To grasp the depravity of a particular era or country, you don’t need to measure how deeply the comprador bourgeoisie has sunk into the filth of imperialism—after all, that’s their nature and pleasure. Instead, turn your gaze to those who claim to be “communists,” and you’ll find them competing with the comprador class in diving headfirst into that same filth!
This is neither the first nor the last example: youth from the Palestinian People’s Party in the occupied territories are meeting with Communist youth from the Zionist Entity at the height of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This is only part of what’s happening—it’s the disgrace of the inferior before an unworthy master.
And when? At a time when youth from around the world are standing in a united front against the genocide—led by youth in major American universities, sons and daughters of the capitalist elite themselves! Meanwhile, Arab and non-Arab athletes, artists, and unionists, both male and female, are refusing to participate in any event that includes representatives of the Ashkenazi Zionist Entity. Even the Colombian president stood in the den of the United Nations calling for the formation of an international army to liberate Palestine. Bless that man! And bless Gaddafi, who once humiliated them there.
It’s as if it’s a curse of ideological genes injected by the Soviet revisionists into the Arabs who called themselves communists. This curse has passed down four generations like a closed breed that mates with itself and reproduces itself like a tapeworm! How can it not, when they sit with and participate alongside the sons of the same terrorist murderers who have been drenched in Palestinian (and Arab) blood for over a century—and still are unsatisfied!
The best description I found for these so-called “People’s Party youth” (formerly known as the Communist Party) sitting next to youth from the settler-colonial Zionist Communist Party in a NATO Communist conference in Greece is this quote from Marx:
“…Therefore, the political economy was not a product of our own land; it came to us ready-made from England and France as an imported article. Our professors remained students. Worse still: The theoretical expressions of more advanced societies turned in their hands into a set of rigid dogmas, which they interpreted in line with the needs of a backward society. Thus, it became a reverse interpretation.”
(Capital, Preface to the First German Edition, 1873, translated by Adel Aytani, Beirut: Al-Maaref Library)
What an odd mixture—these people chew Marxism until it becomes either Talmudic spells or Ibn Taymiyyah’s fables. And the Greek Communist Party now appears to be a Marxist wing of NATO. They’ve gathered a bunch of Communist parties who have opposed Russia in favor of Nazi Ukraine and Zionism—Zionism’s second homeland—protected by NATO. I wrote about this at the time.
As soon as the leadership of the Palestinian People’s Party heard the fall of Soviet revisionism and the Trotskyists singing in celebration, they were among the first to throw off their “communist” garb in the field—led by Emile Habibi, who fled toward “Western democracy and liberalism.”
There’s a bitter humor here: these so-called communists, in the name of communism (of which they are completely innocent), proudly blew up our skulls over their “achievement”:
“They were the first to invent the recognition of the Zionist entity in Palestine!”
Even after Zionist communism collapsed—after killing the Soviet (Leninist) tradition—and despite abandoning that tradition (if they ever understood it), they stripped off communism but clung to recognition of the Zionist Entity. That is, of course, Russia’s current position. It seems our communists are mourning the ruins of a country whose rulers now take pride in bringing the temple down.
These people are the legacy of Emile Habibi, who considered himself the “first communist” but became the “first liberal”—the chief Arab normalizer who divorced communism but never divorced Zionism.
It’s said that Habibi once called Azmi Bishara a donkey, despite the fact that the young Azmi has followed in his footsteps to this day. Isn’t Azmi one of the singers of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (leader of Al-Nusra)? And how many like Azmi exist today? Didn’t Mahmoud Darwish stand over Emile Habibi’s grave and say, “Oh my teacher”?
But let’s add a material explanation: This party became an NGO back in 1975 via the Arab Thought Forum in Jerusalem, headed by the late normalizer Ibrahim Dakkak, also a member of the same party. It was then injected with poisonous funds, beginning with a Zionist-Dutch NGO known as NOVEB.
The Zionist Entity is privileged—by Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic Zionism—possibly even more than by its imperialist sponsors. It would never have taken root and survived in Palestine if the surrounding Arab and Islamic environment were truly opposed to it.
So, between the submissive comprador oil regimes—like Qatar’s former foreign minister Hamad bin Jassim, who openly described himself and his kind of Palestinian and Arab communism as sheep (whose highest ambition is to sit with a Zionist who claims to be Marxist), we’ve had over a century of self-hating Arab communists freezed between denying their Arab identity and worshipping a foreign East that has betrayed Marxism.
But the issue is even older: the Soviet line of the communist movement was infiltrated by Zionism early on—even before and after Trotsky’s expulsion and assassination.
Zionism embedded itself in the communist movement—especially the Soviet current after Lenin. It’s not just about Marxist-Zionist theories (which can be masked with rhetorical fluff)—the real issue is the Soviet state’s position on the Zionist entity. After Lenin’s death, it was a white, Eurocentric, imperialist stance—claiming to support Zionist settlers in Palestine because they would build a socialist state in a backward Arab region. What an excuse more repulsive than the crime!
This grotesque logic mirrors imperialist theories of “positive colonialism.” Even figures like Jeffrey Kay argued that colonization should have gone deeper and lasted longer in the Third World!
The disaster is that these communist movements ignored the fact that Zionists are settlers stealing other people’s land—and that poverty or “backwardness” (even if true) does not justify this from any human standpoint. Land is not individual property—it’s collective, even communal.
The Soviet recognition of the Zionist entity meant that a “socialist” state was legitimizing the theft of Palestine by “socialist Zionists”! And this is, ironically, more progressive than the stance of many Islamist political movements who accept Turkey’s theft of Syrian land and Iran’s hold over Iraqi territory.
Could it be that the Soviet communist belief in the Zionist claim to Palestine stems from a Talmudic/Biblical worldview—that some god promised the Jews Palestine and beyond? Are these Soviet communists really Marxists, or are they Christian Zionists in disguise?
No doubt, dialectics and historical materialism are screaming in pain.
The Soviet state knew that Zionism was the child of Western capitalism at the tail end of colonialism and the beginning of global capitalism. So how could they support, fund, and arm this white capitalist settler-colony?
Every communist movement that recognized the Zionist Entity fell into the trap of believing Golda Meir when she said that “the second Palestinian generation will forget its homeland.” This delusion is what allowed the tragedy to be normalized—like the other white settler-colonies (U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, apartheid South Africa).
But the ongoing Palestinian resistance has flipped the equation for a century—culminating in the Al-Aqsa Flood, which shook the planet and continues to do so.
Is this a Palestinian uniqueness? Or a general human trait, bolstered by deep-rooted Arab popular support—even while Arab regimes and elites are being “Zionized”?
Even setting aside the Torah sickness in the Soviet mind, where is the materialist analysis from political economy? Where is the wisdom of Bukharin’s Imperialism and World Economy or Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism? Especially since these formed the basis for the World Systems Theory (Samir Amin, Gunder Frank, Giovanni Arrighi, Immanuel Wallerstein)—which insists on the inevitable collapse of capitalism.
To expect a socialist formation to emerge from a capitalist-imperialist settler society like Israel is either ignorance, betrayal, or Zionist infiltration. The “socialist” kibbutzim were connected with the capitalist market, it was a lie designed to lure poor Jews to colonize Palestine—and to win the support of Western “leftist” imperialists.
Despite all this, many communist parties continue to recognize Israel and even fantasize that it’s “socialist”—even after Likud came to power in 1977 and brought in Milton Friedman as an advisor to finance minister Simha Erlich. The only other government to embrace Friedman’s harsh neoliberal model was Pinochet’s fascist regime in Chile, after the bloody coup in 1973.
Now, NATO communists host Israeli communists even as the Likud regime turns into religious fascism, shedding its “democracy” and drowning the Palestinian people in blood.
This brings us back to the Arab communists—who, despite seeing with their own eyes the ongoing Nakba, and despite the Zionist entity’s imperialist-backed war on the Arab world, never retracted their recognition of the Zionist Entity.
And who knows what’s hidden under the rug? If this much love exists for Zionist communism, why not cooperate on security?
To this day, no Arab communist party that recognized Israel has dared to apologize for their crime. And then, some shallow thinkers still claim:
“Arab and Islamic society doesn’t accept socialism.”
Nonsense! It would be a blind, ignorant, pathetic society if it accepted the kind of socialism sold by these people.
In truth, we—Arab nationalists and communists—are paying:
- The price of Arab reactionary recognition of the Zionist Entity since semi-feudal reactionary and tribal leaderships 1918 through comprador capitalism
- And even more so, the price of most Arab communists outcompeting the bourgeoisie in recognizing the Ashkenazi Zionist Entity
Now, both the comprador regimes and Zionized communists beg the imperialists and Zionists at the UN for a mini-state in the West Bank and Gaza—swearing by all they hold holy that 1948 Palestine belongs to religious Zionism, communist Zionism, and settler Zionism.
In other words: they do not recognize Palestine at all.
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