The Ideological Purifiers

By Patrick Grimm

There are some within this interconnected network of anti-Zionist activists who are sticklers for what I would dub “ideological purity.” If someone strays from one point of what is deemed to be “holy writ”, then they are scorned, shunned, mischaracterized or worse. I have seen it with my own eyes. The “ideological purifiers” are ready to leap, both physically and logically (sometimes illogically) on those persons who present their arguments in language thought to be too tepid, tame or tolerant.

Perhaps you lean to the left (and I actually lean fairly far to the right) and are a bit too reconciliatory on the issue of race. Get ready for the crush, because you may be falsely labeled as a “Zionist collaborator”, a “multiculturalist” or even worse a “crypto-Jew”. This is the modus operandi of Daryl Bradford Smith and his kind, but I have seen this witch-hunting mentality creeping into other parts of the anti-Zionist movement. Faux insinuations, under-handed smears and other insults await those who don’t seem to conform to 100% pure white nationalism.

What those who demand wholistic ideological allegiance seem not to comprehend is that many of the fighters, those writing warriors who loathe Zionism, come from a multitude of political persuasions. Some are conservatives, some are libertarians, some are even leftists who may be wrong on every count except for their opposition to Zionism. Should we totally shun someone who may not be correct, according to our litmus test, on every count? Or should we take our friends where we can find them, knowing that we must “hang together or hang separately” as one of the Founding Fathers put it? (more…)