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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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