Alan Dershowitz on Judge Goldstone: “But now I
see him as a traitor… It’s as if they would have taken
a Jew to edit the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He
uses his Jewish last name to kosher his slander of the
Jewish People.”
For those who still cannot make their minds up
about Jewish nationalism and the Zionist violent abuse
of Western academic culture (tolerance, academic
freedom, pluralism etc) Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Yale’s
University Jewish society, gives an exemplary
opportunity to see it all. Rabbi Hecht confronted
Judge Goldstone last week while Goldstone was
delivering an address at Yale University. Rabbi Hecht
and his supporters held up a sign at the back of the
conference room equating the Goldstone report with the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the
Dreyfus affair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8WWx4CGYVI
For a while, the Dreyfus affair and the Protocols
were pretty effective Zionist propaganda tools, they
were used mainly to silence criticism of Jewish power,
Jewish lobbying and Israel. However, it is about time
to face the truth.
Drawing a parallel between the Dreyfus affair, The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Goldstone
report can also produce an interesting insight, but
not for the reasons Rabbi Hecht or Dershowitz suggest.
It allows us to look at Zionism in an historical
perspective. We can review where Zionism started from
and what it matured into.
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that
divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It
involved the conviction for treason in 1894 of Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of
Jewish descent. The Dreyfus affair had a huge impact
on Herzl, the father of Zionism, who was assigned by a
Viennese paper to cover the trial. Soon afterward,
Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State, 1896)
and founded the World Zionist Organization.
During the last century Zionists regarded the
Dreyfus Affair as an exemplary case of anti Semitism
motivated by racial discrimination. In fact the
Zionists were wrong. For a century they have been
misleading themselves and others. French society at
the time was divided about Dreyfus. The Left and the
intelligentsia rushed to support the young officer,
which led eventually to a 2nd trial.
Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated as a Major in
the French Army in 1906. However, the case of
Goldstone is totally different. The images of the
IDF’s white phosphorus shells bursting over UN refugee
shelters are engraved in our collective memory. As if
this is not enough, initial Israeli denial of the
usage of white phosphorous is also stored in our
minds. The perception that Israel committed a massacre
in broad daylight is not going to be wiped out either.
Unlike divided France that couldn’t make up its
mind about Dreyfus, we are not divided about Israel
being a criminal state and the biggest threat to world
peace. The repulsion towards Israel and its brutality
is actually a growing unifying force amongst
humanists, peace lovers and the world at large. Israel
will not be exonerated and considering the fact that
it defines itself as the Jewish state, its crimes
reflect disastrously on Jews as a collective,
something that not even a dozen Jewish anti Zionist
activists around the world can change. From an
historical perspective it is rather clear that Israel
has been very successful in exhausting the last drops
of sympathy garnered for the idea of Jewish
nationalism. As it happens, not a single humanist
stands up against Goldstone or his balanced report.
But the truth must be said. As much as humanists
are united behind the Goldstone report, our
democratically elected leaders are failing to confront
Israel and its Jewish lobbies. They rush to appease
AIPAC, they pocket money given by Zionist lords and
Israeli Lobbies. Interestingly enough, the political
morbid conditions in which we live was actually
described by an unusual fictional text that was
published in 1903 namely, the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.
The Protocols is widely considered a forgery. It is
a manual for a prospective new member of the "Elders",
describing how they will run the world through control
of the media and finance, replacing the traditional
social order with one based on mass manipulation.
Though the book is considered a hoax by most experts
and regarded as a vile anti-Semitic text, it is
impossible to ignore its prophetic qualities and its
capacity to describe both the century unfolding and
the political reality in which we live I am referring
here to: AIPAC, The Credit Crunch, Lehman Brothers,
Neocon wars, interventionist ideology, a British
Foreign Secretary Listed as Israeli Propaganda (Hasbara)
author trying to amend Britain’s ethical stand, a
Zionist by admission put on an inquiry panel to
investigate why Britain launched a Zionist war and so
on.
As it happens staunch Zionists such as David
Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen and Alan Dershowitz use a very
banal spin to divert the attention from the
devastating prophetic reality depicted by the
Protocols. A reality in which they themselves promote
interventionist wars in our midst. Again and again
they stress the fact that the Protocols was a forgery.
They insist that we look at its anti Semitic origin
while evading its content and meaning. However whether
or not the Protocols is a fictional text or a forgery
doesn’t change the fact that it explores our
disastrous contemporary reality. A reality in which we
are killing en mass the enemies of Israel in the ‘name
of democracy’, a reality in which Dershowitz himself
puts enormous effort into cleansing academia of any
critical voices of Israel, Zionism and Jewish power in
America and the West.
This is exactly where Goldstone is coming into the
picture. In the last century we have been witnessing
an evolving murderous Jewish nationalist movement. A
movement that was born in part due to a calculated
misinterpretation of the Dreyfus affair. For a
century, the Zionist movement has managed to silence
its critics using different tactics that are all
explored in that fictional text from 1903. Zionism was
very successful; it managed to mature into a state, at
the expense of the Palestinian people. Only through
violent expansionist methods including massacres and
racially orientated ethnic cleansing have the Zionists
and Israel managed to fulfill what they define as the
Jewish national aspiration. But as Goldstone reveals,
this aspiration matured into a criminal state that is
terrorizing its indigenous population and threatening
its neighbours
If we ever want to amend the reality we live in, we
must curtail the Zionist operators in our midst, in
the government, in politics, in the media, in
academia, in finance and in the legal system. I am not
talking here about Jews but about Zionists, people who
are affiliated with a specific foreign tribal interest
that counters universalism, ethics and humanism.
Unless we do that we may soon have to face another
Goldstone report investigating a much greater Zionist
crime against humanity.
If we want to help Israelis and Jewish nationalists
recover from their nationalist racist fanatical dream,
we must persuade them that the Goldstone report is
their new Bible, a recent catalogue of their departure
from humanity.