Mourning dead Jews while condemning Israel
- Julio Levit Koldorf
- Dec 11, 2024
- 1 min read
— The Jerusalem Post
The article "Mourning dead Jews while condemning Israel" by Julio Levit Koldorf critiques the absurd hypocrisy of a world that universally honors Jews as historical victims while simultaneously vilifying the State of Israel as a modern villain. The author argues that this selective morality allows institutions and individuals to acknowledge Jewish persecution through history (e.g., the Holocaust, pogroms) but to abandon all intellectual rigor when assessing the Jewish fight for survival in the modern Middle East. This has led to a grotesque inversion of history, where Arab aggression (like the 1948 wars of annihilation) is forgotten, and Jewish self-defense is reframed as "ethnic cleansing." The article highlights that modern anti-Zionism is merely institutionalized antisemitism—visible in the Muslim world's hostility and in Western organizations (like the UN and Amnesty International) that apply a unique, illegitimate standard to Israel. Koldorf concludes that this pattern is the latest iteration of an ancient social pathology rooted in willful blindness, making it politically convenient to mourn dead Jews rather than stand up for living ones.