Thread by @HusseinAboubak

It is remarkable that a world that changes at a dizzying pace remains impressively consistent when it comes to Jews. Jews are still demanded to be kind, be selfless, and do the world the favor it truly needs by just gracefully disappearing. This demand, which gradually became /1

a sort of Leftist prerogative was once made by both Marx and Hitler. The Jewish selfishness, their unkind insistence on being Jewish, was what is preventing the world from being a harmonious place. This idea was so powerful and central all in all 19th and 2oth century major /2

ideologies that it did convince many Jews who ended up becoming self-hating assimilationists felt outraged at their own Jewish identity that prevents them from being human. After the establishment of Israel this entire sentiment was transferred unto the Jewish /3

that became the biggest obstacle to world peace. Israelis are derided for their insistence on Jewish sovereignty that causes so much suffering. No peace as long as there is Israel, is the message. Activists for peace, joy, and harmony, such as @4noura ask Israelis to /4

selflessly perform their final graceful duty of making their sovereignty disappear so peace may be on earth and goodwill be to men. As for the self-hate, Isaac Deutscher's Non-Jewish Jew was replaced by the anti-Zionist Jew, as non-Judaism was replaced with anti-Zionism. /5

What is even more remarkable is how when it comes to Jews and to Israel all the salvific pretense of all ideologies, all their grandiose claims, whether left or right, liberal or Marxist, melt away. The salvation ideology promises is only of a narcotic kind that shields /6

its users from reality with the mist of delusions. It is very clear to anyone with a brain that the social role, the pariahdom, that was reserved for Jews did not end but was transferred unto Israel. All the hate, including the self-hate, was reoriented towards it. This coin /7

has another side, meaning that, and as Albert Memmi once foresaw, Israel is becoming the true and undisputable center of Jewish identity and the frame of reference to all Jews of the world that now have to define themselves in relation to Israel. This is not to say that /8

Israel is replacing Judaism the tradition, but is becoming the epitome of Jews as a people. Today, whether Jew or gentile, one's relationship to Israel is what defines one's relationship to Jews as a people and what also explains both gentile and Jewish anti-Zionism. /9

This is the crux of the modern world.

If I may add, this is the most remarkable historical correction in human history as Judaism becomes Israel and Israel becomes Judaism. The world being at home with itself.

If Jews were truly interested in the brotherhood of man, or in the feminist sisterhood of women, they have to prove it only through self-negation, by becoming anti-Zionists. They have to self-sacrifice on the altar of universal humanism.

And what is truly and devastatingly heartbreaking in the most agonizing way, is that Palestinian national identity is nothing but an epiphenomenon of all the former. Not that many Palestinians know, but they are just unwitting, yet sadly willing, conduits of the war on the Jews.