Sam Williams: Palestine

Sam Williams discusses Palestine

This brings us to another reason: imperialism needs to keep anti-Semitism alive after the Holocaust. Israel claims to be the state of the entire Jewish people whether they live in Israel or not, enabling U.S. imperialism to direct the hatred Israel inevitably creates among the Palestinians, other Arabs, as well as peoples throughout the world toward Jews as a whole. This directs that hate away from U.S. imperialism, keeping anti-Semitism alive after the Holocaust. It is, therefore, impossible to fight against anti-Semitism without at the same time fighting against Zionism.

Israel claims to represent the entire Jewish people. If it’s allowed by Genocide Joe to carry out a full-scale genocide against the Palestinian people, all Jewish people will be blamed for it. This makes possible a full-scale revival of Nazi-style anti-Semitism that argues that Hitler was correct about the need to exterminate all Jews. Whether or not they realize it, every Jewish person has a vital stake in the fight to halt the current Palestinian Holocaust being carried out in the name of all Jewish people. It’s a matter of life and death today for the Palestinians but tomorrow for the Jews.

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The Israeli government and ruling class needs anti-Semitism to justify the existence of the State of Israel. If anti-Semitism were to be eliminated, then there is no justification for the State of Israel. However, the need for the State of Israel will still remain as an outpost of US imperialism to forestall Arab unity.

This is why the supporters of Israel are eagar to find anti-Semitism everywhere. They need that justification for the existence of Israel. Without that justification, the real aims of US imperialism would be exposed.

The State of Israel needs to subsumed into a free and secular State of Palestine. This state should be able to wlecome back all Palestinian refugees and their descendents.