Judeophilia,
is a troublesome symptom of a
dangerous malady
By Israel Shamir
December 12, 20D19 "Information
Clearing House"
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England and France, two antagonists,
two mainstays of European
civilisation, are simultaneously
engulfed in paroxysm of Judeophilia.
The result of the forthcoming very
important parliamentary elections in
Britain hinges on this issue, with
Labour and Tories competing who will
express their love of Jews more
profusely, while the Jews can’t
decide whom they loath less. France,
after a year of the middle-class
Yellow Vests rebellion, enters the
fresh working class uprising with
million strikers rioting on the
streets, but its parliament finds
prime time to ponder and rule how
Frenchmen should love Jews and hate
those who hate them. What is the
meaning of this charade?
Surely they do not argue about
Jewish cuisine. While palatable, it
is rarely more than that. A proof
can be found in Israel, where Arab
food rules, Japanese is recognised,
Italian cherished but Jewish cuisine
shines by its absence. It is not
Jewish noses, though a significant
feature of facial anatomy, they are
not more elaborate or prominent
than, say, Sicilian. It is all about
ideas.
Judeophilia, love of Jews is a
troublesome symptom of a dangerous
malady, of elites’ estrangement from
its working classes, the malady
presently in full bloom in France
and England. Judeophilia strikes
divided societies and could lead to
their collapse much faster than its
Siamese counter-twin, antisemitism.
It did so in the past, most famously
in Kingdom of Poland, where the
szlachta (nobility) loved Jews
and despised ordinary folks, the
bydlo (rednecks), until their
state collapsed. In a Christian, or
post-Christian society, Jews are a
symbol, a signifier of a certain
attitude and behaviour that is
profoundly non-Christian.
Jews are a small minority that
defies the large society and
opposes it. Jews care for
themselves and disregard the
majority and its needs; they
have no scruples beyond
prescribed by the criminal law;
they feel no communality with
the majority. Jews do not share
communion with majority, and do
not appeal to the same deity.
Jews prosper when the majority
regresses. They are fast to see
a break and use it for their
advantage.
We won’t enter a discussion whether
the real Jews fit the description,
and to what extent. That is how they
are perceived by those who love them
and who hate them. There were Jews
who acted against the paradigm, and
they weren’t considered ‘good for
Jews’. Bruno Kreisky, the Austrian
Chancellor, Lazar Kaganovich, the
Soviet official, Leon Trotsky or
Torquemada weren’t ‘good for Jews’.
And there are plentiful Gentiles who
were considered ‘good for Jews’,
like Hillary Clinton or Tony Blair.
Usually they were bad for everybody
else. So, while we shall defer our
judgment on ‘real Jews’, there is no
doubt that philo-Semites are bad for
your health.