Antisemitism is the real cause of the long Arab war
After 75 years of making excuses and denying the plain fact that antisemitism is the root and the branch of the Arab conflict with Israel, Israelis of all walks of life and across the political spectrum need to accept that it is true.
By Caroline Glick
(JNS) The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred.
In his book From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, the late historian Robert Wistrich documented how before, during and after the Nazi period, scholars from the political left disregarded and denied the ideological power that anti-Semitism held over the Germans and their collaborators. The cause of their blindness was Marxism.
Marxism has long been the theoretical prism through which the left sees the world. Marxism is hateful and contemptuous of Judaism, because Judaism is fundamentally opposed to the obedient universality that Communism demands. Karl Marx and his followers sought to eradicate Judaism through a world Communist revolution that Jews could only join if they first abandoned their national, cultural and religious identities.
