{"id":197058,"date":"2019-10-28T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197058"},"modified":"2019-11-01T07:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:43:36","slug":"a-window-into-jewish-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197058","title":{"rendered":"A Window into Jewish Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Oct 28, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/guilt_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-197060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/guilt_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/guilt_edited-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/guilt_edited-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>It has become an institutional Jewish habit to examine how much Jews are hated by their host nations and how fearful Jews are of their neighbours. <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/9-out-of-10-us-jews-worry-about-anti-semitism-and-most-think-its-getting-worse\/?fbclid=IwAR3xP4JMBApc0LavbyRyMr2lhqdKgEhqBYtcTH_KwI_wQd4yzN7dHQLCx40\">Jewish press outlets<\/a><\/span> reported yesterday that \u201c9 out of 10 US Jews worry about anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>I, for one, can\u2019t think of another people who invest so much energy in measuring their unpopularity. Despite the scale of Islamophobia and anti-Black racism, we are not subjected to a constant barrage of \u2018statistics\u2019 to \u2018warn us\u2019 of how hated Blacks are or how unsafe Muslims feel.<\/h5>\n<h5>The American Jewish Committee\u2019s (AJC) statistics suggest that\u00a0 \u201cmost Jews think that the situation is getting worse.\u201d I find their statistics unlikely but I guess any mathematically inclined person would agree that if 9 out of 10 are fearful, then the situation can\u2019t get much \u2018worse\u2019 as 10 out of 10 would constitute only a minor increase (11%).<\/h5>\n<h5>Assume, for a moment, that the AJC\u2019s statistics reflect reality and that the\u00a0 overwhelming majority (90%) of 1,200 Jewish respondents, from all political and religious positions, regard Jew-hatred as a serious problem with potentially disastrous consequences.<\/h5>\n<h5>We might wonder who are the \u2018naughty\u2019 one out of ten Jews who, unlike their\u00a0 brethren, are not scared of their American neighbours. I suspect these are the so-called \u2018self-haters,\u2019 that infamous bunch of horrid humanist Jews who support Palestine and are disgusted by the manifold of recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-not-just-weinstein-the-year-metoo-rocked-and-shocked-the-jewish-world-1.6480994\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Jewish #MeToo scandals<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal\/261172\/\">paedophilia\/organised crime networks<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 This small minority (10%) of\u00a0 disobedient Jews might be disturbed by the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/13\/meet-the-sacklers-the-family-feuding-over-blame-for-the-opioid-crisis\">opioid scandal that left 400.000 Americans dead<\/a><\/span>, they probably know who were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2019\/05\/22\/united-states\/who-are-the-sacklers-the-family-at-the-center-of-the-opioid-crisis\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">prime actors<\/span><\/a> in this saga of class genocide. They are likely troubled by a range of\u00a0 financial crimes from Madoff to Israeli banks <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/12\/22\/bank-leumi-offshore-tax-evasion\/20773095\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">evading US taxes<\/span><\/a>, to the Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/refusing-bail-us-judge-deems-binary-options-fraudster-lee-elbaz-a-flight-risk\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">binary options companies<\/span><\/a> that defraud American citizens. These universalist Jewish outcasts are often vocal critics of their people, their culture and their politics. They may denounce AIPAC and the ADL, Soros and even JVP for acting as the controlled opposition. The AJC\u2019s statistics point to the possible existence of\u00a0 a comic scenario in which 9 out of 10 Jews are intimidated by the 1 out of 10 Jews who speak out.<\/h5>\n<h5>There is a less humorous, more serious interpretation of the\u00a0 AJC\u2019s findings. It is possible that the large number of Jews who worry about anti-Semitism indicates that Jews at large are aware of the worrying traits associated with their politics, culture, identity, lobbying and Israeli criminality.<\/h5>\n<h5>Jews may feel that they are stained as a group by problematic characters such as Weisntein, Epstein and Maxwell. They may feel polluted by Israeli politics and the intensive Zionist lobbying that plunders billions of American taxpayers dollars every year. As the White House seems to turn its back on the Neocons\u2019 immoral interventionism, some Jews may be discomfited by the fact that the Neocon war mongering doctrine has been largely a Jewish project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.4764706\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">As Haartez writer Ari Shavit<\/span><\/a> wrote back in 2003: \u201cThe war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish\u2026\u201d Maybe some Jews now understand that the Zionist shift from a \u2018promised land\u2019 to the Neocon \u2018promised planet\u2019 doesn\u2019t reflect well on the Jews as a group.<\/h5>\n<h5>I am trying to point out the possibility that the overwhelming fear of \u2018anti-Semitism,\u2019 documented however poorly by the AJC, might well be the\u00a0 expression of guilt. American Jews may feel communal guilt over the disastrous politics and culture of some sections of their corrupted elite. They might even feel guilty as Americans about the brutal sacrifice of one of America\u2019s prime values, that of\u00a0 freedom of speech as guaranteed by the 1st Amendment, on the altar of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/09\/12\/facebook-is-collaborating-with-the-israeli-government-to-determine-what-should-be-censored\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u2018antisemitsm<\/span>.\u2019 <\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>Obviously, I would welcome AJC\u2019s further investigation of this. It would be interesting to learn about the correlation between the Jewish fear of anti Semitsm and Jewish guilt. It would also be fascinating to find out how Jewish anxiety translates into self-reflection. In that regard, I suggest that instead of blaming the American people, Jews try introspection.\u00a0 US Jews may want to follow the early Zionists, such as Theodor Herzl, who turned guilt into self-examination. Herzl was deeply disturbed by anti Semitism but this didn\u2019t stop him from digging into its causes. <em>\u201cThe wealthy Jews control the world, in their hands lies the fate of governments and nations,\u201d <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eB7tr0MBTjA&amp;t=4m46s)\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Herzl wrote<\/span>.<\/a> He continued, \u201c<em>They set governments one against the other. When the wealthy Jews play, the nations and the rulers dance. One way or the other, they get rich.\u201d <\/em>Herzl, like other early Zionists, believed that Jews could be emancipated from their conditions and even be loved globally by means of a cultural, ideological and spiritual metamorphosis with the aspiration of \u2018homecoming.\u2019 Herzl and his fellow early Zionists were clearly wrong in their proposed remedy for the Jewish question, but were absolutely spot on in their adherence to self-reflection and harsh self-criticism.<\/h5>\n<h5>American Jews have much to learn from Herzl and other early Zionists. They should\u00a0 ask themselves how their American <em>\u2018Golden Medina\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 their\u00a0 Jewish land of opportunities, has turned into a \u2018threatening\u2019 realm. What happened, what has changed in the last few years? Was it the constant cries over\u00a0 anti-Semitism and the desperate and institutional attempts to silence critics that turned their Golden Medina into a daunting space?<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2019\/10\/28\/a-window-into-jewish-guilt\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to point out the possibility that the overwhelming fear of \u2018anti-Semitism,\u2019 documented however poorly by the AJC, might well be the  expression of guilt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197063,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197058\/revisions\/197063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}