Francesca Albanese was in Athens last weekend to promote her new book, When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine. Speaking alongside former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, she offered Greeks a warning about their alliance with Israel:
You think that you have chosen Israel to guarantee peace against Türkiye. I don’t think so, Israel has picked you. Israel has chosen you, and it’s going to exploit your fears and your insecurity, because this is what Israel does to advance its regional hegemony.
This isn't policy analysis. This is antisemitic conspiracy theory.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is built on exactly one premise: a powerful Jewish collective secretly manipulates nations by exploiting their divisions, weaponizing their fears, and pursuing domination beneath a pretense of mutual interest. Albanese's formulation has every element of that framework. A secretive powerful actor has chosen Greece, is exploiting Greek psychological vulnerabilities, in service of a hidden agenda — regional hegemony — that Greece naively mistakes for common goals. Replace "Israel" with "the Elders of Zion" and there is no difference.
Some might argue that the Protocols is clearly antisemitic but impugning criminal intent to everything Israel does it not, because Israel does not represent all Jews. Yet the Elders were purportedly a small cabal of powerful Jews, not elected or supported by every Jewish person on earth. What exactly makes the Protocols antisemitic but identical language claiming Israel is secretly planning regional hegemony is not?
They are the exact same accusation.
The treatment of Israel is truly unique. Every other nation's decisions are judged using normal political analysis: Erdoğan's neo-Ottoman ideology and domestic political needs. Iran's regime survival imperatives and Shia crescent strategy. China's economic interests, doctrine, and institutional incentives. Israel alone is assumed evil at the outset and all analysis is using that prism. There is no need to dive into the factors that prompt Israel to want to partner with Greece, or the UAE, African nations or anyone else - it is all subsumed under "this is what Israel does." No explanation necessary; the hidden agenda of manipulating others for ultimate Jewish domination is assumed.
And the poor Greek government is too naive to know it is being manipulated by those brilliant Zionists. It makes decisions that it thinks are for its self-interest but are really part of the circles within circles of the vast Zionist plot. They don't stand a chance. Only even more brilliant people like Francesca Albanese can see through the deceptions and uncover the Zionist evil that animates everything in the world.
After all, Albanese alone noticed that Israel managed to manipulate the world to ignore "genocide" in Gaza. There was no media coverage, there were no daily protests tying up traffic in every major Western city, The world slept. Her book title — When the World Sleeps — proves it! The speech and the book are the same argument: there is a hidden truth about Israel that ordinary geopolitical analysis won't reveal, because Israel is uniquely defined by deception.
Those who argue that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism try to find edge cases that might show a difference between the two. But you can use the same methods to prove that Nazi-style racial antisemitism is not the same as medieval Christian antisemitism. In the end, the structure is the same. And Francesca Albanese, by using the term "this is what Israel does," is adopting the exact same structure as the Protocols.
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