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''Hatred has turned him into a Jew
Deconstructing Nick Cohen
By Gilad Atzmon
8 March 2009

Gilad Atzmon analyses Observer columnist and war-mongering Islamophobe Nick Cohen’s extraordinary claim that “anti-Semitism” within the British left had turned him into a raving Zionist.
In an article published by the Jewish Chronicle, Observer columnist Nick Cohen argued that hatred has turned him into a Jew. Initially, I was rather amused by this revealing confession. Cohen must have a lot of hatred in him. He was one of the very few supporters within the British media of the illegal war against Iraq. He really believed that liberating the Iraqis was the way forward. Incidentally, he also possesses an incredible record of Islamophobic ranting. Hence, at first I tended to interpret Cohen’s declaration as an acknowledgment that it was the loathing towards others which he finds in himself that made him into a Jew. I was obviously wrong. Cohen was quick to clarify that it is actually other people’s hatred, specifically that of the British “left” that “indulges anti-Semitism”, which made him “feel kosher”. As we have observed many times before, it is always someone or something else that transforms the “innocent”, “atheist”, “cosmopolitan”, “secularist”, “egalitarian” person into a “Jew”. I have previously heard Jewish leftists argue that it was Hitler who made them into Jews; now we have Nick Cohen of the Observer who claims that it is actually the “left” that makes him “feel kosher”. If it wasn’t very funny, it would have been very sad, maybe even tragic. One again, I find myself acknowledging that the more I elaborate on issues concerning contemporary Jewish identity, the more I realize that it is actually the so-called “secular”, “enlightened”, “emancipated”, “assimilated”, “cosmopolitan” Jew who provides us with a real meaningful insight into the subject of Zionism, Israeli genocidal policies, Jewish lobbying and Jewish institutional support of the Zionist crime. Cohen’s Jewish Chronicle article is an exemplary case study of the Zionization of world Jewry and the transition of Jewish identity into a hawkish carrier of brutal, expansionist, murderous ideologies.
Let’s take it from the kosher horse’s mouth
“My name is Nick Cohen, and I think I’m turning into a Jew,” Cohen tells his British Jewish readers. “Despite being called ‘Cohen’, I’ve never been Jewish before. It’s not simply that I am an atheist. My Jewish friends tell me that it is hard to find an educated London Jew who is not an atheist, but that I have no connection with Jewish culture.”For years I had been following Cohen defusing his Jewishness repeatedly. This time Cohen seems to surrender, he lets go, he’s let himself be a Jew. Yet, for some reason he insists upon untangling the notion of Jewishness and elaborating on religious perspective as if Jewishness has something to do with being observant. This tendency is rather bizarre. Cohen must be familiar enough with the subject to know that one does not have to be an observant Jew in order to consider oneself as a Jew. Unlike Islam and Christianity, Jewishness is not a belief system at all. While Muslims believe in God and Christians believe that Jesus is God, the Jew can believe in almost everything without ceasing to be a Jew. A Jew could believe in Marx, Bolshevism, Holocaust, secularism, democracy and even lizards. Consequently, what makes a Jew into a Jew is the belief in “the Jew”, in Jewish suffering and in Jewish uniqueness,When talking to a strictly Jewish audience, Cohen tends to celebrate his “exceptional Jewish circumstances” with his readers. “The Jewish side of my family is my father’s (which is not a help, I gather).” A friend pointed out to me a while ago that only when she is with her Jewish friends she always happens to know where Papa’le and Mama’le are from, and she always knows how the grandparents managed to survive the big war. Cohen is apparently no different. As we launch into Cohen’s identity expedition we get familiar with Papa’le and Mama’le racial background. Cohen is also a dedicated protagonist of the kosher victim historical narrative. “My great grandparents fled from the Tsarist empire at the time of the pogroms.” Not only did they flee, they even became communists – a common Jewish political choice at the turn of the 20th century.One may wonder at this stage what lead Cohen the “pro-war secular atheist” to admit that he had become a “kosher” subject after so many years of relentless denial. “My sole interest in Jewish concerns came from being a left-wing opponent of the far right and the blood-soaked anti-Semitic superstitions which turned Europe into a graveyard.”'

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