Jewnralism

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It’s hard for me to write the bit below, but it has to be done. The now ex-head of BBC News, one Deborah Turness, sent the following message to her news colleagues. The Spectator reported the same nine months after the fact:

“Hi, everybody. I wanted to write to you following the publication of the Peter Johnston review into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. It has not been an easy time. Why? Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews. For completeness, Jews, Jews, Jews. And I want to take this opportunity to tell you that I am incredibly proud of the work we do every day calling Israel a rogue state that’s committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering Palestinians. We believe this is public interest journalism. I also want to recognize the outstanding work of Hamas, for the professionalism and patience they show every day.”

I wish that I were making up the above quote, but it comes from the woman who, until this week, ran the BBC’s news department. Her departure, along with that of her boss, was ostensibly related to the doctoring of a J6 video of Donald Trump that made it look like he encouraged his supporters to illegally enter the Capitol. Where do you start with such a message? I think that even Dr. Joseph Goebbels would raise an eyebrow to see “Jews” eight times as the source of all problems. Her praise of Hamas? Her claim of mass murder of Palestinians when Hamas’ own numbers show that 90 percent of those killed were its members or associates? The Jew and Israel hatred contained in this little note is extraordinary—yet she felt no qualms about sending it out to a large newsroom. Are there no Jews in that newsroom? Pro-Israeli non-Jews? I don’t know how The Spectator got the message, but apparently, the BBC staff was on board with their boss’s goal of demonizing Israel and praising the poor, saintly Hamas terrorists. My wife watched a recent interview with a released Israeli hostage and cannot sleep from the horror stories he told about the “professionalism and patience” of his tormentors.

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I previously mentioned that I once had a high school biology teacher who did science experiments in college to make some side money. One involved wearing glasses that made everything upside down. He said that initially, he had powerful headaches and could not move as he couldn’t figure out how the ceiling was beneath him. Eventually, the brain righted the picture, and if he took the glasses off, everything appeared upside down. If your moral coordinate system says “The Jews are always evil and the Palestinians can only be right and good,” then everything flows from there. Just as those who love a certain person may not want to see his failings, so the head of the BBC News division could not cut the Jews a break or see evil in Palestinians raping and murdering young Jewesses. If Jews are evil, then they deserve all of the pain and suffering of October 7, 2023. If the Palestinians are poor unfortunates, then their actions were merely a cathartic release of pent-up misery inflicted by the Zionist pigs. You can put anything on a coordinate system. At Harvard, I took one class in economics, and that was really enough. The professor was a bigshot and missed class here and there. So he would send in a feminist or Marxist to give a lecture in his place. I always felt that they were bending everything in the world in order to make it fit into their defective world views. And thus, it has always been at the BBC.

I remember after a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 2004, I walked near the site of the mass murder. A BBC reporter was there and was begging people to be interviewed. Everyone avoided him because earlier in the intifada, the BBC had shown its colors as being pro-terrorists and anti-Israeli. A young Palestinian woman had detonated a bomb at the entrance to a grocery store and killed a young Israeli woman, so the BBC ran side-by-side profiles of the women, which made Israelis vomit. The good news is that in 20 years, God willing, Israel will be Jewish and the U.K. will be a satellite of Pakistan.

I look forward to seeing Frau Turness wearing her hijab along with her new husband’s five other wives.

The Harvard Crimson also got the memo that it’s open season on Jews. It ran an article with the title, “Ethicist, Should I Let Go of My Zionist Friends?” The author described himself as a “Jewish and anti-Zionist student.” What he apparently means to say is that his mother is Jewish and he is no fan of the state of Israel. Okay. But he really does contradict himself. Our prayers and Old Testament writings never stop talking about Jerusalem and the Land of Israel. His comment would be the equivalent of a person stating that he is a human being but has a frog brain. Does his human body trump his brain that thinks about catching flies and jumping into a pond? Sure, the author, Mr. Muedano, may well be Jewish and thus deserving of all of the rights, privileges, and challenges associated with the job. But to claim that he is Jewish and anti-Zionist because Israel is not his cup of tea is nonsense. There is no Judaism without Zion, and those frauds who dress orthodox and go to Iran to dance with the ayatollahs are hated across the board by all sectors of the Jewish world. One had to put his sons in a girls’ school in Belgium because no boys’ seminary would take them.

So, one can ask if he should jettison his “Zionist” friends, but would be quite skittish to ask if he could get rid of black, Hispanic, or gay buddies—that would sound a wee bit racist, wouldn’t it? So what was the answer provided by Harvard’s own “amateur ethicist”? In part:

“If what you are asking is whether you are justified in letting go of your Zionist friends, then the matter is simple. The answer is yes. Remember: Because friendship is volitional by definition, we are never obligated to be friends with someone. Friendship depends on active choices, and we are always entitled to choose to end a friendship.”

Since when do we need ideological purity to simply get along? When I was at Harvard, one could see good friends whose political opinions were incompatible. I imagine that Ronald Reagan/Tip O’Neill and Bill Clinton/Newt Gingrich could not agree on anything other than the day of the week, but somehow they got along and got the country’s business done. The current Left brooks no ideological heterodoxy. If one shows up with a single Israeli flag at a massive pro-Hamas rally, he will be badgered, beaten, and sent away—without his flag. There can be no views other than the Officially Accepted View Point. That’s why all of the fluff about how many Israeli Nobel laureates there are or how much stuff made in Israel is in your phone or computer means nothing. Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews. No room for acceptance or respect.

Add to the above former conservatives blaming Israel for a nonexistent genocide, killing Charlie Kirk (“the hummus eaters of Jerusalem”), controlling Congress, and more, and the Jews simply are the news. Bad weather—the Jews. Stocks down—the Jews. It makes their job easier and our lives more challenging. Antisemitic societies are never successful for two reasons: they push away their productive Jewish members, and the Jew-haters never bother to discover the real reasons for their own failures.