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22 August
2006

Israel Shahak. En artikel av Gandhi

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Israel Shahak från Warschawa var 12 när han befriades från  koncentrationslägret i  Belsen, varpå han emigrerade till det brittiska mandatet Palestina, som år 1948 blev en självständig stat. Sedermera verkade Israel Shahak i 25 år som professor i organisk kemi vid hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem. Han blev också känd som en förkämpe för mänskliga rättigheter och en kritiker av Israels politik mot palestinierna. "Oaktat kritiken fortsatte han att vara mäkta stolt över sitt lands fria press", noterar det liberala Manchesterbladet "The Guardian" i sin dödsruna  6.7.2001.

Denne Israel Shahak skulle alltså ha varit en "en känd antisemit"!  För den åsikten står Camilla Jansson (Hbl 22.8.2006). 

Politisk fundamentalism förekommer sedan länge bland kristna och judar och även bland muslimer och hinduer. Den är förskräcklig. Vi måste bli kvitt den. Men hur?

Tyvärr har Camilla Jansson rätt i att Yrsa Häggström (som uttalade sig  på Hbl:s insändarsida 15.8.)  gav prov på "antisemitisk paranoia".  Jag tänker då på Häggströms idé om "den drivande kraften" bakom allt ont som f.n. sker här i världen. Enligt "välunderrättade personer" skulle ett gäng judiska bankirer ledda av USAs fd Parisambassadör utgöra detta centrala världssubjekt.

Antisemitismen sticker på nytt upp sitt avskyvärda huvud. Vi måste göra oss av med den. Men hur?

Hämta inspiration från Gandhi.

Gandhi 14.7.1946:


JEWS AND PALESTINE

Hitherto I have refrained practically from saying anything in
public regarding the Jew-Arab controversy. I have done so for good
reasons. That does not mean any want of interest in the question, but it
does mean that I do not consider myself sufficiently equipped with
knowledge for the purpose. For the same reason I have tried to evade
many world events. Without airing my views on them, I have enough
irons in the fire. But four lines of a newspaper column have done the
trick and evoked a letter from a friend who has sent me a cutting
which I would have missed but for the friend drawing my attention to
it. It is true that I did say some such thing in the course of a long
conversation with Mr. Louis Fischer on the subject.1 I do believe that
the Jews have been cruelly wronged by the world. “Ghetto” is, so far
as I am aware, the name given to Jewish locations in many parts of
Europe. But for their heartless persecution, probably no question of
return to Palestine would ever have arisen. The world should have
been their home, if only for the sake of their distinguished contribution
to it.
But, in my opinion, they have erred grievously in seeking to
impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of America and Britain
and now with the aid of naked terrorism. Their citizenship of the
world should have and would have made them honoured guests of
any country. Their thrift, their varied talent, their great industry
should have made them welcome anywhere. It is a blot on the
Christian world that they have been singled out, owing to a wrong
reading of the New Testament, for prejudice against them.“If an
individual Jew does a wrong, the whole Jewish world is to blame for
it.” If an individual Jew like Einstein makes a great discovery or
another composes unsurpassable music, the merit goes to the authors
and not to the community to which they belong.
No wonder that my sympathy goes out to the Jews in their
unenviably sad plight. But one would have thought adversity would
teach them lessons of peace. Why should they depend upon American
money or British arms for forcing themselves on an unwelcome land?
Why should they resort to terrorism to make good their forcible
landing in Palestine? If they were to adopt the matchless weapon of
non-violence whose use their best Prophets have taught and which
Jesus the Jew who gladly wore the crown of thorns bequeathed to a
groaning world, their case would be the world’s, and I have no doubt
that among the many things that the Jews have given to the world, this
would be the best and the brightest. It is twice blessed. It will make
them happy and rich in the true sense of the word and it will be a
soothing balm to the aching world.

1 According to the newspaper cutting Louis Fischer had quoted Gandhiji to the effect that the Jews had a good case but he hoped the Arabs too would not be wronged.

(Collected Works, Vol 91, pp 272-3)

Idag, sextio år senare, måste formuleringen bli en annan. Ändå känns Gandhis artikel fortfarande mycket aktuell.

















 


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