Most powerful writing by Benjamin Moser Essay: We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide.

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******* Must Read ******* Most powerful writing by Benjamin Moser Essay: We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide. ‘The destruction of Gaza is the worst event of my lifetime. The genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia did not have the enthusiastic support of the US. They were not cheered by American Jewish leaders, who were happy to sacrifice our civil liberties, our free press, our judiciary, our foreign relations, to sustain the killing. If Auschwitz, in the twentieth century, was a crime of a new kind, so too, in the twenty-first, is the destruction of Gaza. New because viewed live; new because, while many countries opposed Nazism, no Western governments opposed Israel. Both political parties in the US supported the rampage, and so did almost every Western country: the countries that had supposedly learnt the lesson of Auschwitz, the countries that had pledged that “never again” would something similar happen. New because, during the Holocaust, most of the world’s citizens could claim they had no idea what was happening to the Jews, but nobody could claim ignorance of what was happening to the Palestinians. We watched it every single day, reel after reel, photograph after photograph. And we saw how practically the entire American Jewish establishment, their silence and approbation, revealed a moral collapse, a near-universal collusion and corruption, from which the Jewish world will never recover – and will not deserve to recover. The establishment can resort to bullying and slander; they can call the cops on their own children, but their cause, the cause of Zionism, is dead, and the decent part of the Jewish people will shun the houses of ill repute over which this establishment presides. Zionism once had intellectually respectable defenders. It no longer does. Simply because people respect something does not make it respectable; and the fact that people can be found to defend something does not, for that reason, make it defensible. You can see it in their justifications of mass starvation; in their self-pitying whinging; in the grammar, even, of their online posts. On the other side are people who go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning feeling pain and horror. These are the humanitarians and activists; the people whose hatred of antisemitism is part of a commitment to fighting all forms of exclusion. They are the cosmopolitan people – and they are the younger generations, people who have seen with their own eyes the crimes of the so-called Jewish state, and who feel the sacrilege, the impious desecration, of the values they thought were Jewish. These people will never return to these institutions. They will not send their children to them. They will attempt to build others, as so many are doing now. But they will never have the numbers to build the proud, imperial synagogues that seemed natural to me in childhood. Most, over time, will drift away.’ (1 of 2)

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