Netanyahu’s Brand of Tolerance for Anti-Semitism Goes Back 120 Years
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The Israeli prime minister’s ease with neo-Nazism
and revisionist Holocaust history are not as
surprising as they might seem, writes Daniel Lazare.
<https://consortiumnews.com/tag/daniel-lazare/>By
Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a
soft spot for rightwing authoritarians. This is
no surprise since Netanyau is a rightwing
authoritarian himself, one who sees Israel as an
old-fashioned ethno-state in which Jewish
national aspirations are the only ones that count
– as his support for last year’s
“<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People>Nation-State
Law” makes clear.
But what may come as a surprise is that he also
has a soft spot for rightwing authoritarians with
a pronounced anti-Semitic streak. Last July, he
welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to
Israel even though Urban has led a campaign to
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/hungary-jews-angered-by-rightwing-memorial-on-holocaust-day/>rehabilitate
Miklos Horthy, the pro-Axis dictator who sent
hundreds of thousands of Jews to death camps and
bragged,
“<https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hungarys-exceptional-statesman-was-an-anti-semite/>I
have been an anti-Semite throughout my
life.” Two months later, he welcomed Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte, who once compared
himself to Hitler,
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-duterte-hitler-idUSKCN1200B9>saying,
“There are three million drug addicts [in the
Philippines]. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”
He issued a joint statement with Polish Premier
Mateusz Morawiecki lauding Poland’s wartime
efforts to alert the world to the Nazi death
camps, a statement that Israel’s own Yad Vashem
Holocaust museum
later<https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-negotiators-insist-yad-vashem-approved-holocaust-declaration/>repudiated
on the grounds that it “contains highly
problematic wording that contradicts existing and
accepted historical knowledge in this
field.” His government has also supplied weapons
to the
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727>neo-Nazi
Azov Battalion fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine.
So what’s the explanation? If Netanyahu is a
hawk’s hawk when it comes to enemies of the
Jewish state, then doesn’t it follow that he
should be no less militant when it comes to enemies of the Jews?
The answer is, no, it doesn’t, for the simple
reason that Zionism’s attitude toward
anti-Semitism is more ambiguous than people
realize. Theodore Herzl, the Viennese journalist
who founded modern Zionism, made this clear in
the 1890s. Rather than combatting anti-Semitism,
he argued that Jews should accept it as an
ineradicable fact of life. Instead of opposing
it, they should make use of it as a lever with
which to pry their co-religionists loose from
western society so that they would move to
Palestine. As he put it in “The Jewish State,”
the
1896<https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-jewish-state-quot-theodor-herzl>
manifesto that put modern Zionism on the map:
“Great exertions will hardly be necessary to spur
on the [emigration] movement. Anti-Semites
provide the requisite impetus. They need only do
what they did before, and then they will create a
desire to emigrate where it did not previously
exist, and strengthen it where it existed before.”
Theodor Herzl en route to Israel aboard a ship in 1898. (Wikimedia)
Herzl’s goal was twofold: to provide Jews with a
homeland and to win over non-Jews by removing an
irritant from their midst. Jews, he wrote,
“continue to produce an abundance of mediocre
intellects who find no outlet, and this endangers
our social position as much as it does our
increasing wealth. Educated Jews without means
are now rapidly becoming Socialists.” The more
radical they become, the more Christian society
would close ranks against them. The solution was
to provide them with a homeland of their own so
they would cease subverting someone else’s.
“They will pray for me in the synagogues, and
in the churches as well,” Herzl confided to his
diary. Not only would Jews liberate themselves,
but they would be liberating Christians too, “liberating them from us.”
Zionism’s DNA
Modern observers might dismiss such ideas as
ancient history since they date to more than 120
years ago. But they have become part of
Zionism’s DNA. Instead of battling anti-Semites,
the movement has repeatedly followed Herzl’s
advice by emulating them and adopting their techniques for their own purposes.
In the 1920s, Jews were thus shocked when Zionist
settlers organized a movement to drive out Arab
workers in Palestine. The reason is that it was
all too similar to anti-Semitic nationalists in
Poland who were seeking to drive out Polish
Jews. An immigrant socialist complained in the
Jewish Daily Forward, according to the historian
<https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Socialists-United-States-1925-1926/dp/1898723982/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1548795835&sr=1-3&keywords=goldstein+Jewish+Socialists+in+the+United+States>Yaacov
N. Goldstein, that the “conquest of labor”
campaign“sends shudders through the Jewish
workers in the Diaspora countries because the
gentiles could try out this principle against the
Jewish workers….” Said another: “How do we react
when the reactionary chauvinists in Poland fight
for their ‘conquest of labor,’ meaning prevention
of Jews working in Polish industrial and
commercial enterprises? How do we respond to the
‘conquest of labor’ of the Romanians?”
In the 1930s, a growing rightwing Zionist
movement latched onto Benito Mussolini for much
the same reason – because he wished to purify
Italy just as they wished to purify
Palestine. With Mussolini’s permission, a
rightwing Zionist leader named Vladimir “Ze’ev”
Jabotinsky opened a training school in
Civitavecchia, some 40 miles west of
Rome. According to the Marxist historian
<https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/mideast/agedict/ch10.htm>Lenni
Brenner, this is how an Italian Zionist newspaper
described the opening ceremonies:
“The order – ‘Attention!’ A triple chant
ordered by the squad’s commanding officer – ‘Viva
L’Italia! Viva Il Re! Viva Il Duce!’ resounded,
followed by the benediction which rabbi Aldo
Lattes invoked in Italian and Hebrew for God, the
king, and Il Duce…. ‘Giovinezza’ [the Fascist
Party anthem] was sung with much enthusiasm….”
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, ca. June 1940. (Flickr)
Mussolini
<https://www.haaretz.com/1.5215759>praised
Jabotinsky as a good fascist in 1935 while Abba
Ahimeir, a leader of the Palestinian branch of
Jabotinsky’s “Revisionist” movement, wrote a
regular newspaper column entitled “Diary of a
Fascist.” Ahimeir’s editor was Benzion Netanyahu,
father of the current prime minister, who would
later become Jabotinsky’s personal assistant. In
Poland, the leader of the Revisionists was a
young man named Mieczslaw Biegun, better known by
the Hebrew name
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin>Menachem
Begin, who would serve as Israeli prime minister from 1977 to 1983.
When Begin embarked on a U.S. speaking tour in
1948, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney
Hook, and some two dozen other Jewish
intellectuals sent a
<https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948>letter
to the The New York Times denouncing his movement
as “akin in its organization, methods, political
philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and
Fascist parties,” one that “preache[s] an
admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.”
Given this rich history of fascism, it’s no
surprise 70 years later that Netanyahu would
enjoy hobnobbing with a new generation of
rightwing strong men
<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-bibi-comes-to-brazil-to-offer-bolsonaro-a-little-help-with-his-leftist-dissidents-1.6790001>(including
new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) or that
he would look the other way when it comes to the
anti-Semitism of the Polish government, which
last year made it a crime to say that Poles were
complicit in the Holocaust, or of Orban’s
campaign against international financier George
Soros. Indeed, it’s no surprise that Netanyahu’s
26-year-old son Yair would join in the fun by
posting
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/yair-netanyahu-posts-meme-rife-with-anti-semitic-themes-1.5449468>an
anti-Semitic cartoon on Facebook showing George
Soros directing a conspiracy against his father.
“Is this what the kid hears at home?” wondered
former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also
targeted by the cartoon. But not everyone was
displeased. “Welcome to the club, Yair –
absolutely amazing, wow, just wow,”
<https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/906767136974139392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E906767136974139392&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Fworldviews%2Fwp%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fnetanyahus-son-posts-classic-anti-semitic-meme-drawing-praise-from-neo-nazis%2F>tweeted
Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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<https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke>David Duke@DrDavidDuke
Welcome to the club, Yair - absolutely amazing, wow, just wow.
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<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/10/netanyahus-son-posts-classic-anti-semitic-meme-drawing-praise-from-neo-nazis/?utm_term=.fbb717dc75fa>Declared
the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website: “Yair
Netanyahu is a total bro. Next he’s going to call for gassings.”
Role Model for Xenophobes
What’s a little anti-Semitism among
friends? Netanyahu’s devotion to Jewish ethnic
purity has meanwhile turned him into a role model
for xenophobes the world over. So has his
hostility to refugees. Last March, he declared
that illegal African migrants are “much worse”
than terrorists, adding: “How could we assure a
Jewish and democratic state with 50,000 and then
100,000 and 150,000 migrants a year? After a
million, 1.5 million, one could close up
shop. But we have not closed down. We built a
fence and at the same time, with concern for
security needs, we are making a major investment
in infrastructures.” This is the same fence that
Donald Trump now points to as his model for his Mexican wall.
Thanks to such attitudes at the top, Israel has
seen an upsurge of racial violence. In 2014, an
Israeli<https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-lives-matter-israel-180329061234932.html>stabbed
a baby three times in the head, telling police:
“They said that a black baby, blacks in general,
are terrorists.” A few months later, a mob shot
and beat to death an African refugee named
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-video-shows-shot-eritrean-beaten-untreated-for-18-minutes-1.5392268>Haltom
Zarhumin the southern city of Beer Sheva. A year
after that, two Israeli teenagers beat to death
an African refugee named
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/pair-of-israelis-convicted-of-beating-african-asylum-seeker-to-death-1.5845468>Babikir
Ali Adham-Abdo in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu, of course, will reply that he was
nowhere near the scene of the crime. But the
more Zionism’s true colors come out, the more
such atrocities are likely to occur.
It must be stressed that the problem with Jewish
nationalism lies not with the first half of the
term but the second. Nationalism in general
suffers from a similar combination of chauvinism
and separatism. Examples are rife. Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is a well-known
anti-Semite who last summer inveighed against
“Satanic Jews who have infected the whole world
with poison and deceit.” His ideological
predecessor,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey>Marcus
Garvey, whose back-to-Africa movement in the
1920s had curious parallels with Zionism,
repeatedly provoked black leftists of the day by
speaking out in favor of Jim Crow and meeting
with a Ku Klux Klan leader named Edward Young Clarke in Atlanta.
“I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and
White American societies, as far as the Negro is
concerned, as better friends of the race than all
other groups of hypocritical whites put
together,” he wrote. “I like honesty and fair
play. You may call me a Klansman if you will,
but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman
as far as the Negro in competition with whites
socially, economically and politically is
concerned, and there is no use lying.”
Garvey’s dark side was forgotten in the 1960s
when he emerged as a hero of the Black Power
movement. Zionism’s dark side was similarly
forgotten after the
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War>Six
Day War in 1967 when it emerged as a favorite
ally of the United States. Thereafter, anyone
who tried to bring up the love affair with
fascism was ostracized by neo-conservatives, many
of them Jewish, who increasingly dominated intellectual discourse.
But with ethno-chauvinism now staging a powerful
comeback, Zionism’s far-right past has returned
to haunt it and the rest of the world as well.
Daniel Lazare is the author of “The Frozen
Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing
Democracy” (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and other books
about American politics. He has written for a
wide variety of publications from The Nationto Le
Monde Diplomatique and blogs about the
Constitution and related matters at D<http://aniellazare.com/>aniellazare.com.
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