Bombarded
by disinformation campaigns, many British Jews are being misled into
seeing Corbyn as a threat rather than as the best hope of inoculating
Britain against the resurgence of right-wing anti-Semitism menace
by
Jonathan Cook
End-of-year
polls are always popular as a way to gauge significant social and
political trends over the past year and predict where things are
heading in the next. But a recent poll of European Jews – the
largest such survey in the world – is being used to paint a deeply
misleading picture of British society and an apparent problem of a
new, left-wing form of anti-semitism.
Part
6 - Hostility to Muslims
Nativism
in European states is primarily directed against Muslim and Arab
immigrants arriving from the Middle East and North Africa, though
domestic Jews could well become collateral damage in any future purge
of “foreigners”.
Europe’s
ultra-nationalist leaders are, therefore, more likely to sympathise
with Israel and its own “Arab-Muslim problem”, especially since
Netanyahu and the Israeli right have proved adept at falsely
presenting the Palestinians as immigrants rather than the region’s
native population.
Netanyahu
would also like to see Europe paralysed by political differences, so
it is incapable of lobbying for a two-state solution, as it has been
doing ineffectively for many years; it is unable to agree on funding
human rights activism designed to protect Palestinian rights; and it
is too weak to move towards the adoption of sanctions against Israel.
But most
importantly, Netanyahu and the Israeli right can identify with the
anti-Semitic view of “the Jew” shared by Europe’s hardline
nationalists. These far-right groups see Jews as outsiders, a
discrete community that cannot be assimilated or exist peacefully
among them, and one that has separate loyalties and should either be
encouraged to leave or be sent elsewhere.
Netanyahu
agrees. He also believes Jews are different, that they are a distinct
and separate people, that their primary loyalties are tribal, to
their own kind, and not to other states, and that they can only ever
really be at home and properly Jewish in Israel, their true home.
Zsofia
Kata Vincze, a professor of ethnology in Budapest, recently referred
to the ideological affinity between Netanyahu’s Zionism and Orban’s
Hungarian-Christian nativism: “They found a common language very
easily. They kept talking about mutual values, which are nationalism,
exclusivism … Hungarian purity, Jewish purity … against the
Others.”
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