The Wandering Who: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (20 page)

52.  
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124345

53.  Weininger, Otto,
Sex and Character
, New York: Howard Fertig, 2003, p. 29.

54.  Ibid, p. 57.

55.  Ibid, p. 110.

56.  Ibid, Preface, p. I.

57.  Ibid, p. 109.

58.  Ibid, p. 304.

59.  Ibid, p. 305.

60.  Marx, Karl, ‘On the Jewish Question’ (
‘Zur Judenfrage’
), first published in February 1844 in
Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher
; see translation at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/ works/1844/jewish-question/

61.  Weininger, Otto,
Sex and Character
, New York: Howard Fertig, 2003

62.  Shavit, Ari, ‘Leaving the Zionist Ghetto’, interview with Avraham Burg,
Ha’aretz
, 25 July 2007; accessed 15/06/2010 at
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2007/06/complete-abraham-burg-interview-leaving.html

63.
 Aliyah
is the Hebrew word describing the immigration of Jews to
Eretz Yisrael
. It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology.
Aliyah
means ‘ascent’. The opposite action i.e. emigration of Jews from Israel, is referred to as
yerida
(descent).

64.  Speech on the Place of the Bund in the R.S.D.L.P, V. I. Lenin, July 17 (30)-August 10 (23), 1903

65.  See
http://www.matzpen.org/index.asp?p=principles

66.  
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/capitalism-andthe-jews/

67.  
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/audio/friedman101578

68.  
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/sombart_werner/Jews _and_modern_capitalism/sombart_jews_capitalism.pdf

69.  What is the secular basis of Judaism?
Practical
need,
self-interest
. What is the worldly religion of the Jew?
Huckstering
. What is his worldly God?
Money
. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.’ Karl Marx
On The Jewish Question
, 1844

70.  Defined earlier on as a second category.

71.  Falls into the third category.

72.  This is to suggest that the liberation from despots and oppressive systems, must be always primarily grounded on ethical foundation.

73.  Right-wing Israeli journalist Yair Sheleg in
Ha’aretz
, 2006 see
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757767.html

74.  Rappaport, Meron, ‘IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon’,
Ha’aretz
, 12 September 2006; see
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html

75.  On 31 May 2010, in international waters, Israeli Navy seals raided a humanitarian aid flotilla of six ships. The flotilla carried humanitarian aid and construction materials. It aimed to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. At dawn, hundreds of Israeli elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos boarded the ships from speedboats and helicopters, using excessive power. On the Turkish MV Mavi Marmara, the Israelis met some resistance. The Israelis were quick to use live ammunition. Consequently, nine Turkish peace activists were killed by the Israeli soldiers, some amongst them were executed by Israeli soldiers. The Israeli raid led to widespread international condemnation.

76.  The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand, Verso 2009, pg 1.

77.  Ilani, Ofri, ‘Shattering a “National Mythology”’, interview with Shlomo Sand,
Ha’aretz
, 21 March 2008; see
http://www.haaretz.com/general/shattering-a-national-mythology-1.242015

78.  The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand, Verso 2009, pg 21

79.  The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand, Verso 2009, pg 66

80.  Ilani, Ofri, ‘Shattering a “National Mythology”’, interview with Shlomo Sand,
Ha’aretz
, 21 March 2008; see
http://www. haaretz.com/general/shattering-a-national-mythology-1.242015

81.  Ilani, Ofri, ‘Shattering a “National Mythology”’, interview with Shlomo Sand,
Ha’aretz
, 21 March 2008; see
http://www. haaretz.com/general/shattering-a-national-mythology-1.242015

82.  Ibid

83.  Ibid

84.  Ilani, ‘Shattering a “National Mythology”‘

85.  Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley

86.  Ibid.

87.  Ibid.

88.  Ibid.

89.  AIPAC – The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the leading Israeli lobbying group in the USA. It advocates pro-Israel policies within American politics and other influential institutions.
The New York Times described AIPAC as ‘the most important organisation affecting America’s relationship with Israel.’ It is no doubt one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, DC, and its critics have stated it acts as an agent of the Israeli government, with a ‘stranglehold’ on the United States Congress.
Along its history AIPAC has been caught in a few espionage affairs. In 2005, a Pentagon analyst pleaded guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal.
In 1984 the FBI investigated after Israeli Minister of Economics Dan Halpern passed stolen classified US government documents to AIPAC, outlining trade secrets of major US industries lobbying against the US-Israel Free Trade Area.

90.  
http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article348.html

91.  
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20090617074540771

92.  30. Ellis, Marc H.,
Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting The Holocaust and Israeli Power
:
Creating a Moral Future for the Jewish People
, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1990, p. ???

93.  Bowman, Glenn, ‘Migrant Labour: Constructing Homeland in the Exilic Imagination’,
Anthropological Theory
II:4, December 2002, pp. 447–68.

94.  Lemche, Niels Peter, The Canaanites and Their Land, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

95.  Ibid

96.  Medoff, Rafael, ‘A Purim Lesson: Lobbying Against Genocide, Then and Now’; see
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles /2004-03-purim.php

97.  Ibid

98.  Ibid

99.  Ibid

100. Ibid

101. Prinz, Joachim,
Zionism under the Nazi Government
,
Young
Zionist
(London, November 1937), p.18; cited in Brenner, Lenni,
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
, Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1983; see
http://www.marxists.de/ middleast/brenner /ch05.htm

102. Cited in Brenner,
ibid
.

103. Brenner,
ibid
.

104. Strauss, Herbert (ed.),
Gegenwart Im Ruckblick
(Heidelberg, 1970), p.231; cited at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast /brenner/ch03.htm#n1

105. Brenner, Lenni, interview with Joachim Prinz, 8 February 1981; see
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php /clip.php ?cid=512

106. Littlewood, Stuart, ‘Jews are eight times over-represented in UK parliament’, 21 May 2010; see
http://www.redress.cc/ global /slittlewood20100521

107. Bruck, Connie, ‘The Influencer’,
The New Yorker
, 10 May 2010.

108.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3624394,00.html

109.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/26593/war-crimes-will-government-ever-act

110. Zionism was, in fact, the only Jewish secular ideology to come close to something that resembles an autonomous and authentic body of Jewish secular moral thinking. As discussed before, Zionism promised to bring about a civilized and ethical Jew.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Identity vs. Identifying

Ch 1 The Right to Elaborate

Zionist Agent

Zionism, a Global Network

The Organism

Ch 2 Credit Crunch or Zio Punch?

The Project for the New American Century

Oil is important

The Greenspan Doctrine - Money Makes The World Go Round

The Moral Agenda

Ch 3 Zionism and Other Marginal Thoughts

The Margin

Identity, Identification and Authenticity

Identity Politics and Marginal Philosophies

The Strategies

Separatism

Ch 4 The Sabra, the Settler and the Diaspora Jew

Ch 5 Fagin vs. Einstein

Ch 6 Think Tribal, Speak Universal

Ch 7 The Dialectic of Negation

Emancipated, Assimilated and Zionist

The Politics of Negation

Unconsciousness is the Discourse of the Goyim

Ch 8 One Hundred Years of Jewish Solitude

Leaving God Behind

Zionism Revisited

Peace, Shalom and the Ghetto

Ch 9 Jewish Unconsciousness is the Discourse of the Goyim

A Serious Man

Ch 10 The Righteous Jew

Ch 11 Sex and Anti Semitism

Weininger on Sexuality

The Genius and the Artist

The Anti-Semite

Ch 12 Eretz Yisrael vs. Galut

Zionism vs. Israel

Beaufort

Israel In The Eyes of The Diaspora

Wandering Around

Love Yourself as Much as You Hate Everyone Else

Ch 13 The Right to Self-Determination: A Fake Exercise in Universalism

The Pretence of Authenticity

The Right to Self-Determination

The Bund and Lenin’s Criticism

Matzpen and Wolfowitz

Ch 14 Milton Friedman Revisited

The Jewish Paradox

Ideology vs. Opportunism

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Ch 15 Swindler’s List

Historicity & Factuality vs. Fantasy & Phantasm

Ch 16 Trauma Queen

Pre-Traumatic Gas Syndrome

Projection and Pre-TSS

Comic Relief

Ch 17 The Wandering Who?

Hitler Won After All

Nationalism and Jewish Nationalism

There Is No Jewish History

The New Israelite, the Bible and Archaeology

Who Invented the Jews?

Ch 18 From Purim to AIPAC89

The Holocaust Religion

Jewish Archetypes

Ch 19 The Book of Esther

From Purim to Washington

Brenner and Prinz

Zionism vs. Exile

Connecting the Dots

Ch 20 Donations, Think Tanks and Media Outlets

Zionism and Democracy

Ch 21 Truth, History and Integrity

Ch 22 Being in Time

Temporality

Closure

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Endnotes