General Introduction: The Zionist Entity as a Trans‑Border Imperial Instrument
Since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, the Zionist movement has been organically linked to the colonial structure of European capitalism. Ideologically and politically, it formed within the network of imperial interests that sought to reshape the political geography of West Asia (what the Western imperial centre calls the “Middle East”) to serve its expansion and dominance. In this context, the Zionist project has always had a clear settler‑colonial function: to seize a strategically vital location at the heart of the Arab world, thereby securing the interests of the global capital centre and simultaneously creating a barrier to national liberation, sovereignty and independence for the peoples of the region.
Because of this functional character, the Zionist movement was given a pivotal role in the imperial exploitation system from the Balfour Declaration (1917), through British patronage during the Mandate period, to the establishment of the Zionist entity in 1948, and then the shift of protection and support to the United States after World War II, continuing to the present day. Washington helped cement the entity as an advanced military base for the imperial project a U.S. aircraft‑carrier platform guaranteeing qualitative military superiority in the region. The Zionist entity was therefore not merely an instrument of imperial wars in the Middle East; like the imperial centre’s support for military dictatorships and fascist regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it also participated in backing regional dictatorships and repressive, reactionary armed forces in Africa, Central and South America, and apartheid South Africa. This expanded its security military influence, placing it at the core of the global imperial network and enabling it to produce and export repressive weapons and related technologies.
Zionism and European Fascism: A Single Intellectual Structure
Zionism arose within the European nationalist‑ethnic milieu that gave birth to both fascism and Nazism. Early Zionist thought adopted many of the core concepts that later defined European fascisms: racial centrality, civilizational superiority, nation state primacy, violent solutions, and the expulsion of the “other.” These ideas underpinned chauvinism and Western fascism. At the same time, Zionist leaders were influenced by Anglo‑Saxon notions that historically produced genocidal campaigns against Indigenous peoples in North America, New Zealand and Australia, adopting similar ethnic‑cleansing logic to appropriate land. Thus, the relationship between Zionism and fascism is structurally rooted in the same epistemic source.
Zionist leaders absorbed the hard‑line nationalist vision prevalent in Eastern and Western Europe, concluding that “the renewal of the Jewish nation” could only be achieved through an ethno‑replacement project that entailed the expulsion of Palestinians. Consequently, Zionism shares with European fascism a structural core: the creation of an imagined, pure ethnic community defined through exclusion and hostility, employing institutional violence to reshape geography and demography.
From this perspective, today’s “Zionist fascism” is a direct continuation of European colonial imagination, not a separate or accidental phenomenon. The fascist trajectory within the Zionist entity is not a fleeting deviation caused by temporary crises; it is an extension of a deep seated structural path established at its founding, deepening over time into a religious‑ethnic nationalism armed with settlement expansion, and institutionalising violence, killing and extermination as permanent political‑security tools.
Institutional Manifestations of Zionist Fascism
Israeli institutions military, administrative, political, academic and civil society embody the entity’s fascist architecture by turning science, knowledge, law and governance into direct instruments of extermination and control.
Military Industrial Complex: The armed machine deploys cutting‑edge technology, artificial intelligence and other advances to crush Palestinian humanity, conducting large scale experiments with lethal imperial weapons. The Zionist administration tests societal engineering tools and other mechanisms aimed at subjugating the Palestinian population. The relationship between the Zionist military apparatus and imperial arms manufacturing is organic: the entity functions as a laboratory developing and field testing imperial weaponry, especially in intelligence and security dimensions.
Legal Framework: From the outset, Israeli law was crafted in an exclusionary, racially segregative manner to serve a colonial ethnic cleansing project. Laws were designed to tighten control over Palestinian land, pressure indigenous residents to abandon it, strip them of legal protection and cement racial supremacy for settlers. As the fascist structure evolved, these statutes transformed from colonial administrative tools into a legislative system that enshrines fascism itself culminating in the “Jewish Nation Law,” which constitutionally institutionalisesfull racial segregation, followed by the “Death Penalty Law,” which makes the killing of Palestinian prisoners a mandatory, non-appealable punishment. Law thus becomes a mechanism of repression and murder, with the judiciary serving as the official façade of organised liquidation policies.
Academic and Ideological Production: Universities generate militant doctrines that aim to destroy civilian infrastructure, such as the “Doctrine of the Suburb,” which the state integrates into its war practices. The apex of this doctrine manifested in Gaza over the past two years, resulting in a mass extermination that claimed roughly seventy thousand Palestinian lives, left about ten thousand missing, injured more than one hundred and fifty thousand, and systematically destroyed civilian facilities including schools, hospitals and essential infrastructure.
Official and Media Collusion: Complicity in violations against prisoners including sexual assaults exposes the depth of fascism that strips Palestinians of their humanity, normalisingotherwise unlawful violence as state‑sanctioned behaviour. This collusion extends beyond official channels to civil, religious, political and cultural institutions that together constitute the Zionist societal fabric, all of which have historically participated in the extermination, dispossession and denial of existence of the Palestinian people.
Debunking the Myth of a “Zionist Left”
The notion of a progressive “Zionist left” is a false narrative. Any political or social force within the Zionist movement is bound by the structural framework of a settler colonial replacement state, inherently participating in the system of exclusion, organised violence and racial supremacy. Political, military, academic and unionised bodies collectively produce Zionist fascism and sustain the colonial architecture, while currents that brand themselves as peace orequality oriented merely fine tune the existing regime without altering its replacement essence. Consequently, the global left bears the responsibility of exposing these myths, rejecting normalization with forces that grant the entity a veneer of democratic legitimacy, and building an international anti-Zionist front modeled after historic worldwide struggles against fascism.
Soviet and Chinese Relations with the Zionist Entity
Historically, the Soviet Union deviated from Marxist‑Leninist principles when it first recognisedthe Zionist entity in 1948, legitimising a colonial settlement project tied to Western imperialism and embracing a “workers’ Zionism” discourse that concealed its fascist nature.
Later, China abandoned the progressive stance once championed by Mao Zedong, forging extensive economic and military ties with Israel including advanced technologies, cyber‑security cooperation and military expertise without altering the character of those relations or curbing Israel’s criminal campaigns against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Both Russia and China have thus become geopolitical actors driven by narrow strategic and economic interests, abandoning any genuine progressive humanitarian commitment to the Palestinian cause and further skewing the balance against the colonised population.
Conclusion: Confronting Zionist Fascism and the Global Left’s Responsibility
Zionist fascism is not a transient political aberration; it is the natural outcome of a colonial project born within a European nationalist racist intellectual environment. With open backing from Western imperial powers, Israel now represents the most dangerous model of an unchecked state wielding virtually limitless power, operating beyond accountability and capable of igniting conflicts that threaten global stability. Combating this trajectory is not solely the responsibility of Palestinians; it is incumbent upon all democratic and progressive forces worldwide, because the future of the international order hinges on humanity’s ability to confront this model.
Therefore, the left, progressive movements and civil society organisations must launch a serious global campaign against the Zionist colonial project. This involves reframing the debate around the entity’s imperial history, forging international alliances among progressive forces in the Arab world, Latin America, Europe and Africa, intensifying Boycott Divest Sanctions (BDS) efforts, imposing comprehensive bans on the entity, amplifying the Palestinian narrative in media and academia, and meticulously documenting war crimes and genocide. Only through coordinated, worldwide solidarity can we build a unified front that confronts Zionism wherever it appears as an inseparable component of the broader fight against fascism, imperialism and the savage capitalism that afflicts our planet.
