Zionism doubled the very European nationalist forms that oppressed Jews

Evidence

Israel as doppelganger exists on two levels. First, it is a doppelganger of the forms of chauvinistic European nationalisms that turned Jews into pariahs on the continent since well before the Inquisition. That was Zionism’s win-win pitch to anti-Semitic European powers: you get rid of your “Jewish problem” (i.e., Jews, who will leave your countries and migrate to Palestine), and Jews get a state of their own to mimic/twin the very forms of militant nationalism that had oppressed them for centuries. (This is why Zionism was so fiercely opposed by the members of the Bund, who believed that nationalism itself was their enemy and the wellspring of race hatred.) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 975

Categorization

• XREF: The Bund’s anti-nationalist objection connects to the book’s broader ‘Mirror World’ critique of nationalism-with-a-twist; also resonates with the reader’s prior reading on nationalism as a force of race hatred.