The history of the Middle East over the past 20 years can be reduced to the growing alliance between Jewish leftism and Arab fascism. The entire Oslo "peace process" and the collapse of Israeli survivalism is the byproduct of this alliance.

Jewish leftism and Arab fascism are today fully allied, not only in Israel but around the world. The Jewish Left in America, from the Tikkunies to the New Israel Fund and New Jewish Agenda types, have always been cheerleaders for Arab fascism. There is no act of Arab savagery that cannot be blamed on the Jews and no act of Jewish defense they are willing to tolerate. The menopausal Marxists from the Women in Black have never felt any discomfort standing moustache to moustache with Arab fascists. The Sapersteins, Siegmans, and Yoffies have never felt any qualms about promoting the Arab fascist political agenda, even though the PLO refuses to admit open homosexuals as Gestapo leaders.

And in Israel, the Left - when it launched the Oslo atrocity - might have been composed primarily of naifs and innocents and fools. But now, ten years into the "peace process", most people still clinging to such leftism are no longer motivated by naivete, but by psychopathological Jewish self-hatred and treason.

The Jewish Left is all in favor of democracy and human rights, but not when it comes to Arab regimes. It is never disturbed that the PLO it blindly follows openly proposes to create a regime like that in Iraq or Iran. It is outraged that Arabs earn less than Jews, that Israel is not perfectly egalitarian, that Arabs complain of discrimination, at the same time that it has never had anything to say about Arab regimes, nor even the PLO’s kleptocracy.

The Jewish McCarthyist Left in Israel banned the Kahanist parties of the Right and declared them "terrorist organizations", parties in fact less radical than all those "National Front" parties that operate legally and run openly for election in Europe. At the same time, the only reaction by the Jewish Left to the most brazen expressions of Arab anti-Semitism and treason is to wring their hands about Jewish insensitivities. I have no doubt that were they alive in the early 1940s, they would have devoted their lives to making Jewish inmates in concentration camps less intolerant of German Nazis and more sympathetic to the plight of stormtroopers and their families, lobbying anti-German partisans to disarm and open dialogue because violence never solves anything.

Now all of this is becoming ever more unambiguous, especially following the antics of Azmi Bashara. Bashara is the most openly treasonous and pro-genocide of all of the Israeli Fascist-Stalinist politicians. Bashara was in Syria this past week meeting openly with Asad and the heads of the Hizbollah, issuing open calls for Israel to be destroyed and for violence against Jews to escalate.

The reaction of the Jewish Left to all this is interesting to watch. Many of the kneejerk anti-Jewish Jewish Leftists are rallying support for Bashara. (Rabbi Moonbeam, Michael Lerner, leads them in the US.) Haaretz columnists are goosestepping out to demand that Bashara NOT be prosecuted or stripped of his Knesset seat.

A petition appeared in the Israeli press a few days ago by people identifying openly with Bashara and demanding he be defended and endorsed. The petition was signed by the usual hoards of Israeli Arab fascists. But what is noteworthy is the large number of Jewish leftists signed on the pro-Bashara treason petition.

Among these, perhaps the most interesting is Prof. Yehuda Shenhav. Shenhav is a Marxist sociologist at Tel Aviv University’s monolithically-left sociology department and an activist in Peace Now. He strongly endorses diversity and pluralism when it comes to affirmative action preferences for Arabs, but not when it comes to political opinion in his sociology department. He edits Israel’s main pseudo-intellectual Marxist rag, a Hebrew journal named "Theory and Criticism". For those of you outside the insanity of academia, you may not be aware that in academic gibberish, "critical" and ’criticism" are code words for Marxism. Critical Legal Studies is Marxism for Shysters. Critical Criminology is how crime is a progressive protest against capitalism. And so on.

Now Comrade Shenhav has joined the jihad in favor of Bashara and Arab fascism. You might want to mention his activities to any donators to Tel Aviv University so they may learn of how their contributions are being used and of what they are in fact financing.

Who else is on the petition? Well, there is Prof. of Talmud at Berkeley Daniel Boyarin, best known for his books about how all of Judaism may be reduced to the struggle against heterosexuality, recently spotted leading demonstrations on campus by Arab students identifying with intifada atrocities.

We have the tenured communist faculty members on the petition, like the Technion’s Stalinist Kalman Altman. We have vintage New Historian and Revisionsist Gabriel Piterberg from Ben Gurion University. We have radical fabricator Prof. Kais Firro, the guy who sponsored that MA thesis that fabricated a massacre of Arabs by the Palmach. And so on.

What is perhaps noteworthy is that the usual kneejerk Jew-bashers among Israel’s literary Left seem to have refused to sign the petition in favor of Arab fascism. Perhaps there is hope for them.

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