Zionists embrace of Trump and Bannon is no surprise – Mondoweiss
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) gives a platform to Steve Bannon and Stephen Adelson at its annual gala this Sunday
night, November 20th in New York City. For anyone familiar with Zionist
history and current alliances, this should not come as a surprise but a
confirmation. Zionists have always leveraged reactionary, racist, colonial and anti-semitic governments, regimes and organizations
– from Russian Tzars to the Nazis to Mussolini to the colonial British
Empire to the Christian Right (Christian Zionists). Their embracing of
Trump and renown reactionary political strategist Steve Bannon is no
exception. Bannon is chair of Breitbart News, a platform widely known
for its white nationalism and anti-Semitism. It is also fervently
Zionist.
News platforms such as the Huffington Post and the Jewish Forward
ask whether its possible to be antisemitic and Zionist and have
concluded, yes. For IJAN, the alignment of reactionary Zionist
organizations (i.e. ZOA), Zionist billionaire funders that attack progressive movements
(i.e. Sheldon Adelson), the reactionary, racist president-elect Trump
and his political strategist Bannon, is a confirmation of the nature of
Zionist ideology and the Zionist movement. It is a movement and ideology
that relies on racism against Palestinians and Arabs, demonization of
Islam and Muslims, ethnic cleansing and justification of colonization.
That is why Zionism is an insult to the history of Jewish struggles
against antisemitism and Jewish participation in collective struggles
for labor rights, civil rights and human rights and against racism and
repression.
