The euphemisms that conceal hatred.



The Third Reich often used euphemistic terms to describe aspects of the Holocaust, while attempting to conceal the deliberate, carefully planned destruction, and genocide of the Jewish population.

Incorporated from the beginning, Nazi euphemisms played an important role in the entire dehumanizing and genocidal process of the Holocaust.

Indeed, in order to obscure the real intent, and to disguise the hatred and fate confronting the Jewish people, distinct terminology was used with obvious intent. Whether it was locating, extricating or in everyday dealings with the Jewish population, the Nazis went out of their way to smooth their path with obfuscations designed to deceive and mislead the Jews into a false sense of security..

From the beginning, Hitler spoke of the need to "purify" and "cleanse" the Reich of the Jewish "vermin" and to "decontaminate" or "disinfect" the Reich of the Jewish "bacillus". Jews being classed as "inferior" (Untermensch).

Ultimately, the "Jewish Problem" was to be solved through the "Final Solution"; a euphemism for extermination.

German "special duty units" (Einsatzgruppen) were mobile killing squads employed in the murder of Jews.

"Disinfection chamber" (Entwesungskammer, Desinfektion, Entlausungsanstalt): was used to refer to a gas chamber.

Terms such as "euthanasia" and "mercy death" cloaked the murders of the handicapped.

The principles used in the Holocaust have not gone away.

Today alternate terms are again being used to describe the same hateful phenomenon, with the Jewish people being faced with an anti-Semitism, whether crude or sophisticated, which very often travels under an alias called anti-Zionism.

The quality of the obsession with the malefactions of the Jewish state alone, among all the member states of the world community, and the extremity of their denunciations of it, show what is really concealed under the mask.

The rising flood of anti-Semitism under the pseudo guide of "legitimate" criticism of Israel is raging unabated throughout the Western world, not least in this country.
 

There has been indignation on the part of many, however hostile to the Jews, at being painted with the anti-Semitic "brush".

Hitler gave anti-Semitism a "bad name" and there is widespread reluctance on the part of even the most severe critics of the Jews to accept this label.

Zionism can be defined as the fervent desire of Jews of the Diaspora to return to their ancestral homeland.

Indeed, the Jews are now again a people with their own land, their own capital city, their own culture and language. They once had their own monarchy, they now have their own democratic government.

The Jews were never a people without a homeland. The land always existed, as did a Jewish presence within it. It was only Jewish sovereignty in the land that was missing.

Jews in the Diaspora never ceased to give expression to their anguish at their deprivation of their ability to return, and for millennia Jews gave voice to their attachment to Zion.

The Jewish people have displayed a remarkable persistence to remain separate as an entity, a distinct body of people, despite monstrous persecution, culminating in their restoration to their land.

The term Zionist has become an invective, used by Muslims, their apologists, and detractors of the Jewish state, to insult their worst enemies, often portraying them as the incarnation of all things evil.

When a person professes to be anti-Zionist but doesn't confine their anti-Zionism to Zionism, but extends it to include the Jewish people and their state, it is clear for me.

Refusing the Jews a state in their homeland at the expense of others is blatant anti-Semitism.

Many proponents of what they call anti-Zionism are often utterly oblivious of the true nature of the morbid and primal hatred that they cherish inwardly.

Indeed, the vehemence and toxicity of their rhetoric often falls back on the familiar cliches of Jew-hatred, showing that they are merely using a political argument to camouflage a religious, racist or ethnophobic sentiment.

Under the habit of so called legitimate criticism of Israel, and the querying of Zionism, anti-Semitism has now become a "safe" and shrewd tactic to cloak the hatred.

The distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, has finally and utterly collapsed. It is only sophistry, disingenuousness and corrupted conscience that continue to insist upon such a distinction.

As stated earlier, for decades the enemies of the Jewish people have manufactured a whole "new language" which has been created to camouflage, not only the hatred of the Jewish people, but also the killing of the Jews themselves. It continues today, now extended into the hatred of the Jewish state of Israel.

Jews residing in the ancient Jewish homeland of Judea and Samaria are called "settlers". The term "settlers" is meant to dehumanize in itself, removing the human element.

Israel's enemies have made a comprehensive effort to create around the Jewish people as a whole, an atmosphere of hatred, contempt, and de-humanization, intended to smooth the path, when it becomes physically possible, to their extirpation.

Now the world seeks a "two state solution", to the "Jewish question", which involves a "Judenfrei" Palestine, as the next step in the PLO plan of phases.

Changing "terminology" has even been extended to de-Judaize the Jewish ancestral homeland. Jordan has renamed historic Judea and Samaria as the "West Bank".

This principle adopted by Rome in 135AD when they renamed the Jewish homeland "Syria Palestina", and Jerusalem as "Aelia Capitolina".

It is not strange, therefore, for anti-Semitism to be hidden under another name.

The natural progression of anti-Zionism would inflict upon the Jews the horrors of a new exile, a new dispersion, a new subjugation, and a new deprivation of their ancient homeland. Some fear even another Holocaust.

A simple refutation of the central anti-Zionist thesis does not fully address the moral malignancy that is inherent to this cause despite there being nothing ethical about a world-view that would deny Jews the same rights of self-definition and self-determination that are routinely afforded to others.

Anti-Zionism is simply a new form of anti-Semitism, pure and simple.

Anti-Semitism is itself a political instrument. It is used as a rallying call among some in the Mid-East and among Israel's detractors.

Many anti-Semites are very aware that they must be very clever in regard to what he has to say concerning the Jews and Israel.

Anti-Semitism is not fashionable, so it is more socially acceptable for the proponents to play the "anti-Zionism" card.

The disdain for the collective Jew embodied in the State of Israel is always present, no matter the denials of those propagating the venom and despite their incessant hair-splitting over the need to separate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.

The quality of the obsession with the malefactions of the Jewish state alone, among all the member states of the world community, and the extremity of their denunciations of it, show what is really concealed under the mask.

Israel's enemies and detractors, constantly seek for some reason to attack the Jewish State, delegitimize its Jewish heritage or express what can only be called a hatred or visceral disdain for the Jewish people themselves.

The Jewish nature of the State, what constitutes a Jew, illegal "occupation" of historic Jewish land, Zionism, disproportionate measures in self-defence. The list is endless. Most of Israel's enemies can find something among these. If not they'll have no problem making some up.

Decrying someone for justifiably assigning anti-Semitism, is often used as a shield, to avoid being confronted with any such criticism, while at the same time enabling those responsible for such visceral disdain to ridicule Israel and the Jewish people with relative impunity; often under the mask of anti-Zionism. Thus the anti-Semite is able to release his intrinsic savagery without succumbing to remorse, shame

(from the writings of Martin Luther King Jr.)