Zionism is Antisemitism
Part 1 of 3 deconstructing Western myths and vapid whatabouts meant to muddy the water of the unspeakable injustice that has been done to the Palestinian people. Shame on all of us who remain silent.
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“But… but… What About Hamas!? Doesn’t Israel have a right to defend itself!?”
There are no “two sides” when discussing genocide. There are those who support it or provide complicit cover, and those who oppose.
Resistance at any cost.
What is the appropriate way to respond to the ethnic cleansing of your people? What is the appropriate way to respond to a genocide against your people? What is the appropriate way to respond to a Holocaust of your people… because that is exactly what the Palestinian people have been facing at the hands of Western imperialists and Israel.
There is nothing complicated about Zionism, there is nothing complicated about what the state of Israel has done since its Western backed inception in 1948.
“Nuance” and “complexity” become shields that the intellectually vapid and the morally bankrupt in the USA love to hide behind in order to ignore their own complicity and attachment to the heinous crimes of our own empire and its allies.
Genocide is the worst possible crime we can commit against one another, any individual crime that you object to will and does happen beneath a genocide. Kidnapping, rape, torture, the withholding of basic survival needs, bombings, shootings, death and a dehumanization so effective and so vicious to the point that many across the globe will just watch in the name of “complexity” or cheer in the name of a “right to defense”.
Deflections to Hamas or cries that Israel has a right to defend itself are ahistorical lines shaped by Western propaganda, the same West that facilitated the project of Zionism as a convenient solution to their antisemitic agenda. So let’s dive into the carefully constructed lies meant to justify Western support for Israel.
Zionism began as a nationalist dream but was quickly co-opted by Western empires as a settler colonial project rooted in antisemitism. The Jewish people have faced persecution for centuries, most often at the hands of Christians and Europeans. Their goal was to remove “this problem” from Europe entirely and place them elsewhere. What began as a fringe dream of refuge from persecution was co-opted by habitual oppressors and eventually became institutionalized imperial foreign policy.
In the early 1900s it was adopted as a policy of the British Empire (The Balfour Declaration) and eventually by Hitler himself. Nazis supported the Zionist project as a method of Jewish expulsion, collaborating in secrecy with Zionist leaders to promote and facilitate the forced migration of Jewish people into Palestine. The deliberate contradiction hidden in plain sight was Hitler’s cruel and vocal promotion of antisemitism despite the aforementioned closed door meetings. This was at a time when Jewish people all around the world were righteously demanding boycotts of Nazi Germany as most of the world ignored their pleas and persecution.
Antisemitism and Zionism was not exclusive to Europe. The prevailing story that most Americans are taught is that we defeated the Nazis in protection of the world and Jewish people! An incomplete lie meant to serve the rationalizations of the Empire.
There may be no better example of this rationalization than Henry Ford… the manufactured saint of American industrialization. A legend whose myth hides a much darker truth, a microcosm of the very Empire that created him. After his failed run for a senator position in Michigan, he notoriously blamed Jewish people and media. He went on to buy the Dearborn Independent and would begin promoting antisemitism in a series known as “The International Jew”. Hitler himself and Nazi Germany would eventually praise him and his antisemitic propaganda with Ford even getting mentioned in Mein Kampf. Many of the elites across the USA and Europe were looking for a way to “deal with the Jews”.
Thus enters Zionism and its appeal to the antisemitic. A way to remove Jewish people from their homes and place them somewhere else outside of the West, making them “someone else’s problem”. The severe antisemitism in the USA is why many of the corporate elite across America either promoted isolation in response to Nazi aggression or even went as far as wanting to promote their cause in the form of a coup to overthrow FDR’s government known as “The Business Plot”.
We must not forget that Nazis drew inspiration for their treatment of Jewish people from the USA and its own racial caste system. They learned from our own treatment of Black people through Jim Crow and Native Americans through policies like Blood Quantum. As WWII came to a close, most Nazi leadership escaped punishment with many of them finding homes in the USA… taking positions within our government, the CIA, and NASA through “Operation Paperclip”.
This is just the foundation, the theory of the antisemitic project… what about Zionism in application? (end of Part 1 of 3)
Tomorrow’s piece will be Part 2 of 3 that will answer the very question… what about Zionism in application?
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Fantastic my friend