Reconsidering Self-hatred
It is ironic that Pini Gurfil, who accuses Jewish critics of Israeli policies in the occupied territories of "self-hatred" (Daily Princetonian, April 3) is himself indebted to the most virulently anti-Semitic topoi used by the Nazis.
To speak of the "Jewish people" as having "long been cursed" should give the shivers to anyone with a modicum of historical consciousness. To speak of certain Jews as a "fifth column" ought to set bells ringing.
Gurfil seems to have no problem assigning responsibility for every calamity in Jewish history, including the Holocaust, to other Jews. It is easy to see where this sort of rhetoric leads. After all, what do most nationalists do with "fifth columns?"
Not too long ago, a young, extremist right-wing Israeli university student named Yigal Amir assassinated the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, who was, at that time, courageously moving his country and his people toward peace.
For people like Gurfil and Amir, there is only one way to be a Jew or an Israeli. For them, it is impossible to be a real Israeli or a real Jew without sharing their fascistic, early 20th century vision of "the nation." They presume not only that they know best what it means to be Jewish but also that they have a right to decide who is in and who is out.
We have seen this before. Amos Bitzan '03
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