“In a curious way, my exposure to Israel was essential to my coming to terms with Arab political life and its material. —Fouad Ajami “ [Transaction 2016]
“The Arabs could have learned from this experiment”—in that sentence, Fouad Ajami suggested the ultimate purpose of his quest. It wasn’t to ingratiate himself with the American Jewish establishment, as his critics charged. It was to break down the wall the Arabs thought they had erected around Israel, but in truth had erected around themselves.” ['Fouad Ajami goes to Israel' by Martin Kramer].
Sage Journals has povided a useful insight into the subject of hatred by Agneta Fischer titled, “Why we hate” on October 2018. Its introduction reads as follows:
“We offer a functional perspective on hate, showing that hate has a unique pattern of appraisals and action tendencies. Hate is based on perceptions of a stable, negative disposition of persons or groups. We hate persons and groups more because of who they are, than because of what they do. Hate can be reassuring and self-protective, because its message is simple and helps confirming people’s belief in a just world.”
Self-hating Jews
The expression “sef-hating Jew” is no oxymoron. National Review's “ On Self-Hating Jews” of March 3, 2020 by David Harsany, provides an excellent insight into this topic
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It is multifaceted and commeces with, “In The Kingdom and the Power”,Gay Talese's fantastic book about the history of the New York Times, there's a story about editor A. M. Rosenthal's receiving a letter from The Jewish Agency for Israel in 1965. The letter claimed that a man named Daniel Burros, the New York head of the Ku Klux Klan and an officer in the American Nazi Party, was actually Jewish. Rosenthal was skeptical.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities, after all, had included Burros on its list of “prominent Klansman.” Burros had traveled the country starting riots, leading protests and spreading the most virulent Jew hatred imaginable. He had been arrested numerous times in possession of various weapons and of destruction of property — painting swastikas on the wall of the B’nai Brith building in Washington DC. How could he possibly be a Jew?
It turned out that Burrows was indeed Jewish. He had been born in the Bronx to George and Esther, had lived in Richmond Hill in Queens, where he went to Hebrew School at Talmud Torah and was bar mitzvahed. Burrows purportedly had an IQ of 154.Growing up.he took a real liking to German language, and read voraciously about Nazi generals, whom he soon began to idolize. When he moved to Virginia, he became a professional hater.
At a further spell with NY Times, when his secret was revealed, he attended a Klan group in Reading, Pennsylvania. Upon the newspaper publishing his disgusting story, Burrows killed himself by means of two gun shots, one to the heart and the other to the head.
David Harsanyi concludes by recognizing that most cases of self-loathing aren't “as dramatic or as ugly or as simply. But there's a long history of this among Jews.”
Dennis Prager included: Left-Wing Jews—A Jewish and American Tragedy on November 6,2018. It is not new. It began with Karl Marx, the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis [his parents had undergone pro forma conversions to Christianity]. He wrote one of the most anti-Semitic tracts of the 19th century, “On the Jewish Question”, which was published in 1844. In it he wrote, among other things:
“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering---”
“What is his worldly G-d? Money----”
“Money is the jealous G-d of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist----”
“In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.”
Prager continuous with another left-wing, early 20th Jew, Leon Trotsky. Who along with Lenin. Led the Bolshevik Party in Russia; was a catastrophe for Jews and for humanity. In 1920, when Trotsky was head of the Red Army, Moscow's chief rabbi, Rabbi Jacob Mazeh asked him to use the army to protect the Jews from pogromist attacks in which tens of thousands of Jews were murdered. Apparently, Trotsky is reported to have responded: “Why do you come to me, I am not a Jew,” to which Rabbi Mazeh answered: “That’s the tragedy. It's the Trotskys who make revolutions, and the Bronsteins who pay the price.”
“Another prominent left-wing Jew, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, has devoted his life to writing and speaking against two countries: the United States and Israel.” In the suject colume, published by Investor's Business on 11/06/2018, Dennis Prager provides many examples of obnoxious Jewish Leftism.
Non-Jews' antisemitism
In their 1985 edition of the book, “Why the Jews?”, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin demonstrate an insight into the precise reasing behind anti-Semitism. They regard Jew-hatred as unique, due to it being “universal, as deep, or as permanent.”
"They have been expelled from nearly every country in which they have resided. From “England in 1290, France in 1306 and 1394, Austria in 1421, numerous localities in Germany between the 14th and 16th centuries, Lithuania in 1445 and 1495, Spain in 1492, Portugal in 1497, and Bohenia and Moravia."
In fact, the basic source of ancient Jewish history, the Bible depicts two attempts to destroy the Jewish people, the attempt by Pharaoh and the Egyptians and that of Haman and the Persians [Book of Esther].
“Jews have been perceived as so dangerous that even after their expulsion or detruction, hatered and fear of them remain.Why such hatred and fear of people who never constituted more than a small minority” of a vast majority."
All of the everyday responses can be readily dismissed. “The ultimate cause of antisemitism is that which has made Jews Jewish - Judaism.” There are 4 basic reasons which have been regarded by non-Jews as challenging the values of non-Jews:
[1] Judaism held from the earliest time that the Jews were chosen by G-d to achieve the mission of perfecting the world. This doctrine of the Jews' divine election has been a major cause of antisemitism.
[2] For thousands of years, Judaism has consisted of 3 components: G-d, Torah, and Israel.
[3] From its earliest days, the raison d'etre of Judaism has been to change the world for the better under the rule of G-d as recorded in an ancient Jewish prayer still recited daily.
[4] As a result of the Jews' commitment to Judaism, they have led high quality lives than their non-Jewish neighbors in almost every society in which they have lived.
Non-Jewish Jews
From the commencement of the 19th century, up until today, the Jews incorporated a new group, who no longer felt rooted in anything Jewish, religious or national; their identity consists of little more than having been born Jews, and they affirm none of Judaism’s components. They are non-Jewish Jews.
Unfortunately, the behavior of these radical non-Jewish Jews is at times, identified as Jewish behavior. “Since the 1930s,a highly visible percentage of people on what has been perceived by many as the American-hating Left has been Jewish.”
Alex Rose, alexrenee.rose@gmail.com, was born in South Africa in 1935 and lived there until leaving for the US in 1977, where he spent 26 years. He is an engineering consultant. For 18 years he worked for Westinghouse until age 60, whereupon he became self-employed. He was formerly on the Executive of Americans for a Safe Israel and a founding member of CAMERA, New York [Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in Americaת one of the largest media monitoring organizations concerned with accuracy and balanced reporting on Israel. In 2003, he and his wife made Aliyah and reside in Ashkelon.