"Zionism, actually existing Zionism, is possibly the most concentrated distillation of colonial racism and state excess in the contemporary world. Bar none. It’s not just that it’s the inheritor of Europe’s colonial project in its most self-righteous form. It’s also the contemporary vestige of state racism and power in the kind of unrestrained form that elsewhere had to be disavowed. A proud holdover of what everyone else in the West had to pretend not to like anymore. A state racism and power that frees itself from any self-repressive mechanisms, does away with any pretense or even hypocrisy, and wades directly into the unbridled cruelty and sadism that the bourgeois Western political order had to at least pretend it had overcome. Zionism shouts its genocidal intentions from the rooftops; its state ministers openly call for the elimination of everything that stands in their way; its supporters all but explicitly declare that the mass killing of children is necessary for the state’s survival and they will make no apologies. This is the allure of Zionism today. The more it descends into its own suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration, the more it openly celebrates its sadism and will to obliterate, the more it offers a vision of the future for those not interested in co-habiting the planet with what they deem are its subhuman surplus populations. In other words, the allure of Zionism to the fascist new right is that it offers a model of a historical corrective to what they feel has been a long surrender in which Western or white supremacy has been afraid to speak its name. They want to be able to speak its name; they want to throw a “sieg hiel” at a political rally and not have to pretend it’s an autistic gesture of affection. It’s in this sense that Zionism is at once both the past and future of the European racial-colonial project."
https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/crisis-and-form
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