Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Jewish American Organizations and anti-Islam campaigns

It is rather shameful that Jewish American organizations are either silent amid this anti-Islam climate of the US, or are complicit by virtue of the agenda of the Israeli lobby which is directly connected to the anti-Islam campaigns across the US, and particularly in terms of policies.  The climate of the US is now not different of the climate of Germany in the 1920s against Jewish people.  Some will say: but it is different because there are indeed Muslims who are terrorists.  That was exactly the Nazi retort back in the 1920s who blamed Jews for involvement in socialist and communist organizations which were considered terrorists by governments at the time (don't you dare here compare the glorious socialist and communist organizations of the time with the terrorist Jihadi groups of today).  The Nazi anti-Semitic agenda developed gradually and quietly and it had some loud voices and some lower voices and then culminated in government after the Nazi takeover.  There are 1.5 or more billion Muslims of today, and most main Jewish American organizations are guilty of either silence or mild reactions, and this will poison relations between Muslims and Jews, and between Jews and Arabs for years and decades to come.  I have always took the position that our fierce defense of Palestinian rights and of the rejection of the Israeli occupation state should never ever manifest itself in hostility to the Jewish people.  I and other in the Palestinian camp believed that defense of Palestinians should never come at the expense of Jewish-Arab coexistence (but without Zionism), and that the return of Jews to Arab lands should be supported.  But the notable voices of the Jewish American establishment are not seeing that there are repercussions to the climate of bigotry prevailing here in the US.  A country that can turn against a religion of 1.5 billion people, can easily one day turn against a religion of a few million people.  This climate today against Islam should be a signal to all religious minorities about how easy it is for an arrogant self-described democracy to descend into a Nazi-like government blatantly calling for exclusion and intolerance.