The Milkman Journal

If you are paying attention to politics, especially politics on X, one of the things that you will notice that has become one of the seemingly dominant and most consistently talked about issues on is that of Israel. This has been brewing for quite some time now, as young people (as a general rule, as well as specifically on the right) have become on the more moderate end apathetic towards Israel, and on the more extreme end, extremely hostile to it. There are a variety of reasons for this, but ultimately, this article isn’t about articulating what the proper way to think about Israel is; As a young person, I tend to think that we need to lean towards decoupling ourselves from Israel and from the Middle East and foreign conflict more generally, but that’s not really for me to discuss much here. The reason for the existence of this article is to articulate what I see as problems that are resulting from the fact that this issue has become the issue of the day, and how people are approaching it.

Firstly, it would probably be a good idea to discuss why the people discussing Israel think it’s an important topic, and then we can distill how to approach these things more properly. Besides the Israel Palestine War, the primary issue for people have a problem with Israel is the assistance that the United States provides for them. We annually provide billions of dollars in aid to the state of Israel, as well as work with their intelligence agency, the mossad in conducting operations in the Middle East against Iran and other nations, risking war in region against US interests. For example, in July 2020, Israeli cyber operations caused an explosion and fire at the Natanz nuclear facility, and in 2021 Israel engaged in a cyber operation and caused a blackout in the Natanz nuclear facility. Israel engages in these cyber operations because their interests (understandably) are tied more so to defeating and undermining the other regional powers that surround them, especially Iran. However, it is not in the interest of the United States to engage in another endless war in the Middle East. Despite how cool it sounds to participate in a Call of Duty 4 style invasion of another middle eastern country, it is not in the best interests of the United States to do so.

At best it will accomplish nothing, except for to throw that region into further chaos, and on the worse end it will serve to drag some of the other world powers into the conflict. There are other reasons too for peoples hostility against the state of Israel; much like some other groups of people, people have noticed a tendency (or at least a perceived tendency) for Jewish people, especially online to express in-group preference and anti-white racism. Additionally, in recent times the hostility that certain sects of Judaism (and the religion as whole) have towards Christianity and Christians has become especially apparent, which has also made them to be unpopular. This is compounded further when you have unhinged people like Mark Levin to whom Israel can do no wrong, and whom ignore all of these while treating Israel and Israelis with such reverance you start to wonder if it’s idolatry. Any defense of Israel also rings sour when you realize that it seems as though the people making the defenses are doing so at the expense of prioritizing American citizens, or at least are failing to prioritize Americans. For example, Ben Shapiro recently defended the great replacement and H1B visa program specifically, which is one of the hallmarks of our corrupt immigration policy, and is completely incompatible with any vision of the future that is truly MAGA or America First. Would he make this same argument for Israel? Does Israel lack talent? Would Ben Shapiro be upset if the Israeli state started to import people in order to replace their native population and take their jobs against their will? Somehow I suspect that he would, and yet interestingly he feels no strong emotion about these things happening in his native land. All of these things and more have produced great frustration with any sort of Zionism in our movement as being a manifestation of Hyphenated Americanism and while that is very understandable, and peoples reactions to all of this are likewise understandable, I would ultimately argue that optically speaking, the way people are attempting to tackle this is not ideal. Much of this is very online, and regardless of whether or not it’s true “the Jews” and “Zionist Occupied Government” doesn’t convince the average voter to go to the polls. It doesn’t convince them to vote America First, if anything it drives them away because it’s annoying to have to hear about Israel and “the Jews” all the time, even if to some extent what is being said is true.

As a unified political right, it is important to return to the messaging that won in 2016 and won again in 2024. We MUST be America First, we must make America Great Again. Instead of constantly sperging out about the Jews and Israel on X, we need to return to the messaging of “No more foreign wars” and freeing ourselves of the influence foreign powers have on us. That was messaging that definitively worked in the real world, and it was messaging that appealed to the American people, no further explanation needed. This was messaging that even appealed to more traditional republican demographics, such as Zionist evangelicals. Jew and Israel sperging/obsession needlessly gives the Establishment right ammo that they will use to fire back at you and call you anti-semite/neo-nazi to discredit you, whereas the other messaging not only was broadly appealing, there was no answer to it from the establishment, which is why they have been slowly pushed out of the party since Trump won in 2016. If we want to be a serious political movement, and actually defeat the political left forever (our entire civilization depends on our ability to pull this off) then please calm down with the Jew sperging, and return to the America first messaging that actually moves the ball down the field and moves the needle closer to victory.

Remember to keep living the dream, my friends!