The idea of a “global Jewish conspiracy” was always a racist fabrication — a paranoid myth used to justify persecution. Yet today, a dangerously parallel reality exists — not mythical, but institutional.

When pro-Israel groups tout “purging” critics from Congress, when Netanyahu declares America is “a thing you can move,” or when Israel calls itself the “nation-state of all Jews,” they evoke, however unintentionally, the same conspiracy logic that has historically endangered Jews except now, they are endangering Palestinians—and, indeed, the whole world.

Jewish billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban didn’t merely fund Zionist causes — they built the scaffolding of geopolitical power, underwriting lobbying networks, anti-BDS campaigns, and media platforms. This isn’t fringe philanthropy — it’s systemic influence that recasts solidarity as complicity, and historic victimhood as political justification.

Meanwhile, thousands of non-Israeli Jews enlist in the IDF via programs like Mahal, embedding foreign bodies into an apparatus of occupation. These efforts are legitimized by Israel’s Basic Law, which declares it the “nation-state of the Jewish people,” extending its jurisdiction — and its messaging — beyond its borders.

The Glastonbury 2025 incident where British punk duo Bob Vylan led chants of “Free Palestine” and “Death to the IDF” offers a potent case study in how Zionist-aligned political and media infrastructures can mobilize swiftly and powerfully in ways that raise serious questions about democratic norms, particularly around speech and dissent. Livestreamed by the BBC, the performance sparked rapid and tightly coordinated backlash:

The BBC removed the footage and issued a formal statement.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the chant.

The Israeli embassy denounced the act as “hateful rhetoric.”

The U.S. revoked the band’s visas.

United Talent Agency dropped their representation.

Police launched a formal investigation.

Israel’s orchestrated reaction bypassed democratic debate. There was no public deliberation — just instant condemnation. State and corporate powers mobilized to punish expression and silence critique. Calls to flatten Gaza or chants of “Death to Arabs” in Jerusalem go unchecked, chants against militarized occupation trigger police inquiries.

The infographic below distills the architecture of Zionist political power into three core pillars — media and culture, government, and education — each reinforced by moral, legal, and ideological mechanisms. Zionist power operates, not in the shadows, but through officially sanctioned narratives, legal codes, and moral outrageousness.

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The repercussions of Zionist political power reverberate far beyond Palestine. Around the world, communities and states have suffered under the export of Israeli weapons, surveillance tech, and counterinsurgency tactics — tools refined through occupation and now deployed in contexts from Kashmir to Bogotá. Israel’s exported tools — Pegasus spyware, drone warfare tactics, and biometric surveillance systems — empower authoritarian regimes worldwide, turning Israel’s laboratory of apartheid into a franchise of oppression.

In Latin America, Israeli advisors supported Guatemala’s genocide against Indigenous Mayans; mercenaries trained paramilitary death squads in Colombia.

In Africa, Israel armed apartheid South Africa and shared tactics used against Black liberation.

In India, Israeli drones and police training shape repressive policies in Kashmir and beyond.

In the United States, police departments adopt Israeli crowd-control methods via the Deadly Exchange, harming Black, Muslim, and Indigenous communities. Simultaneously, social media platforms suppress Palestinian content under Israeli pressure.

In Europe, pro-Palestinian activism is criminalized. The Bundestag equates BDS with antisemitism; CRIF reshapes French media alignment. Artistic and academic voices face deplatforming.

In education, curricula in Australia and Canada increasingly reflect IHRA-aligned constraints, muting classroom discussion of Palestine.

In the Levant and Gulf, Israel conducts operations that extend beyond Palestine into regional destabilization. In Lebanon and Syria, it has carried out airstrikes, sabotage, and support for proxy forces targeting Hezbollah and Iranian-linked actors. In Iraq, Israeli intelligence networks are implicated in covert operations and targeted killings. In Iran, Israel engages in deniable cyber warfare, sabotage campaigns, and assassinations of nuclear scientists — actions widely attributed but rarely acknowledged, forming a shadow war across the region.

In Ukraine, Israel has played a calculated role — providing humanitarian aid and civilian missile-alert systems while withholding lethal military support or sanctions against Russia. This strategic ambiguity stems from its balancing act: preserving coordination with Russia in Syria while opposing Iranian drone support for Moscow’s war effort.

At the center of this global Zionist architecture lies the lived reality of Palestinians — dispossessed, surveilled, bombarded, and silenced. From the siege of Gaza to daily humiliations in the West Bank, Palestinian lives are shaped by the very systems exported abroad: military occupation, biometric surveillance, legal apartheid. While global institutions rush to punish artists who chant “Free Palestine,” they remain inert in the face of war crimes, mass displacement, and generational trauma. This isn’t just about narrative control — it’s about shielding a regime that deprives millions of land, autonomy, movement, and dignity. Any serious reckoning with Zionist power must begin by acknowledging that Palestinian lives are its first and perpetual target.

If the myth of a global Jewish conspiracy once fueled persecution, it is now real Zionist power — exercised through alliances, capital, and cultural suppression — that sustains a machinery of persecution in real time. Antisemitism, once a shield against hatred, has become a tool of silencing, severing the link between Jewish trauma and universal justice and eroding both human rights and the very concept of democratic accountability.

Palestine — and the world — is in urgent need of a truly decolonial horizon that begins with rejecting the false equivalence between Zionism and Jewish identity. This means lifting the burdens of complicity from both the oppressed and those conscripted into sustaining structures of domination — donors, governments, institutions. It requires reclaiming antisemitism as a serious charge, not a rhetorical weapon. And it demands coalitions that refuse to trade truth for comfort or justice for proximity to power.

To confront Zionist power is not to reanimate old antisemitic myths — it is to dismantle new and very real machinery of control and repression. It is to reclaim the moral clarity of antisemitism from those who weaponize it, and to uphold critique as essential, not hateful.

The good news is that once a strategic ally of Western powers, Israel now stains their human rights records and fractures their credibility among rising global blocs. As global economic power shifts toward the Global South, Western alignment with Israel risks alienating future trade and diplomatic partners.

Decolonial solidarity is material, global, and collective, recognizing that the surveillance tech used over Gaza also monitors black neighborhoods in Detroit, that anti-BDS laws silence students in Paris as well as dissidents in Johannesburg. Liberation, it insists, is indivisible.

The future will not be built by those who mistake critique for hate, but by those who refuse silence as the cost of justice. As Eve Tuck (Unangax̂) and K. Wayne Yang remind us: “Decolonization is not a metaphor. It is not a symbol. It is the dismantling of systems that were built to erase.”

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Rima Najjar is a Palestinian whose father’s side of the family comes from the forcibly depopulated village of Lifta on the western outskirts of Jerusalem and whose mother’s side of the family is from Ijzim, south of Haifa. She is an activist, researcher, and retired professor of English literature, Al-Quds University, occupied West Bank. Visit the author’s blog.

She is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Cracked Mask: When ‘antisemitism’ becomes a shield for genocide, the illusion fractures — revealing the machinery of repression beneath (AI generated by the author)

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