Analysis: Loving Jews while hating Zionism…
While Zionists won’t hesitate to tell you they are Jews, many Jews won’t hesitate to tell you emphatically that they are not Zionists!
Let’s deconstruct this…
Zionism
Zionism is a nationalist political movement which draws its energy from its members’ shared belief that they belong to a very special grouping of humans on this earth: The Chosen People of God
Zionists tell themselves that because God favors Jews above all other humans, they are free to do things to non-Jews [that are obviously immoral] because God is always in their corner & will always accept their side of the story in disputes with other tribes. (God, supposedly: “Don’t you dare accuse my child!”)
No matter how atrociously evil their crimes against the Palestinians are, they believe that if they can explain those actions as “defending Israel” or as benefitting the Hebrew tribe vis-a-vis other tribes, they can assume it’s okay with God, because doesn’t God favor them above all the other tribes?
Indeed, hard core Zionists are convinced that the role God had always intended for his Chosen People on this earth is that they shall become The World’s Ruling Masters, lording over a world of happy slaves! (Listen to their testimony here.*)
With their endless rationalizations, Zionists challenge the Jews of the world with [implicit] questions like these:
“How can you believe that your tribe is God’s Chosen and not believe that he wants us to rule/control all of the other lesser tribes?”
“If you believe God will always look upon us favorably, then He must surely find it perfectly acceptable if we lie to & cheat & manipulate & even kill Goyim if doing so will in some way yield a benefit to God’s Chosen People” (simply because God doesn’t care about those other tribes, not when compared to His Chosen People.)
It’s rather obvious that Zionism 100% fits the description of a Supremacist Cult, only it stands out as the most powerful & influential Supremacist Cult the world has ever seen.
Throughout the 20th century, the Zionism Supremacist Cult constantly expanded its membership & power & influence to where it now exerts a stunning amount of control over the governments & info spaces of many economically advanced countries.
And yet, in spite of many decades of heavily funded efforts by Zionists to propagandize all Jews into identifying with Israeli Zionists, they have failed to do so.
A very significant & vocal minority of American & European Jews have freed themselves from the propaganda & are now publicly denouncing Zionism as a thoroughly evil enterprise. Their numbers are growing every day.
The primary reason they reject Zionism is because they possess moral sensibilities that Israeli [& many Brooklyn] Zionists seem bereft of. And they especially resent hearing Israel’s leaders claiming to represent all Jews around the world at the same time they are behaving like demons from hell.
Jews who are not Zionists typically believe that Zionists have sinfully misinterpreted the Torah in ways that provide them with rationalizations & excuses to commit sins & every sort of evil against non-Jews.
Equally important, anti-Zionist Jews recognize that the gratitude & approval of Gentiles feels just as good to them as the gratitude & approval they’ve experienced from Jews. Which is to say, they recognize they have a need for the gratitude & approval of Gentiles that makes them feel really good whenever they’ve earned its satisfaction via their earnest efforts to make Gentiles happy or lessen their pain.
This is why they typically don’t see any value in treating Gentiles as anything other than human beings 100% like themselves, who have the same needs & feelings that any Jew has.
Because they see clearly their common humanity with all the Gentile tribes, they do not believe God would ever approve of the sadistic pleasure that Israeli Zionists glean from their depraved acts of evil vs the Palestinians.
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The Zionist propaganda that anti-Zionist Jews were exposed to while growing up was very high-profile & even flamboyant. It was intentionally designed to exploit certain emotional vulnerabilities in young Jews.
To better understand the Zionists’ emotion manipulation approach, it helps to understand the fundamental emotional needs & vulnerabilities that all humans are born with, the ones Zionists are always keen to exploit.
These are excerpts (below) from a previous X-post** I wrote which examined at length the emotional vulnerabilities that Supremacist Cults exploit when they are recruiting new members…
“Let us start from the most basic fact we know — from experience — about human social relations & that is that all humans are born with a fundamental [emotional] need for approval.”
“Experience teaches us that the most fulfilling & moral way to get this need satisfied is by investing yourself in acts of kindness & generosity, which you know will instill feelings of gratitude [= approval] within the hearts of the recipients of your good will. The result: all involved are winners!”
“Unfortunately, most people are always trying to pretend that they don’t have any need for the approval of others. Nevertheless, they still want to experience it, only without anyone taking notice of their own personal emotional vulnerability.”
“They discover they can do this — achieve both goals simultaneously — if they invest themselves in group-identities and group-comparisons. Consider…”
“Whenever you hear a member of your group favorably compare your group to another group, you will perceive — because you identify with your group — that you just heard yourself being described in an approving way. Emotional need satisfied!”
“So if your group’s leaders are pointing their fingers at some [Others] & are assailing them for their alleged sins, every enthusiastic member of your group understands that what they are hearing [indirectly expressed] is implicit approval of them.”
“This perception generates emotional pleasure, a pleasure that can become truly addictive. Indeed, addiction is your fate unless your moral sensibilities kick in & you notice just how fundamentally immoral this kind of pleasure-seeking is.”
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“[Supremacist Group] members’ primary motivation is not a desire to be evil, but rather a desire to keep experiencing that pleasure they are able to give themselves whenever they denigrate others.”
“Giving themselves permission to wallow in self-praise at a time of war can easily draw them into group participation atrocities, where they mock & fully de-humanize their declared enemy, simply to enjoy more moments of group-expressed implicit approval.”
“They discover that the more brutally & sadistically they treat captured prisoners the more fortunate they feel to be members of The Superior Group that possesses all the power & ‘cleverness’ at that very moment. They’ll smile at each other while they’re treating their enemies like non-human Threat Things.”
So the “weakness” that Zionists have always exploited while recruiting young Jews into their ranks is:
- their fundamental need for approval
- which Zionists exploit by bathing unwary young Jews in a social atmosphere of constant [implicit] approval (for being Chosen) while also assuring them that they’re entitled to view themselves as Eternal Victims because they, unlike any other people on earth, are “hated” for no reason whatsoever.
It’s very hard to resist identity-generated emotional pleasures like these unless you have learned from introspection that such pleasures are fundamentally immoral.
Why are they immoral? Because they always rely on the victimization of others. Your denigrations of others is what makes you feel good about yourself. That’s the poison.
Anti-Zionist Jews are simply more focused on behaving morally than Zionist Jews are, a focus that properly discourages them from identifying with the group narcissism rituals that Zionists peddle within the Jewish community with a smile.
And let’s not pretend that it’s too difficult to objectively determine when an action, or decision to not act, is either good or bad. From an article I wrote on the topic of human cruelty:***
“How do we determine if a particular action [or failure to act] is Moral? We simply need to ask,”
Would EVERYONE be better off if EVERYONE were to act [or not act] in the same way?
“If so, then the action-or decision to not act-is moral. If we would all be worse off, then the action or failure to act is immoral. If we would be neither better off nor worse off, then the action or failure to act is neither moral nor immoral.”
“Killing a person who angers you is immoral because we would not all be better off if we were all to kill the people who anger us. Stealing is also immoral in most situations for the same reason. Lying is immoral in some circumstances because we would not all be better off if everyone also lied when facing the same circumstances. But lying would be moral in other circumstances because everyone would be better off if everyone were to lie for the same reasons.”
“Gratuitous expressions of disapproval that do not seek to help the one being criticized are immoral because we would not all be better off if everyone were to act in the same way. Indeed, it is only because people act in this immoral way that we have a problem of human cruelty within the social environment.”
So the reason-based alternative to Zionism for the Jewish community is to simply place moral behavior at the very apex of Jewish concerns. Always behaving morally, & never immorally, must always be The Highest Jewish Value (which is what @TorahJews have been saying all along)
This requires an absolute rejection of the Supremacist Agenda of Zionism. If Jews want to be perceived as God’s Chosen People by non-Jews, then they can earn that reputation by utterly rejecting the aspirations of the Zionist project & by setting an example-through their giving actions-that convinces observers that “The Jews” are an exceptionally good people, a tribe that all other tribes would do well to emulate.
I think reflective Jews around the world are more than ready to see this kind of future for Judaism, now that Israeli Zionists have revealed their fetid, malevolent souls to the world…
(Original X-post: https://twitter.com/JamesKroeger5/status/1769364530524488097)
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