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<\/a>The ethnostate illusion<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nMelanie Phillips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s been growing concern in America over the increasingly mainstream belief that Israel drags it into foreign wars, a belief given rocket fuel by the war against Iran. <\/span><\/p>\n This belief not only ignores demonstrable reality\u2014the thousands of Americans who have been killed by Iranian-backed terrorists or militias for almost half a century; the accelerated progress by Tehran towards nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that could reach the United States; and the Iranian regime\u2019s implacable goal of destroying America (the \u201cGreat Satan\u201d) as well as Israel (the \u201cLittle Satan\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n It also channels the odious image of war-mongering Jews straight out of the ancient antisemitism playbook. It\u2019s an image reflecting the belief embedded in Western culture of the demonic, cunning Jews acting covertly in their own interests to put others in danger. <\/span><\/p>\n This belief was formerly confined to cranks and nut jobs on the fringes of society. No longer. Mainstreamed by the Tucker Carlson faction, it\u2019s cutting a swath across the ranks of conservatively minded, mainly young Americans. <\/span><\/p>\n Last week, Brian McGinnis, a veteran U.S. Marine, burst into a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., and yelled<\/a>: \u201cAmerica does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n In the United States, this belief has been fueling a widening division in Republican circles over the nature of conservatism, a fissure remarkably being framed around the issue of Israel. <\/span><\/p>\n However, the claim that Iran is Israel\u2019s war and that the Jews are risking World War III has erupted in Britain, too. As in the United States, it\u2019s being expressed not just by dyed-in-the-wool antisemites and political activists on the far-right fringe, but also by apolitical, ordinary people. <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s based on a refusal to accept that Jewish and British or American interests actually coincide. Partly, that\u2019s caused by an ignorance of world events so great that such people settle on Israel as the one country in the Middle East about which they ever hear\u2014unfortunately, picking up mainly lies and distortions. <\/span><\/p>\n But why has this trope of sinister Jewish power surfaced now in such volume and with such traction? <\/span><\/p>\n Those listening carefully to such people discover they are telling us the reason. They believe that their culture is being taken away from them. They see the defamation of all white people as \u201ccolonialist\u201d and privileged, and all men as violent, abusive and predatory.<\/span><\/p>\n In Britain, they have watched mass immigration transform their neighborhoods and their country out of all recognition on the basis that their own historic culture is racist and must be replaced by multiculturalism.<\/span><\/p>\n In both the United Kingdom and the United States, they have watched in horror the progressive destruction of social and moral norms, and the hijacking of language itself\u2014producing the whole grisly gamut of intersectional bullying and Soviet-style denial of reason and reality.<\/span><\/p>\n And they view the Jews as being the cause of this because it\u2019s the agenda of the left, and they see many prominent Jews on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n This is particularly so in America, where some 70% of Jews have embraced liberal ideologies. In Britain, too, Jews are disproportionately involved in public and political life.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, that doesn\u2019t mean that ideological leftism is a Jewish movement. It means that such people only<\/em> see the Jews who are involved, ignoring the non-Jews who pump this stuff out in the universities and schools, the media, NGOs, the artistic world, the professions\u2014in other words, the entire cultural elite.<\/span><\/p>\n There is, however, another element in this complaint that gives it an even more savage edge. The charge\u2014and it\u2019s toxic\u2014is that the Jews who have destroyed the West are themselves immunized from the effects of this because they have the State of Israel to go to.<\/span><\/p>\n The Jews, say such people, maintain that it\u2019s right and necessary for them to have a state for themselves, yet they are denying that privilege to the rest of us. They have a home of their own to go to; we don\u2019t anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n This ignores the fact that most American or British Jews have no intention of living in Israel. It also fails to acknowledge those Jews who are not on the left, who are themselves American or British patriots and who support the idea that Americans and Brits are entitled to a national identity rooted in their history, culture and tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n But the complainants dismiss this because they say bitterly that the Jews have something they themselves aren\u2019t allowed to have: an \u201cethnostate.\u201d The left uses this to demonize Israel; the right wants one of its own.<\/span><\/p>\n This word is now as ubiquitous in these circles as it is absurd. An ethnostate restricts citizenship to members of a particular racial or ethnic group\u2014in this case, defined as white people or born in the United Kingdom or the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Britain was never an ethnostate. On the contrary, Britishness is an umbrella concept that allows immigrants to become equal citizens even if they don\u2019t correspond to its white, Christian or dominant English culture.<\/span><\/p>\n America, the nation of immigrants with a large black African-heritage population, was never an ethnostate. And nor is Israel, where 20% of its citizens are Arabs, and a majority of Jews aren\u2019t white-skinned Europeans but brown-skinned or black descendants of Jews from ancient Middle East communities.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s always the case that the deeper the trouble a society is in, the more it will turn on the Jews. And the charge of warmongering is inescapably and profoundly antisemitic.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet it\u2019s impossible not to hear the genuine cry of pain\u2014the justified sense of existential isolation, abandonment and betrayal shared by millions who haven\u2019t gone down the antisemitism rabbit-hole, but simply want their nation and its historic culture back.<\/span><\/p>\n Jews of all people should be sympathetic to this. After all, the ancient Israelites were the earliest pioneers of the nation-state. More than any other people, Jews understand that in order to have a future, a people must connect to its past and maintain its historic culture.<\/span><\/p>\n Jews have benefited hugely from the civilized society that allowed them to prosper in America and Britain. So they have a duty to lend their voices to the defense of the West against Islamization and cultural takeover.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, virtually the only Jewish voices to be heard are those demonizing this as \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d racism and \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d In Britain, Jewish leaders have supported government proposals to introduce protection for Muslims that will have a chilling effect on necessary debate about Islamic extremism.<\/span><\/p>\n This is very wrong in itself. But it\u2019s also guaranteed to make resentment of the Jews even worse by appearing to prove the charge that the Jews \u201cdon\u2019t care about the rest of us.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo what?\u201d many Jews would say in response; \u201cantisemitism lies beyond reason and it\u2019s eternal, so there\u2019s no point even trying to fight it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n This is simply wrong. As I say in my new book, published this week, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege<\/em><\/a>, there\u2019s plenty that can and should be done to combat it. <\/span><\/p>\n True, antisemitism can never be defeated, but Jewish passivity makes it worse. Failing to produce arguments and evidence to show that claims of Jewish power over U.S. policy are groundless reinforces the belief that they are true.<\/span><\/p>\n Jews have to stand up for themselves in the right way. The Jewish world has consistently been doing so in the wrong way, and then wonders why it hasn\u2019t gotten anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n In my book, I set out a strategy for both individuals and community leaders that turns many of these flawed assumptions upside down. Community leaders should start speaking truths that Jews shy away from, such as the prevalence of Muslim antisemitism or Israel\u2019s legally watertight claim to the land. Individuals should use difficult encounters about Israel as an opportunity to surprise their foes and so open their minds by at least a crack.<\/span><\/p>\n Even in today\u2019s poisonous climate, this can have a remarkable effect. In any event, Jews\u2014who have an obligation to stand up for truth against lies\u2014should take on those foaming right now about \u201cwar-mongering for Israel\u201d simply because it\u2019s the right thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> The ethnostate illusion Melanie Phillips Jews should be aware of the cry of pain behind a resurrected antisemitic libel. Demographic diversity. Credit: geralt\/Pixabay. There\u2019s been growing concern in America over the increasingly mainstream belief that Israel drags it into foreign wars, a belief given rocket fuel by the war against Iran. 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\nJews should be aware of the cry of pain behind a resurrected antisemitic libel.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Melanie Phillips<\/strong>, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, has just been published by Wicked Son. Her previous book, The Builder\u2019s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, was published in 2025. Access her work at: melaniephillips.substack.com.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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