Definition
/ˌpaləˈstinēənˈizəm/ noun.
- Obsession with destroying Israel, the West, and one’s own safety and civil rights, above all other causes, and against all other supposed convictions, even when they contradict each other.
- Mein Intifada.
- Islamic Conquest of Israel, then the West.
- Death to America, Israel, and Democracy.
Summary & Relevance
The term “Antizionism” does not cover the entirety of the “Free Palestine” movement. This is something else entirely, and it is a coordinated, vast, foreign interference psyop designed to destabilize the West and Islamicize the world.
Dr. Einat Wilf, Israeli sage and politician, writes that Palestinianism is “the ideology negating the Jewish right to self-determination in any part of its ancestral homeland and the related effort to erase that historic connection between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel.”
Discussing the very recent spread of Palestinianism, Wilf notes, “Palestinianism brings together the worst of Islam and the worst of the Western world for the singular purpose of destroying the Jewish state.” However, the purpose has mutated to destroy the West and spread radical Islam globally.
As such, Palestinianism is eliminationist, revisionist, and embraces terrorist violence. It is absolutist—unflinchingly confident in its permanent correctness, unwilling to correct course no matter the human or political cost. And in fact, it blames its opponents for any death toll or conflicting information. At its core, Palestinianism is a narcissistic project, requiring a breathtaking lack of self-awareness and personal responsibility across decades, borders, and movements.
This dogma requires a few things: Totalitarianism, a total rewriting of history, and rampant, thinly-veiled hatred of the Jewish people, Israel, and anyone who dares support them.
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Words matter. This post examines “Palestinianism” as an ideology—its history, claims, contradictions, and political function.
Palestinianism: Definition, Origins, and Ideological Function
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Slide 1: Palestinianism (Definition)
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palestinianism: n. /ˌpaləˈstinēənˌizəm/
Obsession with destroying Israel, the West, and one’s own safety and civil rights…
…above all other causes,
and against all other supposed convictions,
even when they contradict each other.
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- A mocked “Palestinianism” encyclopedia-style entry describing the movement in ideological terms.
- A Venn diagram associating “Palestinianism” with overlapping themes such as ideological purity, pan-Arab Islamism, queer leftist politics, and communism.
- A small graphic titled “The Unholy Trinity of Antizionism” implies ideological overlap among movements.
Slide 2: Palestinianism History
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The word “Palestinianism” rose to prominence after the 1978 publication of Orientalism, a book by Palestinian author Edward Said. The work originated the term Orientalism, meaning the assumption of Western superiority and cliches through which the Eastern world is viewed.
The flaw in his work is that it relies on Orientalism itself. While acknowledging Jewish suffering and rights to live in the Middle East, it also propagates the Nakba narrative, the very permanent grievance and revenge fantasy that underpins Palestinianism and the engine that keeps the violence going.
The cause of the “Nakba” and the source of the conflict were Arab/Muslim superiority. So while Orientalism does exist, it’s a prominent problem in the Palestinian movement itself, which views Palestinians as permanent victims, no matter their actions or worldview; which is, in stated fact, that Arab Muslims should rule not just Israel, but the world.
Slide 3: Palestinianism Reclaimed
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Dr. Einat Wilf, Israeli sage and politician, writes that Palestinianism is “the ideology negating the Jewish right to self-determination in any part of its ancestral homeland and the related effort to erase that historic connection between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel.”
Discussing the very recent spread of Palestinianism, Wilf notes, “Palestinianism brings together the worst of Islam and the worst of the Western world for the singular purpose of destroying the Jewish state.” However, the purpose has mutated to destroy the West and spread radical Islam globally.
As such, Palestinianism is eliminationist, revisionist, and embraces terrorist violence. It is absolutist—unflinchingly confident in its permanent correctness, unwilling to correct course no matter the human or political cost. And in fact, it blames its opponents for any death toll or conflicting information. At its core, Palestinianism is a narcissistic project, requiring a breathtaking lack of self-awareness and personal responsibility across decades, borders, and movements.
This dogma requires a few things: Totalitarianism, a total rewriting of history, and rampant, thinly-veiled hatred of the Jewish people, Israel, and anyone who dares support them.
Slide 4: Palestinianism in Practice
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Narcissistic navel-gazing & performative activism
- “Palestine is everywhere.”
- “Palestine is the litmus test of our lifetime.”
- “Nothing is more important than Palestine.”
- “All eyes on Palestine” (while ignoring Sudan, Congo, China, Qatar, and the rest)
- Violence is justified… for Palestinians and allied causes, but for no one else
- Queers for Palestine supporting Hamas, a terror group that kills queer people
- Offering material support to the worst regimes on earth, who are imprisoning or murdering dissidents, including Palestinians (see Axis)
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- Photo text: “PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE.”
- Black graphic text: “PALESTINE IS THE LITMUS TEST OF ALL MORALITY.”
Slide 5: Palestinianism Demands
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IDEOLOGICAL PURITY / LITMUS TESTS
Not questioning anything; the Arab actions and narrative are always correct, and they can do no wrong, which is:
ORIENTALISM / RACISM
The racism of low expectations means the “oppressed” have “no choice” but to commit terrorist acts
“COLLECTIVE LIBERATION”
Alignment with other, arbitrary social movements, or else you are exiled.
TRIBALISM
A tribal, zero-sum worldview:
Us vs. Them, Good vs. Evil, Oppressor vs. Oppressed
DOUBLE STANDARDS
Racism and predetermined conclusions: Jews / Israel / “Zionists” are always wrong, and their intentions are evil
FASCISM
Unflinching support of dictatorships, violence, and the reversal of democracy, all for the sake of spreading radical Islam under the guise of combating Islamophobia
Slide 6: Palestinianism Über Alles
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Under this rubric, “resistance” justifies terror attacks. The “movement” aligns with the Iranian Regime, which murders its own youth; with Hamas, which does the same, and murders queer people; yet the movement itself is highly allied with queer circles, and chanted “Woman Life Freedom” before forgetting completely about Iran.
The Palestinianism movement also supported Ukraine until Oct 7, 2023, when Palestinianism demanded no attention be paid to any other cause.
This blindness to any other cause, any conflict of interest, and to outright violence is sourced from the Axis that birthed Palestine as a concept and Palestinianism as a cult. The worst and biggest dictatorships on the planet are at the core of this, and demand dominance and power not just for Palestine over Israel, but for their regimes globally.
Slide 7: Palestinianism Über Alles (Ideological Map)
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Obsession with Palestine sits at the crossroads of a KGB psyop, Communist takeover, Pan-Arab Islamist conquest, Nazism (past and present), and Leftist politics.
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- Major circles labeled: Ideological Purity, Pan-Arab Islamism, Communism, Queer & Leftist Politics, with Palestinianism centered.
- Additional labels include concepts such as “Anti-Religion / Anti-Tradition,” “Anti-Status Quo,” “History is Violence,” “Underdog Identity,” “Democratic Socialist,” and “New Cold War.”
- Side notes reference simplified identity binaries and geopolitical “axis” framing.
Slide 8: The Palestinianism Axis
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Palestinianism stems from and demands allegiance to the murderous regimes of Iran, China, Russia, Qatar, North Korea, and, until recently, Venezuela. It was born in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and to this day has Nazi undertones and values.
This axis is Communist and Islamist, an unholy alliance forged to dismantle the West from within. It tricks youth into hating their successful nations and loving the worst ones on earth (a psyop). It is working spectacularly, as it demands ideological purity and relies on massive social media campaigns and peer pressure.
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- Article screenshot references historical claims about early Palestinian leadership and Nazism.
- Article screenshot references “Nazi propaganda” themes in regional political culture.
Slide 9: Palestinianism Is Not Grassroots
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…it was designed in a lab. The laboratories of:
- Soviet Russia, while torturing and murdering Jews and starving millions of its own people;
- Nazi Germany, where antijudaism turned genocidal on an industrial scale, and the promise of ridding the world of Jews and undesirables would cure every social and economic ill. They then spread this to their Arab allies;
- Qatari and Palestinian marketing, which turned ISIS and Al Qaeda-style jihadists into heroes;
- Iranian Regime’s blood money and propaganda of Little Satan and Big Satan (Israel and the US);
- Chinese and Communist propaganda about the West and anything it supports being evil, capitalist enterprise (which is also antisemitic code)
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- A chart titled “Gifts for American universities from foreign countries since 2012” lists countries and large dollar amounts (Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc.).
Slide 10: Palestinianism Psyop Origins
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A psyop—psychological operation—is a military or political tactic for foreign influence and infiltration.
- Palestinianism as antizionism is a psyop originated by the KGB in Soviet Russia and spread via Communism, Islamism, and today, social media and affiliated activist networks globally, giving the appearance of grassroots consensus
- Using the well-designed propaganda of the post-war era, Soviet antizionism co-opted anti-colonization, anti-imperial movements of the 50s and 60s, and grafted onto it concepts that Zionism, and mere Jewish presence in the Middle East, is colonization, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and Nazism (and these days, “worse than” the Nazis).
- Jews were painted as whatever each movement most hated: White colonizers. Genocidal. Apartheiders. Racist.
- “Free Palestine” morphed into today, a catch-all for opposing all oppression, when it represents the opposite. All hinging on rabid antisemitism, stemming from the Russian Protocols of the Elders of Zion about Jewish world domination conspiracy theory.
Slide 11: Psyop Spreads
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The movement’s demand that it cling to arbitrary tangential social movements includes:
- Conflating X rights or Y cause with Palestine: You can’t support queer rights and oppose Hamas; you can’t be in the green / environmental cause and support Israel, etc.
- Result: An ideological purity test that results in zero critical thinking in the movement; blind support for jihad.
- Result: The movements hijacked by this are neutered. Greta Thunberg abandoned climate causes; Human Rights Campaign (the gay rights org) committed to the “genocide” slander, etc., losing funding and clout.
- Result: Each of these movements, which had disproportional numbers of Jews at their core, has purged most of its Jews. We saw purges like these in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Communist China, preceding violence.
Slide 12: “Collective Liberation”
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The end result of this psyop and its self-perpetuating takeover of social movements is that it ultimately paints Jews (as “Zionists” or Israelis) as the Big Bad: the ultimate evil, a final boss that must be defeated.
They literally state this with things like:
- “Zionism is worse than Nazism.”
- “Zionism is the biggest evil of our time.”
- “If Zionism/Israel falls, every other social justice will follow.”
Again, this is lifted directly from Nazism; blaming the Jews for every problem in society is ancient & deadly.
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- Examples of posts asserting movements are interconnected “from here to Palestine” and framing solidarity with Palestine as morally required.
- A blue “Zionism is…” infographic listing multiple accusations and categories (presented as a taxonomy of claims).
- A poster-style graphic referencing “No Pride in Genocide,” “Israel Pinkwashing,” and “Queer Liberation” framing.
Slide 13: Antisemitic Litmus Tests
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Just cuz Jews are doing this doesn’t make it not antisemitic.
See @jvp.watch @jewishvoicesforpeace
palestinianism: “collective liberation”
…and antisemitic litmus tests
Pictured: Posts by actual Jews, painting opposing Israel as the ultimate test of morality. These are antisemitic screeds.
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- Quote graphic attributed to Angela Davis: “Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world.”
- Black text graphic: “PALESTINE IS THE LITMUS TEST OF ALL MORALITY.”
- A long post asserting Palestinian freedom intersects with many political issues and continually focuses on the topic.
- Event-style poster: “TU B’SHVAT SEDER & TEACH-IN” with description about anti-zionist gathering and learning/teach-in framing.
Slide 14: Palestinianism Costs Us
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Palestinianism costs us:
- Lives
- Nuance
- Peace
- Safety
- Dialogue
- Democracy
- Jewish Lives
- Queer Lives
- Queer Rights
- Palestinian Lives
- Fighting terrorism
- Practical Peace Plans
- Billions in funding
- Attention and action on real genocide and atrocities globally
- Accuracy in the media
- Entire social movements and political parties
- Indigenous rights and history across the Levant and the globe
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- Reposted quote emphasizing “no nuance” and “absolute solidarity” framing, rejecting alternative positions.
Slide 15: Palestinianism Means (I)
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Palestinianism means:
= Jihad Translate
- Mein Intifada.
- Islamic Conquest of Israel, then the West.
- Death to America, Israel, and Democracy.
Slide 16: Palestinianism Means (II)
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Palestinianism means:
= Jihad Translate
- Blind allegiance to an unattainable goal (“freeing” Palestine) at the expense of both Palestinian and Jewish lives.
- Zero nuance, compromise, or peace.
- A death cult.
Slide 17: Palestinianism Means (III)
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- Death over Democracy.
- Dogma over Diplomacy.
- Islam over Independence.
- Mein Intifada.
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- Jerusalem Post screenshot referencing “Nazi propaganda” themes in Arab political culture (opinion framing).
- The Spectator screenshot referencing a historical claim about a Palestinian leader and Nazi war criminal framing.
Slide 18: Antizionism and the Unraveling of Societies
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- The logic of Palestinianism is built on inversion. Israel, a small democracy surrounded by hostile regimes, is cast as the villain. Palestinians, even when backed by terrorist movements and foreign autocrats, are cast as eternal victims. This is not truth-telling. It is theater. It is the politics of gesture, not the pursuit of justice.
- The embrace of Palestinianism is not a foreign policy error. It is a symptom of cultural decay. A civilization that has lost faith in itself does not need to be conquered from outside. It will collapse from within. Every chant, every declaration, every policy rooted in Palestinianism is not only a betrayal of Israel. It is a betrayal of the West’s own inheritance.
- Palestinianism functions as a ritual of absolution. Western academics, politicians, and activists find redemption not by defending their civilization but by performing guilt and chanting slogans against Israel. It is a cheap way to claim moral standing while refusing to face the real threats of authoritarianism and jihad.
- The truth is simple. When a society cannot defend its own story, it will adopt the stories of others, even when those stories are hostile to its survival. The West has reached that point. Its embrace of Palestinianism is not a sign of compassion. It is a sign of surrender.
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Invaluable words from @shield_of_zion.
Slide 19: Palestinianism (Definition Revisited)
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Palestinianism: n. /ˌpaləˈstinēənˌizəm/
Obsession with destroying Israel, the West, and one’s own safety and civil rights…
…above all other causes, and against all other supposed convictions, even when they contradict each other.
The Palestine movement—Palestinianism—is predicated on Jewish death. It’s the point, not an outlier.
If you don’t think this is true, consider they could’ve had a state many times over. They don’t want Jewish land. They want our lives.
Listen to what the leaders both there and in the West say. Listen to what they post. Look who they lionize.
Wake up. Palestinianism kills. Reject Jihad.
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- A video-style screenshot stating: “Calling an Arab a terrorist is a racist slur.”
- A graphic stating: “The word TERRORIST is a racial slur,” followed by claims about who uses the term and what it implies.
Slide 20: (Un)Learn More
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- The invaluable research of Debbie Lechtman, @rootsmetals
- Hen Mazzig, Tel Aviv Institute
- Amelia Adams @neuroticjewishgay, @jvparody
- Dr. Einat Wilf, 18Forty Podcast, Dec 24, 2024
https://18forty.org/podcast/einat-wilf-jews-are-never-allowed-to-win-and-arabs-are-never-allowed-to-lose/
- doingjewish.blog/judeapedia
- @shield_of_zion
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- Jerusalem Post screenshot referencing an opinion piece about Palestinianism and Jewish indigenousness in Israel.
- “Jihad Translate” style graphic repeating highlighted phrases shown earlier (including “Mein Intifada,” “Islamic Conquest of Israel, then the West,” and “Death to America, Israel, and Democracy”).
Sources & Further Reading
List of sources:
- The invaluable research of Debbie Lechtman, @rootsmetals
- Hen Mazzing, Tel Aviv Institute
- Amelia Adams @neuroticjewishgay @jvparody
- Dr. Einat Wilf, 18Forty Podcast, Dec 24, 2024 https://18forty.org/podcast/einat-wilf-jews-are-never-allowed-to-win-and-arabs-are-never-allowed-to-lose/
- doingjewish.blog/judeapedia
- @shield_of_zion
