Self-Hating Jews
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
Jewish history is full of Jewish infighting and mutual hate since the “mixed multitude” left Egypt with the rest, through Hellenistic Jews trying to finish off “traditional Jews and Judaism” in Greek times and, of course, during the extreme unfounded hatred in the Kingdom of Judea that led to the Romans capturing an already devastated Jerusalem over 2000 years ago.
The same theme, Jews trying to justify and elevate themselves at the expense of other Jews, continues today.
Usually, this “self-hate” has two different causes. The first, more common cause is fully misunderstanding what it means “to be Jewish” and what our “Jewish role” is in the world. Thus, these — usually liberal — Jews think they need to perform “Tikkun Olam” through political and social activism, fighting for different “rights” in humanity while going against Israel to gain credibility in the eyes of others.
The other reason is knowing what “being Jewish” and the “Jewish role” is but not accepting and rejecting it.
Our Jewish role in the world is following the footsteps of our forefathers and predecessors who built a single Nation — as one man with one heart — based on a “supernatural” — above and against the inherently selfish, egoistic, hateful, and exploitative human nature — unity and mutual guarantee. This is in order to become “Light unto others,” a model Nation that can show the world how we can collectively survive despite being born with a destructive, cancer-like human ego.