Żołnierz IDF na patrolu w mieście Huwara, gdzie dzień wcześniej terrorysta zastrzelił dwóch Izraelczyków (ojca i syna). Stany Zjednoczone nie chcą przypominać społeczeństwu, że palestyńscy Arabowie zamordowali Żydów na myjni samochodowej. /  (zdjęcie: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90)

Kiedy Stany Zjednoczone odmawiają powiedzenia słowa „palestyński”?

Stephen Flatow
Tłumaczenie: Małgorzata Koraszewska

ŚWIEŻE groby Shai Nigrekera i syna Aviada Nira, zamordowanych w Huwara 8 sierpnia. 19. / (zdjęcie: FLASH90)

Pomyśl o tym przez chwilę. Poziom podżegania antyżydowskiego ze strony Autonomii Palestyńskiej jest tak intensywny, a terrorystom pozwala się na tak swobodne działanie w rządzonym przez AP Huwara, że pewnego przypadkowego dnia, kiedy zauważono dwóch Żydów w myjni samochodowej, był w pobliżu przypadkowy Palestyńczyk terrorysta i tak się złożyło, że miał przy sobie naładowaną broń i w był gotowy zamordować dwóch nieuzbrojonych cywilów w momencie, gdy tylko dostał informację o obecności Żydów.

Zabójca nie potrzebował nawet samochodu do ucieczki. Według doniesień mediów „uciekał pieszo”. Był tak pewny, że mieszkańcy Huwary nie będą mu się sprzeciwiać i tak pewny, że w pobliżu nie będzie policjantów AP, którzy mogliby się wtrącić, że po prostu odszedł.

„Prowadzenie pojazdu, będąc Żydem”

LATA TEMU działacze na rzecz praw obywatelskich w Stanach Zjednoczonych ukuli termin „prowadzenie samochodu, będąc czarnoskórym”, aby opisać niesprawiedliwe aresztowania afroamerykańskich kierowców. Myślę, że Shai Nigreker i Aviad Nir nie zdawali sobie sprawy, że na terytorium Autonomii Palestyńskiej mycie samochodu będąc Żydem jest przestępstwem.

A teraz odpowiedź administracji Bidena.

W ubiegłą sobotę o 13:46, wkrótce po otrzymaniu raportów o morderstwach, Biuro ds. Bliskiego Wschodu Departamentu Stanu wydało oficjalny komentarz administracji za pośrednictwem platformy mediów społecznościowych X, znanej wcześniej jako Twitter. Oto pełny tekst:

„Jednoznacznie potępiamy dzisiejszy atak terrorystyczny na Zachodnim Brzegu, w którym zginęło dwóch Izraelczyków. Stany Zjednoczone składają kondolencje ich rodzinom i wzywają do podjęcia natychmiastowych kroków w celu położenia kresu przemocy i podżeganiu do przemocy”.

Zauważ, czego brakowało? Słowa „Palestyńczyk”. Nie było najmniejszej wskazówki, kto zabił dwóch Izraelczyków. Z tego, co wiemy, mogli to być Marsjanie.

Nie było też najmniejszej wskazówki, od kogo Stany Zjednoczone spodziewają się podjęcia „natychmiastowych kroków w celu położenia kresu przemocy i podżeganiu do przemocy”. Od Albanii? Czerwonego Krzyża? Harcerek?

Za głęboko niepokojącym oświadczeniem administracji Bidena kryje się ich pełna hipokryzji  logika polityczna. Oczywiście administracja nie mogła powstrzymać się od potępienia ataku, bo rozwścieczyłoby to żydowskich wyborców w kluczowych stanach w chwili, gdy rozpoczyna się kampania reelekcyjna prezydenta.

Ale administracja nie chce przypominać społeczeństwu, że palestyńscy Arabowie mordują Żydów na myjni samochodowej. Podważyłoby to krucjatę mającą na celu utworzenie państwa palestyńskiego wzdłuż starych, w jednym miejscu szerokich na czternaście kilometrów granic Izraela. Kto o zdrowych zmysłach zgodziłby się na utworzenie obok siebie suwerennego państwa, rządzonego przez krwiożerczych morderców?

Ponadto administracja Bidena nie chce specjalnie wzywać AP do podjęcia kroków w celu położenia kresu przemocy i podżeganiu – ponieważ wtedy administracja musiałaby podjąć dalsze działania i coś zrobić, kiedy AP odmawia podjęcia tych kroków.

Pamiętajcie, że minęło 30 lat, odkąd AP zgodziła się w Porozumieniach z Oslo na aresztowanie terrorystów, rozbrojenie i zdelegalizowanie grup terrorystycznych, ekstradycję terrorystów do Izraela i położenie kresu wszelkiemu antyżydowskiemu i antyizraelskiemu podżeganiu w jej szkołach i mediach. Jednak nigdy tego nie zrobiła. Jeśli administracja Bidena zażądałaby od AP wypełnienia tych zobowiązań, a następnie zmierzyłaby się z odmową AP, utrudniłaby świetlisty marsz do państwa palestyńskiego.

I tak oto zostaliśmy z tym „potępieniem” przez Departament Stanu, które ledwo jest godne tej nazwy. Potępienia mają znaczenie tylko wtedy, gdy administracja Bidena jest gotowa wskazać stronę, która jest potępiana. Kondolencje będą miały sens tylko wtedy, gdy Stany Zjednoczone będą gotowe podjąć kroki, które zagwarantują, że w przyszłym tygodniu nie będą już składać takich kondolencji. Wszystko inne jest tylko farsą.

Stephen Flatow – Amerykański prawnik, który zainicjował szereg procesów przeciwko Islamskiej Republice Iranu w związku ze sponsorowaniem terroryzmu przez to państwo. Jego córka zginęła w zamachu terrorystycznym w 1995 roku. Wielokrotnie pomagał rządowi USA zidentyfikować organizacje, które pośredniczyły w nielegalnym przekazywaniu pieniędzy do Iranu.

8 Historical Figures You Didn’t Know Were Antisemitic

Mark Miller

These diverse historical figures are all dead. Sadly, antisemitism did not die with them.

Some of history’s most accomplished men and women revealed their repugnant antisemitic nature.

Will that knowledge about their character change how you think of them? Should we excuse them because antisemitic sentiment was so prevalent in their time? Will you still be able to admire and appreciate their creations when you’re aware of this poisonous part of their souls?

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Coco Chanel has long been admired as a fashion and feminist icon. For her reputation as an antisemite—less so. Despite having used Jewish investors to fund her fashion empire before World War II, she had a notorious affair with a Nazi officer. At one point, she fled to Switzerland to avoid criminal charges for her collaboration as a Nazi spy.
Chanel was “often given to antisemitic outbursts” about the “greedy” and “aggressive” nature of Jewish people. The French editor-in-chief of Marie Claire observed after a conversation with Chanel, “Chanel’s antisemitism was not only verbal; but passionate and often embarrassing.” But she did popularize the Chanel tweed suit and the little black dress, so there’s that.

Martin Luther

No, not the Black leader Martin Luther King who shares part of his name but thankfully not his prejudices. This is the Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation. In terms of his antisemitism, let’s just say that subtlety and humanity weren’t Luther’s strong points. In his 1543 treatise, “On the Jews and Their Lies,” Luther called for synagogues to be burned, Jewish homes to be destroyed, and Jewish people to be expelled from their communities.

There is something uncannily adaptive about antisemitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. Author James Lasdun

So, while he gets points for establishing the Lutheran Church, we’ll have to deduct points for his referring to Jews as “venomous beasts” and “rejected and condemned by God.” Apparently, as Luther saw it, spreading love and peace is not all-encompassing.

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was a distinguished poet and writer, but pound for pound, he was also a malignant antisemite. He believed Jews to be responsible for a multitude of the world’s problems and embraced stereotypical conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the media and banking industries.

Pound was an ardent supporter of Hitler and Mussolini, going so far as to give radio broadcasts for the Italian Fascist government during World War II. He described the U.S. president as “Franklin D. Frankfurter Jewsfeld,” and the Chinese leader as “Chiang Kike Chek.”

He had an impressive “ear” for words, a faultless sense of cadence, and appealed through the sheer beauty of language “to people who would rather talk about poets than read them.” And yet this was the same man who said things like, “The Jew alone can retain his detestable qualities, despite climatic conditions.”

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, editor – and antisemite. One of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot, actually incorporated his antisemitism into his poetry. In his poem “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar,” Eliot wrote, “The rats are underneath the piles, the Jew is underneath the lot. Money and furs.”

In his private letters, Elliot referred to Jews as “unpleasant people” and “a race that has no sense of proportion.” As Joseph Black observes, “Few published works displayed the consistency of association that one finds in Eliot’s early poetry between what is Jewish and what is squalid and distasteful.” And during a 1934 lecture in Virginia, Eliot stressed the importance of social “unity of religious background…. Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.” Apparently, we can rule out “Torah study” for what the T.S. in his name stood for.

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh was one of the greatest American heroes. He was an aviator who made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and unapologetic antisemite. In a speech in 1941, Lindbergh claimed that Jewish people were trying to drag the United States into World War II for their own benefit. He even gave speeches in which he warned of a Jewish “stranglehold” on America and praised Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews.

As late as April 1939‍—‌after Germany overtook Czechoslovakia‍—‌Lindbergh was willing to make excuses for Adolf Hitler. In a 1941 speech, Lindbergh said of the Jews, “Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.” Perhaps the thin air and lack of oxygen while doing all that flying, affected his brain and reason. But you didn’t hear it from me.

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. He also openly articulated his antisemitic views in a number of publications. Wagner wrote that the German people were repelled by Jews due to their ‘alien’ appearance and behavior. The favorite composer of Adolf Hitler, Wagner often found a scapegoat—such as the Jewish population—to account for his personal and musical misfortunes.

Victims of Hitler have associated Wagner and his music with Nazism to such an extent that in Israel a ban on public performance of that music is upheld to this day. Perhaps karma kicked in, however, as payback for his views: Until his final years, Wagner’s life was characterized by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty, and repeated flight from his creditors. What a life he might have had if there were no Jews!

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. His works, however clearly have their antisemitic aspects.

For example, along with Shakespeare’s Shylock, Dickens’s Fagin is probably the best-known Jewish character in English literature — and perhaps also the most repellent. He is described in Oliver Twist as “a very old shriveled Jew whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted old hair.” In the book, in case you didn’t get the message of the character, Dickens refers to the odious, criminal Fagin as “the Jew” more than 250 times in its first 38 chapters.

In other works, Dickens describes the dirty ways, thieving tendencies, and lisping accents of Jews, along with Jewish “mammas” who are obese and averse to using soap and water. Dickens even refers to a situation in which he wanted to borrow money and was offered a loan at an outrageous interest rate of 120 percent by a Jew of “decidedly Israelite caste of countenance.” To paraphrase Dickens’ opening of A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the most prejudiced of times.”

Roald Dahl

Much beloved author Roald Dahl is celebrated for his whimsical children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda. He is understandably less known for his darker side, illustrated by a number of antisemitic comments he’s on record for making throughout his life. He referred, for example, to Jews as, “a filthy, dirty, noxious, and repellent race” and “the hardest people to teach a lesson to.”

Dahl said, “There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.” Sounds like a guy who might go so far as defending Hitler? You betcha. Said Dahl, “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” Well, firstly, I believe that what Hitler did went lightyears beyond “picking on them.” And secondly, apparently, the Holocaust was our own fault.

These diverse historical figures are all dead. Sadly, antisemitism did not die with them.

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Palestinian Leader Abbas Says Hitler Only Killed Jews for ‘Social Role’ as Usurers, Slammed for Antisemitic ‘Rant’

Andrew Bernard

Palestiniernas president Mahmud Abbas. Arkivbild. Foto: Yevgeny Biyatov/Kreml pool via AP/TT

Jewish groups, Israeli officials, and foreign diplomats on Wednesday condemned a recent antisemitic speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not hate Jews as a people but rather because of their “dealing with usury and money.”

In an address late last month to the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, the political party headed by Abbas, the Palestinian leader ran through a litany of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

“They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews,” Abbas said. “Not true. It was clearly explained that [the Europeans] fought [the Jews] because of their social role, and not their religion. Several authors wrote about this. Even Karl Marx said this was not true. He said that the enmity was not directed at Judaism as a religion, but to Judaism for its social role.”

The speech was flagged by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which posted video of the speech over the weekend.

Abbas opened his remarks by repeating the discredited “Khazar theory,” which holds that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of central Asian converts to Judaism, and thus are not a Semitic people and have no connection to the land of Israel.

Abbas used the theory to suggest that Hitler was not an antisemite.

“Everybody knows that during World War I, Hitler was a sergeant,” Abbas said, apparently promoting Hitler from his actual rank of corporal. “He said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated them. We just want to make this point clear. This was not about Semitism and antisemitism.”

Abbas conceded that Mizrahi Jews were Semites “because they originated in the Arabian Peninsula, and then they traveled to Andalusia, and then they came back.” He then repeated the conspiracy theory that Jews living in the Arab Middle East only came to Israel because Israelis carried out false flag attacks against Jewish communities in Iraq and elsewhere.

Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, on Wednesday condemned Abbas’ remarks in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“The recent statement of President Abbas on Jews and the Holocaust is an insult to the memory of millions of murdered men, women and children,” Seibert said. “The Palestinians deserve to hear the historical truth from their leader, not such distortions.”

Jewish groups also condemned the remarks, with left-leaning J Street saying that “Abbas should be universally condemned and he should make an immediate apology.””

In a statement, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) cited Abbas’ record of Holocaust denial and antisemitism dating back to his 1984 doctoral thesis, which was subtitled “The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism” and argued that Zionists and Nazis were equal partners in the Holocaust.

“Palestinian President Abbas’ doctoral dissertation blaming Jews for the Holocaust was dredged up again in his latest unhinged antisemitic rant,” AJC said in a statement. “He defended Hitler’s motivation in murdering six million Jews. Now he says Jews are responsible for all the turmoil in the Middle East. This type of ‘leadership’ only breeds violence, not progress. World leaders committed to peace in that region must stop giving Abbas a free pass, and condemn his hateful rhetoric.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said in a post on X that Abbas had revealed “the true face of Palestinian ‘leadership.’”

“It is no wonder that mere hours ago a Palestinian teenage terrorist hacked innocent Israelis with a meat cleaver in Jerusalem,” Erdan said. “Just as Abbas blames the Jews for the Holocaust, he also blames the Jews for all the Middle East’s issues. While he spreads this pure antisemitism he also pays Palestinian terrorists for murdering Israelis and publicly commends Palestinian terrorism. The world must wake up and hold Abbas and his Palestinian Authority accountable for the hatred they spew and the ensuing bloodshed it causes.”