The American Jewish Committee placed a two-page ad in the June 6 Wall Street Journal, signed by European and American mayors, condemning action against Jews as a method of fighting the Jewish nationalist government in Palestine. The mayors signed a pledge which includes promises to:
Condemn anti-Jewish hatred, in all its forms;
Reject the notion that anti-Semitic acts, while sometimes carried out in the name of a political cause, may ever be justified or excused by one’s opinions about the actions or existence of the State of Israel…
The irony of warning against such conflation in muddy verbiage by the AJC is that at the time of the partition of Palestine, members of the AJC knew that to create a “Jewish” army and government would put Jews of the world –“diaspora” Jews– in a false position of association with a new, militarily assertive nationality.
Explicitly, future Israeli foreign minister Moshe Shertok (to become the Hebraicized Moshe Sharett) in March 1948 said to UN Security Council members that the existence of so many “Jewish hostages throughout the world” would be a guarantee of the good behavior of the “Jewish” state in Palestine towards Arabs after implementation of partition. (At the time, the AJC was a non-Zionist organization and was particularly apprehensive how Zionist plans would damage the standing of Jews, citizens of Arab countries particularly.)
There’s something of bailing the sea with a thimble in this AJC effort.
Every day the world sees abuse of non-Jews by the “Jewish state.” The AJC resolutely turns away from the realities of power in Israel-controlled land, and returns to its old school education efforts against “anti-Semitism.”
Israel’s actions are premised on the idea that Israel acts in the interests of The Jewish People. If the premier Jewish American organization does not explicitly disavow that claim, as
they were once careful to, at least they should accept in good humor that we are hostages to Israel’s “good behavior,” or lack of it, to Arabs.
There is no shortage of documentation of what Zionist planning intended. That the organized Jewish community does not recognize this does not conceal the truth from Zionism’s Palestinian targets though it does have Jews imagining that implacable Jew hatred is the reason for resistance to the Zionist dream.
Worldwide, Israel advocacy groups conflate Zionist advocacy with the defense of human rights of Jews.
In an article in the Seattle Times urging the public to “Recognize and speak out against antiSemitism,” officers of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle wrote, “Both anti-Semitism
and anti-Zionism are fueled by irrational hatred of the Jewish people.” A storm ensued over that assertion.
The American Jewish community is used to extravagant tributes to Israel, with remarkable acceptance of Israeli ethnonationalism.
In December 2013, while visiting Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry affirmed that “the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable.”
Two days later, on Dec. 7 at a Saban Center gathering in Washington, Kerry joined with President Obama in paying tribute to the idea of a nation for Jews. Obama endorsed the goal of protecting “Israel as a Jewish state.”
For his part, Kerry addressed Israeli ethnic anxiety by urging that Israel heed U.S. advice for withdrawal from some territory, to defuse what he called the “demographic time bomb”—non-Jewish births—threatening the existence of a “Jewish and democratic” state.
American Zionist moneybags Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson pledge their fortunes to ensure no American candidates cross Israel.
That the organized Jewish community persists in the bad faith pretense of innocence attenuates us from our genuine selves and from whatever moral mission allowed the persistence of our identity to this day.
A phenomenon of Jewish belief is that we’re ever falsely blamed for supposed “Jewish” crimes. “In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us,” says the Hagaddah used in Pesach.
The Talmud states that all Jews are responsible for each other. That adage, Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Bazeh, is multifunctional: Responsible to aid and guide each other, and also it seems, in the way of the world, responsible for each other’s conduct/crimes.
“When will Palestinian dispossession be reckoned in the Diaspora?”
When the criminals who are currently controlling and plundering America are in prison.
AJC recently launched Governors United Against BDS too.
All these politicians are reaping the years of neglect in their own country and districts. Instead of advocating for and working to improve their country they seen their hours and our money on unanimous support for Usrael. Billions for Israel but deadlock for America. The global economies are in neutral and the peopke are up in arms but as long as Israel is fine and the money is flowing ( to them) then they will continue to fiddle while Rome burns
If you zoom in on the list , you will find many of these country,s show only one Mayor listed.The UK has only 4 and France only 8.This is a very low percentage of the relevant total in each case.Ireland has one name , that of “Criona Ni Dhalaig who happens to be the mayor of Dublin and also a member of the Sinn Fein Party. which supports BDS. She probably agreed to avoid being accused of supporting antisemitism , as is the case with many of the others named here. The GOI does not support BDS but does support the right of BDS to free speech and do not view condemnation of Israeli policies as antisemitic.
This is an exercise in futility produced by people who are getting more and more desperate.
@amigo
“an exercise in futility produced by people who are getting more and more desperate”
You hit on the desperation angle and you are correct. Noticed this in the letters section of yesterdays Times here in the UK from a so called Project Director ,an Alan Fell , for “We were there too” http://www.jewsfww.london. Not so succinctly posted to coincide with the centenary of the battle of the Somme and even more blatantly to “piggy back ” on to the rise in racists attacks and abuse post the Brexit vote.
I quote: ” In the aftermath of the Brexit vote and a noticeable rise in antisemtic and other racist incidents “.
Note that the ludicrous claim is that post Brexit there has been a rise in anti semitic incidents which to Mr Fell and his fellow (no pun intended) JSIL First Zionists is THE important issue. The”other racists incidents are irrelevant or unimportant. It`s the poor old Jews who continue to suffer.
The simple fact is that yes there has been a significant rise in despicable racist incidents following Brexit but the targets have not been Jews in any shape form or way but Eastern Europeans such as Poles as well as the usual perennial targets Africans,Afro – Caribbeans and Asians. The attacks largely and predictably have come from the usual suspects = the far right extreme nationalists groups here in the UK. You know the type . Their equivalents in JSIL when not tied up in Government cabinet post duties go to demonstrations and shout “death to Arabs ” etc
I am not clear whether these posts reflect a desperate hasbara ploy to keep the old anti semitic pot boiling wherever and however or whether it is a cry of despair and frustration along the lines of “Wait a minute this can`t be right.We are the only ones who have really been victimised ,attacked and abused currently and since the time of Abraham because we were Chosen. These b…..d Eastern Europeans and Asians have no right to steal our act. We have got to make sure that readers know this sob sob ”
I suspect that it is the latter. The platform used is the Somme centenary and the statement that “more than 40,000 British Jews served their country”. The author being a loopy Zionist has of course no comprehension of just how absurd his statement is and how insulting it is to the memory of those millions other British , of whatever religion or none, who fought and died .The implication is that Jews of whatever nationality have done something “above and beyond” such as national war service which they had somehow no obligation to do because they were Jews.
Truly pathetic and shameful.