make it easier for themselves to pursue their political goals. I mean, it does not take a genius to figure out that people criticizing Israel are very likely doing so because of factors such as the following ones, rather than Israelis being Jewish:

Unfortunately, these are just a few examples of many. So, next time Israel and its supporters start criticizing someone of being antisemitic, maybe they should first consider that the person is most likely, to say the least, referring to events such as the ones above rather than expressing a hatred against Jewish people.

So stop using the holocaust in order to achieve political gains. The Israelis are using those horrible events and all its victims as a way of stigmatizing their opponents and getting their will through. That is nothing but disgusting, and they are making a mockery of all the victims that they claim to care so much about. Shame on the Zionists! They are the real fascists of the modern world!

Related reading: The Real Enemies of Israel and the Jewish People and Hypocrisy at Its Worst, a related reflection on criticism of Israeli government policy.

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