Yes, Zionism is Nazism. Here's Why.
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Note: This is a deeper dive into a subject that is briefly covered in my previous article:
The Zionist Israeli fascination with Nazism and Fascism is extensively documented.
Zionists, for example, were big admirers of Mussolini’s Fascist Italy and sought actively to form an alliance with Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Ron Unz recounts from a New York Times article from 35 years ago:
“Apparently, during the late 1930s, [Yitzhak] Shamir and his small Zionist faction had become great admirers of the Italian Fascists and German Nazis, and after World War II broke out, they had made repeated attempts to contact Mussolini and the German leadership in 1940 and 1941, hoping to enlist in the Axis Powers as their Palestine affiliate, and undertake a campaign of attacks and espionage against the local British forces, then share in the political booty after Hitler’s inevitable triumph.”
A deal with the devil
In fact, the Zionist affection for Nazi Germany has been documented in Israeli publications such as Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post. The “Axis outreach” program was conducted by militant Zionist groups such as the Lehi, or Stern Gang (as the British called them), who saw the British as the number one enemy of Zionism and actively sought to team up with the Nazis “based on a common anti-British agenda”.
According to the article in Haaretz:
Ya’akov Meridor, who was the Irgun commander from 1941 to 1943 and later a Knesset member and Likud minister, had told him: “We ourselves tried…We don’t see anything wrong with a relationship with the Axis. If it will bring us independence, we’re ready to make a deal with the devil himself.”
Nazis also “admired” Zionism
In April 1933 the journalist and SS-member Leopold von Mildenstein and Kurt Tuchler, a Zionist living in Berlin, together with their wives went on a journey to Palestine. Tuchler wanted to show the Nazis that the so-called solution of the Jewish question should be the German Jews’ emigration to Palestine.
“In Palestine von Mildenstein met Ben Gurion and was full of admiration for the Jewish activities there.
Mildenstein would eventually become head of the SS department dealing with Jews.
Zionist collaboration with the Nazis
On June 21, 1933, the German Zionist Federation sent a secret memorandum to the Nazis:
“Zionism believes that a rebirth of national life, such as is occurring in German life through adhesion to Christian and national values, must also take place in the Jewish national group. For the Jew, too, origin, religion, community of fate and group consciousness must be of decisive significance in the shaping of his life. This means that the egotistic individualism which arose in the liberal era must be overcome by public spiritedness and by willingness to accept responsibility.”
Indeed, Zionists were willing to work with the Nazis as long as they were able to pursue the Zionist agenda.
These accusations are confirmed by the ‘Eichmann Confessions’, published in Life magazine, 28 November and 5 December, 1960 :
“By shipping the Jews off in a lightning operation, I wanted to set an example for future campaigns elsewhere… In obedience to Himmler’s directive I now concentrated on negotiations with the Jewish political officials in Budapest… Among them Dr. Rudolph Kastner, authorized representative of the Zionist movement. This Dr. Kastner was a young man about my age, an ice-cold lawyer and a fanatical Zionist. He agreed to help keep the Jews from resisting deportation — and even keep order in the collection camps — if I would close my eyes and let a few hundred or a few thousand young Jews emigrate illegally to Palestine. It was a good bargain. For keeping order in the camps, the price… was not too high for me.”
The Zionists fought the British
In fact, all during the 1940’s, Zionist militants conducted a bloody campaign against the British, who wanted to throttle the flow of Jewish refugees to Palestine. They blew up the King David Hotel, bombed the British Embassy in Rome as well as the British Army HQ in Vienna, killing dozens of UK diplomats and civilians in each case. In addition, the Stern Gang and Irgun (another militant Zionist group) kidnapped and assassinated dozens of British military personnel and policemen.
Dozens of Palestinian Arabs, who were allied with the British, also died in these attacks.
The original “terrorists”
The Zionists even assassinated Lord Moyne, British Secretary for State for the Colonies and Minister Resident in the Middle East, ostensibly because he was “an advocate of compromise between Arabs and Jews in Palestine”.
The Stern Gang also assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte for the same reason. The United Nations had appointed Bernadotte as Peace Mediator to settle the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine. But instead of establishing individual states for the Arabs and Jews, Bernadotte proposed that Arabs and Jews form a “union” consisting of a small Jewish entity and an enlarged Transjordan. The idea of co-existing with the Arabs was anathema to the Zionists, so four Lehi assassins attacked Bernadotte’s convoy in Jerusalem, riddling his body with bullets from a German Schmeisser machine pistol.
Ironically, the bloody Zionist campaign against the British in Palestine was the first time that the word “terrorism” was used in its modern sense. The British coined the phrase “Jewish terrorists” in the 1940’s to describe the Zionist groups who were conducting an international campaign of bombings and assassinations against them. According to this article, the Lehi even proudly described themselves as “terrorists”.
I describe the Zionist terror campaign in more detail in my related article: ““Rewarding Terrorism” in 1948 — How Zionists Used Terror to Get a State”
“Rewarding Terrorism” in 1948 — How Zionists Used Terror to Get a State
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Philosophically aligned with Fascism
I had no idea that the Zionists were so pro-Nazi and anti-British. Unz relates other interesting facets of the Times article:
“Among other things, there were long excerpts from the official letters sent to Mussolini ferociously denouncing the “decadent” democratic systems of Britain and France that he was opposing, and assuring Il Duce that such ridiculous political notions would have no future place in the totalitarian Jewish client state they hoped to establish under his auspices in Palestine.”
Note: the Zionists promised Mussolini a “totalitarian Jewish client state”.
Dehumanisation of other people
A big part of Nazism is, of course the concept of the “Untermensch”, the “subhuman” animal that may look like a human but is really a beast, and so can be rightfully slaughtered by the superior “master” race.
When Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians started, the country’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, went on TV to declare the extermination of the population in Gaza:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly”.
In December 2022, the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Arieh King, posted on Twitter/X:
“They aren’t human beings and not human animals. They’re subhuman and that’s how they should be treated.”
King went on to call for captured Palestinians to be buried alive:
“If it were up to me, I would have dispatched D-9 bulldozers and put them behind the mounds of dirt and would have given the order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they’re still alive.”
As the deputy mayor, King administers all of the territory within Israel’s Jerusalem municipality, which includes occupied East Jerusalem and almost 400,000 Palestinians. One can only imagine what life is like for those Palestinians who are subject to his tender mercies even in the best of times.
In the wider Israeli media, pro-Israel cartoonists have depicted Palestinians as cockroaches and rats to be crushed, “drawing painful historical parallels to multiple genocides where the victims were likened to vermin.”
Zionism is also expansionist
Like the Nazis, the Zionists believe that they are destined — and entitled — to rule over all manner of Untermenschen in the lands that surround them. Just as the Nazis dreamed of “Grossdeutschland” or “Greater Germany”, so too do the Zionists dream of “Eretz-Israel” or “Greater Israel”.
Below is a map of the Land of Israel that God “promised” to the Jews according to the Bible. As you can see, “Greater Israel” includes all or part of modern Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon:
Moreover, the Israelis take their biblical land grant SERIOUSLY:
For comparison purposes, below is a map of the planned “Grossdeutschland” or Greater German Reich:
Likudniks are Nazis, according to… ALBERT EINSTEIN
Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, formerly known as Herut, is a direct descendant of the radical Zionist Irgun and LEHI terrorist groups who conducted mass slaughter as mentioned above.
In fact, when Likud Leader (and future Prime Minister) Menachem Begin visited the USA in 1948, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and other prominent Jewish Americans wrote a letter to The New York Times condemning Begin’s party as ”closely akin to the Nazi and Fascist parties”.
Since winning their first elections in 1977, Likud has transformed Israel from a socialist Labor-dominated government to a radical far-right regime ruled by fascist and Nazi principles of ethnic superiority and messianic genocide.
Israelis call for using “Nazi tactics” to eradicate the Palestinians
There is no shortage of Israeli politicians who are willing to go on record making genocidal statements about Palestinians and the conflict in Gaza. But it is surprising the extent to which Israeli public figures wil specifically reference the Nazis as providing a valid template for how Israel should act.
High praise for Hitler
For example, on June 16. 2024, Moshe Feiglin, a former Member of the Israeli Knesset (MK), quoted Adolph Hitler as a source for how to deal with the Palestinians.
Feiglin was a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and was a minister in the Knesset from 2013 to 2015. He then left Likud to found the even-further-right Zehut Party and plans to run for the prime minister position.
Prior to becoming a Knesset member, Feiglin co-founded the Zo Artzeinu (“This is our Land”) movement in 1993 to protest the Oslo Accords, according to Wikipedia.
During an appearance on Israel’s N12News, Feiglin quoted Hitler as an example of how Israelis should deal with the Palestinians.
“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it,” Feiglin said, adding that he wants to “turn Gaza Hebrew.”
“As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza,” he added.
Feiglin has a habit of heaping praise on Hitler. In 1995 he told the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that he considered Hitler to be “an unparalleled military genius.”
“Hitler savoured good music. He would paint. This was no bunch of thugs. They merely used thugs and homosexuals,” Feiglin was quoted as saying at the time.
“Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
Denying the existence of Palestine
In 2019, Feiglin gave a pre-election speech in which he denied the existence of both international law and the Palestinian people:
“Don’t talk to me about international law, because there is not such a thing. You know, the minute you use the word ‘Palestinian,’ you stop saying the truth. Because there is no Palestinian nation, and they know it…once you said that this is Palestine, and once you said there are Palestinian people in this Palestine — once you said that, you created something that does not appear in reality.”
It’s no wonder, then, that Feiglin has said Gaza should be “completely destroyed”, and that the beleaguered enclave should suffer the same fate as the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the German city of Dresden during World War II:
“There is one and only solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons.”
Israeli Judge: Israel should use “Nazi tactics”
But Moshe Feiglin is certainly not the only public Zionist who thinks Israel should adopt the Nazi philosophy. In 2010, Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto, said “We must learn from the Nazi tactics," in mounting their public relations campaigns.
Ben-Itto, who is best known for her book debunking The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was speaking at a conference of some 150 senior Jewish legal experts. She suggested that, in making their case to the world, Israelis should use the same tactics as the Nazis used to promote the Protocols.
“I thought about it, about our ‘hasbara’, and…I have reached the conclusion that we must use these tactics in courts worldwide, just like the Nazis — with all distinctions — used the courts to spread their message.”
Israeli General: Israel is like 1930’s Germany
In 2016, a top Israeli general set off a controversy when he likened the atmosphere in Israel to that of Nazi-era Germany during a speech marking the country’s Holocaust memorial day.
Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, the military’s deputy chief of staff, said the Holocaust should prompt Israelis to “think deeply” about their society.
“If there is anything that frightens me in the remembrance of the Holocaust, it is discerning nauseating processes that took place in Europe in general, and in Germany specifically back then, 70, 80 and 90 years ago, and seeing evidence of them here among us [Israelis] in the year 2016,” he said.
“There is nothing simpler and easier than hating the foreigner,” Golan said in his comments. “There is nothing easier and simpler than arousing fears and intimidating.”
The General’s remarks were immediately condemned by Prime Minister Netanyahu and others, according to the Associated Press.
Netanyahu: a Hitler apologist?
Although Netanyahu was quick to condemn General Golan for his comparison of contemporary Israeli society to Nazi Germany, thePrime Minister himself has been keen to “rehabilitate” Hitler in the past.
In 2015, Netanyahu addressed the World Zionist Conference with an interesting revisionist view of the Nazi Führer. In his speech, Netanyahu claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler’s mind.
Netanyahu described a fictitious meeting between Husseini and Hitler in November, 1941 thusly:
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jew. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here (to Palestine).’ According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.”
“Simply a lie”
Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, writing in Foreign Policy, roundly dismissed Netanyahu’s story: “The Netanyahu account of this meeting is an historical fabrication, or more simply a lie.”
“Netanyahu’s latest lie is part of a persistent campaign to portray the grand mufti as a major Holocaust perpetrator. It’s not true. During the 1930s, the Nazis ignored him entirely…During the war, the mufti was a useful but minor collaborator in disseminating Nazi propaganda in the Arab world.”
So — what made Netanyahu feel he had the right to state such a preposterous “lie”? Most likely it was because Bibi, like most Zionists, have a general feeling of entitlement whenever it comes to the Holocaust.
A sense of “owning” the Holocaust
As I have described in my earlier article, “Israel was Built on Myth, and Now it’s Busted” Israeli Zionists have come to regard the nazi Holocaust as their own personal property. In fact, Zionists have come to claim the entire concept and term “genocide” as their own exclusive domain.
For example, in regards to the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottomans in 1915, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres famously said:
“We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide”.
As historian Eldad Ben Aharon wrote in Ha’aretz:
“…there’s a basic, fixed issue, far less influenced by outside parties and events, but one that uniquely influences Israeli policy in regard to recognition of the Armenian genocide: the memory of the Holocaust as “unique”.
For this reason, Netanyahu feels he has license to twist, distort and “repurpose” the historical events of the Holocaust to suit his own propaganda purposes.
Nonetheless …
There seems to be a lot of talk about Nazis in Israeli society — from all angles. People like Benjamin Netanyahu like to reference the Nazis and the Holocaust as a way to generate worldwide sympathy for Israel and to distract from Israel’s own crimes. Others, like Moshe Fegelin and Hadassa Ben-Itto, hold up Hitler and the Nazis as quasi “role models” from which Israelis can learn.
But the only one to cast a truly critical view of Israel through the prism of the Holocaust is our brave Maj. Gen. Golan.
And when a top military officer says you may have a Nazi problem, you probably have a Nazi problem.
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A big thank you, quite simply, for these brilliant historical reminders, which allow the forgetful and the dissonant to discover the true nature of the sneaky evil that gnaws at the planet and has the potential to destroy it, without any remorse, without any scruple....
What’s striking is the convenience of argument: “Christian and national values”. We hear the same things from the apologists now: “Judaism or nationalism”, neither seems to have any compatibility with the other but is used nonetheless to justify the actions. “Promised land” vs Ancestral Land or Our land. None of it makes any sense yet the argument goes on like a broken record.