Here one must ask an obvious question – why should any Jew anywhere in the world be concerned in any way with these facts? Why should any Jewish person be concerned with actions or ideas that he or she probably has nothing to do with? Why should my Jewish neighbour, also subject to the financial turmoil and with no connection whatsoever with Madoff, Wolfowitz,DavidAaronovitch or Lord ‘cash point’ Levy, be at all concerned with current financial or imperial blunders for which he has no responsibility? Why should my Jewish musician friends who have no ties to Israel, AIPAC,CFI,CST,Nick Cohenor Alan Greenspanfeel guilty for crimes or actions taken by others just because they also happen to be Jewish? Would a Frenchman or an Irishman in Americafeel threatened or potentially discriminated against because of revelations that a few of their expatriates had been involved in a major colossal scandal?

So, the question Iraise here isa simple one: why shouldany Jew feel guilty for crimes that are committed by other people – people he or she does not know and isnot affiliated with? And the answer is equally simple – Jewish individuals have no reason to assume responsibilityfor actions committed by other Jews. But the truth of the matter is, that many Jews are extremely concernedabout the current blunders:some feel guilty, and many – potentially at least – feel threatened. Iwould saythatsuch areactionmerits our attention.

Amongst my other sins, I regularly monitor the Jewish media, and it isobvious to me that Jewish institutions are put on alert by any scandal that is evenmildly associated with Jewish protagonists or institutions. Jewish media outlets give the impression that every blunder associated with a Jewis highly likely toturn itself into awave of vile anti-semitism.

We are left to wonder thenwhether the Jewish fear of anti-Semitism is actually justified, or whether it is simply driven by a ‘fantasy of destruction’.

In my latest book The Wandering Who I contend that Jewish fear of anti-Semitism is largely self-inflicted and has very little to do with the surrounding reality. Jews tend to regard themselves as a tribe and most Jews are subjected to a degree of cultural and racially driven indoctrination. On the one hand, the religion of Judaism teaches its followers that “all ofIsrael are responsibleforone another” (1)(Kol Yisrael areivin zeh l’zeh); while on the other hand, the non religious,secular, emancipated Jews who identify politically, ideologically and socially as Jews theyalsooperate within Jewish ethno-centric settings. Even within the Palestinian solidarity movement we find Jews who operate within ‘Jews only’ cells such as JBIG (Jews for Boycott Of Israeli Goods) and IJAN (International Jewish Antizionist Network). Somehow, they also feel primarily ‘responsible for one another.’

This reading of contemporary Jewish communities may reveal why many Jews are alarmed by crimes committed by other Jews – Jews whom they don’t evenknow.

I can think of three reasons for such a situation:

1. Projection: Because some Jews regard themselves as a racially exclusive tribe, they tend to believe that others -non Jews -will also regard them as such. In other words, many Jews project their own ethno-centric symptoms onto the Goyim i.e. They think the Goyim are as racially driven as they are.

2. Guilt: Because some Jews tend to regard themselves as a racially exclusive tribe, they feel guilty for not stopping those members of the tribe who are involved in some major blunders.

3. Conjunction –- both 1 and 2.

It is increasingly clear then, that at the heart of the Jewish fear of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish bigotry we find Jewish racial orientation, manifesting itself in various forms of projection and guilt. Though it isclear that Jews do not actually form a race, there is little doubt that Jewishness -and especially Jewish secular discourse -is racially, or at least tribally driven. Not many people are aware of the/a> between different Jewish communities such asAshkenaziandSephardiJews. In Israel the blood donation of Black citizens with Ethiopian background is disposed of for ‘medical reasons. Israel legal system is saturated with discriminatory racis and supremacist laws against the Arab and non-Jewish population.

To a certain extent then, the fear of anti-Semitism inherentto the Zionist and Jewish secular political discourse is fuelled by thebelief that the ‘other,’ i.e. the Goy, maywellbe equallydriven by a similar racist ideology.

Some Jews, it must be said, might offer reasons to reject the above explanation: theymight argue that Jewish history (i.e. that endless chain of Shoas),proves that ‘the sons of Israel’ would be justified in being on a constant state of alert. Jews, theymight say,shouldbeconstantly aware that their neighboursmight turn against them at any given moment.

Isuggest that we are dealing here with a ‘chicken and egg’ situation: while some Jews would agree among themselves that anti-Semitism is largely an ‘irrational disease’, a few historians such as Bernard Lazare were brave and honest enough to ask why and how exactly, Jews have managed to bring so much pain on themselves.

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