Leftists often use the voodoo shibboleth racist to denounce their opponents. In former times such persons might be called “wicked,” and some sort of explanation would follow. No more. Today, politicians as well as intellectuals, typically use the voodoo language like racist or racism to slay an opponent, which is enough to short-circuit public discussion or debate. This Voodoo frees Leftists from the intellectual discipline required to refute a person’s political views on rational grounds. Thus, when it was proposed in 1948 that the President of the Jewish State of Israel be Jewish, its left-wing opponents cried Racism, enough voodoo to kill the issue!

Karl Marx invented the voodoo concept

Karl Marx. Portrait: John Mayall, 1875.

The fact that democratic politics now substitutes voodoo for criticism testifies to the victory of Karl Marx. That’s right: Marx is very much alive, especially on the campuses of the democratic world, where the minds of countless students are being corrupted by their voodoo or crypto-Marxist mentors.

Marx wrote:

Criticism is not the passion of the head, but the head of a passion. It is not a lancet, it is a weapon. Its object is an enemy it wants not to refute but to destroy. It is no longer an end in itself, but simply a means. Its essential pathos is indignation, its essential task denunciation.

The term “criticism,” as used in the nineteenth century, and as used by Marx, signified philosophic analysis or refutation. With Marx, philosophy ceased to be a dispassionate quest for truth and became propaganda, a weapon to silence an opponent, which is precisely what characterizes contemporary democratic discourse.

Denigrating your adversary a “racist” (with its Nazi connotations) is an argumentum ad hominem, a cheap ploy symptomatic of a dishonest mind. With a single word – Voodoo – you kill your enemy. Today, verbal voodoo is heard on college campuses to demonize Israel or anyone critical of Islam. Scholars like Daniel Pipes have been silenced on American college campuses as “racists.”

Is it racism to question loyalty on the basis of evidence?

It is in Israel, however, where verbal voodoo is most prevalent, especially among Leftists. These crypto-Marxists are especially fond of denigrating as “racists” those who would revoke the citizenship of disloyal Israeli Muslims. By disloyal Israeli Muslims I mean the following:

1. Muslims who are members of a terrorist organization defined as such by law.
2. Muslims who commit terrorist acts against the State of Israel, its citizens or property.
3. Muslims who aid and abet terrorist acts. (Many homicide-suicide bombers in Israel are assisted by Israel’s Muslim citizens.)
4. Muslims who support any domestic or foreign entity committed to Israel’s destruction, such as the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah.
5. Muslims who incite other Muslims to kill Jews. (For example, former Muslim Knesset Member Talib a-Sana, in an interview on Abu-Dhabi TV, praised a suicide bombing attack in Israel and called for more of the same. Although a-Sana was indicted by the Attorney General for incitement, the indictment was quashed by Israel’s Supreme Court headed by Judge Aharon Barak, a multicultural moral relativist.

That nowadays one has to stress that Rights involve reciprocal Duties is indicative of the moral decay of democracy, especially of judges and their educators. Hence it needs to be firmly established or re-established that those who enjoy the political rights of citizenship in the Jewish State of Israel forfeit those rights when they commit acts of disloyalty to the State, such as those enumerated above. The legal authority to revoke their citizenship will be found in the 1952 Citizenship Law. Revoking the citizenship of Muslims who commit such acts is simply a matter of justice, and has nothing to do with racism. And if it becomes a practical necessity to deport such Muslims, it’s the duty of Israel’s Government to do so.

The trouble is that the mentality of Judge Barak pervades Israel and needs to be discredited. For example, Judge Barak held that there is no conflict between Judaism and Democracy, a position expressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This being the case, let us suppose, solely for theoretical purposes, that demographic trends indicated that Muslims will eventually constitute a majority in the State of Israel. Given the democratic principle of one adult/one vote, Israel will then cease to be a Jewish state! Contrary to the teaching of Judge Barak, we have here a clear contradiction between Democracy and Judaism.

Rabin knew the difference between racism and caution

The late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was aware of this dilemma. Indeed, on May 6, 1976, the year after the UN General Assembly equated Zionism with racism, Rabin said this to high school graduates about to enter the army:

The majority of the people living in a Jewish State must be Jewish. We must prevent a situation of an insufficient Jewish majority and we dare not have a Jewish minority… There is room for a non-Jewish minority on condition that it accept the destiny of the State vis-à-vis the Jewish people, culture, tradition, and belief. The minority is entitled to equal rights as individuals with respect to their distinct religion and culture, but not more than that.

Rabin’s last sentence obviously refers to Israel’s Muslim inhabitants. It clearly implies that their equal rights as individuals do not include equal political rights!

Was Prime Minister Rabin a racist in 1976? Or was he unaffected by the voodoo that stupefied former Justice Aharon Barak? And this is not all. Barak once said that the Supreme Court should represent what he called the “Enlightened” members of Israel’s population, by which he surely meant the Radical Left, perhaps then 20 percent of Israel’s population. The guru of this minority was Hebrew University Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi, the mentor of Shimon Peres, the spearhead of the disastrous Oslo Agreement of 1993, to which PM Benjamin Netanyahu genuflects as if that Agreement was stamped with the seal of the Pope!☼