Pompeo: “Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism”

The statement came in conjunction with Pompeo’s visit to the Zionist Entity, during which he recorded two new violations that have not been previously made by a US official at this level, namely, a visit to settlements and a visit to the occupied Syrian Golan. In addition to the statement he made from Golan, saying: “You can’t stand here and stare out at what’s across the border and deny the central thing that President Trump recognized ... this is a part of Israel”, and added: “The Golan is part of Israel and returning it to Syria would harm Israel and the West”.

We had pondered at what we think are the objectives of Pompeo’s visit in an article published a few days ago on Kassioun entitled: “What is Pompeo’s Objective by Desecrating the Syrian Golan?” The official statement that we refer to above had not yet been issued.

What is striking about this statement is the straightforward, insolent, and direct statement: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

First of all, it would be useful to remind at the outset that scientific ethnographic studies have long ago transcended the classification between Semitic and Hamitic peoples. Rather, this type of classification has become part of the former scientific backwardness that is viewed with the same amount of mockery as the beliefs of the ancients that the earth is flat, or that the sun is the one revolves around the earth, and the earth is the center of the universe. In other words, the continued use of this description has become limited to a purely political servicing framework.

It is also useful to recall that even in times when the theory of the Semitic and Hamitic peoples prevailed, the peoples that were attributed to Semites were not ever restricted to the Jews, but also included the Arabs as an essential component of the so-called Semitic peoples.

In any case, the accusation of “anti-Semitism” is, in its essence, nothing but a tool through which global Zionism took the banner of international terrorism from Hitler, in order to continue his actions in Palestine and in many other regions of the world.

If all of the above is for many superfluous, and perhaps they are right to think so, but there is no harm in reminding of it. It is also good to remind people that the next US president, not just Trump or his secretary of state, is one of the blatant supporters of Zionism. Suffice it to recall that Biden himself declared several times in the past that he is a Zionist, and that his father had taught him that it is not necessary to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

What is new in Pompeo’s statement is that it is an official statement that equates anti-Zionism with what is called anti-Semitism, and thus, either knowingly or not, he offers us as Syrians an additional tool for uniting against the American role and against the trivial people of the various sides who pursue “some cooperation” with the Americans, whether by begging publicly or under the tables.