DreyfussRan
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- Sep 5, 2012
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It remains a staid truth that within any ideologically rooted group, the most feared and bitterly attacked foes are internal---not external. To this end phrases like "Self-hating Catholic" or "self-loathing Jew" have become far too routine. The strategy here seems impossibly simplistic and weighted down by its own obvious levels of desperate compensation, yet nevertheless these labels carry group condemnation that readily translates to a scarlett-letter. In the case of Israel and overt Zionist dogma, Jewish identity politics turns on a stark black and white choice: either adopt the permeable set of lies, evasions, and grotesque propaganda that accompanies the Jewish state, or dare to voice the truth and suffer the recriminations of Zionist cult-fanaticism. The choice is crystal-clear, and morally unclouded: Jews are expected to tow the Zionist line to the worthless syllable, but this conspires to undermine the Jewish identity of my childhood, and the loving sensibility of uncles who imparted a radically different set of Jewish identity characteristics that turned on an individual moral bearing. If being a Jew means lying for Israel, then I renounce the arbitrary definitions of the label. Rigourously educated Jews understand the details of the crude and artless historical narrative applied to the modern state of Israel, just as they understand the fascist dimensions of the Zionism that rings these blunt tools of misinformation. In this sense there exists a modern Jewish resistance, our enemy is within, and its weapons are lies and moral deceit...