A brief history of fascism and terrorism within Zionism
A brief history of fascism and terrorism within Zionism

As Netanyahu does his electoral deal with Israel’s most extreme racists, it is opportune to look back at…

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created [occupation of Palestine] of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the […] Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
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Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their stead they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.
During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods, beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.
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[The neocolony] has a terrorism problem which has been part and parcel of Zionism even before the state was founded. It’s there every time Benjamin Netanyahu waxes moral, declaring that the Palestinians erect monuments to their terrorists, while we build tributes to peace.
Consider, as but one example of thousands, Netanyahu’s meticulously produced video statement with which he opened this school year, excoriating Palestinians for building monuments to honor terrorists who killed Jews.
“Children should be taught to love and respect, not hate and kill,” Netanyahu intones, his palms clasped in sincerity.
“There are so many champions of peace to dedicate statues to. Why do the Palestinians consistently choose to honor mass murderers?”
What Netanyahu did not say, was that entire Birthright trips could be built around the plaques and monuments which [the neocolony] has erected in recent years to honor the bombings and other terrorist killings committed by the members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Lehi pre-state underground groups — not to mention the highways, boulevards, schools, and town squares named for the armed bands’ respective commanders in chief — the late […] prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
(Emphasis added. I know that it doesn’t bother anticommunists to act like hypocritical dipshits, but my eyes still widened seeing Benjamin Netanyahu—of all bipeds—condemning somebody else for honouring alleged mass murderers. I can’t think of any other time when an anticommunist behaved so audaciously.)