THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Dumber 18,1970-49

New Leftists Miss Historic Irony

Jewish Self-Hate Seen as a Curable Affliction

A Very Healthy and Happy Hanuka
to the Jewish Community

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By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
JTA News Editor
(copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)

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In the past few weeks, there has
been a spate of statements and
articles deploring "self-hating"
Jewish youths who have been be-
guiled by the New Left and seg-
ments of the black militant com-
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munity into engaging in anti-
Israel and anti-Zionist propaganda
and activities on and off the cam-
puses
throughout the country.
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Aside from the one-sided diag-
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nosis implied in such phrases as
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"self-hate," the Jewish youth
diagnosed as suffering from this
affliction is more apt to turn tone
deaf rather than to tune in to this
description. More important, this
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term tends to ignore or minimize
other, albeit dormant, elements in
Jewish youths: self-love and self-
pride.
The term "self-hate" can become
a self-fulfilling prophecy both for
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the judge and the judged. The
former tends to write off the possi-
bility of rewinning that Jewish
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youth to Jewishness and, para.
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tends to belittle the
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"healing powers" of his own views.
The youth rationalizes that it is
not self-hate but justified hate of
what he considers to be moribund
values, traditions and life style.
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In a real sense, these New Left
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self-hate but from lack of iden-
tity. The basic ingredients of
identity — heritage and perspec-
tive—are missing from their edu-
cation. And so these Jewish
youths attach themselves to the
heritage and perspectives of
others.

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The historic irony that eludes
the Jewish New Leftist youths is
that Zionism, as the movement of
the national liberation and self-
emancipation of the Jewish peo-
ple, not only predates by 100 years
the recent theories promulgated
by Third World spokesmen, but
that Zionism is, in fact, the
dynamic- that infused these cur-
rent theories.
Scores of Zionists campaigned
not only for the self-determination
and self-realization of the Jewish
people but for all oppressed peo-
ples. In short, the victims of ages
of oppression and persecution did
not view others as unworthy part-
ners in the struggle for human
freedom.

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nificance) in which he stated:
"Today we live under the weight
of evils you (the oppressors of the
Jewish people) have brought upon
us. What we lack is not genius
but self consciousness, an appre-
ciation of our value as men which

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In another passage, Flasher
described the Jewish people as
a "shuttle-cock which the peoples
tossed In turn to one another^
and declared that the Jews,
"like the Negroes, like women,
and unlike all free peoples, must
be emancipated."
Can the Jewish New Leftists,
whose gaze is affixed to- the na-
tional liberation struggles of all
peoples but their own, understand
Albert Memmi when he declares:
"If Israel did not exist, it would
have to be created. If Israel should
disappear, it would have to be
recreated. Israel is our only way
out, our only real card, and our
last historical chance. All the rest
is diversion."
Let the Jewish New Left read
or re-read, Eldridge Cleaver's
famous essay, "On the Land Ques-
tion," written nine months after
the Six-Day War, where he not
only salutes Theodor Herd but
also advises his readers to view
the inspiring lesson of Zionism as

tained and propelled by pride and
love of these contributions, and
are in the process of organiving on
and off the campuses, are attract-
ing not only previously uncommit-
ted Jewish youths but even rewin-
ning many "self-hating" Jews who,
it seems, were victims of ethnic
amnesia.

since he wrote it, but the lesson
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Yet, and here is an element of
tragedy, the Jewish youths, in the
main, are unaware of these con-
tributions.
The timeliness of the early Zion-
ists is astounding. Pinsker, in
1882 wrote "Auto-Emancipation"
(even the title is of current sig-

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theme of the black militants?
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