http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12199#.UFwO4rJlSV8
“That was the last letter I sent to George Steiner. I didn’t want to have anymore conversations with him. That is why I broke with Steiner and the Jewish Intelligentsia. I understood that there is much more Jewish destiny and courage in a bullet proof bus going to Gush Etzion than in any rant of this horrible member of the Jewish intelligentsia.”
German taxpayers would be happy to fund Berlin’s Jewish museum if it continues to host Jewish anti-Semites. Meotti has broken off contact with the anti-Israel Jewish intelligentsia, but not before putting them in their place.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
There is no explanation for this pathological phenomenon: the Jewish Diaspora proclivity for self-abasement and sycophancy toward Jew-haters.
A few days ago, the internationally renowned Jewish Museum in Berlin hosted a podium discussion with US academic Judith Butler, who renewed her calls to boycott Israel. It’s the first anti-Israel event held in the Jewish museum since its opening.
Why did only a few Israeli intellectuals and personalities raise their voices against the shameful decision to host Butler? What happened to moral clarity?
In an era in which the Jews are sentenced again to solitary confinement on the moral high ground and where no other nation except Israel is expected to disappear, the Jewish intelligentsia is getting sick.
Thousands of Jewish leading writers, intellectuals, academics, authors and journalists, joined by painters, photographers and actors, have been unceasingly preaching that Israel’s cause is not just. And this, they say, is true not since the Six Day War, the beginning of what they call that unjust “occupation”, nor since the establishment of the state in 1948, which “was born in sin”, but since the beginnings of the Zionist enterprise at the end of the XIX century.
The conclusion is uniform: that Zionism amounted to an evil, colonialist conspiracy to exploit the people dwelling in Palestine, enslave them, steal their land, disinherit them.
After the Butler disgrace, the people in charge of the Berlin Museum could rename it Jewish Museum of anti-Zionism. The German taxpayers would be happy to fund this institution in the middle of Berlin.
