excerpt - Zionism was never a simple movement for Jewish refuge from persecution. It emerged in the late 19th century as a distinctly Western European settler-colonial ideology, shaped by the same imperial logic that carved up Africa and Asia. Its founding thinkers — Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and others — explicitly looked to European colonialism as their model. Herzl, the father of political Zionism, openly described the future Jewish state as “a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” He actively sought charters from colonial powers to establish a Jewish colony in Palestine. This was never about coexistence with the indigenous population. It was about conquest and replacement.
No figure better embodied the most aggressive strain of this ideology than Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism and spiritual father of Israel’s modern far-right. In his seminal 1923 essay “The Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky laid out the brutal truth with cold honesty. He openly acknowledged that the Palestinian Arabs would never voluntarily accept the transformation of their homeland into a Jewish state. The only solution, he argued, was to erect an “iron wall” of military superiority — a barrier of force so overwhelming that the native population could never breach it. Colonization, he insisted, must proceed “regardless of the native population.” This was not defense. It was a manifesto for settler-colonial domination. full - *https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/from-jabotinskys-iron-wall-to-gazas-graves-zionisms-fascist-alliances-then-and-now/ <https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/from-jabotinskys-iron-wall-to-gazas-graves-zionisms-fascist-alliances-then-and-now/>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41874): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41874 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119548491/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
