On Antisemitic Zionism in the Age of Trumpian Judaism

In the logic of antisemitism, a Jewish state is the most perfect of all ghettos.

In Jewish Currents, Peter Beinart writes:

”Trump’s fondness for Israel and antagonism toward American Jews stem from the same impulse: He admires countries that ensure ethnic, racial, or religious dominance. He likes Israel because its political system upholds Jewish supremacy; he resents American Jews because most of them oppose the white Christian supremacy he’s trying to fortify here. This synthesis isn’t unique to Trump. Since Zionism’s birth in Europe more than a century ago, it has attracted support from Christians who supported a Jewish state at least in part because they feared Jews would undermine the ethnic and religious purity of their own countries.”

You should read it.