Zionism and Future Britain
One of the differences between British and American society is the prominence of Jews in America. This creates a heightened awareness among the gentile public of “Jewishness” in general. Due to this and the First Amendment, American White nationalists often misunderstand the climate in Britain and recommend strategies which are simply not viable here.
In Britain, Jews are much less prominent in our culture because they are much less numerous in our population. If a Briton grew up and always stayed in rural towns, in his entire life he might never meet - or knowingly meet - a Jew. In the cities, most people will have had some experience with them but it will usually be limited to having dealt with a Jewish estate agent, lawyer, etc., which yields an apolitical, even “acultural” perception of them. Maybe they once knew a friendly shopkeeper who ordered in that thing they wanted - a nice memory but a very limited experience. Maybe they once had a stereotypical ruthless landlord, but they might not realise that he was Jewish, in which case his behaviour doesn’t contribute to a “pattern” in their mind. As a result, there is much less recognition among British people of Jews “as a group”. Even those who are aware of it tend to think it is defined purely religiously; they are just White people who have a different religion from most of us. This is how they are perceived by apolitical normies, everyday conservatives, and the anti-white woke Left.
Because of this, Brits are much less likely than Americans to realise that many of the key figures in their media are Jewish, or to see any significance if this were pointed out to them. In the legacy media: Stephen Fry, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Melanie Phillips, David Aaronovitch, Robert Peston, Esther Rantzen, Vanessa Feltz, David Baddiel, Matt Lucas, Simon Amstell, and even Rachel Riley. In the new media: Andrew Gold, Winston Marshall and of course the loathsome Konstantin Kisin. For Brits, these are just people with slightly strange names, and often not even that. When David Baddiel complains about anti-Semitism, well, he’s just protecting himself and other Jewish individuals from bigotry, isn’t he?
Thus, they don’t conceive of such a thing as “Jewish power” and wouldn’t believe you if you told them. In fact, they are so unaccustomed to the concept of group identity that they wouldn’t understand that they (White Brits) are a group, or that Jews could be one as well, or might see themselves as one. The idea of “opposing” it is therefore alien to them.
Yet, so concerned are some Jews about this possibility, they have given Tommy Robinson a career thwarting it.
I believe that the entire purpose of Robinson (and Douglas Murray and nowadays Nigel Farage) is to repurpose English nationalist sentiment for Zionism, or at least to prevent it from going “anti-Semitic”. While Robinson renounces English ethnic identity, he constantly celebrates Jews and Israel. In fact, he decries Muslim immigration to Europe while advocating Israel’s wars which increase it. Farage is more subtle but the same.
In fact, Zionist capture is all over our politics. Becoming a politician in Britain apparently entails getting introduced to the existence and influence of organised Jewry - knowledge that completely eludes the ordinary public.
During the previous Parliament, Declassified revealed that 27% of the MPs (180 of 650) had received money from “the Israel lobby”. The Conservative Party is effectively owned by that lobby. They are especially predominant in its senior echelons according to David Cameron, who once quipped that it would be more accurately called “the Torah Party”. Of its 365 MPs, a staggering 80% were members of the Conservative Friends of Israel. This percentage was the same in 2009 and probably long before then.
Of 202 Labour MPs, 75 (37%) were members of the Labour Friends of Israel. That party is less “captured” than the Conservatives, but still enough that Jeremy Corbyn, for not being sufficiently pro-Zionist, could be demonised as “anti-Semitic”, ousted as leader and replaced with the ultra-reliable Keir Starmer (complete with Jewish wife and kids).
Needless to say, the Liberal Democrat Party has its own “Friends of Israel” organisation. So do Farage’s parties; UKIP had one and now Reform UK is to get one.
The single exception is the Green Party. It does have a faction called Jewish Greens, but that is led by a man who seems rather anti-Zionist. The party itself is led by “certainly not a Zionist” Zack Polanski. Presumably it is being used as a silo to hold idealistic “hippie” Jews. However, we can bet that if it ever becomes an electoral force, all of this will change and Jewish Greens will be dissolved and replaced with a “Friends of Israel” organisation.
This is because, to join the club of British politics, supporting Zionism is an absolute requirement. For context, and to illustrate how ludicrous that requirement is, in 2007 the British government refused to ratify a convention on the grounds that “there are no indigenous people in the UK”. Thus, all of our mainstream political parties (and the British government itself) accept the reality of a Jewish people and their entitlement to a homeland, but deny the existence of an English people and thus their entitlement to a homeland (the very homeland that the British government and all of these parties supposedly exist to serve and protect).
This bizarre situation seems designed to have exactly the effects it has: hamstring British politicians, prevent them acting in the British people’s ethnic interests, and prevent them prioritising Britain over Israel.
Thus, if Israel needs money, we give it. If Israel wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza, we finance it and accept the resulting refugees. If Israel wants to be “first”, we settle for Britain being “second”. None of this is justified, except by the politician’s own personal interests; he wants bribes and junkets (presumably) and doesn’t want to be blackmailed or have his reputation or career annihilated.
But the compromised position into which this puts our politicians and commentators is fatally easy to “show up”. When Matt Goodwin bullishly declared that we should put Britain first and not any other countries, Aaron Bastani had only to ask “not Israel?” to have him squirming. Yes, despite what he had just said, Goodwin wants to make a special case for Israel. He attempted to justify this by saying that many Jews in Britain care about Israel. Well, many Pakistanis in Britain care about Pakistan. So what? It doesn’t mean the rest of us need to give a fig about Pakistan - and we don’t. Israel likewise.
But then, nobody tells us we should care about Pakistan, even though there are over five times as many Pakistanis in Britain as Jews… yet we are told to care about Israel.
