EXTREME POLITICS

I think they have documented the phenomenon well, but not understood its reasoning:

A wave of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric in Europe is being met by a surprising countertrend: right-wing political factions, including those rooted in Nazism, who have embraced Jews and Israel as “the quintessential guardians of European culture.”

So argues Matti Bunzl, director of the program in Jewish culture and society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who contends that the European far Right is becoming “genuinely philo-Semitic.”

“Even strong support of Israel among the Right is driven by Islamophobia and perception of Israel as a bastion of European civilization,” said Bunzl, author of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe. For European nationalists, “the Jewish state is trying to preserve its European values against the onslaught of Muslims. It is a European state trying to defend itself and its Western culture and democracy.”

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The reason the far-right is supporting Jews is that Jews in Israel are creating an ethno-state, or “nation” (as opposed to nation-state like the USA), in which an ethnic population, its religion and its values, its language and its customs, are one with the government.

This means one ethnicity per nation. Upholding that idea is the essential concept of the far right; Blood and Soil means not only the ethnostate, but ethnic stewardship of the local environment and culture as a more important goal than commerce or popularity with the drones. The far-right desires this kind of society.

This is why you’re seeing stuff like this:

On May 15, the Gregorian date in which the State of Israel was established, a group called National Socialists for Israel launched its online manifest.

“A strong nation is worthy of life; an ailing nation deserves death,” it said, before detailing an ideology sporting the traditional Nazi concept of purity of the race on the one hand, and calling on National Socialists to let go of their hatred for Jews and support the Jewish people’s right to their own homeland on the other.

“Deportations, pogroms and inquisitions were all understandable acts which were carried out by nations merely trying to defend themselves,” said the website of past persecution of Jews.

“That is also the context in which the event called the ‘Holocaust’ must be viewed… This does not justify it. Instead of destroying the Jews we should have taken every measure possible to support the Zionist movement.”

YNET

Both groups are fighting the same war: to avoid being assimilated by globalism/diversity/multiculturalism, and by avoiding that assimilation, being able to hold on to their religions, traditions, culture, values, customs and heritages.

This isn’t written to play into the hands of the mostly leftist pundits who compare Israel to the NSDAP. Instead, it’s to speak honestly of nationalism, which demands one ethnicity per nation and that the nation instead of being divided by infighting, be unified in religion, culture, heritage, and values.

It can even be tolerant in doing so. A nation can group actions and ideas into three categories: those supporting the national values system, those against it, and those indifferent to it. It can politely ignore the third category, prosecute the second, and embrace the first.

In Israel, we are seeing a unified culture, religion and heritage that is defending itself against a diverse population which grows faster than it does, thus stands to inherit Israel unless stopped by political or military means:

Hamas is beginning to see something else. At this point, the best way to destroy Israel, is to leave it exactly as it is.

Titrate, adjust the flow of rockets fired at Israeli civilians to a level which is thoroughly acceptable to the rest of the world, but which is also entirely unbearable to Israelis.

Then, sit back and watch demographics and despair work their magic. No wonder Hamas officials who are seen as moderates urge a 50-year truce. By that time, Israeli Arabs will be able to simply vote the Jewish state off the map.

Ha’aretz

Jews have traditionally not supported nationalist movements because nationalists want only one ethnicity per nation, which excludes Jews from anywhere but Israel. However, both sides are coming closer — because both want to assert the right of any ethnicity to have a one-state solution.

Even worse, the left which has traditionally allied itself with immigrants’ rights issues has now turned against Israel, prompting a rise in anti-Semitic acts which show how much larger the left is than the right:

The number of anti-Semitic incidences in Europe through the first three months of this calendar year exceeds the total number of such occurrences from all of 2008, according to a report issued by the European Jewish Congress.

The report cites the reaction to this past January’s Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza as one of the key triggers of anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish communities in Europe. In addition, the current financial crisis is giving rise to age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes suggesting “Jewish control of the global financial system.”

“Public opinion links Israel with the local Jewish community, which turns us into enemies,” [ Rony ] Smolar [ head of Scandinavian Jewish community ] said, adding that his country has seen “a dramatic rise” in the number and severity of anti-Semitic attacks.

Ha’aretz

It seems to me that true hate crimes are not as much a political statement as a demographic one: holding territory, and forcing others out like you’d squeeze a tube of toothpaste. In other words, it’s not designed to send up a flag for a political theory or even a bigger idea; it’s pure inter-group demographic warfare.

And even from Canada — Canada! — where leftist interests and a strong Muslim population have converged to create hate crimes where people draw the swastikas backward:

Anti-Semitism in Canada reached an all-time high last year, despite the government’s efforts to combat the phenomenon, B’nai Brith said Tuesday in its annual report, adding that Jews were being used as scapegoats for the ailing economy.

The report also linked the rise in anti-Semitism in Canada to the Bernard Madoff fiasco and Israel’s recent military offensive in Gaza.

The group’s audit counted 1,135 attacks on Jews or Jewish targets in 2008, an 8.9% increase over the previous year, and a more than fourfold increase over the past decade.

YNET

Generally regarded as left-leaning in the West because they opposed nationalism after WWII, Jews are now being seen as right-leaning because they wish to have an ethnic state — some call this an assault on diversity, others point out that for us to have diversity we must preserve cultures/heritages intact — and as the outcry from the left against Israel grows to the point of blatant anti-Semitism, they’re starting to see what the far right was saying all along: if nationalism is not defended, the crowd will inundate every nation in generic culture with generic heritages.