by Grant Gochin, August 11, 2025

For three decades, my soul has roared with an unquenchable fire, forged in the crucible of my family’s slaughter in Lithuania. No polished diploma adorns my walls–my education was ripped from the smoldering ruins of personal tragedy and honed in the blood-soaked trenches of diplomacy across Africa’s most perilous corners. This is no academic sermon; it’s a primal scream, carved from scars, seething rage and an ironclad vow to never let genocide’s shadow fall on my people again. The ancient blood libel–that vile lie blaming all Jews for the crimes of none, or sometimes, possibly, a few, a grotesque slander conjured from thin air to vilify our people without a shred of truth–has been resurrected by traitors who wield their Jewish identity like a blade to disembowel our nation. These are the “As a Jew” Jews, a festering betrayal we must rip out root and branch.

The Historical Precedent: Scapegoating and Self-Destruction

Cast your eyes to Lithuania, a land soaked in the blood of 96.4% of its Jews, the Holocaust’s most ruthless per capita massacre, with the highest level of public participation by those who voluntarily, enthusiastically and joyously participated in the slaughter, following a vast disinformation campaign blaming Jews for the actions of the Russians. Yet, they dare dodge their guilt by pointing a trembling finger at Nachman Dushansky, a Soviet officer of Jewish descent who turned his back on his heritage to serve Moscow’s machine. They brandish his name like a bludgeon to cloak their own complicity. His family perished in the Holocaust, yet in 1996, Lithuania had the audacity to demand his extradition for “war crimes” without a shred of evidence. Israel and the Simon Wiesenthal Center saw through this antisemitic charade–a disgusting rewrite of Lithuania’s genocidal sins, ignoring 20 non-Jewish Soviet officers and 25 Lithuanian collaborators guilty of the same deeds. Dushansky, who never even claimed Jewish religious identity, is twisted into a caricature to paint all Jews as monsters–a tactic eerily similar to what unfolds in countries like Ireland and Spain at this very moment, where amplification of lies and generation of hate are fueled by relentless propaganda, a despicable fervor that has morphed into a near-religious cult of anti-Israel hatred in these nations, where brainwashed masses worship at the altar of falsehoods, barring facts from penetrating their venomous, lie-drenched narratives with fanatical zeal. Dushansky’s faint Jewish tie is shrieked from the rooftops, his other traits buried–all to smear Jews as the guilty class. This is the playbook of antisemites and self-hating Jews: amplify any Jewish connection to demonize us all.

History is a graveyard of such betrayals. Jews aided the Romans in shattering the Second Temple, a catastrophic wound to our people. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish converts, conversos, served the Spanish Crown, some turning on their own to prove their loyalty, fueling the expulsion and slaughter of thousands. The Czars enlisted self-hating Jews to tighten the noose of their pogroms, strangling Jewish communities. Even the Nazis found Jewish collaborators, kapos and others, who, whether under duress or by choice, oiled the gears of the Holocaust’s machinery. At every turn, our enemies have weaponized these internal traitors, the “enemy within,” to devastating effect, amplifying their treachery to justify our torment.

The Yevsektsiya, the Jewish section of the Russian Communist Party, were self-loathing Jews who razed their own culture, banning Hebrew, torching synagogues and earning the contempt of their kin. Yet their crimes were pinned on all Jews, igniting pogroms that drowned Russia in Jewish blood. Their true aim? To erase their own people. Echoing this pernicious legacy, figures like Bernie Sanders embody a contemporary communism in the mold of the Yevsektsiya; cloaked in the guise of democratic socialism, yet relentlessly undermining Jewish self-determination through his vehement demands for slashing U.S. aid to Israel, his equivocations on Zionist ideals and his flirtations with ideologies that historically sought to dissolve Jewish particularism into a homogenized proletarian void. Sanders, with his professed admiration for socialist experiments which mirror the Soviet suppression of Jewish identity, perpetuates this betrayal by prioritizing anti-Israel narratives over the unassailable right of the Jewish state to defend itself, thereby sowing seeds of division which imperil our people’s sovereignty and survival. Fittingly, Stalin’s 1939 purges devoured them, executed or caged like the traitors they were. They reaped the ruin they sowed.

Then there’s Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who collaborated with Nazis in the Łódź Ghetto, orchestrating deportations to death camps. Nicholas Donin sparked the 1240 Disputation of Paris, leading to the Talmud’s burning. Johannes Pfefferkorn pushed for Jewish book burnings in 1509. All met their just deserts: Rumkowski murdered in Auschwitz, Donin executed, Pfefferkorn disgraced, self-inflicted fates they toiled tirelessly to bring upon their blood brothers and their own families, sealing their own doom through their treachery. These self-hating Jews who sought to annihilate their own were used by enemies until their usefulness expired. The true tragedy? The innocent Jews slaughtered in the crossfire.

Modern Traitors: Wielding Jewish Identity as a Weapon

This betrayal festers today in the “As a Jew” Jews who exploit their heritage to hurl poison at Israel and their own people. They wield their Jewishness as a weapon, claiming immunity from accusations of antisemitism because they are Jewish. Yet this serves merely as a prop of hatred, a tool to amplify their malice, rarely, if ever, displaying any other facet of their identity. Sonia Harris Pope in her August 8, 2025, Irish Times diatribe, dares brand the Star of David a “mark of shame” over Israel’s actions. Ken Roth, former Human Rights Watch chief, peddles lies about Israel’s human rights record with a zealot’s obsession. Peter Beinart, once a Zionist, now shills for a binational state, spitting on Jewish self-determination to pander to Palestinian demands. Bernie Sanders hurls falsehoods, demanding cuts to U.S. aid for Israel. Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein question Israel’s very right to exist with their venomous rhetoric, while Kelly Jo Bluen, the vilest of betrayers, pours accelerants onto her venomous lies, propagating baseless, malignant hatred against her own people, a traitor whose depravity marks her as the worst of the worst, gleefully desecrating her heritage. The cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, known as Zapiro, never misses an opportunity to slander Israel with grotesque falsehoods, building an entire career on the vile foundation of generating hatred against Jews. Ronnie Kasrils, a dyed-in-the-wool racist against his own people, relentlessly pursues Israel’s destruction, possibly even instigating South Africa’s reprehensible move to haul Israel before the International Court of Justice. Our enemies meticulously seek out these types of Jews, activating and weaponizing them as Soviet-style functionaries in their insidious war against Jewry.

Worse still, NGOs such as Amnesty International, founded by Peter Benenson, and Human Rights Watch, co-founded by Robert Bernstein, have been hijacked. They gorge on Qatari cash tied to anti-Israel agendas and churn out deliberately false, viciously biased reports which betray their Jewish founders’ visions. These figures and organizations are the modern Yevsektsiya, Donin and Pfefferkorn, inverting reality, doing the very opposite of their mission and seeking the destruction of the Jewish people with every calculated syllable.

The External Threat Feasting on Our Division

These internal traitors are more dangerous than any external enemy, and our foes know it. They bankroll and amplify these quislings to dismantle us from within. Lithuania refuses to prosecute its own war criminals, despite post-1991 promises, while obsessing over Dushansky to dodge its guilt. Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, hiding behind their Jewish founders’ legacies, churn out reports which downplay Hamas’s terrorism while fixating on Israel. Their funding? Likely Qatar and other Islamist sources with a clear anti-Israel axe to grind. This is blood libel reborn, echoing the Dreyfus Affair, where a Jewish officer was scapegoated for France’s failures. Jews are the eternal scapegoat, a tiny, resilient minority onto which every societal failure, every festering grievance and every coward’s insecurity can be viciously projected, empowering the unworthy with the cheap, intoxicating thrill of hate. The “As a Jew” Jews not only revel in this betrayal but feast on it, basking in the fleeting, hollow adoration of our enemies, just like the despised concentration camp kapos who, whether by coercion or choice, betrayed their own kin. These modern quislings trade their people’s survival for the fleeting applause of those who would see us eradicated, their treachery a stain on our collective soul, emboldening our foes to tighten the noose around our necks.

This is not new. For millennia external forces have weaponized self-hating Jews to erode our resilience. Today, Sanders, Chomsky, Finkelstein, Bluen, Pope, Roth and Beinart are the darlings of those who seek to delegitimize Israel, drowning out diverse Jewish voices with their monotonous crusade, cynically propped up as Jewish voices by propaganda outlets such as Al Jazeera to elevate hate against Jews in their relentless, venomous campaign against Israel.

The Catastrophic Cost: A People Decimated, Funding Our Own Doom

The toll of this treachery is cataclysmic. Without the centuries of lies, murders and betrayals fueled by these turncoats, Jews could number 600 million. Instead, we are a battered 15 million, vilified as ever before, trapped in the same cycles of hate which have haunted us for millennia. Worse, these “As a Jew” Jews twist formally sacred institutions such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch into machines of hate, weaponizing our own platforms against us. Every dollar Jews donate to these groups without scrutiny is a dagger in our own hearts. If you’re not digging into their missions, funding and agendas, you’re bankrolling our annihilation. Stop. Now.

A Call to Resist

We must confront these internal enemies with unrelenting fury. Pope, Roth, Beinart, Sanders, Chomsky, Finkelstein, Bluen and their hijacked NGOs exploit Jewish identity not for pride but for betrayal, fracturing our unity and shielding monsters like Hamas. They should lie awake at night, haunted by the ghosts of Rumkowski, Donin and Pfefferkorn whose legacies ended in ruin. The Jewish people will endure, but only if we crush this betrayal with iron resolve. Reject their poisonous narratives. Cut off the flow of our resources to those who’d see us burn.

My plea is this: Stop funding Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch or any group which twists its platform into a weapon against Jews, Zionists or Israel. If you can’t verify their true agenda, don’t give a dime. Our survival hangs in the balance. Rise up, fight back and let these traitors know: we will not fall.

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