JOURNALfor the STUDYof ANTISEMITISM

78 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 3:71
Certainly, it is surprising to see renowned specialists in the social sciences—academics
extremely serious and rigorous in their analyses and
studies—but when they have to apply their knowledge to explain the conflict
of the Middle East, employ instead badly used categories of emptied
meaning, using them uncritically as jargon in the sense proposed by Theodor
Adorno 8 in his criticism of the Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger,
using this conceptual language in a sense that it is intended with the clear
purpose of generating political effects instead of other, more appropriate
categories that can be used to describe a situation objectively. There is an
implicit code that sets the politically correct in the thinking of the progressive
intelligentsia. This code has crystallized a number of clichés that form
a monopoly in representing the space formerly occupied by reflective
praxis—the coherence between theory and practice (Gramsci). This standardized
thought is expressed in two clearly defined axes:
The Intertwined Interests of Israel and the United States
This is due to the close political and commercial relationship between
the two states (although this relationship is between us and many other
states in the world, only Israel is linked indivisibly to that state). This axis
will be presented in two ways: to (a) the heirs of the worst paranoid traditions
of classic antisemitism (the explicit vision in the myth of the so-called
“Jewish conspiracy” to the domination of the world, today expressed in the
denunciation of the alleged “Jewish lobby” that would dominate the United
States through its partnership with evangelists; and (b) the modern and progressive,
who must subscribe to the myth that “Israel is the advanced imperialist
in the Middle East.” These forms of expression are conflicting and
mutually exclusive. While at first the dominant factor in the equation are
Jews (Zionism, Israel), the second key factor would be the United States—
and Israel a mere puppet of the designs of such a power.
The Urgent Need to Break the Jewish Association of Jews as Victim
This step is essential to produce a rupture of empathy with the Jews
and power, which would allow living without guilt and hatred against “the
Jew,” especially before his state and the ideology behind it (Israel and Zion-
8. “. . . the nature of slang would be extremely formal: it is responsible for
what you want is felt and accepted by his exhibition, largely without taking into
account the words’ content. Preconception and Mimetic element of language takes
her under his direction, for the desired effect by it . . . .” Theodore Adorno, The
Ideology as a Language. Taurus editorial: Madrid, 1992, 12, 13, 14.