Only the anti-Zionist demonstrations of dissident Jews, faithful to the culture of the Jews of the Diaspora, have the power to counter anti-Semitism.
The vast majority of the 20 million Jews in Israel and the diaspora, of different political stripes, defend the state of Israel, that is, they are Zionists; and consider all dissident Jews anti-Semitic, that is, anti-Zionists, both secular Jews and Satmar Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jews Naturei Karta.
The police measures taken by institutions and governments that aim to silence non-Jewish anti-Zionists and dissident Jews, under the pretext of combating anti-Semitism, are not only innocuous, but, contrary to what they advocate, they are counterproductive. Millennial anti-Semitism was disseminated in Western countries that today adhere, for their own interests, to the disguised definition of anti-Semitism by the IHRA – International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which identifies anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism.
Despite its name, the IHRA was not created by Holocaust survivors, nor by Jews, it was created by Hans Göran Persson, a member of the Swedish Christian Democrats party, politically conservative on the right and a supporter of economic liberalism.
By this I mean that it is not the Jewish lobby that determines the policy of the United States and NATO, but, on the contrary, that it is the United States/NATO that uses Israel, with the support of the vast majority of Jews, in its war for international hegemony against China, Russia and Islam.
Anti-Zionism aims to oppose the disastrous violence of Zionists against the Palestinian people, the vast majority of whom are of Arab origin and Muslim faith. Unlike the ancient discrimination against Jews in Western countries, Jews, until the advent of modern political Zionism at the beginning of the 500th century, always lived in harmony with the Arab and Muslim populations, which today number, respectively, XNUMX million and two billion people. inhabitants on the planet.
Regarding the use of the term terrorist, what impresses me most are not the specific episodes that mobilize the media, such as the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and the ongoing Israeli carnage, but the dehumanization and violence to which has been subjected to the Palestinian civilian population in their daily lives for decades by the Israeli authorities, army and civilians, a naturalized state terrorism that neither causes outrage nor gains coverage in the mainstream Western media.
The very slogan that Palestine was a land without people for a people without land presupposes the dehumanization of the Palestinian people, who were expelled from their homeland and, even before the current massacre, lived imprisoned in Gaza by land, air and sea (theme of Born in Gaza, by Hermán Zin); and in isolated units in the West Bank, surrounded by walls and cut off by militarized roads and Israeli settlements (theme of Vigilant, by Julia Bacha).
The governor of the state of São Paulo adhered to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. But anyone who thinks he took into account the votes of the small number of Jews in Brazil (100 thousand) is mistaken. Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal evangelicals are today the fastest growing religious group in the country, which is already approaching 50 million Brazilians, a quarter of the total population. Most of these evangelicals are philosemites and Zionists, who use Jewish symbols and support the state of Israel and its expansion into Palestinian territory.
If you walk along Rua Conde de Sarzedas, which connects the region of Praça da Sé to Baixada do Glicério in São Paulo, you will think you are in Israel, you will find all the symbols used by Jews in Israel, stars of David, flags of Israel, trays for the pessah, mezuzah (with Torah verses for doorposts), skullcaps, tallit (sacred robes), menorahs (seven-branched candelabra of all sizes) etc.
The Third Temple of Solomon has already been erected, just ahead, at Rua Celso Garcia 605, built with stones and giant date palms coming directly from Israel. Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal evangelicals believe that Jesus Christ will only return to earth when all Jews are gathered in Israel, a necessary condition for Jews to come to believe that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah and become loyal Christians.
The current military offensive on Gaza has, among other things, the objective of unifying the Israelis, who were recently divided between supporters and opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu's government. For a solution to the Palestinian issue, in turn, any honest proposal on the part of Israel must necessarily start from the recognition of al-Nakba ongoing since 1948, a theme aired by the University Network of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which brought together Gihad Mohamad and Arlene Clemesha [https://youtube.com/live/YqYiFvtc8zk].
Hamas declares that it wants to eliminate the Israelis and the Israeli Prime Minister declares that he wants to eliminate the Palestinians, while effectively continuing to exterminate them at full speed, with the risk of involving the world in a Third World War. Every dissident (anti-Zionist) Jew, faithful to the humanist, internationalist and pacifist culture of the Jews of the Diaspora, considers that he could not live with himself without denouncing the violence and massacre of the Palestinian people perpetrated by the Zionists.
Even though he is rejected as anti-Semitic, he challenges Western governments and the state of Israel, at the risk of being penalized by Zionists and repelled by Palestinians. Any anti-Zionist Jew is worse than a Palestinian, because anti-Zionist Palestinians advocate for themselves, while anti-Zionist Jews are traitors. And, after all, how could a Palestinian trust a Jew, if the vast majority of Jews are Zionists?
Zionists believe that lamenting that the Holocaust taught the Jews nothing is racist and consider, by definition, any and all anti-Zionist manifestations to be anti-Semitic, which leads them to believe that anti-Semitism is growing alarmingly.
The Zionists' police measures, instead of inhibiting anti-Semitism, have the power to strengthen it, to the extent that most Jews support or naturalize the violence and carnage of the Palestinian people conveyed by the mainstream media. Ironically, only the anti-Zionist demonstrations of dissident Jews, faithful to the culture of the Jews of the diaspora, have the power to counter anti-Semitism.
*Samuel Kilsztajn is a full professor of political economy at PUC-SP. Author, among other books, of Jaffa [amz.run/7C8V].
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