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The genocide in Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for the weak. Oppose the strong, refuse to bow to its capricious demands and you are showered with missiles and bombs. We watch this madness daily with the war on Iran, the saturation bombing of southern Lebanon and the suffering in Gaza.<\/p>\n
International bodies such as the United Nations have been neutered, transformed into useless appendages of another age. The sanctity of individual rights, open borders and international law have vanished. The most psychopathic rulers of human history, those who reduced cities to ashes, herded captive populations to execution sites and littered lands they occupied with mass graves and corpses, have returned with a vengeance, opening up a vast moral abyss.<\/p>\n
The law, despite a few valiant efforts by a handful of judges \u2014 who will soon be purged \u2014 domestically and in international bodies such as The International Court of Justice is contemptuously violated. Savagery abroad. Savagery at home.<\/p>\n
The BBC\u2019s Lucy Williamson reports that Israel is destroying south Lebanon \u201cusing Gaza as a model \u2013 a blueprint for destruction used again as a path to peace\u201d.<\/p>\n
Over 1 million people have already been displaced in Lebanon — one-fifth of the entire population of a country that already hosts the world\u2019s highest number of refugees per capita — in just a few weeks. Add to this 2 million displaced in Gaza and 3 million displaced in Iran. 6 million people rendered homeless.<\/p>\n
For four decades Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been lobbying for the U.S. to go to war with Iran. Previous administrations, Republican and Democrat, have refused, in no small part because of fierce opposition within the Pentagon, which did not view Iran as an existential threat and did not project a positive outcome for the U.S. or its regional allies.<\/p>\n
But Donald Trump, encouraged by his inept negotiating team of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and fellow real estate developer and golfing partner Steve Witkoff, each fervent Zionists, took Israel\u2019s bait. Britain\u2019s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, who attended the final talks between the U.S. and Iran, dismissed Kushner and Witkoff as \u201cIsraeli assets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joseph Kent, who resigned from his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center to protest the war, wrote in his resignation letter that \u201cIran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n
The public rationale for the war on Iran since it began on February 28 has been protean. Is it to shut down Iran\u2019s nuclear program? Is it to thwart Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program? Is it because the U.S. carried out pre-emptive attacks on Iran, as Marco Rubio said, to ensure the safety of U.S. assets once Israel decided to strike? Is it because the Iranian government carried out lethal repression, killing hundreds of anti-government protestors during massive street protests? Is it regime change? Is it an attempt to shut down Iran\u2019s so-called state sponsored terrorism? Or are these subterfuges for something else?<\/p>\n
Certainly, Israel and the U.S. seek regime change. But here it appears the U.S. and Israel diverge. Israel also apparently seeks, as in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Lebanon, the physical disintegration of Iran, the breaking apart of the country into warring ethnic and religious enclaves, the transformation of Iran into a failed state.<\/p>\n
Persians in Iran constitute roughly 61 percent of the population with various minority groups, who often suffer state repression, making up the remaining 39 percent. These ethnic groups include Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Lurs, Balochs, Arabs and Turkmens, along with religious minorities such as Sunnis, Christians, Baha\u2019i, Zoroastrians, and Jews. The shattering of Iran into antagonistic ethnic and religious enclaves would leave Israel as the dominant power in the region, giving it the ability to, if not occupy its neighbors directly, control and subjugate them through proxies, part of a long-held desire for a Greater Israel. It would also make it possible for foreign states to control Iranian gas reserves, the second largest in the world, and its oil reserves, 12 percent of the global total.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s crusade against the Palestinians, the Lebanese and now the Iranians is justified by the extermination of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. But it is not lost on the Global South, especially Palestinians, that nearly all Holocaust scholars have refused to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Not one of the institutions dedicated to researching and commemorating the Holocaust have drawn the obvious historical parallels or decried the mass slaughter.<\/p>\n
Holocaust scholars, with a handful of exceptions, have exposed their true purpose, which is not to examine the dark side of human nature and the frightening propensity we all have to commit evil, but to sanctify Jews as eternal victims and absolve the ethnonationalist state of Israel of its crimes of settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide.<\/p>\n
The hijacking of the Holocaust, the failure to defend Palestinian victims because they are Palestinian, has imploded\u00a0<\/sup>the moral authority of Holocaust studies and Holocaust memorials. They have been exposed as vehicles not to prevent genocide but to perpetrate it, not to explore the past, but manipulate the present.<\/p>\n Any tepid recognition that the Holocaust may not be the exclusive property of Israel and its Zionist supporters is swiftly shut down. The Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles deleted an Instagram post that read: \u201cNEVER AGAIN CAN\u2019T ONLY MEAN NEVER AGAIN FOR JEWS\u201d after a backlash. In the hands of Zionists, \u201cnever again\u201d means precisely that, never again,\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0for Jews<\/em>.<\/p>\n Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, in\u00a0Discourse on Colonialism<\/em>, writes that Hitler seemed exceptionally cruel only because he presided over \u201cthe humiliation of the white man,\u201d applying to Europe the \u201ccolonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the \u2018coolies\u2019 of India, and the n\u00e8gres d\u2019Afrique.\u201d<\/p>\n The near-annihilation of Tasmania\u2019s Aboriginal population, the German slaughter of the Herero and Namaqua, the Armenian genocide, the Bengal famine of 1943 \u2014 then British prime minister Winston Churchill referred to Hindus as \u201ca beastly people with a beastly religion\u201d \u2014 along with the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilian targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, illustrates something fundamental about \u201cWestern civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n Genocide is not an anomaly, it is coded in the DNA of Western \u201ccivilization.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn America,\u201d the poet Langston Hughes said, \u201cNegroes do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know. Its theories of Nordic supremacy and economic suppression have long been realities to us.\u201d<\/p>\n The Nazis, when they formulated the Nuremberg laws, modelled them on laws designed to disenfranchise Blacks. America\u2019s refusal to grant citizenship to Native Americans and Filipinos \u2014 although they lived in the U.S. and U.S. territories \u2014 was emulated by the German fascists who stripped citizenship from Jews. American anti-miscegenation laws, which criminalized interracial marriage, were the impetus to outlaw marriages between German Jews and Aryans. American jurisprudence classified anyone with one percent of Black ancestry \u2014 the so-called \u201cone drop rule\u201d \u2014 as Black. The Nazis, ironically showing more flexibility, classified anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents as Jewish.<\/p>\n The millions of indigenous victims of colonial projects in countries such as Mexico, China, India, Australia, the Congo and Vietnam, for this reason, are deaf to the fatuous claims by Jews that their victimhood is unique. They too suffered holocausts, but these holocausts remain minimized or unacknowledged by their Western perpetrators.<\/p>\n Israel embodies the ethnonationalist state our Christian fascists and the far-right dream of creating for themselves, one that rejects political and cultural pluralism, as well as legal, diplomatic and ethical norms. Israel is admired by the far right because it has turned its back on humanitarian law and uses indiscriminate lethal force to \u201ccleanse\u201d its society of those condemned as human contaminants.<\/p>\n It was this distortion of the Holocaust as unique that troubled Primo Levi, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz from 1944 to 1945 and who wrote\u00a0Survival in Auschwitz<\/em>. Levi was a fierce critic of the apartheid state of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. He saw the Shoah as \u201can inexhaustible source of evil\u201d that \u201cis perpetuated as hatred in the survivors, and springs up in a thousand ways, against the very will of all, as a thirst for revenge, as moral breakdown, as negation, as weariness, as resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n Levi deplored the Manichaeanism of those who \u201cshun nuance and complexity.\u201d He condemned those who \u201creduce the river of human events to conflicts, and conflicts to duels, us and them.\u201d He warned that the \u201cnetwork of human relationships inside the concentration camps was not simple: It could not be reduced to two blocs, victims and persecutors.\u201d The enemy, he knew, \u201cwas outside but also inside.\u201d<\/p>\n Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, known as \u201cKing Chaim,\u201d ruled the in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a ghetto on Poland on behalf of the Nazi occupiers. The ghetto became a slave labor camp that enriched Rumkowski and his Nazi masters. Rumkowski deported opponents to death camps. He raped and molested girls and women. He demanded unquestioned obedience. He embodied the evil of his oppressors. For Levi, he was an example of what many of us, under similar circumstances, are capable of becoming.<\/p>\n \u201c[W]e are all mirrored in Rumkowski, his ambiguity is ours, it is our second nature, we hybrids molded from clay and spirit,\u201d Levi wrote in\u00a0The Drowned and the Saved.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cHis fever is ours, the fever of our Western civilization that \u2018descends into hell with trumpets and drums,\u2019 and its miserable adornments are the distorting image of our symbols of social prestige.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike Rumkowski, we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our essential fragility,\u201d Levi continued. \u201cWillingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n Levi understood that the line between the victim and victimizer is razor thin. We can all become willing executioners. There is nothing intrinsically moral about being Jewish or a survivor of the Holocaust. Levi, for this reason, was\u00a0persona non grata<\/em>\u00a0in Israel.<\/p>\n Zionists find in the Holocaust and the Jewish state a sense of purpose and meaning, as well as a cloying moral superiority. After the 1967 war, when Israel seized Gaza the West Bank including East Jerusalem, Syria\u2019s Golan Heights and Egypt\u2019s Sinai Peninsula, Israel, as American sociologist Nathan Glazer approvingly observed, became \u201cthe religion of the American Jews.\u201d The Holocaust became their \u201cmoral capital.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJewish suffering is depicted as ineffable, uncommunicable, and yet always to be proclaimed,\u201d writes the European historian Charles S. Maier, in\u00a0The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity<\/em>:<\/p>\n It is intensely private, not to be diluted, but simultaneously public so that gentile society will confirm the crimes. A very peculiar suffering must be enshrined in public sites: Holocaust museums, memory gardens, deportation sites, dedicated not as Jewish but civic memorials. But what is the role of a museum in a country, such as the United States, far from the site of the Holocaust? Is it to rally the people who suffered or to instruct non-Jews? Is it supposed to serve as a reminder that \u201cit can happen here?\u201d Or is it a statement that some special consideration is deserved? Under what circumstances can a private sorrow serve simultaneously as a public grief? And if genocide is certified as a public sorrow, then must we not accept the credentials of other particular sorrows too? An American historian of Polish ancestry argues that, with the German invasion of 1939, the Poles became the first people in Europe to experience the Holocaust and that historians have so far \u201cchosen to interpret the tragedy in exclusivistic terms \u2014 namely as the most tragic period in the history of the Jewish Diaspora.\u201d If Polish Americans claim their own \u201cforgotten Holocaust,\u201d what recognition should they enjoy? Do Armenians and Cambodians also have a right to publicly funded holocaust museums? And do we need memorials to Seventh-Day Adventists and homosexuals for their persecution at the hands of the Third Reich?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unique suffering confers unique entitlement.<\/p>\n Any crime Israel carries out in the name of its survival \u2014 its \u201cright to exist\u201d \u2014 is justified in the name of this uniqueness. There are no limits. The world is black and white, a never-ending battle against Nazism, which is protean, depending on who Israel targets. To challenge this bloodlust is to be an antisemite, facilitating another genocide of Jews.<\/p>\n This simplistic formula not only serves the interests of Israel, but also the interests of colonial powers that carried out their own genocides, ones they also seek to obscure.<\/p>\n The sacralization of the Nazi Holocaust offers a bizarre quid pro quo. Arming and funding the state of Israel, blocking U.N. resolutions and sanctions that would condemn its crimes and demonizing Palestinians, and their supporters becomes proof of atonement and support for Jews. Israel, in return, absolves the West of its indifference to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust, and Germany for perpetrating it. Germany uses this unholy alliance to separate Nazism from the rest of German history, including the genocide German colonists carried out against the Nama and Herero in German South-West Africa, now Namibia.<\/p>\n \u201c[S]uch magic,\u201d Israeli historian and genocide scholar, Raz Segal, writes, \u201clegitimizes racism against Palestinians at the very moment that Israel perpetrates genocide against them. The idea of Holocaust uniqueness thus reproduces rather than challenges the exclusionary nationalism and settler colonialism that led to the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Segal, the director of the program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote an article about the war on Gaza on October 13, 2023, titled: \u201cA Textbook Case of Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n This denunciation from an Israeli Holocaust scholar, whose family members perished in the Holocaust, was a very lonely stance.<\/p>\n Professor Segal saw in the Israeli government\u2019s immediate demand that Palestinians evacuate the north of Gaza and the blood-curdling demonization of the Palestinians by Israeli officials \u2014 the defense minister said Israel was \u201cfighting human animals\u201d \u2014 the stench of genocide.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole idea about prevention and \u2018never again\u2019 is that \u2014 as we teach our students \u2014 there are red flags, that once we notice them, we\u2019re supposed to work in order to stop the process that could escalate to genocide,\u201d Professor Segal told me, \u201ceven if it\u2019s not genocidal yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Segal paid for his honesty. The offer to lead the University of Minnesota\u2019s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which has issued no condemnation of the genocide, was revoked.<\/p>\n When professor Segal and I testified at the state capital in Trenton in opposition to the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) bill, which equates criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism, we were jeered by Zionists and our microphones were cut by the committee chairman. There we were, arguing that this bill would curtail free speech while we were in real time being denied free speech.<\/p>\n Genocide is the next stage in what the anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai, calls \u201ca vast worldwide Malthusian correction\u201d that is \u201cgeared to preparing the world for the winners of globalization, minus the inconvenient noise of its losers.\u201d<\/p>\n The funding and arming of Israel by the United States and European nations, as it carries out genocide, has effectively imploded the post-World War II international legal order. It no longer has credibility. The West can no longer lecture anyone about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization. The ruse, that somehow we as a nation promote democracy, equality and human rights, is finished.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the same time that Gaza induces vertigo, a feeling of chaos and emptiness, it becomes for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the twenty-first century \u2014 just as the First World War was for a generation in the West,\u201d Pankaj Mishra writes.<\/p>\n None of us who reported from Israel and Palestine, where I worked as a reporter for seven years, predicted this genocide. And yet, we were acutely aware of the genocidal impulse that lay at the heart of the Zionist project \u2014 the desire by large segments of Israeli society to eradicate and expel all Palestinians. This genocidal impulse was there from the inception of Zionism.<\/p>\n Victor Klemperer, a professor of linguistics and the son of a Berlin rabbi living under Nazi rule, noted in his diary, \u201cTo me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus), are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient \u2018cultural roots,\u2019 their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists.\u201d<\/p>\n I covered the extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane, who claimed that violence was a Jewish virtue and revenge, a divine commandment. He was, when I was based in Israel, barred by the Israeli government from running for office.<\/p>\n Kahane was assassinated on November 5, 1990, in New York City. His Kach Party in Israel was outlawed four years later after Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born doctor and Kach member, entered Hebron\u2019s Ibrahimi Mosque and opened fire on worshippers, killing 29 Palestinians. Goldstein, dressed in his army captain\u2019s uniform, was overpowered by worshippers and beaten to death. I was sent by my editors in New York to interview the survivors. When they received the copy, they insisted I do more interviews with Jewish colonists who justified Goldstein\u2019s grievances with Palestinians, part of the game of balance, but really part of the effort to obscure the truth.<\/p>\n Kach, following its statements of support for the massacre, was declared a terrorist organization by the United States.<\/p>\n But Kahanism did not die. It was nurtured by Jewish extremists and colonists.<\/p>\n Kach\u2019s racial intolerance and calls for mass violence against Palestinians infected larger and larger segments of Israeli society. It found near universal acceptance after the attacks of October 7.<\/p>\n I saw this intolerance at political rallies held by Netanyahu, who received lavish funding from right-wing Americans associated with AIPAC, when he ran against Yitzhak Rabin, who was negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Netanyahu\u2019s supporters chanted Kahane-inspired slogans such as \u201cDeath to Arabs\u201d and \u201cDeath to Rabin.\u201d They burned an effigy of Rabin dressed in a Nazi uniform. Netanyahu marched in front of a mock funeral for Rabin.<\/p>\n Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic on November 4, 1995.<\/p>\n Netanyahu, who first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing these Jewish extremists, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, who hung a portrait of Goldstein on the wall of his living room, Bezalel Smotrich, Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Sa\u2019ar and Naftali Bennett.<\/p>\n Netanyahu\u2019s father, Benzion, who worked as an assistant to the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and was referred to by Benito Mussolini as \u201ca good fascist,\u201d was a leader in the Herut Party that called on Israel to seize all the land of historic Palestine. Many of those who formed the Herut Party carried out terrorist attacks during the 1948 war that established the state of Israel. Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and other Jewish intellectuals, described the Herut Party in a statement published in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0as a party \u201cclosely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties.\u201d<\/p>\n There has always been a virulent strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project, mirroring the strain of fascism in American society. Unfortunately, for us and the Palestinians, these fascistic strains are ascendant.<\/p>\n The decision to obliterate Gaza has long been the dream of far-right Zionists, heirs of Kahane\u2019s movement. Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism are the Zionist versions of the Nazis\u2019 blood-and-soil ideology. Jewish supremacy is sanctified by God, as is the slaughter of the Palestinians, who Netanyahu compared to the Biblical Amalekites who were massacred by the Israelites. Europeans and Euro-Americans in the American colonies used the same Biblical passage to justify their genocide against Native Americans.<\/p>\n Enemies \u2014 usually Muslims \u2014 who are slated for extinction are subhumans who embody evil. Violence and the threat of violence are the only forms of communication those outside the magical circle of Jewish nationalism understand.<\/p>\n Messianic redemption will take place once the Palestinians are expelled. Jewish extremists call for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of three of the most sacred sites for Muslims, supposedly built on the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple which was destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Roman army, to be demolished. These extremists call for it to be replaced by a \u201cThird\u201d Jewish temple, a move that would set the Muslim world alight. The West Bank, which zealots refer to as \u201cJudea and Samaria,\u201d is being annexed by Israel. Israel, governed by religious laws imposed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, will soon mirror the despotic theocracy in Iran.<\/p>\n James Baldwin presciently saw this regression to our innate barbarism. He warned that there was a \u201cterrible probability\u201d that \u201cWestern populations, struggling to hold on to what they have stolen from their captives, and unable to look into their mirror, will precipitate a chaos throughout the world which, if it does not bring life on this planet to an end, will bring about a racial war such as the world has never seen, and for which generations yet unborn will curse our names forever.\u201d<\/p>\n The savagery in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza is the same savagery we face at home. Those carrying out the genocide, mass slaughter and unprovoked war on Iran are the same people dismantling our democratic institutions.<\/p>\n The Iranians, Lebanese and Palestinians know there is no appeasing these monsters. The global elites believe nothing. They\u00a0feel<\/em>\u00a0nothing. They cannot be trusted. They exhibit the core traits of all psychopaths \u2014 superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt. They disdain as weakness the virtues of empathy, honesty, compassion and self-sacrifice. They live by the creed of Me. Me. Me.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane,\u201d Erich Fromm writes in \u201cThe Sane Society.\u201d<\/p>\n We have witnessed evil for nearly three years in Gaza. We watch it now in Iran. We watch it in Lebanon. We see this evil excused or masked by political leaders and the media.<\/p>\n The New York Times, in a page out of Orwell, sent an internal memo telling reporters and editors to eschew the terms \u201crefugee camps, \u201coccupied territory,\u201d \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d and, of course, \u201cgenocide\u201d when writing about Gaza.<\/p>\n Those who name and denounce this evil, including the heroic students who set up encampments on campuses here and abroad, are smeared, blacklisted and purged. They are arrested and deported. A deadening silence is descending upon us, the silence of all authoritarian states. We know where this ends. Fail to do your duty, fail to cheerlead the war on Iran, speak out against the crime of genocide, and see your broadcasting license revoked, as Trump\u2019s Chair of the F.C.C. Brendan Carr has proposed.<\/p>\n We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us. They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves and masters. Gaza is only the start. There are no internal mechanisms for reform. We can obstruct or surrender.<\/p>\n Those are the only choices left.<\/p>\n