I am a bit disturbed and perturbed that Left-Wing Jews are
shooting themselves in the foot by working against shoring up the Jewish
identity of Israel by propagandizing Israel’s public with typical lies about
the new Nationality Law.
Apparently Leftists of all nations are supportive of the Multiculturalism
that destroys the national identity and culture of all nations. I would not be
surprised if Jews in America also supportive of a Leftist agenda to suppress the
Jewish national identity in the Land of the Jews.
JewishPress.com has the story of how Israel’s Left is
destroying their own nation.
JRH 8/7/18
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Report: NIF, EU, UN Drive Ferocious Campaign to Quash
Israel’s Nationality Law
By JNi.Media
26 Av 5778 – August 7, 2018
In the week before the Saturday night rally in Tel Aviv’s
Rabin Square against Israel’s new Nationality Law, the organizers issued
frequent announcements to the media, signed by the “headquarters of the
struggle against the Nationality Law.”
According to the website Mida, the group behind the
“struggle” is Anu (Us in Hebrew), a leftist NGO supported by the New Israel
Fund, the European Union, UNESCO, and the Shoken fund, to name a few.
Anu is also behind an online funding campaign to raise money
for the rally and the continued fight against the new law.
To remind you, the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of
the Jewish People, enacted July 19 by a majority of 62 to 55 with 2 abstaining,
establishes the constitutionality of the three historic Zionist principles: the
free return of the Jews to the land of our fathers; the free settlement of Jews
everywhere in Israel; and the miraculously revived Hebrew as the official
language of the Jewish State. Calling these principles racist and part of an
apartheid policy is tantamount to attacking the very existence of a Jewish
State.
But the Anu-supported “Struggle Headquarters” describes the
new Basic Law (meaning it is constitutional) in a distorted way, with clear
post-Zionist attitudes woven between the lines.
For one thing, the Struggle Headquarters does not distinguish
between Israeli minorities who committed to military service and those who do
not, presenting the protest as being shared by “Druze, Jews and Arabs.” This
despite the yawning gap between the position of a large number of Israeli
Arabs, who identify themselves as “Palestinians” and pray for the destruction
of Israel, and the overwhelming majority of the Druze, who are proud of their
country and fight for it in the battlefield.
The Struggle Headquarters propaganda maliciously
misrepresents the law, using a false comparison between two Border Guard
officers, one a Jew, the other a Druze, and stating that “the Nationality Law
states explicitly: They are not brothers! They are not equal!”
The new law does no such thing, of course. It certainly does
not violate the civil rights of Druze citizens, nor does it violate the
equality between Jewish and Druze citizens.
The Struggle Headquarters intentionally lies to the public,
suggesting the new law “officially cancels the principle of civil equality” and
“justifies inequality in the distribution of national resources,” both utterly
baseless claims.
They also claim the law “cancels the recognition of Arabic
as an official language,” when the Nationality Law, which crowns Hebrew as the
Jewish State’s official language, also explicitly uphold the special status
given to the Arabic language.
Along with the above distortions, the Struggle Headquarters
is also infected with post-Zionism: “The government, deliberately, violates the
international right of minorities to national self-determination as minority
groups,” the campaign declares, but fails to explain what is the basis for this
so-called “international right.” That’s because no such right exists.
Minority rights, as applying to ethnic, religious or
linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples, are an integral part of
international human rights law, designed to ensure that a specific group which
is in a vulnerable, disadvantaged or marginalized position in society, is able
to achieve equality and is protected from persecution. The concerns of
international legal conventions on minority rights are not to prevent
nation-states such as England, Denmark, France or Israel from remaining so, but
to prevent the genocide of minorities in places like the former Yugoslavia or
east Africa. In countries with a Western democratic tradition, minority rights
are usually protected by affirmative action quotas.
And yet, the literature disseminated by the Struggle
Headquarters say Israel must provide “national self-determination” to Israeli
Arabs, many of whom identify themselves as “Palestinians.” This is a concept
that promotes eliminating the uniqueness of the Jewish national identity of the
State of Israel.
This post-Zionist outlook joins similar statements made by
Druze former General Amal Assad, one of the leaders of the struggle against the
Nationality Law, who believes the Jews do not have a unique right to the Land
of Israel, as he put it recently on his Facebook page: “Where did you get the
nerve to determine that the country belongs to the Jews? What is the foundation
of the claim of the Jewish right and ownership of the land?”
Last week, it was the same Assad who caused the collapse of
a meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the heads of the Druze
community, when he declared that Israel is on its way to becoming an “apartheid
state.”
THE LEADER
One of the prominent figures in the “struggle against
national law” is Dr. Ricki Tessler, a faculty member at the Hebrew University’s
School of Education and chair of the Academic Forum on Civics Education.
Tessler is the spearhead in the campaign to eliminate national-Zionist values
from the teaching of civil studies, in favor of “universal” values that correspond to the
values of a state of
all its citizens.
In an interview with the Knesset TV channel, Tesler
expressed her rage at the fact that the country’s civil studies books teach
that “the government can make decisions because it is the majority,”
protesting: “Where will all this lead us?”
In other words, Tessler is enraged by the most basic
principle of democracy: majority rule.
ANU AND THE NIF
Anu is a federation of lefwing [sic] organizations,
including Agenda, heavily sponsored by the New Israel Fund (80% of its budget
came from NIF).
Agenda’s board included NIF’s Executive Director in Israel,
Rachel Liel; MK Daniel Ben-Simon (Zionist Union); and former Israel TV news
director and current mayor of the Druze town of Daliat al-Carmel, Rafik Halabi,
who is one of the pillars of the protest against the Nationality Law; and the
group’s director-general Anat Saragusti, who later ran B’Tselem US.
Between 2014 and 2017, Anu received more than $550,000 in
grants from the NIF. The NGO also receives grants from the European Union and
the UN, the specific amounts are not yet known.
Anu serves the leftist agenda, dedicating its official
website and Facebook page to promoting leftwing demonstrations under the
title “The People Are Fighting Corruption.” Anu provides organizational
knowledge to expand the circle of participants in the demonstrations, offering
an online demonstrations map, directing users to the locations of the
demonstrations throughout the country, and providing updates via email on
upcoming rallies.
To date, Anu has launched an extensive campaign to prevent
the expulsion of illegal African infiltrators, spreading blatant lies such as
that “the State of Israel expels tens of thousands into mortal danger”;
demonstrations against the government’s natural gas outline; rallies against
the demolition of illegal construction in Bedouin settlements in the Negev; and
support for the Barbur Art Gallery in Jerusalem, which hosted members of
extreme leftist, anti-Israel organizations in a venue that is public property
belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality.
Among the more bizarre campaigns appearing on the
organization’s website is “The struggle against brain-control crimes.” Anu
claims that “university management retirees, together with subcontractors from
intelligence organizations, fire electromagnetic radiation to establish remote
brain control, to manage the citizens using microwave radiation.”
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