When the Jewish State Turns on the Jew
Targeting Honenu is not a political dispute, but a battle for Israel's very soul
That the security apparatus of the modern Israeli state has allegedly targeted the legal aid organization Honenu should surprise no one who has observed the state’s philosophical trajectory. This incident is not an aberration or a flaw in the system.
It is the system functioning as designed—the inevitable outcome of a state conceived in the shadow of Machiavelli—a secular Zionism that has created a state intrinsically hostile to the very Jewish essence it purports to protect.
Honenu’s work consists of defending Jews—soldiers and civilians—whom the state has deemed inconvenient. These are the individuals who act upon an un-sanitized Jewish identity, one that is not mediated by the sterile rationalism of the High Court or the bureaucratic morality of the state’s managerial class.
Honenu represents the very spirit the modern state was created to domesticate: the raw, pre-political Jew who defends himself, his land, and his people without first seeking permission from the proper authorities. This Jew is an intolerable variable in the state’s secular equation.
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