The Dark Face of Jewish Nationalism
Aletho / Aletho
13-Mar-2010

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud
gathering that “Israel is not like other countries.” Oddly enough for
him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more
evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the
“Zionist” label on it.

Nationalism in most countries and cultures can have both positive
and negative aspects, unifying a people and sometimes leading them
against their neighbors. Extremism can emerge, and often has, at least
in part in almost every nationalist/independence movement I can recall
(e.g., the French nationalist movement had The Terror, Kenya’s had the
Mau Mau, etc.).

But whereas extremism in other nationalist movements is an
aberration, extremism in Jewish nationalism is the norm, pitting Zionist
Jews (secular or observant) against the goyim (everyone else), who are
either possible predator or certain prey, if not both sequentially. This
does not mean that all Jews or all Israelis feel and act this way, by
any means. But it does mean that Israel today is what it cannot avoid
being, and what it would be under any electable government (a point I’ll
develop in another article).

The differences between Jewish nationalism (Zionism) and that of
other countries and cultures here I think are fourfold:

1. Zionism is a real witches’ brew of xenophobia, rac... >>>

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