#Zionism is neo-Nazism

[the-shipper-center]

*. ! MY DNI LIST 🌟

Disclaimer !! DNI lists are made so you can know what kinda of people i don't want following me or even trying to befriend me. I know I can't control who is gonna rb, see, or like my posts all the time, but I can block ppl who follow/dm me. DNI lists are not up to debate or discussion. I will not reply to ppl starting arguments about what they think is wrong about my DNI. My DNI is hella long, and i'm proud of that 🌟 Note: it may have some typos.

!! DNI IF YOU ... 🪻

Queerphobe:

— Hold beliefs that are queerphobic.

— Support conversion therapy or believe in the pathologization of queer identities.

— Attack people’s pronouns( is against xeno/neutral/neo or graphic pronouns).

— Radical feminism (radfem) and trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF), transmed(A person who believes that medically-diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender), transcum(A person who believes that gender dysphoria is an essential trait to being transgender).

— Deny the validity of xenogender identities or believe that only neurodivergent individuals can be xenogender.

— If you deny trans individuals access to gender-affirming care, whether medical, psychological, or social.

Racist and xenophobic:

— Support or spread white supremacy, neo-Nazism, anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Indigenous, anti-Latino, or ethnic nationalism.

— Use racial slurs, mock ethnic traditions, or engage in cultural appropriation.

— Deny the existence of systemic racism or dismissed movements like Black Lives Matter.

— Has xenophobic beliefs against immigrants or foreign cultures.

— Advocate for fascism, Nazism, or far-right extremism.

— Promote harmful conspiracy theories that demonize marginalized communities.

— Engage in or support political violence against minorities or dissenters.

— Spread antisemitic conspiracy theories or rhetoric.

— Support Zionism or justify actions that harm Palestinian people.

— Defend Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or promote Russian propaganda.

— Support Israeli policies that lead to the oppression of Palestinians.

MAP/NoMAPs:

— Support MAPs, NoMAPs, Zoopride, or any notion that minors and animals can give consent to sexual interactions or relationships.

— Deny that paraphilic individuals can seek recovery or that their paraphilias might harm others.

— Anti-para that believe that paraphilics should be "killed" or harmed.

— Pro contact of any kind.

— Believe that paraphilias are just harmless kinks, ignoring the need for recovery when they are causing harm.

— People who use terms like "cp," "cheese pizza," "kiddie corn," etc, when referring to CSEM.

Misogyny or sexist:

— Disrespect people for their gender and if you perpetuate harmful stereotypes about gender roles—such as believing women should solely fulfill domestic responsibilities or that non-binary individuals are invalid.

— Support or excuse rape culture and dismiss the prevalence of gender-based violence. If you believe that victims are somehow responsible for the violence inflicted upon them or if you make jokes about sexual assault.

— Deny the existence of trans individuals or refuse to accept them as their identified gender. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge the identities of trans individuals or insists on misgendering them is not welcome here.

— Spread harmful myths about trans individuals, such as calling trans people “predators”. If you hold the belief that victims of harassment or assault are responsible for the actions taken against them based on their behavior, clothing, or choices, you are perpetuating harmful narratives that silence victims and protect perpetrators.

— If you believe that certain traits or behaviors should be confined to specific gender(such as associating emotional expression with weakness in men or suggesting that ambition is unbecoming in women).

— If you promote toxic masculinity, it refers to cultural norms that encourage men to be aggressive, unemotional, and dominant while discouraging vulnerability and compassion. If you believe that men should conform to rigid standards of masculinity that harm not only women but also men themselves, you are contributing to a harmful environment that perpetuates violence and emotional repression.

In Kink:

— Shame others for their kinks or sexual preferences. Everyone has the right to explore their sexuality without judgment, as long as it involves consenting adults.

— If you are an adult who interacts with or attempts to involve minors in kink-related activities or discussions, you are crossing an ethical and moral line.

— Think that kink should not be in pride.

— Advocate for the normalization of kink in inappropriate spaces. Respecting boundaries is key; discussing kink should happen in contexts where all participants are consenting adults and comfortable with the topic.

In Fandom & Others:

— If You harras people over fiction.

— If you think that AO3 should be censored.

— If you mock or invalidate individuals who engage in reality shifting.

— If you invalidate or attack those who identify as alterhuman(individuals who feel a connection to non-human identities or experience their identities in non-human ways) such as Therian, otherkin, dollkins and more.

— If you actively express disdain or negativity towards the furry community.

— If you engage in shipping real individuals, such as celebrities or public figures, especially in ways that invade their privacy or misrepresent their relationships. It's okay if they publicly expressed that they are okay with it.

— If you think that it is valid to identify as "kin" of real individuals, such as celebrities or historical figures. Additionally, claiming kinship with deities, gods, or religious figures(such as Jesus).

— If you enforce strict criteria on who can be considered a part of a fandom or who can engage in certain shipping practices.

— Mock or ridicule individuals for their interests or passions.

— Mock people's boundaries.

— If you can't tell the difference between real life and fiction.

— If you propagate stereotypes that characterize fandom members as obsessive, socially awkward, or harmful, you contribute to the stigma surrounding fandom culture.

— If you target individuals who identify as lolicons, shotacons, or lolishos by calling them pedophiles. Not all individuals who enjoy or engage in lolisho content condone real-life harm against minors.

— If you express disdain for self-shippers.

— If you harass or belittle self-shippers who have s/os that are characters fictionals minors, animals, or with incestuous dynamics.

— Pro/neutral about AI.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Fired for Free Speech in Support of Palestinian Rights

For decades, critics of Israel and Zionism have faced censorship and lost career opportunities, especially Palestinian and Arab activists who have suffered for simply telling their story and keeping their narrative alive. In the past year, this phenomenon has become increasingly severe and visible.

Read these articles in the NYT, InTheseTimes, The Intercept, the Washington Post, and Haaretz, which cover critics of Israel - both Palestinians and Jews - being purged from organizations for their political views.

This phenomenon is also covered in the documentary Israelism, when in 2016 Israelism’s protagonist @simonerzim was suspended from the Bernie campaign when Pro-Israel figures like Abe Foxman successfully called for her to be fired for ‘anti-Israel comments’ criticizing Netanyahu.

Foxman and others tried claiming that young Jewish leaders like Simone were a threat to Jewish communities. This is deeply ironic, as 2016 was the year of Trump’s ascension, which fueled the rise of Neo-Nazism and white nationalism that has killed many Jews and people of color in the US since 2016. AIPAC and many other Pro-Israel organizations fully supported Trump, and for years Abe Foxman defended Trump and refused to call him a bigot or antisemite, despite his Neo-Nazi support and open white nationalism.

Critics of Israel, both Palestinian activists and Jewish critics like Simone, are not a threat to Jewish safety. We are part of a movement fighting for the freedom and safety of all people.

Justice and history are on our side, and we will not be silenced.

[persephones-domain]

Within the echo chambers of Zionist and Western enablers, it always winds back to the following discourse, like a broken record: "Why can't we establish our own Ethnostate? After all, other peoples have theirs, so why not us?"

I want to take this notion head-on to dismantle it: Does the current manifestation of Israel truly have an inherent right to exist? The unvarnished truth? No. The concept of nationhood need not adhere rigidly to ethnic boundaries, nor should it privilege one ethnicity over others. Numerous examples exist of nations whose identities encompass diverse ethnicities harmoniously.

An ethnostate, however, embraces the trappings of statehood—recognition, sovereignty, a monopoly on violence, and delineated borders—while concurrently restricting membership (citizenship, privilege, power) to a singular ethnicity. Essentially, it embodies a neo-colonial fascist regime metamorphosed into a pariah state. How can anyone, in good conscience, advocate for the perpetuation of such a system, knowing full well that Israel's very existence necessitates the continuous displacement, mutilation, dehumanisation, and slaughter of the indigenous population, i.e Palestinians? Ask yourselves: why do we persist in legitimising the existence of a state built upon the blood-soaked foundations of oppression and injustice? It's a question that demands not only introspection but also collective action in pursuit of genuine justice and reconciliation.

When you say it as it is, you get labeled as antisemitic, a facile retort that conveniently sidesteps the crux of the matter.

If you don't support Israel, then you obviously hate Jews, right?

"Why can't Jews have their own land? Are you saying Jews should be extinguished then?" - sounds familiar, right?

I'm going to momentarily set aside the deliberate conflation of Jewish identity with Zionist ideology, reserving that discourse for another time. Instead, I want to focus on a critical inquiry:

There's such a profound ignorance permeating this discourse as it reveals the stark misunderstanding of the not-so-nuanced dichotomy between IMMIGRATION and the pernicious scourge of SETTLER COLONIALISM.

Israel is based on the latter, not the former.

It's so important to underscore this critical distinction in emphasising that if Jewish individuals had undertaken a mass migration to Palestine to coexist symbiotically WITH Palestinians as equals, the root causes of this protracted conflict genocide would be swiftly eradicated, or better yet, it never would have existed in the first place.

Do you lot comprehend this logic or not? Can you grasp the heart of the issue? Our grievance, the grievance of the pro-Palestine crowd, does not stem from the presence of Jewish communities in the land, it comes down to the revulsion we feel at the ruthless expulsion of Palestinian families from their ancestral homes and lands; it's not a matter of an excessive influx of Jewish inhabitants, it's the rage at the brutal manifestation of forcible dispossession, deportation, mass killings, mass rape, torture, ethnic cleansing, dehumanisation of Palestinians.

It was never a matter of "too many Jews," it was always a matter of the fact that Palestinian land was stripped from its indigenous inhabitants to create a predominantly white, ultra-nationalist state that benefitted the West and acted as thorn in the flank of middle eastern countries - it's the exploitation, it's the fact that Palestinians were robbed of the right to their home, of the right to state-hood, of self-determination, it's the fact that there COULD have been a Palestinian State in which Jewish communities coexisted peacefully, as many had done in past centuries, but instead that strip of land was violated by an imperialist, ethnonationalist movement, which by the by had many commonalities with nazism: Zionism.

Do you lot grasp the crux of the matter now, or not?!

[gardengnosticator]

zionism requires antisemitism to justify its own existence. the jewish settler must be chased from their country to israel to justify and rationalise israel’s further expansion into palestinian territories. materially, it is not of israel’s interest to actually combat antisemitism in its true form, white nationalism, neo-nazism, fascism because if those things do not exist then how will they be able to further carve palestine down to the bone for their own gain.

it is easier to just reframe antisemitism in vague terms such as arguing against being responsible for a genocide, censoring a peaceful chant, banning particular colours because the settlers within israel can feel as if they are being protected and the israeli state can continue its apartheid efforts.

[clemmenthyme]

Firstly, I’d like to say I hold no resentment for the American people. Just like me, they suffer backlash from the wars— the genocide— happening.

My own country is not innocent, so it wouldn’t be just to point fingers and blame Americans.

However, in the case of Israel’s genocide of Palestine, America plays a big role. Their government is built on bloodshed, from Iraq to Vietnam, and they’ve never been held accountable for their war-crimes.

They VETO ceasefires and send military aid to what is essentially Neo-Nazism. The American government has made clear which side they’ve taken, and whose lives they’ve deemed worthless.

They are the major antagonists in this war— them and Canada. They have become the new “Great Powers”, and this time is worse; because the world knows what is happening. We’ve seen the slaughter, the bodies, the genocide— and they still stand with Zionism and claim it is self-defence.

It is our duty to put them in their place— to remind our governments they only have power because we, the people, have given them the privilege.

They may claim to be leaders, to be powerful, but it is the common people who put power in their hands. We have to remind them that they are replaceable, and that if we decide they’ve outlasted their use, they will return to nothing.

Social leaders are actually social followers— if they want to keep their authority and power, they will have to bend and break however we deem fit.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Idk if this is a common opinion among others, but over the last year I’ve really come to see Zionism as a cult that combines the predatory greed of Scientology, the deranged bigoted nonsense of Mormonism, the use of progressive language or genuine positive movements as a shield for their horrible actions like the Gender Critical/TERFs, and the fascist/imperialistic rhetoric of Nazism/the alt right. The difference is this is a cult that actually can back up its nightmarish views with obscene violence on a scale unheard of; sure, your Jonestowns and Manson families and Neo Nazis can be deadly, but not on this scale.

[hazardous-waste-containment]

Do you have any good readings about fascist anti-imperialism in the US? You've mentioned it a couple times but I have a hard time understanding where it comes from. I get why fascists in Europe or elsewhere would resent US imperial power, but not so much why fascists in the US itself would reject it. Is it because empires are implicitly multicultural (albeit on an unequal basis)? Is it because US empire is so deeply tied to liberalism? Something else?

I’ve heard very good things about Insurgent Supremacists by Matthew Lyons but I have not read it yet. See also Lyons’ essay “Two Ways of Looking at Fascism,” Hamerquist and Sakai’s Confronting Fascism which Lyons draws on heavily, and Lyons’ article “Trump, Iran, and the right-wing anti-interventionists”.

As far as where it comes from, I don’t have a single all-encompassing answer and there are many dimensions to it, some very recent and/or distinctly American, others more generalized and dating back to the interwar era. I won’t be able to cover everything (Sakai has an elaborate Marxist theory of fascist anti-imperialism as a kind of lower-middle class revenge against globalization and deindustrialization, that I couldn’t fit in), but to highlight some key points:

First of all, I should clarify that not all fascists oppose multicultural empires as such: Mosley is a classic example of a fascist imperialist who fully endorsed the multicultural, multiracial composition of the British Empire; that said, this obviously wasn’t true of Nazism, and it especially isn’t relevant to American white nationalism.

In many ways fascist anti-Americanism in the U.S. and Europe works basically the same way; the rejection of everything the existing American state and its global hegemony stands for, or is seen as standing for: globalism, degeneracy, Zionism, the ‘melting pot’, and what Eurofascists have taken to calling ‘McDonaldisation’, the spread of a soulless and homogenizing consumerism that chews up national cultures and spits out Golden Arches. It’s not necessarily the U.S. in particular they have a problem with (though in the European context it’s easier to frame it that way, as an American invasion), but a certain poisonous neoliberal worldview seen as flowing primarily from the contemporary U.S. (and often ultimately out of Israel), whatever side of the Atlantic they’re on.

The other, interlocking, element which I already implied is antisemitism, the conspiracy theory among neo-Nazis everywhere (though in the U.S. it has a particular flavor of resistance to the ‘Zionist Occupation Government’) that global capitalism and the American empire are the work of a Jewish cabal. This leads many American white nationalists, such as Matthew Heimbach, to see Arab nationalists and Islamists as comrades in a common fight against Jewish occupation.

In the past I’ve called this an ‘anti-imperialism of fools’, fascists buying what U.S. propaganda is selling, so to speak. @soul-hammer made a meme that communicates this really succinctly, specifically wrt pinkwashing (who remembers that tumblr tradcath who made reference last year to the “homosexual American military”?):

American and Israeli propaganda assert that Israel speaks for Jews and that imperialist military interventions are carried out in their name, and antisemitic conspiracy theorists take it at face value.

In this context it’s significant that contemporary white nationalism grew in large part out of a revolutionary revision of paleoconservatism by people like Greg Johnson and Richard Spencer, and that there’s already a paleocon tradition of antisemitic conspiracy theories demonizing their neoconservative rivals as puppets of the ‘Israel Lobby’. This came to define the way that the alt-right positioned itself in relation to mainstream conservatism, so that aggressive, interventionist foreign policy in general is seen as 1) simply the military arm of broader ‘globalist’ world domination, and 2) a distraction from domestic racial issues. It wasn’t uncommon during the Trump years for alt-rightists to attribute Trump’s militarism in Syria or Iran to Jewish influence in the administration. Figures like Tucker Carlson echo the same themes without the overt antisemitism.

Though since I mentioned Spencer it’s worth noting that he’s actually a Zionist who sees Israel as a role model for a white ethnostate, albeit still accusing Jews of having outsized influence on American politics and taking a firmly anti-interventionist stance on foreign policy (which ties into his advocacy of a white empire in Europe as a bulwark against American power; then we get back into Eurofascist anti-Americanism and Spencer’s debt to the Identitarians, which isn’t what you asked about).

What’s really interesting is the recent emergence of an idiosyncratic Trumpian far-right, people like Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Witzke, that synthesizes paleocon anti-interventionism (e.g. on Ukraine) with evangelical Christian Zionism. This is weird and new (though I suppose presaged by Steve Bannon in the 2010s) and it isn’t directly relevant to fascism, so I won’t say too much about it here, but suffice to say it’s a major realignment of forces on the American right.

All of this said, fascist anti-imperialism in the U.S. obviously predates the alt-right; neo-Nazis already thought the Bush administration was controlled by Jews years before Counter-Currents or AlternativeRight popped up, and they thought Clinton was ushering in a globalist ‘New World Order’ years before that and so on. To bring in two last themes that hopefully get to the heart of the issue:

Pseudo-imperialism

So, I once saw a fascist website, can’t remember which, refer to American neoliberal imperialism as “pseudo-imperialism” and I thought it was really telling. While some fascisms have always been anti-imperialist (e.g. the Romanian Legionaries), there is a clear fascist tendency toward Empire as a sort of righteous spiritual crusade for civilisation and hierarchy. At the same time, they denounce international capitalism as ‘usury’, the abstract pursuit of profit for profit’s sake, corrupting and exploitative whereas a true Imperium is heroic and ennobling. This roughly corresponds to Moishe Postone’s insights about the way antisemitism functions in Nazi ideology.

The confused reaction fash have had to modern imperialism, then, seems logical enough: there’s nothing fairytale-heroic about dying in a forever war for an oil company, or about the endless march of McDonaldisation. Surely this isn’t true imperialism, it’s just nihilistic ‘usury’ at the greatest possible scale (they call the IMF the “International Usury Fund”). For an older example see Pedro Albizu Campos, who distinguished between traditional Hispanic empire (civilized and spiritual) versus the decadent and godless neocolonialism of the United States.

There’s actually a point in Mein Kampf in which Hitler sounds a bit ‘anti-imperialist’: he mocks Wilhelmine German colonialism in Africa, asking why so much money and energy were naïvely spent on civilizing an inferior race in some far-away country while Germans in Europe suffered under the Habsburg and Jewish yoke. It’s a critique of liberal empire that rhymes with right-wing anti-interventionism in the U.S., in which the question runs something like “Why are we off trying to ‘spread democracy’ in Iraq or Afghanistan while whites suffer under multiculturalism and immigration back home?”

History

Then there’s the history, unique to the U.S., which I know much less about than I should. One of the most innovative U.S. neo-fascist projects of the postwar years was Francis Parker Yockey’s call for a pan-European “Imperium” and a tactical alliance with the Soviet Union and Third World national liberation movements against Jewish-American decadence. His brand of Third Positionism didn’t really catch on at the time but in retrospect it laid the groundwork for decades of fascist anti-imperialism.

Coming from a wholly different place, there was also the Patriot movement that formed from disillusioned Vietnam vets in the 70s/80s/90s and saw Pax Americana as the sinister prelude to a totalitarian world-government that would persecute white Christians, basically fearing the loss of traditional culture, stable jobs, and national sovereignty to neoliberal globalization in a way that’s familiar to us in the era of Brexit and Trump. This is most of what Sakai talks about in The Shock of Recognition.

[schraubd]

On Losing in History, from Bundism to Liberal Zionism

What does it mean, to be part of a political movement that ... loses?

Most political organizing, as I understand it, is not primarily about predicting the future. It's about fighting for the future that one wants to see, at a time where there are multiple plausible futures that could come to pass. Given that, it will inevitably be the case that many people will join political movements that are fighting for a plausible, defensible future and who -- fast-forward twenty years -- will have lost.

Consider the Bundists of the early 20th century. They fought for a world in which Jewish equality and self-determination would flower and be protected in the places where Jews already were -- "hereness". Certainly, this is a defensible vision of the world, one that one would be perfectly justified in fighting for in the early 20th century. And yet, as we know, the future the Bundists fought for did not come to pass. They lost their battle, and lost it in the most horrifying manner possible to the Nazis. And so in the future that did come to pass, the Bundists, like all Jews, suffered horribly.

Does this discredit the Bundists? Does the end of the story necessarily mean that they made the wrong choice in what they sought to fight for at the start of the story? Many say yes. I'm unconvinced. It seems unfair -- cruel, even -- to judge an ideology by the consequences of a future that they unsuccessfully sought to resist. The Bundists had a plausible vision of the future that they reasonably thought was worth fighting for. And they did, and they ... lost. Are all political campaigns that are lost thereby proven to have been wrong to fight for in the first place?

It is easy to say they should have known better, with the benefit of hindsight. Knowing how the story  played out, of course the Bundists look like fools. But nobody should be so confident in their ability to win political struggles. One can have the best moral judgment in the world, and a will of iron, and a keen strategic mind, and one can in politics still lose. Too much depends on what other people do. You can make all the right moves, or at least defensible moves, and still lose. It is, in many ways, a sign of our own egocentrism that we blame ourselves for "picking the wrong side", as if history's arc would have been materially different if we, personally, had chosen to be liberals or socialists or Marxists or nationalists or pragmatists in the moment of fighting. Any one of us changing sides would almost certainly not change matters one whit. Sure, maybe if everyone had switched sides that would've made a difference. But not even the most powerful and influential among us has that amount of sway. The choices other people make will always be largely uncertain to us. And so while utter naivete about the choices others will likely make is not always excusable, we should not act as if only a fool would not have known how events would play out. The Bundists could not have known that Nazism would end up carrying the day in Germany, and that all their work would be for less than naught.

Liberal Zionism in 2021 perhaps looks much like Bundism in 1931. Make no mistake: we are losing. Perhaps we have already lost, though the revitalization of neo-Bundism today makes me think that no ideology of this sort truly can be said to have lost forever. Maybe in some future world there will be a new set of conditions making Liberal Zionism a winning team again (for example, if we live out the "Czechoslovakia gambit", where a one state solution eventually leads to a two state solution on equitable terms, I can very much imagine a New Liberal Zionism flowering). 

But whether one retains faint hope or not about the present or not, there is no question that the liberal Zionist vision is losing. I did not begrudge anyone for cheering Netanyahu's demise, but it is certainly emblematic of how weak the liberals are that Naftali Bennett counts as a savior. Or, for that matter, Benny Gantz, who himself has spoken of the need to preserve Israeli sovereignty over far-flung settlements "forever" and just designated an array of respected Palestinian human rights NGOs as terrorist entities. How excited can we be, when men such as these excite us?

And these are the high notes! On the other side, the far-right is ascendant and makes no bones about its desire to raze liberal rule of law values to the ground. Traditional pillars of liberalism and rule of law in Israel -- the judiciary, cultural institutions, academia -- are under assault from all sides and are slowly wilting. The liberal parties in Israel are moribund, to the point where it's now no longer a given that Labor can cross the electoral threshold unaided. The right surged to victory in the last WZC election and rapidly began consolidating power. With the exception of the Abraham Accords, it is hard to think of any aspect of Israeli life where the liberal ideal has not decayed significantly over the past twenty years (and even the Abraham Accords, as much as I celebrate them, still ultimately represent compacts with largely authoritarian nations -- not exactly a liberal seed). 

And things look slated only to get worse. The younger generation in Israel is far, far more conservative than the older one; in Israel it is not bigotry and prejudice that might eventually die out with age, but tolerance and democratic values. Among young Jewish Israelis, levels of hatred towards Arab citizens are staggeringly high; half of young religious Zionist Jews in Israel think Arabs shouldn't be allowed to vote. The larger mainstream Jewish organizations are still stuck in patterns of passivity and obeisance, and will not stick their necks out to actually organize for liberal values in Israel -- in their best moments the most they can offer is to stay out of the way. Seeing groups squabble over something as seemingly mundane and unoffensive as the Two State Solution Act is as disheartening as it is unsurprising. The idea that they will ever have the boldness to pick a stick to go along with their carrots is ludicrous. 

And those who are still fighting for liberal values in Israel from a place of genuine attachment to Israel are increasingly alone, and are on the defensive. All their energy is devoted to slightly slowing down the liberal decay; they cannot even imagine what going on the offensive would look like, and they wouldn't have the resources or time to do it even if they could. Elsewhere on the left, there are no reinforcements, but rather cheers for our demise. At best, we have no role in their strategizing. We're non-factors. Just as often, the liberals are seen as nothing more than an annoying set of gadflies standing between the decolonizers and the fascists; the left cannot wait to see us wiped out, and if they see an opportunity to accelerate the process -- squeeze out those beleaguered universities and cultural institutions and academics -- they'll jump all over it. 

Even the SunriseDC fiasco -- objectively, a crushing defeat for anti-Israel fundamentalists -- is a sign that we're losing, for SunriseDC would not have tried this gambit if it hadn't at least thought it might succeed. Five years ago, it would have been inconceivable to imagine a call to expel the NCJW from progressive spaces succeeding. Even in the wake of its failure, one could see the Overton Window shift, and people for whom perhaps this particular play was a step too far start to rationalize how other, similar moves, that also would result in kneecapping Jewish liberal organizations or imposing special litmus tests us to "earn" or "claim" our seat at the progressive table, could be justified, and how a policy of slow strangulation of liberal Jewish political activity could begin anew. The cavalry is not coming. We are losing.

I don't want to say it's hopeless. But we are losing, and losing badly enough that we have to start imagining actual defeat. If we do lose, outright and utterly, we can only hope first that the consequences of our defeat are not as staggeringly catastrophic as they were for the Bundists. Probably they won't be -- actual industrial genocide remains a rare thing. But an unrepentant authoritarian apartheid Israel would be bad enough.  Or the eradication of Jewish self-determination in Israel, a return to being a minority at others' sufferance, that would be bad enough. And we will ask ourselves, "could it have all been averted, if we had switched sides? If we had not fought a losing battle?" Knowing the end of the story, does the indict our choices at the beginning?

As with the Bundists, perhaps it will be unfair, to blame us for a future that we fought against, just because we did so unsuccessfully. A small consolation indeed.

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[donewithcapitalistfrayers]

Charlotte Kates:

In the past years, there has been an absolutely concerted and systematic effort -- particularly in Europe -- to recast anti-Semitism as a problem of the Left, specifically linked to supporting the liberation of Palestine. Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in particular -- while singled out for racist and exclusionary state policies as well as racist street violence by pro-fascist forces, both openly neo-Nazi gangs and state officials -- have been labeled anti-Semitic for seeking freedom.

The previous head of the SPD in Germany, Martin Schulz, declared that "young Palestinian men" were bringing anti-Semitism...to Germany. And we see this again and again in official rhetoric used to deport Palestinians, fire them from their jobs, or exclude them from residency.

So anti-Zionism was equated to anti-Semitism, an anti-colonial movement was equated to racism. But more than that, actual anti-Semitism has been disappeared and replaced with this very false equation. Thus an allegation of anti-Semitism in mainstream imperialist politics is almost always in reality an allegation of anti-Zionism, an allegation of anti-racism and anti-colonialism, of upholding justice and rights for the Palestinian people. Meanwhile (nothing new) NATO and its cohort have openly funded and armed fascists in Ukraine, formed alliances with fascists internationally and welcomed fascists into their parliaments. From the European Parliament to the UN, they voted against even verbal condemnation of Nazism.

So today, all of the liberal forces out there minimizing Nazi crimes, repeating Nazi talking points and putting Nazi symbols in their photos of heroism -- this is not a different matter than the displacement of anti-Semitism onto Palestinians struggling for liberation. It's part and parcel of the same project. German politicians don't scapegoat Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims because of "guilt" over the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, although this is certainly used to manipulate the public. These forces, deeply engaged in NATO, in imperialist projects, in colonial extraction of resources -- and yes, in strategic alliance with the Zionist colonization of Palestine -- are in fact shifting the burden from their histories and imposing it upon colonized peoples. Whereby the real villains of anti-Semitic violence and persecution are not Hitler, the Nazis, the fascist forces and the capitalists that profited from them internationally, but instead, Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims resisting imperialism.

Once anti-Semitism means anti-Zionism, the road is clear to minimize and rehabilitate the actual perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence, and to openly lionize the Azov Battalion, and, of course, to continue and intensify the killing and colonialism in occupied Palestine. Fighting back against fascism in Europe and upholding Palestinian liberation have always gone hand in hand. Making this clear is perhaps more critical than ever before at this moment in order to defend the peoples of the world from imperialism, in Palestine and everywhere.

[peaceandlovenoonecanstopthewar]

9. Why Zionism And Nazism Are Not As Different As Many People Think: How Racist Ideologies Are Largely Accepted by Otherwise Well-Meaning Citizens

This article originally appeared in Peace & Love, and was written by AntiWar Advocate A.M. McGee

The genocide and apartheid of Palestinians by the Zionist-Terrorist State of Israel, is not something that many people are talking about, though it is something that deserves greater attention. I imagine that during the Holocaust, the “disappearance,” of many Jewish families wasn’t something that was talked about much, either. Since I firmly believe that Israel is responsible for the Covid-19 “plandemic,” the murder of the “sick, the old, and the lame,” to subdue the greater population, is another tactic that Zionists have taken out of the Nazi playbook.

Many modern proponents of National Socialism, (or “Neo-Nazis” as they are sometimes referred to) see classical Nazism as a natural response to Jewish monopolies of German, and other European, financial institutions. The official story of how these institutions came into being is because of old Christian laws in Europe that forbid Christians to engage in money-lending. Because these laws did not apply to Jews and other non-Christian foreigners, Jewish people became the primary financial lenders in society; and became rich off of accrued interest. This is where the idea of “Jewish-Zionist controlled Banks,” Jewish monopolies, stereotypes about “greedy deceitful Jews,” and the idea that Jews control most financial institutions comes from; because frankly if you look at people like the Rothschilds or Henry and Marcus Goldman (of Goldman-Sachs) they do, and so viewing Nazism, or National Socialism, as a “solution” to the “Jewish problem,” can be traced all the way back to pre-war Europe.

While Zionism and Nazism seem like two philosophies that should be diametrically opposed. This article hopes to explain why National Socialism isn’t the “solution” to Zionism, that many think it is; and isn’t an appropriate response or reaction to it, because Nazi policies towards Israel aren’t that much different from Zionist policies.

In 1948 many proponents of the creation of a “Jewish Homeland” in Palestine, saw the creation of the State of Israel as a response to the German Holocaust in Europe. Many Jews believed that without a “homeland” to call their own, they would forever be subjected to discrimination, prejudice, and “anti-Semitism,” (discrimination against the Semitic races; like Arabs, Turks, Egyptians, Palestinians, and Jews) in both Europe and the United States.

Proponents of the creation of the State of Israel used the slogan, “A Land Without a People, for a People Without a Land.” To help build support for their cause. The problem was, of course, that there were people already inhabiting the land. The Palestinians who built cities, towns, farms, mansions, and railways; all before the Zionists ever set foot there. Land that was taken from the Palestinians was seized by illegal warfare, far worse than what was seen in Europe, and far more personal. Palestinians were killed and stolen from, raped and pillaged, not because of what they were; but because of what they were not: Jewish. What was done to Palestinian Christians and Muslims, who lived peacefully alongside Jews for centuries, in 1948 and again in 1967, can only be described as a massacre and a bloodbath. And every single day since 1948, the Jewish Zionist control over the Palestinians gets worse and worse.

What is not well-known, however, is that even Adolf Hitler, (while not being a Zionist himself,) supported the Zionist cause long before 1948, and proposed the creation of a Jewish homeland as a place to “get rid” of the Jews that plagued Europe. (This agreement between Zionist Jews and German Nazis was known as the 1933 Haavara Agreement, and it offered land in Palestine to Zionists.) This is why so many so-called “Anti-Semites” still support Israel, because they see Israel as a place for both American and European Jews to go; and like Adolf Hitler, view Israel as a place to “get rid of” unwanted Jews.

While it’s no secret that the Nazi party was responsible for most of the “anti-Semitic” propaganda and rhetoric against Jews in pre-war Europe; it should also come as no surprise that most of the Islamophobia and prejudice we see against Arab Christians and Muslims comes from Jewish and Zionist sources. This is why most people who consider themselves “not racist” can still hold the most obscene racist and xenophobic prejudices against Arabs, and Arab Muslims, in particular. And I believe it is this propaganda, combined with Jewish, American, European greed; and lust for oil and other resources, that is responsible for all of our “Endless Wars” in the Middle East.

Furthermore, Jewish-Zionists also try to appeal to Christians by referring to the Bible as “Judeo-Christian,” when in reality the oldest congregation of Christians in the world lived in Palestine and have been murdered, uprooted, or displaced by the Zionist State of Israel. Israel refers to the people and lands that defend themselves from Israeli takeover as “terrorists” when Zionists are, of course, the true terrorists and Christian-killers. Adolf Hitler was largely reported to be a Christian Lutheran, of Catholic extraction, but tried to replace Christianity with a kind of Paganism based loosely on Norse Mythology. In that way, both Zionists and Nazis are the enemies of Christianity; as well the main causes of hate, fear, and xenophobia in the world today. If Israel annexes what is left of Palestine, then the Palestinians will become a “people without a land,” continually subjected to the same genocide and apartheid that they have been at the hands of Israel for decades; just as the Jews purported to be, before World War II.

As we see the patterns of selfishness and indifference play out today, exactly as they have in the past... We are reminded, continuously, that nations and citizens need not operate with extreme malice in order to do extreme harm; ignorance, complacency, and stupidity are quite sufficient. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

- Peace & Love

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anarchotransfem replied to your link “Man with a swastika near UWM Israel event”

Your willingness to conflate neo-nazism with Palestinian activism and islam is extremely unsettling                    

My point was that it is often extremely difficult to tell apart neo-Nazi antisemitism, and progressive anti-Zionism. 

My point was that an Israel event was vandalized with SWASTIKAS, and that this wasn’t done by neo-Nazis, but rather pro-Palestinians.

Apparently, nobody explained to these progressive anti-racist activists that targeting Jews with swastikas is problematic.  

I’m sorry it’s extremely unsettling for you that I point it out.   To me it’s more unsettling to read the headline, assume this was most certainly another white supremacist incident, and then realize, that no - it’s from the “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, it’s just criticism of Israel” camp. 

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ANTI-NAZISM =/= PRO-JEWISH PEOPLE ⠀⠀ Thanks @sassy_latte for the inspiration for this post! ⠀⠀ There seems to be a sentiment that opposing Nazism and/or Fascism is the same thing as supporting Jews. We hope that by reading our posts you have now learned that this is NOT the case. Antisemitism is called the world’s oldest hatred for a reason. It’s woven into the fabric of our society (especially Western society, but the Middle East and North Africa are not exempt from this and are cesspools of antisemitism). ⠀⠀ Anti-Nazi has never meant pro-Jews. The Allies, who fought the Nazis, refused to aid the Jews during WWII (see our series on antisemitism in the US and posts on UK Jews and the Holocaust in North Africa for more). The Soviets, who liberated many Nazi camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, later rounded up Jews and arrested them en masse and even executed many. Another example is the Polish Resistance during WWII, which, while actively fighting Nazis, also often sold out/killed Jewish resistance fighters. ⠀⠀ Some of the most virulent antisemitism in history has also been emphatically anti-Nazi or left-wing in nature - from the USSR to the Middle East and North Africa, where Jews were ethnically cleansed. ⠀⠀ Although Americans consider themselves the heroes of the Holocaust (even though they refused to go out of their way to help Jews during WWII over and over again), Jews in the US faced systemic discrimination until the 60s/70s, when Evangelical Christianity started to systemically tokenize Jews and Zionism (which is still antisemitic). We have an entire series of posts on antisemitism in the US. ⠀⠀ Today in Europe, both right-wing (including white nationalist/neo-Nazi) and left-wing (“anti-Nazi”) antisemitism are widespread and deadly. ⠀⠀ Since most of our followers are Jews, please feel free to direct non-Jews to this page/post. Excluding Jews from your activism is not intersectional, no matter how much you talk about punching Nazis. ⠀⠀ Image 1: American Jews protest for rights of Soviet Jews. Source: Times of Israel ⠀⠀ Image 2: US Army aerial image of Birkenau from 1944, proving they knew of it. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm8inipA1RI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4uy64ddh38lx

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You always equate anti-zionism to anti-semetism, so are you saying all Jewish people are zionists?

Yes, the overwhelming majority of Jewish people, in Israel, in the United States, and in the diaspora, are Zionists.  Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have a right to political and cultural self-determination.  That’s all.  There are many different flavors to Zionism, from small numbers of violent Jewish nationalist terrorists who believe in a completely Jewish Israel, to people who don’t believe in states at all.  I myself support a two state solution, with an equitable division of water and land and guarantees of residency rights.

However this is not the only thing that makes a great deal of anti-zionism antisemitic.  First off, there’s the simple fact that anti-zionism is a cover for antisemitism, when for example students at CUNY protest tuition hikes by calling the administration “Zionist”, it’s a pretty blatant use of antisemitic dog whistles.  Money=greedy Jews.  When people claim that police brutality in the US is because the police trained in Israel, it’s obvious they’re trying to blame the Jews for America’s racism.  When anti-Zionists kick Jewish people out of a march because a star of David is somehow a symbol of Zionist violence instead of a symbol of the entire Jewish people, and when criticized respond with a neo-Nazi slur (Zio), anti-Zionism is a cover for antisemitism.  When Jews in leftist spaces are interrogated to make sure they fit an arbitrary standard of ideological purity, interrogations that gentiles are not subjected to, this is anti-Zionism as a cover for antisemitism.

Likewise, old antisemitic canards find their way with depressing regularity into anti-Zionist rhetoric, for example, the idea that Israeli doctors murder Palestinian children for the organ market, that Gal Gadot personally murdered Palestinian babies and gloats about it, or that Israeli children all somehow are bloodthirsty monsters, wanting to kill Palestinian children is a form of blood libel, an anti-Jewish canard from the actual Middle Ages.  The idea that the Jews, excuse me, the Zionists, control the media and the governments of non-Israeli countries, for example the US, is an old old conspiracy that is at least as old as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published as propaganda by Tsarist Russia.  The same goes for accusations that Jews, excuse me, Zionists, control the banks and financial systems of the world.  It’s easy to see old fashioned antisemitism being repurposed and repackaged as anti-Zionism.

Then there’s the fact that there are so many double standards with regards to how Zionism and Israel are treated.  The Israeli government has done some really horrible things, but so has every other modern government.  Somehow the crimes of Israel are held up as a sign that the whole country needs to be done away with when it’s Israel, but not when it’s France, the US, or Pakistan.  Also, Zionism is talked about in leftist circles as some sort of uniquely terrible ideology, often compared (utterly reprehensibly) to Nazism, yet the dreams of self determination by other oppressed peoples of the world are treated as valid and noble in those same leftist circles.  Jewish self-determination and a desire to have a state in our ancestral homeland is seen by much of the left as settler-colonialism, and the Jewish people posited as invaders.  The fact that we were driven from our home and then treated as pariahs, to be enslaved, murdered, and abused wherever we went, is washed away and we are told our home is not our home, and that we should go back and live with the people who so recently tried to kill us.  Interestingly, calls to dismantle the US and Canada, actual settler-colonialist states are much less common. 

It’s never acknowledged by anti-Zionists that it’s possible to support both Jewish and Palestinian self-determination, or both the Jewish and Palestinian people.  It’s never acknowledged that it’s possible to have two people who are indigenous to the same area, or to have forms of oppression that are not settler-colonialist.  It’s never acknowledged that the majority of Jewish people in Israel are descended from Jews who spent the diaspora outside of Europe, in the Muslim world or in Ethiopia or India, and so are absolutely not European.  It’s never acknowledged that the vast majority of Jewish people in Israel are descended from people who came to Israel after being expelled from their previous country.

There are certainly ways to criticize the Israeli government, the means by which Israel was established, the treatment of Palestinians, and the occupation of Palestinian territory, in ways that are not antisemitic.  But that is unfortunately not what most people are doing when they call themselves anti-Zionist.

By the way, I went and did a search of posts on my blog with the terms, “Zionist”, “Zionists,” and “Zionism,” and I found very little.  This is not something I post about all that often.  Furthermore, aside from a joke I made about a fellow Jewish person appropriating Fire Nation culture, and a post about how Christian Zionists suck because they want all Jews in the Holy Land for the end times to happen and for their god to kill us all, the rest of the posts were about obvious cases where “Zionist” had been used to mean “kike”, where anti-Zionism was a means to express blatant antisemitism.  So I would like to know who “you” is, since obviously it’s not me specifically.  Does it by chance mean, “You Jews”?

[aqlstar]

@Unmarked-credits is correct though. Elon Musk is a lot of things, but he’s not a full on Nazi yet, and that’s important.

Jewish activists worked very hard to get him to advocate for the hostages. It was part of him doing damage control after spreading the great replacement theory, and we shouldn’t dismiss its importance.

Also, Anti-Zionism is a core component of Nazism.

He’s a psychopathic asshole who likes to flirt with a Neo-Nazi fan base. That’s bad enough.

Add another one to the block list, boys