One-sided zionism — and its healing — in both US and Israel
I love positive activists on Twitter; I continue to follow and reply to them. Among the many discussions, I’m impressed again with the idea, fanatical zionism exists both in the US and in Israel (I know too little about zionism in the UK to comment).
To be clear, I’m calling ‘fanatical US ambition for worldwide hegemony’ a form of extreme zionism (see maps below). They have the same exact, uncompromising flavor and color.
Extreme Israeli zionism and fanatical US ambition for worldwide hegemony are striking examples of psychic one-sidedness, loud and clear, un-ambiguous.
One-sidedness is a big topic. Existing good books on this in References below. Male misogyny towards women is also one-sidedness — but I’m not addressing it here.
Israeli Zionists, both in the US and abroad, are probably one-sided in the way the Carl Jung expert, John Beebe, models.
Applying Beebe’s model to extreme zionists, a good guess is both their primary (hero) function is introverted; and, their secondary (auxiliary) function is also introverted. Perhaps:
Primary function: Introverted feeling (same as Afro-Americans, another Beebe idea),
Auxiliary function: Introverted thinking, thinking about how they feel, justifying feelings with thoughts and justifying thoughts with feelings. This is an inherently weak defense, to defend one introverted view with another introverted view. This is why the arguments of extreme Zionists often have the quality of, “A rose, is a rose, is a rose…”
With two introverted functions leading their psychic system, a needed, healthy internal intelligence will naturally be missing from extreme zionists: willingness to consider external facts on both sides.
On one side, facts from their own history; such as, what led healthy 1940s Jewish nationalism, needed to create a Jewish state, which then was left unexamined. Therefore in recent decades, the old zionism evolved into a new, rabid zionism, who can only react violently towards any facts of any kind — except those facts which support zionists one-sided, introverted feeling and introverted thinking.
On the other side, facts, recordings and videos presented by opponents of genocide are not seriously addressed except to dismiss them as falsehoods.
“Star victims”
An idea form the period 2005–2010 is useful here. A “star victim” is anyone or any group, who bases its identity primarily on how it suffers from aggression from others. This aspect of “identity politics” was pioneered by some black activist groups in the USA (to their credit, the recent Black Lives Matter movement consistently avoids star victim tropes).
Consider the response of extreme zionists, US and Israeli, to the Intl. Criminal Court conclusions about Israel committing gneocide.
How zionists can evolve past their dilemma
For zionists to evolve past extreme, fanatical, one-sided introversion, now or later, they have to exercise:
- Willingness to learn from others,
- Willingness to heal, change for the better,
- Willingness to serve others, and
- Willingness to have a future, different and more workable than their recent past behavior.
Extreme zionists, US and Israeli, are failing in the same way middle and high school debaters fail in debate clubs. Instead of responding thoughtfully to facts presented by their opponent, with great knowledge of their opponent’s facts, extreme zionists (introverted only) can only refuse to acknowledge facts over and over, despite recordings, video, and first-person witnesses. This is a classic weakness of overly one-sided introverted points of view. It is impoverished by dismissing external facts of every kind.
Those who do not know their own history are doomed to repeat it
No better example of this exists than efforts by the US to interfere with and overthrow foreign governments.
Dg-world maps of US intervention or overthrow
Finally, this one-sidedness leads extreme Zionists blinded (lack of extraverted sensing of factual reality) to their own increasing international isolation. I read a Thomas Jefferson quote the other day; wish I could find it again. It went something like, ‘In our political views we can and should be aware of how others feel. On the international stage, we should be mindful and aware of how others perceive our actions.’ This kind of extraverted sensing in what extreme Zionists lack.
Evidence extreme zionism is being addressed constructivly
Positive developments healing one-sidedness exist. I note on Medium.com the article, “Zionism 3.0 — Never One Sided, Always Evolving” (2015) by Olga Rybak.
Of course recent peaceful, pro-Palestinian students protests have been positive and influential.
A very interesting, short essay exists by an uncredited Israeli author, “Left Vs. Right Wing Zionism.” Link below. This sincere essay demonstrates the weakness of arguing against the toxic introverted feeling function by means of introverted thinking functions, however more pluralistic, win-win, and humanistic.
Articles I recommend to readers
Uncredited Israeli author. “Left Vs. Right Wing Zionism; Left Vs. Right Wing Zionism” (year? )https://www.nbn.org.il/educational-content/left-vs-right-wing-zionism/
Michael Marder. “Here is why deconstructing Zionism is important” (2013). https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/12/8/here-is-why-deconstructing-zionism-is-important
Baylis Thomas. “The Dark Side of Zionism: The Quest for Security through Dominance” (2009). https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Zionism-Security-Dominance/dp/0739126903
“Toward a Post-Zionist Left” (2015) by Joshua Leifer. “The left must move beyond the false binaries of liberal Zionism and embrace a post-Zionist politics of civil rights and nonviolent resistance.” — https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/toward-post-zionist-left/
“The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left” (2020) by SARAH LAZARE “A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s.” — https://inthesetimes.com/article/jewish-anti-zionism-israel-palestine-colonialism-annexation-apartheid
Texts on one-sidedness
Steve Myers. Myers-Briggs Typology vs. Jungian Individuation: Overcoming One-Sidedness in Self and Society (2018)
John Beebe. Energies and patterns in psychological type : the reservoir of consciousness (2017).
Douglas Walton. One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias (1999). Find in Books.Google.com
