Three
days ago the Israeli Right wing paperThe
Jerusalem Postpublishedan
exposé of the growing tendency of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem to
spit on their Christian neighbours. (‘Mouths Filled with
Hatred’, By Larry Derfner The JPost, Nov. 26, 2009).
Father Samuel Aghoyan, a senior Armenian Orthodox cleric in
Jerusalem's Old City, told the JPost “that he's been spat at by
young Haredi (God fearing religious Jews) and national Orthodox
Jews ‘about 15 to 20 times’ in the past decade”. Father Aghoyan
added, "Every single priest in this church has been spat on. It
happens day and night."
Similarly Father Athanasius, a Texas-born Franciscan monk who
heads the Christian Information Centre in Jerusalem’s Old City,
said he's been spat at by Orthodox Jews "about 15 times in the
last six months".
Jewish spitting is not exactly breaking News. I myself have
explored the issue more than once. The Israeli professor Israel
Shahakcommentedon
Jewish hatred towards Christianity and its symbolism, suggesting
that “dishonouring Christian religious symbols is an old
religious duty in Judaism.” According to Shahak, “spitting on
the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a
Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for
pious Jews.”
Interestingly enough Jewish spitting has had an impact on the
European urban landscape. The following can be read in a ‘Travel
Guide for Jewish Europe’.
“In
Prague’s Charles Bridge, the visitor will observe a great
crucifix surrounded by huge gilded Hebrew letters that spell the
traditional Hebrew sanctificationKadosh
Kadosh Kadosh Adonai Tzvaot, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord
of Hosts.” According to various commentators, this piece,
degrading to Jews, came about because in 1609 a Jew was accused
of desecrating the crucifix. The Jewish community was forced to
pay for putting up the Hebrew words in gold letters. Another
explanation is that a Jew spat at the cross and for this he was
to be put to death as a punishment. When this man begged for his
life, the king, seeking to have good relations with the Jews,
said the Jewish community had to rectify the offence….” (To read
more:Travel
Guide for Jewish Europe,pg
497)
Shahak maintains that “in the past, when the danger of
anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, the pious Jews were
commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for
doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not
actually on a cross or openly before a church.”
But times are changing. In the Jewish state most Jewish
inhibitions seem to have disappeared. In Israel Jews can spit as
much as they like and on whatever they like. As we read above,
in the Jewish state it isn’t just Christian symbols that are
being spat on, it is actually the Goyim in general. Far more
concerning, it isn’t even just kosher saliva. It is actually
everything they may find at their disposal: saliva, live
ammunition, bombs, missiles, WMD, white phosphorous, you name
it, they spit it.
In fact, spitting is not the problem. Spiting is just a symptom
of a deeply imbued cultural categorical dismissal of
‘otherness’ that distinguishes Israel as a criminal state. It
is also this very dismissal of ‘otherness’ that stops the
Israelis and their supporters around the world from
understanding the level of resentment that is mounting against
any form of Jewish nationalism.
Hatred is a form of blindness. Jewish hatred, that is
culturally, religiously and spiritually orientated, is also a
form of deafness. This may explain the tragic consequences in
which nationalist Jews fail time after time to internalise the
criticism leveled against them: against their politics and
culture. This may explain why Jews fail to grasp what is the
root cause of ‘anti semitism’. Rather than being reflective and
engaging in self-mirroring, the nationalistic Jew would insist
that the problem is always somewhere else.
As interesting as it may be, Zionism was the only modern serious
Jewish collective attempt to amend the cultural
abnormalities within Jewish culture. Early Zionism took
anti Jewish criticism seriously. It committed itself to bring
about a civilized ethical person. Zionism obviously failed
completely. Yet, till the 1980’s some fading voices of “humanist
Zionism”, people who wanted to see the Jews setting themselves
into a peaceful nation living amongst others, could still be
heard in occupied Palestine. It may also explain why the most
radical and effective voices against Zionism and Jewish
nationalism, are in fact people who were a product of Zionist
upbringing (Shahak, I. Shamir, Sand, Burg and a few others).
In the late 1970’s a young dissident movement led by an Israeli
Refusenik Gadi Elgazi protested against serving in the occupied
territories. “Occupation Corrupts” Elgazi said. He was sent to
prison repeatedly. Elgazi and his supporters maintained that
controlling other people would have a devastating impact on the
Jewish state and its morality. They were obviously correct.
Through the years Israel has become a criminal collective,
complicit in genocide. With 94% of its population supporting the
IDF measures in Gaza, there is no room for doubt, Israel has no
room amongst nations. As if this is not enough, the level of
crime within Israel is also soaring. The rate of homicidal crime
is rapidly growing and it seems as if no one there knows how to
tackle the problem. Elgazi’s predictions proved to be a
prophecy. The occupation turned against the occupier.
Interestingly enough, it didn’t take long before Jewish cultural
hatred towards Goyim and their symbols would turn inward and
mature into an internal Jewish war where Jews do spit on each
other. The tension within Israel’s Jewish communities is rising
by the day whether it is the rapid rise of poverty or the rising
social division between Israeli Jewish communities. Seemingly,
there is a growing unresolved tension between the secular and
orthodox Jews in Israel. As much as Jews can hate the Goyim,
nothing is comparable with the way and manner in which they
despise each other.
Channel 4, the brave British broadcaster that just 10 days ago
exposed the cross-party Jewish lobby operating in the UK, did it
again.The
Battle for Israel’s Soulis an exposé of the
feud between Jewish communities in Israel(1). Just like in the
case of the occupation that turned eventually against the
Israelis, hatred towards Goyim made the Israelis into a vengeful
collective. Naturally it didn’t take long before the Israelis
would start to spit on each other.
My message to the Palestinians is actually very simple. Give the
Israelis time. They do not need enemies. With the level of self
contempt they carry in themselves it is just a question of time
before they totally implode.
Three days ago the Israeli Right wing paper The Jerusalem Post published an exposé of the growing tendency of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem to spit on their Christian neighbours. (‘Mouths Filled with Hatred’, By Larry Derfner The JPost, Nov. 26, 2009).
“In Prague’s Charles Bridge, the visitor will observe a great crucifix surrounded by huge gilded Hebrew letters that spell the traditional Hebrew sanctification Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh Adonai Tzvaot, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts.” According to various commentators, this piece, degrading to Jews, came about because in 1609 a Jew was accused of desecrating the crucifix. The Jewish community was forced to pay for putting up the Hebrew words in gold letters. Another explanation is that a Jew spat at the cross and for this he was to be put to death as a punishment. When this man begged for his life, the king, seeking to have good relations with the Jews, said the Jewish community had to rectify the offence….” (To read more: Travel Guide for Jewish Europe, pg 497)
