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Israel has never been a refuge for Jews as a people, nor a truly protective sanctuary. On the contrary, it has embedded them in a nationalist project that instrumentalizes their history, their suffering, and their identity as political capital to exploit.

This symbolic capital, based on the memory of the Holocaust and collective trauma, is mobilized to justify a brutal and ongoing colonial enterprise. It is no coincidence that Zionist discourse is built on the idea that the security of the Jewish people depends on the domination and exclusion of Arabs.

This inversion is perfect and cynical: Zionists position themselves as guardians of a persecuted people while making pacts, directly or indirectly, with forces that historically fueled antisemitism and the European far right. Whether through geopolitical alliances, strategic collaborations, or ideological complicity, they embed themselves in a network of oppression that transcends borders.

This dynamic shows how victimist rhetoric can become a tool of power, a way to legitimize colonial violence under the guise of self-defense.

But this posture protects no one. It reproduces the classic colonial pattern: divide and rule, instrumentalize struggling identities, and turn victimized populations into pawns on an imperial chessboard. By crushing Arabs, Israel does not protect Jews; it perpetuates a cycle of domination and violence that only feeds hatred, fear, and identity withdrawal.

The loop is complete: the same forces that perpetrated massacres against Jews are today complicit in perpetuating state violence against another people, a new colonized people. And this complicity reveals the true nature of the Zionist project, which is not to protect but to dominate, not to emancipate but to assign a functional role within a global power system.

Understanding this means rejecting simplistic and victimizing narratives. It means breaking the logic of identity essentialism.