The creation of a regime on stolen land that derives its mock legitimacy from a separate entity that has not existed for two thousand years, inscribes the most anachronistic nativism into geopolitical reality during the post-war period, a time when one might have expected that this type of ideological manoeuvre would have been held in disrepute. This nativism relied on an idea of racial purity that worked to exclude those who lived on the land, who might reasonably be expected to be the descendants of those who had occupied it in the past, in favour of a pure people dispersed across several continents, with all the divisions attendant upon such a dispersal. It also, if we pretend that the claim was made in good faith, inscribed an extraordinary principle of originary ownership: whoever was on land two thousand years ago is the rightful owner, which represents a problem for peoples all over the world—though as a Celt, Macdara must be entitled to a nice share of Continental land, in which case he requests some of Italy, Spain and Portugal please. It is so obviously extraordinary, so clearly a post hoc justification for a colonial land grab.
But those who want to be fooled will be fooled: witness a well-known podcaster still publicly recanting his tenure with Trump (easy to recant, of course, when you have been fired), saying that Palestinians question the zionist shadow state, which by now has existed for eighty years, one-third as long as the United States!…to which the obvious response is that he is correct: after smashing zionism, we must destroy the cancerous experiment that is “America”.
How is it that it was possible to imagine the zionist project, that foolish, dishonest and cruel—but also huge, unlikely and ambitious—act of colonisation, but it is not possible to imagine its undoing? It is meant to be unimaginable that Palestine might be returned to Palestinians. With every year the occupiers think that they are closer to ending any argument about their right to the land they have been squatting in only within living memory; at the end of every day, looking out at the walls trapping Palestinians in ghettos, they must congratulate themselves on another day in someone else’s house.
For the zionazis, the slogan is not never again but again! again! And the white regimes think is it only fair that they get a crack at genocide, a pleasure the white countries have enjoyed for so long themselves. The European empires used every imaginable type of violence; this behaviour was reimported to the continent during the fascist phase of European Capitalism. Later it was reexported to Palestine. We must expect that the techniques currently being deployed and perfected there by all the familiar corporations of control—those tech and military giants—will prove indispensable in the management of Western democracies in a collapsing ecosystem. The fight for Palestine is a fight for humanity.
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Because it bears repeating and repeating, let us conclude by celebrating the heroic woman arrested in London, a woman whose family were murdered by the nazi regime, who stated clearly what no one amongst the zionist enablers cares to hear: that it is antisemitic to assume that the Jewish people condone genocide. They do not: only the zionazis do.