Can we really separate Judaism from Zionism?
By Ibrahim Alloush
Any which way you look at it, Judaism and Zionism cannot be really separated
from one another. Zionism is not a misinterpretation of Judaism, it is
rather the distilled essence of mainstream Judaism. When Marx shredded
Judaism to pieces in his On the Jewish Question, the term 'Zionism' wasn't even
in circulation. Marx considered Judaism, as representative of what he
called the 'practical Jew', a parasitic predatory ideology that befits
capitalism in its decaying phase.
And regardless of what Judaic racial teachings drawn from the Torah and Talmud
might claim, Judaism is essentially doctrine and practice, not a race or
nationality. Therefore, being born of Jewish parents is not the same as
being part of Judaism. It follows that the critique of Judaism does not
imply hostility to some mythical "Jewish race", since Judaism is neither race
nor nationalism.
Indeed, Judaism is the culture of parasitic predation that was incubated in the
isolation of Ghettos. It's also marked by its supra-national character,
sniffing down upon any national allegiance. Hence, it's no wonder that
globalism brought with it the globalization of the Hollowcause as a post-modern
secular fetish. Globalization is essentially about the hegemony of
non-productive financial capital, and usury, so globalization meant that the
world was also turning Jewish. It's also no wonder that anti-Judaism, as
secular anti-Zionism or as anti-Jewish religious fundamentalism (be it Christian
or Muslim) has become a staple of national liberation movements worldwide.
As Arabs, we cannot be unaware of the fact that the two basic tenets of Zionism
are to be found in Judaism. The concept of 'divine promise' where Yahweh
allegedly doles out our Arab Palestine to the Jew is the first of these tenets
justifying the usurpation of Palestine. The second of these tenets is of
course the concept of 'chosen people' where the Jew is granted privilege over
the goyim, that is, non-Jews.
Israel Shahak in his Jewish History, Jewish Religion, the Weight of Three
Thousand Years provided ample evidence showing how the brutality practiced by
occupation forces and Jewish colonists against Palestinian Arabs was sanctioned
by religious law from Rabbis on the basis of scriptures calling for the abuse
and mistreatment of the goyim.
For more on this, please go to:
Zionism and Judaism: Jewish law and
relations with non-Jews
https://web.archive.org/web/20100423142719/http://www.freearabvoice.org/articles/JewishLawAndRelationsWithNonJews.htm
Therefore, one truly cannot possibly separate Judaism and Zionism, especially if
one is Palestinian Arab. And more and more, the two cannot be separated if
you're a world citizen being engulfed by globalism, that is, the hegemony of
non-productive capitalistic exploitation, therefore, Jewish mores.
Consequently, 'anti-Zionism' should be left to the politically-correct, because
being truly anti-Zionist necessarily entails being anti-Judaic.
Moreover, it's true that anyone, Jewish or not, who supports the right of "Israel" to exist, and who justifies the power of Jewish elites in his country
or worldwide is essentially pro-Zionist. It's also true that there would
have been imperialism even if there were no Zionism, and that Zionism would not
have thrived so well without imperialism. Yet all that does not affect the
main point here which is that Zionism and Judaism cannot possibly be separated
from one another.
