Afrasianet - Mazen Al , Najjar - When searching through search engines for "A History of Violence in America," you'll find dozens of books and monographs on that title.
A century ago, in the interwar period, the American novelist and poet renowned for his criticism of materialism and capitalism, Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was quoted as saying: "When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the national flag and will carry a cross!"
This period saw the rise of fascism in the West, especially in Italy and Germany, against the backdrop of the devastation and bankruptcy of the First World War of extreme poverty and unemployment, especially among soldiers emerging from the war. This fascist wave sowed the seeds of European tensions and conflicts that led to the Second World War.
This is called in the context of the new fascist wave in the United States and Europe, which began in a state of panic and panic in the face of a massive wave of global protest in the streets and universities against the ongoing Zionist Holocaust in the Gaza Strip, which erupted at Columbia University, and spread to dozens of American universities and the streets of their cities, and then to universities in Europe, Australia and other parts of the world.
The recent wave of fascism came in the face of the global protest movement against the war of extermination in Gaza, wrapped in the Zionist flag and invoking the libel of anti-Semitism, whose contents witnessed a fundamental shift from the practice of hostility and hatred of Jews in Europe and the West to any objection to Zionist practices of settlement, uprooting, violence, extermination and violation of international humanitarian law and the subsequent international treaties criminalizing acts of genocide, occupation and apartheid, as practiced by the Zionist entity and complicit in its endorsement by its allies who dominate the international system. These fascist practices or their passage without calculation is a condition for surviving the "charge" of anti-Semitism, which has become the latest tool of Western fascism, and has become a constant way to express the hostility of the Zionists and their hatred of those who oppose them, and even deny their humanity and incite their extermination, as evidenced by the International Court of Justice in its decision on January 26.
In the beginning was settlement and extermination
In the late 15th and 16th centuries, the vanguards and fleets of European conquest, occupation and extermination (geographical discoveries) set out towards the east and west of the world. This coincided with the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement in Europe, and the resulting political turmoil and religious wars, accompanied by crises and famines that struck Europe.
Eventually, the Thirty Years' Wars of Religion ended with the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which inaugurated the birth of the nation-state or nation-state in Europe, enshrined its sovereignty over its territory and fortified it against external interference, and the international order (in Europe) came to be called the Peace of Westphalia or the Westphalian system.
The Treaty of Westphalia was an important starting point for the European colonization and settlement movement around the globe, accompanied by population extrusive factors, and geographical discoveries became a pretext for occupation, colonization, plunder and acts of extermination.
Therefore, the moment of the early launch of the international system in its first form, under Western domination, witnessed the wave of colonialism, settlement and genocide, and continued in the historical manner known, and the invasion and tyranny of the world are still the essence of any international order under the domination of the West, and the center of gravity of this system, after the Second World War, shifted from the traditional colonial European powers that undertook the project of settlement, colonization and plunder to the largest imperialist settler entity in human history.
European settlement borrowed its perceptions and justifications for its violence from the texts of the Torah, its narratives, heroes, symbols and values, and European immigrants derived their cosmic vision and their religious and moral narrative from it, and they fully identified with the Hebrew tribal spirit of its stories, and considered that they came out of what looks like the Pharaonic captivity of the Children of Israel (in biblical Egypt) to the "Promised Land", and some of the first settlers even wrote a covenant on the ship with which they went to North America similar to the covenant of the god "Jehovah" to the children of Israel, as in the Old Testament, and they migrated because they They wanted to establish what they saw as the "New Israel" in the "New World."
The settlement ideology that founded the idea of "America", the Anglo-Saxon translation of the idea of "mythical Israel", was launched with strong momentum and violence based on: occupying the land of others, replacing a people with a people, replacing history with history, each of which is a separate annihilation.
The civil religion, the religion of the American state, especially the institutions of "justice", the bureaucracy, the police and the enforcement of the law, arose from the ideology of the first "puritan" settlers who were expelled from England, perpetuating the idea that Jehovah, the "Lord of the Old Testament" with his racism, violence and ferocity, is the supreme authority! This explains the ferocity, violence, racism, legal system, aggression and authoritarianism of the American state.
This leads to the fact that democratic values, equal rights and the entire political system, as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, are an extension, codification and regulation of the settlement enterprise, and its privileges are reserved exclusively for the "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" WASP and its settlement enterprise. Around his lines, the American historical experience and its expressions were woven at home and abroad.
The Constitution framed the U.S. parliamentary system into two chambers: the House of Representatives, which represents population blocs, and the Senate, which represents states with two members each, whether their population is 40 million or 150,000. The Electoral College consists of a total of 535 senators, and each state has its own relative weight consisting of the number of representatives and senators.
When calculating the results of the presidential election, the candidate who wins a term receives representative points equal to the number of its representatives in both chambers. This system marginalizes the popular will and always keeps power hostage to right-wing politics and the orientations of small conservative states opposed to social change.
A history of violence
In less than 250 years, the United States has fought some 110 wars, most of them aggressive imperialist wars. They may fit the definition of genocidal wars such as those targeting indigenous people, not to mention the bombing of Japan with two atomic bombs, the rape of two million German women at the end of World War II, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Israel, and the coups d'état of Iran, the Levant and Latin America, which claimed the lives of many creatures.
The Mexico War saw U.S. invasions of Texas and Mexico (1846-1848), and Mexico suffered a crushing defeat, losing about half of its territory. At the time, Mexico's president said, "Poor Mexico, very far from God, very close to the United States!"
When searching through search engines for "A History of Violence in America," you'll find numerous books and dozens of monographs with that title or on the subject.
After the extermination of the Native Americans, massive violence was directed against black Americans before and after the abolition of slavery, led by the racist Ku Klux Klan gangs in collusion with local authority. It included killings, burning homes and churches, and hanging outside the law with gallows erected by white settlers with the aim of terrorizing and subjugating. With their denial of civil rights, any crime was attached to a black man, and his trial was a gross waste of justice, as recorded in American cinema.
Major American cities in the twentieth century witnessed repeated repression, bloody confrontations between police and striking workers, and the assassination of union leaders in collusion with mafia gangs. Crimes were fabricated against the activists and sentenced to life sentences to force them to migrate to Africa. Protests against the Vietnam War saw young people and student protesters shot and many victims.
Archaeologists and anthropologists are still extracting the bones and skulls of black workers who died during forced labor in digging mines and New York subway tunnels and denied and forgotten, and blacks are still today a target for the American police, chasing them, shooting them and killing them on suspicion and others, so waves of anger and devastation erupt, and George Floyd is far from us.
Fascism.. now, tomorrow and forever!
The fifties saw the wave of McCarthyism as one of the manifestations of renewed American fascism. Senator Joseph McCarthy acted as inspector inquisitor in the terrible Inquisition in medieval Europe, undertook a campaign to hunt down the ghosts of communism in America, and few escaped the charge. She was accompanied by the FBI's campaign against the left individually and by giraffes.
In the sixties and seventies, Arab and Palestinian activists and academics were subjected to a fierce campaign of criminalization on terrorism charges, and their cases lasted many years, draining them financially, morally, and defamation. In the nineties, Congress legalized the use of secret evidence unknown to defendants or lawyers in the trial of immigrants, and led to long years of detention without specific charges or convictions of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim activists for alleged vague links to terrorism!
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the campaign moved to enormous levels: declaring a "(global) war on terror" to include the eradication of Islam domestically in America by fascist laws (the Patriot Act) and the hunting of hundreds of victims in fictitious terrorism cases of fabrication, representation and removal of FBI agents, ending with prison sentences for decades.
As we witness the renewed waves of fascism in America, embodied in the suppression of freedom of expression, protests in American universities, the expulsion, arrest, ill-treatment and abuse of students, the unleashing of police violence against them, the attacks of the Zionist mob on students and the free masses in full view of the New York, California, Texas and other police, we realize that there is no need for the return of fascism "covered with the national flag and carrying a cross", because it is always present: today, tomorrow and maybe.. forever!