Zionism is the Nazism of our time. History has played a sick joke

John Wight
4 min readOct 1, 2024

I am in blood — Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er. William Shakespeare

Zionism is the Nazism of our time. In this regard history has played a sick joke on our collective humanity. More than that, it has provided us with a grim lesson when it comes to absolving a given people of crimes against humanity in response to the heinous crime committed against its own humanity.

Zionism is the very definition of a creed established on the basis of the internalization of white supremacist tropes. Chief among those is the malign belief that human affairs are dictated not by justice or international law, but by a hierarchy of human worth. When it comes to this hierarchy, people with dark skin exist at the bottom and are worthy of death, while people with white skin — or anointed with such on ideological grounds — are worthy of life.

The Nazi genocide of European Jewry was a crime of the ages. The Zionist genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza is even worse, precisely because the latter confirms the former as a warning that has gone unheeded. The mantra of ‘never again’ has been weaponized by the Zionist entity that is Israel to justify revenge against an indigenous people whose real crime is not October 7 but every single day in which they have…

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