It is Yom HaShoah. The worldwide day of remembrance for  the Holocaust. Each year survivors tell their stories. Fewer and fewer of them now. And each year that passes there is more and more Holocaust denial. But not only Holocaust denial, there is October 7 denial, Bondi denial. Jews are now routinely denied the right to be recognised as victims, either because the events didn’t occur or because they asked for it.

In the light of this, I was shocked to read in Kevin Deutsch’s substack that the Jewish Book Council has been attacked by Antizionist Jewish authors for giving too much weight to Israeli and Zionist authors and not platforming enough of the antizionists. This has come in circumstances in which Jewish and Zionist authors have routinely been excluded from the public square since October 7. Initially I was shocked by this. And then I thought to myself, in light of thinking about Holocaust Remembrance Day, why should I be? And instead of writing about survivors, I though of writing about the Jewish betrayers.

After all, aren’t the antizionists of today just the 21st century embodiment of what has been going on forever?

Since the beginning of Judaism, the converts to Roman paganism or Christianity have been the most vociferous of the anti Jewish haters. During the Middle Ages and the show trials, the most famous were between the Rabbis and the converts, who were used due to their knowledge of Judaism. The converts during the Inquisition were the most fierce and the most hated of the inquisitors.

In Italy in the 19th century, it was the kidnapped Jewish boy Edgaro Mortara, whose  story was recently portrayed in  an Italian  film “ Kidnapped” , who became a priest and on his mother’s death bed attempted to convert her to Christianity.

During World War II there are many stories of Jews dobbing in others, betraying their hiding places, or identifying  as Jews the ones living under false papers and trying to pass as Aryans.  Many of these did so hoping that their families would be saved, but many did it for money ,  hoping perhaps that they too would be saved and not put on the last trains. Almost inevitably they were. For the Jew haters hate. Whether you betray your countrymen or not, whether you are the good antizionist Jew or not, you will be hated just as much as the other, the Zionist.

The antizionist Jews of today might think that they will be saved from some kind of cultural or other blacklisting if they identify as the Good, as the antizionist, rather than be cursed as the Evil One.  They might think that.

But whilst they might temporarily have a seat at the table to which they so yearn to be invited, they too will inevitably be thrown out, for their blood is as tainted as the rest of us.

Their impurity will out, inevitably.

They can pretend all they like that the antizionists are not anti-Jewish, but, as the great Dr Naya Lekht has said, the Soviet Jews are fully aware of what antizionism means. Any country where antizionism has been prosecuted has no Jews. The Jews have tried for centuries to fit in to be accepted. But, as Dr Michael Oren has said, in return we have been massacred, burnt, exiled and gassed. It is time we got the memo- we aren’t wanted and we should stop trying. Stop emptying our pockets, stop wanting to be loved, for we won’t be.

The antizionist authors agitating mistakenly think they will be loved, but just like the blackmailers of the War, or the dobbers, or the Edgaro Mortaras, they too will be vilified and hated.

All they have to do is wait.

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