The European Union is a golem. It always has been, just that now, it turned against its creators. At first glance this might seem loud and exaggerated, but the events of the past years, months, weeks all reinforce this feeling in me.
Rabbi Loew, the Maharal of Prague, created the golem clayman in the late 1500s, who, according to legend, worked from Monday to Friday, serving the city and protecting the Jewish community. It was run by a scroll of paper, shem – that we might refer to today as a computer program – with the name of God written on it. If the scroll was extracted, the golem became lifeless – yet one time, the clayman broke free and turned against its creators. The golem trampled and destroyed everything in his way. Thus, its creator, the rabbi, “erased” the program and stopped the raging giant.
The founding fathers dreamed up the European Union so that there would be no more global cataclysms and nations could live side by side in peace and prosperity. The benevolent giant golem seemed like a successful, wise creation. After all, it successfully reconciled the Germans, Brits and French. Then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it embraced the liberated nations of Central Eastern Europe and accepted the reality of unified Germany. The countries and peoples of the EU could look to the 21 st century with the hope of peaceful coexistence and successful economic and political strengthening.
But the golem came into a life of its own, almost unnoticed, step by step.
Perhaps more than ten years ago when the idea of a “United States of Europe” began to sneak into public discourse through the “progressive” left-wing media. The growing Brussels bureaucracy was of course happy to endorse this as it justified and affirmed their existence and livelihood.
Through this process, the Judeo-Christian European values, which provided a 2000-year-old solid foundation for the EU, were slowly but purposefully eroded. In its place came a diverse, multicultural, supranational Europe. The first step was accepting migration and even masking it as desirable. This process was accelerated since 2015.