The exterminationist police logic of anti-anti-semitism
The exterminationist police logic of anti-anti-semitism
The discourse of anti-anti-semitism is that of a police state.
It can be rejected and should be.
We on the left can recognize anti-semitism as a mistake, not as the original sin Jewish conservatives regard it as. Moreover, we consider it often a mistaken means to an end we affirm. That is good, not bad, news.
Mistakes can be learned from; radical evils can only be wiped out.
(The Americans tend to think of Nazism as merely an evil that arose from evil desires, thus refusing all historical inquiry and reducing politics to war. But many of the elements of fascism and Nazism are still with us, proving the American liberal view of it wrong. In Germany and Europe, fascism is regarded as something that can be learned from. People there want to take responsibility for their collective history as Americans do not. Neatly dividing the modern world into perpetrators and victims, the Holocaust industry denies the need to do so).
If it is a mistake, we can ask why many have made it. It is an interesting fact that now many Jewish leaders are not even curious. Why should they be if they care mostly for themselves.
If it is an original sin, then logically the Jewish response to the hatred of Jews is, hating their haters, real and imagined, to wipe them all out. They then will have adopted a Nazi way of thinking.
It helps that there are governments today eager to facilitate these annihilations of peoples. At home, people are imprisoned or destroyed in various other ways.
Jews are not the privileged victims today; everyone is.
The essence of Nazism was not anti-semitism. It was a kind of moralistic dualism with Gnostic roots that sought to construct a new people who would be more healthy and strong, and to purify the social fabric in order to do so. Much of this rhetoric found its way in Zionism and is part of it today. There are thus Jewish fascisms and Nazisms.
Fascisms allowing for the extermination of peoples are a possibility of the modern world. The Holocaust industry was instituted to support Israel by saying “it’s all about us.” It’s becoming more and more clear that that is nonsense and a vicious lie. What is done because of this false belief makes everything worse.
Most people in modern history who have disliked Jews were really against their own oppression. That’s why anti-semitism was a mistake. It can only be a mistake and not an original evil if being against oppression is in essence good.
Jews have a stake in understanding that struggles against oppression often go badly, and people engaged in them often make mistakes. The dominant discourse of the American polity in our time has been to oppose all and any struggles against oppression, which means upholding a totalizing police state. The conservative Jewish establishment in America supported this domestically as well as internationally. The socially and politically conservative American Jewish establishment is part of the socially and politically conservative American establishment, and that is the only thing wrong with it. People are oppressed by this establishment and the institutions it supports.
The establishment view, which was a principle basis of American liberalism, is that people can only be oppressed because of their ethnic/national or other identity. It follows that the Holocaust was caused by antisemitism and perhaps more generally intolerance and hatred. While these were factors, they were not its principal causes. Such beliefs support the American military project. It has also involved much domestic repression as we know.
Opposing these things will get you hated, by people whose function is to support that repression, the military project, and the economic system that they support. Anti-anti-semitism is a principle discursive weapon in a permanent war of counterinsurgency. An interesting detail about “Jews” in America today is that, as before, they are now perfectly vulnerable if they are on the left (the Jewish institutions consider them their adversaries), and have the full protection of the fascist state their leaders support whenever they appear or are represented essentially as members of a religious or ethnic minority, which American liberalism historically protected as such.