When the narrative precedes reality Israel today

On Wednesday, a lecture was held in memory of Eli Wiesel at Boston University - the academic home of the Holocaust survivor, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his books documenting European anti-Semitism and the resurrection of the Jewish people in Zion.

This year, the university chose to honor the African-American pastor William Barber, who gave the Wiesel lecture.

Barber is a well-known leader for his work against the so-called "built-in racism" of the United States. The term means that racism is a component of American DNA and can only be eradicated through a revolution.

Barber is not only fighting against the so-called racist genetics of the United States, but also against the Jewish state. . Barber accuses Israel B"iirot "Palestinian children" because they are objects of liberty. "for him, the Zionist movement is" colonial project ", and unlike the Zionists - the Palestinians have never engaged in violence.

In response to the exposure of things, Boston University attacked the organization CAMERA, calling the Exposing him as "wrong." Ignoring Barber's overt antisemitic material, the director of the Wiesel Institute for Jewish Studies, Michael Zank, was right, noting that the pastor "repeatedly condemned all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism." He counted many Jews among his friends and allies. "

In his response to the exposure of CAMERA, Wiesel's son, Elisha Wiesel, tried to walk between the drops.

On the one hand, he said, Barber was "a well-known and respected leader and activist who was at the center of inspiring work in the war for the right to vote and the advancement of the African-American community."

On the other hand - "We are troubled to hear about some of his words from the past, which echoed vicious lies - lies spread over Christian platforms in the past centuries - and these are very dangerous and offensive lies to the Jewish community."

Good people in the middle of terrorism

Wiesel Jr. dismissed Barber's lies against Israel and IDF soldiers, but did not criticize his invitation to give a lecture in memory of his father. "Opening a discourse about his words from the past," he said.

He later invited Barber to travel to Israel with him, "to examine the reality on the ground from the Israeli side and the Palestinian side." Wiesel Jr.'s remarks echoed what Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said regarding the six Popular Front organizations, which Defense Minister Bnei Gantz declared terrorist organizations. In response to their condemnations, Gantz won a declaration from the Biden government, the European Union, the UN Human Rights Council and coalition members from the Meretz and Labor parties. Lapid tried to please everyone. On the one hand, the foreign minister said " The problem in Elisha Wiesel's response and in Lapid's response is that, in fact, there is no justice on both sides. The Palestinians against it, he is anti-Semitic. And as such, it is not appropriate to give a lecture in memory of Wiesel the Elder. point. At his invitation,The University of Boston expressed disgust and contempt in memory of Eli Wiesel as well as the Jewish community on campus and in the United States in general.

Torch on the other hand dances between the drops and gets wet;

After all, it is impossible to define people who work for a terrorist organization as "very good people."

they are not.

So how can one understand the loss of judgment and the basic diagnosis of Lapid and Elisha?

Their moral paralysis is a consequence of their political-ideological identity.

If not paralysis - laxity and fear.

Funds for financing hate

The progressive left camp has a pathological attitude to reality. What determines for the camp functionaries is the narrative - not the reality. According to the leftist narrative, anti-Semitism in the United States is a phenomenon that belongs to the right, not the left. Therefore, Barber only "echoes" European blood libels that endanger and harm the Jewish community in the United States. Barber cannot be antisemitic in his own right. Barber is a progressive honor man.

Also, according to the progressive left narrative, the Palestinians are the victim of colonial Israel. Anyone who supports and promotes the Palestinian struggle against Israel must be one of the best, because he is on the side of the oppressed. And whoever acts against the Palestinians must be bad. Because Israel is evil. She is the oppressor.

As progressive-lite, Wiesel and Lapid try to be on both the reality side and the narrative side.

But it's not going.

Barber is not interested in learning the truth about the Palestinians' 100-year campaign against the Zionist enterprise and the Jewish people.

He is interested in attacking the Jewish state.

The European Union, the Ford Foundation and the George Soros fund organizations that advance the Palestinian campaign against Israel, not because they do not know that these organizations support the campaign to eliminate the Jewish state.

They fund them because they know exactly what the goal is.

Michaeli and Horowitz, and their members from the Meretz and Labor factions, condemn Ganz's decision not only because their partners in B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence, Peace Now, the Association for Civil Rights, etc. are budgeted by the same governments and funding funds. The press organizations of the Popular Front.

They also condemn Ganz's act because they adopted the narrative of their camp, which states that the Palestinians are the victim of Israel.

This week, the American Jewish Committee published a new survey on the state of anti-Semitism in the United States in 2021. The survey found that 90 percent of American Jews see anti-Semitism as a problem in today's United States.

72 percent feel less secure than before.

Forty percent claimed they had taken steps to hide their Judaism for fear of their safety.

A quarter of respondents testified that they had suffered antisemitic attacks (mostly on social media) in the past year.

An absolute majority see the boycott movement as an antisemitic threat.

The vast majority identify anti-Zionism as anti-Semitic.

But despite the steep rise in the sense of threat, most American Jews are not bothered by the fact that their political home - the Democratic Party - amplifies the most antisemitic voices in American politics and public.

Nor are they impressed by the fact that the Republican Party is fighting against them.

Only 40 percent of U.S. Jews are disappointed with the Democratic Party's treatment of anti-Semitism (45 percent satisfied). Two-thirds of U.S. Jews are actually disappointed with Republican treatment of anti-Semitism.

The morality of the mind is clear and frustrating.

In the US as in Israel, progressive Jews prefer to protect progressive anti-Semites more than Jews.