Jews can't have it both ways

by Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem - July 16, 2007

I realize that there are many good Jews who reject racism of any kind, including Zionism, an explicitly fascist movement of East European origin that has seriously eroded the moral fabric of Judaism.

I also know there are many honest and conscientious Jews who have spoken up against the evils of the Israeli state which has made the Star of David look like the Swastika of Hitler.

Similarly, I know there are many practicing Jews who don't accept the scandalous abuse and degradation of their great monotheistic religion by some cultist-minded "rabbis" and "religious leaders" who claim that Jews are outside the realm of human norms and that what applies to the rest of humanity doesn't apply to them.

These people can only be commended for their honesty and morality. They are not the subject of this article.

The subject is rather those powerful but deceitful Zionist leaders who claim to speak on behalf of Jews and Judaism while allowing themselves to sink in a sea of hypocrisy, mendacity and moral depravity.

Last week, two American Zionist organizations urged the Polish government and the Vatican to publicly condemn allegedly anti-Semitic remarks by a Polish priest made on a Catholic radio station, known as Radio Marijya.

Earlier, some Jewish leaders castigated the Holy See for authorizing the use of a controversial Latin Mass, parts of which are deemed anti-Semitic.

The 16th-century Tridentine Mass - recited every Good Friday - reportedly refers to Jews as "perfidious," and claims they live in "blindness" and "darkness."

The Mass prays that God might "take the veil from their hearts" so that Jews can come to acknowledge Jesus Christ.

According to the Zionist organizations, the Polish priest named Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, who heads the Radio Marija, accused "Jews" of trying to blackmail Poland in a potential government compensation deal.

ADL Chairman Abraham Foxman, who probably considers himself as America's extra-judicial ruler, given his immense influence and clout on the American political class, accused the Polish priest of making "incendiary and hateful remarks about Jews."

"He is sort of Goebbels with collar," said another Zionist leader, Rabbi Marrin Hier, the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Of course, racism of any kind, including anti-Semitism, must be rejected as a matter of principle. And, yes, prayers that incite racial hatred against Jews or others ought to be removed and barred.

But this is a two-say street that is not confined to Christianity and Islam and other religions. Jews also have much to do in this regard. The reincorporation of the scandalously anti-Christian text of "Chesronot Shas" into the Talmud also hurts Christian feelings, and if Jews are truly serious about inter-religious harmony, they, too, should reform their ancient books, which by the way had nothing to do with the authentic religion that Moses preached and taught.

In fact, Father Tadeusz Rydzyk can always confront Zionist accusations by proving showing people like Foxman and Hier that the moral high ground doesn't belong to them.

After all, the level of Jewish anti-Catholicism and anti-Christianity in general exceeds by far whatever Catholic anti-Semitism once could imagine.

Indeed, a mere glance at Talmudic texts, such as Shulhan Aruch and Chesronot Shas, which views Jesus Christ as "child of adultery" and his mother, Mary, as a " whore," are far more injurious to Christians than any "greed charges" leveled by a polish priest against Jews.

According to Israel's Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, the Talmud states that "Jesus's punishment in hell is to be immersed in boiling excrement."

Moreover, ha'Tanya, the fundamentalist book of the Habad (Chabad) movement, which is one of the most important branches of Hassidism, states that all non-Jews are totally Satanic creatures in whom there is absolutely nothing good.

"Even a non-Jewish embryo is qualitatively different from a Jewish one. The very existence of a non-Jews is inessential, whereas all of the creation was created solely for the sake of Jews."

Of course, these are not irrelevant, anachronistic or even anecdotal texts that some Zionist apologists would claim. In fact, these books are manuals for action for hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers, including cabinet ministers and army generals who view non-Jews, e.g. Arabs, as lesser human beings or even animals in a human form.

A few weeks ago, when a Jewish immigrant from France murdered an Arab taxi driver near Tel Aviv, he told interrogators that he viewed Arabs as "animals" and that as far as he was concerned, killing an Arab was no different than slaughtering an animal.

Interestingly, the murderer has been acquitted on the ground that he was deranged!!!

Well, how about the latest remarks attributed to Israel's former Chief Rabbi, Mordechai Elyahu? Is he also deranged?

A few weeks ago, Elyahu, viewed as a great Talmudic sage, reportedly petitioned the Israeli government to carry out a series of carpet bombings of Palestinian population centers in Gaza, arguing that a ground invasion of the world's most crowded spot would endanger Israeli soldiers.

"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Elyahu, the son of Mordechai Elyahu, quoting his father. "And if they do not stop after 1,000, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."

In short, Zionism, especially religious-Zionism, can't have it both ways. They can't rail and rant and rave against anti-Semitism, real or imagined, while they themselves indulge in a far more virulent racism against non-Jews. This is a two-way street, and non-Jews are not children of a lesser God.