On Nazi Anti-Zionism
The following is an analysis of Nazi anti-zionism. It looks at the transformation of antisemitic propaganda in the late 1940s, and observes the transition to an explicit language of anti-zionism. The multiple reasons for this shift are discussed, as well as the consequences. The analysis provides important historical material for thinking about the relationship between antisemitism and anti-zionism. It is from Michael Berkowitz’s book, The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality, from the chapter “Re-Presenting Zionism as the Apex of Global Conspiracy.”
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on September 6, 2008 jordan wrote:
Nazis had to channel the anti-capitalism of the impoverished, christianity-deranged, sexually repressed German people away from the State, so they turned it on the Jews, who of course were always marginalized/excluded from any real substantial participation in the State or Capital … But society conditions everyone to want to participate, so when one fails to do so it makes one feel better to say, at least I’m not one of “them,” or the next guy. That “pride of non-participation” that comes up to mask one’s general failure to do so bizarrely then becomes a reason for people to resent jews, who, if they do try to participate, are rejected over and over… So people see this rejection and say ‘i’m not one of them; accept me.’ similarly the nazis put all the blame for the failures and misery of the germans on others so they could appear pure. Generally christian approach: jesus will take the responsibility off my shoulders for my sins, i don’t have to deal with it anymore because it’s jesus’ problem now. Yep, just put it on the jews…