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15 February 2010 By Gilad Atzmon Alan Dershowitz on Judge Goldstone: “But now I
see him as a traitor… It’s as if they would have taken
a Jew to edit the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He
uses his Jewish last name to kosher his slander of the
Jewish People.” For those who still cannot make their minds up
about Jewish nationalism and the Zionist violent abuse
of Western academic culture (tolerance, academic
freedom, pluralism etc) Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Yale’s
University Jewish society, gives an exemplary
opportunity to see it all. Rabbi Hecht confronted
Judge Goldstone last week while Goldstone was
delivering an address at Yale University. Rabbi Hecht
and his supporters held up a sign at the back of the
conference room equating the Goldstone report with the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the
Dreyfus affair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8WWx4CGYVI For a while, the Dreyfus affair and the Protocols
were pretty effective Zionist propaganda tools, they
were used mainly to silence criticism of Jewish power,
Jewish lobbying and Israel. However, it is about time
to face the truth. Drawing a parallel between the Dreyfus affair, The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Goldstone
report can also produce an interesting insight, but
not for the reasons Rabbi Hecht or Dershowitz suggest.
It allows us to look at Zionism in an historical
perspective. We can review where Zionism started from
and what it matured into. The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that
divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It
involved the conviction for treason in 1894 of Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of
Jewish descent. The Dreyfus affair had a huge impact
on Herzl, the father of Zionism, who was assigned by a
Viennese paper to cover the trial. Soon afterward,
Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State, 1896)
and founded the World Zionist Organization. During the last century Zionists regarded the
Dreyfus Affair as an exemplary case of anti Semitism
motivated by racial discrimination. In fact the
Zionists were wrong. For a century they have been
misleading themselves and others. French society at
the time was divided about Dreyfus. The Left and the
intelligentsia rushed to support the young officer,
which led eventually to a 2nd trial.
Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated as a Major in
the French Army in 1906. However, the case of
Goldstone is totally different. The images of the
IDF’s white phosphorus shells bursting over UN refugee
shelters are engraved in our collective memory. As if
this is not enough, initial Israeli denial of the
usage of white phosphorous is also stored in our
minds. The perception that Israel committed a massacre
in broad daylight is not going to be wiped out either. Unlike divided France that couldn’t make up its
mind about Dreyfus, we are not divided about Israel
being a criminal state and the biggest threat to world
peace. The repulsion towards Israel and its brutality
is actually a growing unifying force amongst
humanists, peace lovers and the world at large. Israel
will not be exonerated and considering the fact that
it defines itself as the Jewish state, its crimes
reflect disastrously on Jews as a collective,
something that not even a dozen Jewish anti Zionist
activists around the world can change. From an
historical perspective it is rather clear that Israel
has been very successful in exhausting the last drops
of sympathy garnered for the idea of Jewish
nationalism. As it happens, not a single humanist
stands up against Goldstone or his balanced report. But the truth must be said. As much as humanists
are united behind the Goldstone report, our
democratically elected leaders are failing to confront
Israel and its Jewish lobbies. They rush to appease
AIPAC, they pocket money given by Zionist lords and
Israeli Lobbies. Interestingly enough, the political
morbid conditions in which we live was actually
described by an unusual fictional text that was
published in 1903 namely, the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. The Protocols is widely considered a forgery. It is
a manual for a prospective new member of the "Elders",
describing how they will run the world through control
of the media and finance, replacing the traditional
social order with one based on mass manipulation.
Though the book is considered a hoax by most experts
and regarded as a vile anti-Semitic text, it is
impossible to ignore its prophetic qualities and its
capacity to describe both the century unfolding and
the political reality in which we live I am referring
here to: AIPAC, The Credit Crunch, Lehman Brothers,
Neocon wars, interventionist ideology, a British
Foreign Secretary Listed as Israeli Propaganda (Hasbara)
author trying to amend Britain’s ethical stand, a
Zionist by admission put on an inquiry panel to
investigate why Britain launched a Zionist war and so
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