Put plainly, Israel is aligning itself with an authoritarian wave sweeping Europe to legitimise its policies of genocidal warfare and democratic erosion, while Europe’s far right increasingly becomes normalised and mainstream.

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    They love it. Part of what Israel does is encourage antisemitism abroad in order to demonstrate the necessity of Zionism. Confront this wherever you see it. Especially when it is couched as anti-Israel, but uses anti-Jew language. Don’t let them get away with it. Anti-Nazi, anti-zionist, ant-fascist. Hold the line.

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        Yes, but on it’s face it should still be odd that they’d support actual antisemites. Nationalists don’t always get along with other nationalists.

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        A far right government that faces only very token opposition in any Western country because anti-muslim sentiment and perpetual imagined jewish victimization has been propogandized and weaponized into society for decades by these arsehole extremist zionists. And the non extremists largely let them get away with it when they also benefit.

        After god know how many movies about the holocaust, and how many movies painting every middle eastern person as a suicide bomber religious zealot, who wants to be the one to be even accused of being an antisemite? We’ve all been trained that thats poison-- even when its a nonsense accusation.

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      Fascists support other fascists…

      It’s why fascism anywhere is a problem for people everywhere.

      They’ll always try to prop up like minded people, because if there’s only one fascist government everyone pays attention to them.

      If there’s 5-6 all doing shit, it’s hard for everyone else to unify against it.

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    Do they ever wonder if they might be the badguys, when they’re going to a meeting about how to put ultranationalists in charge of Germany?

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    Fascists of a feather flock together. Times are going to get really bad 65 million people died the last time we let fascism rise on a global scale

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    They’re an ethno-Fascist state (same type as the one of the NAZIs: Fascism but anchored of ethnic-superiority instead of on “mere” nationalism, hence far more dehumanizing of the “other” which translates into far more and more extreme violence against those they call “vermin”) so of course they love Fascists in general.

    The main ideological difference between Zionist Israel and the last great ethno-Fascist country - NAZI Germany - is that the ethnic-group they see as “vermin” is Muslims rather than Jews and Roma, so those are who they want to push other Fascist groups to hate (which they already do up to a point thanks to decades of islamophobic racist propaganda from America, itself almost certainly influenced by Israel).

    Most of Israel’s actions suddently make total sense if you look at them as a modern variant of NAZIs with different ubermenschen and untermenschen.

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    A part of me thinks the rise of extreme nationalism is fueled by climate change. We’re already seeing issues with access to clean drinking water around the world. Hell, in 2025, Mexico wasn’t able to honor their end of the water trade treaty with the US for the first time since the treaty was created in the 1940s, which helped the nazis in charge here justify refusing to send water to Mexico. https://www.ecoticias.com/en/usa-denies-mexico-water-1944-treaty/12590/

    It’s only going to get worse. Resources are drying up, and when countries face issues supplying clean water and food, they tend to gravitate towards barbarism and tribalism. In my opinion, this is just the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately.

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      Another possibility is the Economic supercycle which has a period of around a century, in which we are now at or near the low-point (basically the maximum inequality point when growth - not just Economic but actually as a progression of quality of life - is at a minimum whilst non-productive rentierism is at a maximum).

      It makes sense that the people with the most power - which in Capitalism are the moneyed classes - at this point would be investing heavilly in political forces which blame outsider for the pain and loss of faith in the future that most people are feeling, in order to avoid being punished by the public for their misuse of power for maximum self-enrichement which is causing the hurt on everybody else.

      This shit isn’t just Economic, but also Social and the elites managing the last part would explain all manner of things done in the last decade or two, from the rise of the Far-Right to increasing political corruption and authoritarianism (starting with widespread civil society surveillance, which is now increasing, as well as increasing cracking down on demonstration) in supposedly Democratic nations.

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    I wonder if there’s some kind of doctrine devised by the early modern Israeli government that basically amounts to the only way to not let Jewish people be at the bottom of the boot again is to be the boot, and the Israelis have just been quietly working to emulate the Nazis as per that doctrine ever since?

    Or its the classic victim/abuser cycle but replicated on a nation scale.

    Or just arseholes being arseholes.

    Why not all three?

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      Zionism itself essentially boiled down to using the tragedies faced by jews in order to borrow the boot of western nations until they had one of their own. It’s why the next most likely new homeland for jews after Israel was going to be the Nazi suggestion of Madagascar or the Italian suggestion of Ethiopia or Libya. It’s easy to oppress and make such compromises when the most strict way of teaching your religion states everyone besides you has no soul and you are going to divinely rule over them someday anyway.

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    The Israeli Likud party is far right. The Russians and Israelis are supporting right wing European parties filled with fucking neo-Nazis.