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Khalid Amayreh
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Skokie to Um-el-Fahm: Re-enactment Of
The Nazi Nightmare |
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Posted By Khalid Amayreh September 9, 2008
When members of the National Socialist Party
of America (the Nazi Party) declared their
intention to march through the
predominantly-Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie
in 1977, Jewish groups vociferously denounced
the “attempted re-enactment of the Nazi
nightmare.”
And while the American Nazis claimed the right
of free speech in accordance with the First
Amendment, the Jews and their supporters
correctly claimed that their right to live
without intimidation and harassment did
override the Nazis’ right to freedom of speech
and expression.
Eventually, after exhaustive legal actions by
both sides, the Nazis were allowed to parade
in Skokie.
Ironically, the American Nazi group never did
march in Skokie as its leader, Frank Collin,
himself the son of a Jewish Holocaust
survivor, decided at the last moment that the
court verdict was a big victory for freedom of
speech and that this was good enough for the
group.
The reason I am invoking this story, which
took place 35 years ago, is because the
government of Israel is finding itself today
in the shoes of the American Nazi group, while
the Arabs of Israel are forced to play the
role of the people of Skokie.
Last week, the Israeli High Court decided to
allow the followers of the infamous racist
Rabbi Meir Kahana, to march through the Arab
town of Um-el-Fahm in northern Israel. The
Kahana disciples argued through their lawyer
that they were only exercising their freedom
of speech and expression.
The truth, however, is that freedom of speech
and expression is the last thing these people
would value, especially when their political
opponents, Arab or Jewish, are involved.
Indeed, these Judeo-Nazi thugs openly teach
that basic human rights, including the right
to life, don’t apply to non-Jews in general
and Arabs in particular.
Kahana himself back in the mid 1970s wrote a
book entitled “They Must Go” in which he urged
the Israeli state to ethnically cleanse all
non-Jews from Israel-Palestine.
To be sure, the racists will not be marching
in Um-el-Fahm in order to assert their right
to freedom of expression. It would be more
than naïve to think that this is their real
purpose.
The main goal behind their planned
provocative parade is to assert their
genocidal ideology and shout “Mavet le Arabim”
(death to the Arabs) and “Arabs out of
Israel.”
This is very much similar to the anti-Jewish
intimidation tactics by the Nazi youth groups
in Germany throughout the 1930s. We all know
the rest of the story.
The Kahana group may look small in terms of
sheer numbers and political representation.
However, it is very clear that the group
enjoys a lot of backing by powerful political
parties such as the Likud, National Union,
MIFDAL, Shas as well as the powerful Jewish
settler lobby.
Moreover, there is conspicuous flaccidity
displayed by the Israeli occupation army
toward this terrorist group.
Furthermore, it is also well known that the
group, which had produced Baruch Goldstein,
the American-Jewish physician who in 1994
murdered 29 Muslim worshipers while praying at
the Ibrahimi Mosque in downtown Hebron, is
backed by powerful rabbinic circles ,
especially from the Merkaz Harav Talmudic
college in West Jerusalem which teaches the
doctrine that non-Jews living under Halacha or
the Jewish law must be enslaved as water
carriers or wood-hewers, or expelled or
exterminated.
The Israeli court decision to allow these
racist thugs to march through Um-el-Fahm
coincided with the screening in Israel last
week of a blatantly anti-Islam film produced
by a notorious Dutch Islamophobe who had
called for banning Islam from the Netherlands.
On Wednesday, 3 September, the Nazi-minded
Israeli parliamentarian Aryeh Eldad, who
sponsored the screening of the hateful film,
said he would seek to form an international
parliamentary front with European colleagues
against Muslim and Arabs.
This is the same Jewish lawmaker who a few
years ago referred to Jews as “human beings”
and to non-Jews as “non-human beings.”
According to the Israeli press, when the
Israeli army and border police forcibly
vacated Jewish settlers from the small settler
outpost of Ammona in the West Bank a few years
ago, Eldad castigated the police for treating
“human beings” (the settlers) the way Arabs
were being treated.
I am not really presenting these facts in
order to incite hatred against Jews or
Judaism. I know true Judaism is not like this.
I also know that probably most Jews are
reasonable people who reject racism.
After all, Jews had been premier victims of
the most virulent form of racism, and it is
only logical that they should adopt an
uncompromising stand against it.
However, it is also important to expose these
hypocritical and morally duplicitous Jews who
would react vociferously to racism when the
victims are Jews but remain silent, or even
be enthusiastically supportive, when the
perpetrators happen to be Jews or Israelis.
A few years ago, when a Russian court decided
to ban Shulhan Aruch, a summarized Talmudic
text, Jews around the world cried out against
the ugly face of Russian anti-Semitism.
Eventually, the Russian court reconsidered its
decision.
However, today in Israel, we see that the
entire Israeli state apparatus, including the
government, the intelligentsia, the media as
well as the religious establishment, is
totally silent as Islam, the religion of
nearly one fourth of Israel’s citizens, is
openly vilified by a member of the Israeli
parliament, in cooperation of a later-day
European disciple of Adolph Hitler.
Moreover, one is really prompted to ask
where are the voices that are being raised in
Israel and among Jews worldwide against
allowing the thugs of Kahana to march through
Um-el-Fahm? Have you all forgotten Skokie?
We know and you know that this is not an
issue of freedom of speech. This is an issue
of a manifestly fascist group inciting against
and trying to delegitimize the very existence
of 1.5 million Israeli citizens and another
3.5 million Palestinians living under a
nefarious military occupation across the
Green Line.
In short, Jews, like the rest of humanity, are
expected to be morally consistent.
This means they must speak up against racism,
not only when Jews are victims, but also when
Jews happen to be perpetrators as well. (end)
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