Nazism is a Colonialism; Zionism is a Colonialism

 

A refutation of an aspect of the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism

A worldwide initiative driven by Western experts and talking heads is afoot to silence any comparison between the Zionist entity (i.e. "Israel") and the Nazi German regime of the 1930s-40s. Even in the midst of the current Zionist genocide in Gaza, the comparison draws the ire of Western contemporary mainstream political sensitivities.

This de facto taboo was given immense credence by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) organisation, which claimed, "criticism of Israel similar to that levelled at any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitism". Yet confusingly adds that an example of antisemitism in "public life" is to compare "contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." This essay argues, at the very least, there is a common denominator which underpins the territorial ambitions of the Nazi German regime and the British Imperial foundations of the contemporary Zionist entity.

Nazi is shorthand for the National Socialist German Workers Party. For most of their existence, the Nazis were led by Adolf Hitler, who became leader of Germany in 1933. He led the Nazi German regime into a European war in 1939. In 1941, having militarily vanquished most of western Europe, Poland and Czechoslovakia, and chased the British Army out of the mainland continent, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a three-pronged attack aimed at militarily subduing the Soviet Union (SU).

German military units aimed to simultaneously attack and occupy Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), Moscow and Kiev in Ukraine (then part of the SU). Over 90 per cent of the German land army during World War Two was dedicated to the crushing & occupation of eastern Europe and Russia. The vision and territorial ambition of the Nazis was to create a German Empire, the so-called Third Reich, on the backs of occupied eastern Europe and specifically Russia.

The historian Mark Mazower, in his history of Europe, Dark Continent, claims that, "…it is not possible to consider Hitler’s continental ambitions without seeing them in the context of European imperialism overseas." Specifically, Hitler was in awe of the British Empire. Mazower claims that "Hitler’s imagination was captured by the example of the British Empire." This is further corroborated by another historian, Niall Ferguson, who states that Hitler "repeatedly expressed his admiration of British imperialism." As such, according to the author Sven Lindqvist, in his seminal, Exterminate all the Brutes, Hitler was so captivated by the European Empire’s in other parts of the world, that he wanted to establish a "continental equivalent" of the British Empire.  (more...)

Nazism is a Colonialism; Zionism is a Colonialism