Zionism's Greatest Achievement

Twenty first century anti-Semitism is generally camouflaged in the disguise of being "dislike of Zionism" and "criticism of Israel." In fact, the goal of the "anti-Zionists" is the destruction of Israel and the shipping out of all the "Zionist" civilians and children to concentration camps. While in theory "anti-Zionism" is not exactly the same thing as "anti-Semitism," in reality it is. I have never met an anti-Zionist who was not an anti-Semite. And I include Jewish leftist anti-Zionists in this categorical statement.

Having noted this, it is also important to note one of the most important achievements of Zionism, which is that Zionism forced a major change in the natureof the expression of anti-Semitism.

For centuries, the slogans of the anti-Semites were that Jews were racially inferior, intellectually inferior, cowards, money-grubbers, killers of God, sub-humans, and so forth. B ut observe the main slogan of anti-Semites TODAY! It is that Jews are mean. They are mean to the poor Palestinians.

Ooooh, soooo mean.

What a marvelous transformation!! That the main calumny thrown at the Jews is that they are bullies, meanies. What greater accomplishment of Zionism could be imagined?

Of course, this does not mean that the anti-Semites really DO think that the Jews are mean or cruel to the Palestinians. In fact, the anti-Zionists do not give a damn about the Palestinians, and the last thing they care about is Arab human rights. This is why they have absolutely nothing to say about the treatment of Arabs in Arab countries or by the Palestinian Authority's Gestapo. When Saddam Hussein ordered Kuwaiti civilians to be forced to drink gasoline and then had his troops shoot into their bellies to make them explode to the cheers and laughs of his stormtroopers, there was not a single anti-Zionist who expressed disapproval or concern. When 200,000 Algerian civilians are murdered, the anti-Zionists have never even heard about it.

The anti-Zionists know perfectly well that Arabs are treated a thousand times better in Israel (EVEN if one were to believe all of their accusations and allegations about imaginary mistreatment of Arabs by Israel) than are Arabs in Arab countries. And, of course, they refuse to admit that the Arab treatment of non-Arab minorities in the Arab countries is even a legitimate topic of discourse.

The anti-Semites moan about the supposed Israeli mistreatment of the poor Palestinians because they think this is an effective way to delegitimize and undermine the existence of Israel. In other words, they are motivated by hatred of Jews and not by any compassion for Palestinians. They seek to see Israel destroyed, not to see Palestinians enfranchised, or - rather - their only interest in Palestinian enfranchisement is as a tool to endanger Israel's existence. Of the enormous territories of the Middle East, larger than the United States, the only place where they suddenly are concerned for the welfare and civil rights of Arabs is in Israel. The other Arabs can go to hell.

The anti-Semites have by and large lost their ability to march about and accuse the Jews of ritual murders and similar medieval libels, at least outside the Arab world's press. Such things make them laughable in the West, at least outside of Counterpunch and Antiwar.com.

No one outside the Islamic world takes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as anything other than an embarrassment for anti-Zionists. So - instead - they have seized upon a new propaganda tactic, complaining that the Jews are Oh So Mean and Cruel and Bullies.

At long last--after two millenia of exile -- to be accused of being bullies! To leave the anti-Semites with no more effective weapon than heaping invective upon the mean Jews. For this - one must say a blessing of thanksgiving! And often.

It is Zionism's greatest achievement.