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It's very simple. Radical ideologies spring from oppressive material conditions. When there is no scientific framework to guide the rage and revolutionary potential, you end up with shit like Zionism. You also end up with shit like Hoteps and White Nationalists and every other non-leftist stab at answering the question of "To who does the boot on my neck belong?"
Just because Zionists are liars and terrible people doesn't mean the holocaust didn't happen. They're evidence that it happened along with generations of trauma forced on Jewish people. If there wasn't virulent antisemitism and Western Capitalism didn't conspire to make its own state, then Zionists would be about as powerful as Hoteps. They have state power precisely because the capital owning class gave it to them out of their own desire to isolate Jewish people from the rest of the world.