Prof Yakov Rabkin: Israel Shocks Everyone, Destroys Jewish Scripture, Synagogue.

Richard Mellor

I urge those interested in the subject of Israel, Zionism, and the hatred of Jews or anti-Semitism to watch this interview with Yakov Rabkin. I think it is a very good and important explanation of Zionism and its origins. Zionism, had no following to count of among working class Eastern European Jews who belonged overwhelmingly to the socialist or communist parties and particularly the Jewish Labor Bund. Zionism in its early stages was an attractive alternative primarily for the European Jewish middle and upper classes always hostile to their minority status; a solution would be a state of their own, a state in which they would be the ruling class. 

 

The betrayal of Stalinism and the Nazi Holocaust and murder of some 6 million Jews that followed, changed things entirely as there was a genuine concern among many Jews that only a state of their own could protect them from a repeat of the extermination policies of the Nazi’s. But we can see what a disaster Zionism and the Israeli settler colonial project has been.

 

Here’s a clip from the transcript in the video. You can also get his most recent book as he explains at the end.

 

“It's totally wrong to present history of Jews, even in Europe, as  an acrimonious history, as someone put it. So, yes, there was violence and the pogroms became better known because they were happening at the turn of the 20th century when many Europeans believed that they had become enlightened, and all of a sudden they see that these things have happened.

This history is presented as an uninterrupted chain. In other words, Jews were always maltreated. And anti-Semitism or hatred of Jews, I'm not going to go into the difference between the two, is eternal and it's impossible to uproot.

 

These are the cardinal articles of faith for the Zionist.

 

Antisemitism is eternal, it's impossible to uproot, and therefore the only solution is for all the Jews to live in their own state, which is not very different from ethnic nationalism in Eastern Europe. So it comes from the same root.

 

And that's why you had fascist regimes between the wars in practically all of the ethnic national states created after Versailles Treaty. Baltic Republics, Poland, Hungary, they all ended up having fascist regimes. Well before the Nazis.