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Anti-Semitism is the most "no" thing.
After the absolute victory, of course.
One only has to move on the axis between the average Israeli talkback and the prestigious Super Bowl advertisement to feel that there is something anti-Semitic in the air.
Eurovision, football, the United Nations, Biden, Turkey. Everyone is anti-Semitic.
Really? Let's talk about it a little. There is anti-Semitism in the world, historically and topically. In general, there is a lot of anti-Semitism in the world. A lot of hatred. Against Muslims and Jews, gays and immigrants, anyone" "Other" is a potential for morbid hatred. For years, many have argued that the anti-Semite hates the Jew because he is jealous of him. And the Jew shuts himself down because they hate him. One way or another, a certain hatred of Jews always exists. It doesn't matter why and for what; about the success, the promise, or the divine choice . Whether he's a capitalist pig or a dogmatic communist, a rich Rothschild or a simple cabman like Tovia the milkmaid. We will always have simplistic haters and awkward admirers. For the very same reasons. But is that really the explanation for all our troubles? Absolutely not. Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism , and not all friends of Israel (and Netanyahu's partners) are lovers of Jews. On the contrary.
J. P. Sartre correctly diagnosed that "if the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him" and that "it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew." It turns out that there is a real conversation Between the anti-Semite and the Jew. In Halacha and in practice the Jew and his hater define each other. They understand each other's language very well. Only a few dared to touch the Jewish contribution to this conversation.
Semites and anti-Semites believe that the Jew is an extraordinary being.
that his history is unique and he does not meet any of the criteria that characterize the entire society in which he lives and exists.
The Jew is convinced that he is a member of the chosen people, that God preferred him out of all peoples, gave him the Torah and because of its values and commandments he was given special treatment by the Creator of the world.
His history is extraordinary and there is no one else like him.
The anti-Semite also thinks that the Jew is exceptional, but in a negative way.
and therefore does not fit into the patterns and frameworks he is familiar with.
The Jew and the anti-Semite speak a very similar language.
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It's easy to hang your fears and weaknesses on the extraordinary.
If only because more than once the difference is the mirror through which all my shortcomings are reflected to me.
When I hate the character in front of me I sometimes express the anger at myself.
So the Jew is the mirror of the anti-Semite and the anti-Semite is the mirror of the Jew.
No wonder, therefore, that until the Holocaust, the descriptions of the Zionists' and anti-Semitism's criticism of old Judaism were strikingly similar.
After the Holocaust, the self-criticisms were silenced, and in any case, the inquiry about what in our actions contributes to their violent reaction is also over.
The Israeli political forces that replaced Herzl's basic civic idea do not accept Israel as a liberal democracy in which majority rule must constantly be balanced with the protection of individual rights and freedoms.
Especially the non-Jewish individual.
For them - leaders and masses - the Jewish nation (not the Israeli one) is the great and supreme organizing idea and all other values lower than it are rejected.
Such a view of Israel today actually reveals the other common denominator between the Jews and their haters.
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Quite a few of the anti-Semites in the world also reject with disgust the idea of a liberal democracy that belongs to all its citizens.
The social contract is between all citizens including Jews, immigrants and foreigners.
The inherent equality committed to them drives them absolutely crazy.
German ethnic groups that preach the idea of 'Germany for Germans', oppose the absorption of dark-skinned immigrants.
Trump's and Netanyahu's partners who believe in white supremacy in the United States, are infected with basic and distinct anti-Semitism.
They want the unity of their nation without Jews, others and people of color and without any closeness to them.
These are the real camps: on the one hand, those who believe in their own unity with their likes only, and sanctify their own privileges only.
And on the other hand, those who are committed to full equality between all human beings.
No!
The world is probably not divided into Jews and non-Jews.
but to a coalition of contrasts of Jews and anti-Semites who believe that Jews have something special, extraordinary compared to all other human beings.
And against them are all those who believe that all human beings are born equal and are entitled to as many equal opportunities as possible.
In other words: some of us and some of them against some of us and some of them, and a gaping chasm between us.
The writer served as chairman of the Knesset and chairman of the Jewish Agency
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