Zionism-as-Nazism, Still: Genocide was always the plan

Dr. Tamari Kitossa
Brock University, Sociology
April 9, 2024

The Jewish Holocaust of Gaza continues. Jewish, yes, because Israel, however Zionist, is the only Jewish State in the world. And, yes, while Zionism crosses religious lines, there is something deeply emotive about linking Jews with committing a holocaust and undertaking genocide the past 75-years. Of course, there have been Jews resisting and protesting Israel’s 75-year long genocide, even to the point of questioning the very legitimacy of the State. But now that a larger number of Jews are belatedly protesting – “not in my name” – the holocaust of Gaza, they need to ask themselves where were they the past 75-years. Did they not know that Israel from its inception was a conquistadorial project with the explicit intent of ‘wiping out’ the Palestinians as though they are/were a human stain? Why is this important in view that the State of Israel was formed by incredible acts of terror by those who would go on to establish the leadership and high administration of the State? Easy answer: Because this earth-shattering task was undertaken just three years after the Nazi terror and genocide of Jews, and others, in Germany and occupied lands, especially in Poland and Ukraine.
It is more than a quirk of history that, on the whole, Jews who once resisted German National Socialists and the Zionists who colluded with them, should have so easily capitulated to Zionist propaganda and the myth of exceptionalism-in-suffering which exonerates Jewish Zionists of any and all crimes of inhumanity against the Palestinians. But how should Ashkenazi and Europeanized Sefardic Jews relate to Israel as a Nazi Nation State (i.e, fascist and participatory totalitarian), a racist Nation and State, a settler colonial Nation and State, an Apartheid State when the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a proxy for the Zionist government of Israel, aims to make any analogy between Zionism and Nazism a thoughtcrime punishable by imprisonment. The IHRA’s “non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism” sets out “examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere”. Among the many examples included, one is “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis”.
Are Jews opposing this particular moment of holocaust and genocide too sensitive to concede that it is the very exceptionalism promoted by the IHRA which has long been a bulwark, not only against any and all acts of depravity committed by Israeli Jews against Palestinians, but also – through the trope of ‘anti-semitism – a guarantee of their own willful blindness to what was being done in their names all along? The fact is that no European Jew alive cannot not know that Israel’s very establishment was an act of genocide predicated on the racial ideology of Nazism. With the IHRA acting as a Ministry of Truth, rewriting memory and identity and history, we can now replace “Ingsoc” with “Issoc”, and with it, amendments to the Party’s slogan
WAR – ON PALESTINIANS – IS PEACE
FREEDOM – FROM ‘ANTI-SEMITISM’ – IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE – OF HISTORY – IS STRENGTH
A visit to the IHRA’s website will show they have been successful in criminalizing anti-Zionist thought in many countries. The success of the IHRA in fronting the lebensraum agenda of the Jewish State, is manifest by the gaslighting which treats as equally repugnant criticism of the Zionist State of Israel with hatred of Jews because they are Jews. In the twisted logic of conflating Zionism with Jewish ontology, we find at the socio-genic core of Zionism the narcissistic myth, and which is also deeply masochistic, that the world eternally hates Jews because they are Jews. Erich Fromm reminds us in Escape from Freedom that capitulation to masochism produces its obverse, sadism. Sado-masochism, he points out, finds the subject escaping the responsibility for freedom through the dialectic of obedience to authority and outward projection of inner demons against which hatred, domination and destruction are directed. In Escape from Freedom, this dialectic is powerfully developed in chapter 6, “Psychology of Nazism’”. Fromm establishes the sado-masochist escapes from responsibility by turning to a leader – “the magic helper” – to whom is offered the will to be free (from tyranny), provided unaccountable ‘freedom’, indeed the duty, to destroy a scapegoat is the reward for obeisance.
Edward Said tried to show in numerous works that neither Jew nor Palestinian is free, though the burden of that slavery is immediately manifest in the breaking of the bones, the starvation, degradation, cultural destruction, land theft and dispossession and indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians, while Jews, because of Zionism and their commitment to their ‘Golden Calf’, the State of Israel, suffer an ongoing moral and spiritual decay that makes them insensible to love and their own humanity.
As a discursive formation that is deeply neurotic, Zionism is a moral philosophy of hate which is inherently genocidal. This is even to the point, as asserted by Golda Meir of starting a nuclear war that would also incinerate Jews themselves – talk about a death wish! This fact is evident in the testimony of Zionist leaders themselves; a fact which in the court of public opinion can do no better than an indictment in courts of law, such as that brought by the Republic of South Africa to the International Criminal Court for the ongoing Zionist holocaust of Gaza.
⦁ Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism: “…both the expropriation and the removal of the poor [Arabs] must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly”

⦁ Joseph Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund: “It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country…There is no room for compromise on the point!…We must leave no single village, no single tribe”

⦁ Vladimir Jabotinsky, Labour Zionist leader: “From the Jewish point of view, morality has a particularly interesting appearance…[A]ll colonization must continue in defiance of the will of the native population…This is our ethic. There is no other ethic”. And again, “…[T]here is [not] one solitary instance of any colonisation carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent…We cannot offer any adequate compensation to the Palestinian Arabs in return for Palestine…Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population”.

⦁ David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel stated in classical newspeak that: “We must expel the Arabs and take their place…and, if we do not use force – not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places – then we have force at our disposal”. And, again, “we will expel the Arabs and take their place”. And yet again: “We must do everything in our power to ensure they never return”

⦁ Levi Eshkol, a Prime Minister of Israel asks: “What are Palestinians? “

⦁ Golda Meir, a Prime Minister of Israel states: “It was not as though there was a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country from them. They did not exist”. And again, “There is no such thing as Palestinians… they do not exist.”

⦁ Moshe Dayan, supreme military commander: “We came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing a Hebrew, that is a Jewish state here…Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages…There is not one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population”

⦁ Meir Kahane founder of the terrorist Kach Party said in 1971: “In two years time, they (meaning the Palestinians) will come to me, bow to me, lick my feet, and I will be merciful and allow them to leave. Whoever does not will be slaughtered”

⦁ Ariel Sharone: a Prime Minister of Israel: “…cut off their testicles…the only good Arab is a dead Arab”
We have in such statements, not simply a unique cultural psychology of colonial settlers, but a political philosophy that when operationalized by the power of the State form and its vast bureaucratic machinery that grants immunity from prosecution, an ideology and practice entirely consistent with German National Socialism and its holocaust of Jews and others so well-articulated by Zygmunt Bauman in Modernity and the Holocaust. Bauman writes:
The Jewish state tried to employ the tragic memories [of the holocaust of Ashkenazi Jews] as the certificate of its political legitimacy, a safe-conduct pass for its past and future policies, and above all the advance payment for the injustices it might itself commit.

Injustices? Against whom? Why past tense?
Upon reading the book, one notices Bauman’s slight-of-hand in that nowhere does he mention Palestinians when suggesting the State of Israel ‘tried’ to construct a narrative of the Nazi Holocaust that, theoretically, justified the existence of the State of Israel in the first place. As I argued in previous posts on this topic, other ‘cultural’ Zionists such as the renowned Raphael Lemkin and Raul Hilberg whose work undergirds the evidentiary basis for Zionism as Nazism, do no better than Bauman. Here exoneration rests on a two-point deduction. First, that because the Ashkenazi Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust were innocent, therefore Rothschild Zionists, as David Icke calls them, who proclaimed themselves guardians of Jewish memory, are themselves as unimpeachable as the murdered. Second, that because Zionists conflate the writ of unimpeachability of the dead with impunity for the living, bone fide criticism of the cynical manipulation of identity and memory is legally and morally constituted as the Orwellian thoughtcrime of so-called ‘anti-semitism’. Here James Baldwin is apt when he writes in Notes of a Native Son:
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

What, then, Bauman fails to follow-through on in terms of the logic of his own argument that links the Zionist State bureaucracy and citizenry with genocide, others, most notably dissenting Jews are more explicit:

⦁ Dr. Israel Shahak: “The immediate analogy which a lot of people are making in Israel is Germany. Not only the Germany of Hitler and the Nazis but even the former German Empire wanted to dominate Europe”.

⦁ Dr. Hajo Meyer: “I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of ‘blood and soil’ in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people…force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth.”

⦁ Dr. Noam Chomsky – who ironically endorsed putting into concentration camps those who refused Naziesque CoVID-19(84) injection and ‘lockstep’ policies – endorsed Yeshayahu Leibowitz warning that “that if the occupation of Gaza continues, Israeli Jews are going to turn into what he called, Judeo-Nazis”.

⦁ Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan: “If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016.”

⦁ Jacques Bude – interviewed for Miko Peled’s documentary the ⦁ Israeli is unambiguous in his outrate that the Israeli State is mimetic of Hitler’s National Socialist Party

Asa Winstanley asks and answers in the affirmative – “Are there valid comparisons to be made between Israel and Nazi Germany, or with other examples of fascist states in history?”
The IHRA’s canard, which is at the heart of hateful regime of Zionism, is that if the Jew does not exist as an object of hate, the Zionist must create her or him to rationalize the raison d’être of Zionism – the purported protection of Jews from the mortal effects that hate ultimately engenders. In this sense, Zionism is deeply contemptuous and hateful of Jews. This meant that before State formation Zionists actively cheered on both discrimination against Jews in Germany and Austria and the death camps and squads in the occupied lands, while European Jewry on a whole mobilized to boycott German goods and to stop the killing. Classically, and seemingly paradoxically, this entailed also that the Zionist State once formed, like all States as Charles Tilly suggests in “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime”, sustains it’s racketeering supremacy through false flag operations or plausible deniability by which means “…governments themselves commonly simulate, stimulate, or even fabricate threats of external war…”. Hence, whether in collusion with the short-lived Third Reich as noted by the likes of Lenni Brenner and Tony Greenstein, or, more incredibly, in a political pact with the banker-industrialist created National Socialist Party of Adolf Hitler, as noted by the Lebanese scholar Mahmoud Abbas in his magisterial The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism, Jews are the first enemy of Zionists, as they were to Hitler’.
This very point is given eloquent testimony in an electrifying 1961 speech by Benjamin Freedman. In this spectacular and highly predictive speech, Freedman: a) lays out the Rothschild-Zionist and East Coast Jewish banker-cabalists role in The Great War of 1915, and, b) predicts what is happening now – the Zionist jonesing for a regional war, especially in which Iran would be embroiled. He cautioned Christian American parents, and he was explicit about them being Christian, not least because he converted, not to send their sons (and daughters) to fight a war which has nothing to do with them. His warning is as germane now as then.
It may be thought that it is only dissenting Jews who hold the view of Israel as a Nazi-State. Settlers, too, admit the facts. In a spate of coordinated settler pogroms of Palestinians in a number of Israeli towns and cities in 2021: One pogromist wrote on a telegram post that: “We are no longer Jews today. People from Holon, Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion go out to bring war. Today we are Nazis”. Israeli scholars and even military commanders worry that the hatred being cultivated among Israeli Jewish youth constitutes a serious threat to Israel itself. Thus, it is common in synagogues and in public for rabbis to speak of Palestinians as “animals’, “wolves”, “savages”, “a Jew should chase away Arabs” and that home evictions and dispossession are justified. Israeli politicians, too, most evident in statements about destroying the Amalekites, leave no doubt of they are following through on the intention of Zionism from the earliest times to expunge the land of its native inhabitants. Now, there is unaminity of opinion, at least in one November 2023 poll among Jews of Israel. A Time poll found the following:
⦁ 57.5% of Israeli Jews said (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza

⦁ 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower

⦁ 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower

⦁ 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power (which, if read carefully is not a repudiation of the bombing campaign
Seen in its totality, this means that this poll found 100.01% satisfaction with the Zionist holocaust of Gaza. In chapter 6 of Escape from Freedom, “Psychology of Nazism”, Erich Fromm showed that no such unanimity prevailed in German in opinion against Ashkenazi Jews. Nevertheless, context matters: Likud’s intention to Judaize Israel from the Jordanian river to the Mediterranean sea was always known to Israeli Jews!
All that I have stated thus far is factual and incontrovertible. It, in my opinion, suggests the merit of the analogy between the Zionist State of Israel and that of the National Socialist Party of Germany. Furthermore, I suggest that in spite of the fact that that august body, the UN, which participated in the dispossession of Palestinians by ceding land to Zionists over which it had neither right nor authority, went through the trouble of criminalizing Apartheid, but not Nazism. That countries such as Canada and the United States recruited and gave safe haven to Nazi scientists, physicians and military men and others, while turning away Jewish refugees in order to funnel them to Palestine, suggests that we consider Alfred T. Moleah’s argument that we ought not bind a comparative analysis of Apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel to the yolk of legalism. Insight will suffer. Indeed, that both States not only established themselves in 1948, they, from that time till 1994, worked assiduously to develop kinetic and biological weapons, run joint military and policing training exercises, interfere in southern African countries and to avoid sanctions and much more.
More succinctly than in previous posts, I want to bluntly specify three points that I believe make an analogy between Apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel less persuasive than that between German National Socialism and Zionism. First – Zionist intended to kill or expel Palestinians by whatever means expedient; second – the Israeli State has attained something unseen since Athens and Sparta: near total unanimity between citizen and State. And, third – rather than exact retribution and expiation from Christian Europeans in Europe, the victims of a genocide and a holocaust have exported Europe’s Enlightenment penchant for colonialization, imperialism, genocide and holocaust as a blood right by mercilessly falling on a population innocent of the creature of the creatures of Western bankers and industrialists: Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party. Here then, beyond Raul Hilberg’s taxonomy for the destruction of European Jews

is indisputable fact of a taxonomy of the destruction of Palestinians that neither the IHRA nor Jew not convinced Israel is defacto a Nazi State can ignore or deny – though of course they have the luxury of not being criminalized for either:

Giving eloquent testimony to the facts stated above, this map

attests to a reality confronting any Jew opposing the Israeli Holocaust of Gaza and the genocide of Palestinians, who yet thinks Israel, a liberal democratic theocracy, has a ‘right’ to exist separate from Palestinians. Jews, in my opinion, have a duty to blow Zionism to the winds. Doing so will, no doubt, be prodigious given the depth, scope and extent of Zionist sociogenic propaganda. This alone will make them worthy of their dead, who were used and betrayed by Zionists, and, for the rest of humanity of whom their dead were a part.

Published in January 8, 2024

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