Thursday, January 01, 2026

“Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?”

Every Zionist accusation is a confession: There is no bothsidesing genocide


Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people.

Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing — who do not exist — aim to erase you.

I have been instructed — because I understand the reason for Palestinian resistance — that I am a Kapo (defined as, a Jew who gained privileges by their cooperation with their oppressors within Nazi concentration camps).

Yet I am met with belligerent obtuseness, mental walls of bristling denial, when I point out, before my grandfather was arrested and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground. He was, in short, a member of a resistance organization that stood in violent opposition to a nation attempting to create a highly militarized, ethno-supremacist state. Yet when I aver, Israel is exactly that, Zionist apologists snarl, “I am a Kapo.”

Think this through: If my grandfather and his fellow Jewish prisoners had managed to stage an uprising against their Nazi prison keepers and an attendant prison breakout, including their resistance spilling out into the streets of Berlin, without a doubt, history would have regarded them as heroes. Yet, history as related by Third Reich Nazis, if Germany had emerged victorious in the end, would have label them as Oct 7 type of rampaging terrorists.

Therefore, in memory of my grandfather, I stand in solidarity with the besieged, living in constant terror, Palestinian people, and their acts of resistance against their ethno-supremacist oppressors, the latter, the actual betrayers of Jewish resistance against state sanctioned hate.


Pictured: My maternal grandfather, Heinrich Meyer, anti-Nazi resistance fighter.

Regarding, “but Hamas,”

My late father, orphaned as an infant, adopted by a Jewish mother from The Lower Eastside, New York and a gentile father, a New Orleans denizen via Staten Island, snapped the iconic photograph below on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama.

He sold the photograph, for the purpose of keeping a roof over our family’s head, to his photo-journalism syndicate and the image was subsequently published on the front page of the New York Times and the pages of Life Magazine.

When people demand why, as a Jewish person, I am repelled by Zionism, I offered in reply variations of: 1) My mother is a survivor of the Holocaust 2) Growing up, as I did in Jim Crow-ruled Birmingham, Alabama, upon my first visit to Israel, I detected a pronounced and ruling, bigotry-rancid mindset of the Zionist citizenry that was an analog to the mindset of Third Reich Germans and Jim Crow era US Southerners, complete with all the noxious casuistry and soul-defying psychological projections to which individuals in possession of majority status privilege in ethno-supremacist societies are prone. My family was scorned as “n-word lovers” by Jim Crow-clinging Alabamians as I am slandered as a “Kapo” by Zionist true believers.

When, as a child, walking the streets of Birmingham with my mother, according to Jim Crow law, Black men were obliged, under threat of arrest, to cross the street when in the path of an approaching White woman. As is the case with present day Zionists, the mindset evinces a pathological fear within the head of the oppressor in regard to the oppressed. As is the case with its fear-based and brutal analog in the Zionist state, the mindset is a progenitor of all manner of societal pathology, from casual cruelty to genocidal impulses.

Thus when Zionists accuse me and other anti-Zionist Jews of tribe-betraying treachery thus enabling of Israel’s savage, blood-crazed mortal enemies, the following truism comes to mind in regard to Zionist apologists and other authoritarian, bigoted brutes, “every accusation is a confession.”

To wit, every accusation regarding the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas, the Israeli thugocracy has exceeded ten thousand fold. Moreover, opinion polls of the Israeli citizenry reveal they are in full support of the worst of the uniformed thugs of the IDF’s war crimes, including the wholesale and planned starvation of Gaza’s children.

When Jews such as myself regard with mortification and condemn in the strongest terms the conflation of Judaism and Zionism — the abominations perpetrated by the latter group are the type of unforgivable actions that we dread will be associated, in a broad, indiscriminate manner, with us the primary group.

All war crimes should not only be regarded as reprehensible but there is a minefield of false equivalence stretching between Palestinian resistance and Zionist war criminality, between Palestinians’ struggle for survival and Israel’s attempt to erase not only their presence from the land of their ancestors but their history as a viable people from collective memory. Hence, an inadvertent confession of genocidal intent.

Then there is this: before you gibber “but Hamas too…” allow this to sink in: place yourself in the position of the people of Gaza (a location human rights organizations termed an “open air prison” well before the Oct 7 prison break out. Considering the evils that have been perpetrated on Gazans by the Zionist regime those kinds of condemnations should be regarded as facile and feckless declarations and utterances of casuistry.

Then there is this to consider: The history of the West reveals: Acts of suppression inflicted on powerless people abroad will engender a “chickens coming home to roost” effect (i.e., The Principle Of Perpetual Poultry Returns (POPPR). State perpetrated repression and violence in foreign policy traveled homeward.

In the US, to greater and greater degrees, speech is censored, ICE thuggery reigns, religious zealotry acts in the service of mercenary agendas, and there seethes on the highest seat of power a within-the-threshold-of Alzheimer’s president, surrounded by lickspittle tools and manic fools, who is an ambulatory caricature of a preening dictator. The dismal and deranged criteria dovetails and cross-pollinates with Western acceptance and enabling of Israel’s brutal and endless oppression of the Palestinian people.

As noted above, every accusation aimed at the resistors of tyranny is, in fact, an admission of intent.


Image: 1963, The Civil Rights Era “Children’s Campaign” assaulted with police water cannons on the Jim Crow-ruled streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph by Frank H. Rockstroh

(When Palestinian Civil Rights campaigners (e.g., during The Gazan Great Walk Of Return) have emulated the tactic, IDF snipers have shot them down outright.)

Foundation mythos and blood-drenched folly:

The notion of Jews returning to the Promised Land is mythos created by Bronze Age Barbarians. My Ashkenazi Jewish DNA reports my ancestral home is as follows: Germany, France, Spain, Greece/Albania — with 4% coming from northern Iran/Iraq i.e., ancient Persia…the sum total of nada from Israel.

In contrast, the DNA of Palestinians reveals…wait for it…they are the true descendants of Biblical era Jews. They possess “the right to return”. Not my pasty, narrow ass.

Yet European settlers-colonialists, my relatives, expelled them from their rightful homeland and force Palestinians and Israel’s neighbors to live on their knees in perpetual supplication for the sins of Europe.

The fantasy, turned-into-waking-nightmare of returning to “the Promised Land,” is, as noted above, the noxious mythology of Bronze Age barbarians.

The mythos is noxious indeed:

When any system lapses into extremis, a psychical version of The Second Law of Thermodynamics kicks in; negative entropy is in play, and collapse becomes inevitable.

As is the case with Zionists, the Nazis swooned in false mythos. To wit, They believed the reign of the Third Reich would herald the rebirth of Teutonic Knights thus will bring about a German Golden Age.


Third Reich era propaganda poster portraying Adolf Hitler as a Teutonic Knight

The Thousand Year Reich lasted all of twelve years. Extremists have a pronounced proclivity to set in motion their own demise.

As with the Civil Rights era campaigns in the US Deep South, the hateful, casually racist, and cruel nature of Jim Crow apologists, as is the case with Israelis and their unhinged apologists infesting social media, and their attendant serial posting of vile and vicious content reveals the ugly, bullying character of the genocidal prone nation — thus is proving to be self-undermining.

The graphic below, despite the relentless torrent of Zionist propaganda retailed on legacy media outlets, reveals the soul-defying actions of a nation of bullies, if not homicidal maniacs. How is it possible to ignore the massive degree of wanton carnage that the IDF has inflicted on Gaza’s tiny land mass — on a more massive level — than the death and destruction wrought by the bombs, incendiary weapons (add present day murder-bots) that were targeted on major cities by both the Allies and Axis powers during aerial warfare campaigns of World War 2.


Every red dot represents an Israeli bomb that hit Gaza in the last two years

Withal, the world has witnessed a war crime — of the collective punishment kind — that has surpassed any in the modern era. Yet the major powers of the West have not only remained silent — but provided Zionist war criminals with the weaponry to perpetuate mass murder.

When a nation’s foundational mythos is: Because Jews (i.e., members of a broad and varied religious group) were victims of a campaign of annihilation (i.e., by a European power) — we Zionist (a political movement that engendered the establishment of a nation-state) have been granted carte blanche to eliminate anyone, any group or nation that we insist is a threat.

It is inane to ask whether I sympathize with Hamas. The question should be: Are you in simpatico with your own humanity?

May be an image of trumpetAm I a self-hating Jew for my lack of simpatico with these kippah-bedecked jerkopaths?

Phil Rockstroh is a poet, lyricist, and essayist. His poems, short fiction, poetry and essays have been published in numerous print publications and anthologies; his political essays have been widely posted on the progressive/left side of the internet.  Read other articles by Phil, or visit Phil's website.

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