These chumps are ‘moderate’ Zionists: they’re kiiiiinda sympathetic to the Palestinians (as long as they’re polite and condemn Hamas), but also think that Zionism is still salvageable and that a neocolony has the right to occupy Palestinian land.

Anyway, their article is filled with all of the usual Zionist tropes that we’ve all heard before, but speaking as an amateur historian, the funniest part for me is their insistence that the neocolony’s actions are incomparable to the Third Reich’s, because it is so ridiculously easy to bypass.

Of course nobody has to liken the neocolony to the Third Reich in order to summarize its atrociousness; we have a tendency towards that image because it’s (sadly) the one most familiar to our minds, but we can liken it to plenty of other régimes as well: we can compare it to the other Axis powers, such as Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan, we can compare it to the Ottoman Empire, we can compare it to Imperial America (a few years ago I saw a Native American liken ‘Greater Israel’ to Manifest Destiny), we can compare it to the British Empire (which would be especially appropriate), and most obviously, we can compare it to Apartheid South Africa.

And these are just off the top of my head. Can you imagine if the Zionist ruling class criminalized specifically the comparisons to the Third Reich? Then we could easily switch to another image, and pretty soon the Zionists would be playing a game of whack‐a‐mole.

In my article formally comparing the neocolony to the Third Reich, every single person whom I quoted making their own comparisons to the Third Reich—every single one—was Jewish. I included Jewish historians, Orthodox Jews (some of whom are either in or near the neocolony), Shoah survivors, and even a couple Zionists.

You know why? Because it’s harder to ignore or dismiss these analogies when they’re coming from the very audience to whom the Zionists are supposedly trying to appeal. People who have actually experienced antisemitism firsthand are seeing parallels between the neocolony and the Third Reich, and how do Zionists respond? The only way that they can: by accusing those very same Jews of antisemitism, because Zionism is just as bankrupt intellectually as it is morally.

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    8 months ago

    I love how they suggest applying a double standard to Israel is antisemitic as if it isn’t US policy to scrutinize the actions of everyone but Israel and we have specific exceptions built into our laws to prop up Israel.

    Also Palestinians are Semites too. Israel or Jewish people cannot monopolize the term “anti-semitism” without actively being antisemitic.