Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYSomeday, hopefully within my lifetime, the idea of an ethnocentricJewish state will be replaced by one state with equal rights of citizenshipfor all. This is such a basic American idea, and yet it is totally rejectedby 9 out of 10 Americans raised on a steady diet of Holocaustmovies, docu-dramas, books, and articles generated in our pro-Zionistmainstream media.Yad Vashem may remain as a testament to the Third Reich’s genocideof Jews, but it will be balanced by a truth and reconciliation centerin the old Arab buildings of Deir Yassin 1,400 meters to the north.There the brutal truth about the creation of Israel and the dispossession,discrimination, and dehumanization of the Palestinian people will bedisplayed instead of being hidden by Zionist propaganda or hasbarathat even today continues to deny that there are Palestinians and not justArabs who immigrated there as Israel worked to “make the desertbloom” in “a land without people for a people without land.”In all Holocaust memorials the uniqueness of Jewish suffering isstressed. In a delightfully refreshing essay Paul Eisen writes: 3“It is understandable that Jews might believe that their sufferingis greater, more mysterious and meaningful than that of any otherpeople. It is even understandable that Jews might feel that their sufferingcan justify the oppression of another people. What is harderto understand is why the rest of the world has gone along with it.That Jews have suffered is undeniable. But acknowledgement ofthis suffering is rarely enough. Jews and others have demanded thatnot only should Jewish suffering be acknowledged, but that it also beaccorded special status. Jewish suffering is held to be unique, centraland most importantly, mysterious.Jewish suffering is rarely measured against the sufferings of othergroups. Blacks, women, children, gays, workers, peasants, minoritiesof all kinds, all have suffered, but none as much as Jews.Protestants at the hands of Catholics, Catholics at the hands ofProtestants, pagans and heretics, all have suffered religious persecution,but none as relentlessly as Jews. Indians, Armenians, Gypsiesand Aborigines, all have been targeted for elimination, but noneas murderously and as premeditatedly as Jews.Jewish suffering is held to be mysterious, and beyond explanation.Context is rarely examined. The place and role of Jews in soci-3Paul Eisen, “Speaking the Truth to Jews,” http://righteousjews.org/article19.html11