What does anti-Semitism look like?
It looks like the Estelle-the ship sent by the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) to break the blockade on Gaza, an area under the control of Hamas. Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for the Middle East said “Hamas should stop the kinds of abuses that Egyptians, Syrians, and others in the region have risked their lives to bring to an end.” Gaza has villas, luxury hotels, and an abundance of iPhones.
What does anti-Semitism sound like?
Like Greta Berlin, the founder of the Free Gaza Movement who accidently twittered to the world rather than her intended target, her private cabal, “Zionism operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews.” She went even further in this twitter to link to Eustace Mullins, who said, “This religious ceremony of drinking the blood of an innocent gentile child as basic to the Jew’s entire concept of his existence as a parasite, living off the blood of the host.” Read more of the musings of the FGM.
Ms. Berlin, when she realized that she had pushed the wrong button, apologized for sending it out to the wrong group, but did not apologize for her unfettered, irrational, obsessive hatred of the Jews.
And what of those associated with the FGM, like board member Desmond Tutu? He has caricatured the Jewish people as an arrogant “peculiar people” and condemned Israel as “un-Christian.” He has accused Israel of “things not even Apartheid South Africa had not done.”
And then there is 80 year old Canadian former New Democrat MP, Jim Manly, retired United Church minister who took up call of the United Church of Canada and chose to board the Estelle in order to harass Israel, the only country in the Middle East whose social political and judicial systems, like all of the Western countries, is based on ethical monotheism, the ethic brought into the world by the Jews and first practiced thousands of years ago in the land called Israel, the land where millions of Jews now make their home.
Mr. Manly chose to join a group of viciously ant-Semitic people thinking he was, according to his son Paul, sticking “his neck out to help people in a less fortunate part of the world.” Yet, Mr. Manly didn’t join a group under the banner You Are Not Forgotten! to Latakia and Tarsus, the home of St. Paul in Syria to provide aid to the refugees of this civil war or comfort the relatives and friends of the 30,000 who have died. Too dangerous, perhaps?
Where are my brothers and sisters in faith? When will you speak for the 7 million Jews in Israel and the 14 million Jews left on the earth(an endangered species)? Will you speak, this time, on behalf of the Jewish people or will you maintain an ignorantia affectata,, a cultivated ignorance, a willful lack of knowledge as the vast majority of you did during the Holocaust?
Richard Falk and anti-Semitism
