A Modest Proposal for the Eradication of Anti-semitism

A Modest Proposal for the Eradication of Anti-Semitism – SATIRE
l was disappointed to read that the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Human Rights urged the leaders of the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair “to blacklist publishers inciting hatred and violence against Israel.”
A Few Axioms Must Be Stated First.
• Criticizing Israel – the Jewish State – is clearly a manifestation of anti-semitism and, to use the handy newer term, an act of “hate mongering.” Hate!
• Hate is an ugly primal instinct in all non-Jews, and it is directed at Jews whom they dimly perceive as superior to them, begrudging them their elevated status. Hate is unknown to Jews whose divine mission is to “repair the world,” and bring “light unto nations.” Therefore when we say “Hate” we say “anti-semitism.”
• Having suffered for millennia from the Goyim’s Hate, despite the enormous benefits the Jews brought them (e.g., the modern Western world as we know it would not have come into being without the Jews), the Jews know that anti-semitism, even eradicated, can reappear at any time. Hence the struggle against it can never end. Vigilance must never take a nap.
Why Did the Wiesenthal Center Disappoint Me?
A struggle of this magnitude cannot be carried out with pusillanimous measures such as those proposed by the WC (no offense meant, it happens to be the acronym for Wiesenthal Center). One does not staunch the outflow of Hate by putting band aids here and there, one book fair at a time:

“The Center listed 56 “merchants of hate” for the authorities running the Fair, indicating which country each offending publisher was from. Twenty hailed from Egypt, 19 from Syria and Lebanon, nine from Jordan and the Palestinian territories, five from Saudi Arabia, two from Kuwait, one from Morocco, and one from the United Kingdom.
The group identified a total of 251 anti-semitic titles being sold by the peddlers at book fairs around the world – 80 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 67 in Abu Dhabi; 53 in Muscat, Oman; 35 in Doha, Qatar; and 16 in Casablanca, Morocco.
The Center said the “worst offender” is Egyptian publisher Dar-al-Kitab al-Arabi, which published 78 of the 251 books identified as anti-semitic.”

The venom of anti-semitism is running deep in the world and it has gnarled old roots that must be pulled out. I propose an overhaul of the world literature to identify and ban all the books ever published that espouse anti-semitic ideas. This is my Modest Proposal:

1. Appoint a special international committee headed by someone like the Nobel Prize Winner and celebrated poet Elie Wiesel and composed of intellectual giants like Bernard Henri Levy to review all the world literature and purge it of anti-semitism.
2. Bernard-Henri Levy with famous Jewish child rights advocate Roman Polansky

2. The review needs to be comprehensive and to go back in time because anti-semitism has plagued mankind ever since Hashem has chosen the Jews as his one and only favorite tribe.
3. Set strict criteria to ensure that no prevarications and no exceptions are allowed on the flimsy excuse of the author’s alleged merit and “value” of the work. Blatant examples of virulent anti-semitic works that condemn their authors to banning are The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe and The Merchant of Venice by another English anti-semite whose name escapes me.
4. The Hate most often rears its ugly head in subtle and insidious forms, which makes it harder to detect without expert help. This is the case of literary works in which Jews are completely absent! What is this intentional wiping of the Jews off the literary map if not anti-semitism? No Jews in the Iliad, none in the Odyssey, no Jew in the Epic of Gilgamesh! The Jews are blatantly unmentioned in the Uppanishads and in the Rigveda. Works in which Jews are absent need to be banned.
5. Arab Language literature, especially its modern works, needs to be cursorily examined only to determine if there is any work at all that should not be banned. Surely poems by the likes of Mahmud Darwish and Samih-Al-Qasim need to be banned.
6. Religious literature – both of the idol worshippers and of the Muslim terrorists must be erased. Just think of Martin Luther’s outbursts of Hate! The only exception that can be made in this category would be any writings by Christian Zionist theologians, especially the sermons of an intellectual and spiritual giant like John Hagee.

My proposal is aimed at establishing a firm, definitive control on the sources of information that shape the mentality of nations with a built-in proclivity to develop and manifest Hate.
Only total control is real, dependable control. Wake up, WC!
 
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