National Review Calls Bernie Sanders A Nazi

During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem.
Israel was openly critical of apartheid through the 1950s and 60s as it built alliances with post-colonial African governments. But most African states broke ties after the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the government in Jerusalem began to take a more benign view of the isolated regime in Pretoria. The relationship changed so profoundly that, in 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster - a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler - to make a state visit.

Leaving unmentioned Vorster's wartime internment for supporting Germany, Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, hailed the South African premier as a force for freedom and made no mention of Vorster's past as he toured the Jerusalem memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis. At a state banquet, Rabin toasted "the ideals shared by Israel and South Africa: the hopes for justice and peaceful coexistence". Both countries, he said, faced "foreign-inspired instability and recklessness".

Vorster, whose army was then overrunning Angola, told his hosts that South Africa and Israel were victims of the enemies of western civilisation. A few months later, the South African government's yearbook characterised the two countries as confronting a single problem: "Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples."

Vorster's visit laid the ground for a collaboration that transformed the Israel-South Africa axis into a leading weapons developer and a force in the international arms trade. Liel, who headed the Israeli foreign ministry's South Africa desk in the 80s, says that the Israeli security establishment came to believe that the Jewish state may not have survived without the relationship with the Afrikaners.

"We created the South African arms industry," says Liel. "They assisted us to develop all kinds of technology because they had a lot of money. When we were developing things together we usually gave the know-how and they gave the money. After 1976, there was a love affair between the security establishments of the two countries and their armies.

the very concept of "self-hating Jew" is based on the idea that Jews MUST behave in a tribal way

Israel and South Africa are said to have co-operated on building nuclear weapons in the 1970s,

and South Africa (according to some reports) ended up with stock of 6 gun-type fission weapons (like the Hiroshima "little boy"), later dismantled.

Bernie and others like him just don't think only in tribal terms, that's all.

Makes them good people to me.

In fact, the very concept of "self-hating Jew" is based on the idea that Jews MUST behave in a tribal way, otherwise they are mentally deranged.

Therefore, it is an antisemitic concept, inasmuch as the same is not expected of any other ethnic group.

It is based on the horrible reality that some Jews are Nazis.

Somebody like Sanders who values equality among all men and women cannot fit the description.

But you could.

Therefore, "self-hating Jew" is not only logically but also historically an antisemitic concept.

Olivier5 wrote:

Therefore, "self-hating Jew" is not only logically but also historically an antisemitic concept.

There is nothing anti-Semitic about the denunciation of Nazis.

Like your complacency with general and meaningless vilainies ("horrendous crimes") instead of facts;

I believe the concept of "self-hating Jew" is intrinsinctly and logically racist, and I prove it thus: It reduces any Jewish individual to his race, and his race only. In the worldview that's behind the phrase, Bernie is NOT an individual with its singularities and particularities and multiple identities (baseball fan, socialist, heterosexual, heavy metal groupy - I'm just making these examples of multiple affiliations up). No no no. He is not an complicated and unique individual. He is just A JEW. If he ever has any misgivings about some Jewish politician half a world away, he is hating the JEWS. All of them, including HIMSELF.

Otherwise, in the normal, non-racist worldview, he is just disagreeing with another Jew. You don't hate yourself when you disagree with another American, do you?