On Being An Anti-Zionist Philosemite

The State of Israel is the only State not only founded on a repudiation of the recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism and the Roman Empire (one may say that about the French and American Republics, for example), but incapable (as those Republics are not) of ever recanting that repudiation and adopting (in the French case, re-adopting) that recapitulation as the basis of the State.

But of the civilisation – “the West” – defined by that recapitulation, Jews, like those who reject it on ostensibly Classical basis, are a permanent and important feature, a constant challenge to that civilisation to be true to the best of the Hebrew heritage (discernible by, in, through and as Jesus Christ and His Church), just as the ostensible Classicists are a constant challenge to that civilisation to be true to the best of the Graeco-Roman heritage (likewise so discernible).

The actual or metaphorical confinement of Jews to a political entity in any case ultimately founded on the dissident tradition that looks to the Graeco-Roman, not the Hebrew, sources is a disaster for Western civilisation. The Jewish prophetic voice is thus altogether silenced. And that is true whether or not all Jews move to Israel. As long as they can say “we have somewhere else to go”, or as long as other people can turn round to them and say “you have somewhere else to go”, then why should the other citizens of their countries (not their “host countries”, their countries) attend to what they have to say? No matter how vitally important that may be.