zaterdag 9 januari 2016

Het Fascisme van Heere Heeresma en Trouw 2

Vijf jaar geledenden schreef ik het volgende:


MAANDAG 28 FEBRUARI 2011

Ulrik Unger van de VPRO 2

Heeresma jr, alias Ulrik Unger: 'Het Joodsche volk.'


Terwijl ik vanmiddag op straat met een oud-politieman aan het praten was, werd ik ineens begroet door Ulrik Unger, pseudoniem van Heere Heeresma junior, een bijbelkenner als geen ander en een fervente sympathisant van de zionistische staat die zich ditmaal liet ontvallen dat 'de joden een volk' zijn. Ik antwoordde dat er maar één Joods volk is, en dat volk leeft in Israel, joodse Europeanen, Amerikanen, Afrikanen en joodse Arabieren zijn daarheen geemigreerd juist omdat ze zich een volk voelden, een volk dat door het millennia-oude christelijke antisemitisme niet langer meer onder andere volkeren wilden leven. Voor de rest is het judaisme een geloof en geen ras of volk. Alleen voor de zionisten en de antisemieten vormen joden overal ter wereld één volk. Ulrik was het met mijn visie volstrekt oneens. 'Ga jij bepalen wie een jood is?' zo stelde hij mij de retorische vraag. Ik antwoordde dat ik dit zeker niet doe. Als iemand zich joods voelt dan is dat zijn/haar goed recht, net zoals anderen zich weer iets anders mogen voelen, de een voelt zich Napoleon, de ander een echte Nederlander etc. Zolang dit anderen niet schaadt is er niets aan de hand. 'Maar, beste Heere,' zei ik 'tegelijkertijd kan ook jij niet bepalen dat alle joden tot één volk behoren. Je kunt bovendien niet staande houden dat als Job Cohen de nieuwe Nederlandse premier wordt dat de Hollanders dan geleid worden door een man uit een ander volk. Job Cohen behoort tot het Nederlandse volk, net zoals joodse Nederlanders die tijdens de oorlog werden verraden allereerst Nederlanders waren.Ulrik keek me stom verbaasd aan, had kennelijk hier nooit zo over nagedacht en spoedde zich weg. 

Bijbelstudie leidt tot prachtige zaken maar ook tot veel verwarring. Het Bijbels geloof en de Verlichtingsidealen kunnen mijlenver van elkaar staan. Het paradoxale is dat Heeresma jr. mij probeerde te verwijten dat ik wil bepalen wie tot het joodse volk behoort en wie niet, terwijl junior dit impliciet en expliciet zelf doet, vanuit zijn eigen fundamentalistische christelijke opvattingen. Nogmaals:


W.H. Auden had o zo gelijk: 'Legislation is helpless against the wild prayer of longing.' 


Omdat wij in een tijd leven waarin feiten meningen zijn geworden en meningen feiten is het goed om over het onderwerp 'Joodse volk' de gedocumenteerde studie van de Joods-Israelische hoogleraar Shlomo Sand te lezen: 'The Invention of the Jewish People':

Jewish origins

Sand argues that it is likely that the ancestry of most contemporary Jews stems mainly from outside the ancient Land of Israel and that a "nation-race" of Jews with a common origin never existed. Just as most contemporary Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, not of the first Christians and Muslims, Judaism was originally, like its two cousins, a proselytising religion. Many of the present day world Jewish population are descendants of European, Russian and African groups.
According to Sand, the original Jews living in Israel, contrary to popular belief, were not exiled following the Bar Kokhba revolt.[10] Sand argues that most of the Jews were not exiled by the Romans, and were permitted to remain in the country. Many Jews converted to Islam following the Arab conquest, and were assimilated among the conquerors. He concludes that the progenitors of the Palestinian Arabs were Jews.[11] Sand writes that the story of the exile was a myth promoted by early Christians to recruit Jews to the new faith. They portrayed that event as a divine punishment imposed on the Jews for having rejected the Christian gospel. Sand writes that "Christians wanted later generations of Jews to believe that their ancestors had been exiled as a punishment from God."[9]

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Jewish peoplehood

Sand's explanation of the birth of the "myth" of a Jewish people as a group with a common, ethnic origin has been summarized as follows: "[a]t a certain stage in the 19th century intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people "retrospectively," out of a thirst to create a modern Jewish people. From historian Heinrich Graetz on, Jewish historians began to draw the history of Judaism as the history of a nation that had been a kingdom, became a wandering people and ultimately turned around and went back to its birthplace."[10]
In this, Sand writes, they were similar to other nationalist movements in Europe at the time that sought the reassurance of a Golden Age in their past to prove they have existed as a separate people since the beginnings of history. Jewish people found theirs in what he calls "the mythical Kingdom of David". Before this invention, he says, Jews thought of themselves as Jews because they shared a common religion, not a common ethnic background.[10]

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Return from exile, Zionism

Sand believes that the idea of Jews being obliged to return from exile to the Promised Land was alien to Judaism before the birth of Zionism, and that the holy places were seen as places to long for, not to be lived in. On the contrary, for 2,000 years Jews stayed away from Jerusalem because their religion forbade them from returning until the Messiah came. According to Sand, the ancestry of Central and Eastern European Jews stems heavily from mediæval Turkic Khazars who were converted to Judaism, a theory which was popularized in a book written by Arthur Koestler in 1976.[12]

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Overall intent of the book

Sand explained during a newspaper interview his reasons for writing the book: "I wrote the book for a double purpose. First, as an Israeli, to democratise the state; to make it a real republic. Second, I wrote the book against Jewish essentialism." Sand explained in the same interview that what he means by 'Jewish essentialism' is the tendency in modern Judaism to make shared ethnicity the basis for faith. "That is dangerous and it nourishes antisemitism. I am trying to normalise the Jewish presence in history and contemporary life."[13]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_the_Jewish_People

http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.nl/2011/02/ulrik-unger-van-de-vpro-2.html

8 opmerkingen:

Lucas zei

The album cover has a double meaning. Its most apparent meaning (for English speakers) is the German word "volk", meaning "nation" or "people". This an allusion to the fascist flirtations of the album. The second meaning is the Slavic word for "wolf". The sheep represent the victims of the wolf.

Track listing
"Germania" - based on "Das Lied der Deutschen" (Germany)
"America" - based on "The Star-Spangled Banner" (USA)
"Anglia" - based on "God Save the Queen" (United Kingdom)
"Rossiya" - based on the post-2000 "Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii" (Russia) and "The Internationale"
"Francia" - based on "La Marseillaise" (France)
"Italia" - based on "Il Canto degli Italiani" (Italy)
"España" - based on "Marcha Real" (music) and "El Himno de Riego" (lyrics) (Spain)
"Yisra’el" - based on "Hatikvah" (Israel) and Fida'i (Palestine)
"Türkiye" - based on "İstiklâl Marşı" (Turkey)
"Zhonghuá" - based on "March of the Volunteers" (People's Republic of China)
"Nippon" - based on "Kimi ga Yo" (Japan)
"Slovania" - based on "Hey, Slavs" (anthem of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and unofficial anthem of Pan-Slavism)
"Vaticanae" - based on "Inno e Marcia Pontificale" (Vatican City)
"NSK" - the anthem of Neue Slowenische Kunst, also known as "The Great Seal"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volk_(album)

Lucas zei

Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja; Lower Sorbian: Serby; also known as Wends, Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs) are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia, a region on the territory of Germany and Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs

Lucas zei

The Kurds (Kurdish: کورد‎ Kurd) are an ethnic group in the Middle East. The Kurds have ethnically diverse origins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds

Lucas zei

The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني‎, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون‎, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים), are an ethnic group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians

Lucas zei

Der Ausdruck Volk (über mittelhochdeutsch volc aus althochdeutsch folc, dies aus urgermanisch fulka „die Kriegsschar“) ist erstmals im 8. Jahrhundert belegt und bedeutet „viele“. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volk

Lucas zei

Ethnic Albanians speak the Albanian language and more than half of ethnic Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanians

Lucas zei

In the English-speaking world, Bosniaks are also frequently referred to as Bosnian Muslims or simply Bosnians, though the latter is also used to denote all inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina regardless of ethnic origin or to describe citizenship in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

Lucas zei

Theodor Herzl, one of the greatest of the Jews, was perhaps the farthest-seeing public exponent of the philosophy of Jewish existence that modern generations have known. And he was never in doubt of the existence of the Jewish nation. Indeed he proclaimed its existence on every occasion. He said, We are a people - One people.
Henry Ford, The International Jew

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