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The truth is that today we are chanting “in our thousands, in our millions we are all Palestinians”, but in fact we are not there. We do not live in a Gaza that is being murdered, bombed and wiped out. The foreign, occupying state does not cut off the light and water in our homes, we do not need a passport to go to work, and on the way to our workplaces, no one will search us, spit on us, insult us, beat us, arrest us or shoot us.
Zionism as a Variant of Nazism
Not yet, because in reality Nazism and fascism are not some pathologies of liberalism, some bad response to it. While the Zionism is only a variant of Nazism, the Nazi state is directly a defensive stage of capitalism, recalled when it moves closer to another inevitable crisis. This is a straight line, even if we don’t see it now: populism, limiting workers’ and trade union rights, stigmatising entire groups of citizens, e.g. migrants, chauvinism, jingoism, then authoritarianism, fascism and war, endless war, above all, against civilians, against the innocent, there are all just methods of maximising capitalist profits. The war in Palestine, a war that has been going on since 1948, is just an element of the escalatory strategy of global capitalism, which once again distracts attention from its own internal problems by multiplying fronts. In this sense, Israel is at the forefront of what is the worst and most destructive in the current global system. The struggle of the Palestinian people is therefore our common struggle, so even though we are not in Gaza, we all can and should feel Palestinians today!
British Responsibility
Zionist aggression is also a matter of special responsibility of British policy. Meeting almost on the anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration, we must make it clear that without the British influence there would be no permanent crisis in the Middle East, no Nakba, no wars and no Palestinian genocide. It was Lord Palmerston who announced an intention to create the new Zion in 1840, of course as a place and organisation helping to spread the interests of the British Empire and, of course, without asking the opinion of European Jews themselves whether they wanted to act as agents of British imperialism at all.
At the end the Great War British administration, army and intelligence did not hesitate to betray their Arab allies who were crucial for the British victory over Turkey in the Middle East. The new colonial division of Palestine, Transjordan, Iraqi and Syria contributed significantly to the beginning of the Zionist colonisation of these areas, and Israel itself was created as an Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence, thanks to which it would become possible to divide and conquer again, to provoke and quarrel Jews and Arabs who had previously lived in peace for the centuries. It was the British Empire that sowed the seeds of hatred, the poisonous fruits of which continue to grow to this day.
Labour Under the Nazi Flags
Nevertheless the poison works both ways. As a result of the war in Palestine and Zionist aggression, British politics is also poisoned. Under the banner of ‘fighting against the Antisemitism’, freedom of speech and scholar debate are being restricted in the UK. The Labour Party has become not only a party of war, but also a party of militant Zionism, which leads it to continuing disintegration. Under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, Labour first replaced red banners with blue ones, then with blue and yellow Ukrainian ones (possibly with the Nazi Wolfsangel, which we have seen so many times in Whitehall), and now shamelessly raises Zionist blue star flags, the same ones under which Netanyahu’s butchers are murdering civilians in Gaza. The Labour Party’s support first for Ukrainian Nazism and now for Zionism is a disgrace and shame for all people with the progressive, internationalist sensibility. So, what if the discredited Tories finally give up power when the same murderous lovers come in their place?
Konzentrationslager Gaza
The influential American journalist, Ann Applebaum wrote a few years ago that it is in the Anglo-Saxon interest to create and support ‘even extreme, but after all fine nationalism in Ukraine’. We all know how this specific kind of ‘fine extreme pro-Western nationalism’ is called: NAZISM. Until recently, we also heard a lot that a ‘positive Zionism’ is also possible, one that would find a way to a peaceful agreement with the Palestinians. Today we should understand that there is no such option, and Israel is not only a criminal state, but also an increasingly authoritarian one.
We have all surely seen films documenting the brutality of the Israeli police and army against Orthodox Jews protesting against the government’s policies. We often hear that ‘Israel is a bastion of democracy and Western tolerance in the Middle East’. Today it is no longer possible to hide the truth. Zionist Israel is an Apartheid, Nazi state and Gaza is a modern-day extermination camp. I am Polish, I was born and lived for many years in Lublin, the city where during the World War 2 was located Konzentrationslager Majdanek, the second largest German Nazi extermination camp, so I can recognise a Holocaust when I see it. And in Palestine I see the Holocaust of the Palestinians.
During the WW2 the UK could have bombed the railways to Auschwitz, Majdanek and other death camps, it could have done much more to stop and prevent the Shoah, which the Polish resistance reported to no avail. The UK (nor the USA) did nothing. And now it is much worse, the UK and NATO not only fail to prevent the Holocaust of the Palestinians but are also responsible for complicity in the genocide. It is a crime against humanity, but it is even more than that, it is a deadly mistake which leads the entire world another step closer to World War 3.
That is why we must say no to war, no to NATO and Anglo-Saxon imperialism, no to Nazism and no to Zionism.
Palestine will be free for the world to survive!
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Konrad Rękas is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image is from Jewish Voice for Peace
