Israel Haters in Israel

America's Left has a great disdain for its country and blames it for all the world's woes. I guess we shouldn't be surprised to learn that Israel has its own self-loathing leftists who are eager to placate the Muslim world and rejoice in the thought of Israel handing over its God-given land to savages who have absolutely no desire to live in peace.

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Israel’s Israel-Bashing Left

"'If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it,' Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Ramallah on Saturday. And reiterated: 'when a Palestinian state is established, it would have no Israeli presence[.]'

Even to say that Abbas’s words elicited yawns—let alone charges of racism and Nazism—among those who champion the cause of a Palestinian state would be an exaggeration, since even a yawn is a kind of reaction.

The Israeli Left, however, has been going pretty wild lately in leveling such charges—not, of course, against the respective Palestinian entities in the West Bank and Gaza but against Israel itself. And as usual, much of the venom is concentrated in the Israeli Left’s flagship publication, the daily newspaper Haaretz.

'The fire of hatred and racism is ablaze in Israel'—thus, no less, the paper opened its editorial on Thursday. And it extended the metaphor in Sunday’s editorial, charging Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with supplying 'fuel for the fires of racism and xenophobia.'

On Friday, columnist Ari Shavit wrote of Israel’s 'xenophobic stench' and 'xenophobic frenzy' and that 'the virus of hatred is making Israel look and sound like a benighted racist country.'

Also on Sunday, columnist Zvi Barel, in a barely coherent rant, asked whether 'Israeli racism [can] be eliminated through law, trial and punishment, or is it already part of the Israeli identity?' Barel also averred that for Israelis, 'being Israeli means belonging to a separate race that also happens to be Jewish; what counts is the Israeli race.'

But even these were bested by another Haaretz op-ed on Sunday, this one by Hebrew University scholar Daniel Blatman. For Blatman, Israel is not just a swamp of racism but—no less—on the verge of Nazism. As he writes:


'Millions of people in Germany who would not have defined themselves as anti-Semites and certainly not as Nazis were swept up in the messianic and pseudo-religious public atmosphere. Israel today is becoming slowly and increasingly swept up in “redemptive xenophobia.”… In the Israel of today, we can observe quite a few conditions whose presence in other societies and among other peoples led to racial separation, ethnic cleansing and even genocide…the domestic reality in Israel today is 1932.'"


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These leftist knuckleheads in Israel take their self-loathing to a new level, tending to ignore the fact that their very existence is at stake.