The new anti-Semitism – Infobae

About 2500 years ago, the first systematic plan to annihilate the entire Jewish people in Persia, now Iran, was implemented. The Purim party, Wednesday night next, remembers this frustrated plan.

This week, 27 years of attack against the Israeli Embbady are commemorated. Like that time a minister in Iran, ancient Persia, he plotted with the local power and decided to lead the first of two attacks in our country, in the heart of our capital. This time, the attack was not frustrated. Between the two attacks, there are more than 100 people killed, Jewish and non-Jewish, hundreds of wounded and countless families who have never rearmed and have become the family they once were.

Decades of impunity but never forgetting. We are the people of memory.

In recent days, missiles have been launched on the modern, democratic and pluralist civilian population of Tel Aviv. Missiles financed and supported by the Iranian political power, Persia. The perverse cycles of history.

The philosophy of anti-Semitic hatred is historical. But Although hatred is the same, anti-Semitism has mutated. Just like 2500 years ago, there were no car bombs or remote-controlled missiles in the cities, the virus of anti-Semitism was also transferred.

After so many years of investing in the treatment of the disease, it has reappeared. The virus has mutated and we can not find the antidote as humanity.

Let us first define what is anti-Semitism.

Whoever does not love Jews is not necessarily anti-Semitic. There are many people who may not like us. However, not choosing someone does not mean pretending that you have no more rights or that you do not go away. Those who criticize Israel are not necessarily anti-Semitic either.

Anyone can freely oppose the policy of Argentina, that of the current government, the previous government or the government of the coming government. It does not make him anti-patriotic or anti-Argentinian. We can criticize the policies of Bolivia, Uruguay and even Iran. This is not the problem.

The problem is that you wonder if this country or this community should exist. Israel is the only country in the world to constantly question its existence. Nobody asks if there should be Argentina, the United States, Syria or Ethiopia. The only country that runs the risk of legitimacy is Israel.

Anti-Semitism is the denial of the right of Jews to live as a Jew and to suppress all kinds of rights equal to other peoples or peoples.

Rabbi Sacks, in an eloquent exhibition at the House of Lords in England, explains anti-Semitism in his process of mutation. For centuries, anti-Semitism sought the approval and justification of the sources of authority of each era. In the Middle Ages, the source of authority was religion. And that is why the Jewish religion was persecuted: it was a religious anti-Semitism. They have been pressured by forced conversions or burning at the stake.

In the nineteenth century, the source of authority was no longer religion but science. This has turned into a series of theories, such as Social Darwinism, which nurtured the National Socialist ideologies of Nazism, defining Judaism as a race. A lower race.

Today, human rights are the source of authority of the time.

The State of Israel is the only democratic country in the region. Jewish communities in Arab countries were expelled or had to emigrate, while Arab populations within Israel established political parties and representatives in the Knesset (Parliament). Even one of the judges of the Supreme Court is of Arab origin. However, he is the only state to be charged with usurping human rights, ethnic cleansing and various genocides..

The modern anti-Semite can calmly say that it is not. That he is not racist, that he has nothing against Jews nor against Judaism, but only against the state of Israel. Of the 200 or so countries in the world, 56 are Muslim, 103 are Christian in their different forms. And only a small state is the Jewish state of Israel. It occupies barely a quarter of 1% of the territory of the entire Middle East. It is smaller than the province of Tucumán and half of its territory is desert. And yet, it seems to be the only root of all evils.

Finally, the modern anti-Semitism, in its mutation, succeeded not only in ceasing to be anti-Semitic, but also in founding the new anti-Semite. The equation ranges from implausible to tragicomic. Because there is no need to deny the Holocaust. It was a mbadacre that can not happen again, but it would happen. The new Nazi Germany is Israel, the new Nazis are the Israelis, the new Jews are the Palestinians … And the new anti-Semite: the same Jewish people.

Hate is the same, it has only mutated in its form.

The Jew was persecuted as a communist and capitalist. To be a rat and for a millionaire. By not wanting to integrate and integrating too much. To be a pariah without land, and now to have his own land. Always alien in any country. They did not deserve to live anywhere. Exile and expulsion every century, every frontier. Until we return to our land and found our state. And it turns out that now, it's not good either.

When something bad happens, two types of questions appear. The question you choose will depend on who you are transforming.

One question is, "What did I do to make it happen?"
And the second is, "Who made me do this?"

If you choose first, you will begin a virtuous circle of self-criticism, self-evaluation, research, inner responsibility, growth, wisdom, renewal and hope.

If you will answer the second question, you will seek, by hatred, guilty scapegoats. From anger, inner misery and outward blindness, you will inevitably find a path of frustration and spiritual defeat.
For centuries, Europe has chosen the second question. Systematically, the answer was: the Jews.

In today's Europe, nationalist and sectarian parties and platforms that rely on the ideologies of the law that destroyed it have developed. Whereas the intellectual left, which historically defended the rights of minorities, has become irreversibly anti-Semitic and allied with the most intolerant and dictatorial expressions of the planet.

Europe has given many words to the world: expulsion, ghetto, pogrom, self-defense, inquisition, forced conversion, holocaust and genocide. To the tears of centuries, but to Jewish blood. In return, the Israeli people contributed with scientists, physicists, economists, Nobel laureates, educators, musicians, painters, artists and poets.
That being so, Europe suicidally approaches this macabre dream of the 30s: to be a Judenrein, a place without Jews.

What are we doing then?
This Shabbat is called Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of remembrance, of memory.
It calls us to learn to remember, to try to manage what we think we are managing and sometimes treat us: memory.

To be able to go through our wisdom and discover in our past the keys that allow you to better understand today and write better tomorrow.
At the same time this week in Argentina, the National Day of Remembrance is commemorated. In our country too, we have experienced disasters, horror and death. And you must not forget it.

The memory for the Jewish people is not a vague reflection of nostalgia, it is not to leave somewhere in memory what happened once. Memory is linked to action and responsibility. Remembering is not about lodging things somewhere in the heart or in the mind. But go through your own story, understand higher, become wiser. And then act and change.

The key will be to transform ourselves into a more integrated society.
Integration is not badimilation. To badimilate, it is to be similar to the other. It's like being the others. To integrate, is to transform oneself into some one more integrated, building an integral society accepting the other. As it is. Without wishing to do the same or make you like him.

Do not transcribe in other applications you know. What do you know. It requires searching and representing with authority and pride your own being, your own essence. Your story Your faith

The baseless hatred, the hate born of visceral fanaticism, ideological sectarianism, once again showed its worst face this week. The repudiation of the horrific attack in mosques in New Zealand must be an integral part. And then, integrate yourself in a message of love, condolence and embrace the families of the victims.

Dear friends, all friends.

Ignorance is at the root of violence, discrimination and intolerance. It's not knowing each other.

To know each other, we must first know who we are.

That's why Zajor, that's why memory. This is why we must go through our wisdom and then be the architects of a more inclusive society.

From a world with more balance, more justice, more humanity and a lot more peace.

Rav Ale Avruj is the rabbi of the Amijai community,
and President of the Latin American Rabbinical Assembly of the Masortí Movement