I Could Stop Seeing Sinister Zionist Plots Everywhere, But That Would Mean I Have To Get A Life

by Amer Zahr

Dearborn, Michigan – Life can get tough for the anti-Israel activist. But by “life” I mean only the biological, functional term, because between the obsession, surrender of identity, and conspiratorial thinking, not much time remains for a life in the “I am a healthy individual with constructive ways to spend my time and thus enhance relationships and cultivate a sense of purpose and self-actualization.” Self-actualization outside the tinfoil-hat community seems daunting, though, so it’s just not for me. Anti-Zionism it is!

Subordinating my entire identity, even my professional one, to undoing the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland certainly takes a toll on my sense of self. Not enough to stop me from sexually harassing women, mind you, but to a significant degree. It generates a mindset in which I may concede no rhetorical ground, admit no positive achievements by the movement for Jewish self-determination. The zero-sum mentality demands that every Zionist attainment carry some unsavory or sinister side. Defeats in 1948 and 1967, and every setback since, cannot result from simply losing to a better-led or better-trained foe; admitting such defeat engenders shame, and shame bad! It must therefore result from Jewish perfidy! Everything seemingly mundane becomes suspect. As you can imagine, formulating such ideas takes up much of the day, leaving precious few hours during which to pursue a life.

The mentality requires automatically viewing every global development, no matter ho apparently trivial, as a cog in the vast, elaborate, centuries-long plot by Zionists to control a worthless backwater piece of the Levant that Muslims only cherish because they lost it to dhimmi Jews. I know it sounds silly when you put it that way – because the Zionists have hypnotized you into considering Muslim grievances silly! If I had a life, I might not care about this, and I might devote my time to, I don’t know, windsurfing or intellectual development of some sort, but that’s not the choice I’ve made. Choosing to have a life of volition, and not one of merely reacting to every mundane act of Jews as SETTLERS STORM AL AQSA, would mean a level of self-examination and honesty that, frankly, I don’t feel like mustering.

Calling me an antisemite won’t make me change my ways. I might make noises about objecting to being characterized that way, because that label limits the circles in which I might find a warm welcome, but I don’t fundamentally disagree. We simply disagree on whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing. If you understood what the Jews are planning, you’d agree with me.

If I allowed myself to exercise common sense and see things your way, I’d have to find healthier ways to spend my time. And we both know I don’t have the patience or self-worth for that.

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