by Lasse Wilhelmson
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Zionism is, according
to its own prominent figures, a religious/political movement the aim of
which is to create a socialistic model state for Jews in the land of
Palestine where Mount Zion is located.
Its roots are found in Judaism and in the middle of the nineteenth century Moses Hess, Karl Marx’s mentor in socialism, developed it into a political movement. Hess was named The Communist Rabbi and with his book Rome and Jerusalem, 1862, laid the foundations for Zionism. Before this, he had formulated the first written principles of Communism – Socialism and Communism, 1843, A Communist Credo: Questions and Answers, 1846, and Consequences of a Revolution of the Proletariat, 1847. In keeping with this, he assisted Marx and Engels in their work with The Communist Manifesto, 1848, particularly concerning the role of religion. (1)
Theodor Hertzl, usually called Zionism’s official founder, planned the colonisation of Palestine in a more practical book, The Jewish State, 1896, which was approved by the first Zionist congress in 1897. He described Hess’s book Rome and Jerusalem as
the book that says everything you need to know about Zionism. “Race”,
people, nation and the chosen all merge in Zionism to create a national
socialism, colonial style, synonymous with “lebensraum” and “blut und
boden”. Later on, German national socialism was created with the same
ideological components and with similar practical effects on society.
Nazism is the Germans’ national socialism and Zionism is the Jews’.
The new Hitler is said to be in
Iran. Ahmedinajad is accused of wanting to wipe out the Jewish state in a
“holocaust”, using nuclear weapons he doesn’t have but Israel does.
Criticising Israel’s policies and its influence in the US is labelled
“anti-Semitism”; questioning parts of the Zionist picture – 6 million
Jews in one Holocaust – is called “Holocaust denial”; criticism of the
Jewish mafia’s dominance within the power elite, mainly on Wall Street
and The Federal Reserve, is named “racist conspiracy theories”.
Hess, Moses. ”The Holy History of Mankindand Other Writings”, ed. by Shlomo Avineri. Cambridge University Press, 2005
Shahak, Israel, “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, Pluto Press, London, Sterling, Virginia (1994, 1997) 2002
Sand, Shlomo. ”The Invention of the Jewish People”, Verso Books, 2009
Slezkine, Yuri. ”The Jewish Century”, Princeton University Press, 2004
Felton, Greg, ”The Host and the Parasite”, Dandelion Books, 2007
Atzmon, Gilad. “The Wandering Who?”, Zero Books, 2011
Source: What is Zionism?
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
- its history and role over the past 150 years
Its roots are found in Judaism and in the middle of the nineteenth century Moses Hess, Karl Marx’s mentor in socialism, developed it into a political movement. Hess was named The Communist Rabbi and with his book Rome and Jerusalem, 1862, laid the foundations for Zionism. Before this, he had formulated the first written principles of Communism – Socialism and Communism, 1843, A Communist Credo: Questions and Answers, 1846, and Consequences of a Revolution of the Proletariat, 1847. In keeping with this, he assisted Marx and Engels in their work with The Communist Manifesto, 1848, particularly concerning the role of religion. (1)
Theodore Herztl |
"I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of the blood idea.”Chaim Nachman Bialik, national bard of Israel, wrote this in “The Present Hour” in 1934.
The Balfour Declaration, signed
1917 by Britain’s foreign minister and lord Rothschild, created the
prerequisites for a national identity for the Jewish group through a
Jewish state in the land of Palestine, in accordance with Zionism’s
short-term goals. Britain gave away a country owned by others to a third
party, in exchange for the
cooperation of the Jewish mafia on Wall Street, partly to fund
Britain’s military endeavours in the First World War and partly to get
the US on the side of the British in the war against Germany.
There was little support for
Zionism among Europe’s Jews to begin with, nor among Jews in German
concentration camps during the Second World War. However, the
panic-stricken exodus of Jews from Germany to Palestine was engineered
by a collaboration of Jewish Zionists and German Nazis, thus blocking a
more substantial exodus to other countries. This was done through
cooperation between The World Zionist Organisation and Germany, the
so-called Transfer Agreement in 1933.
Preceding this, world Jewry had declared war on Germany in the form of a worldwide economic boycott. However, much earlier on, as part of Europe’s colonisation, Zionism, since the end of the nineteenth century, had guided the Jews in the colonisation of Palestine. Politically Zionism had its great break-through after WWII with the proclamation of the Jewish state in Israel in 1948.
Preceding this, world Jewry had declared war on Germany in the form of a worldwide economic boycott. However, much earlier on, as part of Europe’s colonisation, Zionism, since the end of the nineteenth century, had guided the Jews in the colonisation of Palestine. Politically Zionism had its great break-through after WWII with the proclamation of the Jewish state in Israel in 1948.
Eastern
European Marxist Jews, lead by Ben Gurion, Israel’s founding father who
saw himself as a Bolshevik, came to play a crucial part in the
colonisation. The socialist kibbutzim where only Jews could become
members, paved the way to the theft of land and ethnic cleansing of
approximately 750,000 Palestinians in 1948, the Nakba cataclysm. These
Palestinians and their offspring still live in refugee camps or in exile
and are denied their right, laid down by the UN, to return. The
eviction was carried out by the Jewish army Haganah helped by Jewish
fascists from the Stern and Irgun terrorist gang groups, founded by Zeév
Jabotinsky who cooperated with Benito Mussolini. That same year, the
Stern gang murdered Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish UN envoy and
negotiator of the UN plan for partition (2).
However, it was not until after the
6-Day War in 1967 that Zionism (post-Zionism) became a significant force
in the US, through Jewish influence on banking, media, the film
industry, the academic sphere and the Jewish lobby organisation AIPAC, and the neo-conservatives’ (neocons) influence on
US foreign policy and the neo-colonial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The US neocons comprise an alliance of Jewish and Christian Zionists and
neo-liberal conservatives, with Leo Strauss as their foremost
ideological figure. A kind of rightwing Zionism that bears great
similarity to Jabotinsky’s in Palestine. But neocons also have roots
among Trotskyites in the US, who like Ben Gurion in Palestine, were
Bolsheviks. The Soviet Union took a very active part in the work leading
up to the admittance of Israel as a member state of the UN. To what
extent this was made to reinforce their influence among communists in
the US who were predominantly Jews, or the first importand act of SU Social-imperialism, may be disputed.
Most religious Jewish
assemblies worldwide today, see Zionism as a positive development of
Judaism (3). But some smaller groups of orthodox Jews such as Neturei Karta,
consider Zionism incompatible with Judaism because the creation of a
Jewish state can only be the work of God, not of people as in the case
of Israel. Christian Zionism has considerable support in the American
Bible Belt, but also Christian congregations such as The Swedish
Pentecostal Movement give support. Christian Zionism is a large
organisation but is subordinate to Jewish Zionism in its support of a
Jewish state in Zion where the supposition is, however, that one-day the
Jews will become Christians (4).
Today, Zionism has become the most
dominant ideology in the western world and is the most significant
expression of Anglo-American imperialism. It is used to control people’s
thoughts by restricting freedoms of speech and press, and to motivate
neo-colonial wars aimed at Islam. This is accomplished by presenting an
official picture of “The Holocaust” as an exclusively Jewish affair and
it is treated like a religion;
questioning it is taboo and liable to punishment by law. Today, in many
countries there are academics in prison for their criticism. The
European Union is promoting economic and military collaboration with
Israel.
Countries with Nuclear weapons, not including USA and Russia |
Considerable efforts are being made in
the US and the EU to promote further restrictions and legal punishment
of such criticism. It is reasonable to consider that the concerns
surrounding details of Hitler’s war crimes against diverse groups of
people, including the Jews, should primarily be a matter of discussion
between researchers of history, in the same way that the crimes
committed by Stalin in the 1930s in Ukraine during the great hunger
catastrophe are studied.
In Sweden, organisations such as The
Expo Foundation (the Swedish Searchlight), and The Swedish Committee
Against Anti-Semitism (the Swedish ADL), play a significant part as
front organisations for the government authority Forum for Living History (FFLH) in
its defence of the Jewish state and the promotion of Zionist ideology.
FFLH, the witch hunt and subsequent sentencing of Ahmed Rami (Radio
Islam webbsite), are a few of the signs of Zionism’s influence over
Sweden’s institutions of government. The business world has its
equivalent in the way that the Jewish family corporation, Bonnier,
influences the media. The extreme rightwing Sweden Democrats, is the
political party that is most Israel-friendly, consequently also the
party that launches the most aggressive attacks on Islam.
Spreading information about the
destructive influence Zionism has on humanity in today’s world, and in
Sweden, is predominantly an ideological struggle against control and
manipulation of people’s thinking. Especially since Zionism hardly
exists in public debate. And the reason for this is that the means of
production of culture and ideology are to a great extent owned or
influenced by Zionist interests.
The heavily nuclear-armed Jewish
apartheid state – Israel, is today the greatest threat to world peace
through its influence in the western world, and Zionism is the greatest
threat to humanity, including the majority of Jews. Zionism is used by
the power elite in its efforts to secure a new world order with one Big
Brother state and continual conflicts and wars between various
religious, ethnic and cultural groups from disintegrated national
states. In this light, Israel is the capital of the world and the
Palestinians are the oppressed peoples of the world. Hence, Zionism is
dangerous and must be resisted.
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1) It should be
stressed that although Zionism is a religious and Jewish national
socialist project, while Marxism is a secular and international
socialist project open to all, both can be seen as Jewish projects, as
can the neocons, because of the dominance of Jews in the leadership of
these projects. Karl Marx was not a Zionist, but nevertheless Moses Hess
was his personal stand-in at the meetings of the Internationale in 1868
and 1869, 6 years after having written Zionism’s Magnum Opus: Rome and
Jerusalem.
2) Marxism and Zionism
can be seen as complementary survival projects for Jews in Europe,
lasting a hundred years, from the middle of the 19th century up to the middle of the 20th century
– a double faced tribal strategy. Zionism created the necessary
conditions for a nation for the Jews, while at the same time Marxism
reduced the strength of all other nations through its internationalism.
Regardless of whether this came about intuitively, or was launched as a
conspiracy by the Freemasons, or Moses Hess planted the seeds or it was a
combination of all these and other factors, the tangible result was
that the Jewish group was reinforced. To such an extent that even
Hitler and Stalin’s attempts to reduce its influence failed. We see
today, that these strategies were successful regarding Jewish power,
especially in the West, and in post-Zionism’s role in the neo-colonial
wars. The fact that the majority of Jews are exploited by the Zionist
power elite does not alter this fact.
3) Religious Jewish
assemblies today, for example in Sweden, consider that a person born of a
Jewish mother, who does not belong to any other religion, is
religion-wise a Jew. It is also possible to convert to Judaism. But many
who consider themselves Jews are in fact secular. Being a Jew today
then, is primarily a question of taking on board an identity that is
tied to the Jewish state and “The Holocaust”, and sometimes also
religious conviction. Every individual Jew can choose to be or not to be
a Jew.
4) Judaism, Jewish
mentality and Zionism are conceptions with fluid boundaries. They are
connected but must at the same time be kept apart. This is because of
the diverse opinions amongst religious Jews about Zionism, and because
the number of non-Jews influenced by Jewish mentality and Zionism is
much bigger than the number of Jews. Modern research has shown that Jews
are neither a homogenous ethnic group or a people in the common meaning
of the word, but rather, instead, a scattered group held together by a
common tribal mentality and religious rules (Halakha) that give guidance
as to how matters stand with non-Jews (goim) who, in this context, are
considered less than human.
A few important references:Hess, Moses. ”The Holy History of Mankindand Other Writings”, ed. by Shlomo Avineri. Cambridge University Press, 2005
Shahak, Israel, “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, Pluto Press, London, Sterling, Virginia (1994, 1997) 2002
Sand, Shlomo. ”The Invention of the Jewish People”, Verso Books, 2009
Slezkine, Yuri. ”The Jewish Century”, Princeton University Press, 2004
Felton, Greg, ”The Host and the Parasite”, Dandelion Books, 2007
Atzmon, Gilad. “The Wandering Who?”, Zero Books, 2011
Source: What is Zionism?