"Putin's philosopher" is an antisemite who thinks Israel will blow up Al Aqsa and blame Iran ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, June 23, 2025

"Putin's philosopher" is an antisemite who thinks Israel will blow up Al Aqsa and blame Iran

Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultranationalist often dubbed "Putin’s philosopher," is not just a dangerous ideologue. He is also a conspiracy-minded antisemite obsessed with Israel, and his ravings reflect a recurring truth: that Jews and the Jewish state are seen as existential threats to totalitarian ideologies – precisely because Jewish values stand in moral opposition to them.

The New York Times introduced its readers to Dugin in 2022, describing him as “Putin’s philosopher” who has been a leading advocate for conquest of Ukraine.

His thinking builds on ideas of “Eurasianism,” that Russia is a distinct civilization that should forge a continent-spanning state along the lines of its former empire but without the Communist ideology of the Soviet Union. Jane Burbank, an emeritus history professor at New York University, has written that in Mr. Dugin’s view, after the Soviet Union’s “sellout” to the West in the 1990s, “Russia could revive in the next phase of global combat and become a ‘world empire.’”

It turns out that "Putin's philosopher" is an antisemite who seems obsessed with the idea that Israel is run by crazed messianic Jews who are hellbent on creating a Greater Israel.

In a recent podcast, he said, "Half of Israel is pure liberal trash. The other half are cheerful Zionists who want to blow up Al-Aqsa."

His insistence that Israel will blow up Al Aqsa is a recurrent theme in his writings - see, for example, this article from December where he is certain that Ben Gvir will blow up the mosque to create a Greater Israel.

After Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, Dugin not only said that this was a precursor to Israel's destruction of Al Aqsa but also he threw in a theory where Jews throughout the world form a network to ensure Israel's ultimate victory:

Israel, thanks to the support of the collective West and using its latest technological tools (and they have been and remain pioneers in the field of digital technologies), operates very effectively, precisely, and cohesively. And it is very difficult to imagine how one could respond to this, especially considering that many people from various countries, who are at the forefront of high-tech processes, could at any moment turn out to be Israeli citizens and, together with their codes and technologies, head to Israel.

In other words, Israel relies on a vast network of supporters, people who share the principles of political and religious Zionism in all countries of the world. This gives Israel a major advantage as a networked structure, not just a state.

It is difficult to miss the echo of the “Elders of Zion” hoax in Dugin’s fantasy of a worldwide network of Jews, controlling global tech and politics to ensure messianic supremacy.

Now, according to Arab media, Dugin thinks Israel might use the conflict with Iran as the excuse it has been looking for (for over a century!) to finally destroy Al Aqsa. “I don’t rule out that the Zionist leadership’s debauchery could reach the point where they blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque and then claim that an Iranian missile hit the mosque by mistake,” he said.

Given that Dugin believes that the Russian Federation’s destiny is to become a holy empire along tsarist lines, he views Jews and Israel as implacable obstacles to the fulfillment of his dream.

Dugin’s apocalyptic vision isn’t just about Israel, but about what Israel represents: a stubborn, moral, covenantal civilization that refuses to bow to imperial destiny. That’s why antisemites of every political persuasion, from Marx to Hitler to Dugin, always converge on the idea that Jews are the problem. Because when your ideology depends on domination, Jews are always in the way.