I’ve spent a lot of time over the years trying to trace the intellectual, cultural, and psychological origins of the Woke/PC/SJW phenomenon. More recently, I’ve been working to trace the origins of the bizarre fetishization of Jewishness that is apparently so pervasive in WASP culture. Like much of the Woke phenomenon, which can be traced to German Lutheran pietism and its subsequent manifestation as English Puritanism, the fetishization of Jewishness seems to have parallel roots in the Lutheran doctrine of “sola scripture.”

While Luther himself was clearly not a philo-semite, once you reject Church tradition, all that’s left is the Bible. Protestants have historically been pathologically fixated on the Bible, even today. Anyone that obsessed with the Bible is naturally going to have an extreme curiosity about and fascination with Jews. For that reason, we’ve seen the proliferation of Protestant and Protestant-derived sects with bizarre Judaic obsessions. Prototypes for modern Christian Zionism existed even before the modern Zionist movement, going as far back as at least Cromwell and, to some degree, even Calvin himself. Other examples include British Israelism, Hebrew Roots, Noahides, Christian Reconstructionism, Christian Identity, and many others.

The influence of Puritanism and various utopian religious movements on the development of the United States, along with the low church evangelicalism of the Great Awakening, seems to be among the primary reasons for the Jewish fetish among US Protestants. Additionally, the rise of the modern bourgeoisie, and by extension, modern republican states dominated by the merchant class, appears rooted in the Protestant-Jewish merchant class alliance, which emerged during the market revolution in the early modern period and subsequently challenged traditional elites.

Because English Protestantism has since achieved global dominance due to the hegemony of Atlanticism, the fetishization of Jewishness and the geopolitical outgrowth of the Protestant-Jewish merchant class alliance have resulted in a situation where Zionism functions as a symbiotic partnership with Atlanticism. The underlying WASP ethno-religio-cultural foundations in the Anglo countries provide a source of legitimization for Anglo-Zionist hegemony.

Here’s the main disconnect I see coming from Zionists and Israel-apologists. If we Gentiles are not supposed to have any regard for Palestinian rights or Palestinian life, why should we have any regard for Jewish life or rights? If when we see videos of Palestinian children buried under rubble, we’re supposed to say, “Oh, well, it’s war. Too bad,” then why should we care about the victims of 10/7? For that matter, why should we care about the gory concentration footage we’ve been constantly treated to courtesy of the US/Western media for half a century? “Oh, it was a war. The Germans were just doing what they felt they needed to do.”

At the very least, this is a two-way street. If we should oppose Palestinian rights, maybe we should rethink the Jewish Emancipation of the post-Enlightenment period as well. The tradition in pre-Reformation, pre-Enlightenment Western Christendom was that the J-folks were something morally suspect to be shunned, ostracized, and ghettoized. The same way a respectable middle-class person might view pimps, drug dealers, and bookies today or, ironically, the way Zionists view Palestinians. If we’re supposed to be okay with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, then maybe we should consider that maybe the Pale of Settlement or the Ghetto of Rome served a social function. Why should we Gentiles make these categorical distinctions between Semites? If Israel can ghettoize Palestinians, why can’t we Gentiles ghettoize J-folks once again? After all, we Gentiles are the greatest majority of all.

Zionism and Anti-Semitism are ultimately two sides of the same coin.