Their validity as a colonial project, their excuse for their colonization, apartheid, genocide in Palestine is that they are the ONLY safe place for Jews, that they HAVE to be there, that they have this special right to this particular place.
In this they have long shared the interests of the anti-semites including the original Nazis who after all it must be remembered hoped at first to simply encourage all the Jews to emigrate out of Europe which absolutely worked for the interests of the zionists. Their interests to this day are making Jews anywhere outside of their project feel unsafe. It is a boon to them, their legitimacy, their strength to have anti-semites take power, for Jews to flee to them as the more they have the more they can cry that they truly represent all Jews and any opposition to zionism or the illegal occupation state known as “israel” and its policies is in fact anti-semitism. More than that though as all ethno-nationalist movements they desire to draw all the “chosen” people to them to create what they imagine will be a “pure” utopia.
The whole zionist project has a need to seize control of the mantle of Judaism, to completely conflate the two, to absorb the diaspora religious identity into the fascistic political movement.
It’s not cognitive dissonance. They are antisemites. They hate Jews. They want to replace Judaism with Zionism. They have always allied with western, Christian antisemites because that’s who they want to be too. They have always carried water for literal Nazis while trampling and killing actual Jews (both figuratively and literally). The idea that they have any feelings for Jewish people is pure propaganda. The mask for propaganda on this is slipping more than it ever has before so we need to be careful not to insinuate that there is genuine care for Jewish or marginalized people anywhere in their ideology.
The cognitive dissonance of the Israeli state and affiliated organizations is breathtaking.
It makes me wish I could explain it all away as stupidity, because the reality is so disturbing and grotesque.
Their validity as a colonial project, their excuse for their colonization, apartheid, genocide in Palestine is that they are the ONLY safe place for Jews, that they HAVE to be there, that they have this special right to this particular place.
In this they have long shared the interests of the anti-semites including the original Nazis who after all it must be remembered hoped at first to simply encourage all the Jews to emigrate out of Europe which absolutely worked for the interests of the zionists. Their interests to this day are making Jews anywhere outside of their project feel unsafe. It is a boon to them, their legitimacy, their strength to have anti-semites take power, for Jews to flee to them as the more they have the more they can cry that they truly represent all Jews and any opposition to zionism or the illegal occupation state known as “israel” and its policies is in fact anti-semitism. More than that though as all ethno-nationalist movements they desire to draw all the “chosen” people to them to create what they imagine will be a “pure” utopia.
The whole zionist project has a need to seize control of the mantle of Judaism, to completely conflate the two, to absorb the diaspora religious identity into the fascistic political movement.
It’s not cognitive dissonance. They are antisemites. They hate Jews. They want to replace Judaism with Zionism. They have always allied with western, Christian antisemites because that’s who they want to be too. They have always carried water for literal Nazis while trampling and killing actual Jews (both figuratively and literally). The idea that they have any feelings for Jewish people is pure propaganda. The mask for propaganda on this is slipping more than it ever has before so we need to be careful not to insinuate that there is genuine care for Jewish or marginalized people anywhere in their ideology.