Israelis have not come to resemble the people who murdered European Jews 80 years ago. They began that way. Zionist Jews arrived in Palestine as Europeans — not only by passport, but by mindset. They belonged to the same world that produced centuries of Christian persecution, pogroms, ghettos, and finally the death camps. What changed was not the logic of domination, but its direction. Once victims, they became settlers. And now they kill Palestinians.
This is not a Jewish genocide. It is a European one — a continuation of colonial violence by other means, carried out by descendants of Europe’s victims with Europe’s blessing. The West supports this not out of ignorance, but because it suits them. The alliance rests on three things: guilt, interest, and fear.
First, guilt — the need to atone for the Holocaust without confronting the systems that made it possible. Supporting Israel is cheaper than reckoning with fascism’s roots in Western civilisation. Second, shared interest — Israel is a ready-made outpost of Western power in a region that resists it. Third, and perhaps most significant today: fear. Fear of being smeared, shamed, or ruined. To criticise Israel is to risk being called antisemitic — a word that now functions less as a moral warning than as a political weapon.
Yet this fear is irrational. Europeans and Americans have more to gain from an honest friendship with the Arab world than from clinging to a relationship with a rogue ethnostate. Even in cold strategic terms, Israel is becoming a liability. But political, military, and financial entanglements are easier to sever than psychological ones. The real hold Israel has over the West is emotional — built on guilt, intimidation, and a long-standing inability to confront its own fascist past.
Zionism was born in Europe, not just geographically but ideologically. It emerged from the same currents that produced nationalism, racial hierarchy, and colonial conquest. It is not foreign to the West — it is the West. One of its 20th-century offspring, exported and rebranded, but still recognisably of its flesh.
The liberation of Palestine may depend, ultimately, on the liberation of Europe — not from some external force, but from the Zionism it birthed, exported, and now fears. Until that rupture occurs, the genocide will go on, and the West will keep funding it — not because it must, but because it cannot yet bear to stop.