The Zionists
Zionists have made headlines in recent months. In some ways their seedy exploits have served almost as a distraction from the seismic and tragic events unfolding in the Middle East, “Israel’s” genocidal campaign in Gaza and its parallel genocidal actions in the West Bank. And yet all are inextricably linked.
Whilst political leaders such as Biden and Trudeau have reaffirmed their commitment to the Western Imperialist killing machine by openly declaring that they are proud Zionists, and thus attempted to lend an aura of credibility and the ring of legitimacy to the Zionist project, on almost every other front, it can be seen to be fast losing any positive reputation it may have once had as a result of people’s previous ignorance.
Its die-hard proponents may invoke anti-Semitism to its critics and attempt to utilize the Holocaust card for all it is worth – but only the most virulently racist, morally misguided and metaphorically blind, will still be holding onto any vestiges of belief in Zionism’s sanctity or status. The rest of us, who hold no prejudice, who believe without qualification in the values of humanity, and who can see and think clearly – must by necessity, condemn Zionism.
The Zionist Project
What began as a quest for a Jewish homeland, an ideal of “cultural Zionism” where a persecuted Jewish diaspora would settle harmoniously on “promised land” and co-exist peacefully with any people who did happen to be there (remember the lie: “A land without a people for a people without a land”), making the “desert bloom” - rapidly devolved into a violent, terrorist based killing project. The genocide never ended after the 1948 Nakba, it was always simmering. “Israel” never stopped.
In truth, the Zionist project existed from the start, on a bedrock of lies. And it is the bedrock, the foundations of any entity, that will organically inform its growth and evolution. When the bedrock is truth, honesty, respect, then the structure arising from this will be noble, ethical and good. When the very bedrock is lies, the foundation is already morally rotten and what we get is Zionism in the form it exists in today. A paranoid entity that sees itself as perpetually cornered – and pre-emptively lashes out in blind vindictive rage, always having a twisted justification for its violence, that makes sense only from its own distorted logic, that it has bribed the West to vindicate and prop up.
The establishing “principles” of the Zionist project - to implant itself into the Middle East on the basis of a few lines of ancient scriptures that were taken out of all context and used as a justification to uproot the lives of the indigenous people in manifold ways – could never truly succeed.
The international impunity and shielding of the settler colonial state of “Israel” by the most militarily strong Western states, still has Zionists digging their heels in. For them, the mass slaughter of the Palestinian people is “success”. The lack of impunity is “success”. The ability to use the most sophisticated arsenal of military weaponry in order to obliterate lives is not only success, but a logical extension of the acts of terrorism by means of which they established themselves to start with, and for which they feel not only little remorse, but every vindication.
Let us be clear though: if we elevate truth above power, if we honour humanity above imperial ambition, lies and violence – then we must shun Zionism and condemn the Zionist project.
Zionists on the World Stage
Zionism on the world stage is nothing less than mass murder of indigenous people. It is nothing less than the use of the most sophisticated technology to murder children, and then lie about it to the world, in the process censoring any retelling of events in an honest way. The BBC, one of the most hypocritical and propagandist institutions of all time in the way that it has silenced Palestinian testimony and censored any rebuke of Israel, has proven itself an instrument par excellence of the Zionist political machine – a veritable house of forked tongues.
Zionism is racism, the theft of individual rights, the erasure of the native people of a land by whatever violent means it can muster – which are many, since Zionism is Imperialist power. Zionism is hate, and the opposition to all that is good and pure. The theft of innocence, the pain of a mother whose womb is ripped from her body, the tears of a father who holds the tattered remains of his child’s body in his hands in numb and silent shock.
But Zionism is also your complicity, when you refuse to talk about it. It is your silence in the face of small, lifeless bodies wrapped in white shrouds; it is the way you switch the channel over when you see Palestinian refugees burned to death in tents. Zionism is your mock indignation over the pathetic hollow hasbara excuse of “Jews feeling unsafe” because people are protesting against all this.
Zionism thrives on your own silence, your own complicity, your own pretensions to be a “sophisticated” person who “understands” that civilized Western values require you to be ever mindful of the Jewish Holocaust and the horrors of October 7th – while never commenting on what is being carried out in their names under your very nose. It thrives on your ignoring of all of those reports debunking the rape claims, the lack of any decisive evidence for sexual violence by Hamas, the implementation of the Hannibal Directive en masse on October 7th.
Zionism will be eradicated because of you – or perhaps despite you and your implicit support. Just don’t say afterwards, in the manner of many people in the wake of Apartheid’s dismantling – that you were always against it. Zionism is not noble, it is not right and it is not right on.
It is that middle aged white man in a suit and sunglasses, leaving an arms conference and casually punching a girl in the face on his way out, because she was wearing a keffiyeh. It is that group of obnoxious men touting their male privilege and power as they laughingly discuss over lunchtime lattes, the AI used to pursue little Palestinian children and put them in its crosshairs like an animal being hunted for sport.
It is that dinosaur that reeks of privilege, outdated machoism and imperialist power, that progressive feminists always purported to stand against - until it came to Palestinian women.
The Zionist Near you
Nonetheless, I understand, even if I have no respect for it, your position of “neutrality”, your bleating about “two sides” that sounds increasingly lame. and wooden, even to your own ears. And so if this is your position, I would like to urge you, to never be inhospitable to a Zionist.
If your neighbour is an ex-”IDF” soldier – and there are many of them swanning around Europe, the Emirates, the Far East on holiday, you should accommodate them, socialize with them and leave your children to be babysat by them if you should need to. Always put your money where your mouth is and live by your principles.
The many news snippets about Zionists that have made headlines in recent months, sometimes before being rapidly deleted from circulation, courtesy of google and other Zionist owned search engines and censorship campaigns, show a people on the brink.
From the group of boys in Israel who thought it was great fun to hurl a cat off a balcony, to the young boy who killed a cat by torturing it with sticks. The many Israeli’s on “holiday” exhibiting ugly behaviours and harassing locals who are utterly fed up of them.
It is my opinion that you can never really take “time off” from being a psychopath or a killer. The ideology fuels the emotions and behaviours, the emotions and behaviours become lodged firmly in the brain, the brain enacts these hateful behaviours with a compulsiveness born of obsession. Evil can be created – and it has been, in Israel, through Zionism’s ideology.
The “Israeli” mother, pictured with her children spewing vitriol that all Palestinian children should be killed – and that she represented her community in saying so. The many genocidal statements of Israeli politicians, even women, about Palestinian mothers.
An “Israeli” last week had a dispute after defecating in the taxi of a driver in Thailand. They are behaviours that exhibit utter disregard for all the unspoken rules of civilization and morality, actions that are degrading, disgusting and utterly disgraceful.
At least 60-70% of “Israeli’s” are conscripted to the “IDF” where they are taught to inflict as much harm on Palestinians as they possibly can, to casually rape, maim, kill. To snipe young Palestinian children in the head. All this follows an “education” consisting of hate fuelled teachings towards Arabs.
Online forums exist where Israeli’s laugh about Arabs and Palestinians being tortured, and make jokes about the babies that burned alive after refugee tents were set alight.
And then they take time off killing children, to enjoy some quality travel around the world.
So I urge you, if you are one of those people bleating about “Israel’s” right to defend itself (which it doesn’t actually possess under international law, as a colonial settler state) and Hamas (who do have a right to take up arms under international law) and the terrible atrocity of October 7th, most of which has been disproven – no mass rapes by Hamas, no beheaded babies, no babies in ovens and a mass implementation of the Hannibal Directive – then make sure that you extend your hospitality towards the “Israeli’s” near you.
It never began with a promise of co-existence. Where are you getting this gentle version of Zionism????
Read the words of the Zionist leaders and their Jewish leader allies during the settlement of the 1930s and 1940s. I'll sum them for you: Remove all current residents.
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