![]() What could lessen its power, drain it of some of that fuel? True solidarity. And antisemitism (besides being hateful) is the rocket fuel of militant Zionism. So how do we confront this violent ideology? For one thing, we can recognize that when Israeli Jews are killed in their homes and it is celebrated by people who claim to be anti-racists and anti-fascists, that is experienced as antisemitism by a great many Jews. ![]() But we all have to figure out how to make it stop. The responsibility for these crimes of collective punishment rests solely with their perpetrators and their financial and military backers abroad. The Israeli state’s current murderous leveling of Gaza is the latest, unspeakably horrific manifestation of this ideology, and there will be more in the coming days. The world will always turn away from us in our hour of need, Zionism tells us, just as it did during the Holocaust, which is why force alone is presented as the only conceivable response to any and all threats. Within this worldview, antisemitism is cast as a primordial force that cannot be weakened or confronted. In fact these callous displays are a gift to militant Zionism, since they neatly shore up and reconfirm its core and governing belief: that the non-Jewish world hates Jews and always will – look, even the bleeding-heart left is making excuses for our killers and thinks that Jewish kids and old ladies deserved death merely by living in Israel.įor Zionist believers (I’m not one of them), Jew-hatred is the central rationale for why Israel must exist as a nuclear-armed fortress.
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