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CounterPunch
October
26, 2002
The Wolf Who
Cried Wolf:
Charging Anti-Semitism and Extending the Iron Wall
by M. Junaid Alam
"All colonization must continue
in defiance of the will of the
native population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only
under the shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall through
which the local population can never break through..To the hackneyed
reproach that this point of view is unethical, I answer, 'absolutely
untrue.' This is our ethic. There is no other ethic."
-- Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923
A shadow follows the Palestinian at all
times. Its shape reflects the contours of the bombs, missiles
and slabs of concrete dropped, deployed, and delivered at the
settler's whim. Instead of slipping away into the night or vanishing
with the passing of life, this shadow looms long after having
gunned down, crushed, devastated, and disinherited its target
with deadly precision. Its dark shade is imparted by gun-toting
soldiers manning checkpoints, tanks saluting children with raised
turrets, helicopters hovering above homes, and bulldozers raising
their arms to embrace another set of buildings.
For this is the shadow cast by the Iron
Wall, Zionism's long-standing policy towards the Palestinians,
which has led to a half-century of systematic expropriation,
ethnic cleansing, massacre, torture, incarceration, and occupation
of the native. When Zionist theoretician Ze'ev Jabotinsky first
formulated the doctrine of Iron Wall in 1923, he laid the question
of colonialism bare. He understood that "The natives will
always struggle obstinately against the colonists," as they
are bound up with their land with the "true fervor that
any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux upon his prairie."
Given that the Palestinians "will struggle against colonizers
until the last spark of hopeis extinguished," Zionism must
ensure "there is no hope left, until we have removed every
opening visible in the Iron Wall." Force was to be not only
a pre-condition but the condition for Zionist success,
via the Iron Wall. [1]
And so, ever since the West has shone
its light of warm sympathy upon the Zionist project-partly out
of guilt for brutally murdering several million Jews, and partly
out of the need to brutally suppress several million savages-it
became necessary to build an Iron Wall, to contain and crush
the yearnings of the looted and disinherited within the confines
of squalid camps and ghettoes, to surround and divide them with
settlers and soldiers. The Palestinian native has now labored
under military occupation for 36 years, and thus finds himself
encircled, anguished, paralyzed, and in poverty. He lives in
the shadow of the Iron Wall, a shadow of shackles and chains.
But the native never lost his "last
spark of hope". The spark was not extinguished in 1948,
when 750,000 Palestinians were terrorized, uprooted and expelled,
several decades after Moshe Sharret announced, ""We
have not come to an empty landbut we have come to conquer a country
from people inhabiting it"; several years after David Ben-Gurion
declared, ""I support compulsory transfer. I do not
see anything immoral in it"; and several months after Menachem
Begin gloated over "a splendid act of conquest"-the
rape and massacre of 254 Palestinians at Deir Yassin. The spark
was not extinguished in 1967, when Israel grabbed the remaining
22% of Palestine and began its military occupation as its war
hero Moshe Dayan kindly informed the natives, "You shall
continue to live like dogs." The spark was not extinguished
in 1987, when the Palestinians mounted a civil disobedience campaign,
facing down tanks with rocks woven into slings, suffering a 25:1
death ratio inflicted by an army with orders to "break their
bones." And the spark is still not extinguished today, even
as the farce of Oslo has come and gone while Jewish settlements
have consumed half the Occupied Territories. [2]
Unable to transform their spark into
a flame, but too courageous to let it be extinguished, the Palestinians
have been smashing their chains against the silence of world
conscience for decades. Their loud protestations have now leaped
over the Iron Wall, echoing across the Atlantic and reaching
the receptive ears of American activists fighting for social
justice. Seeking new ways to disrupt the brutal logic of the
Israeli war machine, a group of college students and professors
at the University of California Berkley began a campaign to pressure
universities to divest from Israel two years ago, basing themselves
on the anti-apartheid movement aimed at South Africa in the 1980's.
Today, at least 40 campuses across America have initiated efforts
to force American universities to disassociate itself from companies
conducting business with Israel. The initiative brings attention
to Israel's brutal policies against the natives, and could force
strong economic pressure upon a nation which subsidizes settlements
inhabited by religious fanatics and thugs at the expense of the
Palestinian people. [3]
But the settler has his champions, too.
Among them stands the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham
Foxman. Decked out in the impenetrable armor of moral purity,
he recently intoned, "There is a greater tolerance on the
college campus than elsewhere for expressions of anti-Semitism,"
referring to the divestment campaign. Raising his sword of self-certainty
high into the air, he then denounced the association of Israel
with apartheid as "odious" and "hideous".
These comments came after Harvard President Lawrence Summers
proclaimed that 'anti-Israeli' attitudes are "in effect,
if not intent" anti-Semitic. This prompted the esteemed
law professor of that university, Alan Dershowitz, a self-proclaimed
"advocate and practitioner of human rights around the world,"
to comment-no, "confidently assert"-that "Israel's
record on human rights is among the best," adding that he,
too, considered divestment anti-Semitic. [4]
According to these authorities, then,
the divestment movement and/or criticism of Israel represent
thinly-veiled anti-Semitism. This assertion meets a slight bump
in the road when it is discovered that some of Israel's leading
critics are Jewish. Noam Chomsky, a leading Jewish intellectual
of the Left, has said, "The Palestinians have long suffered
torture, terror, destruction of property, displacement and settlement,
and takeover of basic resources," resulting from Israel's
policy of "incessant humiliation." Norman Finkelstein,
a political science professor at DePaul University and the son
of holocaust survivors, has written bluntly, "if Israelis
don't want to stand accused of being Nazis they should simply
stop acting like Nazis." Tim Wise, a Jewish anti-racist
activist, has described Zionism as "a form of white supremacy".
Jennifer Lowenstein, who has visited the Territories, says Israel's
policies are responsible for "the dehumanization and destruction
of an entire people." [5]
Such characterizations of Israel have
not been made lightly. They are based on the concrete historical
evidence unearthed by Israel's own recent historians. Israeli
historian Benny Morris admits that Israel could only have been
established by either apartheid, "with a settler minority
lording it over a large, exploited native majority", or
by transfer, ""you could create a homogenous Jewish
state or at least a state with an overwhelming Jewish majority
by moving or transferring all or most of the Arabs out."
He further notes that Arab opposition to Zionism stemmed from
"fear of territorial displacement and dispossession."
Dispossession was, after all, the supreme goal of the Zionists.
Israeli historian Tom Segev has written, "'Disappearing'
the Arabs lay at the heart of the Zionist dream, and was also
a necessary condition of its existence." [6]
This dream was brought about, of course,
by imposing a nightmare on the natives. Israeli military historian
Aryeh Yitzakhi notes that Zionism's modus operandi throughout
1948 was "indiscriminate killings, massacres and rapes."
Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian who advocates divestment, has
unearthed evidence of more and more Israeli massacres committed
in 1948. Facing expulsion from Haifa University, he remains determined
to "break the mirror that shows [Israelis] a superior moral
body. They must replace it with one that exposes the crimes that
theyare committing against humanity and the Palestinian people."
[7]
We can also cite the testimony of several
hundred Israeli soldiers who have witnessed Israel's Iron Wall
firsthand. 494 Israeli army reservists now refuse to serve in
the Occupied Territories, unwilling to take part in "the
missions of occupation and oppression" or to "dominate,
expel, starve and humiliate an entire people." Some of these
men have described the actions which convinced them to refuse,
such as dragging crying children out of their beds before destroying
their home because of an 'illegal' balcony. Other soldiers have
described the occupation in terms of 'A Nation of Slaves' controlled
by 'A Nation of Masters', as "a colonial war," consisting
of "rape" and "the theft of Palestinian land."
[8]
According to a significant section of
Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, scholars, and soldiers, then,
the Palestinian people have been brutalized for over fifty years
by Zionist expulsion and occupation. Naturally, this fails to
impress our esteemed pro-Israeli colleagues, who insist on invoking
the specter of anti-Semitism in order to cover up Israeli crimes
with what we can now clearly identify as a case of extreme denial.
Let us take, for instance, Foxman's assertion
that comparison between Israel and South Africa is "odious"
and "hideous". In fact, let us give him a head start
and declare that such a comparison is also "moronic",
"stupid", "dumb", and "idiotic".
We have now undoubtedly swayed the minds and hearts of a significant
section of preschoolers and toddlers. However, the black South
African leadership which fought against white supremacy remains
unconvinced. Nelson Mandela has recently identified the "power
structure of the Israeli apartheid system" which imposes
"bantustans" and "a system of gross racial discrimination
and inequality" upon Palestinians, who "are struggling
for "freedom, liberation and equality, just like we werein
South Africa." Mandela has also agreed to observe the trial
of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader who, in a most absurd
spectacle, is being tried in the courts of a nation which has
detained and tortured thousands of his countrymen without any
formalities. He was quoted as saying, "What is happening
to Barghouti is exactly the same as what happened to me."
[9]
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
awarded a Nobel Prize in 1984 for struggling against apartheid,
openly supports the divestment movement. Several months ago after
visiting Israel, he wrote, "I've been very deeply distressed
in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what
happened to us black people in South Africa." More recently
Tutu has also cited "two Jewish heroes of the anti-apartheid
struggle," who have initiated a letter now signed by "several
hundred other prominent Jewish South Africans" condemning
Israeli actions and drawing "an explicit analogy" between
occupation and apartheid. [10]
The link between Israel and South African
apartheid can in fact be traced back to the historical bond formed
between early white settlers and Zionists. Theodore Herzl, the
founder of Zionism, gushed with praise for Cecil Rhodes, a fervent
advocate of South African colonialism: "Naturally, there
are big differences between Cecil Rhodes and my humble self,
the personal ones very much in my disfavor; the objective ones
are greatly in favor of the Zionist movement." After 1914,
the Zionist leadership increased ties with the white settlers,
traveling back and forth from Palestine to South Africa, creating
a Zionist federation in the latter area, and sharing ideas, methods,
and finances for colonization. [11]
Foxman's fulminations against the divestment
movement, now exposed to the glare of concrete reality, have
melted into a puddle of nonsense. While tens of thousands of
Palestinian homes have been crushed by the heel of Zionism to
pave the way for Jewish-only settlements, while millions of natives
are incarcerated and paralyzed by military checkpoints and watchtowers,
while children are suffering en masse from economic strangulation
for committing the crime of existence, the head of the ADL is
in denial. The great irony is that, in 1992, the ADL itself was
exposed for running a spy operation on anti-apartheid activists
and critics of Israel. Hypocrisy has seen few greater champions
than Mr. Foxman. [12]
Let us now turn to Mr. Dershowitz, our
"advocate of human rights" from Harvard. Taking only
the past two weeks as a sample, we can quickly locate signs of
Iron Wall's grave concern for human rights. On October 7th, 40
Israeli tanks, backed up by troops, and helicopters started "shelling
houses on the main street" in Khan Younis, killing 17 Palestinians.
Soon afterwards, the IDF shot up the hospital where the wounded
had been taken, injuring "a 14 year-old boy in the neck
and a paramedic struck in the chest." On October 13th, the
IDF gunned down a 60 year-old Palestinian woman in front of her
house in Nablus. On October 17th, 8 Palestinians died as Israeli
tanks fired into the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. At
the same camp on the same day, the IDF demolished several houses
in order to eliminate a weapons tunnel, killing a 3 year-old
who was crushed in the debris. On October 6th, Israeli courts
upheld an army order to demolish 120 newly-built Palestinian
homes near Bethlehem; the low-income families from the Greek
Orthodox Church, who had spent years saving up for the construction
costs, pointed out nearby settlements as the culprit. [13]
These are merely some of the most recent
actions of Israel, whose human rights record Dershowitz claimed
is "among the best." His opinion is most understandable,
given that our Harvard lawyer, in addition to championing the
idea of instituting torture in the US (no doubt an Israeli inspiration),
is also a leading advocate of "leveling the buildings in
entire villages" as collective punishment, and considers
Sharon too soft. The most absurd aspect of Dershowitz is not
that he masquerades as a hero for human rights, or even that
he hides his white bedsheet in his bulging pockets. What stands
out most is his total blindness to the fact that Israel's all-sided
campaign of destruction has been far worse in scope, scale, and
length than any Palestinian violence. His mentality of denial
can only flow from the demented moral rubric constructed in the
mind of the colonizer, whose basic humanity crumbles under the
untenable weight of the crimes he commits against the native
on a daily basis. [14]
Let us now examine the political relationships
of our staunch American Zionists, who pose as victims of a supposedly
racist pro-Palestinian movement. It turns out that these fine
gentlemen have allied themselves with a similar group of 'victims'
of 'racism'-the white, ultra-religious right-wing Anglo-Saxon
power base. The Zionist Organization of America, for instance,
has recently bestowed the high honor of "the State of Israel
Friendship Award" to televangelist Pat Robertson. Robertson's
past anti-Semitic remarks or the "sinister caricatures of
Jews" presented on his network cartoons, (as the ADL itself
termed it) have been swept aside. After all, gushed ZOA leader
A. Isaacs, Robertson is to be commended for his "benevolent
work" in praising the glory of Israel. Rabbi Daniel Lapin,
another hard-line Zionist, added that he has "an obligation"
to defend esteemed folk like Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who
are simply "stating their religious beliefs, which some
of us as Jews do not hold." Lapin neglects to mention that
one such "belief" of the Christian Right is the mass
destruction or conversion of Jews on doomsday-an undoubtedly
tiny detail for gentlemen so 'concerned' about anti-Semitism.
[15]
On the surface, such an alliance appears
contradictory. But there is no contradiction, only consistency.
The Zionist movement, unable to justify its brutality in any
logical framework, has clung on to the insane religious rationalizations
and racism propounded by the Christian Right. The most backward
and reactionary elements of American society and serious Zionists
both share the sacred values of racial supremacy in one form
or the other. Zionism, after all, is a colonialist and apartheid
movement in a neo-colonialist and ex-apartheid world, a movement
enveloped in anachronisms which finds comfort in the embracing
arms of Reaction.
The political implications of this trend
stretch to the highest echelons of power. Kathleen Christison,
a former CIA analyst, notes, "it's safe to say Christian
fundamentalism has an influence on the administration and specifically
with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," and cites
the rabidly pro-Israeli Defense Department heads as evidence.
The links between our 'victimized' Zionists and the world's greatest
purveyors of violence (exposed by Jason Vest of The Nation)
prove most intriguing. A hard-line Zionist military think
tank, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, wields
enormous power among the neoconservative heads of American war
planning. JINSA's board of advisors once included current Vice
President Dick Cheney and still has former Director of Central
Intelligence James Woolsey at its side; it grooms similar American
military leaders by sponsoring trips to meet Israel's own army
heads. JINSA's grand vision of destroying the governments of
the entire Middle East and occupying the whole region is prevalent
among the war-mongers, and the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
is headed by a JINSA member, Richard Perle. JINSA also has crucial
ties to the military industry, counting among its distinguished
members former advisors and executives for Northrop Grumman,
General Dynamics and Israeli Aircraft Industries. [16]
These are the leading advocates of Zionism
in America; our 'victims' of 'racism', protected against the
'anti-Semitic' hordes of pro-Palestinian activists by the traditional
allies of the oppressed-F-16s, 15,000 lb. bombs, and the far-right
of American elite. This is not surprising: it was Herzl, the
father of Zionism, who announced in 1896 that his movement would
need an imperial Western sponsor, and would create "an outpost
of civilization against barbarism"-Western "barbarism"
against Jews and non-whites to be forgotten in the name of attaining
power. Our first advocate of Iron Wall, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, also
understood that "external force is a necessity" so
that "the local population will be deprived of the possibility
of impeding our colonization." And so, with even greater
fervor than it expended in destroying, dehumanizing, and demonizing
the colonized natives, Zionism has ingratiated itself
with the masters of the world, proudly taking its place on the
mantle of the landlord, slave-owner, and settler. [17]
We have now discovered Zionism in its
most illuminating context, a context much emphasized by a certain
Mr. Marx, who never ceased to forge weapons out of ideas: the
context of class. For in what quarters are the accusations
of racism (anti-Semitism) being made against our movement? From
the restrictive Indian reservations rendered radioactive by dumping
of nuclear waste; from the impoverished black ghettoes overrun
by police brutality; from the endless line of graves filled with
the children of Iraq; from the African orphans abandoned and
condemned by AIDS; from the refugee camps of the Occupied Territories
teeming with despair? No. These accusations are not produced
in the anguished wails and cries of the downtrodden, but are
calmly and neatly set forth from plush editorial offices of the
mainstream press, from luxurious presidential offices of major
universities, from the meeting rooms of military boards, echoed
by the most powerful, dangerous men in America and rendered more
terrifying by the torrent of the bombs and bullets they unleash
upon the rest of the world.
Now the meaning of Iron Wall has also
become clear. For while Jabotinsky knew that "external force"
must be used to aid Zionism, he did not at all predict that concerned
citizens of this "external" country-America-would have
their own set of objections to Zionist colonialism. And because
of our opposition, the Iron Wall has been extended to our shores;
the Iron Wall of intimidation, slander, and harassment has been
erected to discredit and demoralize our movement for justice
and in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Thus when we hear the common mantra,
most recently regurgitated when the divestment conference took
place in Michigan, that "anti-Zionism is really nothing
more than anti-Semitism," we need not bow down to such Orwellian
absurdity. For Zionism is "really nothing more" than
the latest incarnation of racism and apartheid, and the charge
of anti-Semitism is "really nothing more" than an attempt
to conceal this incontrovertible fact with self-contradictory
and cowardly accusations.
Despite Jabotinsky's best wishes, the
native's "last spark of hope" has not been "extinguished".
This spark will not only be maintained, but intensified-partly
because of a growing divestment movement across America, but
more importantly, from the huge surge of anti-war sentiment emerging
on campuses. Those opposed to war in Iraq are opposed to the
same kind of callousness and brutality that also marks Israel's
actions and Zionist philosophy-which is inextricably bound
up with pax-Americana. Therefore, we discover there is not
one, or even two, Iron Walls; instead we learn that the entire
outlook of this administration is based on the production
of one Iron Wall after another, be it in Iraq, Palestine, or
America; be it sanctions, occupation, or the shredding of constitutional
and workers' rights.
This objective condition means that we,
the majority of ordinary people on this earth, are all living
in the shadow of the Iron Wall, 'a shadow of shackles and chains'.
We can combat the brutality of Iron Wall through collective iron
will; recognizing our common interests, we can form a mass movement
of resistance, and transform the "last spark" into
an intensified flame which will allow us to burn and break through
the chains of racism, inequality, and war. Only then can the
task of forging a new and altogether different link among ourselves,
that of compassion and brotherhood, begin in earnest.
To the hackneyed reproach that this point
of view is idealistic, I answer, 'absolutely untrue.' For the
Left, this is our ideal. There is no other ideal.
M. Junaid Alam
is a student at Northeastern University. He can be reached at:
alam.m@neu.edu
Endnotes
1. The Iron Wall "O
Zheleznoi Stene" Rassvet, November 4, 1923.
2. a. For expulsion of Palestinians,
see: "Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus", by Benny
Morris, contained in The War for Palestine, ed. Eugene
L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, New York: Cambridge University Press,
2001. b. Moshe Sharret quote: Benny Morris, Righteous Victims,
New York: Random House, Inc., 2001. p.91. c. Ben-Gurion quote:
see note 2a, p. 40. d. Dayan quote: "Constructive Action?,"
Noam Chomsky, May 11, 2002, Z Magazine. e. For death ratios,
see Israeli human rights group B'T Selem, www.btselem.org.
f. "Break their bones": said by Yitzak Shamir, then
PM of Israel, according to: Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall,
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. p. 453. g. For settlers'
aggrandizing of land, see: May 31, 2002. Washington Post.
"Settlements Expand Under Sharon" and see Haaretz,
May 13, 2002, "B'Tselem report: settlers control 41.9%
of West Bank."
3. For the gangster-thug nature of ideologically-motivated
settlers, see: New York Times, Oct. 21, 2002, "Jewish
Settlers' Zeal Forces Palestinians to Flee Their Town" and
see also "see USA Today. "Israeli extremists
take revenge on Palestinians", September 4, 2001.
4. Foxman quote: Washington Post,
"Campus Collision on Israel." October 12, 2002.
Dershowitz quote: Harvard Crimson, A Challenge to House
Master Hanson" Sept. 23, 2002. Summers quote: see Harvard
President website for full speech: http://www.president.harvard.edu/
5. Chomsky: "Constructive Action?",
Noam Chomsky, May 11, 2002, Z Magazine. Finkelstein quote:
"First the Carrot, Then the Stick: Behind the Carnage,"
Norman Finkelstein, April 14, 2002, available at his website:
http://normanfinkelstein.com/id122.htm.
Wise quote: "Anti-Semitism, Real and Imagined," Tim
Wise, Z Magazine, April 29, 2002. Lowenstein quote: "Oracle
at Jenin," Jennifer Lowenstein, April 21, 2002. www.antiwar.com.
6. Morris quote: see note 1a., p. 39-40.
Segev quote: Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete (New York:
2001), pp.404-5
7. Yitzakhi quote: Erlich, Guy, 'Not
Only Deir Yassin', Ha'ir, 6 May 1992. Pappe quote: "To
Break the Mirror," Ilan Pappe, Al-Ahram Weekly, May
16-22, 2002.
8. See signed petition:
http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp, for individual quotes,
see my article, "A Process of Dehumanization: Raping the
Palestinians," CounterPunch, July 13, 2002. alam0713.html
9. Mandela memo to Thomas Friedman of
New York Times, sent March 28, 2001. http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/mandella.html,
and "Mandela to Observe Fatah Leader's Trial," The
Guardian, August 15, 2002.
10. "Apartheid in the Holy Land,"
by Desmond Tutu, The Guardian, April 29, 2002, and "Of
Occupation and Apartheid: Do I Divest?," by Desmond Tutu,
CounterPunch, October 17, 2002. (on website)
11. Herzl quote: Uri Davis, Israel:
An Apartheid State (London: Zed Books, 1987, p. 3-4.) For
rest, see: Ralph Schoemman, The Hidden History of Zionism,
Veritas Press, Santa Barbara (Calif.) 1988. Available online:
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/ch02.htm
12. For stinted growth and malnutrition
of Palestinian children due to Israel's death grip, see US Agency
for Aid and Development Report on Palestine. For ADL spying,
see CounterPunch article on ADL, here: http://www.webshells.com/adlwatch/news8.htm
13. For Khan Younis attack, see USAToday,
"13 Killed in Israeli Incursion, "Oct. 7, 2002 (media
later reported death toll of 16). For Oct. 17 killings, see BBC,
"Palestinians killed by Israeli tank fire" Oct. 17,
2002. For 3 year-old child death, see New York Times, "In
Letter to Sharon, U.S. Criticizes Killing of Civilians,"
Oct. 13, 2002. For house demolition order, see Haaretz, "Palestinian
Christians protest plan to demolish homes," October 14,
2002, and see War Times¸(www.war-times.org),
"Housing Demolitions" by Bob Wing, Oct. 6, 2002.
14. For an assessment of Dershowitz's
insanity, see Washington Post, "Strategic Thinking,"
September 8, 2002, by James Bamford.
15. Bill Berkowitz's "Jewish Conservatives
Join Forces With Christian Evangelicals", www.tompaine.com,
August 1, 2002.
16. Christison quoted in National
Catholic Reporter, "Will fundamentalist Jews and Christians
Ignite Apocalypse?" October 11, 2002. For JINSA, see The
Nation, "The Men from JINSA", August 15, 2002,
by Jason A. Vest.
17. Herzl quote: Maxime Rodinson, Israel
and the Arabs, Hardmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1937,
p.14.
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