If This Isn’t Anti-Semitism, Then What Is?

For the past 18 months, the world, and Australia in particular, has been swamped by a growing tide of anti-Semitism – and denial.

The tired excuse parroted by Muslims and their leftist camp-followers is that ‘It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s anti-Zionism.” Which is arrant bullshit and we all know it. If you need any confirmation, simply ask a foaming ‘anti-Zionist’ to define Zionism.

They never can. Firstly, because they’re as ignorant as the day is long. Secondly, because it really is anti-Semitism. They just haven’t even the guts to admit it. Because they know that anti-Semitism is the last rubicon they can openly cross. Anti-Semitism was, after all, the signature characteristic of Nazism – and the people who’ve been calling everyone else ‘Nazis’ for the last half-century aren’t about to admit to driving a big ol’ Mercedes-Benz 770 right up alongside actual Nazi beliefs.

At best, ‘anti-Zionists’ will parrot some cooked and false definition of actual Zionism. Because, again, if they were honest, the jig would be up.

Zionism is, quite simply, the belief that Jews deserved, and deserve, to maintain and protect a Jewish national state in the indigenous homeland of the Jews. That’s it. Like any ideology, of course, there are disagreements over implementation, splinter groups and so on, but at heart Zionism is nothing more than the belief that Jews have a right to a state in the lands they originated from.

Given, especially, that the same left who viciously oppose Zionism for Israel, at the same time, almost invariably, fervently support ‘indigenous rights’. Ethno-nationalism, it seems, is just fine for Aborigines and Māori, but not for Jews. The same people who squawk, at a moment’s notice, “Always was, always will be Aboriginal land”, viciously deny the same when it comes to Jews.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

Some try to take refuge in the equally unconvincing claim that ‘criticising Israel isn’t anti-Semitism’. This is another obvious dodge.

Firstly, it doesn’t have to be, but it almost always is. The dead giveaway is that the same people never criticise other indigenous nations with the same vitriol they do Israel. Despite being the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, the Jewish state is subject to more UN resolutions against it than almost all other nations combined.

As comedian Sandy ‘Austen Tayshus’ Gutman challenged a ‘pro-Palestine’ leftist on the ABC’s Q+A, many years ago, name one other country they criticise as much as Israel.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

Another common dodge is to claim that they’re not anti-Israel, they’re ‘anti-war’. They ‘just want the suffering to stop’.

Again: bullshit. If anti-war and civilian deaths was their sole motive, then why are they only criticising Israel over the Gaza war (34,844 dead, the vast majority combatants) and ignoring other, far more bloody conflicts? Where are the weekly protests about, say, the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel (464,345 dead), the Sudanese civil war (1,400,000 dead), the Ukraine war (172,226–390,000 dead), the Ethiopian civil war (500,000–610,000 dead), the Somali civil war (365,500–1,000,000 dead), or the Syrian civil war (656,493 dead) or the Yemeni civil war (382,100)?

If you’re ignoring the world’s most bloody conflicts and hyper-focusing on a far less deadly war, which just happens to be the only one involving Jews, don’t try and kid us that your sole concern is ‘anti-war’.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

If all that weren’t obvious enough, the ‘pro-Palestine’ fanatics invariably indulge in the sort of unhinged, blatantly racist rhetoric that they’d have fainting fits, should it be directed at anyone other than Jews.

‘Pro-Palestine’ marches have repeatedly been replete with the sort of symbolism that wouldn’t have been out of place at a Brownshirts’ rally in the late 1920s. Images of Jews as rats and the Star of David being dumped in a rubbish bin, with the slogan ‘cleanse the world’ and Hezbollah and Hamas symbols – both organisations openly and literally committed to the extinction of Jews around the world. The red triangle symbol, not just a symbol used by the Nazis in their death camps, but also a Hamas symbol used as a death mark.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

Bear in mind, too, that the ‘pro-Palestine’ marches began within hours of the news of the worst massacre of Jews since WWII breaking to the world. The streets of Muslim Western Sydney erupted in spontaneous celebration. Imams told cheering crowds ‘I’m elated’. The next night, a mob of thousands of Muslims stormed a vigil for the Israeli victims at the Sydney Opera House, chanting, “Gas the Jews.”

Remember: all of this was weeks before Israel fired a single shot in retaliation. The only dead were Jews and other Israeli citizens. Thousands of Jews were being held hostage.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

Since then Jewish – not Israeli, Jewish – synagogues, schools, businesses, restaurants, homes, have been firebombed, stormed and daubed with swastikas. Prominent leftists have circulated ‘Jew lists’, doxxing Jewish artists and businesses. Jews are attacked in the streets of Melbourne and Sydney.

If that’s not anti-Semitism, then what is it?

So, the next time I hear you foaming at the mouth about ‘Zionists’, leftists, I see you. I know just what you are.

If you’re not an anti-Semite, then who is?