Letter to the Editor

RE: "Sons of the Covenant Defame La Vozde Aztlan" from Dave Kersting

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“B’nai B’rith” means “Sons of the Covenant.” I didn’t know that. The “covenant” in question is, of course, the one that supposedly declared the ancient Hebrew nation God’s “chosen” people.

I didn’t realize that the Zionists were still being so indiscreet. As the complexities of the “Arab-Israeli conflict” have finally filtered down to the plain issue of a “Jewish” state forced into Palestine, and the Zionists find themselves trying to justify blazing, smoking-gun racism, the old “chosen people” business must be a little embarrassing. But there’s no way they can retract it.

I think there is a difference between “Sons of the Covenant” and “Master Race”: Since “anyone can become a Jew,” the covenant connection just qualifies as “ethnicity,” certainly not as “race.” Still, in an aggressive military form, it is no less arrogant or dangerous – especially when it poses as a champion of social equality.

In the U.S., the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Weisenthal Center present themselves as THE leading champions of ethnic justice and “understanding” IN GENERAL – even as they play Central Distribution for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim propaganda. Both groups offer trainings and lectures, with names like “Tools for Tolerance” and “Teaching Understanding,” for teachers, parents, and others. Every vulnerable social group gets some air-time in these programs: Blacks, Asians, Latinos, women, gays, disabled, and more – but, of course, NOT the Palestinians. The noble purpose is belied by a breezy silence about the main ethnic holocaust of our own time and place.

As we properly lament the world’s silence during the Jewish holocaust, we’re supposed to “not see” the Palestinian catastrophe, even though we have infinitely more information about it than anyone had about the Nazi holocaust against the Jews.

What’s more, teaching the principles of ethnic justice, in a way to exclude the main victim group, muddles the issue completely. Social equality is presented as good-feeling rhetoric, NOT as essential principles: nifty words can neatly bypass the Palestinians, while real comprehension would bring their plight to the forefront of concern. So a self-image of modern awareness is instilled in audiences, even as real-world “racism” makes a huge comeback, in all its grotesque apparel, but insulated from the nasty word and passing, disgracefully, unrecognized. The presentation of modern values as rhetorical fluff has a numbing, dumbing-down effect: a terrible, long-term harm, especially when it is taught to children.

The only conceivable purpose for the Zionist scheme, of declaring “leadership” against inequality, is to gain propaganda power for the conquest of Palestine. This does not mean that Zionism, if it could succeed in that, would go no further. Like all such elaborate bureaucracies, Zionism is a confluence of vast social forces, shaping, rewarding, and attracting the personalities it requires. Zionism is stuck on ethnic conquest as if on a rail – a driverless machine, that rolls over the families of Palestine: the most explicit, clinging example of policies we tell our children we left far behind. It cannot reverse global progress, but realization comes slowly, at first.

Despite the power of corporate media, recent history cannot be muddled forever. Among the first to see through the nonsense are grass-roots minority activists – including genuine Jewish activists, groups like La Raza, even the odd child-advocate. Of course the Zionists must try to discredit us, but their ability to do so is far less than it was twenty years ago; progress cannot be reviled forever.

In the famous case in L.A., the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was found to be involved (with Mossad and others) in spying on quite a few American minority-rights organizations, and the big question, posed by Hussein Ibish of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), was WHY? Why on earth would an equal-rights group spy on other equal-rights groups? The answer is simple. The Zionists know that the officially “Jewish” definition of Israel is flagrantly racist. And they know who is most likely to notice and object. (No, not the “leftist” and “progressive” social clubs.) The strongest champions of equal rights as UNIVERSAL principles – which cannot be eviscerated to exclude the Palestinians – are groups like La Raza and papers like La Voz de Aztlan.

The Zionists know that genuine principles of social justice present the greatest danger to their ambitions. When Palestinian and Arab leaders realize it, we will see better progress.

Dave Kersting