How Zionism is leading the reactionary wave worldwide

 

Zionism is no longer hiding in the shadows, as it once did, supporting global reactionaries with training and support. It has now taken center stage as the vanguard of the global right, and all reactionaries are following.

Don’t yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!

Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,

The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

– Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Known plagiarist, dog cloning enthusiast, and chainsaw-wielding Argentinian president, Javier Milei, visited Israel on June 9. He cried at the Wailing Wall, he hugged both Netanyahu and Herzog, called the former a brother, spoke at the Knesset, giving his undying support to Israel, invoking biblical cliches, and engaging in another of his favorite hobbies, chastising the left. When he returned to Argentina, he announced that his government would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move notoriously promoted by Trump during his first administration. This saccharine show of affection is coupled with the already established commitment to cooperation in matters of security and military intelligence and technology that Milei had promised in the past years. The Milei government would later deny entry to a family of Palestinians, despite all their legal documents being in order. Milei, whose affection towards Israel borders on the sexual, is all but the most histrionic leader in a global trend of ultra-rightists who see in Israel the embodiment of their wildest political fantasies, not only an entity free of reproach but as a global model to reproduce. Meloni, Wilders, Bolsonaro, Bukele, Trump, Orban, Modi, and many other figures within the global right have sung the praises of Israel. The reasons are not surprising, and while Israel continues to commit genocide, it has consolidated its influence among the extreme right. 

There is no doubt that within the global right in the past Zionism has played an important role, integral perhaps, in the continuation of the reactionary hegemonic forces in the world, first in providing security, military, and technical assistance to reactionary governments in the global south and now as a supporter of the new permutations of right-wing political parties worldwide. Since its inception, Zionism has always been cut from the same cloth as previous vanguards of the imperial reaction, whether colonialism, apartheid, or fascism, from Herzl’s modeling of colonialism, Jabotinsky’s love affair with fascism, and Ben-Gurion’s calculated and cynical ethnic cleansing. But in the past, Zionism did exactly that, follow the reactionary trends and borrow from them in order to create its own ideological structures. What we now see is that Zionism is no longer following the previous reactionary models but shaping the new iterations of the right, converting itself into the vanguard of the reaction. 

Genocide is not only the tool of the fascist, but of the so-called liberal imperialist as well, democracies such as England, Belgium, or France in the past. Zionism borrowed from all these previous models of reaction, and although some would claim that the terminal conditions in which Zionism has put Palestinians is a radical departure or “out of the ordinary” and more so a sign of late fascist models that have become apocalyptic, the seed for the ongoing genocide has always been deeply ingrained within Zionism itself.  (more...)

How Zionism is leading the reactionary wave worldwide