Against Zionism

And also against White Zionism

Zionism is not Jewish Nationalism. It is not merely “happy homelands” for the Jewish people, even if its 19th century origins were heavily nationalist. Zionist apologetics and propaganda rely very heavily on the impression that Zionism is just “nationalism for Jews,” when Zionism has proven to be ideologically and institutionally antithetical to nationalism in both theory and practice.

Nationalism gets unfairly conflated with a lot of things, including national chauvinism, revanchism, irredentism, colonialism, imperialism, apartheid, segregation, and militarism. Additionally, in the Israeli case, nationalism gets conflated with Rabbinical Judaism’s religious themes and theories pertaining to “the Holy Land.”

Nationalism is, as the etymology suggests (natio-, of birth) and (-ism, ideology), the ideal of human tribes of shared heritage, values, and dreams possessing the political agency to perpetuate that heritage, protect those values, and pursue their dreams. It is best understood as “familyism” writ large.

Nationalism is an abstract ideology, with universal and reciprocal implications. If you reject the universal and reciprocal implications then you are not a nationalist at all, but a National Chauvinist. The honest and malicious confusion of nationalism and national chauvinism must be disentangled in order to arrive at a coherent model for approaching ethnic, intrastate, and interstate relations.

I am a proponent of authentic Jewish Nationalism, which would necessarily find expression in an earnest and equitable pursuit of a “two state” solution to the conflict that honors Palestinian nationalist goals as well. Jewish Nationalism is a rounding error in Israeli politics, however, sandwiched between religious Jews believing that the state is centered in their racial supremacist religious fantasies, irredentist Jews who aim to expand their state at the expense of their neighbors in the region, and secular liberal Jews who aim to transition Israel into a racially and religiously diverse administrative state akin to what the United States has become.

After all, if Israel were a humble ethnostate, then it could be regarded as an ally to support, or perhaps even a model to emulate. It is not. Israel is to national values what the mafia is to family values: a criminal parody of nationalism that virulently opposes the dignity, autonomy, and self-determination of every identity save for its own. And even there, as with the mafia, the syndicate is a threat to Jewish ethnic identity, with Zionist ambitions directly conflicting with the original vision of an ethnostate.

Closer to home, White Nationalists must be on guard against White Zionism, against making the same mistakes that corrupted and will eventually destroy the Israeli Zionist project. We can learn from the Zionist project what not to do with our own nationalist ambitions.

It’s my opinion that the majority of the current White Identitarian movement is essentially White Zionist, harboring national chauvinism, racial supremacy, unrealistic territorial ambitions, and indifference or hostility to the other nations within this failed state that we would need to work out a separate peace with. Even if this movement were permitted to get off of the ground by our powerful opponents, the current movement would be on track to become a pariah state similar to what Israel is on a fast track to becoming.

The current conflict is an excellent opportunity for us to test all of the bad ideas in the movement in the real world with the help of our kosher guinea pigs. Obviously, we’re nowhere near any of these things being pertinent questions, but they could be sooner than one might expect.

Should we round people up and deport them to create a White Republic?

No. That would undermine our moral case, alienate us from the international community, and create a population that permanently resents us and can be used against us in a variety of ways by our rivals.

Should we be proudly White Supremacist?

No. The Jewish state revels in its racial supremacy, with Netanyahu declaring Palestinians the “people of darkness” against his own people, the “people of light,” earlier this week. This naturally alienates Israel from its neighbors and the international community, but also naturally leads to human rights abuses and worse, actions that will undermine our moral case.

Should we seek more territory than we absolutely need?

Especially following the Agricultural Revolution, every bit of land that you can’t socially and demographically dominate is a liability. Had Israel kept its limited borders, it wouldn’t be descending into an apartheid regime with a large and growing underclass of Arab Israelis. While many of us are understandably partial to this or that region, trading dirt away in exchange for a better future for your progeny is a winning proposition.

Should we embrace our “colonial” and “imperial” heritage?

Our forefathers kicked the empire out of America and established a White Republic. Nobody can or should apologize. The anti-colonial case against White people can be easily defeated without trying to defend an obsolete and morally regressive relic of a bygone time with very different material conditions. Israel’s settler schemes are a rolling disaster, lethally undermining the entire project for scraps of scrubland in the West Bank.

But everybody hates us anyway!

This argument is identical to the one promoted by Israeli Zionists right now. In geopolitics as in life, over a long enough timeline you generally earn your reputation. Israel’s neighbors have striven for generations to try to normalize relations with Israel, but Jewish Chauvinism precludes it, necessitating a constant state of war with the world. If we adopt a similar, White Zionist, approach, we will become pariahs as well, but decency, diplomacy, and trade tend to work.

Countries like Japan and Hungary prize and prioritize their ethnic identities and aren’t pariah states. The Orania Project in South Africa is a model for centering on positive identity and self-reliance, one that wins over everybody who’s not viciously anti-White (most non-Whites are not). The White identity movement in the United States must step over the errors committed by Israel and other failed political projects, speaking up for authentic nationalism against Zionism abroad and Zionist ideas within our own movement.