Israel is a danger to the Jews by Sawsan Al-Abtah February 26, 2024

Israel is a danger to the Jews
by Sawsan  Al-Abtah
February 26, 2024

When Ronnie Bruman says, “As a Jew, I believe that Israel is putting my life in danger because it incites hatred against me and fuels anti-Semitism throughout the world.” We are facing a Zionist descendant, father to grandfather, whose feelings shook the pain of the Palestinians until it suddenly seemed to him that everything he believed in was mere deceptive narratives. After the October 7, 2023 attack, Bruman thinks that “the Zionist project that was originally established to protect the Jews has completely failed” and has backfired.
The man is the former head of Médecins Sans Frontières. of Zionist parents. His father was a fighter during the Second War and became a military trainer in France for Jews fleeing Central Europe before sending them to fight and expel the Palestinians. In the year of the Nakba, this military trainer came to Palestine to participate in the establishment of the State of Israel. It was in this atmosphere that Ronnie Bruman was born in Jerusalem, always believing that talking about the Palestinian people was just empty slogans. Arabs have 22 countries and extended areas, and moving some people from one location to another near them is neither painful nor terrible. It had to wait for the first Palestinian intifada in 1987 for Bruman to see young children throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, revolting, and killing for Palestine, to believe that they really existed, that they had a cause and rights in this land.
“The veil was suddenly torn before my eyes.” Bruman, who returned his family to France at age five, had libertarian tendencies, supported Vietnam, marched in demonstrations, and then specialized in medicine for the love of the service of humanity. Still, Love of the UK differed from his thought; insomnia was original until close to thirty. He was raised, as his father told him, that the victor is the one who ultimately imposes his narrative and vocabulary. Israel had already triumphed in 1948 and again in 1967, and its status was established, its narrative was imposed, and it no longer raised his questions, so that because of his profession, Bruman traveled to all parts of the world but never thought of visiting his hometown.
Bruman is not a modern apostate of Zionism. Still, he is a typical case of understanding the repercussions of the Gaza massacres on the numbers of Jews around the world, especially young people who speak of vigilance and discovery of truths hidden from them. We see them increasing after each pivotal event.
A trend that has begun to emerge in recent years with the rapid rise of the Israeli far right and its shocking rhetoric. Among them is journalist Sylvain Sibylle, an expert in Israeli society who worked for Corré International and then Le Monde. His book “The State of Israel vs. the Jews” sounded provocative when it was published two years ago. He is leveling a list of harsh accusations against Israel. Sibylle believes that there are two Judaism now coexisting: the Judaism of Israel and its external supporters, who are robust and powerful, and the Judaism of the wicked, which includes anyone who tries to criticize the practices of successive Israeli governments, their racism, and colonialism.
Violence and oppression affect Palestinians, and every Jew that goes outside the official narrative says Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illuz.
For forty years, Israel has been ruled by Likud, which is allied with a racist far-right. “In the face of this (criminal) and (suicidal) development of Israeli society, critical thinking seems paralyzed.” “Those in power use the memory of the Holocaust to terrorize those who wish to criticize.” Jewish writer Sibylle complains about a legal arsenal created for this purpose, which supports associations calling for the expulsion of Palestinians. A ban extending to Israel’s allies was imposed on supporters of the boycott, even if they were Jewish. Human rights organizations are then required to register as “foreign agent” if their funding is not Israeli. Parliament passed a “cultural loyalty” law to prevent artists from criticizing the state. “A draft law guaranteeing immunity to any soldier or member of the Israeli special services suspected of committing a criminal act in the course of his activity is being studied.” This is what the author considers “a license to hunt down and kill Palestinians.”
Let us not forget the passage of the nation-state law, whereby every Jew has the right to reside in Israel as his land, while it is forbidden to the Palestinian inhabitants of the country. The apartheid regime thus became a blatant legal fact, undeniable.
The growing power of extremists and the certainty that worse is to come have pushed thousands of Israelis into reverse emigration and sowed terror in the hearts of some Jews abroad who are aware of the danger of a government thousands of miles away but is seen in the eyes of the world as their representative. In America, nearly half of young Jewish voters feel that Biden supports Israel too much, according to a poll conducted a few days ago. However, this is not the case for the older ones.
More important is the deep concern about anti-Semitism among American Jews, with 96 percent calling it a severe problem in the United States. Young people are also as afraid of Islamophobia in their country as they fear anti-Semitism, which means that sensitivity encompasses all forms of racism.
An overwhelming majority of 91 percent of American Jews refuse to be muzzled and banned from criticizing Israel, recalling Sylvain Sibylle saying that “the American Jewish community frees itself from the Jewish state and opens the way to other possibilities.” Sylvain agrees with Broman, “What Zionism is experiencing is a cruel and indisputable failure.”
“It has led to a completely repugnant apartheid regime, based on the systematic lie of the state, and it is already turning against Israel and the Jewish people.”
Source: Middle East, Translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid.