Richard Spencer-ites finally understand Nietzsche's views on Jews and "antisemitism" vs. "philosemitism".

I admit that it took me some time to get to this position as well.

Jews are arguably the only people who can be readily assimilated into a population without much effort.

Think of Arab Jews, European Jews or Turkic Jews, "Southern" Jews etc...

The reason for this is most likely to do with how their religion is their race, and their race is their religion.

No other group on the planet has a similar identity. Africans were animists when they were enslaved by the (Muslim) Arabs and (Christian) Europeans. They had to be converted to Abrahamism, and then "assimilated" (even though this did not really work in either the Arab or European case).

They're the only group that can't be "integrated" in a way that would make sense to people. "Integration"/autonomy for Jews means the "Pale of Settlement", the "Jewish Oblast" or funny hats or Star of David patches.

They have to be fully assimilated into the overall identity to be both guaranteed protection, as well as (ironically) to be prevented from engaging in subversion (why would they subvert their own and only identity?).

This is how you solve Zionism. This is how you solve "antisemitism". This is how you solve "The Jewish Question".

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In the example of the "Pale of Settlement", life in the area was bad, but "Jewish identity" and "Yiddish culture" flourished due to the hardships.

"Integration", when applied to Jews, makes them into proto-nationalists. They see themselves as "different", just as the people who granted them autonomy see them as "different".

That understanding of "difference" is what lies behind the motives pushing Zionism.

Without "difference" there would be no need for "Jewish identity" and there would be no need for Zionism, or even anti-Zionism or antisemitism.

It is worth remembering that the most ardent Zionists (including Zionism's founders!), even before the 1930's, were Eastern Jews. Westernized Jews, viewed Eastern Jews (in German Ostjuden) as miscreants and subversives who wanted to force Western Jews (who mostly saw themselves as Western Europeans above all else) to become just Jews.

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