'By way of defamation, thou shalt do war'--the slogan of The Lobby's
propagandists
by Greg Felton
(Tuesday, April 15, 2008)
New organizations like European Jews for a Just Peace and the Alliance of
Concerned Jewish
Canadians are giving voice to rising Jewish opposition to zionist
terrorism, and are
symptomatic of The Lobby’s declining credibility and inability to make a
coherent defence for
Israel as a necessary haven for all Jews.
“Zionism’s main defense is not money and military might but a wall of
propaganda lies. If one
or two of the main bricks in this wall can be dislodged, the whole thing
might collapse faster
than any of us would dare to imagine.”
Professor Ilan Pappé
Much like the U.S. banking industry, Israel’s propaganda industry is
facing collapse. The
“currency” of zionist propaganda is irredeemably debased and The Lobby
faces a dwindling market
for its propaganda, especially among Jews and Jewish academics.
Last September, a study by the American Jewish Committee found a growing
generational chasm
between older and younger U.S Jews. It found that only 48% under age 35
believe that Israel’s
destruction would be a personal tragedy for them, compared to 77% of those
65 and older. In
addition, only 54% under 35 are comfortable with the idea of a Jewish
State, as opposed to 81%
of those 65 and older. The study’s authors concluded the trend is part of
a long-term
irreversible slide because attachment to Israel does not grow with age.
This latter point should be self-evident given that Israel no longer even
feigns interest in
peace; it now openly rationalizes collective punishment and Nazi-like
extermination practices.
Deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened to respond to Qassam
rocket attacks with a
holocaust [shoah ] against Gaza.
In the wake of a Palestinian attack on the racist Mercaz Harav rabbinical
seminary, former
Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu called for retaliation: “The life
of one ye****va boy is
worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs.”
New organizations like European Jews for a Just Peace and the Alliance of
Concerned Jewish
Canadians are giving voice to rising Jewish opposition to zionist
terrorism, and are
symptomatic of The Lobby’s declining credibility and inability to make a
coherent defence for
Israel as a necessary haven for all Jews. Because Israel is indefensible,
any accurate exposé
of its behaviour it is met by hysterical overreaction and character
assassination, such as
happened to me.
In my last column, I showed how the Lobby attacked the Vancouver Library
for allowing me to
present my book The Host and The Parasite--How Israel’s Fifth Column
Consumed America. As a
result, City Librarian Paul Whitney pulled all advertising for my talk
claiming a fear of
vandalism, barely mentioned me in his introduction, and slagged me in the
media. He said his
comments were misre****ted but refused to demand clarification because he
had received an
additional 200 hostile e-mails demanding that the Library disassociate
itself from me. Given
the events leading up to the talk, the demand was clearly gratuitous.
At the time I also mentioned that on Feb. 12 local scribbler Terry Glavin
defamed me in the
Vancouver Sun. On the advice of legal counsel, I will not respond at this
time to specific
defamations and lies because of a planned libel action against CanWest.
However, two aspects of
Glavin’s rant deserve mention, for they illustrate how fear of informed
dissent is leading The
Lobby to shoot itself in the foot at the same time it’s shooting off its
mouth.
Ostensibly, the event that provoked Glavin’s outburst was my book, but
you’d never know it by
what he wrote. Here’s an excerpt from his blog:
“I didn't write about the contents of Felton's book, and I never claimed
to… I’ve read excerpts
of Felton’s book. I’m fully conversant with its thesis…, and I’m quite
familiar with the
Medieval legends that Felton persists in re****ting as fact. This is
‘intellectual’? These are
his ‘views’? I’ve spent far too much time reading through Felton’s
voluminous ouevre [sic] to
insult anyone’s intelligence by stooping to mount a condemnation, spirited
or otherwise, of
anything he writes.”
Translation: “I am going to fulminate against Greg Felton and his book on
principle even though
I have not conducted any research to show that anything he said is
inaccurate.”
First, Glavin is not “fully conversant” with my book’s thesis because he
misrepresents it, but
since he acted out of ignorance--by his own admission--I could hardly
expect accuracy. But this
offence is minor compared to Glavin’s spectacular act of self-immolation
concerning the Khazars:
“Europe’s Jews aren’t Jews at all, Felton wrote. Almost all of them are
‘Khazars,’ a
long-extinct Turkic tribe from somewhere north of the Caspian Sea. The
Khazar legend was a
staple of 1930s-era European racism. Long after it had been wholly
discredited by geneticists,
linguists, archeologists and historians, the lie was revived by late
20th-century neo-Nazis…
“For Israel’s more conspiracy-prone enemies, the Khazar legend completely
delegitimizes the
notion of Israel as a Jewish homeland. That’s how Felton employs it, and
he gets extra mileage
out of it as further evidence of the world’s real, hushed-up history,
which the Jews don’t want
you to know.”
For those of you new to the subject, here’s a quick history: The Khazars,
a Turko-Finnic
people, migrated out of the Caucasus in the second century. Their kingdom,
Khazaria, became one
of the most powerful trading powers of the first millennium and at its
height reached from
Georgia to Ukraine. In AD 740, the khagan (king) of Khazaria decided that
paganism wasn’t good
enough for his people and decided to adopt one of the “heavenly”
religions: Judaism,
Christianity or Islam. After a process of elimination he chose Judaism,
and from that point it
became the official religion.
The history of Khazaria is well do***ented, as is the conversion to
Judaism. The medieval
do***ents are extant and scholarly works have been written about the
Khazars, most notably
Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), Kevin Alan Brook’s The Jews
of Khazaria, (1999),
The Jewish Encyclopedia (see under “Chazars.”) as well as
www.khazaria.com, which has numerous
links to history, do***entation and modern descendants.
Adding to the scholar****p of the Khazar Jews are two Tel Aviv University
professors. Linguist
Paul Wechsler argues in his book The Ashkenazic ‘Jews’ A Slavo-Turkic
People in Search of a
Jewish Identity that Ashkenazic Jews are predominantly converted Slavs and
Turks who merged
with a tiny population of Palestinian Jews. He also says that Yiddish
started out as a Slavic
language and became progressively Germanized, since Yiddish and Medieval
Jewish have no common
origin.
Historian Shlomo Sand goes even further and argues that the idea of a
Jewish national identity
dating to Biblical times is nothing more than a national mythology
manufactured in 19th-century
Germany:
“At the beginning of the 20th century there is a tremendous concentration
of Jews in Eastern
Europe--three million Jews in Poland alone. The Zionist historiography
claims that their
origins are in the earlier Jewish community in Germany, but they do not
succeed in explaining
how a small number of Jews who came from Mainz and Worms could have
founded the Yiddish people
of Eastern Europe. The Jews of Eastern Europe are a mixture of Khazars and
Slavs who were
pushed eastward.”
Moreover, he traces the idea of a Jewish national identity to the same
atavistic chauvinism
that gave us German nationalism, which further shows that nazism and
zionism have a common
origin, Given the uncontestable fact of the Khazar empire, as well as the
specious equation of
Israel with Jewish history, let’s look again at Glavin’s, ahem, criticisms
of my writing:
“The Khazar legend was a staple of 1930s-era European racism. Long after
it had been wholly
discredited by geneticists, linguists, archeologists and historians, the
lie was revived by
late 20th-century neo-Nazis…”
* Is Glavin calling the linguist Wechsler and the historian Sand
neo-Nazis and liars?
* Which “geneticists, linguists, archeologists and historians” can
Glavin cite to refute
modern Jewish scholar****p?
* What is Glavin’s definition of “legend,” for the term is better
suited to the Jewish
nation and the Kingdom of David.
The most remarkable aspect of Glavin’s rant is its desperate stupidity. My
book has nothing to
do with Khazars. Glavin had to dig out an irrelevant 10-year old column,
distort it, and then
use that distortion to try to discredit me and my book, which he could not
bother reading. It's
as if accuracy were irrelevant.
These are indeed desperate, frightening times for The Lobby.
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My book The Host and the Parasite--How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed
America is available
exclusively from GregFelton.com
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