‘Don’t Define Islam By A Tiny Violent Minority!’ – A Jew Who Demands You Define Judaism By My Tiny AntiZionist Minority

by Ariel Gold, Code Pink

New York, March 10 – Prejudice and discrimination have no place in our society – or in our world. Anyone who defines the hundreds of millions of adherents of Islam – the religion of peace! – by the violent actions of a misunderstood but mistaken small minority, commits the sin of prejudice. I say this as a member of the Hebraic persuasion – specifically, of an even smaller minority within the Hebraic persuasion that insists everyone disregard the attachment and support of ninety-five percent of that persuasion for the State of Israel.

For decades, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Muslims and their allies have struggled to explain that the evil actions of their coreligionists – as justified as I might feel them, and as much as I believe all those bereaved families had it coming – do not represent Muslims as a whole, and certainly not American Muslims. How dare anyone tar them with the same brush as those terrorists! I also maintain that anti-Zionist Jews, who number perhaps a twentieth of the Jewish population, represent authentic Judaism, and that the nineteen twentieths who defend Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland can be safely dismissed as irrelevant.

Judaism does not imply Zionism! Just look at the sliver of the Jewish demographic called Neturei Karta, who, like me and my organization, stand in solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran and their ambition to destroy Israel. The fact that the rest of Jewry views Neturei Karta with horror and revulsion is just a political smoke screen. How can anyone think that a marginal group of Jews allied with the Holocaust-denying regime in Teheran do not represent authentic loyalty to the Jewish nation and tradition? It beggars belief. They have dark frocks and sidelocks and everything! Nothing is more authentically Jewish than a style of dress that originated among Russian imperial nobility of the eighteenth century!

REAL Jews believe Zionism caused the Holocaust. And by REAL Jews I mean the Jews who think like me. Well, mostly like me. They might have a problem with my complete dismissal of anything binding about the Torah and all that. But that’s marginal. You can’t define me by that. You have to reserve defining the larger entity by a tiny constituent part for your view of Judaism, as I asserted above.

But don’t you DARE do that with any other group, or you’re a repulsive bigot.

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