The International Zionist Conspiracy
It poisons everything it touches
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A recent article by Philip Weiss on the Mondoweiss
website lays out an argument that most liberal Jews, like Weiss, are
hesitant to support, namely that Jewish power, and more to the point its
money, as exercised through the so-called Israel Lobby in the United
States and elsewhere, has been the principal enabling force behind the
international pariah that the state of Israel has become.
Weiss
notes how “most observers accept the antisemitism redlines echoed
lately by Bernie Sanders: you are not to speak of an outsize Jewish role
in politics. So few write about the Israel lobby, though they know it
to be a significant force…” In other words, Sanders, liberal to the core
and ostensibly supportive of Palestinian rights, draws a line that
forbids any real discussion of Jewish power in the United States even
though everyone who has not been asleep is more than aware of just how
powerful American Jews, and by extension Israel, are.
Weiss
details how the vast sums of money raised by both Democratic and
Republican Jews has distorted American politics since the time of
President Harry S. Truman. He describes how president after president
has backed down versus Israel when confronted by Jewish power and
observes that “This is not just a domestic political question, it’s a
foreign policy problem. The Israel lobby is the root cause of the Israel
Palestine conflict. Consider the two…main causes of the conflict. 1,
Israeli settlement/colonialism (or in Zionist terms, the effort to
liberate European Jewry from persecution by establishing a Jewish
homeland in historical Palestine). 2, Palestinian resistance to 1.
Neither of these historical forces would still be a source of serious
conflict 71 years after Israel’s establishment were it not for the
lobby. Without the blind support of the United States, Israel would have
made a deal a long time ago. The country would have followed through on
the historic Palestinian concession of 1988 followed by the Arab Peace
Initiative of 2001, and accepted partition of the land on highly
favorable terms (Israel gets 78 percent). Without U.S. support, Israel
would have been internationally isolated and would have grabbed the
deal. The Israelis have been able to continue to devour the land only
because the United States supports the occupation in international fora,
and gives Israeli a diplomatic umbrella against any storm, due to blind
bipartisan political backing here.”
Jewish
power in America and elsewhere must never be discussed unless it is a
discussion involving only Jews, who openly recognize and appreciate the
phenomenon. Weiss notes how “Israel lobbyists themselves extol Jewish
political power in the U.S. as Israel’s lifeline for money and arms and
diplomatic protection” and quotes Michael Koplow of the Israel Policy
Forum, who boasts how “I have no qualms about pointing out that the
American Jewish community is almost certainly the most influential
minority community in the history of the U.S., and possibly in the
history of the world. American Jews have worked hard to make it so, and
have built a network of outward-facing institutions that protect this
privileged position.”
Beyond
Weiss’s observations, one might note how Zionist Jews are essentially
able to shut down any discussion of Palestine or of Palestinian rights.
Given the extreme overrepresentation of Jews in both the news generation
process and in various choke points in the political process, an honest
discussion of Israel-Palestine and the actual U.S. interests in the
region is extremely difficult to find anywhere in the mainstream media.
In
both the 2012 and 2016 Democratic Party conventions, for example, there
was considerable pressure from the members of the party base to include
language reflective of the need to recognize Palestinian suffering and
condemn the Israeli “occupation.” Long-time liberal activist James Zogby
pushed for an amendment
to the party platform in 2016 calling for “an end to occupation and
illegal settlements” in Israel-Palestine. In both conventions, Hillary
Clinton interests pushed back and rejected any changes, arguing that
they would constitute “terrible mistake[s],” too “one-sided” toward the
Palestinians. In both instances there was loud and sustained booing from
the floor when the reflexively pro-Israel platform was announced, but
the speaker rejected calls for any floor vote.
To
cite another example, two weeks ago, California’s Democratic party
concluded its fall convention by finalizing what would be included in
the state party platform.
An amendment promoted by Palestinian supporters was defeated in a floor
vote. It was offered by delegate David Mandel, himself a Jew, and
called on the party to support “a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict negotiated by the parties that guarantees equality, security
and democracy for all, no matter what the final settlement regarding
states and borders” and called on party members to “oppose any
unilateral annexation of territory, and support the right of all those
who were forced from their homes to return to their homelands and
receive compensation for their losses.” Mandel’s proposal attracted the
ire of Zionist apologists including State Senator Scott Wiener and
Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, who asserted that “This amendment cuts to
the core of Israel’s ability to be its own state.”
One
might observe that the Mandel amendment was pretty mild stuff relatively
speaking, even excluding the word “occupation,” and that the
Wiener-Friedman riposte is nonsense, but the result was more of the
same. Reliably liberal California Democrats delivered the usual pander
to Israeli-Jewish interests. They surrendered to the persistent
Jews-in-politics demand never to give even one inch when it comes to
permitting Israel absolute license to behave badly while at the same
time extracting from the United States billions of dollars in subsidies
every year.
And
the Israel conspiracy might well be regarded as international. In
France, which has the largest diaspora Jewish population after the
United States, hate legislation which de facto protects only Jews has
been employed to shut down any and all criticism. It has become common
all across Europe to regard any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism and
therefore as a hate crime, with criminal penalties attached. French
comedian Dieudonné, who admittedly is rather pointed in his satire, has
been convicted eight times.
And
then there is the sad case of Jeremy Corbyn, British Labour Party
leader who will be contesting a national election on December 12th.
Corbyn has been accused of being an anti-Semite based on his fairly
mild defense of Palestinians, which one might have thought to be a good,
sound socialist human rights position. And so it would be if Israel
were not involved. With the election looming, British Jews have
increased pressure on Corbyn and by default are endorsing his
conservative opponent Boris Johnson, who has spoken repeatedly about his
love of Israel. Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recently produced an article for the influential Times of
London declaring Corbyn “unfit for office” because “the way in which
the [Labour] leadership has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is
incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud — of
dignity and respect for all people.”
The
good rabbi is not, of course including Palestinians as worthy of
“dignity and respect.” He is really only concerned about his own tribe
and the “racism” he refers to is largely concentrated among those
Britons who are opposed to Israeli government policies. Britain is
already in some senses Zionist controlled territory, even more so than
the United States. Jews are prominent at many choke points in the media
and entertainment industries while 80% of Conservative Party politicians
are members of “Conservative Friends of Israel.” The Labour Party is
also active engaged with their own version of the same, Labour Friends
of Israel, which includes 80 out of the party’s 262 members of
parliament.
Finally,
International Zionism is very well represented in recent announcements
coming from the world of professional sports, where billionaire Jewish
team owners take their orders from Israel to combat critics and the
scourge of anti-Semitism.
In January 2019 New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft received the Genesis prize,
a million-dollar award given annually to Jews “who have attained
excellence and international renown in their chosen professional
fields.” Kraft’s friend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
personally presented the plaque and Kraft told the audience that he
would use the money to combat anti-Semitism and the BDS (the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions) movement. He also pledged to add $20 million
of his own money to set up a foundation to do more of the same. Kraft
enthused “Israel is so special to me and my family… I have sponsored
dozens of missions and countless other trips for people to experience
Israel for the first time. Spiritually, there is no place like it on
earth.”
Perhaps Kraft should move to Israel so he won’t be troubled by allegations of dual loyalty made by people like me. He has now been joined
by Britain’s Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich, a
billionaire investor who has pledged £3.9m ($5 million) of his own money
to support the foundation “to tackle anti-Semitism.” Abramovich was
born in the Soviet Union but is an Israeli citizen and lives most of the
year in that country. He has been linked to a number of financial scandals.
Kraft, of course, has his own baggage. On February 22nd,
2019, he was charged in Jupiter Florida for “soliciting another to
commit prostitution.” Kraft was reportedly video recorded by a hidden
camera while engaged in sexual activity within the confines of a seedy
enterprise called the Orchids of Asia Day Spa that sold the services of
Asian sex trafficked women. The case is still being resolved but Kraft
denies the charges and he has plenty of high- priced lawyers to make
sure that he walks.
Beyond
all that, if one doubts the power of the Jewish/Israel lobby
internationally, note one of the first actions undertaken by the new
coup government in Bolivia. It has moved to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel as a top priority. Brazil also sought a closer relationship with Israel
after conservative Jair Bolsonaro was elected president and pledged to
visit the Jewish state, a promise which he carried out in March.
Everyone in the world understands that the way to gain favor with
Washington is to go through Israel.
Philip
M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the
National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation
(Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S.
foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
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