What is Jewish Power - Can We Ask This Question Without Being Accused of Being Anti-semitic

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What is Jewish power? Can we ask this

question without being accused of being

Anti Semitic?

ByGilad AtzmonJewish poweris the unique capacity to stop us from discussing or even

contemplating Jewish power. It is the capacity to determine the boundaries

of the political discourse and criticism in particular.

In his new book, The Invention Of The Land of Israel, Israeli

academic Shlomo Sand, manages to present conclusive evidence of

the far fetched nature of the Zionist historical narrative - that the

Jewish Exile is a myth as is the Jewish people and even the Land of

Israel.

Yet, Sand and many others fail to address the most important

question: If Zionism is based on myth, how do the Zionists manage

to get a way with their lies, and for so long?

If the Jewish homecoming and the demand for a Jewish national

homeland cannot be historically substantiated, why has it been

supported by both Jews and the West for so long? How does the

Jewish state manage for so long to celebrate its racist expansionistideology and at the expense of the Palestinian and Arab peoples?

Jewish power is obviously one answer, but, what is Jewish power?

Can we ask this question without being accused of being Anti

Semitic? Can we ever discuss its meaning and scrutinize its politics?
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Is Jewish Power a dark force, managed and maneuvered by some

conspiratorial power? Is it something of which Jews themselves are

shy? Quite the opposite - Jewish power, in most cases, is celebrated

right in front of our eyes. As we know, AIPAC is far from being

quiet about its agenda, its practices or its achievements. AIPAC, CFIin the UK and CRIF in France are operating in the most open

manner and often openly brag about their success.

Furthermore, we are by now accustomed to watch our

democratically elected leaders shamelessly queuing to kneel before

their pay-masters. Neocons certainly didnt seem to feel the need to

hide their close Zionist affiliations. Abe Foxmans Anti Defamation

League (ADL) works openly towards the Judification of the Westerndiscourse, chasing and harassing anyone who dares voice any kind

of criticism of Israel or even of Jewish choseness. And of course, the

same applies to the media, banking and Hollywood. We know about

the many powerful Jews who are not in the slightest bit shy about

their bond with Israel and their commitment to Israeli security, the

Zionist ideology, the primacy of Jewish suffering, Israeli

expansionism and even outright Jewish exceptionalism.

But, as ubiquitous as they are, AIPAC, CFI, ADL, BernieMadoff,

liberator Bernard Henri Levy, war-advocate David Aaronovitch,

free market prophet Milton Friedman, Steven Spielberg, Haim

Saban, Lord Levy and many other Zionist enthusiasts and Hasbara

advocates are not necessarily the core or the driving force behind

Jewish Power, but are merely symptoms. Jewish power is actually

far more sophisticated than simply a list of Jewish lobbies or

individuals performing highly developed manipulative skills. Jewish

power is the unique capacity to stop us from discussing or evencontemplating Jewish power. It is the capacity to determine the

boundaries of the political discourse and criticism in particular.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not right wing Zionists who

facilitate Jewish power, It is actually the good, the enlightened


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and the progressive who make Jewish power the most effective

and forceful power in the land. It is the progressives who confound

our ability to identify the Judeocentric tribal politics at the heart of

Neoconservatism, American contemporary imperialism and foreign

policy. It is the so-called anti Zionist who goes out of his or herway to divert our attention from the fact that Israel defines itself as

the Jewish State and blinds us to the fact that its tanks are decorated

with Jewish symbols. It was the Jewish Left intellectuals who rushed

to denounce Professors Mearsheimer and Walt, Jeff Blankfort and

James Petras work on the Jewish Lobby. And it is no secret that

Occupy AIPAC, the campaign against the most dangerous political

Lobby in America, is dominated by a few righteous members of the

chosen tribe. We need to face up to the fact that our dissident voiceis far from being free. Quite the opposite, we are dealing here with

an institutional case of controlled opposition.

In George Orwells 1984, it is perhaps Emmanuel Goldstein who is

the pivotal character. Orwells Goldstein is a Jewish revolutionary, a

fictional Leon Trotsky. He is depicted as the head of a mysterious

anti-party organization called The Brotherhood and is also the

author of the most subversive revolutionary text (The Theory and

Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism). Goldstein is the dissenting

voice, the one who actually tells the truth. Yet, as we delve into

Orwells text, we find out from Partys Inner Circle OBrien that

Goldstein was actually invented by Big Brother in a clear attempt to

control the opposition and the possible boundaries of dissidence.

Orwells personal account of the Spanish Civil War Homage To

Catalonia clearly presaged the creation of Emmanuel Goldstein. It

was what Orwell witnessed in Spain that, a decade later, maturedinto a profound understanding of dissent as a form of controlled

opposition. My guess is that, by the late 1940s, Orwell had

understood the depth of intolerance, and tyrannical and

conspiratorial tendencies that lay at the heart of Big Brother-ish

Left politics and praxis.
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Surprisingly enough, an attempt to examine our contemporaneous

controlled opposition within the Left and the Progressive reveal that

it is far from being a conspiratorial. Like in the case of the Jewish

Lobby, the so-called opposition hardly attempts to disguise itsethno-centric tribal interests, spiritual and ideological orientation

and affiliation.

A brief examination of the list of organisations founded byGeorge

SorosOpen Society Institute (OSI) presents a grim picturepretty

much the entire American progressive network is funded, partially

or largely by a liberal Zionist, philanthropic billionaire who supports

very many good and important causes that are also very good for theJews. And yet, like staunch Zionist Haim Saban, Soros does not

operate clandestinely. His Open Society Institute proudly provides

all the necessary information regarding the vast amount ofshekels it

spreads on its good and important causes.

So one cant accuse Soros or the Open Society Institute of any

sinister vetting the political discourse, stifling of free speech or even

to controlling the opposition. All Soros does is to support a wide

variety of humanitarian causes: Human Rights, Womens Rights.

Gay Rights, equality, democracy, Arab Spring, Arab Winter, the

oppressed, the oppressor, tolerance, intolerance, Palestine, Israel,

anti war, pro-war (only when really needed), and so on.

As with Orwells Big Brother that frames the boundaries of dissent

by means of control opposition, Soros Open Society also

determines, either consciously or unconsciously, the limits of critical

thought. Yet, unlike in 1984, where it is the Party that invents itsown opposition and write its texts, within our progressive

discourse, it is our own voices of dissent, willingly and consciously,

that are compromising their principles.

Soros may have read Orwell - he clearly believes his message
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because from time to time he even supports opposing forces. For

instance, he funds the Zionist-lite J Street as well as Palestinian

NGO organisations. And guess what? It never takes long for the

Palestinian beneficiaries to,compromise their own, most precious

principlesso they fit nicely into their paymasters worldview.

The Visible Hand

Theinvisible handof the market is a metaphor coined by Adam

Smith to describe the self-regulating behaviour of the marketplace.

In contemporary politics. The visible handis a similar metaphor

which describes the self-regulating tendency of the political-fund

beneficiary, to fully integrate the world view of its benefactor intoits political agenda.

Democracy Now, the most important American dissident outlet has

never discussed the Jewish Lobby with Mearsheimer, Walt, Petras

or Blankfort - the four leading experts who could have informed the

American people about the USAs foreign policy domination by the

Jewish Lobby. For the same reasons, Democracy Now wouldnt

explore the Neocons Judeo-centric agenda nor would it ever discuss

Jewish Identity politics with yours truly. Democracy Now will host

Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein, it may even let Finkelstein

chew up Zionist caricature Alan Dershowitzall very good, but not

good enough.

Is the fact that Democracy Now is heavily funded by Soros relevant?

Ill let you judge.

If Im correct (and I think I am) we have a serious problem here. Asthings stand, it is actually the progressive discourse, or at least large

part of it. that sustains Jewish Power. If this is indeed the case, and I

am convinced it is, then the occupied progressive discourse, rather

than Zionism, is the primary obstacle that must be confronted.
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It is no coincidence that the progressive take on antisemitism is

suspiciously similar to the Zionist one. Like Zionists, many

progressive institutes and activists adhere to the bizarre suggestion

that opposition to Jewish power is racially motivated and

embedded in some reactionary Goyish tendency. Consequently,Zionists are often supported by some progressives in their crusade

against critics of Israel and Jewish power. Is this peculiar alliance

between these allegedly opposing schools of thoughts, the outcome

of a possible ideological continuum between these two seemingly

opposed political ideologies? Maybe, after all, progressiveness like

Zionism is driven by a peculiar inclination towards choseness.

After all, being progressive somehow implies that someone else

must be reactionary. It is those self-centric elements ofexceptionalism and choseness that have made progressiveness so

attractive to secular and emancipated Jews. But the main reason the

progressive adopted the Zionist take on antisemitism, may well be

because of the work of that visible handthat miraculously shapes the

progressive take on race, racism and the primacy of Jewish

suffering.

We may have to face up to the fact that the progressive discourse

effectively operates as Israels longest arm - it certainly acts as a

gatekeeper and as protection for Zionism and Jewish tribal interests.

If Israel and its supporters would ever be confronted with real

opposition it might lead to some long-overdue self-reflection. But at

the moment, Israel and Zionist lobbies meet only insipid, watered-

down, progressively-vetted resistance that, in practice, sustains

Israeli occupation, oppression and an endless list of human rights

abuses.

Instead of mass opposition to the Jewish State and its aggressivelobby, our resistance is reduced into a chain of badge-wearing,

keffiyeh-clad, placard-waving mini-gatherings with the occasional

tantrum from some neurotic Jewess while being videoed by another

good Jew. If anyone believes that a few badges, a load of amateur

Youtube clips celebrating Jewish righteousness are going to evolve


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into a mass anti-Israel global movement, they are either nave or

stupid.

In fact, a recent Gallup poll revealed that current Americans'

sympathy for Israel has reached anAll-Time High. 64% ofAmericans sympathise with the Jewish State, while only 12% feel

for the Palestinians. This is no surprise and our conclusion should be

clear. As far as Palestine is concerned, progressive ideology and

praxis have led us precisely nowhere. Rather than advance the

Palestinian cause, it only locates the good Jew at the centre of the

solidarity discourse.

When was the last time a Palestinian freedom fighter appeared onyour TV screen? Twenty years ago the Palestinian were set to

become the new Che Guevaras. Okay, so the Palestinian freedom

fighter didnt necessarily speak perfect English and wasnt a

graduate of an English public school, but he was free, authentic and

determined. He or she spoke about their land being taken and of

their willingness to give what it takes to get it back. But now, the

Palestinian has been saved, he or she doesnt have to fight for his

or her their land, the progressive is taking care of it all.

This progressive voice speaks on behalf of the Palestinian and, at

the same time, takes the opportunity to also push marginal politics,

fight Islamism and religious radicalisation and occasionally even

supports the odd interventionst war and, of course, always, always,

always fights antisemitism. The controlled opposition has turned the
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Palestinian plight into just one more progressive commodity, lying

on the back shelf of its ever-growing good-cause campaign store.

For the Jewish progressive discourse, the purpose behind pro-

Palestinian support is clear. It is to present an impression of

pluralism within the Jewish community. It is there to suggest thatnot all Jews are bad Zionists. Philip Weiss, the founder of the most

popular progressive pro-Palestinian blog was even brave enough to

admit to me that it isJewish self -intereststhat stood at the core of

his pro Palestinian activity.

Jewish self-love is a fascinating topic. But even more fascinating is

Jewish progressives loving themselves at the expense of the

Palestinians. With billionaires such as Soros maintaining thediscourse, solidarity is now an industry, concerned with profit and

power rather than ethics or values and it is a spectacle both amusing

and tragic as the Palestinians become a side issue within their own

solidarity discourse.

So, perhaps before we discuss the liberation of Palestine, we first

may have to liberate ourselves.

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