Newsletter Special: The UAE White Jewish Supremacy
David Shasha
Friends,
I first addressed the issue of HASBARAH White Jewish Supremacy in the Arab Gulf in my article on NYU Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and his Interfaith work presented in the 2014 documentary “Of Many.” My article reviews what has become the standard methods of racist exclusion and silencing of Sephardic Jews that permeates the Ashkenazi institutional world. As we have just seen, the UAE agreement with Israel has brought to fruition many of these ideas in the larger context of Trumpworld.
Aya Batrawy alerted us to this new religious alliance in a February 2019 AP article which highlighted the new Lysol alliance, that proudly included wingnut Michele Bachmann. It was a sign of what was to come.
The following September we got word of a special Trumpjews prayer service in Bahrain that further detailed what was going on in the HASBARAH community, and how it connected back into the corrupt world of the White House and its Christian Zionist allies.
And that is the background to the current UAE normalization agreement with Netanyahu, which was largely the product of Kushner family corruption and its concern with undermining Palestinian rights.
My article on the matter reviews the history of Trumpworld and the Gulf States, and then moves on to the White Jewish Supremacy that now controls discourse on the Middle East. Central to the discussion is the aforementioned Yehuda Sarna, who was appointed Chief Rabbi of UAE.
In a second article I focus on a Facebook post by NYU graduate Mijal Bitton, who we have just discussed in relation to her Self-Hatred and her precipitous rise in that White Jewish Supremacy. She scored a big HASBARAH coup when the Sarna UAE group invited her to participate in a ZOOM call to celebrate Shabbat after the agreement was announced. Once again, we can see how Sephardim have caved into the Ashkenazi supremacy and allowed them to keep us out of the cultural discussion.
Next, I present two triumphant articles from Sarna himself. The first explains the complex institutional process that led him to be installed Chief Rabbi. It is an excellent review of how the White Jewish Supremacy works, and a primer to Sephardim as to why they have lost the battle for inclusion and representation. The second article from Tikvah Tablet reinforces the Neo-Con nature of that process and how the internal bonds of power function in the Jewish institutional world.
The disgraced Rabbi Marc Schneier is another key Ashkenazi player in the Gulf Trumpworld mishegas. In his article for Arab News he applauds the Kushner-Netanyahu agreement, and boldly predicts that there is a lot more of it in the offing.
We close the special newsletter with an article from Mondoweiss by Emad Moussa that provides all the necessary detail regarding how the agreement serves to undermine the Palestinians in order to bypass their claims and use the Gulf elites and repressive Arab potentates to mark a new alliance that will serve the interests of the reactionaries and racists.
In the end it is all part of a larger process that is meant to consolidate the power of Ashkenazim, and disregard the many centuries of Jewish life in the Arab-Muslim world. It is all about imposing the White Jewish Supremacy hegemony, and install the New Gefilte Fish regime as the sole means of Jewish representation in the Middle East.
David Shasha
Killing Convivencia: The White Jewish Pitfalls of Interfaith Dialogue in the Documentary “Of Many” (2014)
By: David Shasha
Jews, Evangelicals Reach Out to Sunni Arab Gulf Leaders
By: Aya Batrawy
Ashkenazi Trumpworld “Praying” in Bahrain
By: David Shasha
The Kushner UAE “Triumph”: White Jewish Supremacy in the Gulf States
By: David Shasha
Integrating Self-Hating Sephardim into the White Jewish Supremacy: The Case of Mijal Bitton Again!
By: David Shasha
How I Became Chief Rabbi of the UAE and Why That Matters to Global Jewry
By: Yehuda Sarna
Walking Towards the Center of the Seesaw
By: Yehuda Sarna
The UAE and Israel Agreement is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
By: Rabbi Marc Schneier
The UAE-Israel Alliance: Normalizing with the Abnormal State
By: Emad Moussa