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THE GENOCIDE OF TRUTH: The Deep Roots of a Modern Blood Libel
by Daniel Clarke-Serret
Introduction: The Genocide of Truth
PART 1: The Tree of Knowledge
Chapter 1: Truth // Chapter 2: Ideology // Chapter 3: Religion // Chapter 4: Science // Chapter 5: Attention // Chapter 6: Distraction // Chapter 7: (True) Expertise // Chapter 8: Authority
PART 2: The Descent to Babylon
Chapter 9: Declaration // Chapter 10: Confusion // Chapter 11: Conversation // Chapters 12: Democratisation // Chapter 13: Sophistry // Chapter 14: Image
PART 3: The Rise of Byzantium
Chapter 15: Guilt // Chapter 16: Belief (see below)
Chapter 16: Belief
A Chosen People?
There’s a pink elephant in the room —and it’s decidedly kosher. It’s the question that no-one ever asks and those who do, are the wrong people. It’s this: Is Israel a normal country or is it somehow special?
Let’s step back a moment. What is it that so perturbs readers of this work? What is it that makes our blood boil and our words spill with rage? It’s the hypocrisy of it all. The relentless focus of the world on one people and one small nation to the exclusion of all else. It’s the moral judgment on the Jews while the rest get off without agency. The wall-to-wall coverage. The UN resolutions. The hyper-focused dinner parties. All combine to make us explode with indignation.
And let’s not forget the conditionality: that Israel alone must justify its existence; that younger, ethnically-divided, Western-conceived States, some founded on partition (many on expulsion), escape the dark torchlight of history.
Objectively, it’s an outrage. From a secular standpoint too. Yet it raises the awkward question: despite our protestations of irreligiosity, have we really lost faith? Or are we in denial about our true beliefs? Perhaps when the “secular” declare the fashionable, that Israel’s existence is conditional on behaviour, they’re channeling a far older scripture?
I speak of course of the Tenakh, the Hebrew Bible, or as some disingenuously call it “The Old Testament”. Disingenuous because they quote with modern abandon without knowing its source. For it is from this legendary text, that the idea first emerged: that Israel is special; that behaviour determines its fate; that wrongdoing leads to expulsion from the Land.
It was the Bible that first asked the question, then repeated it ad nauseum: Does Israel have a right to exist in its Land?
It never denied Israel the people. It affirmed the Land as their treasured possession —but only on condition of good behaviour. Where they strayed and sinned and rebelled against God, they were spat out from their borders and Zion became a wasteland.
As with the “secular leftists” today, all agency was placed on the shoulders of Israel. It was taken as a given that empires would leave the land in ruins; a shadow of its former self; a wasteland before the invention of the bomb. And so it proved. From the Babylonians to the Ottomans, they left the Land in desolation, a physical manifestation of their low moral standards. And so too the Land would become again if it fell under terrorist dominion.
Yet the visions of ruin, predicated on two-tier moral judgment, were seen as the divine will. The Jews, though declared more virtuous than the empires, were held to account for their failings. Scrupulously, and from the King of Kings himself.
