Q.Why did we need Friends of Israel?
A.below:
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the Zionist movement has been forced to mobilise in response to a resurgent Palestine solidarity movement. In particular, since its launch in 2005, the growth of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign – which puts pressure on Israel to comply with international law – has prompted a backlash which throws into sharp relief the existence of the Zionist movement and the power it can wield in some contexts.
From Hil Aked’s book, Friends of Israel’
Henry Adams, a grandson of American President John Quincy Adams, said of politics that ‘it is the systematic organization of hatreds’.
There is no doubt the vile Nazi right wing machine expressed its venomous hatred of Jews, gypsies, disabled, genetically ‘unfit’ (eg. Psychiatrist Asberger sent many children to their deaths) to be, like vermin, exterminated.
Hatred appears to many of us to present as a mental illness. Psychologists disagree. Psychiatrists say it is a reaction to highly stressful events. In WWII, one can obviously see the extreme conditions suffered by Jews, and survivors have reminded us, and they always say “Never again”. I know many of them are meaning ‘never again to any persons’, but I also see it translates as ‘never again to any Jew’ – and to that end we have the ‘rise and kill first’ mentality (see Ronen Bergman’s book with that title).
The hatred of Jews is thought to be the longest-running hatred.2
……..In this causative conception, there are at least 3 different kinds of hate based on different mechanisms: projected, scapegoated, and realistic hate. They can be combined, of course…….The basic psychological damage of hate can be substantial. It can damage self-esteem and a basic sense of security. It can also hurt the perpetrator by not solving their own sense of internal badness.
To me, this under researched topic, still suggests continuing hatred is an illness, or at the very least, makes one ill. Freud believed it could be projecting outward to others an unacceptable hatred of oneself. I think Freud was right but science might find difficulty proving that, so it is avoided in research, probably for ethical reasons.
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