Swanson -- Stealing Palestine, Stealing Enlightenment
Stealing Palestine, Stealing Enlightenment Leave a Comment / October 18, 2026 Yoav Litvin and Ilan Pappé’s Wired to Steal includes a history of European anti-Semitic horrors and the development of Zionist propaganda, propaganda that from the start drew on white-supremacy, eugenics, militarism, nationalism, eventually even Nazism, and the settler-colonial ploy of stealing territory, getting oneself attacked, and then labeling and understanding genocidal violence as “defense.” “Zionists were widely unpopular among most European Jews, who saw the ideals of the Enlightenment, emancipation, equality, and integration as their ultimate goal.” The authors trace the origins of Zionism, at least in large part, to Evangelical Christians who, much like back-to-Africa racists in the United States, sought the removal of people against whom they were prejudiced, but in this case did so for magical reasons of the Second Coming of Christ and rel...
