The Ideological Purifiers
By Patrick Grimm
There are some within this interconnected network of anti-Zionist activists who are sticklers for what I would dub “ideological purity.” If someone strays from one point of what is deemed to be “holy writ”, then they are scorned, shunned, mischaracterized or worse. I have seen it with my own eyes. The “ideological purifiers” are ready to leap, both physically and logically (sometimes illogically) on those persons who present their arguments in language thought to be too tepid, tame or tolerant.
Perhaps you lean to the left (and I actually lean fairly far to the right) and are a bit too reconciliatory on the issue of race. Get ready for the crush, because you may be falsely labeled as a “Zionist collaborator”, a “multiculturalist” or even worse a “crypto-Jew”. This is the modus operandi of Daryl Bradford Smith and his kind, but I have seen this witch-hunting mentality creeping into other parts of the anti-Zionist movement. Faux insinuations, under-handed smears and other insults await those who don’t seem to conform to 100% pure white nationalism.
What those who demand wholistic ideological allegiance seem not to comprehend is that many of the fighters, those writing warriors who loathe Zionism, come from a multitude of political persuasions. Some are conservatives, some are libertarians, some are even leftists who may be wrong on every count except for their opposition to Zionism. Should we totally shun someone who may not be correct, according to our litmus test, on every count? Or should we take our friends where we can find them, knowing that we must “hang together or hang separately” as one of the Founding Fathers put it?
I, for one, am sick and tired of egotistical people trying to ostracize well-meaning anti-Zionists because every piece of prose they write does not suit their tastes. I have watched it happen recently and it disgusts me. Can’t we see that the big enemy is Zionism, Jewish supremacism and what it is doing as an enervating force that is taking a wrecking ball to our world? Politically, polemically, is anything more important than this to tackle, battle and overcome with the truth? I don’t think so. When we quarrel with each other and “major in minors” we are jettisoning the positive influence we could potentially be having. We need to stop it.
In the past, I have conversed with those who say that they would be glad to join up with this movement, but that it seems that the people involved in it are always fighting amongst themselves and throwing their weight around, jockeying for dominance and are more concerned about personal ambition and ego than actually affecting change or making progress for our people. These are accurate and damaging allegations. What we need to do is to make sure we don’t validate them with our words and our behavior. That will only hurt and denigrate everything we are attempting to do.
Let’s stop slandering each other and start empowering each other. Our foe is well-organized and completely united in its sick agenda. Couldn’t we be just as well-organized and united in pursuing a positive agenda of genuine enlightenment?
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