Are there antisemitic Zionists?

It seems the current war will end up strengthening Iran. Perhaps it will end up returning, more or less and under another name, to Obama's 2015 JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), which limited Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting the imposed sanctions. A situation that would weaken the almost unconditional support of the US for Israel and would question the Greater Israel project shamelessly defended by the Netanyahu government.On the other hand, the Israel-Palestine conflict has entered our homes in recent days, even in sports celebrations and in the support that Pedro Sánchez has given to the Barça footballer Lamine Yamal for having waved a Palestinian flag. However, some key concepts of this conflict, such as Zionism or anti-Semitism, are not always entirely clear when these topics are discussed. For example: are there anti-Semitic Zionists? Yes, and more than one type.

The creation of the State of Israel (1948) claimed by Zionism (Jewish nationalism) was presented as a reparation for the atrocities committed by the Nazis, as well as a political solution to the unfortunate Jewish history throughout the centuries (pogroms, discrimination, etc.). It is a cause that has normally been viewed with sympathy in the West, although, naturally, not in Arab countries. There was, however, a less presentable and less explicit historical motive in international Zionism: to get rid of a good portion of the Jews living in the United Kingdom and other states.

Before the founding of the state, a slogan often repeated by Zionism was “A land without a people for a people without a land”. The problem, however, was that approximately 1,450,000 Arabs inhabited the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. And here the problems began, which have only grown over time. After several wars and anIntifada, the Oslo Peace Accords (1993) raised hopes based on the prospect of “peace for land” and the establishment of the “two-state solution” promoted by international institutions. However, Israeli nationalism turned almost immediately towards contrary postulates (this was promoted by the authors of the North American report "Clean break", presented in 1996 to Benjamin Netanyahu). A turn in which we are still: not accepting the existence of a Palestinian state in any way and building Greater Israel, which includes all of Palestine (West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem), as well as parts of Lebanon and Syria.

It seems logical today to wonder if establishing the State of Israel amidst Arab, Persian, and Turkish societies was a very wise idea. Recent Israeli governments have promoted two paths of political legitimization. On one hand, the keyword has been security, increasingly interpreted in warlike terms: it essentially means that "we must destroy our enemies before they destroy us." On the other hand, a fundamentalist religious line has been introduced, especially after the 1967 war, which justifies warlike actions in the name of supposed mandates from the Old Testament (the book of myths of the Jewish religion) to occupy the lands of Palestine (it is easy to find biblical references in this regard). And it is well known that when gods are brought into political affairs, one can expect almost nothing good. Perhaps it is worth reviewing some historical knowledge about the Zionist project, as some aspects are quite surprising today. We will highlight two.

First, the idea of Zionism did not initially arise from Jews, but from evangelical Christians, especially in Great Britain, in the early decades of the 19th century (John Nelson Darby, a preacher who believed that the invention of the telegraph was the beginning of the end of the world). It is based on a reading of certain books of the Bible (especially the Apocalypse ), which seems to have been written at the end of the 1st century AD, during the time of the Roman Emperor Domitian). The central idea is that the Jewish collective should have its own political unit in Palestine, as "the second coming of Jesus Christ" would occur when the Jews controlled what they call "Holy Land." Historiography shows how behind this Christian Zionism lay the aforementioned objective of expelling Jews from Great Britain, which continued to be present in 1948. An antisemitic Christian Zionism.

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