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P.O. Box 175, Station H, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2K7 Tel: (514) 486-5544 Fax: (514) 486-8284 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.isranet.org Editorial Jerusalem: City of Peace Fiddling on the Roof: Coping With Baruch Cohen the Old, and the New, Anti-Semitism O Jerusalem, shining and bright Frederick Krantz Embraced forever with your people’s love

On Wednesday, 14 November, the New York Times recounts, at the end of the O my people, I would sing my heart first act of Fiddler on the Roof at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore, Md., On this night of glory after Russian antisemites stage a pogrom against residents of a Jewish shtetl cel - My city of love on whose ebrating a wedding , a man jumped up in the balcony, repeatedly yelling “Heil Hills my father Abraham’s Hitler! Heil Trump!”. Painful trial Several theater-goers feared a mass shooting—the Pittsburgh synagogue mur - The tears of generations of my people ders, after all, occurred only a short time before. One man, “frightened and dis - Have not dared extinguish turbed”, shrank in his seat, fearing that “this guy [may have] a gun”. Another, The flames of eternal sacrifice noting that several audience members ran for the exits, said “I was waiting to The flames of infinite love. hear a gunshot, frankly”. Clouds of unbearable thunder, Baltimore police arrested the alleged screamer, one Anthony M. Derlunis II, Lightning and endless tears 58, whom they said had been drinking heavily, and who told them that he had Carry me on this ever-lasting night yelled out because the scene in the play reminded him of his hatred of President With endless generations’ might Trump, a reaction borne out, he claimed, by the evidently high number of “Trump To you, beloved Jerusalem supporters” ( i.e., Jews) reacting negatively to his outburst. Ir Shalom The frightening scene lasted about five minutes, and Mr. Derlunis was not City of Peace charged by the Baltimore authorities—because, as they rather disingenuously put Embraced forever with my it, “As reprehensible as the man’s words were, they are considered protected free People’s love! speech because nobody was directly threatened”. Yet the NYT ’s account does note that he has now been banned from entering the theater. Of course, in the current antisemitic climate (the rate of incidents in both the Baruch Cohen z”l, CIJR’s Research Chairman U.S. and Canada, like the rate of gun possession, has been steadily increasing in for thirty years, passed away this past September. recent years), the Baltimore shouter, like the Pittsburgh shooter, might well have His moving memoir, No One Bears Witness had a gun, and used it. These incidents involve both the extreme right and ex - for the Witness , published in 2018, treme left, and while traditional antisemitic motifs are present—religious bigotry is available from CIJR. against Jews as such, resentment of “Jewish money” and political “influence”, etc.—themes clearly associated with what is termed “the new antisemitism” are ISRAFAX EDITORIAL BOARD also at work. Editor ...... Frederick Krantz Publications Chairman . . Rob Coles Here, not so much “the Jew” as political hatred of the Jewish State , Israel, is Associate Editors . . . . .Julien Bauer Assistant Editor .Machla Abramovitz the focus of vitriol and resentment. Arguing that Israel is a kind of Nazi oppressor ...... Ira Robinson Archivist : ...... Bradley Martin of innocent Palestinians, this “new” antisemitism can—as in “anti-Zionist” ...... Harold M. Waller Executive Assistant . . Yunna Shapira “BDS” campaigns on campuses, where Islamist and leftist elements combine— ISRAFAX is the research publication of the Canadian Insti - masquerade as highly “moral” and “even-handed”. tute for Jewish Research , an independent and non-partisan non-profit educational foundation devoted to the study of Indeed, the “new” antisemites can even claim to be highly offended when ac - Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. It provides cused of being antisemites—we are “human rights activists”, they [including, CIJR members with key data and a digest of international sadly, some “progressive” Jewish allies] say, cleverly claiming to be not anti- analysis and opinion on relevant issues. Jewish but “only” anti-Israel. As if their drive to delegitimate and, hence, to finish We welcome your letters, comments and materials, Hitler’s work by destroying the world’s only Jewish democratic state, is not the which can be faxed or e-mailed (see cover.) very essence of modern genocidal antisemitism! That Fiddler on the Roof (an oddly American phenomenon, a musical about a pogrom) could provoke a Trump-hating and potentially dangerous meshugah to shout “Heil Hitler!” in a crowded theater, is a not-so-paradoxical commentary THIS ISSUE on our current, conflicted political moment. While we are far from facing an imminent, State-supported Kristallnacht , it is deeply concerning that, in a U.S. only two years away from the next Presiden - tial election, the left-“progressive” and Marxisand wing of the Democratic Party cultivates some members’ no-so-genteel anti-Israelism, while in Britain an out - right antisemite, Jeremy Corbyn, heads a British Labour Party which might, on the heels of a Brexit-induced election, actually come to power. We must be alert to an increasing degree of turmoil and uncertainty: the “longest hatred”, antisemitism, ever-protean in its ability to change forms, is alive and well. The price of Jewish freedom is eternal vigilance, the ensuring of Jewish continuity, defense of basic democratic rights and traditions, and unified support for the well-being of the state of Israel, vital center of the Jewish people. (Prof. Frederick Krantz is Director of the Canadian Institute ISSN # 1193-7246 for Jewish Research, and editor of its ISRAFAX ‘journal’) 2 – December 3, 2018 – ISRAFAX WEEKLY QUOTES SHORT TAKES

“We are in the midst of a military campaign, and you don’t RECENT ANTISEMITISM IN U.S. (Washington) — In Miami, abandon during a campaign, you don’t play politics…The se - the Haim and Gila Wiener Florida Lubavitch Headquarters was curity of the state is above all else.” — Prime Minister Ne - vandalized with a swastika and an upside-down cross. In Wood - tanyahu. The prime minister will take on the post of defense bridge, CT, the Board of Education has been forced to confront minister following Avigdor Liberman’s resignation and rejected antisemitism at its Amity High School, where Jewish students said calls for new elections. Netanyahu said it would be wrong and “ir - they have found swastikas in the bathroom and on desks. In Wash - responsible” to bring down the government and force new elec - ington, DC, a white supremacist has been arrested on charges of tions during “one of our most difficult security periods…There illegal gun possession after his family members called police over is no place for politics or personal considerations,” when it remarks that the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was “a dry run.” comes to Israel’s security, he said. ( Times of Israel , Nov. 18, 2018) (Jewish Press , Nov. 15, 2018) “I advise Israel not to try and test us again…This time you UN COMMITTEE PASSES NINE RESOLUTIONS SLAM - did not have a lot of casualties and you managed to rescue your MING ISRAEL IN SINGLE DAY (New York) — A special special forces. You should not try again, because next time you committee of the UN General Assembly voted in favor of nine res - will have to release thousands of prisoners.” — Hamas’s leader olutions attacking Israel — with the rest of the world left unmen - Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar warned that an - tioned. The resolutions were passed by the General Assembly’s other Israeli raid into the Gaza Strip “Fourth Committee,” which is would lead to rocket attacks against Tel also known as the “Special Po - Aviv. Waving a handgun that Sinwar litical and Decolonization Com - claimed to belong to Israeli special mittee.” Israel was condemned forces, he warned that Hamas’s hands for alleged human rights abuses, were “on the trigger…whoever tests its “occupation” of eastern Gaza will find only death and poison. Jerusalem, and its “occupation” (Jerusalem Online , Nov. 18, 2018) of the Golan Heights. ( Alge -

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/ CFS ADOPTS BDS MOTION leader in Gaza] Yihya Sinwar’s time B I is limited. He won’t finish his life in T (Toronto) — The Canadian Fed - A H

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a proved a resolution supporting rael did in the past 10 years: We S ( closed off the sea, we closed maneu - the boycott, divestment and vering on the ground from Gaza and sanctions movement and en - Hamas missiles launched toward Israel from Gaza dorsed a statement that “the on - Sinai…I think the Iron Dome is on November 12, 2018 doing a pretty good job against mis - going occupation of Palestine be siles; we are in a phase of eliminating all the tunnels [from condemned,” at its annual general meeting. The CFS, which rep - Gaza into Israel]. If they want a fight, we will defeat them. If resents 500,000 students, also approved supporting “different they want to behave and talk through a third party, we will Palestine-solidarity organizations,” with in-kind support and fi - hear them.” — Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant. nancial donations of up to $500. The resolution also recommended (Jerusalem Post , Nov. 17, 2018) that “a statement be released to our membership condemning the recent atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza.” ( CJN , Nov. 20, “Today, we’re closer than ever since the disastrous disengage - 2018) ment plan to being forced to recapture parts or all of the Gaza Strip…If that is the only way we can guarantee long-term AIRBNB BANS LISTINGS IN SETTLEMENTS (New York) — quiet and security for our citizens, then that is what we will Rental operator Airbnb announced it would no longer host listings do. We won’t allow anyone to deter us.” — Public Security Min - in settlements in the West Bank. The US-based Airbnb said the com - ister Gilad Erdan, a Likud member and a leading contender for pany has “concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli set - the position of foreign minister. ( Times of Israel , Nov. 21, 2018) tlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.” The company said the decision “The fact that many Jews with a liberal tradition oppose to remove the approximately 200 listings came after “considerable Trump’s conservative policies and dislike his aggressive tone is time” was spent consulting experts on the conflict. Airbnb has faced not surprising. But what is incomprehensible is the hysterical criticism from Palestinians for hosting Israeli listings in the West abuse they shower on the president – and that they do so in a Bank that failed to mention the property was located on land Jewish context. The almost lunatic attacks on a president by claimed by the Palestinians. ( Times of Israel , Nov. 19, 2018) such a wide section of the Jewish community – including pro - gressive rabbis, Jewish lay organizations like the Anti-Defama - ISRAEL APPOINTS ITS FIRST ARAB CHRISTIAN AM - tion League and Jewish women’s groups, which had until now BASSADOR (Jerusalem) —34-year-old George Deek will soon avoided partisan politics – is utterly unprecedented. The venom become the first Arab Christian ambassador in Israeli history. expressed suggests that a dybbuk – a malicious spirit – has in - Deek, who is a former Fulbright fellow and an expert in interna - stilled a collective madness on a major component of the Amer - tional law, isn’t getting one of the easier postings either: He’ll be ican Jewish community. Jews even demanded that Trump not Israel’s lead representative in Azerbaijan, a Muslim-majority coun - be present at the mourning ceremony in the Pittsburgh syna - try that borders Iran and has been at war with its neighbor Armenia gogue.” — Isi Leibler ( Jerusalem Post , Nov. 17, 2018) for over 25 years. ( Tablet , Nov. 20, 2018)

ISRAFAX – December 3, 2018 – 3 ANTISEMITISM AND THE PITTSBURGH MASSACRE

Western Suicide Via Anti-Semitism dead, wounded and resulting flight; the British Jews for the first time in six centuries think about leaving; the Jews of Israel must Giulio Meotti defend themselves, at best, in the most chilling silence of the inter - national community and, in the worst, with a world that is greeting Paris 1980; Vienna 1981; Rome 1982; Istanbul 1986; Buenos the terrorists; the Jews of America for the first time in their history Aires 1994; Djerba 2002; Mumbai 2008; Toulouse 2012; Jerusalem have lived through a mass slaughter. 2014; Brussels 2014; Copenhagen 2015; Paris 2015; Gotenburg Most of the Pittsburgh victims were Jews who were able to sur - 2017; Pittsburgh 2018 vive the Second World War and the Holocaust, but not this de - It is 38 years since synagogues, schools, shops and Jewish cen - mented form of Judenhass . The Shoah was the great requiem of the ters began being targeted and attacked again. And the West is al - West because we never really recovered from the massacre of civ - ways surprised: “Oh no, the new anti-Semitism!” It is like that girl ilization. With the Shoah, for the first time in the modern age, the who ‘discovers’ she is expecting a baby at the eighth month of her edifice of humanism and the idea of a rational evolution of history pregnancy and exclaims: “Oh no, I have been so prudent!” were broken. We do not realize what is happening and nobody is helping the All this is reflected in the word “Shoah”, desolation, darkness, public to understand the entity: the newspapers have the days death, the abyss between life and death, being and nothingness. In counted, the intellectuals are distracting themselves, the politicians this new wave of anti-Semitism another suicidal impulse of Western send telegrams of condolences, the religious authorities are phony. civilization is at work. One day we will know the outcome. I’m This is the situation in the four poles of World Jewry: The Jews afraid I can guess, but I’m also afraid to say it aloud. of France are grappling with a terrible wave of anti-Semitism with (Arutz Sheva, Oct. 29, 2018)

iation, and violent subjugation. Similarly, this anti-Semitic mur - The Pittsburgh Massacre derer did not target Jews because of their political positions, let Prof. Udi Lebel alone those of the American president… In Israel, too, there were those who jumped on the blame wave An explanation for the anti-Semitic massacre in Pittsburgh and gave it a local spin. “The massacre took place near the an - gained momentum very quickly: that it was a product of Donald niversary of Rabin’s murder,” wrote a leading Haaretz commen - Trump’s Republican discourse in general, and his attitude to- tator. He acknowledged that the murderer in Pennsylvania wards immigration and refugee policy in particular. This is a cyn- considers President Trump soft and disapproves of him, but ical exploitation and politicization of trauma and loss. pointed out that both the shooter and the recent attempted mail- We are apparently meant to believe the murderer was a “weak- bomber targeted Democrats “in the atmosphere of fear, loathing, and xenophobia that flourishes in Trump’s polarized era.” ened social link” whose anti-Semitism was legitimated in his mind by the rhetoric of the president. He was supposedly egged The writer’s most cynical and offensive move is to twist the on from above, in other words. The “words can kill” message is mass murder to make a statement about internal Israeli politics. being employed by the media to take direct aim at Republican He states that the Jews of Pittsburgh are being comforted by an policy positions. Israeli government “whose values are ultimately closer to those of the murderer than to the Jews he murdered.” This is no longer Conservative positions concerning identity, nationality, citi- a populist whip, but pure anti-Semitism: the Jews are to blame zenship, the distribution of resources, the rule of law, and internal for their own murder. The writer is claiming that the Jewish state security are now labeled “populist,” and anyone holding such of Israel, the state that produces representative Jewish discourse, views is expected to feel ashamed of himself. Jews in particular encourages racism and provokes a violent culture war. re being told to do some soul-searching, who hold such views a In recent years, the discourse of the Israeli government has rdering as if it was they who gave the green light to a mass-mu been blamed for a host of shocking phenomena. The climax was extremist. during the recent wave of terror, when it was asserted that many What is the difference between this argument and blaming a of the murderers had set out to slaughter Jews because of their woman who dresses in revealing clothes for her own sexual as- “understandable” frustration at the “lack of a political horizon.” sault? The two arguments are fundamentally the same. The rapist This charge is now echoed by the accusations of liberal Ameri - is absolved of responsibility, and it is shifted onto the victim. If cans linking the massacre in Pittsburgh to Trump’s statements. a woman chooses not to conform to externally dictated dress After the Rabin assassination, it was claimed that the murderer norms, so the argument goes, then she has only herself to blame had been inspired by the right-wing opposition, which had not if she ends up in the trauma room of an emergency ward. done enough to denounce its more marginal elements. Now the Proponents of the “Republican guilt” line regarding the Pitts- argument is that the violence is a direct product of the legitimate burgh synagogue massacre would do well to consider this anal- discourse of a democratically elected leadership. This is tanta - ogy. Rape is not an expression of sexual attraction. It is an mount to saying that the hands of every voter who supported the expression of domination and violence. It occurs in vehicles, toi- current administrations in either the US or Israel are covered lets, and bedrooms, just as it occurs on the battlefields of Africa, with blood… astern Europe as a tool of warfare, humil- the Middle East, and E (BESA, Nov. 4, 2018) 4 – December 3, 2018 – ISRAFAX U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS: RESULTS

The U.S. Midterm Elections In general, Democrats oppose whatever Trump is doing with re - gard to foreign affairs, but that subject does not count for much in Harold M. Waller midterm years. Voters seemed bewildered by a multiplicity of overseas issues, including Russia, China, Korea, Iran, international Unlike most countries, the United States holds legislative elec - trade, the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia after the Khashoggi mur - tions midway through a president’s term. As a result the country der. As for policy toward Israel and the prospects of an Israel- tends to be in campaign mode most of the time. Indeed the 2020 Palestinian peace agreement, there has been a notable drop in presidential campaign has started and the Democrats are beginning support for the Jewish state among Democrats. Several of the new to think about their prospects for the presidential nomination. faces in the House Democratic caucus are overtly hostile to Israel; If there is one generalization that is commonly made about the AIPAC has its work cut out for it. Moreover, American Jewry is midterm elections it is that the president’s party usually loses seats divided about many aspects of policy toward Israel, with the Or - in Congress. In 1994, 2006, 2010, and 2014 the opposition party thodox being strongly pro-Republican and the non-Orthodox over - did well and control of one or both houses changed hands. So whelmingly lined up behind the Democrats. Indeed about 80 2018 was no exception. However, the Republicans, who benefited percent of American Jews voted Democratic. That does not augur from a favorable Senate map, did manage to hold their majority in well for the future. the upper House. Consequently both President Donald Trump and In addition to Israel-related matters, the resurgence of anti- the Democratic congressional leadership could take credit for Semitism was driven home by the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre bucking the trend (Trump and the Senate) or flipping more than shortly before the election. Even before that horrific event, data the average number of seats (Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi). As showed an increase in anti-Semitic attitudes, which the Democrats a result it is hard to say which way the wind is blowing. Both sides blamed on Trump. Although it is not fair to blame him, there is will claim that it is blowing at their backs. Perhaps Bob Dylan can little doubt that racist groups have come out of the woodwork in be prevailed upon to explain the wind direction. recent years in response to nationalist rhetoric. Most of the prominent issues were domestic: immigration (es - The heated antagonism that characterized the campaign is likely pecially illegal), medical insurance, the economy, the Kavanaugh matter, and, most of all, Donald Trump. Voters held intense views to carry on right through the election. This is not a time in which and seemed disinclined to compromise. Matters such as tariffs and one can calmly contemplate the issues that American voters will international trade agreements, foreign policy, NAFTA, and relations confront in less than two years. with Canada did not appear to matter much during the campaign. (Dr. Harold M. Waller is a CIJR Academic Fellow)

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ISRAFAX – December 3, 2018 – 7 CIJR GALA KEYNOTER ON THE “PEACE PLAN,” TRUMP, TERRORISM, AND IRAN Interview with Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams speaks at Machla Abramovitz CIJR’s 30th Anniversary Gala, Montreal, October 14th, 2018. Elliott Abrams has been involved in the shaping of foreign pol - icy since the 1980s, when he was appointed assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration. Later, in 2001, he served as deputy national security advisor to President George W. Bush, tasked with promoting the president’s strategy of advancing democracy abroad. At present, Abrams is a senior fellow for Mid - dle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches foreign policy at Georgetown University. I sat down with Abrams after he addressed a packed audience at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research in Montreal, which recently celebrated its 30 th anniversary. I first asked him about Trump’s long-rumored peace plan for the Middle East. the religion itself. Ultimately, Muslims alone can defeat Islamic HAVING TALKED TO MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION WHO’VE extremism, but not only by imprisoning and killing terrorists but READ THE TRUMP PEACE PLAN, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON by winning the war of ideas. IT? My impression is that the plan, which establishes the framework YOU MAINTAIN THAT THE IRANIAN REGIME IS INCAPABLE OF RE - for a two-state solution, is very realistic and a step forward and FORM AND THAT ITS HEGEMONIC AMBITIONS CAN ONLY BE that it will be very much to Israel’s liking. [Palestinian Authority COUNTERED BY PEACEFUL REGIME CHANGE. HOW IS THAT POS - President Mahmoud] Abbas probably won’t sign it given that he SIBLE WHEN IRAN OWNS ALL THE GUNS? hasn’t signed anything yet. He’s at a stage in his life where he To defeat the Soviet Union, Reagan applied economic, mili - doesn’t want any major fights or to be called a traitor. Nonetheless, tary, and ideological pressure. Trump appears to be following the it’s useful to put the plan out there so that Palestinians can see it same formula: increased sanctions, an increased military pressure and we can prepare for the days after Abbas. The plan sets a new in the Gulf denying Iranians easy proxy victories, and exposing standard as to what the U.S. thinks a realistic peace plan looks the truth about Iran’s human rights abuses and financial outlay like, especially concerning borders and Jerusalem. to destabilize the Middle East as outlined in a recent U.S. State Department report. YOU DIDN’T SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP’S CANDIDACY. ARE YOU The Europeans, on the other hand, want to save the JCPOA, as SURPRISED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS CAMPAIGN well as maintain stability and avoid conflict, despite evidence that PROMISES, PARTICULARLY VIS-À-VIS ISRAEL? Iranians are fed up with this regime. I recently reminded French It became apparent to me in his first year that he meant what he officials that the Iranians repaid their outstretched hand by plan - said, whether that was renegotiating NAFTA, leaving the JCPOA, ning a terror attack in Paris. That is Iran’s answer to France’s mod - and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. He feels bound by eration. I tell Europeans that they cannot allow the Iranians to set these campaign promises and refuses to be controlled by conven - the agenda in the Middle East. tional wisdoms. Even though the State Department warned him that violence would erupt everywhere in the Muslim world fol - WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE IDEOLOGICAL DEVELOP - lowing the embassy move, Trump didn’t believe it. He was right, MENTS WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES, ES - and the State Department was wrong. We have new leadership PECIALLY AS REGARDS ISRAEL? there now. I hope the State Department learned that what we see Regarding Israel, since the Eisenhower/Nixon years, the Repub - happening on the Arab street is very often what their government lican Party has shifted towards a more pro-Israel position primarily wants to happen. because of evangelical Christians. At the same time, the Demo - cratic Party moved to the left on this issue, which isn’t surprising ON OCTOBER 4TH, THE WHITE HOUSE ISSUED ITS NATIONAL given that the left has become anti-Israel everywhere in the world. STRATEGY FOR COUNTERTERRORISM. HOW DOES THE TRUMP In the U.S., this shift is a bit masked because the Democratic Party APPROACH DIFFER FROM OBAMA’S APPROACH? leadership – Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi – are pro-Israel. Unfortu - President Trump appears to be taking a more aggressive stand nately, the next generation isn’t as committed to Israel. That should against terrorism than Obama. He also understands that the key to be a warning. countering terrorism is tackling Iran, the world’s leading state Maintaining support for Israel is a struggle to be fought within sponsor of terrorism. President Trump’s withdrawal from the the Democratic Party. Democrats, especially Jewish Democrats, JCPOA wasn’t about terrorism but about nukes, whereas staying need to better make the case for Israel, especially among its up and in Syria is. A year ago, we were there because of ISIS, but recent coming leaders such as Kamala Harris. Similarly, AIPAC needs to statements by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and presidential reach out more to Hispanic Americans, Korean Americans, and all national security advisor John Bolton indicate that we won’t with - growing immigrant groups that don’t have traditional ties to Israel. draw from Syria while Iran is there. Additionally, unlike Presidents Criticizing [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is not the way to go. 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