Hatred of Am Yisrael — variously expressed throughout history as anti-Judaism, antisemitism and now, anti-Zionism — is a reliable earmark of evil.
In the 20th century we have in the lineup some of the most distinguished villains of history: Nazis , Bolsheviks and Klansmen. In the 21st century the new lineup includes Islamist theofascists, the alt-right and progressivists.
I have been unable to find any credible secular explanation for this one and only point of agreement of so many horrible people, the destination reached by so many dark, snaking, spurious paths.
What feels most credible to me is that evil instinctively hates whatever is holy. Each evil being hates according to its own contorted logic and distorted lenses, and produces novel ideologies and justification for the hatred, but invariably each seeks in its own way to do the same thing — to displace and replace the covenant.
I abduce a hidden, unconscious, occult motive. Whatever and whoever wants to be God hates whatever reminds them of what they are not.
Evil instinctively hates. It’s not just Jews. The same type of person hates someone because they are black or white or Christian or Muslim or Shia or Sunni, or Female or …. the list goes on and on. And the list of who they hate is rarely singular. They all use the same rhetoric, just swapping out the target. When I heard a Children of Islam speaker I was shocked and amused at how what they were using the exact same words as the KKK, swapping out black for white.
It is not only Jews that haters hate, but Jews are invariably one of the targets, and it is the one constant every hate group hates.
It happened in the early 20th century. Marx himself was a self-hating Jew and the Bolshevik hate-movement he dyspired carried Jew-hatred into Stalinist Jew persecution. And, of course, it was the Soviets who first invented antizionism in order to hate Jews in a novel way (anti-nationalism) that distanced them from their hated enemies, the Nazis.
Today’s two foremost hate movements, Progressivism and Alt-Rightism, echo these two Jew-hating positions.
They each “love” some identities, and exploit this alleged love as a justification for the hate that really moves them. But, as always, both hate Jews — and hate Jews as epitomizing what they hate most.
And somehow, I have noticed, even this questionable superlative of being the most frequently and violently targeted objects of hate movement hate is too much to grant the Jewish people. They aren’t special! Even in this.
Why is it so important to deny the importance of a people who are so tiny in number, yet who loom so large in today’s society, in history and in the imagination of the West — even in something as valueless as victimhood?