Adonis Diaries

Jews against Zionists (April 7, 2009)

Note: I re-edited this post; it is strengthened with additional information.

            Hinie Srour, a renowned documentary film maker and living in London for over 40 years, is a Lebanese Jew.  In the early sixties, she was one of the founders of a university students’ organization in Lebanon called “Student Forces Front”; the other founder was the Jewish Elie Baida.  This organization demanded supporting our public universities and had leftist reformist orientations; it enjoyed wide appeal among the Christian universities and was very active for four years; the power to be got very nervous.  The Phalange Party (Kataeb) decided to confront this organization by violence but it failed.  In 1967, the Sunni Mufty of Palestine, Haj Amine Husseiny, published an anonymous article in the daily “Al Hadaf” claiming that the Jewish Lebanese founders of the organization were meeting once a year in Vienna with Israeli leaders. It was totally unfounded.  The organization understood that it was being targeted for repression and dissolved.

            In 1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser resigned after his war defeat against Israel.  The Jews in Lebanon marched with the thousands of demonstrators reclaiming Nasser.  The Jews in the Middle East were part of the fabric of society and they mostly joined reformist political parties that demanded equal treatment of citizens in the laws and in practice; they were anti-Zionists.  Unfortunately, the State of Israel political practices and pre-emptive wars against the Arab States and its apartheid ideology against the Palestinians have forced most of the Jews to immigrate for fear of eventual reprisals generated by anger and frustration. 

Most people have neither the knowledge, nor the interest, and nor the political acumen to differentiate among Zionist, Jewish, Ashkenazi, Sephardim, Israeli, or Hebrew.  For the western countries there are no differences or no advantage for this kind of categorization for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. For example, the software has to correct semitic by replacing the regular s with a capital S; and this is true for anything related to Jewish names, including replacing j with J.

For us in the Levant and the Middle East in general, we have been subjugated for much more than anti-Semitism labeling; we have been struggling for over 60 years with existential conditions of “Be or not to be” since the creation of this racist, anti-Semitic, apartheid Zionist State.  These kinds of discriminations are practically abstract concepts in real life; but we have to deal with those happy in splitting hairs while the enemy is busting our doors and committing genocides while the UN is playing deaf and dumb.

There are many who like to differentiate between Zionist and Jewish and my question is “why stop here?”  Is it because of ignorance or political accommodation or because the western medias have forced this dichotomy on us?  Many want to differentiate between Zionism and Jewish for vested interest and to grab the western media attentions and recognitions, or to claim their allegiance to International Socialism or International Social-Democrat, or in order not to be blacklisted and denied visas or whatever.  Someone has to set the record straight.

First, Zionism is an ideological group that started with the Ashkenazi in Europe and worked diligently to create a recognized State anywhere in the world, even in Uganda.  The Ashkenazis are not Jews by origin. They were people from the Caucasus who adopted the Mosaic laws and established a kingdom that was destroyed by the Cossacks around 950 AC. They were not semitic by any criterion and didn’t know the customs and traditions of the people inhabiting the Levant; for example the Jews who lived in Palestine.

The turn of events encouraged the European countries to get rid of their “Jews” and relocating them in Palestine to safeguard the flow of oil, for example an advanced military post of mercenaries willing to die for no pays because they are safeguarding their “Promised Land”; promised by whom, Balfour of Britain?  That was before 1948.  Right now, any one who supports the existence of the State of Israel by financial aid to building more colonies on occupied lands is a Zionist. Anyone bringing up religious concepts of “Promised Land” to criminals against humanity is a Zionist.  Anyone offering excuses to apartheid policies and genocides against the Palestinians is a Zionist, regardless of religious affiliations, race, sex, or origins. 

We are in a war of survival for our existence and who supports the apartheid Zionist State without the institution of a Palestinian homeland is a Zionist that the UN has described as “a form of racist”; period.

Second, the Sephardim are Jews who lived in the Near East and fled to Iran, Iraq, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, and the Arab Peninsula. These Jews lived the customs and traditions of the Land.  It is these Jews that the State of Israel relish to discriminate against: you will never find a Sephardic Prime Minister, President, or head of security in the 60 years of the State Israel.  They are considered Middle Eastern and not appropriate to rule or govern.  There are currently Ethiopian “Jews” who have been shipped into Israel more than three decades ago; they are still working in “sanitary” jobs with no prospect in sight for advancement. 

However, you see a Jewish Russian Mafioso landing in Israel and within a couple of months he is heading a political party and becoming Foreign Minister.  In Israel, an Ashkenazi can be a recognized terrorist by the whole world (Begin), he can be censured by Israel’s parliament for committing the massacre of the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut (Ariel Sharon), he can order the bombardment of UN compounds (Shimon Peres) but all is absolved; he can still be appointed Prime Minister as they all did. President Peres shamelessly accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

Third, there are Jews who are expecting the second coming of a divine Messiah and not for establishing any earthly kingdom for world domination.  The State of Israel is anathema to these Jews in nature and in practices.

Fourth, there are Israeli citizens, not necessarily Jewish, but considered less than third class citizens; for example, the Palestinians who stayed in their lands even as genocides were being perpetrated around their towns.

Fifth, Hebrews are those tribes that joined the leadership of Moses and conquered land by the sword and genocide starting with the crazy Joshua Bin Noun.  They were nomad strangers to the land of the Levant.  They worshipped a God called Yahweh (Yahood, thus Jew); they worshiped Yahweh on and off, and the scribes of the Old Bible had to create so many prophets lambasting those Hebrews who would not stick to Yahweh; their Yahweh would rather carry his wrath at the detriment of the indigene Canaanites who suffered more killing and desolations.

There was no such religion as Jewish before Moses.  Solomon managed a semblance of a Kingdom that didn’t last more than half a century.  Those Hebrew had to wait for the nomadic tribes of the Hashmonides, living on loots and ransacking urban communities in the confines of south Palestine, to establish the bloody Kingdom of the Macabe. Those tribes, strong with renewed zeal because the Seleucid Kingdom forced upon them to desist in performing circumcision, over ran Galilee and forced the non Jews to be circumcised and to applying Moses’ Laws.  It is no wonder that Israel forced Hebrew as a National language that no common Jew could speak and much less write.

Let us point out the murderers by their names; this is people tribunal.

Note 1:  The Ashkenazi Jews in the western nations were relegated to ghettos and they learned not to purchase Real Estates but to focus on readily movable treasures.  The Jews in the western nations were never welcomed in their midst, primarily because Christianism could not digest another forms of religious belief.  The Sephardic Jews in the Arab and Moslem countries had to vacate after the establishment of the State of Israel for fear of reprisals because of the racist and theocratic State that the Zionist ideology instituted.

Note 2:  The Jews in the western States were very active in secular political movements, particularly Communists and Socialists.  Nowadays, their activism has waned relative to change and their focus is how to support the apartheid and racist Jewish State of Israel.  Very few renowned Jews are still active for justice and change that are not related to the survival of the State of Israel such as Naom Chomsky.