Is Hannah Einbinder the New Trotsky? The Jewish Betrayal Fueling Antisemitism

“After seeing Hannah Einbinder sell out the Jewish people for a prize at a ceremony no one watched, that’s unimportant and insignificant, I don’t want to hear any more about antisemitism.” That’s what a friend told me.

Antisemitism may indeed be a highly sophisticated poison, but after witnessing this Jewish woman stab her people in the back before the entire world, it’s no longer possible to claim that it’s solely a phenomenon related to non-Jews.

Thus, it cannot be characterized as a hate crime of non-Jewish hatred against Jews when Jews themselves betray their brethren in the most severe ways.

And here lies a truth too painful to bear: Ms. Einbinder allows herself to hate Jews more than anyone else precisely because she is Jewish.

Because she bought into the myth that, as a Jew, she’s permitted what others are not, by virtue of being chosen, only she turned that chosenness into a license for betrayal.

This, I call a blend of secularism and extreme self-hatred, combined with Jewish narcissism, ultimately transforming a person into an auto-antisemite.

These individuals identify divine omnipotence in their very existence as Jews, even though they generally despise the Jewish religion, because they’ve accepted the notion that we are a chosen people without any conditions, unrelated to fulfilling our mission.

And so, as godless chosen ones, everything is permitted to them, including hating Jews wholesale.

Indeed, we Jews must admit that we produce individuals who believe everything is permitted to them. Not all Jews, of course, but there are many such individuals. Non-Jewish antisemites cannot generalize about all of us, but they can say that certain behaviors characterized by arrogance and extremism are not uncommon among us.

And we, we must engage in soul-searching, not about the imagined genocide that doesn’t exist in Gaza, but about how we create this within us - the bad, and the ugly.

By the way, it’s worth noting how fascinating it is that these Jews in Hollywood have volunteered to play the role of the crucified. And indeed, the motif of betrayal within the Jewish people is not new.

From Joseph the Righteous, to the story of Jesus, and even in the Land of Israel and the diaspora to this day, innocent Jews are ostracized and condemned without reason.

Perhaps this segregation of us from the world has created a situation where we have no choice but to seek enemies everywhere, even within ourselves.

But when this is the case, how can we claim that the gentiles’ accusations of our disloyalty are false, when we sometimes fail in our loyalty to ourselves?

After all, Einbinder, like Trotsky, like the people in the Yevsektsiya, like the Kapos in the Holocaust, all claim they are the true Jews. And only in retrospect do we claim they are not the true Jews. And perhaps that’s true. But when I look at some of the Jewish community institutions where I live now, I cannot say wholeheartedly that there is primary loyalty to the people of Israel. Love for every Jew first and foremost. And the path of the Torah first and foremost.

The desire, of course, is to be an advocate for Israel, for the Jewish people as a whole, but it’s difficult.

Betrayal as a product of paranoia and a paranoid response can be explained, a result of living in conditions of isolation and persecution.

But now? How do we navigate between those who defend every Jew no matter what and those who are willing to sell out all Jews for nothing? Is there a normal middle path?