Zionism as a global evil

’ or ‘the Jews’ and claim therefore that the destruction of the Jews or the Zionist entity/Israel is a key measure for ‘redemption’ or ‘justice’. This is why their projections look different but function in the same way. In the 1930s the far right projected everything they detested onto the Jews as a race: cowardice, greed, pollution etc and sought to destroy Jewish men women and children across Europe as well as the Jewish community in Palestine (yes the Nazis were anti-Zionist too). Today the far-left projects everything they hate onto the Jewish state: colonialism, capitalist exploitation, incarceration etc., and call for the destruction of Israel. Islamist antisemitism is likewise a projection of what Islamists hate the most heresy, godlessness, etc. Their solution: the destruction of Israel and Judaism.

Her conclusion:

If one thinks in terms of conventional power and interests – amassing territory, wealth, defeating a military opponent – the destruction of two-thirds of European Jewry was a totally absurd endeavour for Nazi Germany. If, however, one sees the Holocaust as a projection of all evil onto the Jews, then it makes sense to those doing the projecting. Today, mutatis mutandis, this same narrative of redemptive anti-Zionism is being expressed across campuses and on far-left news outlets around the world, and is increasingly expanding in social democratic and liberal spaces. This is a clear deadly danger to Jews and must be stopped for this reason alone. However, the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is also a deadly distraction for all people everywhere. We do not have time to lose with such a pointless projection that not only saps energy and time, but betrays our deepest humanity with its facile format. Our young people deserve a world where they can breathe, earn a living, and flourish, and more than that they deserve to learn that it can be built if we look at reality in the face, take responsibility, and work together with those who are open to doing so. We cannot get back the time and energy lost sitting on campus lawns, walking the streets, and scrolling on phones calling for the destruction of the only Jewish state. We need this time and energy for the real problems we face.