Zionism is the Nazism of our time

Judaism is not a race it is a religion. However the long history of European antisemitism, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust, forged its religious character into a national and racial one, albeit rooted in white supremacy under the auspices of Zionism.

This regressive trajectory confirms that in human affairs the oppressed often, though not always, find their identity not in the rejection of the values of their oppressor, but in their embrace of them. The history of Zionism bears this out and is being borne out now with the genocidal slaughter being visited on the Palestinians of Gaza as these words are being written.

As we approach this May and the 77th anniversary of the State of Israel’s establishment, the failure of this settler colonial project is reflected in the fact that Israel has never developed beyond its current status as a latter day Sparta, doomed to an existence rooted not in security, stability and peace, but instead in insecurity, instability and conflict.

Unfolding now, today, in Gaza, is genocidal slaughter utilising modern technology with murder not progress in mind. It is stark reminder of the chilling words of the Marxist thinker and philosopher…