We’re American Jewish Historians. This Is Why We’ve Left Zionism Behind

[Little Tich]

49. Perhaps we should blame anti-Semitism on "the Jews" too?

Why look for other causes for historical anti-Semitism when we can blame "the Jews" themselves for causing it?

Personally, I think that the idea of blaming racism on the targeted ethnic group is completely wrong. I refuse to acknowledge that it's morally justified to a blame and hate a whole ethnic group for the supposed ill-doing of individual members of that group. For me, racism is a form of mental deficiency where people are unable to differentiate between individuals and groups of the same ethnicity. There's no justification for racism, and the causation is to be found with the person harboring racist attitudes, not those he harbor racist attitudes against.

Bringing up instances of racism in their respective context, still doesn't make them more morally justified in any way. There's no reason why Japanese and German Americans should feel that their incarceration was a bit racist, but OK anyway. In a more contemporary context, there's no reason for Americans who get pulled over for DWB to feel it was racist, but sort of justified after all...

There have been other polls on the same subject, and taken together with the one I referred to, it's pretty clear that the desire to get preferential treatment for Jews applies to getting preferential treatment in Israel, as opposed to equal treatment in Israel for all Israelis regardless of type of citizenship. When it comes to who's supposed to get expelled, that's also pretty clear. The statement in the poll about expulsion was: "Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel", a statement that's crystal clear - it's about Israeli Arab citizens in Israel, not Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Poll: 36% of Jews want to revoke Arabs' voting rights
Source: Ynet News, 15.10.10

While few Israeli Jews say they are nationalistic, many favor anti-democratic values, survey finds

Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3969831,00.html


Poll: Half of Israeli High Schoolers Oppose Equal Rights for Arabs
Source: Haaretz, 11.03.2010

Nearly half of Israeli teens surveyed say they would refuse to evacuate West Bank settlements.

Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/poll-half-of-israeli-high-schoolers-oppose-equal-rights-for-arabs-1.264564


‘Marriage to an Arab is national treason’
Source: Ynet News, 27.03.07

Recent poll reveals steep rise in racist views against Arabs in Israel; many participants feel hatred, fear when overhearing Arabic, 75 percent don’t approve of shared apartment buildings

Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3381978,00.html


I think that the OP is right - if Zionism is an ideology that explicitly promotes racism, it shouldn't be supported.