    http://www.israelshamir.net/Left/Left1.htm

    "Dear comrades, if we shall keep mum today, tomorrow the Jewish Marxists
    will ride on our backs... Vladimir Lenin"

    The New Bund at Old Tricks

    By Israel Shamir

    Tony Greenstein (Blind eye to anti-semitism)* is obsessed with
    Jewishness. He views the world through the prism of a Jewish
    Nationalist. He judges people by one criterion which he shares with my
    late grandmother: "Is he/she good for Jews?" He and his friends "Jews
    Against Zionism" claim to be antizionists, but Zionism is just a form of
    Jewish bourgeois nationalism, and not the only one. By creating their
    Jews-only organisation, Greenstein et al enforced Jewish separatism and
    caused unnecessary and dangerous split in the Palestine solidarity
    movement.

    History repeats itself. Over a hundred years ago, the Russian Jewish
    socialists, Bund, (antizionists to a man) asked Lenin for permission to
    join his new movement as a separate collective member. ‘Everyone of you
    is welcome to join the common struggle of workers against Russian and
    Jewish moneybags, but as a separate group you would just split our
    forces’, he replied, and expelled the Bund. Eventually many Russian Jews
    joined the movement of Russian workers, and together they changed the
    course of history. The Bund withered, some of its members drifting to
    Zionism.

    But history repeats itself as a farce, in words of Marx. Bund had
    hundreds of thousands members; the New Bund, Jews against Zionism is a
    tiny grouping which mustered one hundred signatures world-wide, from San
    Francisco to Tel Aviv to London. Their contribution to the struggle is
    zero, their nuisance value is much higher for they mainly attack
    antizionists.

    I can imagine a few things Jews can meaningfully do together (pray?),
    but political struggle for equality in Palestine does not call for a
    separate Jews-only discussion. Moreover, it is a self-defeating course.
    The concept of Jews for Justice, Jews for Peace and other separatist
    all-Jewish groups in pursuit of common goals appears to me about as
    justifiable as that of Whites against Apartheid. Equality in South
    Africa was achieved by overcoming such dubious groupings, by the
    color-blind force of the ANC. It appears that the cause of justice in
    Palestine should not be different. Why, then, such groups exist?

    Extremely wealthy leaders of Jewish organisations are worried by high
    desertion rate in their rank and file. They spend billions trying to
    stop assimilation and return descendents of Jews into the fold. A UJA-
    organised program The Birthright brings thousands of young people of
    Jewish origin into Jerusalem from all over the world – all paid,
    generous accomodation supplied – in order to discourage intermarriage
    and promote marriages within the community. They build the world-wide
    continuation of Sharon’s Wall in order to separate Jews and non-Jews.

    Jews Against Zionism is a part and parcel of this effort; an attempt to
    keep even people who understood criminality of Zionism, within the fold.
    In their attack on Gilad Atzmon, Paul Eisen, Mary Rizzo and me they
    repeat verbally accusations delivered by Aaronovitch and Pollard in The
    Times, and rude lies disseminated by ADL-financed internet sites,
    because we stand for full integration of descendents of Jews in the
    countries they live, for their assimilation, for putting paid to the
    reactionary idea of Jewish exclusiveness.

    Our view agrees with Marx and Lenin’s reading of Jewishness. In 1903,
    Lenin wrote in the Iskra, and his words are extremely relevant to the
    present discussion:

      The idea of a Jewish 'nationality' is scientifically wrong and
      politically reactionary, not only when expounded by its consistent
      advocates (the Zionists), but likewise on the lips of those who try to
      combine it with the ideas of Social-Democracy (the Bundists). The idea
      of a Jewish nationality runs counter to the interests of the Jewish
      proletariat, for it fosters among them, directly or indirectly, a spirit
      hostile to assimilation, the spirit of the 'ghetto'.

    The Jews Against Zionism are but New Bundists, and at least one of their
    members and co-signers of anti-Eisen petition, Abraham Weizfeld, openly
    calls himself ‘a Bundist’. Their antizionism does not impress us
    overmuch, as an important Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov
    (http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/) noticed that "The Bundists
    want to establish their Zion here, not in Palestine" and added a
    witticism: "The Bundists are nothing more than Zionists suffering from
    sea-sickness". This opinion was shared by Zionists, and Ber Borokhov
    prophesied that "one day the future Jewish State will have to erect a
    gold monument to the Bund for its illustrious achievements." It did not
    happen yet, but not for a want of trying.

    Tony’s accusations are difficult to refute; for they are based on his
    inability to understand a text, whether for reasons of dumbness or for
    more sinister reasons. For instance, I write: "There is no ‘tainted
    blood’, acceptance of Christ is the Final Solution of the Jewish
    question, while assimilation and intermarriage is the way to undo the
    vestiges of Jewish separatism" and he interprets this sentence as "the
    salvation of the Palestinians lies in the conversion of the Jews, the
    ‘christ-killers’, to christianity". Symptomatically, he changes in all
    quotes 'Christ' to 'christ', and 'Christianity' to 'christianity', as in
    his view of Jewish nationalist, the capital letter should be preserved
    for Jews only. I write: "No Jew is responsible for misdeeds of his
    ancestors"; but he insists: "He calls us christ-killers".

    His attack on our comrades Paul Eisen and Jeff Blankfort is equally
    unwarranted. Mr Greenstein is obsessed with the subject of the Jewish
    Holocaust and divides people into sheep and goats on basis of their
    attitude to this narrative. What is so special about this narrative? Why
    he does not attack deniers of the Armenian massacre (by Kurds), deniers
    of the Azeri massacre (by Armenians), deniers of the Jenin massacre (by
    Jews), deniers of the Huguenot massacre (Night of St Bartholomew), and
    deniers of Dresden Massacre (by Brits)? If he is such an antizionists,
    why he is not worried that his ally Steven Plaut, another enemy of
    Atzmon and me, who quotes him word-perfect, denies Al-Nakbah and the
    Deir Yassin Massacre (http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/?p=741 )? Why he does
    not picket Plaut?

    Our view is quite different. The Holocaust narrative is used to enforce
    Jewish separatism and specialness - it is connected with that racist
    slur of "natural criminality of non-Jews". Not in vain, the leading
    ideologist of Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt, also preaches against
    intermarriage which ‘spoils purity of Jewish blood’. We support
    deconstruction of the narrative. The very term 'Holocaust Denier' is a
    quasi-religious expression akin to 'Christ Denier', a usual accusation
    by the Inquisition, but as we saw, Tony is ready to deny Christ even his
    capital C.

    While Tony accuses others of ‘racism’, he and his chums are as racist as
    anybody. Tony G. calls me "an ex-Russian/Swedish fascist now living in
    Israel" - this is a hoodwink way of saying "he is not a Jew". Tony’s
    right-wing Jewish friends and allies of Frontpagemag.com are not that
    reticent and say so loudly. So did his friend ‘antiracist and Marxist’
    Roland Rance. This is beneath my dignity to discuss. I can’t even argue
    against accusation of ‘fascism’ as Tony G. did not produce a single line
    that connects me to the fascist doctrine.

    The New Bundists just unable to cope with the fact that at their letter
    of protest, the Socialist Bookshop and the SWP did not drop everything
    and stand at attention. The British Communists may well take to their
    heart a retort of Vladimir Lenin, who wrote in 1913 from Krakow: "Dear
    comrades, if we shall keep mum today, tomorrow the Jewish Marxists will
    ride on our backs...The Bund turns socialism into nationalism"[1].

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    * http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/584/zionism.htm

    [1] Complete Works, v. 48, page 134, Moscow