Zionism as a form of anti-semitism w/ Jake Romm

Zionism, and the project of ethnic cleansing and colonial
settlement in historic Palestine, is often rightly compared to
other projects of European colonialism. But in a recent essay for
Parapraxis, my guest Jake Romm argues that Zionism not only
has been influenced by the European imperial project, but that it
has also been massively shaped by anti-semitism, and that in its
recapitulation of anti-semitic stereotypes, and even anti-semitic
practice, it makes sense to view Zionism as a species of
anti-semitism itself. We talked about how Jake came to this view
via Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's The Dialectic of
Enlightenment, why he thinks Zionism has always been bent on the
destruction of the Palestinian people and could never be content
with merely exploiting Palestinian labour. And we also talked about
the extreme machismo of Israeli society, and how October 7th was
experienced as an emasculating event. Finally, we talked about
Israel's likely turn to a permanent occupation of Gaza - and the
possibility of the creation of new Israeli settlements in the
territory.