Anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews. Palestine Branch (translated article)

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Translated piece by Kann News reporter Gal Berger

'Anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews. Palestine Branch,' Gal Berger

By KASBA67, 10 Dec 2021

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If there is one thing I have long been tired of hearing it is the question "Why now? Why has the sequence of attacks erupted right now, and not, say, two months ago?".

This is a question I can understand if it comes from a special guest from the Zulu tribe who landed here in 2021 with no previous background, without knowing the history, without knowing the reality of life here.

A question I admit, makes me raise an eyebrow today when I hear it from Israelis living here. Hello? Where have you been so far?

For 100 years there have been terrorist attacks and terrorist attacks aimed at murdering Jews. Before and after the second intifada, before the first intifada, before '67, before '48.

The reason for this is first and foremost: pure hatred of Jews. In some cases, it is a proper Palestinian anti-Semitism. Not everyone on the Palestinian side is affected by it, I even tend to believe that the vast majority do not. But the majority do not carry out attacks. Those who do - are driven away first.

Here, too, we have racist Arab hatred among some Israelis. But that's not what I'm dealing with here.

Some of you may be aware that in everyday Palestinian language, in many cases, perhaps for the most part, we are not called Israelis. But Jews.

When I walk in the territories and a child / young person suspects my foreignness, he filters his friends: "Yahoodi?", And does not ask them if I am "Israeli." When the army enters a Palestinian village at night, they say, "The Jews have come," and not the Israelis. When they curse, "May Allah take them," we mean Jews. "The sons of the apes and the pigs [sic]," and "the murderers of the prophets," were titles attached to the Jews long before the State of Israel was established. Add to that the cartoons in which the "Israeli" who does not wear a uniform is always portrayed as the "figure" of the exiled Jew: ultra-Orthodox, side curls, [Nazi imported caricature of (- translator)] long nose and wicked face.

We will not now go into a lesson in Islam, the Koran and the Oral ideology in Islam, but we must understand: we are first and foremost Jews in the eyes of the average Palestinian on the street, only then Israelis / Zionists / occupiers. And I'm not just talking here about Hamas, which is a classic antisemitic organization.

It is not that the term "Israelis" is not heard at all beyond the Green Line. Politicians from the Palestinian Authority are careful to call us Israelis, they are well aware of the sensitivity. There are also those in the Palestinian public who do not have the hatred of Jews as Jews and we hear them say "Israelis." In many cases the intermediate option will be chosen: "Ai Ibn Amek Jay" (here your cousin has arrived), many will say when they see an Israeli journalist in the territories, for example, and I have no conclusive proof whether the phrase "cousin" expresses more affection, more disgust or condescension.

But if we put terminology aside for a moment, we need to understand and internalize: Many beds in the Palestinian breeding ground cultivate hatred of Jews, from infancy, through formal and informal settings, at home and abroad, to adulthood. In the very same flowerbeds, the ethos of the martyrs and paradise and the uncompromising war on infidels are often cultivated. At certain moments in life, it connects. Then we see an attack.

The bridge or ladder that connects hatred of Jews and / or Palestinian anti-Semitism and the desire to become a martyr goes through several stages. These stages of the ladder, or in other words: the medium or psycho-psychological path that a person goes through to reach the end of the ladder and become a martyr, is varied. These are actually the triggers that can push him at a certain moment to turn the mental foundation of hatred of Jews into an action that is essentially the murder of Jews.

One can find in these triggers (stages of the ladder on the way to becoming a martyr) difficult economic situation, great personal distress, disappointed love, quarrel with father, social humiliation, hopelessness for the future, great despair and frustration, occupation and its effects, blood spilled on the Palestinian side, strong desire to contribute to national struggle For the removal of the occupation or the Jews in general, imitation and inspiration, incitement on social networks, or piety and religious fanaticism. Sometimes one trigger is enough, sometimes some of the triggers mix together.

Not every attack stems from a deep basic desire of the perpetrator to contribute to the Palestinian national struggle, not every attack amounts solely to a person's economic hardship. But all the perpetrators have one mental-psychological basis: hatred of Jews.

Take a man who grew up in one of the beds of hatred of Jews and anti-Semitism, in Nablus for example, and got into personal distress at some point in his life. He can conquer it and face it, and he can walk the streets of Nablus and vent his frustration and rage on a random target that will happen in his way, turning it into the punching bag of all his troubles in the world.

But he does not choose a random target. He connects his personal distress to his primal hatred of Jews. He will focus all his troubles on this goal and go out to carry out an attack. Along the way he will also win and earn his family the glory of the martyr. Excuse me for the jarring comparison: it's like a man who hates cats in every vein of his soul is thrown one day by his girlfriend, walks down the street and kicks the first cat he sees. And again sorry.

For the last hundred years we have been living between peaks of terrorist attacks and wars. Even in the decade and a half that has passed since the second intifada, we have known quite a few such peaks. Also in the last year by the way. Once in a while in an X period of time, breaks into our lives a sequence of several attacks that are carried out at times of density. When you look at it along the timeline, you find that it never stops. Not a month goes by that there is no attack or attempted attack and many others are thwarted along the way.

It is probably human nature to try and link this to a specific event. One that will help us tell ourselves a story that will give us an answer: "Why now?". Years ago I also fell for it. When I asked my Palestinian interlocutor, "Why is the sequence of attacks taking place at this particular time, why right now?"

He corrected me: 'it's the other way around,' and said: "Your question should be how is it that it has not happened until now?".

If so, there is something among many of us that is still trying to find a circumstantial connection to this or that sequence of attacks, to provide mini-hypotheses, and mini-angles (in and out of the media), even without certainty that this is indeed the reason. Sometimes there is no obvious explanation. But the basic answer to the question "what do they want, and why exactly have five or six young terrorists decided to stand up and take action" should be put on the table once and for all: this is hatred of Jews first and foremost.

Most of the time we will not know at what time the wave will break out. Just as we will not know when the ascent to the corona will come and when the descent in the corona will take place, we will only know that the corona is there. Just as we will not know when the sea will be stormy and when it will be calm, we will only know that the sea is there. Just like hatred of the Jews, it is there, and sometimes it erupts and it never stops. Should the triggers (ladder stages) be reduced? - Obviously. Is this a guarantee to end the hatred of the Jews and the murders - clearly not. Not everything is under our control, not everything is because of us, and it is not advisable to blame only ourselves as a method.

Of course, not all frustrated young Palestinians go out to carry out terrorist attacks, as well as frustrated young people around the world, most of whom do not choose the path of violence. Here, in the territories, there are growing beds that are full of hatred of Jews and are a fertile ground for the growth of pests. To say that it is only the difficult economic situation, or the occupation, or the impasse on the personal horizon, that is pushing young people to carry out terrorist attacks? - This is superficiality bordering on blindness.

The Palestinian Authority, during the sixteen years of Abu Mazen's rule, has succeeded in making a major change in the general vector of its public: from a society that turned in large parts of it to violence against Jews as the ultimate solution, to a society that today chooses to live its life and put violence aside. But the Palestinian Authority has not dealt with one thing in all these years, it is doubtful whether it has tried and it is not clear whether it is capable at all: hatred of Jews.

Hatred that when she encounters one of the triggers mentioned earlier, she may channel some of the young people and not just young people, take a knife, or a rifle, or Dad's car - and embark on a murderous campaign against Jews in the streets of Israel.

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