The Curse of Anti-Zionism

The Curse of Anti-Zionism
by S. Daily Warren

The moment that the Connecticut tragedy happened a little clock started ticking in my head. How long, I wondered? After 3 days I had my answer: it took 72 hours for some of the more embarrassing representatives of the far right to blame the Newtown massacre on Israel and the Jews. It’s a plague that I’ve noticed growing steadily for the last 20 years, and it has infected much of the patriot and constitutionalist movement that is so vital to the survival of our nation’s soul.

State and federal law enforcement have shown a disturbing trend of lumping all of us in one basket in their perception of domestic dissent: Ron Paul supporters, pro-life activists, constitutionalists, militia members, etc. For law enforcement, the lines become blurred between someone who owns a battle rifle and unflinchingly supports the constitution and a white supremacist, and one of the focal points for that blurring effect happens, predictably, on the subject of the Jewish people. Jewish history and the archeological and DNA evidence supporting the presence of Jews in Israel is a broad subject, and as a definition “Zionism” is a movement supporting the return of Jews to that land and its inherent right of self-defense.

Right away, anti-Zionism becomes murky and the philosophical arguments are specious at best. The list of patriots and patriot organizations who support the 2^nd Amendment, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights and all the things that go along with it but who do not support Israel is now quite lengthy. For reasons of protocol and liability none of those persons or organizations will be named here, but they are legion and growing in number. Immediately, however, a paradox becomes apparent. Most American patriots identify themselves as Christian, but a great many of the same detest Israel and the very people that produced their Savior. They believe in self-defense and firearm ownership, but reject the concept of self-defense for Israel. These white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Catholics number about a billion, but believe the entire world order is organized and run by approximately 14 million Jews. At some point it breaks down into silliness.

But the underlying fundamental of the philosophy is both Bible-based and terrifying. It involves prophecy and Armageddon and the book of Revelation which speaks of a return of the Jewish people to Israel, but to the anti-Zionist this is itself proof of the conspiracy and has all been arranged; a manufactured prophetic actualization. Jews, they think, in pursuit of world domination have deliberately manifested and manipulated events to appear to be the fulfillment of New Testament Biblical prophecy, and everything that has happened since 1948 is not “of God”. And they can point to an endless stream of Jewish “bad guys” who are part of a very real conspiracy to overthrown one world order and institute a new. And therein lies the problem: they have a case.

Bernie Madoff, Henry Kissinger, George Soros just to name a few.  The list of who’s who in Hollywood and the beltway, from the gleaming metropolis of New York to the steamy sands of Florida, all have a strong Jewish presence. If one were to ask the question of who’s who in an international subversive movement on the march against individual liberty and basic human rights, the answer would be yes, many of them are Jewish. But after the head count the reasoning comes to an abrupt halt, just as it did after the analysis of the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The complete answer as to why so many prominent Jews appear to be on the wrong side of freedom is quite simple: they are a talented and educated people with built-in values that promote a sense of identity and unity. And they are a frugal, thrifty people. These values may be blessings from Jehovah or perhaps they’re the natural traits developed by people that have been quite literally run out of nearly every civilized nation in the world. These people of The Book are by definition educated, and as a culture they’ve been reading and writing for longer than perhaps any other group. Add to that a strong sense of family and community values that lend to loyalty and interdependence and you have a recipe for success in almost any economic setting.

Yet the anti-Zionist movement has grown. Once it was the venue of the truly hateful who would rant on about cranial capacity, the lost 13^th tribe that ended up blond-haired and blue-eyed, and other nonsense. They were easy to spot. Now anti-Zionism is in mainline patriot circles, the debacle of the Palestinian issue providing fuel for the fire, although again there’s a disconnect between a Christian group fundamentally opposed to radical Islam that suddenly finds an ally in the PLO.

To bring this brief summary of a fundamental moral flaw in the modern patriot movement full circle, it took 3 days for a leading conspiracy/patriot web site to blame the Connecticut massacre on the Israeli Mossad for the purpose of disarming the American people, as if no one else closer to home was already working on it. The alleged crisis actors perpetrating possible hoax-like aspects of Sandy Hook were identified as Florida Jews who make frequent trips to Israel. But that’s a scant argument to condemn a people who, having been through a Holocaust that decimated half their number in WWII, simply want to return to their ancestral home and be allowed to defend themselves against history ever repeating itself. And no tricks of logic or list of kosher bad guys can straighten out the kinks in the position of hating Jews but loving a Jewish Messiah.

Israel’s not perfect, and neither are the Jewish people. But putting one’s pro or con feeling aside, the anti-Zionist philosophy not only doesn’t pass the common sense test but it is also a dagger at the moral heart of the modern American patriot movement which may be America’s last hope to retain her original nature and commitment to freedom. Hating Jews has a way of turning good guys into bad guys; people who started off with a love of country and freedom but ended up despising an entire race and culture that they probably know little about. To allow anti-Zionism to persist unopposed in the patriot movement immediately loses the moral war to those who can now justifiably point their fingers and say, “See? Racists.” Regarding the future growth and recruitment of active members in this movement, such a position renders the war for hearts and minds unwinnable.