Part IV: The Lie of Anti-Zionism
Anti-Zionism has no positive self-definition but simply claims to oppose Zionism. But what does Zionism even mean? And what does Anti-Zionism entail in practical terms?
At a basic level, Zionism was the belief that Jews are entitled to a state of “their own” [1]. Now that the officially-Jewish state already exists for over seven decades, contemporary Zionism is the belief that this state has the right to remain a "Jewish" state, and that consequently it's entitled to maintain a Jewish majority. This precludes allowing the descendants of Arab refugees to return to lands evacuated by their ancestors in 1948 and 1967 [2].
Anti-Zionism, then, avers that Jews are not entitled to a state of their own, or at least not at the expense of non-Jews who live there now or at any time in the last eighty years. Consequently, Anti-Zionism demands repatriation for descendants of displaced Arabs, thereby effectively ending the "Jewish state." Instead, the Jews of Israel will need to adapt to a new reality of life in a state with an Islamic Arab majority.
However, this creates an obvious problem. How will Jews fare as a defenseless minority in a hostile Muslim population?
Anti-Zionism isn't concerned with the welfare of Jewish communities in the Levant. It deems Jews as colonizers who don't belong there in the first place. As Anti-Zionist Helen Thomas furiously hissed, Jews should "go back to Poland."
In order to maintain this position, Anti-Zionism must reject Jewish/Judean ancestral claims to the Land of Judea (oxymoron). It also must dismiss the reality that Jews have maintained a presence in the Holy Land for over three millennia without interruption. It also must be indifferent to the historic persecution, inquisitions, expulsions, and wholesale murder endured by Jews for many centuries, culminating in the mass slaughter of European Jewry in WWII and total destruction of Jewish communities there, the survivors of whom were left homeless, orphaned, and traumatized in DP camps before emigrating to the Land of their ancestors and joining Jewish communities there.
Moreover, it must ignore the fact that hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews were displaced from nearby Muslim States in the Middle East but were absorbed by Jewish communities in the fledgling "Jewish state." In addition, Anti-Zionism is fine with the reality of fifty-six Muslim States but can’t stomach the existence of a single Jewish one. Moreover, Anti-Zionists conveniently ignore the fact that many of these Muslim states continue to marginalize and persecute their non-Muslim minorities, but when a single "Jewish" state dares marginalize a non-Jewish minority [3], they are outraged and blast sanctimonious condemnations.
But all this pales in insignificance to the true evils of Anti-Zionism.
Everyone acknowledges the present reality that the so-called Palestinian Arab street has been irreversibly radicalized, and that a “Palestinian state” would be a judenrein police state perforce. It's also self-understood that Jews will not willingly “return to Poland” or anywhere else for that matter.
So what to do with the age-old "Jewish problem?"
Anti-Zionism is not concerned with the prospect of expelled or murdered Jews.
As I mentioned above, Jews are deemed colonizers and therefore dehumanized. The very fact that a Jew lives in the Land under Zionist rule makes him or her a Zionist, a racist by definition, a villain deserving of Arab rage.
In fact, Islamic hatred of Jews everywhere is rationalized and condoned by the xenophobic creed of Anti-Zionism. Jews are automatically held responsible for all crimes — both real and alleged — of "their" racist state.
The only way Anti-Zionism can exist is by dehumanizing Jews.
If Jewish lives were to matter, then the position of Anti-Zionism is every bit as racist as they claim Zionism is, and even more so.
In theory, Anti-Zionism expresses reasonable concern for the plight of displaced Arabs, but in practice, it defaults to revulsion of Jews.
And in reality, Anti-Zionism cares little about Arab lives either. It's similar to how “Black Lives Matter” cares little about the lot of black people or Communist leaders about the welfare of the actual proletariat. That's why you'll never hear rabid Anti-Zionists – such as those who billow at the United Nations and in liberal circles – protest the horrific crimes perpetrated against Muslims by Muslim states. Not a word about the hundreds of thousands of victims in ethnic cleansings in Yemen, Sudan, or elsewhere in the Muslim world. Nary a peep of protest against the savage persecutions and killings by Islamic regimes. And besides for condemning Israel, the legions of Israel haters do nothing to materially improve the lives of Palestinian Arabs. That's because Anti-Zionism can only thrive by perpetuating Palestinian Arab misery, rage, and violence, just like Zionism can only persist by perpetuating Jewish misery, insecurity, and dependency.
Hence the “intractable” Arab-Israeli cycle of conflict. It's all part of the carefully engineered psyop that artificially pits Arab against Jew and Jew against Arab.
Since the agenda of Anti-Zionism reeks of Jew hatred, or at least lack of regard for human life, Jewish or otherwise, it pushes reasonable people of sound moral conscience back toward the Zionist cause.
Wasn't that the rationale behind Zionism in the first place? That the world cares little about Jewish lives and that Jews consequently need a state of their own for protection?
Accordingly, the argument for Anti-Zionism bolsters the argument for Zionism, the very cause it purports to oppose.
That's because Anti-Zionism doesn't just actually oppose Zionism. Rather, it's just a cleverly repackaged form of age-old Jew hatred.
It's the favorite playing card of the Roman Empire and its present-day iterations. Scapegoat and crucify the Jew.
Just avoid the word "Jew." Call him a "Zionist" and no one will mind.
Anti-Zionism is Jew hatred with a facelift.
People who oppose the "Jewish" State but ignore the crimes of other states (and terrorist organizations) aren't anti-Zionist per se. They're just anti-Jewish. Which means they're anti-human, since Jews are also human beings endowed with inalienable human rights.
Anti-Zionism, therefore, is a form of misanthropic hatred for humanity. That's because it was conceived by the same sociopathic predator class who created and bankrolled Zionism.
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The above is just a cursory analysis of Anti-Zionism based on a superficial definition of Zionism.
However, if you've read Parts II and III of this series and understand how Zionism is essentially an ideology that seeks to impose statism on the Jewish people, a clearer picture of Anti-Zionism emerges as well. Upon a deeper reflection, Zionism and Anti-Zionism are two sides of the same coin.
For further elucidation, please read on in Part V.
Notes:
[1] See Parts I and II of this series.
[2] It's worth noting that the majority of the Palestinian Arab population is fairly recent to the region. Prior to the influx of Jews starting in the late 1800s, Palestine was a barren wasteland bereft of inhabitants. Arabs began emigrating to Palestine when recently-arrived Jews offered them work. The scarce Arab population that did live in Palestine prior to the first wave of significant Jewish return to the Land wasn't any more “native” than the Palestinian Jewish population which had already been there as well, and for many centuries.
[3] It should be pointed out that Arabs fare better economically and politically in Israel than in any Muslim state.
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