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Is Zionism the
ideology
of The New World
Order?
By Lasse
Wilhelmson
There is a
debate currently taking place in Sweden concerning the
national institute, Forum for Living History (FFLH). It
was established by the social democrats when they were
in power in 2003. Its, probably unique, undertaking is
to spread knowledge and to engage predominantly young
people, for “democracy, tolerance and human rights with
the Holocaust as the starting point” and to create
awareness of the threat posed by so-called
anti-Semitism. “The Story Must be Told” they say, so
that it will never occur again. Hitherto however, the
FFLH has not concerned itself with The Palestinian
catastrophe, Al Nakba.
The FFLH
mainly supervises projects in schools and carries out
dubious opinion polls (http://altahrir.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-40-percent-of-all-swedes-anti.html)
among the general public. It also cooperates quite
overtly and shamelessly with the Zionist propaganda
institute Middle East Media Research Institute – MEMRI.
The head is Yigal Carmon who worked for the Israeli
intelligence service 1968-88 and now appears as an
expert on Anti-Semitism in Arabic and Iranian press for
a Swedish governmental organisation (http://jinge.se/index.php/allmant/forum-for-levande-historia.htm).
Hence, we have here a unique example of the production
of Zionist ideology, authorised by the state and spread
through official government campaigns including large
amounts of ready-made material, free of charge.
FFLH has
recently been commissioned by the present conservative
government to carry out a new school project in 2008,
concerning oppression and terror during communist
regimes, mainly those of the Soviet Union, China and
Cambodia.
Researchers
of history have protested in an appeal, saying among
other things, “(we) nurture a growing concern that
history, as a school subject, is being turned into a
battlefield for the government’s ideological campaigns
and that the openness and critical attitudes FFLH
purports to stimulate, are being threatened”. They
further question whether it is “ the task of the
government to replace the normal teaching of history
with campaign history, along with issuing detailed
directions as to how history should be interpreted and
used.” The appeal ends with a quotation from the
campaign’s instructions for teachers. “In a
dictatorship, the way history is told always aims at
serving the state”. And, lastly, the researchers pose a
rhetorical question, wondering what conclusions of all
this the pupils risk making.
This
initiative is commendable, but less so than if the
appeal had been made when the FFLH was starting up.
There have been no appeal from researchers until
communism came next on the agenda for scrutiny. And why
is al Nakba not among the genocides and persecutions
referred to by the protesting historians? There seems to
be an agreement between them and FFLH . The Story of Al
Nakba Must not be Told. Obviously, the political Left
must take some responsibility for this.
An
illustrative example is the Swedish communist party’s
foremost spokesman on the situation in Palestine. He
carries out his political work in an exclusive Jewish
Zionist “organisation for peace”, although as a Marxist
he ought to be both an atheist and anti-Zionist. In the
organisation he takes upon himself to fight
“anti-Semitism” within the solidarity movement for
Palestine, a movement that willingly works together with
Jewish leftwing Zionists and allows them to set the
agenda; as they say themselves, so as not to risk being
accused of “anti-Semitism”.
The result
of this cooperation is that issues of the Palestinians
inalienable right to return from expulsion, the Jewish
state, the Israeli lobby, the Ziocons, and Zionism
become so-called non-questions, not only for the
Palestine solidarity movement but for all
anti-imperialists, for whom oil becomes the sole factor
that causes all the evil in the world. This ideological
Zionisering of the western world is essential for
carrying on neo-colonial wars, especially those against
Islam and the Arab world.
In Sweden’s
largest daily tabloid newspaper, Expressen, however, a
prominent liberal person of Rumanian Jewish ancestry,
criticises the newly launched FFLH campaign against
communism. In answer to this, I submitted the article
“Comparing Zionism with Fascism is Quite in Order”, see
below. A week passed, and I received the answer that the
editor had had no success in trying to engage more
people in the debate, not surprisingly, and that “ your
article as you will understand, is no longer of current
interest”.
No other
newspaper or magazine has published the article and
several have said that they find it too controversial,
or that they lack the expertise needed to scrutinise the
article which, despite this, they all find “very
interesting and well written.” I could not in my wildest
dreams have imagined the creativity of “radical”
editors. They put forward incredibly far-fetched
apologies for not publishing the article. Apologies that
went against all the publicist principles they claim to
adhere to.
Here
follows the article:
Comparing Zionism with Fascism
Is Quite
in Order
On the
17th of March 2008, in the tabloid newspaper
Expressen entitled “Comparing Communism with Fascism is
quite in order”, Ana Maria Narti discusses the
connection between ideology and practice in Communism.
She maintains that Forum for Living History (FFLH)
refuses to see this link, thus causing confusion rather
than enlightenment. The reason behind this is that the
leading campaign researcher is of the opinion that there
can be no comparison between Communism and Fascism,
because there was “much light” in the Communist utopia.
I am
inclined to agree with Narti’s criticism, but it also
applies to Fascism, or National Socialism, whose
totalitarian ideologies also contained “much light”. I
would go as far as to say that this is typical of all
so-called ideologies, this inclusion of “much light”,
and that, because of this, it is vital to make the
connection to their role in society before arriving at a
reasonable assessment of their merits. Not the least,
because ideologies are always used to justify “much
darkness”.
I am
personally sceptical of all ideologies. They consist of
locked dogmas that leave no room for people’s own
thoughts, thus making them easier to rule and control.
The significance of the media and of education as
producers of ideology in today’s global world can hardly
be overstated in this context. Governments also realise
this, FFLH itself is an example. This should, however,
in principle, make us cautious. Independent institutes
would be preferable for historical research and we
already have a form for political expression in the
right to build parties and in our parliamentary liberal
democracy.
Narti’s
article touches on the important question of the method
the Swedish people choose to gain knowledge of history
for purposes of prevention ie so that they are able to
recognise totalitarian ideologies before it is too late,
by looking at their role in society. The story must be
told in order for us to prevent the recurrence of
atrocities to human nature. So let as get to the roots
of not only Communism but also of Zionism, another
ideology born in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The fundaments
of Zionism were laid down by Moses Hess, called the
communist rabbi. He was one of Germany’s earliest
renowned socialists and Karl Marx’s mentor in his search
for socialism. He is considered by Zionists as the first
Zionist and wrote the book “Rome and Jerusalem” (1862 ).
In the book Hess emphasises the Jewish “race” as
superior and chosen, and the Jewish religion as the
best guarantee for Jewish nationality.
Theodor Hertzl
is usually considered to be Zionism’s founder. Later on,
he referred to Hess’s book as the one that says
everything worth saying about Zionism. Hertzl presented
a plan for the colonisation of Palestine in his book
“The Jewish State” (1896), which was affirmed at the
first Zionist congress in 1897. The Jewish “race” is
seen as a people with a right to their own state in
Palestine, the location of Mount Zion. The goal is a
Socialist Utopia – a model state - with “light” similar
to that of Communism.
The Zionist
Project was further developed by Ber Beorochov who
argued “territorial concentration” as a solution to the
Jewish question. He founded Poale Zion, the Marxist
Zionist Party which supported the Russian Revolution in
1917. Ben Gurion, one of the Party members and Israel´s
founder, came to Palestine at the beginning of the
twentieth century. He considered himself a Bolshevik and
was in favour of the dictatorship of the proletariat in
all countries, except Palestine where he favoured the
dictatorship of Zionism. What, then, are the practical
politics of Zionism?
The Zionist
slogan ‘A land without people to a people without land’
has engineered the Jewish colonisation of Palestine for
a hundred years or more. To realise its goal, a ‘Jewish
State’, there is a need for a substantial majority of
Jews, hence the ethnic cleansing of the people who
originally lived there, a so-called lebensraum. Israel
is, therefore, essentially a racist state. Jewish
superiority is maintained by a system of apartheid,
inherent in laws, administration and religion. To this
day, Israel lacks a constitution and official borders,
entirely in keeping with Zionism’s demand for more land.
Of what was
originally Palestine, 85 percent has been stolen or
annexed, and the rest is occupied. In 1948, 800 000
Palestinians were driven off or fled the country, and
are denied their right to return, a right laid down by
the UN. The Palestinians call this the catastrophe - Al
Nakba. The West Bank consists of walled-in enclaves
which are controlled by hundreds of checkpoints and Gaza
has become the largest open-air prison/ghetto in the
world, blockaded and suffering starvation. About 10 000
Palestinians, many of them children, are in Israeli
jails without trials or judgements. Israel’s dealings
with the Palestinians amount to what is formally named
genocide.
Zionism
puts together “Race”, People, Nation and “the Chosen” to
make a National Socialist version of colonialism –
“lebensraum” and “blut und boden” – and it existed as
early as the nineteenth century. Later, German National
Socialism was created with the same ideological
components and with similar policies for society. If
Nazism is the Germans’ version of National Socialism,
then Zionism is the Jews’.
"I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of the blood
idea"
This is
written by Chaim Nachman Bailik, Israel’s national poet
, in “The Present Hour” (1934).
The crimes
committed by Zionism are the result of the Zionist
ideology. This story should be told, Forum for Living
History.
Täby, 19th
March 2008
Lasse
Wilhelmson
Partakes in
the debate about the situation in the Middle East.
Member of the local government of Täby for 23 years , 4
of which in an executive position. Lived in Israel for a
few years in the early 1960:s
Postscript
Sending the article to many
newspapers and private persons in Sweden caused quite a
commotion, with comments such as “but Lasse, you turn
everything upside down…” or “you must have known you
can’t write things like that..”. This is rather ironic,
considering I have written other articles from 2003 and
onwards with exactly the same content, but perhaps this
time the result was all too obvious. It would seem that
the reader resists taking in the facts presented, thus
inhibiting thoughts from grasping the content.
Those close
to me say I should be careful about what I say and
write, even if it is true, because people can take
offence and become sad. You know better than anyone how
sensitive the ”Jewish taboo” is, they say to me.
Leftwing people try to convince me that Zionism is just
an invention of imperialism and that my articles contain
“racist conspiracy theories”. Believe it or not, I have
even been told that the issues I raise lack relevance
because Jews do not really exist. That is like saying
that Nazism lacks relevance because Germans do not
really exist.
The Left’s
indulgence towards Zionism is probably not just an
expression of the fear of having “anti-Semitic” smeared
all over it, or of the limitations of Marxism. Perhaps
the common ground shared by the Left and Zionism is
finally coming to light. It is hardly a coincidence that
many neo-conservative Jewish Zionists used to be
Trotskyites, or that Wall Street financed the overthrow
of the Bolsheviks in Russia. Could it be, in fact, that
Karl Marx and Moses Hess developed two branches of the
same project, back then in the middle of the 19th
century when political ideologies were beginning to take
form?
The
mentality of the western world, evolved since the second
world war and ultimately legitimising criminal
neo-colonial wars, is that “we” must defend ourselves
against “them” by waging preventive warfare in the
service of democracy. Our noble goals give us the moral
right to treat “them”, the terrorists who are all that
are against us, with no concern for existing laws or
international human rights. We place ourselves above
these “terrorists”. To protect our own safety, we even
agree to diminish our own human rights, a dire
necessity, in this noble fight for humanity. This is how
it goes, this upside down morality. Racist tribe
mentality for the chosen are the morals of The New World
Order, totally at odds with humanity and international
solidarity.
May what
happened to the Jews in the Holocaust never happen
again, it is the opposite of the democracy our boys and
girls are risking their lives for, in peace- keeping
missions around the world. “The Story Must be Told” and
we must not question it, not even remotely. Those who
do, are correctly imprisoned. How can they make a
mockery of the dead and their families. Here, if
anywhere, freedom of speech has its limits. Let us
defend the Jewish state from being annihilated. Never
again let “anti-Semitism” raise its ugly head. Leave no
new Hitler alone, even if he happens to be a Muslim.
Hence this
western mentality merges into a political ideology, or
rather into a kind of religion that controls and rules
the thoughts of people. In the New World Order, the
Holocaust is the new church. That is why anyone who is
against us is actually an “anti-Semite” and must be
imprisoned together with the “Holocaust-deniers”. FFLH
in Sweden is one example of all these churches.
Questioning the authority of this church is thus today
the biggest of all crimes that can be committed against
the New World Order.
Zionism is
shown here as increasingly becoming the important tool
of the New World Order. If or when its model state
Israel has served its purpose, it will be sacrificed by
the Power Elite who will develop the ideology needed for
a single Big Brother State which will “save” the world.
Crises of population and environment are already being
launched to support the arguments for such a
development.
Humanity
is, perhaps, entering a new stage of development. A
stage when people’s thoughts are becoming increasingly
collective, a result of migration and the possibilities
created by communicating.
We are
facing a fight for human thought. Obstacles and taboos
that limit it must be deconstructed. Human thought must
be liberated if it is to collectively achieve the
international solidarity needed to confront the Power
Elite’s Big Brother society and cause its acolytes to
disperse.
Lasse
Wilhelmson
lasse.wilhelmson@bostream.nu
Also by
Lasse Wilhelmson:
1.
Zionism as Jewish National Socialism
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/wilhelmson.htm
2.
“Anti-Semitism” as a Political Weapon
http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/LWanti-semitism.html
3.
Solidarity with Palestine in Sweden
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=12278
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