Edward Topol | ANTISEMITISM CANNOT BE DEFEATED. IT CAN BE CURED

Author of international bestsellers Red Square, Red Snow, Submarine U-137, and others.

Just as the combined efforts of Italian crusaders, Spanish inquisitors, Polish pogromists, Russian-Ukrainian Black Hundreds, and Islamic ayatollahs have failed to destroy Judaism, so no weapon can eradicate antisemitism, Islamism, Marxism, feminism, homosexuality, or any other spiritual achievement of homo sapiens.

Viewed from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, Jews as a people resemble Charlie Chaplin in the boxing ring. But while audiences always rooted for Chaplin, in our no-holds-barred war of survival the world increasingly sides not with us, but with the “poor innocent children” of our killers. Today there are already 64 million Muslims in Europe — do you think even one of them, watching our war, sympathizes with us? Yet how eagerly, how enthusiastically, the hereditary anti-Semites from Iceland to Australia rally to their side — having generously opened their homes to them and silently surrendered to them their women and daughters.

The stronger Israel becomes, the more anti-Semites “progressive” humanity breeds around it — the same humanity that first invented gunpowder, then dynamite, then bombs and missiles, then the atomic and hydrogen bombs. The next step will be weapons of mass destruction of yet another order of magnitude, and no one knows whether it will be Israel or its enemies who create them.

I have lived in Israel for nearly ten years. In that time, the north of the country has been declared a frontline zone repeatedly, and twice its residents have been evacuated southward to the rear. Then, immediately after October 7th, the entire south was evacuated northward to the rear. But what kind of rear is it when Iranian and Yemeni rockets have reached every point in that “rear” a hundred times over?

For 78 years, all of Israel has been a frontline zone — and there is no end in sight, because the world is rapidly anti-Semitizing, and this can no longer be stopped by the IDF, nor by feeding our enemies money, food, electricity, and water, nor by the heroic efforts of our invisible diplomacy. Whether we like it or not, history shows that even laser weapons and stealth aircraft will not win us this endless fight. Because arrayed against us are not only savages with knives and axes, but also technically skilled villains educated at the finest universities of Europe. That is why, on October 7, 2023, Islamic terrorists crossed our border on hang gliders, and today they easily punch through our four-layered iron dome — worth billions of dollars — with cheap drones made of penny-grade fiberglass.

So how do we stop the planet’s antisemitization, when every Israeli victory breeds more enemies and anti-Semites than existed before that victory?

To curb anti-Semites’ maniacal drive to destroy Israel — and Jews in general — we need, alongside weapons of mass destruction, to create a means of mass cure for antisemitism. After all, no one is born an anti-Semite, an Islamist, or a communist. Antisemitism is a contagious disease — something like rabies — that spreads with the speed of plague or COVID-19. But who invented vaccines for plague and COVID? Two Jews — Haffkin and Weizmann. So why not find and fund a couple of new Haffkines and Weizmanns to cure the world of antisemitism?

It is known that a pack of two dozen jackals can bring down a lion — or even an elephant. Today Israel is the lion, surrounded by jackals. They all communicate with one another via WhatsApp, email, Telegram, and so forth. This means that Big Data analytics — and more precisely, such AI empires as DataWalk, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, S&P Global, Alteryx, C3.ai, and Palantir Technologies — have their electronic addresses, making it possible to deliver any information to them.

Consequently, a few new Haffkines and Weizmanns — such as, for example, Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, and Joseph Lonsdale, the owners of Palantir Technologies — could, drawing on knowledge of the brain’s chemical regulators of emotion and behavior (dopamine, norepinephrine, GABA, testosterone, cortisol, and adrenaline), create a code that lowers the chemistry of aggression, and a method to covertly deliver that code to the screen of an overly fanatical anti-Semite’s device. Then there would be no need to bomb and kill anyone along with their wives and children. Moreover, it would not be necessary to reach every anti-Semite — it would be sufficient to suppress the aggression of the leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas, and the IRGC.

In 1945, the creation of the American atomic bomb thwarted Stalin’s plan to occupy all of Europe and delayed World War III by 80 years. I am convinced that a pair of new Haffkines-Weizmanns could create a means of remotely pacifying antisemitism and anti-Zionism. And without this complement to the most modern weaponry, we cannot hold out against the “green billion” of prolifically breeding enemies.

Moreover, deploying this means will not cost us the life of a single one of our soldiers. Nor even the life of a single Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian, or Yemeni child.

And to free humanity from antisemitism — now that would be beautiful.

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