WHAT THE NAZIS SAID ABOUT JEWS
According to antizionist influencer and October 7-denier Matt Bernstein, better known online as @mattxiv, Zionists today speak about Palestinians just as the Nazis once spoke about Jews.
Spoken like a true Somebody Who Never Studied What The Nazis Actually Said About Jews. Zionists very much can, of course, participate in bigoted behavior or say hateful things. That said, Nazism isn’t a catch-all term for bigotry. Nazism is a specifically anti-Jewish ideology with a foundation of 2000 years of antisemitic conspiracies, tropes, and stereotypes. If anything, it’s antizionist rhetoric today that frighteningly mirrors Nazi language.
A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY
Above all, the Nazis believed that “world Jewry” was behind a global conspiracy manipulating and controlling foreign governments, provoking wars, and otherwise instigating chaos and disarray.
Sound familiar?
Antizionist rhetoric today perfectly mimics these conspiracies. In fact, Bernstein has propagated some of these himself.
A Nazi propaganda poster depicts Winston Churchill as a Jew, with his tentacles wrapped around the globe.
"The historic responsibility of world Jewry for the outbreak and widening of this war has been proven so clearly that it does not need to be talked about any further. The Jews wanted war, and now they have it."
Joseph Goebbels, in a November 16, 1941 article in Das Reich
"And again it is the National Socialist Movement which has to fulfill its most tremendous task: It must open the eyes of the people with regard to foreign nations and must remind them again and again of the true enemy [the Jew] of our present-day world."
Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf
OBSESSION WITH THE JEWISH RACE
High off the popularity of the scientific racism movement and social Darwinism, the Nazis infamously obsessed over the so-called Jewish race. Admittedly, Nazi and mainstream antizionist beliefs about the “Jewish race” are not a carbon-copy of each other, but rather, a mirror image.
Whereas the Nazis saw the Jews as a non-Aryan — in today’s terms, non-white — race alien to Europe and especially alien to Germany, mainstream antizionists today see Jews as a non-Middle Eastern race alien to Palestine. Like the Nazis, antizionists find themselves in the relentless pursuit of alleged scientific “evidence” to validate their pre-existing beliefs concerning Jewish genetics, going so far as to invent conspiracies and libels, like the (false) accusation that Israeli Jews have the highest rate of skin cancer in the Middle East because their genetics are unsuitable for the Middle Eastern sun, or the (also false) claim that 66% of Israeli Jews are allergic to olive tree pollen, because, as they say, “even the land is rejecting them!”
Note: no, 66% of Jewish Israelis are not allergic to olive tree pollen, and higher melanoma incidences for Ashkenazim are the result of genetic mutations thanks to hundreds of years of endogamy, not a sign that Ashkenazim don’t belong to the land.
"Through inbreeding for thousands of years, often in very small circles, the Jew has been able to preserve his race and his racial characteristics much more successfully than most of the numerous people among whom he lives. As a result we have living in our midst a non-German, alien race."
Adolf Hitler in his first ever writing on the so-called Jewish Question, September 1919
ON ZIONISM
The Nazis did not concern themselves too much with the Zionist movement, preferring to obsess over the “Jewish race” instead. But contrary to what TikTok or Twitter would have you believe, the Nazis did not support Zionism. Quite the contrary.
As early as 1920, Hitler described Zionism as a sinister endeavor, arguing that Jews only wanted a sovereign state as a cover to nefariously manipulate global affairs. He never changed his mind.
Many antizionists today promote the same conspiracy.
"[The Jew] has never had what we might call a state. It’s a mistake which is spreading widely today to say that Jerusalem was a capital of a Jewish state of a Jewish nation."
Adolf Hitler, in a speech titled "Why We Are Antisemites," delivered at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, August 13, 1920
"For while the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle..."
Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf
THE HOLOCAUST AND NAZISM AS BLANK SLATES
Anyone can be a bigot, and, to the great detriment of humanity, we are sadly not suffering from a shortage of hateful worldviews. Nazism is, unfortunately, just one of many. But Nazism is not a catch-all term or a blank slate to be filled with any given bigotry. Nazism is a particular ideology rooted in a foundation of virulent, genocidal Jew-hatred. Anything else is not Nazism. This doesn’t mean other things can’t be bad. It just means they’re not Nazism.
All bigotries have their distinct characteristics. Antisemitism, in particular, is predicated on a conspiratorial pattern of thinking about the Jewish people as a collective. This conspiratorial pattern of thinking about Jews is intrinsic to and inextricable from Nazism.
When people describe things as the Holocaust or Nazism that are simply not the Holocaust or Nazism, they universalize the Holocaust, removing Jews from our own story and distorting the genocide’s fundamental facts, which in itself is Holocaust denial.
PRO-NAZI JEWS THEN, ANTIZIONIST JEWS NOW...
Shortly after the October 7 massacre, Matt Bernstein described a picture from one of the targeted kibbutzim as a “staged photo with fake blood.” His sentiments eerily echoed an April 2, 1933 New York Times headline, which read: “Berlin Jew denies ‘atrocity’ stories” and another March 25, 1933 headline, “Jews in Reich deny atrocities by Nazis.”
Today’s antizionist Jews and yesterday’s pro-Nazi Jews may sit at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but their behavior is parallel to each other. Namely, both routinely ignore or excuse the most vile antisemitism coming from their own ranks, even at the expense of their fellow Jewish people. Both weaponize their Jewish identities as a shield, with which they protect their antisemitic friends.
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