“God’s Chosen People” Consider Themselves Entitled to Claim Land Anywhere in the World
Liberal and educated Israelis are not fleeing Israel because they oppose the Greater Israel project or the ethnic cleansing and genocides that accompany it. They leave because Israel is collapsing into an undemocratic state. Yet they still carry with them the settler-colonial mindsets of the racist state they depart from. This article summarizes the essence of the full documentary from ‘Uncivilized Media’ below.
Core Thesis: The Portable Nature of Zionist Settler Ideology
- Global Israeli Colonization: Israelis are extending their settler mentality and practices beyond Palestine, colonizing various parts of the world, not just Israel.
- Zionism’s Exported Violence and Exploitation: The ideology of Zionism fosters an exploitative and violent relationship with land and people that is not confined to Palestine but travels with Israeli settlers abroad.
- Perpetual Victimhood Fuels Settler Mentality: A deeply ingrained narrative of victimhood, stemming from extensive Holocaust education, allows Israeli soldiers and citizens to justify their actions and maintain belief in the Zionist project, even when committing war crimes or exhibiting aggressive behavior abroad.
- Zionism as a Portable Ideology: The core entitlement and delusion of Zionism are not bound by geographical borders; settlers carry this ideology with them, seeking to establish new “Israeli villages” or exert influence in other nations.
Unique Perspectives
- The “Success Method” (HaShita HaYisraelit): Israeli society values “savvy” behavior over playing by the rules, where being a “frier” (sucker) is a severe insult, leading to a mentality of pushing boundaries and doing what one wants until stopped.
- Aggression as a Cultural Trait: The perception of aggression as confidence (”hutah”) in Israeli culture is not accidental but a deliberate Zionist construct to shed the stereotype of the “weak Jew” and cultivate a “muscular Judaism” necessary for colonization.
- Liberal Zionists’ Entitlement to “Fertilize” New Lands: Even liberal Israelis, who claim to be fleeing a failing democracy, exhibit a settler mentality by viewing new host countries like Italy as “virginal” and “open to be fertilized,” demonstrating a lack of respect for existing histories and inhabitants.
Supporting Evidence
- “Humus Trail” in Asia: Tens of thousands of ex-soldiers create “Little Israel” towns like Casal in India, where Israelis constitute nearly half the population, exhibiting disregard for local laws, running illegal businesses, and barring locals from establishments.
- Project Beta in Valsasia, Italy: An initiative has brought 80 Israeli families to Italy’s Valsasia region, framed as a solution for demographic decline, but revealing a settler mindset among educated, secular Israelis fleeing perceived democratic collapse in Israel.
- Government Complicity in Greece and Cyprus: Greece and Cyprus have signed “colonial” deals allowing Israeli defense forces to use their airspace and territory for war games without consent, effectively acting as “Israel’s genocidal wingmen” and facilitating Israeli military presence abroad.
Thought-Provoking Questions
- The Irony of Settler Mobility: How can Israelis justify their free movement and settlement abroad, seeking “detox” or a “new start,” while the Palestinians they dispossess are severely restricted from movement, even within Palestine?
- Redefining “Democracy” and “Victimhood”: If liberal Zionists flee Israel due to a perceived collapse of democracy, yet still adhere to the core tenets of a settler-colonial ethnostate, does their definition of democracy and their self-perception as victims truly align with universal human rights and justice?
The settler does not leave the colony behind.
He simply packs the colony into his suitcase and searches for new land to claim—land he believes he has the right to subjugate as well.
And those non-Jewish Israelis who cannot leave the country face a real risk of being killed. In the video below, Israeli Likud MK Hanoch Milbitsky told Arab-Israeli MK Ayman Odeh: “You will die, your children will die, your grandchildren will die — there will not be a Palestinian state.” The remarks were delivered during a Knesset debate in which 99 of the 120 members backed a government statement opposing unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
The event occurred on 21 February 2024.