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Publication dateFebruary 1, 2015
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Catch the Jew! is an illuminating and alarming account of a part of the promised land that few foreigners see. Catch the Jew! offers one of the more interesting portraits of Palestinian politics to have appeared in English. ... the current Palestinian leadership appears fairly shrewd (though apparently not shrewd enough to perform background checks on visitors), nepotistic, obsessed with theatrical PR productions of alleged Israeli crimes, but also surprisingly satisfied with the status quo. That said, no reader of Catch the Jew! can come away having failed to learn many new things about Israelis and Palestinians, two peoples we talk about so much but understand so little.--Neil Rogachevsky, The Wall Street Journal
The book is amazing. It beautifully deconstructs the current culture of the Israel-hating crowd, from within and without Israel...Every page has examples of malicious Europeans, lying Arabs and clueless (or self-hating) Israeli Jews...The entire situation is quite literally theater, where everyone plays their parts and everyone denies the obvious - because the truth would destroy the illusions that so many people have invested their lives in. Tenenbom's genius is to expose the obvious to the players themselves, who react with anger or denial. Their world is surrounded with like-minded unthinking drones and they cannot abide a truth-teller, often reacting by accusing Tuvia of being a Jew.--Elderofziyon Blog
Catch the Jew! is filled with such realizations, small and large. It is at once a breezily written travelogue and a voyage through the political landscape, spotted with ideological landmines at every step. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about Israel, you ll meet people you never knew existed and you ll have fun getting to know them. --Jewish News Service, JNS.org
Tenenbom's insights are sharp and clear ...Tenenbom has a captivating personality and he is extraordinarily funny ...read what Tenenbom has to tell us, without bias. We don't have the privilege not to know. --Einat Talmon, Haaretz
Catch The Jew!, a daring and hilariously written account of the foreign-backed (and often foreign-staffed) media and peace industry in Israel. Each of the 55 short chapters is a portal to an aspect of Israeli and Arab life and some offense dreamed up by the peace industry. He observes how Israel's left-wing intellectuals profess to be experts on the settlers they despise and the Palestinians they adore while showing negligible real knowledge about either. He shows how the Oslo Accords did significant damage to Jewish Arab relations on a local level. Of particular interest to Tenenbom is the European connection. The extent to which so many anti-Israel NGOs (foreign and domestic); hostile films, cultural events, and institutions; and Arab housing, educational facilities, and academic conferences are all funded by European governments is staggering. --Jonathan Neumann, Commentary Magazine
Catch the Jew!... is at once a breezily written travelogue and a voyage through the political landscape, spotted with ideological landmines at every step. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about Israel, you'll meet people you never knew existed and you'll have fun getting to know them.--Amelia Katzen, The Algemeiner
Ultimately, what he got... is placed before you with sharp, insightful and even sarcastic sentences thrown out there for you, the reader. With these conclusions, and the solid proof he offers page after page, you can t argue with Tenenbom.--Paula Stern, The Times of Israel
Tenenbom...has a knack for homing in on what makes people tick.--Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel
Rave reviews across the political spectrum.--Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post
The result of this journey is an iconoclastic take on the Holy Land, that will either convulse the reader with laughter or enrage him/her to the point of mayhem.--Tom Tugend, The Jewish Journal
If you want to understand why there is no peace in the Holy Land despite the best efforts of the Obama administration and the billion-dollar European peace and human rights industry, you owe it to yourself to read Catch the Jew! by Tuvia Tenenbom.--Fred Siegel and Sol Stern,The City Journal
Tenenbom covers all of these usually invisible matters, and he does us a service by doing so.--David Mikics, The Tablet Magazine
The Israeli media have been buzzing about the delicious story of Tuvia Tenenbom and his expose of the shenanigans of the radical Left operating in the West Bank.
Kimche was not amused by Tenenbom's showing up the Far Left as a gang of circus clowns. As reported by various news media in Israel, on her Facebook page she issued a call for Tenenbom to be murdered.--Steven Plaut, Frontpagemag.com
Israel was recently hit by a literary bombshell. The title of the best-seller is Catch the Jew. Its author is Tuvia Tenenbom, the founder of New York's Jewish theater...The resulting book is altogether hilarious, tragic, and devastating...What emerges from this book is that Europeans are making things worse in our region by using the Arab-Israeli conflict to absolve themselves of their past crimes, and by laundering their anti-Semitism into humanitarianism.--Emmanuel Navon, i24News.com
If someone were to ask me to recommend one book to help him or her understand Israel today they could do no better than to read Tenenbom's Catch the Jew! --David Tesler, AJL Reviews
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- Publisher : Gefen Publishing House; 1st Edition (February 1, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 467 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9652297984
- ISBN-13 : 978-9652297983
- Item Weight : 1.63 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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Also many Americans would not understand the idea of "self-hating Jews" which also plays a BIG role in the book.
It is difficult enough to figure out the anti-Israel, left wing Jewish mind set, Jews who don't believe in God, Jews who are rallying against Israel, Jews who are anti-Semites etc. Calling them "self- hating" is a foreign "psycho-babble" term and beyond my ability to grasp.
I am not sure I even understand the concept of "self-hating Jews" - a term that has entered my vocabulary just in the past couple of years.
Frankly, I found the book both enlightening and dreadfully depressing at the same time -- just adding to my already well- developed inclination to be depressed about Israel and her future.
It isn't enough that the whole world is against Israel and that anti_Semitism has taken over the world. Add to that the Israelis themselves who seem so well-organized against themselves is beyond my ability to grasp. As a Christian and an advocate for Israel, reading "Catch The Jew" was "the straw that broke the camel's back" for me. I just wanted to throw up my hands and say,"What's the use?"
This book makes me want to weep, go to bed and pull the covers over my head much more than it gives me energy to help solve this very serious problem of NGOs and the jihad against Israel.
In that light, I am really thrilled to know that God is in control of Israel's future.
No amount of hasbara (advocacy) can overcome the internal cancer Tuvia describes in his book.
Moscowitz, the multi millionaire who actually supports Israel, was the only bright light in the book.
At the same time, Tennenbom's personal story is very profound it brought tears to my eyes. I am sure this book was a powerful experience for him to write and a major life journey.
israelolivetree@yahoo.com
In a stew like that, it is no wonder that the author's sense of humor is spiced with a bitter taste.
Like Catch the Jew, another book that shows life on both sides in Israel-Palestine is Son of Hamas.
I finished Catch the Jew with tears running, because I mourn the loss of another refuge of the most persecuted people in history. I am a Christian (second most persecuted people). The next book I read is Jew Hatred and the Church. I am sorrowful that people who claimed to follow Jesus (a Jew) through the ages were the worst Jew-haters.
Reading Catch the Jew, I cried because it looks like Israel will not survive the attacks from without and from within.
Hatred of Jews is Islamic doctrine, one of the emphases in the Koran. Muslims in the Mideast will never accept the existence of a Jewish-controlled nation in their midst.
Mostly missing in the book is the success of intimidation by Islam and their sympathizers as a strategy to get almost everyone to oppose Israel. This is a needed follow-up on the Dershowitz book Why Terrorism Works. Terrorism is only one means of intimidation. Modern Western civilization readily yields to intimidation.
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Even for a pro-Israel supporter like myself, the overall message of the book was shocking and deeply depressing. It shows on the one hand that the irrational antisemitism that underpins the universal anti-Zionist narrative is even more deeply rooted than I feared; and on the other hand that most Israelis are even more oblivious of this than I suspected.
I think this is one of the most important - and in many ways brilliant - books I have read. Crucially, the reviews and extracts I had read did not do the book justice and in many respects were quite misleading. For a start, the popular narrative that Tuvia is a right-wing Zionist is itself a lie. This lie is promoted by those (including many who call themselves Zionists) who are uncomfortable when their liberal ideas are blown apart by facts, especially when the person who reveals those facts is a Jew using unconventional methods. Rather than confronting the evidence that Tuvia presents (and it really is more clear-cut and damning than most of what you will have seen elsewhere) critics fall back on the 'right-wing Zionist' (or even 'racist') slur to discredit the fact finder and close down the debate (take a look, for example, at this review of the book in Tablet Magazine). In fact, Tuvia is not a 'rightest' in any normal sense of the word and nor, it seems, a Zionist. Some of his harshest criticism is reserved for ultra-orthodox Jews and 'right wing extremists'. Both Netanyahu and Lieberman refused interviews with him since (in Tuvia's words) "both their teams have concluded that I am a leftist troublemaker" and his Bohemian lifestyle puts him socially in the extreme liberal category.
But his 6 months in Israel clearly make Tuvia realise that most of the 'left' are the opposite of the liberal intelligentsia that they claim to be. They are intolerant, shallow and hypocritical; the Jews among them are among the most self-hating, while the non-Jews (of the European and other NGOs) are driven by antisemitism. These activists ignore the most brutal behaviour of Arabs while spending their entire lives looking for Jews in Israel who 'misbehave'. Their objective is to use evidence of such misbehaviour (no matter how trivial and contrived - indeed it is normally set up by the activists themselves) as 'proof' that Jews do not deserve to have their own country. It's as simple as that. Hence the book's title "Catch a Jew". These people are determined to make most of Israel 'Judenfrei'.
I was shocked by the extent to which supposedly 'humanitarian' organisations like the International Red Cross and Medecin Sans Frontiers are actually just political anti-Zionist machines. And the depravity and lies of Israeli NGOs like B'Tselem are also at a level far worse than I ever imagined (and remember B'Tselem are Yachad's main Israel partner).
By being able to cast himself as a different character, depending on who he was meeting, Tenenbom discovered what people really understand and believe. Hence, he exposes a level of antisemitism in supposedly moderate and highly educated Arabs, that almost all Israelis (and certainly the entire Israel media) refuse to acknowledge or accept. But it is what he discovers about 'leftist' Israelis and the NGO activists that is most revealing. For example, Haaretz writer Gideon Levy - man who has dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause and who can find no good Zionist Jew and no bad Palestinian - is a liar who speaks no Arabic and does not have a single Palestinian friend. In fact Tuvia finds that many Israeli leftists love the Arabs far more than they love the Jews, but do not actually have any Palestinian friends. Their love of Palestinian Arabs is based on a purely theoretical view of what the Palestinians are and what they want. The leftists want - and believe - that the Palestinians are like them and that they yearn for peace and mutual respect. The reality that Tuvia finds everywhere is that, when speaking among themselves (as opposed to their NGO friends and Jews) the Palestinians actually yearn for a Jew-free state encompassing the whole of Israel. And the NGOs have brainwashed their followers to believe that this is the only ethical solution also.
Other parts of the book also provide extensive evidence of things I have suspected. For example:
-I have long moaned about the anti-Zionist bias of Israeli films. Tuvia discovers that almost every Israeli non-fiction film is funded by external NGOs under condition that they support the anti-Zionist narrative. So basically if you want to make a film and do not have your own funding, your only option is to make an anti-Zionist one. But, because of the leftist domination of academia and the arts, almost all Israel government arts funding also goes to film-makers and artists who promote an anti-Zionist narrative.
- While I have known about the anti-Zionist activities of the foreign funded NGOs I was unaware of just how many there are, how well funded they are, and the extent to which they are changing facts and behaviour. For example, it is the NGOs who have created the 'Bedouin' crisis that threatens to disrupt the entire Negev and its future development. The NGOs have even brainwashed the Bedouins into regarding themselves as 'Palestinian Arabs' (something they never considered themselves to be 20 years ago). Elsewhere the NGO activists scour the land looking for anything to photograph and video that can cast Jews in a bad light. Most of the time the incidents they report were actually set up by the activists themselves (including helping Arabs attack Jews). They also bribe Arabs to invent 'crimes' committed by Jews.
- The International Red Cross - which exerts enormous power and influence in Israel (Tuvia reports on how IDF soldiers and Police cower when confronted by ICRC people) - is run by an unelected group of Swiss nationals (no other nationals are allowed) and this antisemitic group gets decide what constitutes international law. It is they who decided that, of all the many disputed territories in the world (including China's occupation of Tibet and Turkey's occupation of Northern Cyprus) only Israel's 'occupation' is illegal.
- The contrast between the media's narrative about the relative prosperity and freedom of Jews and Arabs and the reality (such as in Hebron where the Jews are ghettoised with no freedom of movement, and forbidden from any type of building work on their homes, while their Arab neighbours have no such restrictions; and the many Palestinian mansions all over the 'West Bank').
However, the most disturbing lesson of the book is Tuvia's contrasts between the beliefs of the majority of Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Muslims. The Jews are naive, riddled with self-doubt and crippled by excessive compassion; but the Palestinians are united in the belief that one day the whole of Israel will belong to them. Witnessing the way Jews have already lost control of areas in Israel he implies that ultimately this contrast will result in the end of the Jewish State unless things change dramatically. I am not as pessimistic as Tuvia, but if Israel continues to produce 'generals' like Yair Golan and politicians who are not prepared to stand up to them, then Tuvia will be proved right.
He's very critical of all sides and treats them all (Israelis, Palestinians, Europeans and mostly Germans) with equal withering and funny derision. The people who need to read this are too arrogant to listen to anyone but themselves.
This is a very good book I can give as a gift to friends.

