HaKatan appears to believe that the only individuals in the universe with free will are “Zionists”. I’m putting the term in quotes here because it’s not accurate to describe literally every person who doesn’t want Israel dissolved as a Zionist. So I’m yielding to define it as whomever HaKatan thinks are Zionists.
In this fantasy world, Zionists know the level of their own evil and choose to act upon it with disregard for all else. The Mufti, every Arab terrorist ever, and even literal Adolf Hitler (שר”י) don’t have free will and were provoked by Zionists and Zionism.
This hypocrisy is blatant. Jews are and always were a persecuted people. Zionism is a response to that, in opposition to begging for acceptance. Even if you take the illogical pan-Arabist assumption that Jews (“Zionists”) caused every conflict in the Middle East at face value, why and how did they get to such power? What is their interest in the Levant or anywhere else?
There’s a medieval Polish saying that has been gaining popularity these days among “anti-Zionist” crowds: “The Jew will tell you everything that happened to him, but will never tell you why.” We all know who it’s supposedly referring to, but those Jews will freely tell us about the (sometimes state-sponsored) blood libels, pogroms, and genocides we went through over two millennia.
That saying can technically apply to individual Jews, but not necessarily because of their Jewishness. Yet the best faction of people in the world it describes are revisionist thinkers who unite by ideology alone.
HaKatan has fell for the same trap and wants to lure others in. To assume that Zionists provoked, strong-armed, and removed free will of every antisemite of at least the past 150 years is revisionist history. That’s who the saying applies to. And to claim that any individual has absolutely no free will, let alone one with so much discretionary power, is, to use a favorite of HaKatan, Avodah Zarah. אלה אלוהיהם.
