Moi, Nathan Draï, born of a Jewish father, having myself embraced Judaism in my childhood and my adolescence, with fervor, having insisted for this reason to make my communion in spite of the orthodoxy; being far removed from me since then, spiritually and philosophically, but not to the point of no longer feeling at all concerned by the fortunes and misfortunes which affect the Jewish community, I, I say, in my name and that of the many Jews that I have been able to meet, and those that I still sometimes read, hear or see, denounce and call to condemn the daily incitement to anti-Jewish hatred that is expressed and flourished in the media with the complicity of institutions.
In recent days, this almost continuous background noise has swelled to such deafening proportions that no one can ignore it anymore. They are everywhere – sad irony – on the trays of the continuous channels, on the radio, in the newspapers, find their relay in the hemicycle or within the government and pour out, vehement, furious, hysterical, their propaganda. What is it ? It is based on two axioms: “The Jewish community is consubstantial with Israel” and “The Israeli government is infallible”.
From which the following propositions unfold: “To question the intrinsic perfection of Israeli policy is blasphemous, it is to attack Israel itself, and consequently, all Jews”. Hence: “Criticizing illegal colonization in the West Bank is anti-Semitic, doubting that Tsahal always acts with discernment and humanism is even more so, highlighting the systematic discrimination of Palestinians Israelis and daring to evoke apartheid to reflect this reality and above all that of the occupation – even if this term is also that advanced by Israeli military commissions – takes on the Nazi profession of faith ”.
The conclusion, not formulated, but inevitably having to take hold of the spirits is then stated: “The Jewish community is necessarily an unwavering support of Israel, of the brutal operations of its army, of its unbridled colonization of the West Bank, of manifest racism. of part of its society against the Arabs and all the humiliations, widely proven, permanently inflicted on the occupied Palestinian population ”.
Dieudonné does not need to produce shows. These zealous defenders of Israel, or rather of its government, are already doing enough to give substance to the tenor of his speech according to which there is in France a community of interests, more or less identifiable with the Jewish community, which works for Israel to the state and public opinion, using unscrupulous bad faith, lies and blackmailing anti-Semitism. They can also count on the alliance of circumstance, ironic in the eyes of history, of the slayers of Islamism and its leftist collaborators.
From this perspective, anti-Zionism no longer even makes sense. Its relevance was also officially revoked thanks to the action of one of these most active lobbyists. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Not to hate a Jew is to support Israel until the worst of its abuses. To do less than that is to want, in addition to the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people, the triumph of Hamas and therefore of Islamism. And in the event that even a Jew shows only moderate enthusiasm for Israel’s attitude, he is assailed by all the synonyms of treachery and self-hatred.
These propagandists are thus the objective allies of the genuine anti-Semites, Muslims or of the extreme right. They take hostage a community that has asked nothing of them and tirelessly spread this criminal assimilation between it and Israel. Giving credit in passing, with an equally criminal inconsistency, to the clichés of the Jew more concerned with his interest than that of the Nation, ready to use all the levers of influence for his sole benefit, as skilled in handling the accusation anti-Semitism that he is quick to pose as an eternal victim. To say nothing of their obscene use of the Shoah, a universal and sacred event, odiously confiscated by their rhetoric and undermined by their design.
I wrote “criminal”: that’s the right word. Because of this amalgam, which they are certainly not alone in provoking, but which they reinforce with each of their intervention, some take note of it. Well sheltered as they are from its fallout, far from these neighborhoods that have become unlivable for the Jews, far from the anti-Semitism that they denounce everywhere but never live themselves, they tirelessly transform them into accomplices and targets. of hate.
When this hatred ends up being unleashed, when a Muslim murders a Jewess – in the real world, with which they play from their separate microcosm – they dare, both satisfied and vindictive, to speak out about the atavistic anti-Semitism of certain parts of it. the population and make the whole of society an accomplice if not guilty. Obviously without ever really questioning the way in which anti-Semitism occurs and those who maintain it. Thus they spare themselves, and do not assume the slightest share of responsibility. These are certainly not people who practice self-criticism.
I, myself, am one of those who consider complacency to be the worst mark of attachment. Only compliance can proceed from the requirement. Also, it is my attachment to the history of the Jewish people that causes my sadness and my shame, in front of the spectacle of a Nation so little up to its heritage. For anyone who attaches any importance to the rights and dignity of human beings, criticism, however fierce, of such a spectacle is imperative. For anyone who claims to be attached to the Jewish community, this should be a duty.
Even more: being a Jew can imply a multitude of attitudes, from adhesion to rejection to indifference, for this political project of about a century and a half, originally more marked by the European ideologies of its time. period only by Judaism, and which quite curiously fulfills the office that has been attributed to it: to ensure the safety of the Jews. No offense to some, one can be a Jew and an anti-Zionist.
So, I beg you, for the good and the dignity of the Jews of France, if you do not intend to utter the words of justice – and sometimes of severity – which are essential, out of pity: shut up!
Nathan Draï, Paris
