American college students have launched a movement that has run into the Iron Wall of Zionism
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It was the subject of a foundational book
by a founding father of modern Zionism. It was the object that Zionist soldiers
ruthlessly defended in 2018. It is what protesting American students have just
run into. Concretely and conceptually, it is the keystone of the Zionist
project: the Wall.
The first rule of Zionism is that the wall must be
absolutely impenetrable.
The material wall must be impenetrable because, in the
context of an ethno-religious supremacism, it's the boundary that separates the
elect, the chosen, the ubermenschen from the rejected, the dispossessed,
the untermenschen. Any breach in the wall will lead, inexorably and
quickly, to a breakdown of the essentialist exceptionalism and the social order
premised thereupon.
In the white-supremacist segregated south, the police
and the dogs and the nightsticks had to be used to prevent even one black
child from entering a white school because, they knew, that would mean the end
of Jim Crow.
In Jewish-supremacist apartheid Israel, as Israeli academic and political advisor Arnon Soffer said years before the Great March of Return in 2018, it is necessary for Israel to “put a bullet in the head of anyone who tries to climb over the security fence.” Israel must prevent even one Gazan from crossing the wall, because “when 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. … The pressure at the border will be awful. … So, … we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day…. If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist.”