>>2260858>Jews have been knighted as "honorary" whites, and have been enlisted as crusaders against Muslims by white European Christians. I've seen a lot of pro-Israel stuff on the right that co-opts the language of the Enlightenment so therefore the West (and Israel) represents reason, science, and secularism while the Muslims are a backwards, irrational, nihilistic death cult. This is the language they use. There's also an invented, retroactive linking between Enlightenment liberalism to "Judeo-Christian" civilization (even though the Enlightenment was largely a break from religious orthodoxy) to justify this alliance.
Douglas Murray is emblematic of this trend and he really tries to be like Christopher Hitchens (who also spoke like this) but one difference is that Hitchens never liked Israel and thought Zionism was dumbed-down nationalism, a "waste of good Jewry" or something like that.
Thing is, many Enlightenment philosophers did believe Europe represented the pinnacle of civilization and rationality and used that to justify colonialism. The concept of the "white race" is like an updated framing of the Christian vs. non-Christian (now Judeo-Christian vs. Muslim) or the "civilized vs. barbarian" rendered in "scientific" or biological terms, atlhough these types of pro-Israel people don't talk about the "white race" but "the West" and "Western civilization" etc. Then a few years ago Richard Dawkins began describing himself as a "cultural Christian."
>How should the secular international Communist left combat these powerful spooks?That's above my level.
>>2260868While there's definitely an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel right, these pro-Israel guys have large audiences and they're also closely tied to where the power actually is, which gives their communication a lot of weight.
>>2260881They were and some of them turned into weird nazbols who saw themselves as "Canaanites." But they were a pretty small group within the Yishuv. The large majority of armed Jews in the late-40s were in the Haganah, which skewed left, and the hardest-hitting Jewish military force within that was the Palmach (or "Strike Companies") that was basically Stalinist, pro-Soviet.