Zionism answered the eternal Jew with a muscle-bound New Jew doppelganger

Evidence

Zionism’s offer after its ideological competitors were drastically weakened was simple: rather than trying to defeat anti-Semitism by getting at its roots, we will hold a gun to its head and force it into submission. And in the face of the spectral Shylock, the eternal Jew that is the shadow-double of all Jews, Israel will respond with a doppelganger of its own: the sunbaked, muscle-bound, land-hungry, machine-gun-toting New Jew—that unbound alter ego of the pale, studious, melancholic Old Jew. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 964

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the book’s core doubling device: the New Jew is an inversion-double of the Old Jew, exactly as this book’s narrator is an inversion-double of the other woman. This is the doubling device being mapped onto national identity.
• DEEPTHINKING: The double is not a defect to escape but a structural necessity of the nation-building project — Klein’s personal doubling device comes to underwrite an entire theory of national identity formation via doppelganger construction.