I noticed the anti-Semitism machine, in attacking Israel, have used the golem to further their disgusting aims. We will first go to the NY Times article by Alisa Solomon called "Theater; A Jewish Avenger, A Timely legend." Alisa Solomon said:
''The Golem'' seemed painfully apt: its central concern is the self-destructive consequence of Jews resorting to violence to defend themselves.
The Golem was not to tell Jews,"Don't defend yourself." This is simply an anti-Semitic canard. Alisa, get this in your head. Many non-Jews also use violence as well. Look at the IRA and the Mau Mau. They found their countries under British occupation, but still used terrorism killing innocent civilians to free their countries from British rule. Revenge is a human nature not only restricted to Jews. Yes, the Golem as a Jewish tale about the nature of revenge, not only talking about the Jews. Hitler would be happy to read this. So I guess the Jewish heroes who fought for the survivor and freedom of their fellow Jews were like the golem, having self-destrucitve consequences. Hitler would be happy to hear that. Why should the right to use self-defense being allowed only to non-Jews? Alisa Solomon said:
While Israelis, on the other hand, exist amid ever-mounting fears of attack, any effort to find an analogy in ''The Golem'' to the current situation requires one to notice that, unlike the Jew-haters of 16th-century Prague, the Palestinians have expressed genuine grievances. Taking the logic further, one confronts the most troubling question that some Israelis and American Jews are beginning to raise: Has the militarily mighty Jewish state become a golem for the 21st century, promising protection but leading to peril?
The answer to that question is no, Alisa. Notice that unlike the golem, Israel doesn't target innocent civilians, but is attacked constantly by genocidal fascists, who seek to destroy Israel. That was since day one. In fact, both the purity of arms, which is in the IDF doctrine and the IDF's code of conduct both call on their soldiers not to target innocent civilians [click on the hyperlink for code of conduct to see Israel even has a school training their soldiers not to kill innocent civilians].
In fact, America embraced the IDF code of conduct and asked Israel to translate the code of conduct for their soldiers in Iraq. American soldiers are being trained how to not kill innocent Iraqi civilians thanks to the softwhere produced by the so-called "golem"state Israel.
Alisa acknowledges that there is a difference between the golem and Israel, though uses it to promote the anti-Israel propaganda machine. She claims that unlike the anti-Semities in Prague, the Palestinians have expressed "genuine grievances."Hey, Alisa, the "genuine grievences" of the Palestinian terrorists are that Israel exists and that Jews have a homeland on their historic homeland. That's their "genuine grievences," which existed before the Israeli occupation.
Hey, it gets worse. We have another guy named Halim Barakat, who relies on some of the statements from this NY Times to further the propaganda claim that Israel is a golem state for defending their nation from terrorism and that Jews not putting up with anti-semitic crap turns themelves into golems.
Halim Barakat believes that strong Jews are golems. Mr. Barakat said:
Like the Golem, so are the leaders of Zionism in this time: Their goals justify their means; they do not serve God, but an avenging God. They do not raise the younger generations [to be] human and weak Jews who respect the rights of others and are partners in human civilization. [They raise them to be] the strong Jew who avenges by destroying himself as he destroys others...
Barakat is even worse in comparing Jews to the golem. This quote came from the translation of Barakat's article by MEMRI
To be fair, it is true that Mr.Barakat complained that MEMRI misrepresnted his views. His complains are in his aritcle "The Story of an article," which mostly complains about the reaciton to his article and MEMRI's translation of it. He did give two exapmples in which MEMRI supposedly misrepresented him. Barakat wrote an article called "A Story of the article," which lists the two examples and complains mostly about the reaction of his article. Barakat wrote in "A story of an article,":
A Few days after the publication of my article, the Middle East Media Research Institute, a propaganda organization dedicated to representing Arabs and Muslims as anti-semites, placed on its website a special dispatch titled: "Georgetown University Professor Halim Barakat says that the Jews have lost their humanity, and they do not raise their children to be weak." This is followed by a series of excerpts taken out of context and translated in such a way as to intentionally misrepresent my views, such as attributing to me personally the above quotes from the new York Times article. Another example is replacing the words "Zionists" with "Jews" and the "Zionist Leadership" with "[Israeli Jews]." This has the effect of erasing a distinction between Judaism as a religion and Zionism as a political movement , hence the impossibility of criticizing Israel without being exposed to the risk of being branded as an anti-Semite.
