Two Tracks of Anti-Zionism

I’m just going to say it.

I am increasingly aggravated with “anti-Zionists.”

The funny thing about it is that it has nothing to do with Jews or Israel. I have written 26 pages of articles about the Jewish Question on this website over the span of 16 years. There are 11 pages of articles on Israel. Pretty much everything that I have ever written about the topic is negative.

Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, Israel has descended to new depths with its genocide in Gaza. I spent a month here posting gore videos of Israeli atrocities in Gaza which I tagged as “Israel At War” until it got so bad that I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I spent much of the year ridiculing House Speaker Mike Johnson for being such an over the top, obsequious stooge of AIPAC. Most Americans have a more negative view of Israel, myself included, than they did when the war started. Israel hasn’t done anything over the past year that has helped its public image even with conservatives.

In spite of this favorable shift in public opinion, activists have somehow seized the opportunity to transform Israel and anti-Zionism into a divisive issue. There used to be a soft “anti-Zionist” consensus in our circles that AIPAC and wealthy Jewish donors have corrupted our politics and no one likes or supports Israel. At the same time, the consensus was that it was equally important that we cared about a host of other issues like race, heritage preservation, nationalism, trade, free speech, the economy and so on. “Anti-Zionism” was part of this mix, but it was far from being the only thing or the most important concern. After all, there are lot of things that are important in the world beyond our view of Israel / Palestine like racial demographic change, cultural decline and our anti-White liberal elites.

This is the crux of the matter.

Over the past year, some activists have decided that Israel / Palestine is the most important issue, the only issue of any importance and that nothing else matters. They have rebranded their cause as “antisemitism.” I’m not making this up. I’ve seen lots of people embrace this label to emphasize that what they are about now is just straight up monomania about Israel and the Jewish Question. They are full time, professional “anti-Zionists” who are focused entirely on foreign policy and Israel.

In the case of Nick Fuentes and the Groypers, the shift to “antisemitism” meant building a multiracial anti-Zionist movement that was allied to black and Muslim social media influencers like Sneako and Sulaiman Ahmed. When riots broke out in the UK after the Labour victory this summer, Fuentes was defending the Muslims in Rotherham and attacking remigration activists like Steve Laws because of “anti-Zionism.” He spent the entire 2024 election attacking Donald Trump and cheering on and all but endorsing Kamala Harris. He ultimately said that it would have been better for Kamala Harris to win.

In the case of TRS, I watched that whole crowd go even further around the bend than Fuentes because of “anti-Zionism.” I was only dimly aware of this until recently. I had heard in our comments that TRS was focused on attacking rural Whites these days. Today, virtually every episode of TRS is about shitting on Trump supporters, “Rightoids,” “Whiteoids,” “Christoids,” creekshitters, bumpkins, etc. Mike and Jesse voted for Kamala Harris solely to own the Rightoids. I’ve watched as Mike has started wearing Hezbollah gear on his show. There was a funny moment on X shortly before Jesse was banned when he had parked at a Texas Roadhouse in Pennsylvania, put up a Palestinian window shield in his SUV and tweeted out “Death to America, Free Palestine.” The show now seems entirely focused on Palestinian advocacy.

There are other activists like Lucas Gage who have devoted themselves to this. Gage appears to have suffered a mental breakdown after slashing an Israeli flag with a Roman gladius in his backyard in a viral video posted on social media. He made videos about how his wife had left him after he caught her in bed with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s nephew. He was banned from X and sent back to Rumble and Telegram. I’m not sure what he is doing now, but he cracked his mind like an egg on “anti-Zionism.”

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has exacerbated the divide between “antisemitism” and “anti-Zionism” or whatever it is this camp is calling itself and other pro-White activists who supported Trump. Since he first arrived on the political scene in 2015, Donald Trump has always been a “Zionist” and “pro-Israel,” but he is also an immigration restrictionist, a trade protectionist, promises a less bellicose foreign policy, a less anti-White federal government, a better economy with less inflation, protection of gun rights, less censorship and so on. There was a lot to like about Trump’s 2024 campaign which is why a lot of people supported him who dislike Israel, but who are more motivated by issues like demographic change.

My problem with “antisemitism” or “anti-Zionism” as these activists have framed it is that it is politically incompatible with all other issues. Their position is that everyone should either 1.) vote for Democrats like Kamala Harris or 2.) sit out every election until, presumably, “anti-Zionism” has triumphed. As a result of thus, “anti-Zionists” are essentially committed to politically demobilizing and marginalizing Whites for the sake of Palestinians and other foreigners. In order to oppose “Zionism,” they are willing to go along with the Democratic agenda and in some cases, actually endorse and vote for it, on demographic replacement, anti-White discrimination, amnesty for illegal aliens, changing election laws, gun rights, censorship, the economy, and so forth. What’s even worse than that is that some “anti-Zionists” are so angry with ordinary White people for not being obsessed with Israel that their politics have become pure spite.

None of this is necessary.

Alternatively, we could sit back and allow Israel to destroy its own public image. We could find a lot of common ground with Trump supporters while just being critical of Israel. Many of them are undoubtedly uncomfortable with the human rights abuses in Gaza. It is extremely unrealistic to expect White Americans to ever prioritize foreign policy and Israel in particular over other issues like inflation which are closer to home and eroding living standards. This more moderate position, however, is not going to fly with “anti-Zionists” given the track they are on which is likely only helpful to Israel.

If activists force people on the Right into a binary single issue choice between “anti-Zionism” and immigration or all the other issues that motivate them, they will lose all the people are outright pro-Israel. They will also lose the people who dislike Israel, but who care more about other issues, which effectively reduces support for “anti-Zionism” and further ghettoizes and marginalizes it on the Right.

Perhaps the goal though is to just get more people to listen to the show or the podcast? It is not to actually do anything about “Zionism,” but to exploit resentment over it?

Source: https://occidentaldissent.com/2024/11/23/two-tracks-of-anti-zionism/