Israeli Leftists: The New Terrorism

As tiny Israel confronts ongoing and growing hatred by Arabs both within and outside of the state, another enemy rises up to challenge the Jewish state. This foe has openly allied itself with anti-Semitic Arab rioters and terrorists, and has even at times explicitly promoted terrorism and murder of Jews.

Sadly, this new anti-Semitic threat is from Jews themselves. A small but noisy group of far-left Israelis of Jewish origin has taken the state of Israel – and the Jewish people – into its sights.

Represented by organizations hiding behind pluralistic-sounding slogans and titles such as “Peace Now” and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, these inciters to violence are little more than fascistic hooligans aping the Brown Shirts of the Nazi party in Germany before Hitler came to power.

Denied the right to expel Jews from their legally owned property in east Jerusalem by even the generally leftist Israeli court system, these vandals and thugs of the fascist-left now use harassment, riots, and violence to try and ethnically cleanse the Shimon HaTzaddik/Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jews.

Recently a mixed group of Arabs and leftists assaulted one Jewish home in the area, even going so far as to fire bullets at the house. When the perpetrator of the crime was arrested, the leftists of Peace Now and the ACRI actually protested the arrest.

Now, this Saturday night these same leftists have formed a mass rally outside of the Jewish homes with thousands of Arabs, in a demonstration of at least 3,000 people.
Such events do not occur in a vacuum however, and incitement from prominent figures like Zev Sternhell has thrown gas on the fire of leftwing fascism. Sternhell, a researcher of the roots of fascism is himself a practitioner of fascistic anti-Semitism and a bona fide Judeo-Nazi. He has openly praised the murder of Jews living outside of the Green Line and encouraged Arab terrorism there against Jews.

Given this background, it’s hard to condemn the 2008 attack on Mr. Sternhell with a pipe bomb which left the professor lightly injured.

Israel has, since its inception, struggled against Arab hatred. Perhaps it’s time to address the growing hatred on the part of Judeo-Nazis and leftwing fascists like Sternhell, the ACRI, and Peace Now.