That Jews in Nazi Germany called for the destruction of Germany? And that they invaded the homes of peaceful residents and massacred men, women, and children?
Every year, all sorts of self-righteous wise men arise, wrap themselves in a cloak of noble morality, and make statements that attempt to compare what is happening in the Jewish people to what happened in Nazi Germany. These are outrageous and shocking statements, which express, above all, self-hatred, and are also completely disconnected from reality and reflect a complete confusion of concepts and a terrible trivialization of the Holocaust.
Besides the enormous damage that such statements cause, when anti-Semites around the world are eager to cite them and give them enormous publicity, they contain a creative inversion and a complete moral distortion.
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And did Jews in Nazi Germany call for the destruction of Germany? And did they invade the homes of peaceful residents and massacre men, women, and children? How can one compare the Jewish people, fighting for their lives against those who seek to destroy them, to the Nazi human beings, who led millions of Jews who did nothing against them to the gas chambers?!
The right to preserve our uniqueness
This confusion of concepts began with the irresponsible waving of the term 'racism' towards positions that have nothing to do with racism and hatred of others. Certain elements – some intentionally and some indiscriminately – associate perfectly legitimate positions with 'racism', thus affixing to the people of Israel a label that accuses them of the actions of the worst of their enemies.
Is the Jewish people's desire to maintain its uniqueness racism? Is the refusal to include non-Jews in the minyan racism? Is the prohibition on a Jew marrying a non-Jew racism? Anyone who answers in the affirmative is in effect denying the entire religion of Israel. He is not criticizing 'processes' that are taking place 'in recent times', but the foundations of our religion since the time of Mount Sinai.
This confusion of concepts is ongoing. We have often seen blatant headlines declaring 'racism' in Israeli society, following public opinion polls. And what is the statistic that so shocks the authors of the poll? – the high rate (thank God!) of Jews who oppose their children's marriages to non-Jews. It might be worth reminding all the 'shocked' ones that if their fathers had not upheld this principle, they would not be here to be 'shocked.'.
If this is 'racism,' then all the bodies and organizations that are engaged in the struggle against assimilation around the world are racists. All those who work to encourage marriages between Jews and their own people are racists. And in fact, even the Jewish state, which has a Law of Return, which grants special rights to Jewish immigrants, is racist.
No xenophobia
Another thing that is associated with racism is the reaction of Jews towards their enemies. Jews in Judea and Samaria do not want to employ Arabs not because they are 'racists', but because it turned out that the Arabs who worked in the settlements of the encirclement provided information to Hamas. Those who oppose the employment of Arabs do not act out of 'racism', but because such workers have often become murderers.
The Jewish people do not hate foreigners. On the contrary, the Torah of Israel guides us to care for the well-being of all people, as the scripture says (Isaiah 45:18) "to restore her creation." But the Jewish people are tired of standing helplessly in the face of those who rise up against them to destroy them. This is not 'racism', but a healthy response of a healthy people.
