{"id":394848,"date":"2019-02-01T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/netanyahus-brand-of-tolerance-for-anti-semitism-goes-back-120-years-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:40:07","slug":"netanyahus-brand-of-tolerance-for-anti-semitism-goes-back-120-years-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/netanyahus-brand-of-tolerance-for-anti-semitism-goes-back-120-years-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s Brand of Tolerance for Anti-Semitism Goes Back 120 Years \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Israeli prime minister\u2019s ease with neo-Nazism and revisionist Holocaust history are not as surprising as they might seem, writes Daniel Lazare.<span id=\"more-32968\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/daniel-lazare\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By<\/span> Daniel Lazare<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/u><\/strong><em style=\"font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Special to Consortium News<\/em><strong><u><br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27056\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27056\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span>sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a soft spot for rightwing authoritarians.\u00a0 This is no surprise since Netanyahu is a rightwing authoritarian himself, one who sees Israel as an old-fashioned ethno-state in which Jewish national aspirations are the only ones that count \u2013 as his support for last year\u2019s \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People\">Nation-State Law<\/a><\/span>\u201d makes clear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">But what may come as a surprise is that he also has a soft spot for rightwing authoritarians with a pronounced anti-Semitic streak.\u00a0 Last July, he welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Israel even though Urban has led a<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32972\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Prime_Minister_of_Israel_Benjamin_Netanyahu-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Prime_Minister_of_Israel_Benjamin_Netanyahu-2.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-32972\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Wikimedia) \" width=\"485\" height=\"324\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32972\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Prime_Minister_of_Israel_Benjamin_Netanyahu-2.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Wikimedia) \" width=\"485\" height=\"324\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> (Wikimedia)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">campaign to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hungary-jews-angered-by-rightwing-memorial-on-holocaust-day\/\">rehabilitate<\/a><\/span> Miklos Horthy, the pro-Axis dictator who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to death camps and bragged, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201c<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/hungarys-exceptional-statesman-was-an-anti-semite\/\">I have been an anti-Semite throughout my life<\/a>.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 Two months later, he welcomed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who once compared himself to Hitler, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-philippines-duterte-hitler-idUSKCN1200B9\">saying<\/a><\/span>, \u201cThere are three million drug addicts [in the Philippines].\u00a0 I\u2019d be happy to slaughter them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He issued a joint statement with Polish Premier Mateusz Morawiecki lauding Poland\u2019s wartime efforts to alert the world to the Nazi death camps, a statement that Israel\u2019s own Yad Vashem Holocaust museum later <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-negotiators-insist-yad-vashem-approved-holocaust-declaration\/\">repudiated<\/a><\/span> on the grounds that it \u201ccontains highly problematic wording that contradicts existing and accepted historical knowledge in this field.\u201d\u00a0 His government has also supplied weapons to the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">neo-Nazi Azov Battalion<\/span><\/a> fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">So what\u2019s the explanation?\u00a0 If Netanyahu is a hawk\u2019s hawk when it comes to enemies of the Jewish state, then doesn\u2019t it follow that he should be no less militant when it comes to enemies of the Jews?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The answer is, no, it doesn\u2019t, for the simple reason that Zionism\u2019s attitude toward anti-Semitism is more ambiguous than people realize.\u00a0 Theodore Herzl, the Viennese journalist who founded modern Zionism, made this clear in the 1890s.\u00a0&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/01\/31\/netanyahus-brand-of-tolerance-for-anti-semitism-goes-back-120-years\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli prime minister\u2019s ease with neo-Nazism and revisionist Holocaust history are not as surprising as they might seem, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel LazareSpecial to Consortium News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a soft spot for rightwing authoritarians.\u00a0 This is no surprise since Netanyahu is a rightwing authoritarian himself, one who sees Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}