“If you are a nationalist and support Israel, then you are kosher”

Published 8 August 2024 at 10.48

Domestic. A nationalist does not become “kosher” until he starts supporting Israel, explains the Sweden Democrats' EU parliamentarian Charlie Weimers. At the same time, there is a critical debate about Europe's so-called kosher nationalists, i.e. immigration-critical politicians who have close ties to Israel but who refuse to reduce immigration in their own countries when they come to power.

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The Israeli government has previously decided that SD should be considered Nazis, and Israeli government officials have been banned from even being in the same room as SD politicians.

Obviously, however, the ban is not absolute, and SD leaders Charlie Weimers and Richard Jomshof were able to visit Israel last spring and meet high-ranking politicians, including representatives of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

All of the anti-immigrant politicians in Europe are Zionist plants who exploit the ethnic grievance of White people when it suits them but they never actually close the borders. See: Meloni, Wilders, Le Pen, Tommy Robinson, et al

It's basically the Zionist's “Southern Strategy.”

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) August 3, 2024

After the trip, the two SD leaders showed extremely strong support for Israel – not least after the Hamas attack on the country on October 7 – and displayed large Israeli flags on social media.

Charlie Weimers visited Israel again in December . Now the 41-year-old politician goes a step further and explains how he views nationalists who have a different view than he does on the Middle East issue.

In an interview with Fokus, Weimers – who is actually a Christian Democrat but switched parties to the SD in 2018 in exchange for getting a seat in the European Parliament – says that it “made an impression” on him when the SD leadership excluded the party's youth union SDU in 2015.< /p>

– It made an impression on me, because the youth association was pro-Russian and anti-Israeli. For me, there are two warning signs. I think Israel is a litmus test for nationalists. If you are a nationalist and support Israel, then you are kosher. If you are a nationalist and against Israel, then there can probably be more behind it that is not so nice, he says.

Kosher is a Jewish term for “pure” or “approved” (equivalent to Muslims' halal). .

Gustav Kasselstrand, who led the SDU when the union was expelled, now draws attention to Charlie Weimer's actions himself and calls on X people to vote for his party AFS instead.

“The party for you who is neither halal nor kosher, just a Swedish nationalist “, he writes.

The phenomenon arouses debate
The issue of Europe's anti-immigration and right-wing populist movements and their ties to Israel has been debated in the past week, with reference to the Israel-linked Islam critic Tommy Robinson and his activities in the UK.

Robinson has made a name for himself by constantly stressing that all the problems linked to immigration only has to do with the religion of Islam, and he otherwise advocates a very large immigration from the third world.

Tommy Robinson is now being linked to the riots in England, which began after false rumors were spread that the child killer in Southport was a Muslim asylum seeker – even though the perpetrator was in fact a Christian African born in Britain.

The events have illustrated the contradictions within the anti-Muslim ideology – so-called counter-jihadism – which often combines an isolated aversion to Islam with liberalism and an almost fanatical support for Israel. The ideology, which has been called kosher nationalism, has taken hold among some Westerners and especially immigration critics within the so-called boomer generation.

The popular American right-wing debater Nick Fuentes states that basically all so-called anti-immigration movements and politicians in Europe have ties to Israel, and that neither actually reduces immigration after coming to power.

Fuentes compares to the Republican Party and their so-called “Southern Strategy” in the 1960s. The strategy, usually associated with senator and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, involved the party taking over a large portion of the Democratic electorate in the American South by pretending to want to defend the interests of white people.