Ontological Arson: The Incineration of Colonial Semiotics
"The most devastating colonial act is not the theft of land, but the theft of ontology—the systematic erasure of a people's way of knowing and being, replacing a lived, organic reality with a sterile, imported simulacrum. Zionism, as the anachronistic culmination of the European colonial project, represents this phenomenon in its most refined form. It is an epistemological coup that inverts the very vectors of time and identity: manufacturing a mytho-historical narrative of return to legitimize a project of replacement, and weaponizing the profound trauma of European persecution to sanction a new, technologically-augmented displacement of the Levant's indigenous people.
This project operates through a tripartite heresy against being itself.
First, it commits a narrative fraud, constructing a monolithic, state-centric identity that overwrites the diverse, diasporic, and often contested history of Jewish peoplehood, subsuming it into a political project of conquest.
Second, it enacts a theological betrayal, perverting the prophetic, self-critical covenant of the Torah into an unconditional, divinely-sanctioned mandate for territorial acquisition—a form of state idolatry that worships the bulldozer and the F-35 as its golden calves.
Finally, and most insidiously, it executes a semiotic inversion, where the language of indigeneity is claimed by the colonial settler, and the term 'anti-Semitism' is forged into a shield to be wielded by a modern state against the very native Semitic populations it displaces. This completes a cycle of ontological violence where the victim is rhetorically framed as his own executioner.
Thus, the struggle for Palestine is not merely a territorial conflict, but the final, critical battleground for the soul of history. It is where the last specter of Europe's colonial imagination seeks to exorcise the living presence of the indigenous, and where the global conscience, embodied by those Jews, Christians, and Muslims of moral courage who stand in prophetic solidarity, must become the arbiters of a restored reality. To witness this is to understand that the ultimate resistance is not merely to exist, but to insist—against the annihilating fiction of the colonizer—upon the inviolable truth of one's own being."
-Whalid Safodien
The Feather Pen
The Scorching Truth: Zionism as the Last Gasp of European Colonialism and the Theft of a Semitic Soul
I write to you not from a place of abstract theory, but from the scarred earth of memory. I was born and bred in South Africa under the shadow of apartheid. I have seen the architecture of racial supremacy up close—the laws that carved humanity into hierarchies, the violence that enforced them, and the grand, poisonous lie that one people could be chosen to rule over another by divine or historical right. I recognize that smell, that taste of injustice, anywhere. And today, it emanates from the land of Palestine, perfumed by the false incense of Zionism.
The document, “The Myth of Indigenous Zionism,” is not merely a collection of arguments; it is an exhumation. It digs up the bones that Zionism tried to bury: the bones of Canaanites, of Philistines, of the true, unbroken chain of indigenous life in Palestine. It is a forensic audit of a colonial project that has bankrupted itself morally, historically, and genetically. My purpose here is to set this truth not in ink, but in fire, to expand upon its revelations with a clarity that shatters the very foundations of the Zionist idea.
The Genetic Lie: The Theft of Indigeneity
Zionism’s foundational claim is one of return. It posits that a people, exiled for two millennia, have come home. This is a fairy tale, and science has now incinerated the manuscript.
The DNA evidence is unequivocal. Modern Palestinians—Muslim and Christian alike—are the direct descendants of the land’s ancient inhabitants, the Canaanites and Philistines, with a genetic continuity exceeding 90%. Their roots are not merely historical; they are biological, woven into the very soil. In contrast, the Ashkenazi Jews who form the ideological and political vanguard of Zionism are primarily of European and Khazarian origin, their genetic link to the Levant a minor chord in a predominantly European symphony. The Khazar conversion hypothesis, once a historical theory, is now substantiated by genetic studies in journals like Cell and Nature, which show a profound European admixture.
This is the great, unspoken truth that terrifies the Zionist entity: The settlers are not the natives. The colonizers are not the returned. They are the last, most successful wave of European colonialism, arriving not with a mandate from heaven, but with the same colonial logic that sent the Dutch to the Cape and the British to India. To claim indigeneity is to perform a grotesque act of historical and biological blackface, dressing a European nationalist project in the stolen robes of a Semitic past.
The Theological Heresy: The Betrayal of Scripture
Zionism is not the fulfillment of biblical prophecy; it is its violent perversion. The Torah itself dismantles the Zionist narrative.
The Hebrews Were One Tribe Among Many: The scriptures repeatedly acknowledge the Israelites as newcomers to a land already populated by Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, and others (Genesis 10, Numbers 13). The land was a shared space, not an empty inheritance.
The Conditional Covenant: The Torah explicitly states that the Israelites’ right to the land was conditional upon ethical and moral conduct (Deuteronomy 28, Jeremiah 7). Disobedience would result in expulsion. To claim an unconditional, eternal divine right is to spit in the face of this foundational covenant.
The Commandment of Justice: The core ethical imperative of the Torah is relentless: "Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt" (Exodus 22:21). "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself" (Leviticus 19:34). Zionism, in its systematic displacement, apartheid, and genocide of the Palestinian people, is not just a political failure; it is a sin against the very law it purports to uphold.
The prophecies of return in Isaiah and Ezekiel speak of a spiritual redemption, a divine gathering—not a secular, political project achieved through terrorist militias like the Irgun and Haganah, and sustained by F-35s and AI-guided bombs. Modern Zionism is a form of idolatry that worships the state and the sword, mistaking them for the hand of God.
The Historical Fabrication: The Myth of the Empty Land and the Empty Exile
As a South African, I am wearily familiar with the colonial mantra of terra nullius—the lie of a land without people. Zionism’s “A land without a people for a people without a land” is its direct, pernicious cousin. British surveys, Ottoman records, and the eyewitness accounts of early Zionists themselves prove that Palestine was a thriving, populated society.
Furthermore, the cornerstone of Zionist victimhood—the Roman exile of 70 CE—is a myth. There was no mass expulsion. Historical and archaeological evidence shows a continuous Jewish presence in Palestine that gradually diminished through conversion to Christianity and later Islam. The Palestinian fellahin, the farmers, are in large part the descendants of those ancient Judeans. The real exile was not of the Jews from Palestine, but of the majority of world Jewry from their actual lands of origin in Europe and the Caucasus. The “2,000-year exile” is a nationalist fiction, a necessary ghost story to haunt the world into complicity.
The Ultimate Irony: Who Are the True Semites?
This brings us to the most profound linguistic and moral inversion of our time. Zionism has weaponized the term “anti-Semitism” to silence criticism of its colonial project. But let us be brutally clear:
Semitic refers to a language family (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic) and an ancient ethnic group originating in the Levant.
Palestinians are native Arabic speakers and, as the genetic evidence proves, the direct descendants of the Levant’s ancient Semitic peoples.
Ashkenazi Zionists are largely European speakers, with a minority Levantine genetic component.
Therefore, when a European-descended settler, speaking a revived liturgical language, oppresses an Arabic-speaking native Palestinian whose DNA is rooted in the land, and then accuses that native of “anti-Semitism” for resisting their own erasure, we are witnessing the pinnacle of colonial deception. It is the colonizer accusing the native of being the foreigner. It is the ultimate act of identity theft, followed by the weaponization of that stolen identity against its rightful heirs.
The true Semites of Palestine are the Palestinians. Zionism, as a European colonial ideology, is the very force that is enacting a modern, high-tech form of anti-Semitic erasure against them.
A Salute to the Global Conscience: The Jews, Christians, and Muslims of Light
In the darkness of this genocide, the stars of global conscience have shone with blinding clarity. I salute you.
To the Jewish activists of Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and the Neturei Karta; to the Holocaust survivors like Hajo Meyer who declared, “What's being done to Palestinians is what was done to us”; to the Israeli refuseniks of Breaking the Silence—you are the moral compass of your tradition. You prove that Judaism and Zionism are not merely separate; they are antithetical. You embody the true, prophetic Judaism that cries out for justice, and you redeem the memory
-Whalid Safodien
The Feather Pen
