Dr. Tamari Kitossa
Sociology
Brock University
December 14, 2023[1]
Zionism and the ‘Destruction of Palestinians’: Apartheid or Nazism?[2]
Conclusion
If one blames the Jew for not having been ennobled by oppression, one is not indicting the single figure of the Jew but the entire human race, and one is also making a quite breathtaking claim for oneself. I know that my own oppression did not ennoble me, not even when I thought of myself as a practicing Christian. I also know that if today I refuse to hate Jews, or anybody else, it is because I know how it feels to be hated.
James Baldwin[3]
Morally speaking, it is hardly less wrong to feel guilty without having done something specific than it is to feel free of all guilt if one is actually guilty of something.
Hannah Arendt[4]
…whatever is done for the safety of the State is merciful.
Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer[5]
Since the ‘surprise’ assault of Hamas across the most fortified and surveilled border in the world, and, the ensuing, but long called for and predicted Israeli holocaust in Gaza by Israel’s leadership, I have struggled to conclude this multipart blog post on Zionism-as-Nazism. I have listened widely to and read counter-narrative media such as the Last American Vagabond, David Icke and Max Blumenthal’s The Grey Zone. I read Jonas E. Alexis’s Zionism vs. The West: How Talmudic ideology is undermining Western Culture and his anti-Zionist commentaries on Veterans Today to learn more about the capillary forms of Zionism, such as that of the Sabatean-Frankish cult, whom David Icke (Listen from 26:00 -59:03) also believes is the background, hidden, force leading to death and destruction in Palestine and Israel. I have also, to great profit, read Uri Davis’s Israel: Utopia incorporated and learned of a deep and, largely hidden to outsiders, once potent Jewish socialist anti-Zionist movement in Israel in the late 1970s.[6] One also learns from Davis that (the Sabbatean Rothschilds whom David Icke discusses) provided “…the philanthropic intervention of Baron Edmund de Rothschild and his support to the estimated tune of $5 million during the 1880s” that was essential to the foundational personal and political kinship network that would launch the Israeli State in 1948.
What is clear to me from all this listening and reading is that Zionism – of whatever form – is militarist in practice, hateful in nature, and, racial supremacist in character. It is also a moral philosophy of expedience related to esoteric fanatasies. Millenarian US evangelical Christians see the ‘Second Coming of Christ’ as contingent upon the ‘Jewish’ restoration of a State of Israel (which lasted in antiquity not more than 70 years). Jewish religious Zionists, the stooges of political Zionists, imagine a greater Israel as the mystical affirmation of their destiny as ‘God’s Chosen People’. Christian Zealots, even if they hear the words of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef – “Goyim (gentiles, non-Jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap, we will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created” – probably think their faith is stronger than his certainty that the ‘Chosenness of Jews’ will grant them dominion over all ‘goyim’, which includes evangelicals. For the US, the vanguard of Western imperialism in the midst of the Arabs and Islam’s geopolitical centre of gravity, it has every intention to expropriate the wealth of its nation to subsidize its Zionist proxy – Israel. If this means killing every Palestinian, and, if it means instantiating World War III as Golda Meir[7] believed necessary to ‘protect’ the State of Israel, then creating hell on earth in the here and now, for a utopia to come, satisfies all and sundry committed to the banality of evil.
Is this an Apartheid State? Hardly. Is it a Nazi Nation-State? Yes, I believe so. So much so that in a bizarre instance of the ‘pot calling the kettle black’, Ehud Barak, the Prime Minister who created the ‘break the bones strategy’, likens Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler. But with all that I am now reading and listening to, with some expositors describing deep and old esoteric cults (e.g., Sabbateans) as being at play, others describing interdimensional evil, and, others yet describing sub-routines in a holographic universe, there are evidently other possibilities to which I am keeping my mind open about how to describe the hate-filled[8] murder cult that is Zionism.
Significantly, the human revulsion to the murder of babies and the defenseless manifest in the destruction of Gaza is altering the moral calculus that enabled the Zionist Nation-State of Israel to reach this far along in its planned Final Solution. Some contend that with the aid of the US the Israeli State was nudged to victory over its Arab enemies in 1967 and 1973, but Alan Hart believes that Israeli victory was never in doubt. But the ‘success’ of Israel has shaken both Palestinian militants and Arab governments out of their complacency. A more thoroughly martial spirit and preparedness to wage war has proliferated among Arab and Muslim States (and the Turks) in the region. They are now, in some ways, as sophisticated as the Israelis, though in terms of its cyber ability, as evidenced by Stuxnet, Pegasus Spyware, inter-operability with the US cyber-hydra complex, political assassinations, and, the espionage honeypot sexcapades of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the Israeli’s appear to have an edge. Is it enough? This edge, however, great at surveilling every inch of Gaza and terrorizing Palestinians, is being neutralized – if reports of mounting Israeli casualties and losses in the ground invasion of northern Gaza are correct. This means that what Col. Douglas MacGregor and Scott Ritter have called Israel’s strategic defeat may be an immanent reality for Zionist Israel. Such assumptions, however, rest on a comparison with Ukraine. The fact, however, is that Israel is not Ukraine, and so any analogy between the two States may not hold, though both are thoroughly Nazified.[9] The question is: will the US intervene fully beyond the smattering of ‘advisers’ on the ground?[10] Will US parents allow their sons to be sacrificed on the alter of Zionist arrogance, evangelical superstition, Sabbatean cultism or what have you?[11]
If we stay focused on the nature of the State as formulated by Randolph Bourne, who asserted that “war is the health of the state”, and Charles Tilly, who asserted “war makes states and states make war”, then, however much Zionism is ‘suicidal’, as Uri Davis calls its expansionist pretensions, this does not mean the prospective calamity of a ‘strategic defeat’ is a deterrent. Indeed, in a settler colonial, racialist, advanced military State like Israel, where Ashkenazi, ‘Oriental’ and Ethiopian Jews alike shudder at what de-Zionification means for their material existence, Uri Davis believes that across acrimonious cleavages among Israelis, support for the Zionist State will remain and intensify (irrespective of feelings toward the State managers and the bourgeoisie). The facts of ideology, propaganda and the historic specificity of the formation of a Zionist warfare-welfare State, Uri Davis believes, will have significant implications for the right-ward tilt of a Zionist State committed both to expansion and the ‘cleansing’ of Palestinians to create an Arab-free Israel:
The revisionist Zionist dream (or better: nightmare), widely shared since 1967 within labour Zionism, of a Jewish state extending from the Nile to the Euphrates would indeed become a reality, which would necessitate the coming into explicit political power of the worst fascist elements both in Israel and the Zionist movement; elements which would not only, like labour Zionism, effectively implement Zionist colonial and occupation policies, but which would implement them without being hindered in any way…[by]…even a semblance of moral scruples. [12]
Davis penned these words in 1977. Whether in today’s immanent multi-polar world, as opposed to the heady post-1973 days of a cock-sure Israeli State backed by the US hegemon, the idea that Israeli expansion will not be checked and the chessboard radically altered cannot be gain-said. As I am not a geo-strategist, the ins and outs of the grand chessboard are beyond me but still I must make sense of the world as it presents itself if I am to be free in it.
My concern, then, is how, within complexity, can I gain hold of something that makes sense, both materially and spiritually, when nothing seems to add up. I tell myself the world is witnessing the flailing of a morally exhausted Nation-State and its zealots who are about the business of destroying the Palestinian people, all in the hope of creating a Judaic Reich. Like Erich Fromm’s account of how people abandon freedom and its responsibility, preferring to be sado-masochistic, at once slaves and dominators, I see that rank-and-file Jewish Zionists, in making a ‘Holy Calf’ of the State of Israel, are not only slaves of the only Jewish State, but they have abdicated their humanity in the process in cheering on holocaust of Gaza. In this sense, they are ontologically defined solely by what Rollo May calls in chapter 9 of Power and Innocence, ‘destructive violence’ as opposed to ‘constructive violence’. Yet, for all this, no matter how terrible a price Palestinians must bear for the self-debasement of Jewish Zionists, they just will not go: to where? Though bombed from the air, shelled from the ground, their homes demolished, expelled from their neighbourhoods, thousands killed and tens of thousands maimed for daring to mount non-violent protests, starved, denied employment, disappeared into Israel’s gulag and now carpet bombed in Gaza Palestinians existence is itself an act of resistance.
Where do we go from here? We are clearly at a definite juncture in the life-course of the human species. Patrick Lawrence has called this moment the hinge of history. First, to me, there are no sides from which to choose. Contrary to Howard Becker’s famous 1967 essay “Whose Side Are We On?”, which advised sociologists to take sides, Alvin W. Gouldner, in his 1968 reply to Becker, “The Sociologist as Partisan: Sociology and the Welfare State”, encouraged sociologists to commit themselves to “values, not factions”. Thus, whether Palestinian or Jew, the life of people, not States, is sacred. We should recognize that all States and the unelected sovereign immune and pan-governmental global racketeering enterprises which govern them, and us they believe, are our collective enemies
Second, it seems to me that it is for the rest of us, especially sociologists, to carefully study Raul Hilberg’s detailed account of the destruction of European Jews because it is clearly being studied and put into action by Israel’s political class and a citizenry equally committed to participatory totalitarianism. Seen from this view, Hilberg documented the tendency of totalitarianism which Zionists themselves subscribe to. After all, as documented by Lenni Brenner and others (see note 2), Zionist ideologues of the 19th and 20th Centuries were committed to the fatalistic ideology that anti-Jewish hatred was inevitable: all the better to use that belief as an expedient for a ‘Jewish state’ that would rid Europe of its responsibility to live up to the ideals of the Enlightenment. Again: a State is not a human being and has no right to survival as such. All talk, therefore, of the ‘right of Israel’ to exist, the need for a Palestinian State, or any State for that matter, is the worst sort of mythification. However difficult it may be, the future of endless war and recrimination is not a given. Humanity must exist without the State as we know it.
Jewish anti-Zionism and opposition to the carpet bombing of Gaza is growing in Canada, the USA, Europe and worldwide. It is unlikely in the short-run that so episodic and inchoate a reaction will have practical effect, but its moral weight is without question. Indeed, there is now a possibility that this reaction might turn into a real social movement that draws on prior incarnations of Jewish anti-Zionism in Israel itself. Uri Davis cites the politics and practice of the de-Zionification of Israel proposed by the (defunct?) Israeli Socialist Organization for the Liberation of Palestine. The organization asserted that
…a necessary condition for an overall social change in Israel is the defeat of the Zionist political regime which dominates the country: the defeat of the state of Israel as an exclusively Jewish State. One of the important tasks of an Israeli revolutionary organization is to struggle against the Zionist administration and disrupt its regulation operation.[13]
Not unlike like Col. Douglas MacGregor and Scott Ritter cited above, who suggest the Zionist State of Israel is finished as we know it, The Israeli Socialist Organization for the Liberation of Palestine coldly lays out prospects for the future, one chilling and the other redemptive – neither of which is sanguine that a Zionist Israel will continue exist:
It is not inconceivable that that Zionism will be defeated not through what we as socialists would like to see, namely: through the popular common struggle of the Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs. It is possible that Zionism will be defeated, for instance, though Arab occupation. The defeat of Zionism through such developments will bring suffering and calamity on large sections of the Israeli-Jewish people. It is possible that Zionism will ultimately succeed in bringing calamity on precisely the public it purports to redeem. The chance to avoid such a calamity is through the establishment of an Israeli socialist organization that will stand in the front-line of the struggle against Zionism; an organization that will constitute in fact a history of common Israeli/Palestinian struggle which will establish the base for a common future of equality and brotherhood between the oppressor and his victim.[14]
There is good reason to believe an Arab occupation or strategic defeat of Israel will result in desperate Israeli scorched earth program. Whether it is the Zionists, Sabbatians or what have you that is rolling the dice on that little patch of real estate, the fact remains that if Zionists will and have sacrificed Jews, they will have little compunction in killing all of us, or as many of us as they can.
Given what is at stake, the defeat of Zionism will require that a critical mass is aware of how from tax tribute to propaganda, a total turning away from Zionism in all its forms is essential for humanity as a whole. The defeat of Zionism also calls for the defeat of the stranglehold that Zionists have on the administrations of Western governments. It also means, as shown by Miles Howe and Paul Sylvestre, calling to account the Canadian government and Zionist “burner charities” engaged in quasi-criminal activities which are fleecing Western taxpayers to funnel funds into Israeli settlement of Palestinian lands. The world can no more tolerate a Nazi regime today than it could between 1929 and 1945. As proposed by the The Israeli Socialist Organization for the Liberation of Palestine in 1977 and now Ghada Karmi, a world where Zionist occupation in Israel is defeated by both Palestinians and Israelis (not only Jews), facing the future together is desirable and possible because ‘the victory is the struggle’.
[1] This post was modified December 12, 2023 for minor layout and syntax corrections.
[2] This 4-Part blog is a modified version was to be part of the December 2023 Special Issue of the Journal of State Crime. It was refused at the prepublication stage by the managing editor for reasons entirely unpersuasive.
[3] Baldwin, James. 1967. Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White. New York Times, April 9.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html
[4] Arendt, Hannah. 1992 [1963]. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil. New York: Penguin Books, p. 298.
[5] Sprenger, Jacob and Heinrich Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum, cited in Szasz, Thomas. 1997 [1970]. The Manufacture of Madness: A comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, p. 31.
[6] Among the most incisive observations I have drawn from Davis is the role of the Kibbutz. Like the homestead in the imaginary of ‘America’ as a frontier nation facing the wilds of nature and savages alike, the Kibbutz similarly, practically and ideologically plays a similar role in Israeli lore. At once socialist farming community and military outpost, the significance of the Kibbutzim is more than symbolic and ritualistic. Beyond the geostrategic and lebensraum motivation of the Zionist State in its ferocious and mindless reaction to the miraculous Hamas attack on Be’eri kibbutz on October 7, 2023, we must account for other interconnected sociological and psychological facts. If the destruction of Gaza seems like mad vengeance, it may be. In Israel: Utopia Incorporated: A study of Class, State, and corporate kin control Uri Davis reminds us that the kibbutzim play an outsized role in Israel life. He pointed out in 1977 that the Pilgrim-like Kibbutzim who traced their ancestry to the earliest Kibbutz in the 1900s established the “…political and military elite of pre-state Yishuv” (p. 27). And, startlingly in 1977, “though barely 3% of the total Israeli-Jewish population, people of kibbutz origin contribute approximately 25% of Israeli cabinet members, 22% if not higher, of the Israeli middle and high military command, and constitute the overwhelming majority of aire-force pilots, the elite unit of the Israeli army” (p. 27). False flag or not, Hamas’s attack on the frontier expeditionary force of the Israeli Nation-State’s move toward the de-Arabization of Israel and the Occupied Territories, could only have been experienced by Israel as a desecration of Likud’s 1977 promise of an Israel that “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”.
[7] Drawing on Alan Hart’s Zionism: The real enemy of Jews, Jonas Alexis reports in Zionism vs. the West that “When Golda Meir was asked by British journalist Alan Hart the puzzling question as to whether Israel was willing to take the world down if it happens to be threatened, Meir responded, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what I am saying”. In a speech about his book, which in part detailed how the Zionist established used nuclear extortion against Nixon/Kissinger so that they may be provided a badly needed resupply of weapons for the Israeli concocted war of 1973, Hart reports that Moshe Dayan “the arm[ed]…two nuclear missiles, one targeted on Cairo, the other on Damascus”. Obviously, he points out, the Soviet Union would not have allowed a nuclear attack on its Arab allies, Egypt and Syria, to go without a nuclear response of its own. Ultimately, It was a diabolical Kissinger who saved Israel from annihilation, and, the world, a Third 20th Century conflagration.
[8] Associating Zionism with hate is not hyperbole. Because it thrives on – and encourages – the idea that the Jew is an eternal victim of the ‘goyim’, Zionists are happiest most when non-Zionist Jews encounter racio-religious discrimination. As noted by Lenni Brenner, Uri Davis and Tony Greenstein from the earliest Zionists to those that latterly in the 1930s who did not lift a finger to prevent the destruction of European Jewry, such as David Ben Gurion who referred to non-Zionist Jews as ‘dust’, there was utter contempt for especially assimilationist Jews. Thus, Elie Wiesel’s admonition that “Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate—healthy, virile hate—for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead” is not solely rancour against German Nazis with whom the Zionists collaborated and cheered on. It is again, a deep feeling of hatred toward any Jew who is not only non-Zionist, but who mobilizes against the Nation-State of Israel as a manifest political reality. Hence, the Zionists claim that “Jews who protest settlements are ‘mutants’ who should have been aborted”. Such facts confirm Alan Hart’s contention that Zionism/Zionists are the enemy of Jews.
[9] Interestingly, Jonas Alexis reports that Israel appears to have sent elite soldiers to fight alongside Ukrainians. They were promptly killed. This fact calls into question the much vaunted superiority of the Israelis, especially now that it appears Hamas is besting them on the battle field.
[10] Jonas Alexis posits that the US government/military may be allowing Israel to suffer a strategic defeat. Why? He reasons that this is payback for the Israeli deep States role in the September 11, 2001 attack on the (Rockefeller, let us not forget) World Trade Towers.
[11] In his 1961 speech, The History of the Jewish People and the World Wars, Benjamin H. Freedman, a Christian convert from Judaism and former high level US international conflict negotiator, cautioned Americans about sacrificing their sons for the Zionist cause.
[12] Davis, Uri. 1977. Israel: Utopia Incorporated: A study of Class, State, and corporate kin control. London, UK: Zed Press Ltd, pp. 114-115).
[13] Davis, p. 122.
[14] Davis, p. 124.
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