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Introduction
by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Washington DC
December 15, 1981
During the 1970’s, an especially blatant and vulgar brand of anti-Semitism became a unifying global ideology of the totalitarian Left. Couched in the language of opposition to Zionism, this anti-Semitism became the preferred vehicle of the Soviet Union and its clients in international forums for political assaults against the democratic nations—most obviously Israel, but ultimately all the West, and especially the United States. “Anti-Zionism” was promoted by an intense propaganda campaign the Soviet Union had launched early in the decade, a campaign embraced and amplified by lesser radical regimes also hostile to the democratic West and equally anxious to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel. The Soviets had developed for this purpose a peculiar variant of Marxist analysis, arguing throughout the Third World that “imperialism”, the supposed enemy of the new states, was in effect the creation of an international Zionist conspiracy. The clear implication was that Jews somehow played a special role in perpetuating the alleged injustices of international capitalism.
The connection was first made, according to Bernard Lewis, at the very dawn of the 1970’s: In a statement released to the press on March 4, 1970, a ‘group of Soviet citizens of Jewish nationality’—making use of the facilities of the Soviet Foreign Ministry—attacked ‘the aggression of the Israeli ruling circles/ and said that ‘Zionism has always expressed the chauvinistic view and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie.’
The notion was steadily elaborated and diffused in Soviet culture to the point where the October 10, 1980 issue of Pionerskaya Pravda, a tabloid-type weekly magazine for children aged nine to fourteen belonging to the Soviet youth organization, Pioneers, could run a feature that said: Zionists try to penetrate all spheres of public life, as well as ideology, science, and trade. Even Levi jeans contribute to their operations: the revenues obtained from the sale of these pants are used by the firm to help the Zionists. Most of the largest monopolies in the manufacture of arms are controlled by Jewish bankers. Business made on blood brings them enormous profits. Bombs and missiles explode in Lebanon—the bankers Lazars and the Leibs are making money. Thugs in Afghanistan torment schoolchildren with gases—the bundles of dollars are multiplying in the safes of the Lehmans and Guggenheims. It is clear that Zionism’s principal enemy is peace on earth. Predictably, this he soon began to compel the Soviets abroad as well as at home. A steady stream of denunciations of Israel—frequently for embodying the Zionism the Soviets and their agents succeeded in labeling racism—came to be adopted at international conferences and meetings. The height of the campaign, though not nearly its end, came on November 10, 1975, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the infamous Resolution 3379, declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. This marked a watershed in Soviet-inspired anti-Semitism; all that came later would build explicitly on this. I tried to make this point at the time. I was then the Permanent Representative of the United States at the United Nations and I rose after the vote to say: Today we have drained the word “racism” of its meaning. Tomorrow terms like “national self-determination” and “national honor” will be perverted in the same way to serve the purposes of conquest and exploitation.
#theantizionistcomplex #antizionismisahatemovement
Over Shabbat dinner last Friday in Las Vegas, a sweet lady turned to me and said: "So Rawan, your mother tongue is Farsi, right?"
I looked at her, speechless. Finally I said, "Why would it be? I'm half Syrian, half Lebanese. Arabic is my mother tongue."
"Okay, so these are two different languages," she said.
I would have thought that since 9/11, Americans knew Arabic is a language: the language of the Quran and of the Arab world.
I didn't like my reaction. Jet-lagged or not, I told myself, I should find the patience to respond gracefully. Then another American Jew asked me to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims. I told him to ask the internet.
I could be nicer, but I don't want to be. I am running low on patience.
Political Islam destroyed the Middle East we escaped, and it intends to take over the West where we settled. Every once in a while, a horrific attack makes the news. We watch the culture transform. We watch our backs, and we watch what our children are taught.
October 7 was a declaration of war on Western civilization. Yet most people still struggle to understand why the US attacked Iran. They can't connect the dots, not even between Hamas and the IRGC, or between Qatar and progressive students' support for the Palestinian cause. The masses are enchanted, and they are opening the doors to the enemy voluntarily. Across from the Bundestag, a German throws his flag on the ground and raises the Palestinian flag in its place. Across Europe, feminists side with the misogynistic regime in Iran.
And in our bastion of freedom, the United States, Mamdani is mayor of New York and El-Sayed has just been elected the first Muslim senator in American history. Many Michigan Jews refused to vote for him. But nearly six in ten of those who voted early still did. Atheists are siding with jihadists.
Since October 7, I have spent endless nights in dusty hotels around the world instead of in my comfortable home with my child. We are at war, and I owe him a fight for his future, and for the future of his children and their children. I am doing all I can to share my insights, raise awareness and say out loud what many won't. Including hundreds of hours on planes, in trains, on hair and make up. Trivialities, logistics, emails and comments.
So help me, will you? Since we are at war, at least take the time to learn the basics, so you can understand what is happening around us, to us, and ultimately to future generations.
Learn about political Islam and its history. Learn about the feud between Sunnis and Shia. Learn what happened in Iran in 1979. Learn about the Jews: their relationship with the Prophet Muhammad, their Temple, their Jerusalem. Learn about Al-Aqsa and why Islamists are obsessed with that mosque.
If I couldn't be bothered to learn, I would have supported the Palestinian cause. It's simple, easy, convenient and popular. It's also dangerous, because in the name of the Palestinian cause we will be stripped of basic freedoms you take for granted. Sooner or later, you too will lose the luxury of ignorance. By then, lamenting won't help us much.
@Ed_Miliband Absolute fucking embarrassment. No mention of Hamas, no mention of Palestinian agency. Condescending white saviour bullshit.
Actions -> Consequences.
IDI Action is coming. In every district where an Abdul is running, a former Muslim will run against him, because only we can say the things a kind, suicidally empathetic Western candidate won’t say.
We will not let Islam destroy the West just as it destroyed the civilization of our ancestors.
Stay tuned.
A poor Christian kid from Texas who never met a Jew and couldn’t find Israel on a map…
…now stands at the UN on the 3rd anniversary of October 7th and says this:
Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population.
They’ve won over 20% of all Nobel Prizes.
On October 7th more Jews were murdered in a single day than on any day since the Holocaust.
Families burned alive in safe rooms.
Women gang-raped.
Babies taken.
Hostages paraded.
Israel was the one attacked…
and somehow Israel is the one condemned.
PTSD nearly doubled overnight.
But in Israel there is no “post.”
The trauma is ongoing. Every day.
And still — they bend, but they do not break.
Dr. Phil’s verdict:
“Israel will prevail.
Israel will win.
And the United States will stand with them.”
Moral clarity is not complicated.
One side celebrates life.
The other glorifies death.
Choose accordingly. 🇮🇱
While Hamas continues to steal aid and refuses to disarm - setting back reconstruction of Gaza, Israel is surging more aid and resources into Gaza to help the Palestinian people.
70,000 people died in Gaza during the war. According to Hamas itself, 50,000 of them were Hamas fighters. And of the 20,000 “children” killed, 80% were male combatants aged 16-18.
The Gaza “genocide” is the biggest hoax of the 21st century.
@smekhennet@MiaMBloom It’s a strawman. People hear him saying “criticizing Israel is not criticizing Jews,” and that’s true. But that’s not what he’s saying. He’s saying Jew’s attachment to Israel has nothing to do with Judaism and that simply isn’t true.
“A mass educational effort is needed to teach the history of antizionist ideology, the harm it has caused to Jewish communities wherever it has become entrenched, and to condemn it clearly and directly.”
While a vote never should have been called, I am pleased to report that the Fifth Committee overwhelmingly supported Israel’s candidate for the Audit Committee, with 134 votes in favor.
The ICJ may soon change its "only inference" test for genocidal intent, just as various "experts" have urged. The push to change it is an effective admission that the genocide allegation against Israel cannot survive the existing test. I expect little integrity from the ICJ.