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16 August
US WHITE SUPREMACIST LEADER SAYS HE'S A 'WHITE ZIONIST'
On this day in 2017, Richard Spencer, the leader of the alt-right White supremacist and anti-Semitic movement in the US, was interviewed on Israeli Channel 2: and told viewers, “You could say that I am a white Zionist – in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves. Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel.” Several months earlier, Spencer had led a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia chanting “The Jews will not replace us!”
"زعيم الحركة العنصرية الأمريكي يقول إنه "صهيوني أبيض
16 أغسطس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام2017 ، تم إجراء مقابلة مع ريتشارد سبنسر، زعيم الحركة اليمينية العنصرية المتطرفة والمعادية للسامية في الولايات المتحدة، على القناة الإسرائيلية الثانية: وقال للمشاهدين "يمكنك القول أنني صهيوني أبيض – بمعنى أنني أهتم بشعبي، أريد أن يكون لنا وطن آمن خاص بنا لأنفسنا. مثلما تريدون وطنًا آمنًا في إسرائيل". قبل عدة أشهر ، قاد سبنسر مسيرة للنازيين الجدد في شارلوتسفيل فيرجينيا يهتفون "لن يحل اليهود محلنا!"
A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country.
Much of the “alt-right” literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect. Images of George Soros using his “globalist” tentacles to smite his political enemies. Thought pieces on a “white genocide” so devious that barely any white people have noticed it. Reflections on the “Islamification” of Europe. However, there are some surprises.
Chief among them is the fact that Richard Spencer, one of the leading faces of the movement — who led a Nazi-style salute to Donald Trump before a crowd of close-shaven, rapturous followers — expresses great admiration for the one state in the world that calls itself Jewish. Other leading “alt-right” partisans, such as Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon, hold a similar view.
When Richard Spencer is asked about his preferred label, he sidelines “white supremacist” in favor of “identitarian” — a term evoking flag waving and petitions rather than burning torches. Like earlier proponents of an edgy yet “respectable” white supremacy, Spencer carefully dodges awkward questions about Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust. Instead, he stays firmly on his own message: Multiculturalism has failed, civic nationalism is a sham, and the best solution for everyone is to live within self-contained, ethnically homogenous states. It is here that Spencer finds a model in the state of Israel.
First 30 seconds of this video is enough for those in a hurry. Spencer's 'Hail victory' is a translation of the German Nazi salute of 'Sieg Heil', given in German as well to make the point clear. An Edinburgh racist appears at 4m30s in.
“You could say I am a white Zionist,” he told Israel’s Channel 2 news in August 2017. He later described the Jewish state as “the most important and perhaps most revolutionary ethno-state” — the “one that I turn to for guidance.”
Why are Israel and extreme right, antisemitic forces in a mutual embrace? The first visit by Brazil’s new fascist leader is to Israel. Israel is defying the pleas of the local Jewish community to court the government of Hungary, even while Prime Minister Orban rehabilitates as “a great patriot” WWII leader Admiral Horthy who delivered Hungary’s Jews to the Nazis for extermination. The Polish Government recently joined a far right march that prominently featured White supremacist slogans, some calling for “an Islamic Holocaust” and one group defending an infamous 1941 massacre of 340 Jews in Jedwabne.
Poland and Hungary are two examples of governments with White nationalist bases and antisemitic support that are closely allied with Israel - a state based on Jewish supremacy that openly restricts some political rights for Jews only, and denies them to all Palestinians.