I Sleep in Hitler's Room: An American Jew Visits Germany |
I just listened to an interview with Tuvia Tenenbom, author of Catch a Jew and I Sleep in Hitler’s Room.[...]
Among the truths that Tenenbom
discovered in his travels in Europe and Israel in the guise of a
non-Jewish German journalist were a) many Europeans are really anti-Jewish
and anti-Zionist, b) so are some Jewish Israelis, and c) they are
getting together to work towards the replacement of Israel by some kind
of non-Zionist state in which Jews will be a minority.
This isn’t news — NGO Monitor has
been documenting the massive flow of Euros to anti-Zionist
organizations run by left-wing Israeli Jews or Arabs for years — but
Tenenbom emphasizes how pervasive the influence is, extending from large
organizations like the Red Cross to small operations like the tour
guide (a self-described ‘ex-Jew’) who brings groups of Europeans to Yad
Vashem, where he explains that this is what the Jews are doing to the
Palestinian Arabs.
It’s hard to see how a tiny country,
which doesn’t threaten anyone and only wants to be left in peace
deserves this. [...]
Tenenbom uses the expression
“self-hating Jews” to describe Jews like Gideon Levy, but I think that’s
misleading. They don’t hate themselves — they see themselves as better than
the others, the ones that have all the ‘Jewish’ characteristics that
they hate (religious belief, for one). They identify with their enemies
that want to kill them, even to the point of adopting their anti-Jewish
beliefs, because they subconsciously think it will protect them. [...]
At any given time there are numerous wars,
rebellions, insurgencies, occupations, massacres, etc. throughout the
world which receive far less attention in the media and academia despite
hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of casualties (the
Boko Haram uprising killed almost 11,000 in 2014 and almost 5,000
already this year). Did you know that the Second Congo War (1998-2003) caused more than 350,000 violent deaths, and 2.7-5.4 million excess
deaths, with low-level violence still continuing to this day? The
Israeli-Arab conflict is comparatively very small potatoes. [...]
But I’m afraid that Tenenbom’s
experiences in Europe and among Israel’s academic and media elite are
the most important indicator. I said the hatred is ‘irrational’, and an
irrational attitude has an irrational cause: in this case, pathological
Jew-hatred, deeply implanted in so many Europeans, and paradoxically
also in the best-educated Israelis.
This could be a lesson for those Jews who can’t decide to stay in Europe or leave. Don’t expect the Europeans to stick up for you if you stay. They don’t like you.
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