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“Attacks on Israel Ignore the Long History of Arab Conflict” by Murray Bookchin

In May of 1986, Murray Bookchin (America’s second most famous Anarchist, right after Noam Chomsky) wrote an article for the Burlington Free Press titled “Attacks on Israel Ignore the Long History of Arab Conflict.” Below is a long excerpt, and below that are links to the entire article.

The United Nations resolution of 1947, which partitioned Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, was followed by the invasion of the country by Arab armies, notably the Egyptian, Syrian, and highly trained Jordanian “Arab Legion,” with direct or indirect aid from Iraq and other Arab nations.

In some cases these armies, particularly the Arab irregulars who accompanied them, took no prisoners in their assaults on Jewish communities. Generally, they tried to systematically obliterate all Jewish settlements in their paths until they were stopped by furious and costly Jewish resistance.

The invasion and the annihilatory combat it created set a terrible pattern of fear and bitterness that is not easy to erase from the minds of Israeli Jews. That a desperate lunatic element of Jewish zealots behaved in kind before it was stopped by the newly formed Israeli military forces should not allow us to forget the Jewish men and women who were slaughtered by stalwarts of Arab nationalism even after they had raised white flags of surrender.

I have seen very little mention of this fearful pattern of “combat” which stained the Arab invasions of Palestine and so profoundly influenced Jewish confidence in the value of “truce negotiations” and the predictability of peace agreements with Arab irredentists. Indeed, the partition lines that were eventually established after the 1948 invasions were the product of bloody warfare — literally the give-and-take of battle — not of “imperialistic” or “land-grabbing Zionists,” to use the language that is so much in vogue these days.

Nor do I hear any longer of the earnest attempts by the Haganah — the Jewish citizens’ militia of the partition era — to encourage Arabs to remain in their neighborhoods and towns, of the Israeli vehicles with loudspeakers that went through the streets of Jaffa, for example, urging Arabs not to succumb to the feelings of panic engendered by battle conditions and by extremists on both sides of the conflict.

That many Arabs remained in Israel clearly challenges the myth that Israeli Jews tried to rid the country of its Moslem inhabitants. What seems to be totally ignored is the certainty that there would have been an Arab state in Palestine side-by-side with a Jewish one if Egyptian armies in the south, Syrian in the north, and Jordanian in the east had not tried to seize both U.N.- partitioned lands with imperialist interests of their own and, when this failed, used the Palestinian refugees as pawns in future negotiations with the Israelis and their western supporters.

I downloaded the pdf from the theanarchistlibrary.org website, where they felt the need to provide a trigger warning: “This text contains disturbing material consisting of Zionist tropes.” !!!!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-attacks-on-israel-ignore-the-long-history-of-arab-conflict

You can also download it here:
https://buddhist-zionists.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/murray-bookchin-attacks-on-israel-ignore-the-long-history-of-arab-conflict.pdf

Folllow the Money: Jewish Voices for Peace is funded by the Muslim Brotherhood

We came out with a report on SJP, the Students for Justice in Palestine, which is directly connected to, it was kind of born out of the AMP, the American Muslims for Palestine, which is a Muslim Brotherhood organization. So SJP is directly connected to AMP, which is a Muslim Brotherhood organization and follows that ideology. JVP, the Jewish Voices for Peace, we found, for the first time that I’m aware of, that the AMP, the Muslim Brotherhood, has been funding not only the SJP, but they’re funding JVP for the protests as we speak. So for the first time in our report we’ve assertained clear evidence, this was said by the AMP’s legal counsel, that they are funding SJP and JVP.

Charles Asher Small

What Is Antisemitism?

In order to prevent speeding one does not simply put up signs that say “Please Do Not Drive Too Fast”. Instead, one posts signs that clearly state how fast is too fast. These are called “speed limit” signs. This might sound obvious when we are talking about speeding, but if we talk about antisemitism?

To be against antisemitism requires more than simply agreeing that antisemitism is bad. We must define what antisemitism actually is.

The “Working Definition of Antisemitism” adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015 includes actual concrete examples of things that are antisemitic. These include:

  • Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
  • Applying double standards by requiring of Israel a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
  • Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

One criticism that is sometimes made of the IHRA Working Definition is that it is too broad. Where here are some specific examples of how it should, in my opinion, be applied:

  1. Obvoiusly the claim that “Zionism is racism” falls foul of this definition of antisemitism.
  2. The claim that Israel is a “colonial settler state” completely deligitimizes the very existence of the state of Israel, and, therefore, it is antisemitic.
  3. The claim that Israel is an “apartheid state” is essentially an attempt to equate Zionism with racism, and so that claim, too, is antisemitic.
  4. Any claim that the actions of the state of Israel are comparable to the actions of Nazi Germany is antisemitic by this defintion.
  5. The claim that Israel’s military response to October 7th constitutes “genocide” is a clear example of a “double standard”, and so it, too, is antisemitic.

Top Ten Signs Your “Criticism of Israel” Is Really Just Antisemitism

Top Ten Signs Your “Criticism of Israel” Is Really Just Antisemitism

1. You refer to Israel as “the Zionist Entity”
2. You defend the slogan “From the River to the Sea”
3. You use the word “Zionist” as an insult
4. You support the BDS movement (Boycott, Divest, Sanction)
5. You believe everything the Gaza Health Ministry says
6. You automatically believe everything you hear if it is critical of Israel
7. You automatically dismiss anything said by the Isaeli government or anyone who defends Israel
8. You equate the actions of Israel with those of Nazi Germany
9. You claim to support Israel’s right to exist, but you don’t really think it should exist
10. You voted “uncommitted” in your state’s Democratic primary

Never Again is Now: On the antisemitic banning of Jewish artist Miriam Libicki

Jewish cartoonist Miriam Libicki has was banned from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. The excuse given was that anyone who has ever served in the Israeli Defense Forces cannot participate in the Festival. This means that ALL Israeli Jews (who are required by law to serve in the IDF) are prohibited from the Festival. That means that about HALF of all Jews in world are banned.

The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival later apologized and probably unbanned her. But their apology was so vaguely worded that it really isn’t clear that the ban has been officially lifted. (Read it here.)

Here is fairly detailed account, by Sam Margolis of the Canadian Jewish News, of what happened – although Margolis’ article was written prior to the “VanCAF Formal Apology” linked to above:
https://thecjn.ca/news/miriam-libicki/

Hopefully the end result will be that more people become familiar with Miriam Libicki’s amazing work. Check out her wonderful graphic novel “How Soviet Jews Changed the World”:
https://conversationalist.org/2021/07/29/how-the-soviet-jews-changed-the-world-a-graphic-tale-of-tragedy-and-triumph/

And here is her website (with lots more of her work):
https://realgonegirl.com/

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