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[Thread] Jonathan Rosenhead, JVL and the antizionist Jews:

He says: "The Jewish people in this country will come to regret [the Chief Rabbi's intervention] because we cannot have the quarter of one per cent of the population, which is Jewish, telling everyone how to vote."
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... This is to be read as a threat against Jews, whether Rosenhead understands that or not. Hannah Arendt is clear in her analysis of totalitarian language: predictions are to be read as intentions.
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...This is one way in which Jews try to deal with the antisemitism that threatens them. It is a counter productive way, it does not diminish but it increases the actual threat. Rosenhead cannot tolerate living in a world where there is antisemitism which is irrational...
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... which threatens him and which renders Jews powerless.

He prefers to live in a fantasy world in which antisemitism is a rational response to the bad things that (other) Jews do. In this fantasy, if he can stop the other Jews behaving badly then he can stop antisemitism.
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Rosenhead's fantasy allows Jews to be in control of their own destiny in a way that the actual world of antisemitism does not allow.

Rosenhead and his antizionist "asaJew" comrades have played an important role in allowing antisemitism to move into the mainstream. ...
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... They have made it their goal to ensure that antisemitic ways of thinking are not recognised as such. He has worked hard over many years to make sure that people believe there is an 'Israel Question', in fact a 'Jewish question' rather than an antisemitism question. ...
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When the antisemitic movement progresses to a certain stage, it will turn on antizionist Jews like Rosenhead and they will be defenceless. At that point, if we can, we will defend him.
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For more on antizionist Jews see this book review of mine.

fathomjournal.org/book-review-re…
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There were even Jews in Germany in the 1920s and 30s who made an apparently rational case for supporting Nazism.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associati…
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There were also Jews in the Soviet Union who remained loyal to the antisemitic state.

Yevsektsiya: 'The stated mission of these sections was the "destruction of traditional Jewish life, the Zionist movement, and Hebrew culture".'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevsektsi…
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