“They’re not representative.”
New York, October 2 – An area pro-Palestine activist who uses as political cover the tiny minority of Jews who do not accept the modern reestablishment of ancient Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland railed today against those who trot out non-Jewish Israelis to put forth pro-Israel talking points, calling the practice dishonest and a distortion of the true essence of Zionist policies and administration in the land.
Hussein Jalali, 25, criticized the use of “token” Arabs by Zionists who argue that the establishment and maintenance of Israel as a Jewish state provides the world, and the Middle East in particular, with a net positive that features democracy, rule of law, equality, human rights, and economic development for all citizens regardless of ethnicity or race – and that the authentic position for a Jew involves anti-Zionism, such that of the perhaps eight percent of Jews worldwide, and not the Zionism of various degrees that characterizes the worldview of more than nine tenths of global Jewry.
“It’s tokenism, is what it is,” insisted Jalali. “You can’t take a handful of Arabs, who are the exception, and are probably bribed or blackmailed into pro-Israel advocacy, or at the very least are deluded, and hold them up as some genuine expression of the Arab experience under Zionism. Everyone knows Arabs under the Zionist regime are oppressed and denied basic civil and political rights, and they suffer institutional and everyday racism. You can’t take Arabs with Israeli citizenship at their word. They’re not representative.”
“What you must do, instead, is give prominence to the Neturei Karta, for example,” he continued, referring to a sliver of orthodox Jewry as the “true” representation of Judaism’s attitude toward Jewish sovereignty, even as that sliver remains marginalized and disdained among the same “ultra-orthodox” communities it claims to represent, and even as that sliver represents a far smaller percentage of its own “orthodox” demographic than Zionist Arab-Israelis account for in theirs.
Jalali cited numerous anti-Israel posts from a Twitter account calling itself Torah Jews, which some basic research revealed is run not by anyone from the Jewish community, but by a Muslim activist who frequently posted during the Jewish Sabbath when no orthodox Jew, let alone one billed as “the most authentic” kind of Jew, would do so.
He followed up that rhetorical device by adducing the words of pre-Holocaust anti-Zionists who insisted that Jews can rely on their non-Jewish majority host cultures for protection and security.
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