Chosen People, Superior Race, Master Race or Jewish Chauvinism
In his 1937 article "How the Jews Can Combat Persecution," Winston Churchill wrote: "They [the Jews] have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer." In other words, they are partly to blame for anti-Semitism. Churchill mentions the "separateness of the Jew," and criticizes its "aloofness" to all integration efforts. What Churchill terms "separateness" is called a "mentality of Hebraic character" by Gerald Samon, the Chairman of the World Jewry Fellowship, in its official manifesto of January 1, 1935. The same quality is presented as the attribute of a "superior race by Ellie Wiesel and "Master Race" by Menachem Begin: "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburgh, the former head of the Old Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Shechem declares: "... every single cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, and is thus part of God." If this is so, "then every strand of DNA is a part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA." "The concept of the third world, which is the most primitive on the scale of nations, refers to the Arabs who are on the lowest rung in the scale ... According to Kabbalah, the Jewish people are the most advanced people in mind and spirit, but Yishmael is a nation of slaves and the character of a slave is licentious and undisciplined." Incidentally, this is the same rabbi that justified the US-born Baruch Goldstein's 1994 killing of the Palestinian worshippers in the Machpela Cave mosque in Hebron during Ramadan on halachic grounds. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburgh's claims on the "Jewish DNA" or the "Jewish blood" are consistent with Rabbi Mendel Schneerson's "totally different species" and Rabbi Abraham Kook's appalling declaration: "The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews -- all of them in all different levels -- is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle."
The notion of "separateness" comes directly from the Bible. It's rooted in the Yahweh worship itself, and demands separation, seclusion, isolation and segregation. After restating his "abhorrence" (Leviticus 20:32) towards the previous inhabitants of the land and his reasons for driving them out, Yahweh promises their land "flowing with mild and honey" -- a clear reference to Exodus 33:3 -- to his people declaring: "I am the Lord your God; I have separated you from the peoples" (Leviticus 20:24). Ezra marks this separation with his famous term "the holy seed" (Ezra 9:2), "zera hakodesh" in Hebrew (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 1426), which compels the entire community to dissolve all inter-marriages, getting rid of foreign wives and their children: "[3] So now let us make a covenant with our God and send away all these wives and their children according to the counsel of my lord [Ezra] and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law" (Ezra 10:3).
The "separateness" was actually encouraged be the Zionist intellectuals and religious leaders, and it is a notion very much in vogue today. Elliot Abrams, a neo-conservative in charge of President Bush's "global democracy strategy," wrote in 1997 that "[Jewish law] does indeed separate Jews from their fellow citizens" and that "Jews are in a permanent covenant with God and with the land of Israel and its people." An ADL commissioned survey of 2002, conducted in 10 European countries, proved that Abrams was right. 51% of the respondents agreed with the statement: "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country." Even though the survey was initiated by the ADL, the latter dismissed the results calling them "anti-Semitic stereotype." Whether the ADL likes it or not, the fact remains that the notions of "chosen people," "superior race," "master race," ridiculous as they are, were mined out of the Bible. Here are four examples out of so many:
"[6] For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession" (Deuteronomy 7:6).
"[5] Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall till your land and dress your vines; [6] but you shall be called priests of the Lord, you shall be named ministers of our God; you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory" (Isaiah 61:5-6).
"[27] The kingship and dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey them" (Daniel 7:27).
"[17] ... thus says the Lord God: 'Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild animals: Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat the flesh and drink blood. [18] You shall eat the flesh of the mighty; and drink the blood of the princes of the earth ... (Ezekiel 39:17-17).
According to Israel Shahak, "Jewish chauvinism" and "fundamentalist Judaism" can cause real anti-Semitism: "The State of Israel is not a democracy due to the application of Jewish ideology directed against all non-Jews and those who oppose this ideology." Shahak claims that Jewish religious fanaticism" is responsible for the oppression of the Palestinians. He links "Colonial Zionism" with "totalitarian Talmudic Judaism" criticizing all attempts to create a closed Jewish community centered on 'exclusivism'." Shahak is not alone in his condemnation of objectionable Jewish attitudes towards other nations. There are contemporary documents that prove that anti-Semitism can be blamed on the so-called victims. Indeed, "Jewish ideology" is a deciding factor. The deep-seated beliefs of "chosen people," "superior race," "master race" and the myth of their entitlement "to rule over the inferior races" affect not only the way in which Jews relate to the world but also how the world relates to the Jews.
