Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
Zionism was a creation. I was reading about imperial history of Zionism. Actually, it first reared its head even before the late 19th century, US Zionism in 1840 by British policy towards the Middle East. The whole Zionist project was about expanding Israel forever more and that is exactly what Netanyahu is doing the greater Israel project. So absolutely opposition of course to Zionism and absolute solidarity with the people of Palestine.
What happened in 1840? That was the year of the Damascus blood libel, where Jews were accused of killing a monk. The international community was outraged and put political pressure on the Ottoman Empire to release those falsely accused.
Some historians, whom I believe have more than a little bias, have re-interpreted what happened after the Damascus Affair. It unified Jews as a political force as never before. Pre-dating the incident, the British Protestants were talking about restoring Jews to Palestine mostly as a way to help usher in the Second Coming. Some thought about making Palestine a type of protectorate to help this happen. But after 1840, their thinking went more towards encouraging a Jewish-controlled government that would be friendly to Britain - not an imperialist outpost.
The point of Zionism, of course, is entirely to protect Jews from antisemitic incidents - pogroms and blood libels like the Damascus Affair. For Corbyn to position a major antisemitic incident as an excuse Jews used for Jewish "imperialism" is nothing less than naked antisemitism. It is one small step from accusing Jews of actually killing the monk and then framing it as a false flag operation for their Zionist ambitions, which is the exact type of logic that is seen daily in Arabic media.
The idea that "The whole Zionist project was about expanding Israel forever" as well as calling it colonialist or, more recently, "settler colonialist" are attempts to rewrite history to fit today's anti-Israel bias. None of it is true, barely any Zionist is interested in anything past the borders of the original British Mandate that was promised to the Jews.
Yes, it is politically incorrect nowadays to mention that Judea and Samaria was never part of any Palestinian Arab state, real or imagined, but it was included in the Jewish homeland planned under the League of Nations mandate system. It is not a land grab - it is an insistence on international law. People may argue about the law, but to position the Jewish desire to hold onto lands promised to them by the League of Nations as "expanding Israel forever" is simply a lie.
And right on cue, Corbyn follows up: "And so we as Your Party UK are absolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine and be guided by them on the policies we develop, guided by them on the way we go forward." Funny how the crowd screeching about "Israel controlling US policy" stays stone-silent when a British pol hands the reins to Ramallah. If AIPAC's a "lobby menace," what's this - outsourced diplomacy? It's the mirror they won't look in, where "anti-Zionism" means cheering foreign veto power over what's best for your own country.
Corbyn is not ignorant. He knows the history and chooses to frame it in the most antisemitic way possible. Which indicates whether he is "anti-Zionist" or really something else.
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