Real Jews vs Real Palestinians

One of the main tactics the BDS Movement uses to hide its underlying Jew-hatred is to point to the few anti-Zionist Jews who support them as “proof” that they aren’t really anti-Jewish, only anti-Israel or anti-occupation. They hold up this fringe minority of Jews as the only “Real Jews,” while the rest of us who support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State are imposters or “fake Jews.”

But like the rest of BDS’s “logic,” this reasoning is only acceptable when it comes to Jews and certainly not when it comes to Arabs, Palestinians, or Muslims. Were a Jew to say that Islamic State are the only true Muslims (given most Muslims oppose it), he would be accused of Islamophobia. Were an Israeli to say terror supporters are the only true Palestinians, he’d be accused of racism even though 46% support suicide bombings67% support stabbings, and 89% support rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. But for BDS to hold up anti-Zionist Jews (a very small minority) as the only true Jews is for some reason considered acceptable.

It would never be ok to attack a Muslim by sending them a picture of an ISIS atrocity and saying “this is the true Islam,” and yet BDS and their blue-and-whitewashing friends at Jewish Voice for Peace Palestine are perfectly happy to do the exact same thing to Jews.

So the next time someone tweets you an image of the Neturei Karta (who barely number a few thousand members), tweet this right back:

11 thoughts on “Real Jews vs Real Palestinians”

  1. The Real Walt Kovacs

    Excellent point!
    The local anti-Israel crew in my town ALWAYS trots out the Netruei Karta whackjobs to prove that “real Jews” support the palis. They even have a little kid that poses with keffiyeh-clad jihadis for photos…it’s nauseating. Their non-Muslim supporters are ALL hardcore communists and far-left “activists”. Fringe.
    Besides the core group of BDS players, almost nobody shows up to these rallies. Thankfully.

  2. Don’t start me on the orgasmic pleasure and long, ugly history of our “friends” pontificating about “real Jews.” Because it has happened to my face enough times and in enough forms to get dangerous.

  3. ahad_ha_amoratsim

    Not only to Neturei Karta number only a few thousand, but I am told that Rabbi Weiss and his demonstrators are only a small handful within Neturei Karta and are not representative of that group as a whole.

    1. Based on what I’m told, it’s a little different than what you’ve written.
      As you already know, but many do not, there’s Neturei Karta and there’s “Neturei Karta”. The former is a small sect which is a breakaway from Satmar, and is a devout, anti-Zionist Charedi group. They are anti-Zionist in the sense that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and they do not even take money from its government – they raise their funds for education outside of Israel. This group, meanwhile, has fully denounced “Neturei Karta”.
      Scare-quotes-Neturei-Karta use the same name, but they are quite different in their views. The latter is a group of hateful nutjobs that love to make common cause with open antisemites and murderers like Arafat and the Iranian regime, all because their opposition to a secular State of Israel has mutated into undisguised hatred that has trumped every other Jewish value they claim to have.

      There are a few thousand scare-quotes-Neturei-Karta-ites in the world, and I’m told most of them are in the UK and the US. There are almost none in Israel. There are a few thousand legitimate Neturei Karta-ites in Israel, and probably some in other countries too I’d guess but I don’t know of them.
      So it’s “a few thousand” either way, but it makes a big difference to which few thousand you refer.

      1. Do you have any article online that spells this out, a URL that I can paste into a conversation? I ask only because my Google-fu has failed me; I may be missing the magic search word that would bring it up.

        1. In a word, no.
          But I’ll say more than one word.
          I know about the history of Neturei Karta from talking to people who know such things, particularly Rabbis. I was told that the main Neturei Karta publicly condemned the haters.
          Google-fu isn’t likely to help much when talking about the subtle political distinctions of groups among anti-Internet factions from deepest-darkest Meah Shearim (a phrase I use tongue-in-cheek).
          I will point out a few resources just the same.
          This article seems to give a good, basic background on the group, and it points out how the haters are different from the rest.
          http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/neturei-karta
          Furthermore, you can compare the so-called-Neturei-Karta’s own hateful words and policies on their website (nkusa.org), and simply compare that with the values of the traditional Jewish anti-Zionist world from the days of the old yeshuv.
          But do I have a handy link to “prove” that a non-insane version of Neturei Karta exists in the world? No.

          1. Thank you – and especially thank you for such a detailed reply. I certainly wasn’t trying to ask you to turn yourself inside out.

  4. It would never be ok to attack a Muslim by sending them a picture of an ISIS atrocity and saying “this is the true Islam,”

    Disagree
    ISIS are devout muzlims modeling mohammad

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