Posted by
J-GOP on Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:07:57 PM
What most liberal Jews either don't want to, or simply can't bring themselves to acknowledge is the fact that the left today is where the majority of Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israeli sendiments, statements, and actions take place.
While Alan Dershowitz isn't a person that is often quoted by Republicans, his recent quiz/article in FrontPage Magazine entitled, Who’s Making These Nazi-like Statements?, should be a sobering exercise for many Jews on the left. Here is his thought provoking, multiple choice quiz:
1. Who made the following statement? “We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that culture of violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."
A) A person named “Hitler”,
B) A person named “Stalin”
C) A person named “Gandhi”?
2. Who described the establishment of the state of Israel as a “historical, moral, political calamity,” blames the existence of Israel for putting the entire world in “peril” and condemns “American Jews” for the “shame” of failing to denounce Israel?
A) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
B) The Hamas Charter
C) Award-winning American playwright Tony Kushner.
3. Who has said that Israel may eventually cause the “end of the human race” by means of global warming?
A) American losing politician Ralph Nader
B) American losing politician Pat Buchanan
C) Former minister in the Blair government, Clare Short.
The Answers:
Question 1 - Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and himself the former head of the MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence at the University of Rochester.
Question 2 - Tony Kushner, who demonstrates his complete ignorance about the history, morality and politics of Israel’s establishment as the result of the United Nations division of the contested area into two states: one for the Palestinians and one for the Jews.
Question 3 - Clare Short, former Secretary of State for International Development in the UK Labor government.
These individuals on the left mimic the most despised group in modern history – the Nazi Party – in blaming the world’s ills on “the Jews", the Jewish state and “American Jews.” If this were not so dangerous and tragic, its patent ignorance would almost be humorous.
It’s easy to scapegoat “the Jews” or the Jewish state for all the world’s problems. One would expect, however, that in light of the history of Nazism, people like Gandhi, Kushner, and Short would reflect more deeply before issuing this modern day version of the Blood Libel. Shame on them.