I’m one of those who believe that there cannot be any serious moral argument about the need for the existence of the State of Israel. Not since 1948 can there have been any politically justifiable reason why Israel should not exist. It’s quite obvious to me that the arguments against Zionism that might have carried political and religious weight, at least among non-Orthodox Rabbonim and thinkers in the United Kingdom in the period of 1900 to the late 1920’s, no longer apply. Broadly speaking they were worried about such things as whether support for Zionism would bring with it accusations of dual loyalty against Jews, or to not disturb the waters in Britain post the Emancipation of Britain’s Jews, which at that time was historically only a generation and a bit away in 1835.
Today, Emancipation is much further away historically, there are generations of British Jewish subjects who have lived as equal Britons and have not lived under the shadow of legal religious restrictions for 190 years. Accusations of dual loyalty, as I have seen and experienced it, are these days not too much of an issue, outside of sectors of the ethnonationalist extreme Right and the Far Left, and it is normal for a British Jew to be both a British patriot and support the existence of Israel, if only as an ideal or as an insurance policy in case things get bad. After all if one of the most cultured and technologically advanced nations in Europe could go bad in a lethal way for Jews then anywhere, including the United Kingdom, could. The world has not progressed enough morally for there not be a need for Israel.
The anti-Zionist Jews that exist today are not the progressively and reform minded Rabbonim and thinkers concerned about a type of antisemitism that has now died down to a large extent or who are worried about legal precariousness, they are most often found on the Far Left. These Far Left anti-Zionist activists co-opt their Jewishness and in effect cosplay it in order to promote extreme left ideologies. They take bits of Jewish liturgy such as the Kaddish or mourning prayer and use it to celebrate those who died whilst in the act of murdering Jews. They don Kippot whilst consorting with the sort of far left and Islamic Jew haters whose views on Jews would probably make the KKK blush and provide political cover for the scum of the earth. Their religion is not so much Judaism but Leftism dressed in the carapace of Judaism. Their guiding principles are more rooted in the words of Marx and Mao instead of the Torah.
This category of leftist anti-Zionist Jews is not a recent phenomena, it is as an article in Commentary magazine shows, an issue that has been around for a very long time. The article, by Harvey Klehr and David Evanier, looks back at what they call the ‘sinful history’ of anti-Zionist Jews and their piece covers not just the modern day anti-Zionist Jews who make excuses for Hamas and deny the reality of their atrocities but also those Communist anti-Zionist Jews who have in the past done some appalling things. Some of the appalling things that Mr Klehr and Mr Evanier point out that the Communist anti-Zionists did was to make excuses for the Hebron Pogrom in what is not Israel in 1929 where 70 Jews died at the hands of Muslim Jew haters and, at the time of the Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, followed the Soviet line and busied themselves with denouncing Polish Jew hatred whilst doing less than they should have done to highlight the far more lethal German Nazi kind. Later on other anti-Zionist Jews of the Left stuck to their worship of Communism even when Communists were purging Jews from Communist Party positions in post war Eastern Europe.
As the years have gone by I’ve come to despise more and more the anti-Zionist Jewish Left. I pity many of them for their naivety in believing that it’s possible to live in peace with those who want Jews dead or that it’s possible to throw away Judaism, keep the trappings but follow Communism but I also despise them. I have no time for groups like Na’amod or Jewish Voice for Peace as they assist no one at all apart from the enemies of Jews and of the West. They are the products of copious amounts of leftist cash, class privilege and a mix of deluded naive thinking and cynical politicking.
The article by Mr Klehr and Mr Evanier shows us that the phenomenon of those who are Jewish supporting for far left political reasons the enemies of the world’s Jews is not a new one. The article also shows that those anti-Zionist Jews who deny the atrocities of 7/10 in order to protect and promote leftism and those terrorist groups like Hamas who are being promoted by Leftists, are not anything novel, but sad to say they have been around before.
You can read the entirety of the article by Mr Klehr and Mr Evanier via the link below:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/harvey-klehr/anti-zionist-jews-shameful-history/
