Lenin called those who work against their own people’s best interests in support of their enemies “useful idiots.” Even during these days of war in Israel and record-high antisemitism worldwide, we see Israeli non-profits giving comfort to the enemy and Diaspora Jews funding them.
Today, as Israel awaits a possible attack from Iran and Hezbollah, there was a hearing in Israel’s Supreme Court on a petition filed by Adalah, an Israeli non-profit, on behalf of the Palestinian Authority against the Israeli Knesset.
This petition marks the first time the P.A. has filed a petition before the Supreme Court. The petition aims to repeal the Israeli law that transfers funds earmarked for the P.A. to the families of terror victims instead of to terrorists.
Yes, in the State of Israel, as hostages are being held in Gaza and radical Muslims threaten our destruction, Adalah—given $652,869 by the pro-boycott New Israel Fund over the last few years—is advocating for money to be given to terrorists rather than to terror victims. This, in the middle of a war.
The P.A. has long had a policy of allocating monthly salaries and benefits to imprisoned and released terrorists, as well as the families of “martyrs.” This funding amounts to around $300 million annually and is a clear demonstration of the P.A.’s support for terrorism against Israel.
In a filing with the High Court, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara argued: “It cannot be considered appropriate that a court in Israel would open its gates to the Palestinian Authority and hear its arguments about the supposed injury to its constitutional rights while it continues with its abhorrent and disgraceful policy.”
Unsurprisingly, outraged family members of hostages and terror victims flooded the courtroom.
Many Diaspora Jews help fund Adalah, which has called the Israeli government “the Israeli regime” and describes it as “a colonial one, with distinct characteristics of apartheid.”
Self-hating Jews are not a new phenomenon, from Nicholas Donin—who in 1240 helped establish a decree to publicly burn all available copies of the Talmud—to Karl Marx. Theodor Lessing authored the book Der Jüdische Selbsthass (“Jewish Self-Hatred”) in 1930. Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked: “Is there another people on earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their enemies fills their hearts with admiration and awe?”
In the year 2024, as we face problems in a manner unforeseen since the Holocaust, the Jewish people worldwide must heed the words of Ze’ev Jabotinsky: “We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies.” We must continue to stand up and fight even as the enemy both internally and externally harms our state and people.
As it says in the Talmud: “Israel are the sons and daughters of kings.” We, the Jewish people, are sons and daughters of the first king and queen—Abraham and Sarah. Self-hating Jews have forgotten that we are the Chosen People and descend from royalty. Shame on Adalah and the New Israel Fund.
