THE ANTI-SEMITIC SIDE OF ZIONISM
An Israeli two hour documentary entitled "The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism" explores the dark side of Theodore Herzl's conception of a Jewish state. It contains revealing information not known even to most revisionist students of the subject. Herzl expressed sentiments in his personal diary which would make even hardened anti-Semites blush. At one point in his private musings, Herzl fantasized about a mass conversion of Austria's Jews in the cathedral of Saint Stephen to cure them of their Jewishness. The ceremony was to be blessed by the Pope. At another point, Herzl conceived the idea of an anti-Semitic crusader to strip the Jews of their wealth. After all, stated Herzl, do not all the governments of the world do the bidding of rich Jews? The film makers have a great deal of fun in beguiling Jews on the street with these Herzl quotations. The reactions range from anger at the blatant "anti-Semitism" to befuddlement when they are told that Herzl, not Hitler, made them. A similarly amusing moment comes when the director of the Jabotinsky Institute is read a Jabotinsky quotation that Eastern European Jews who wish to migrate to Eretz Israel shall have to shave their locks and beards and start behaving like normal human beings. He bleats that the opinions are blatantly anti-Semitic. When informed that Vladimir Jabotinsky himself made the statements, he blanches, calls it "impossible" and then asks for the reference – which is immediately provided.
Aside from the humor and the ignorance of the Jewish public, the documentary has important lessons for students of history. It shows consistently the Social Darwinist nature of the doctrine. The European Jews consistently looked down on the Middle Eastern, oriental Jews and sought to "modernize" them to make them "suitable' Zionist material. The Zionist attitude toward Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied Europe was even more lamentable. As Ben-Gurion himself stated, if he had to choose between moving all the Jewish children in England to Israel and saving only half to build the Zionist state, he would sacrifice the children to the needs of the Israeli state. The documentary quotes from internal memoranda of the Jewish Agency for Palestine about how to distinguish between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" émigrés. The young, strong and healthy were preferred while the elderly and decrepit were expendable. Always, the memorandum emphasizes, the needs of the state were to be primary, the lives and welfare of the refugees were secondary. (Although the documentary avoids the issue, this Zionist intransigence has important implications for the "failure to rescue" Jews charge leveled by the Zionists against various governments to extort reparations. It would appear that the Zionists were waved and stopped by their own example.)
"The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism", as an Israeli production, naturally does not challenge the mythical Holocaust. The "gas chamber" hoax is accepted at face value. Still, the production is an outstanding example of what Jews will discuss among themselves, in their real country, while fanatically suppressing the same information in the mainstream U.S. media they control. These facts, little known but historically well documented, would blow the minds of media indoctrinated Americans were they known. "The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism", amazing as it is, is by no means an isolated example of Israeli productions. Ten years ago an Israeli journalist made a documentary entitled "In Search of the Khazars". The Khazars were, of course, the Finnish-Mongoloid Empire of south Russia /Eastern Europe who converted to Judaism in the Dark Ages. The film explores the long debated issue of whether Russian/Polish Jewry is descended from the Khazar Empire after its break up. Whatever one thinks of the theory, Zionist controlled U.S. TV would never allow such a production.
The hidden history of Zionism goes into many verboten historical subjects. To return to Theodore Herzl, whose juicy quotations began "The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism" it is well known that Herzl visualized anti-Semites and Zionists as natural allies. Indeed, Herzl stipulated in "Der Judenstaat" that Zionism could only succeed through its collaboration with anti-Semitic governments, who would be happy to assist Zionism in draining their countries of unwanted Jews. Chaim Weizmann, the prime mover behind the Balfour Declaration, said much the same thing. In his autobiography "Trial and Error", Weizmann declared that "whenever the number of Jews in any country exceeds the saturation point, that country reacts against them." He called it "a universal law of history which cannot be confused with anti-Semitism in the ordinary and vulgar sense." Jacob Klatzkin, another prominent Zionist, was even more blunt. He stated: "Instead of praising the philo-Semites who defend our rights, we should defend the anti-Semites who attack our rights. We are an alien presence in their midst." In actual practice, many anti-Semitic countries in Eastern Europe between the two world wars were quite eager to send their unwanted Jews to Palestine. Fascist regimes, and not just Nazi Germany, were eager to send emissaries to the Zionists. Beck and Lipski in Poland were always willing to export their Jews to accommodate Zionist demands. Betar, Jabotinsky's Revisionist-Zionist organization, flourished in Poland before the German invasion.
"The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism", naturally, cannot go into all the covered up aspects of Zionism. But it does enough to show that both Jewish, gentile and Christian-Zionist conceptions of the doctrine are fundamentally false. That is a gigantic step in the right direction. The fact that the exposure comes from an Israeli TV documentary helps defuse accusations of anti-Semitism and rewriting the historical record. The historical record does indeed need to be rewritten but by facts agreed to by all sides of the political spectrum.
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