February 2005

Ethnic Ashkenazim have been developing a fairly extensive anti-Gentile/anti-Catholic polemic for several hundred years.  This literature is for the most part only available in Hebrew and Yiddish, but if one attends Israel Advocacy or Jewish history sessions at the local synagogue, you will probably hear a lot of this material as local Ashkenazim continially reinforce their indoctrination.   It is worthwhile to note that anti-Muslim anti-Turk Czarist Russian Orientalism was largely a creation of ethnic Ashkenazi academics at Czarist Russian universities."K.A.

Statement by professor Israel Shahak on the Jewish hatred towards Christianity

Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, an especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews. In the past, when the danger of anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, the pious Jews were commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not actually on the cross or openly before the church.

The increasing strength of the Jewish state has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: The  spitting on the cross for converts from Christianity to Judaism, organized in Kibbutz Sa'ad and financed by the Israeli government is an act of traditional Jewish piety. It does not seem to be barbaric, horrifying and wicked because of this! On the contrary, it is worse because it is so traditional, and much more dangerous as well, just as the renewed  anti-Semitism of the Nazis was dangerous, because in part, it played on the traditional  anti-Semitic past.

This barbarous attitude of contempt and hate for Christian religious symbols has grown in Israel. In the 1950s Israel issued a series of stamps representing pictures of Israeli cities. In the picture of Nazareth, there was a church and on its top a cross - almost invisible,  perhaps the size of a millimeter. Nevertheless, the religious parties, supported by many on the Zionist "left" made a scandal and the stamps were quickly withdrawn and replaced by an almost identical series from which the microscopic cross was withdrawn.

Then there was the long-drawn-out battle about Christian influence in elementary arithmetic.  Pious Jews object to the international plus sign for it is a cross, and it may in their opinion, influence little children to convert to Christianity. Another "explanation" holds; it would then be difficult to "educate" them to spit on the cross, if they become used to it in their arithmetic exercises. Until the early 1970s two different sets of arithmetic books were used in Israel.One for the secular schools, employing an inverted "T" sign. In the early '70's the religious fanatics "converted" the Labour Party to the great danger of the cross in arithmetic, and from that time, in all Hebrew elementary schools (and now many high schools as well) the international plus sign has been forbidden.

Similar development is visible in other areas of education. Teaching the New Testament was always forbidden, but in the old time conscientious teachers of history used to circumvent the prohibition, by organizing seminars or sending the students to libraries (not the school libraries, of course). About 10 years ago there was a wave of denouncing such teachers. One in Jerusalem was almost sacked, for advising her history pupils, who were studying the history of Jews in Palestine around 30-40 AD, that it would be a good thing if they would read a few chapters of the New Testament as a historical aid. She retained her post only after humbly promising not to do this again.

However in recent years, anti-Christian feelings are literally exploding in Israel (and among Israel-worshipping Jews in Diaspora too) together with the increase of the Jewish fanaticism in all other areas too. 

The real enemies of truth here, as in many other aspects of the Israel reality, are the socialists, "liberals", "radicals", etc. in the USA. Imagine the reaction of the US Liberals,  and of such papers as The Nation and New York Review of Books, not to speak of the  New York Times if in any state whatsoever, the government financed spitting on a Star of David? But when here in Israel, the government finances the spitting on a cross, they are  and will continue to be, quite silent. More than this, they help to finance it. United States taxpayers, who are of course mostly Christians, are financing at least half the Israeli  budget, one way or another, and therefore the spitting on the cross too.

Professor Israel Shahak is an Israeli citizen, former concentration camp inmate during  WW II, and the founder of Israel's Human Rights League. His new book "Jewish History,  Jewish Religion" about Jewish hatred and contempt toward Gentiles, is highly recommended.

On the very day world leaders were commemorating the holocaust .....
  by Khalid Amayreh©   1 February, 2005

  On the very day World Leaders were commemorating the Holocaust at the United Nations headquarters in New York mid-January, an Israeli Jewish professor at Haifa University (HU) was telling his students that "Arabs are scum, vermin and dirty animals that ought to be ex terminated."

David Baka'ti didn't stop there. According to some of the students who attended the lecture, he urged Jews to "put a bullet to the head of each and every Arab you encounter."   In an earlier lecture at the HU History Department, Baka'ti reportedly told students that "crime surges in the veins of an Arab and that Arabs were parasites living off humanity."   This material is all very typical of the class of Central and Eastern European ethnic fundamentalist ideology to which Zionism belongs.  

Far from raising an outcry, the 'Mien Kamph'-like remarks were well...  Mein Kampf  and received by many Jewish students attending the lecture, with some reportedly nodding their heads approvingly.  

Sociological studies from Georges Tamarin showed extensive genocidal attitudes among Israeli students already in the 1960s.  Ben-Tzion Dinur and others in the Israeli education ministry modeled the Israeli curriculum on the late 19th century and early 20th century German Romantic
nationalist course plan. That study program probably contributed to German politics of the 1930s and 1940s.  

Last month, another Israeli professor, by the name of Rafael Yisraeli, who was presented as an "expert witness" on Islam during the tri l of five Israeli-Arab community leaders, also in Haifa, told the court that "Arabs are habitually dirty and that they can't be trusted."   Fairly standard material of ethnic Ashkenazi anti-Slavic bigotry.  The Zionist colonizers have projected their traditional bigotry and rac sm on the native Palestinian population.   Yisraeli, a co-founder of the quasi-fascist party Moledet (M otherland), claimed that the Islamic Holy Book, the Qur’an, taught Arabs to kill Jewish children.   Another projection phenomenon.  Racist Zionists have twisted Jewish and Christian scripture into a legitimization narrative for murdering Arab Palestinians, for plundering Palestinians, for killing Palestinians, and for ethnically cleansing Palestinians.  

More virulent manifestations of Jewish racism are rife in religious lectures and edicts delivered regularly by prominent Jewish rabbis, with hundreds of thousands of loyal followers.   Before the creation of the State of Israel, except for the tiny minority of Mizrahi (Merkaz Ruhani) Rabbis, the entire Rabbinic class was uni ted against Zionism as an evil heresy, but since the creation of the
State, the Zionist leadership has worked assiduously to coopt the Rabbinical class and has for the most part succeeded in transforming Jewish religion into an ethnic fundamentalist Zionist Judaism that is the twin of the ethnic fundamentalist Aryan
Christianity that the German Nazis tried to create.  

On 19 May 2004, a prominent rabbi from the Jewish colony of Kiryat Arba'a near the southern West Bank town of Hebron, by the name of Dov Lior, wrote that the killing of non-Jewish civilians was permissible in order to save Jews, civilians and soldiers alike.   The Rabbi expresses an ethnic fundamentalist ethics.  An act is judged moral in terms of its benefit to the Jewish race.   "The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save them. This is the real moral behind Israel's Torah and we must not feel guilty due to foreign morals," the Ma'ariv newspaper quoted him
as saying.   Lior, who is also chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council and reputedly one of the most learned scholars of the Torah, had praised the murder of 29 Arab worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994, ;calling the murderer, Baruch Goldstein, "a great saint and rabbi....¦may his memory be blessed."   Again, the manifestly racist remarks drew only silence in Israel as no rabbi or Jewish religious leader uttered a word in condemnation o f the hateful, racist incitement.   According to Rabbi Menachem Froman, because of Lior's "deep knowledge of Jewish law, most rabbis refrain from challenging his understand ing of the Torah and the Talmud."   A likely story.  Talmudic analysis is not that difficult.

Racist Ethnic Ashkenazi Americans worked hard to remind Americans of the anniversary of Kristalnacht.  Palestinians experience Kristalnacht every day.    In 2003, during a visit to the so-called Bible-Belt States in the U.S., Beny Elon—then Israel's Tourism Minister—was rep orted to have told American evangelical leaders that "Jews and Christians ought to cooperate to exterminate Islam off the map." Once again , the nefarious remarks, which were reported by the Israeli press, drew no condemnation from Jewish leaders.   Not surprising. 

Racist Ashkenazim and white racist evangelicals have a lot in common.  The followers of Vladimir Jabotinsky have been working on alliance with irredentist Confederate evangelical elements since the 1920s.   The above examples is not isolated nor represents the exception rather than the norm as many Israeli and Jewish apologists might argue.

  In fact, expressions of sinister Jewish racism against gentiles in general can go on and on and on.   The expression Antigojismus/antigoyizm can be found in German and Yi ddish dictionaries from almost a century ago.  The anti-gentile polemic can be traced back to the 13th century at least.   In fact, it would be safe to assume that not a day passes in Israel without a Jewish government minister, or a rabbi, or a high-ranking army officer making a racist remark about non-Jews, demonizing and dehumanizing them in ways reminiscent of Nazi incitement against Jews.

Read Claudia Koonz' The Nazi Conscience.  There is not merely a broad similarity, but a similarity even in the finer details.  Zionism comes out of the same ethnic fundamentalist milieu as German Nazism and the Polish Endeks.  Zionism is most easily understood as ethnic Ashkenazi
Nazism.  I recommend that historians that are tyring to understand the German Nazi State of the 1930s visit Israel and spend a few months there.   This sinister bigotry is very dangerous, as already seen in the behaviour of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.   IDF soldiers acted in this way for 20 years in pre-1967 Israel.   The IDF is best understood as combining characteristics of the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army.  

On 30 December 2003, an Israeli soldier who mistakenly shot and seriously wounded a Jewish demonstrator in the Northern West Bank told interrogators that he thought he was shooting an Arab, not a Jew.   "I am sorry; I never thought I was shooting at Jews, I would never shoot a Jew," the soldier said!   It is this racist culture that rewards soldiers and officers in proportion to their crimes against Palestinians.   Examples are numerous. Ariel Sharon, the certified war criminal who is
now lecturing the world on the evils of Nazism, was rewarded twice with the premiership of Israel despite (perhaps for) his role in the 1982 massacres that took place at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon.   Ariel Sharon's war crimes and crimes against humanity go back to 1952 when he took the initiative to shoot, as infiltrators, an unarmed Arab woman and her daughter, who were drawing water from a well.  

Amos Yaron, who, too, was convicted of complicity and conspiracy in the genocidal massacre, was also promoted to the office of Di rector-General of the Israeli Defense Ministry.   And now we are told that Dan Halutz, the Israeli Air Force Commander who has the blood of 12 Palestinian children on his hands, is slated to become Israel's Deputy Chief of Staff.   When an Israeli civil rights group, on 22 January, appealed to the Israeli High Court to block the appointment in light of Halutz' criminal record, the Court ruled that the "behaviour" of Halutz shouldn't interfere with his professional career.  

The truth of the matter is that a collective Nazi-like mindset is permeating much of the Israeli society these days in ways that can be compared with the anti-Jewish atmosphere that prevailed in Germany in the late 1930s.   Zionism is ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism Just as German Nazism in its most
basic form is simply the belief that Aryans should be able to plunder and kill non-Aryans with impunity, ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism is at its core is imply the belief that Jews should be able to plunder and kill non-Jews.

Today, Israeli Jews can murder non-Jews with impunity; seize, steal or destroy non-Jewish property with impunity; and humiliate, degrade and beat non-Jews with impunity, very much like the Nazis did to Jew s more than 60 years ago.   Jewish soldiers, convicted of murdering Palestinian children, receive symbolic prison sentences, only to avoid negative international reactions.  

Does this mean that Israel is walking on the same path of Germany under the National-Socialist leadership of Adolph Hitler?   Well, the holocaust, as Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom rightly
said recently, didn't start with gas chambers and detention camps . It started with words, with Mien Kamph, with hateful propaganda, with the dehumanization and demonization of Jews and non-Jews.   German Nazism achieved legitimacy subverting legal norms of elections and legislation. 
Herzl and his followers realized even before the Nazis that if a movement can get some sort of legal cover for its actions, it can get away with practically any sort of crime.  For this reason they worked very hard for international certification of Zionism in a legal instrument like the Balfour Declaration or the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.  When the German Nazis wanted to plunder Jewish property they created a legal framework in Aryanization laws.  Zionists used these laws as a model for its Absentee property laws by which they stole practically all immovable and movable property from Palestinians.  

Unfortunately, the Government of Israel, by words and actions, is fostering a similar culture, by demonstrating to the Israeli Jewish public that non-Jews , especially Arabs, can be murdered with impunity and that their lives are worth less than Jewish lives.   Israel is a fossilized evil remnant of the murderous Central and Eastern European ethnic fundamentalist 1920s-1930s political culture.

 Today, hundreds of thousands of Jewish students in Talmudic schools throughout Israel are being indoctrinated in hate for non Jews.  ; Just imagine how these racism-filled youngsters will behave toward non-Jews when they join the Israeli army!   I have found that the secular Israeli schools do a much more thorough job of indoctrinating Zionist colonizers in race hate.  The religious beliefs of the hakamim of the Talmud is for the most part at variance with Zionist ideology.  To use the Talmud to support Zionist ideology requires a level of textual selectivity that I have not found in Israeli religious schools.   I do hope it is not too late to rectify this dangerous moral crisis in Israel before it is too late.   Zionism is inherently racist.  Early 20th century Central and Eastern
European ethnic fundamentalism simply cannot be tolerated in the 21st century.  Zionist Israel must be abolished just like Aparheid South Africa, and Zionism must be eradicated just like the ideology of Apartheid.  

And let no one say a holocaust can't happen again or that Jews are not capable of being the aggressors. Jews have been aggressors and tormentors for many years. And the world must prevent them from going any further.   There are many examples of the victims of one generation turning into the victimizers of the next generation.   The idea that Jews cannot become Nazis is simply a bigoted belief that Jews are somehow inherently ethically superior to non-Jews on some
sort or racial or spiritual level.

I lived through the holocaust and you been had!
By Israel Shahak
Fri Jan 28, 2005
Letter to the editor , by Prof. Israel Shahak, published on 19 May 1989 in Kol Ha'ir, Jerusalem:

I disagree with the opinion of Haim Baram that the Israeli education system has managed to instil a 'Holocaust awareness' in its pupils (Kol Ha'Ir 12.5.89). It's not an awareness of the Holocaust but rather the myth of the Holocaust or even a falsification of the Holocaust (in the sense that 'a half-truth is worse than a lie') which has been instilled here.

As one who himself lived through the Holocaust, first in Warsaw then in Bergen-Belsen, I will give an immediate example of the total ignorance of daily life during the Holocaust: In the Warsaw ghetto, even during the period of the first massive extermination (June to October 1943), one saw almost no German soldiers.

Nearly all the work of administration, and later the work of transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths, was carried out by Jewish collaborators.

Before the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (the planning of which only started after the extermination of the majority of Jews in Warsaw), the Jewish underground killed, with perfect justification, every Jewish collaborator they could find. If they had not done so the Uprising could never have started.

The majority of the population of the Ghetto hated the collaborators far more than the German Nazis. Every Jewish child was taught, and this saved the lives of some them "if you enter a square from which there are three exits, one guarded by a German SS man, one by an Ukrainian and one by a Jewish policeman, then you should first try to pass the German, and then maybe the Ukrainian, but never the Jew".

One of my own strongest memories is that, when the Jewish underground killed a despicable collaborator close to my home at the end of February 1943, I danced and sang around the still bleeding corpse together with the other children.* I still do not regret this, quite the contrary.

It is clear that such events were not exclusive to the Jews, the entire Nazi success in easy and continued rule over millions of people stemmed from the subtle and diabolical use of collaborators, who did most of the dirty work for them. But does anybody now know about this?

This, and not what is 'instilled' was the reality.

Of the Yad Vashem - (official state Holocaust museum in Jerusalem - Ed.) - theatre, I do not wish to speak at all. It, and its vile exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators with the Nazis are truly beneath contempt.

Therefore, if we knew a little of the truth about the Holocaust, we would at least understand (with or without agreeing) why the Palestinians are now eliminating their collaborators. That is the only means they have if they wish to continue to struggle against our limb-breaking regime.

Kind regards,

Israel Shahak  

Ramzi Baroud Pays Tribute to Israel Shahak
Originally published in Arabia.com

Mourning the death of Jewish professor Israel Shahak, laid to rest on July 4, 2001

Those familiar with Shahak’s work know that making friends was the man’s least concern. His unquestionable motive was seeking the truth.

By Ramzy Baroud

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: - On a quiet Wednesday afternoon, July 5, an Israeli Jewish professor was laid to rest in a Jerusalem cemetery, Giv’at Shaul. The loss of any dedicated individual is a tragedy, but when that individual is Israel Shahak, then the loss is deep, incomprehensible and universal.

Shahak’s intellectual genius made him a renowned scientist and a distinguished chemist. His dedicated research in cancer treatment following his appointment as a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1963, garnered him international recognition. But in Israel, his own country, Shahak was vilified and despised.

The Israeli left and right have hardly embraced a similar belief as much as there agreement on hating Shahak. In Israel, the man was, and remains after his death, a unique phenomena perceived by the liberals as radical and dubbed by the conservatives as "a self-hating Jew," "Israel hater" and "Arabophile."

Those familiar with Shahak’s work must have known that making friends was the man’s least concern while writing; his unquestionable motive that are clearly evident in every word he wrote was seeking the truth. Yet another undeniable fact is that the core arguments posed by Shahak were immersed in compassion, devotion and courage.

Born to middle class Polish parents in a Warsaw ghetto on April 28, 1933, Shahak passed through a cycle of a depressing life. At the age of 10, he was forced with his parents into the Poniatowo concentration camp. There he lost his father, escaped and was re-arrested to spend two years in despair.

From the savagery of the camp, Shahak learned humanity, and when he was released, he went to Israel because he was told that the promised land was a safe haven for the Jews. His early years in Israel, some spent in military service, were an eye opener for young Shahak, who fought to escape the melancholy of the past and construct a brighter future.

While Zionist principals were taught to the newcomers, who were preparing to establish their lives in the new land, it was only a matter of time before Shahak began questioning the fallacies of Zionism.

He wrote, “in 1956 I eagerly swallowed all of Ben-Gurion’s political and military reasons for Israel initiating the Suez War, until he pronounced in the Knesset on the third day of that war that the real reason for it is the restoration of the Kingdom of David and Solomon to its biblical border. At this point in his speech almost every Knesset member spontaneously rose and sang the Israeli national anthem.”

Shahak’s rejection of racism and championing of human rights for Palestinians grew mainly out of Israel’s apartheid and racism. The emergence of his style of writing began as a natural refusal to submit to the bigotry and political deception promoted by his government.

Yet the man’s consequential involvement in the world of politics, and slow abandonment of the world of chemistry rose from one incident that was deeply troubling and left a never healing scar; it was when he “witnessed an ultra-religious Jew refuse to allow his phone to be used on the sabbath in order to call an ambulance for a non-Jew who happened to collapse in a Jerusalem neighborhood.”

Puzzeled by the cruelty of witnessing a fellow human die with no help simply because he was a “Gentile”, Shahak investigated the matter further, calling a meeting of members of the Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem. But their answer came cold and heartless, the Jewish man has acted in accordance with the religion, Shahak was told.

Shahak was outraged by the treatment of Palestinians by his own government, a fury that is reflected in his legacy. It is noteworthy that Shahak was not a foreseen outcome of an Israeli movement and school of thought. His anti-occupation conviction is unique, and is viewed by most Israelis, included the so-called peace movements, as extreme.

“After 1967, when I ceased being just a scientist and became a political being, my first reason was that after 1967 the Israeli aim was to dominate the Middle East, which every rational human being knows impossible. My second reason was that there must be a Palestinian state. It can come into being with a minimum of bloodshed or a maximum of bloodshed. Even if the Intifada were defeated, it would only cause a delay.”

Professor Amnon Rubinstein from the Meretz party, which resembles the Israeli left, urged the government to confiscate Shahak’s passport to halt his “slander” against Israel abroad.

The diabetes-stricken scholar was probably the loneliest true peace activist in the Jewish State. Not once did he waste the chance in a public speech to denounce the Israeli occupation and to expose the racism of such concepts as “a Jewish State” and “Jewish settlements”. As the vibrant head of the Council against House Destruction and later the Israeli Civil Rights League, Shahak was constantly harassed and defamed.

Many prominent Israeli voices demanded that Shahak be removed from the Hebrew University faculty. Others were consumed in verbally abusing him through the Israeli media.

Lea Ben Dor had a few ideas on how to deal with Shahak. Dor wrote in the Jerusalem Post in the mid 1970’s, “What should we do about the poor professor? The hospital? Or a bit of the Terrorism he approves? A booby-trap over the laboratory door?”

Nothing but death would have ended Shahak's quest for justice, not even his failing health, or the ceaseless defamation campaign launched against him in Israel, the United States and elsewhere.

With Israel Shahak's death, the phenomena has become a legacy; and the professor’s insightful work shall always testify to the rightfulness of the Palestinian struggle, the inhumanity of the vile occupation and the profound racism of the Zionist discourse.