{UAH} Tony Greenstein's Blog: Israel is not only the world’s most racist state it is a nation of murderers

Tony Greenstein's Blog

Socialist, anti-Zionist, anti-racist

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Israel is not only the world's most racist state it is a nation of murderers

What is it about Israel that makes it so attractive to anti-Semites, fascists and racists such as Trump, Bolsonaro and Duterte? 

Israel is proof that any group of people, including Jews, can, given the right set of circumstances become racists and fascists.

Racism is not biologically inherited. It is a product of society not genetics. Just as Germans today have not inherited a Hitler gene, so the same is true of Israeli Jews. They have no inherited the mantle of the oppressed Jews of Europe but what Israel has done is to transform the traditional image of Jews from the oppressed to the oppressor.

Professor Ze'ev Sternhell, a child survivor of a Nazi Ghetto sees in Israel the signs of pre-Holocaust Germany

Norman Finkelstein, in a recent interview, quoted Ze'ev Sternhell, a former professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a childhood survivor of the Nazi ghetto of Przemyśl in Poland and a world authority on fascism.

According to Sternhell fascists and anti-Semites, amongst whom I include Trump, don't see Israel as Jewish. The Zionist dream was always to create a nation like all other nations.  They succeeded only too well.  The settler nation that they created is the most right-wing and racist of any nation on Earth.  

Woody Allen - the archetypal Jew of the diaspora

Israel is the only state, bar Liberia, where Donald Trump is more popular than unpopular. Whereas Jews were historically seen as weak, intellectuals, cosmopolitan, erudite, artists, seditious and on the Left, Israel is seen as a warrior state, a military fortress. The archetypal Jew was a Woody Allen, Franz Kafka, Einstein and Marc Chagall. To Hitler the archetypal Jew was Karl Marx. The archetypal Israeli Jew is a racist bigot who revels in murder.

Geert Wilders, the Dutch Fascist leader speaking in Tel Aviv in 2010. Unlike Rashid  Tlaib and Ilhan Omar he was not banned from Israel

Israel according to Dutch fascist leader Geert Wilders is the front-line in the battle to defend Western civilisation. It is admired by every fascist or far-Right leader on the planet – from Brazil's Bolsonaro to the Philipine's Hitler loving President Duterte.

In Britain it is the English Defence League and Tommy Robinson's Football Lads Alliance who parade with Israeli flags. Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins both admire Israel and the way it combats 'Islam'.  Katie Hopkins understands this when she justifies the bomb attack against refugee supporting Jews at Pittsburgh whilst at the same time proclaiming her undying devotion to the Israeli state.

Netanyahu with his friend, Viktor Orban, the anti-Semitic ruler of Hungary

Don't blame Trump, Hopkins wrote in respect of the Pittsburgh shooting. Rather, "Look to the Chief Rabbi and his support for mass migration across the Med[iterranean]," she wrote. "There you will find your truths."

As Finkelstein says Israel isn't merely an alt-Right state but an alt-Right country. It isn't simply a question of a far-Right government but a far-Right citizenry. 'Israel has no left.  Israel has no centre'.  It has a Right, far-Right and further Right still.

Israel's attractions to the alt-Right is that it is an ethno-nationalist state. Which is why the neo-Nazi founder of the alt-Right Richard Spencer described himself as a White Zionist and supported Israel's Jewish Nation State Law.

Israel represents the kind of state, an ethno-nationalist state, that Spencer, Trump and Bannon are trying to build in the United States. Israel provides the model.  It is trying to deport thousands of refugees because they aren't from the majority ethnic group in Israel and therefore threaten Israel's Jewish identity.

Finkelstein described Israel as a nation of murderers and he's not far wrong.  When you have a demonstration in Tel Aviv in the middle of the attack on Gaza in 2014 which chanted 'there's no school in Gaza tomorrow, there are no children left' i.e. boasting about the number of children murdered by Israel, then you realise that this is not a normal nation but a settler colonial state with all that entails

http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/09/israel-is-not-only-worlds-most-racist.html

Allan

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