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<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nNoam Chomsky wrote of\u00a0 Dershowitz that he is a \u201cremarkable liar\u201d and\u00a0\u201cslanderer.\u201d These problematic traits Chomsky noted of the former Harvard professor have proved useful. I\u00a0might not have seen Dershowitz\u2019 most recent recycled rant had he not mentioned my name and, as always, lied about me<\/span>.\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n
In his article<\/a><\/span>, Dershowitz claims that\u00a0I deny that the \u201cHolocaust is historically proved.\u201d\u00a0 Wrong! I argue that all historical narratives ought to be discussed freely and debated fearlessly. This treatment may not be applied to the Holocaust. The Holocaust has been minimised by its present status as\u00a0legally protected religious dogma.\u00a0If the Holocaust is the new religion, I defend my right to be agnostic.<\/h5>\n
According to Dershowitz,\u00a0Atzmon \u201cbelieves that Jews may well have killed Christian children to use their blood to bake Passover matzah.\u201d If Dershowitz would just bother to actually read the work that he cites, he would learn that it wasn\u2019t I who produced this sceptical recital of\u00a0\u00a0the Jewish blood libel, it was Ariel Toaff, an Israeli professor at Bar Ilan who back in 2007 published a book titled \u201cBlood Passover European Jews and ritual murder<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Then Dershowitz arrives at his oft-repeated lie about me, Atzmon \u201cthinks it\u2019s \u2018rational\u2019 to burn down synagogues.\u201d\u00a0 I am taking this opportunity to address his insane accusation for the first time.\u00a0 I would think that I shouldn\u2019t need to inform Dershowitz that the words he \u2018quotes\u2019 have never appeared in any of my writings or my talks. I have never and would never incite violence nor have I ever been questioned, let alone charged by any law enforcement authority anywhere in the world about anything I have written or said.<\/h5>\n
Back in 2005, the\u00a0Guardian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published \u00a0a story about UK Jewish pressure groups\u00a0that submitted a dossier of allegations of antisemitsm at the London SOAS University. The dossier included the following: \u201cGilad Atzmon, a pro-Palestinian activist and musician, who gave a talk to students this month, arguing: \u2018I’m not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act\u2019.\u201d<\/h5>\n
At the time, Zionist Jewish groups attempted to file a complaint with the police but were shown the door as they 1. failed to produce any evidence, and 2. failed to grasp that my SOAS lecture presented a philosophical study of\u00a0\u00a0rationality in conflicts in general and in\u00a0anti Semitism in particular. All this I explained on the pages of the\u00a0Guardian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0a week after the paper published the original erroneous article.\u00a0As I wrote at the time, the quote attributed to me\u00a0was both \u201cinaccurate and taken out of context. By no possible interpretation did I justify any form of violence against Jews, Jewish interests or any innocent people.\u201d\u00a0I have never and would never incite violence nor have I ever been so much as questioned by any law enforcement authority anywhere in the world about anything I have written or said.<\/h5>\n
Funny, I\u00a0would expect a professor at the Harvard Law School capable of grasping the distinction between rationality and ethics. I\u2019ll explain. War crimes are most often also rational acts of war, however unethical. For example, dropping an atomic\u00a0bomb on Hiroshima, although likely in the running as the ultimate unethical act, was a \u2018rational act\u2019: it delivered a clear message to the Soviets and other interested parties by demonstrating the terrible destructive power of the newly born A- bomb. The stated intention behind the act was was an immediate and total surrender by the Japanese to end the war.<\/h5>\n
Writing of the contents of my actual lecture, I held my ground as I still do. I claimed that \u201csince Israel presents itself as the ‘state of the Jewish people’, and bearing in mind the atrocities committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Dershowitz\u2019s \u00a0inability to distinguish between the concepts of \u2018ethics’ and \u2018rationality\u2019 is at the core of his simplistic argument: His writing can seem removed from either intellectual integrity or academic consistency<\/span><\/a>. It seems Dershowitz does not feel a need to adhere to the Athenian intellectual ethos. He is doing just fine in Jerusalem.<\/h5>\n
Dershowitz\u2019s article is entitled, \u201cWhy it\u2019s not surprising to see Jew-hatred increase in Western Europe.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>The answer Dershowitz \u00a0provides is certainly\u00a0banal. His claim: Europeans are basically a bunch of anti-Semites who\u00a0have perpetuated the \u201cmyth\u201d that the Holocaust was \u201cthe work of German Nazis aided perhaps by some [Eastern European] collaborators.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Instead Dershowitz claims that the Holocaust\u00a0\u00a0was a collective project perpetrated by \u201cNazi sympathizers and collaborators among the French, Dutch, Norwegians, Swiss, Belgians, Austrians, and other Europeans, both Western and Eastern.\u201d Dershowitz, purportedly a legal \u2018scholar\u2019 fails to provide a single source for this claim.<\/h5>\n
Let\u2019s assume charitably that Dershowitz fails to see he might be making things worse by calling a large percentage of Europeans murderers and\/or Nazis and that in so doing he provokes opposition to himself and everything associated with his Zionist project.<\/h5>\n
Dershowitz must believe that opposition to Jewish politics and Zionist crimes has no cause, no rational basis. He writes,\u00a0\u201cthe pervasive anti-Semitism and irrationally hateful anti-Zionism that has recently surfaced throughout western Europe toward Israel should surprise no one.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Dershowitz is being either intentionally misleading or delusional. Apparently, he is convinced that any increase in opposition to Jews is related to Israel\u2019s criminality. He complains that Leftists single out Israel for criticism. \u201cWhere are your demonstrations on behalf of the oppressed Tibetans, Georgians, Syrians, Armenians, Kurds, or even Ukrainians?\u201d he asks. Even the misguided professor should know that the Tibetan Lobby in Washington is not quite as powerful and influential as AIPAC. Dershowitz ought to find out how many Tory MPs are members of the \u201cConservative friends of Georgia.\u201d I suppose I don\u2019t need to add that the Syrians have yet to terrorise the British Labour Party and its leader on behalf of their leader Bashar Al-Assad.<\/h5>\n
Perhaps the\u00a0opposition to Jewish pressure groups all over Europe is a reaction to some of the insanely aggressive and ugly politics<\/a><\/span> openly perpetrated \u00a0by Jewish pressure groups and Israel\u2019s lobbyists.<\/h5>\n
To accuse Labour members, for instance, of \u2018irrationality\u2019 and \u2018racism\u2019 for being upset when they learned that\u00a0<\/span>Shai Masot<\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0an Israeli secret agent, was interfering with their party politics, is to deny rationality itself. Accusing the Poles, who see themselves as among the primary victims of WW2, of anti-Semitism for defying Israel\u2019s demands for restitution verges on the absurd, especially considering the fact that Israel is a monument to a gross racist ethnic cleansing crime driven by the decision to plunder another people\u2019s land.<\/h5>\n
After censuring ethically oriented and patriotically driven Europeans as \u2018irrational\u2019 for defying a foreign criminal country\u2019s interference in their political affairs, Dershowitz sets the parameters for his own particular definition of objectivism. \u201cAny objective person with an open mind, open eyes\u2026must see the double standard being applied to the nation-state of the Jewish people. Many doing so are the grandchildren of those who lethally applied a double standard to the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. They must be shamed into looking themselves in the mirror of morality and acknowledging their own bigotry.\u201d<\/h5>\n
I suggest that before Dershowitz \u2018shames\u2019 Europeans for seeing Israel for what it is, the ardent Zionist caricature might have to accept that crimes committed by a state that calls itself \u2018The Jewish State\u2019 and decorates its tanks and airplanes with Jewish symbols may inflict shame on the entire Jewish people. Certainly many Jews are genuinely troubled and distressed by this fact. Before Dershowitz condemns Europeans, Dershowitz should consider performing the elementary\u00a0intellectual exercise of examining his argument in a wider context: He should look into the possibility that the Jewish past is an ongoing disaster for a reason. If Dershowitz is interested in learning about rationality, looking introspectively for the logos that has made Jewish history into a chain of pogroms would be a great project for his retirement.<\/h5>\n
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