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The whole foundation of Herzl political zionism is his belief that antisemitism is an inherent attribute of humans, really it's that stupid. Theodore herzl was your average redditor parroting that greed is human nature but with antisemitism.
Here we see yet another negative result of this ideology that racism and bigotries are eternal human traits and not specific historically contextualized movements. If the enemy is eternal and can never be defeated, it really changes the calculus on what is to be done - it's irrelevant to try and abolish racism now. It creates a sort of fatalistic acceptance of racism as a natural force of the world that can be co-existed with, utilized as a resource, etc. It makes it morally empty, just a thing that exists like water or air.
Lol so he basically believes that humans are genetically hardcoded to hate Jews? Like a baby born in rural nowhere will immediately recognize and start hating a Jew if one walked in?
Honestly he's probably wildly antisemitic and is only projecting that to everyone else so he feels better about himself. "I'm not the problem, everybody hates Jews!"
From "Israel, a beachhead in the middle east" by Stephen Gowans.