The US partnership with Israel is not friendly to Jewish people. There are strong antisemitic elements in the alliance itself.

This antisemitism started when the West piggy-backed on a rather odd solution to a German-made atrocity: the creation of a modern state of Israel.

In order to accomplish this, the status of Jewish people in America and Europe was changed (contingently) from “non-white” to “white”, so that Jewish refugees could serve as a proxy western colonizing force in the Middle East.

This was easy because “Israel” worked on two levels – as a genuinely needed unifying call to a people who had been brutalized and violated in the most disgusting ways; and as a cold calculation of geopolitical chess by the West, without regard for the chaos this would cause for the people in that region themselves, Islamic and Jewish.

The West calculated on that long-cherished memory of Israel in the Bible — -that ancient unifying vision maintained like the most precious talisman of a better world. The faith that got Jewish people through centuries of abuse was a faith in returning “Home”. But on a less romantic level this meant “returning” to a home most European Jews had never personally seen before. And a home already belonging to other people.

And because of this complex religious connection to a particular piece of land, the government of Israel became easily conflated with being Jewish. This conflation of Jewishness with the state apparatus of Israel is even true among many Jewish Americans who have never set foot in Israel.

For many, the state apparatus – hijacked from inception into becoming a western colonial outpost — replaced or absorbed the actual religious faith as a source of identity. This is like a category confusion in philosophy. Confusing a religious world (and its faith in a mythic homecoming) with a geopolitical world, with its sociopathic faith in Real Politik. The two value systems collide; the timescales of the various deeds to the land are in conflict from the start.

And it places Jewish people who absorb this category conflation in tremendous danger, because now the behavior of the state of Israel is too closely aligned with “being Jewish” to offer much room for criticism. Being able to love your “country” and oppose your “government” becomes almost impossible. And this is why criticism of Israeli policies is often equated with antisemitism.

This also made it especially impossible for Jewish people to see how Palestinians might perceive the very origins of the modern state as the original aggression. Even mentioning such a thing might be construed as genocidal in intent, because the state of Israel and Judaism itself have merged their identities to the point where their destinies seem tied (although many rabbis do in fact criticize the origins of the modern state. But, they, too are dismissed as “self-hating Jews”).

And this conflation also means that any egregious acts committed by the state could serve as a pretext for real antisemitism.

In these various ways, the reduction of a Jewish identity to a state apparatus betrays Judaism, and undermines their legitimately righteous place in the world. It is antisemitic.

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There’s a real need for reparations for Jewish people. But why didn’t these reparations start with the West, perhaps in Germany itself?

The whole middle east is an anti-Arab chessboard set up mainly by the English, who threw these various states together without regard for tribal boundaries.

Or, in fact, they were thrown together as a strategy to maintain constant conflict, which could be manipulated for western benefit. The same strategy used by Rome in Germania.

Although the West hijacked Israel into becoming a pawn in this anti-Arabic chess game, this pawn has grown powerful enough to also blackmail the kingly powers that started this mess. A co-dependence that could kill us all.

Two brutalized peoples – the Jews and the Arabs – have been made into opposing pawns to benefit the West. In the West, we’re pressured into seeing only antisemitism as the pervasive evil; as if seeing anti-Arab bias is itself antisemitic. But it’s a whole package. A white supremacist crusade that cares for neither side, beyond cold calculations of State power.