Why Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and the state of Israel is its political expression. Israel used to be a symbol of freedom and a source of pride for the Jews of the Diaspora. Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians, however, has turned it into a liability and a moral burden for the liberal segment of the Jewish community. Some Jews, especially on the left, would go even further by linking Israel's behavior to the upsurge of the new anti-Semitism throughout the world.

This is a claim that usually gets rather heated responses - often from people to whom every word of criticism against the actions of Israeli leaders, soldiers or the US Jewish lobby is antisemitism. These people are fanatics, which clouds their reason. To them the world is black and white and if you support Israel and praise it´s actions, you are a good guy, whatever your own reasons for doing it (á la the Christian Zionists), and if you criticize Israel and it´s actions against the Palestinians, you are an antisemitistic Holocaust denier, like one reporter of my local leading newspaper wrote couple of years ago. A sad example is the often heard cry from Israeli leaders, Jewish organizations and individual Jews that the European countries are not neutral in their dealings with Israel and the Palestinians - when in fact the European countries truly are not neutral, but not in the way these poor souls think they are: If the European countries would favor the Palestinians, INSTEAD of Israel, things would be quite different. (Why they favour Israel is then a sad case of cowardice, laziness and wrong way of expressing guilt.)

Does then Israel´s actions create antisemitism? Of course they do. Like Russia´s actions in Chechnya create hate against the Russians, USA´s in Iraq and Palestine creates hate towards the Americans etc. I can confess that I myself have little sympathy towards the Serbs, whom I came to loath during the Yugoslav wars. Of course it´s racist to blame all Serbs for the crimes, and I try not to, but frankly the less I heard of them, the better. They have this martyr complex, much like the Jews, but unlike the Jews, they have little to back up their whining. Of course the Serbs have suffered during their history, but not more than people usually have. And then in the 1990s the Serbs started - once again - to create Greater Serbia, to kill and ethnically cleanse other people and then they expected to be seen as the REAL victims... And the Russians and the Greeks fell for it - like the Americans have fallen for Israel´s lies in Palestine - just like the leaders of UK and France did. Their traditional weakness for Serbs paralyzed Europe and made the horrors of the Yugoslav wars possible.