Anti-Zionism is no longer left-coded
the dirtbag right turns against zionism
*disclaimer*: Neither cracks in pomo nor no pomo are in the business of offering political opinions. Our opinion doesn’t matter, and we wouldn’t presume to impose it on you. This post is yet another metadiscursive commentary on cultural politics. Besides, if you know me (or have half a brain), you already know how I feel about this issue.
Despite most conservatives (including Trump) endorsing the Israeli cause and engaging in their own form of woke policing of anti-semitism, it’s been clear since October 7th that a fringe of right-wingers were pro-Palestine, thus forming a horseshoe with the far-left. Some were anti-globalists, some were anti-masons, some were Christians…and some were actual old school anti-semites.
Obvi, establishment neocons have supported Israel from the beginning. Most who are pro-establishment and pro-corporate/global institutions are fans of Israel. And Trump—despite being anti-establishment and anti-neocon, with his raw, crass form of populism—jumped on the bandwagon since it was expedient for him to do so. But why has the rest of the populist, “dirtbag” right followed along thus far?
Part of it was that—despite having much in common with Arab Muslims on an aesthetic/cultural and metaphysical level—they perceived Islam to be anti-American. Thus, they equated supporting Israel with supporting American values. But I’d say that it was the woke campus leftists who pushed the dirtbag right toward supporting Israel. Not only did their hysterics make supporting Palestine seem left-coded, they deemed it to be cringe…the stuff of whiny, narcissistic elites and of gender goblins and other non-“based” tropes.
But as time has gone on, it’s become harder for these types of conservatives to keep up the facade. Their tolerance for globohomo has reached its limit; the amount of people whining about anti-semitism is starting to rival the wokies who whine about sexism and transphobia…also, compare the amount of pride flags in Israeli vs Palestinian territory. And their moral compasses—like those of most decent human beings—can no longer tolerate the atrocities the IDF is committing against children.
And of course, their latent racist proclivities could only be repressed for so long.
This is why “disrespectable” right-wing figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene are starting to acknowledge that the IDF’s war crimes have gotten out of hand.
And the fact that macho figures like MMA fighter Paddy McCorry are very publicly backing Palestine is giving based anti-woke boys license to do likewise. Furthermore, the fact that the campus protests have died down have made pro-Palestine less of a left-coded thing.
And again, I think they are waking up to the shared cultural sensibility between raunchy, anti-establishment right-wing internet folk and Arab Muslims (not to mention the many Arab influencer bros, who have much in common with many other bro-y internet circles).
This text is so under-complex that it actually hurts to read.