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Only a Nazi conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Those on the right, being Nazis, use the Hitlerian definition of anti-Semitism. In this Hitlerian definition, Jews can never actually be full citizens of any other nation besides Israel. Regardless of their personal loyalty or belief, any Jew in the US or Europe is suspect, only a partial citizen, a foreigner at their very core. This is Hitlerian, as it is the very way the historical Nazis viewed Jewish identity.
For modern Nazis, being a Jew and being Israeli are interchangeable. A criticism of the Israeli government is an attack on Jewish people in general. Nazis like the modern Republican Party believe that Jews can never be real Americans, and that they will always have some connection and loyalty to the Israeli state. This is the very logic that justified the Japanese internment camps. If you think every Jewish person must be loyal to Israel, you are literally a Nazi.
Finally understanding that, in the fascist world-view, the “big fight” is between internationalism/globalism and nationalism, is what finally made the riddle of the right-wing’s oxymoronic relationship with Judaism (i.e., rabidly pro-Israel, yet often conspiratorially anti-Semitic at the same time) start to click at last and make sense for me.
They’re just hyper-nationalistic, and any group of people that doesn’t fit neatly into nationalistic boundaries is suspect.
They want a Jewish state, so that Jews in general, as a culture and as individuals, will stop being so internationally-minded. Right-wingers can conceptually deal with and understand a “nation,” and interact with them like they would other nations. But a people who exist without borders, or in spite of them, that’s scary.
That’s it.
There’s a reason why Hitler, in Mein Kamph, not only targeted Jews, but also Esperantists as dangerous enemies in need of isolation, persecution, and imprisonment (BTW, have you ever met an Esperanto enthusiast? Not dangerous people, by and large, just well-meaning dorks who easily make deep personal connections with people in other countries, and did so before the internet was a thing - plejparte sendanĝera). BUT, they’re people who sought to soften, not reify, national borders. Hence, Hitler had them imprisoned and killed (including the creator of Esperanto’s own children, tragically).
Same with Communists. It’s not the economic model of communism that scared them so much (although they certainly didn’t love it) - it’s the espoused, unapologetic internationalism of the communist project (at least in theory, if not in practice). That’s it - that’s why fascists sought to destroy communism. It was international. It was borderless (in theory).
That’s also why right-wing conspiracy-minded wingnuts are suspect of liberal/democratic international organizations, like the UN, as well. It’s not the liberality that’s dangerous from their POV - it’s the internationality!
It’s not ideology that threatens fascists, and it’s not religion. It’s globalism. That’s it. That’s the boogie man for fascists and right-wingers. Porous borders. Loose national identity. Missing national pride and “peoplehood” inextricably linked to country, flag, and state. That’s it.
Fuck ‘em. People are people everywhere, humanity first.