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Jewish Zionism is no less a racist ideology than Hitlerian Nazism

By Mike Schroeder

Zionist Jews claim that the ground and pillar of Gentile disparagment/resentment by Jews in the world was greatly expanded by the German Nazi Party during WW2, under the reign of Adolf Hitler, who, it is claimed, exterminated over six million Jews in concentration camps in that short span of time.1  The following explanations define the two ideologies, which will show, in no uncertain terms, that there is little, if any, difference between them and their ultimate goals.

Nazism

“Nazism,[a] formally named National Socialism,[b] is the far-right, ultranationalist, racist, and totalitarian ideology associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP).[1][2][3] It emerged in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power and was frequently called Hitlerism. Nazism is a form of fascism[4][5][6][7] that emphasizes pseudo-scientific theories of racial hierarchy which identify ethnic Germans and Nordic-Aryans as a master race.[8][9] The term “neo-Nazism” is applied to far-right groups formed after World War II with a similar ideology.

Nazism opposes liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It advocates dictatorship,[3] fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism,[10] anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy,[c] Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and eugenics. The Nazis sought to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity. They aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, gain lands for expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum, and exclude those deemed either Community Aliens or “inferior” races (Untermenschen).”  2

Zionism

Although Zionists trace their ancestry to the 12 tribes of Israel, to whom the “five books of the law, aka the “Torah”3 were addressed, many of them are avowed atheists and prefer to call their beliefs an ideology rather than a theology.4 Nevertheless, it is paramount that they connect themselves with the Abrahamic/Mosaic covenants, because that is the basis upon which the claim to “the land of Canaan,” referred to hundreds of times in the Torah, is made.

Zionism, created by 19th-century European Jew Theodor Herzl, is a form of Nazism because, like Nazism, it elevates a sect of humans above all other humans. Where Nazis held the so-called “Aryans” as superior to all other humans and sought to eliminate other races (e.g., Jews, Poles, Czechs, et. al.) from the Germanic homeland, Zionism does the same thing in holding those of Jewish descent as superior to all Gentile based races and, therefore, only Jews should be allowed to live in the designated Jewish homeland. 5

“Zionism sought to reconfigure Jewish identity and culture in nationalist and secular terms.[101][102] According to Yaacov Yadgar, Zionism rejected traditional Judaic definitions of what it means to be Jewish, but struggled to offer a new interpretation of Jewish identity independent of rabbinical tradition. 6 Yagdar argues that Jewish religion is viewed as an essentially negative factor in Zionism, even in religious Zionist ideology, and as responsible for the diminishing status of Jews living as a minority.[103] Responding to the challenges of modernity, Zionism sought to replace religious and community institutions with secular-nationalistic ones.[104] Indeed, Zionism maintained primarily the outward symbols of Jewish tradition, redefining them in a nationalistic context.[55][105] Zionism saw itself as bringing Jews into the modern world by redefining what it means to be Jewish in terms of identification with a sovereign state, rather than Judaic faith and tradition.[106]

This new identity would be based on a rejection of the life of exile. Zionism portrayed the Diaspora Jew as mentally unstable, physically frail, and prone to engaging in transient businesses. They were seen as detached from nature, purely materialistic, and focused solely on their personal gains. In contrast, the vision for the new Jew was radically different: an individual of strong moral and aesthetic values, not shackled by religion, driven by ideals and willing to challenge degrading circumstances; a liberated, dignified person eager to defend both personal and national pride.[107] This was the “New Jew” posited by Nordau’s Muscular Judaism and later the pioneering “Sabra” celebrated in Israeli nationalism – not the feminine, over-intellectual, degenerate Luftmenschen (people of air) of the diaspora, as Nordau characterised them.[108][109][110]

According to Yadgar, the Zionist goal of reframing of Jewish identity in secular-nationalist terms meant primarily the decline of the status of religion in the Jewish community.[111] Prominent Zionist thinkers[who?] frame the development of secular identity as nationalism functionally serving the same role as religion.[112] Zionism sought to make Jewish ethnic-nationalism the distinctive trait of Jews rather than their commitment to Judaism.[113][114] According to Yadgar, Zionism instead adopted a racial understanding of Jewish identity.[115] According to Yadgar, framed this way (for instance by A. B. Yehoshua), Jewish identity is only secondarily a matter of tradition or culture.[116] Nur Masalha says Zionist thinkers view the movement as a “revolt against a tradition of many centuries” of living parasitically at the margins of Western society. Indeed, he says, Zionism[when?] was uncomfortable with the term “Jewish,” associating it with passivity, spirituality and the stain of “galut.” Instead, Zionist thinkers preferred the term “Hebrew” to describe their identity. Zionism linked the term “Jewish” with negative characteristics prevalent in European antisemitic stereotypes, which Zionists believed could be remedied only through sovereignty. 7

The claim that criticism/condemnation of the nation-state of Israel for its profligate use of brutal, barbaric tactics to eradicate the Biblical land grant of non-Jews over the last 79 years is a form of anti-semitism is totally without merit, because it is no different in kind from what Adolf Hitler and his Nazi cohorts did to their European ancestors in the 1930s and 40s. In fact, what Zionist dominated Israel is presently doing to its Arab neighbors is the real cause of antisemitism around the world.

Related articles/videos on this site: What price Israel?; To Whom Does the Land of Canaan rightfully belong?; There is no Biblical Israel in the world today; Christian Zionism.

Postscript:
Are you saved? Jesus Christ—“who knew no sin”—and his sacrificial death on the Cross, has made the way for “everyone that believeth…to be reconciled to God.  History has shown that whatever peace man has achieved in the world can only be temporary.  The Bible says that individual men and women can know, beyond a doubt, that they are saved and bound for heaven, and therefore have absolute and permanent peace, regardless of what is going on in the world, by trusting Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for their eternal salvation.  “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures….for our justification….believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”  Have you done this? If not, why not now?


  1. It is estimated that five million non-Jewish people also died in these camps ↩

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism ↩

  3. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ↩

  4. Judaism is a religious theology, based primarily on the first five books in the Bible, aka “the five books of the law”, or “the law of Moses,” which Jews refer to as “The Torah.” ↩

  5. Palestine, and the rest of the territory bequeathed to the Israelites in the Biblical Abrahamic land promise. Ref Gen. 15:18; 17:8 ↩

  6. Ref. the 7th century AD, Babylonian Talmud  ↩

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism ↩

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Mike Schroeder is pastor and teacher of Amazing Grace Bible Study Fellowship in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he resides with his wife, Jean.
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