The Essence of Zionism: Metaphysical and Historical Analysis
        
Philosophy

03/02/2026
Alexander Dugin
In the modern world, the Middle East remains the epicenter of geopolitical conflicts, where the interests of various forces are intertwined, including Islam, Judaism and global powers. Particular attention is drawn to Zionism as the state ideology of Israel, which, according to many analysts, carries an eschatological dimension associated with the end of time. 

Like any religion, Judaism— is a complex phenomenon involving metaphysics, history and philosophy, with many interpretations, sometimes contradictory. We will look at how Zionism fits into this tradition, and why it can be perceived as its continuation and at the same time refutation.

Today we will talk about a pressing topical topic - Zionism as the state ideology of Israel.

Judaism as a religion is associated with the notion that Jews are the chosen people. First of all, in a religious sense, because this people was elected in order to

remain faithful to one God at a time when other peoples who agree with Judaism have moved away from this monotheism, and
wait for his messenger, the Messiah (Mashiach), who will be crowned King of Israel and Ruler of the world.  
The word «mashiach» in Hebrew means «anointed», «anointed to the kingdom». The same word in Greek sounds like «Christ». But Christianity is based on the belief that the Messiah already came into the world. This is our religion. But the fundamental difference from Judaism is that Jews believe that the Messiah more he did not come, and Jesus Christ is not recognized as the Messiah. This is the fundamental difference.

Then a very interesting moment arises. According to the Jewish religion, the Jews set off at the beginning of the first millennium, in the 70s from R.H. into exile (fourth Galut). This happened after the Romans carried out a punitive operation against the rebel province. The second Temple was destroyed. The Jews left Palestine (the holy Land). And then the two-thousand-year era of dispersion began.

This era has a religious meaning, which is described in detail in the Jewish tradition. The meaning of dispersion is to atone for the sins of Israel accumulated in previous historical stages. If this atonement is valid, if the repentance (teshuva) is deep, according to Jewish tradition, the Mashiach will appear as a blessing of the Jewish God under the works of his God-chosen people. The appearance of Mashiach in this case will be a sign sent from above for the return of Jews to Israel, the establishment of independent statehood and the construction of the Third Temple of Jerusalem on the site of the destroyed second in Jerusalem.

In principle, the most consistent representatives of this Jewish approach are some fundamentalists from the movement «Neturei Karta» or Satmar Hasidim, who say something like this: "Our Jewish God commanded to endure the difficulties of exile, let’s wait for its end, let’s atone for our sins, and when Mashiach comes (but not before!), we will return to Israel to the promised land." They rely on the fact that in the Talmud there is a clear ban on mass returns to Palestine before the arrival of Mashiach, and even more so on the implementation of this through force.

The Talmud forbids it and firmly states at first Mashiach, a then return to Israel, and nothing else.

Here the question arises: how did it happen that the State of Israel was created, while Mashiach, apparently, still was not. After all, even the most extreme Zionists do not claim that he came.

In order to understand how it happened that the modern Israeli state is in complete contradiction with the Jewish religion in its orthodox, Talmudic design, one must dig deeper and return, at least to the 17th century, to the era of the pseudo-messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He was, as Gershom Scholem writes, the first herald of Zionism.

Sabbatai Zevi stated that he himself is a Mashiach, and therefore Jews now have the right return to the promised land.

Sabbatai Zevi cums sadly. When he came to the Ottoman Sultan demanding that he, as the messiah, give up the right to Palestine, the Ottoman Sultan said: "I have another proposal to you, Mr. Sabbatai Zevi, if you continue to talk this nonsense, I will cut off your head. And if you want to survive, convert immediately'.

And then Sabbatai Zevi makes a strange gesture. He takes and puts on a turban and says: "You are right, yours took it, I am not the messiah, let me now preach Islam.".

He was spared, but what a disappointment, what a blow to the Jewish community, which was already ready to move into Sabbataism. Yes, now Sabbataism was rejected by Orthodox Judaism, but it did not completely disappear, and continued to spread, especially among the Ashkenazim, the Jews of Eastern Europe, almost underground. In the same regions where it spread, a movement of Hasidism began to take shape, which did not have an acute eschatological and messianic orientation, but directed the spread of Kabbalah among ordinary people. Traditionally, Kabbalah can only be studied by elderly rabbis who have undergone all other forms of Talmudic training.

But what happened in some sects of this Sabbataism? A theory arose that in fact Sabbatai Tzevi was the real messiah, and he came to Islam specifically because he committed a sacred betrayal. What is sacred betrayal? A whole theology of sacred betrayal has developed, which argued that Jews can renounce their faith, can convert to another faith, to Islam, but only for show, to corrupt them, and themselves continue to profess Judaism in secret.

Later, the Sabbatai Jacob Frank converted to Catholicism. Moreover, he provided the Catholic Senzes with so-called evidence of the presence of a "blood libel," that is, the legend that "Jews eat Christian babies.". He insisted on this, being a converted Jew himself, and we provide "irrefutable evidence.". Frank fully began all forms of Talmudism, renounced his faith, and betrayed his fellow believers. He had an excuse. Frank's secret doctrine, just like Sabbatai Zevi, reported that in fact, after the 17th century, the very idea of Mashiach changed. Now the Mashiach are the Jews themselves. There is no need to wait for some other separate Mashiach, the Jews are Mashiach.

Therefore, even if a Jew betrays his religion, he still remains holy, because he is holiness, he is God.

In this way, an intellectual environment for Zionism was created.

The meaning of Zionism is that it is a kind of "jewish Satanism". Satanism is not in relation to other peoples or cultures, but Satanism is within Judaism, that is, it is a reversal of proportions. If classical Orthodox Judaism insists that the meaning of the existence of Jews in dispersion (galut) consists in waiting for the Mashiach, which will come from outside, and only then will it be necessary to return to the promised land, then Zionism is based on the principle that the Jews themselves are God. And therefore, they can already return to Palestine, and can do this with the help of force, thereby rejecting the Talmudic ban, and, accordingly, begin to build the Third Temple themselves. And the assurance of this messianic process will be the appearance of the Mashiach, which in fact is every Israeli.

Hence the very specific relationship between Zionism and Judaism. On the one hand, this is Zionism continuation of Judaism, on the other hand, this is the refutation of Judaism. Because Zionism rejects the most basic principles of Judaism, the culture of pious expectation, the culture of repentance (tshuva).

Moreover, the Zionists claim that the Jews have nothing to repent of, they have suffered enough. Jews are God, not just "the people of God," but God himself. This means that the Jews themselves are the "collective Mashiach.". This means that no law is written to them, they are their own own law.

This explains the fundamental feature of the modern Zionist movement, which relies not only on Israel, but also on a huge number of secular Jews, liberal Jews, atheist Jews, communist Jews, capitalist Jews, Christian Jews, Protestant Jews, Jewish Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Muslim Jews, Hare Krishna Jews, Neospiritualist Jews, Occult Jews - all types of Jews which actually represent a network of generalized Francoism. Precisely because they are all collectively and each individually from now on and are Mashiach, each of them can calmly carry out sacred betrayal and at the same time not sin against their essence.

Such is immanent messianism, where the concepts of Mashiach and the Jews themselves have changed places. The Zionists are no longer waiting for Mashiach, they themselves are Mashiach, and therefore they have no one else and nothing to wait for. All that remains is to rely on our own strengths and our own networks all over the world to assert world domination and rebuild our Israeli state, not counting either the local population or at any other cost.

This is served by the formal ban on criticism of Zionism, which operates in some American states, where anti-Zionism is equated with anti-Semitism.

If we look so closely, we will notice that the State of Israel itself is waging war on the Semites, that is, on the Palestinians, the Arabs, who are pure Semites. Moreover, Zionist ideology cannot even be called "Jewish" in the full sense, because it is based on a refutation of the basic principles of Judaism. If there is no expectation of Mashiach, then what Judaism...

The very fact of the existence of the state of Israel is in the eyes of the Zionists, proof that they are the Mashiach. If it weren't for this, the state would not have arisen. And they attribute all the credit for its creation exclusively to themselves and their networks. Since it worked out, they believe, it means that all this was done with God’s help.

And then there is only one step left, to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and begin construction of the Third Temple, which is what the extremely Zionist group, the Faithful to the Temple movement, is calling for. Huge funds have recently been allocated for this for research in the Temple Mount.

Since Zionism has such a deep metaphysical background, then taming it with appeals from the UN or vain howls «let's make peace, let's respect human rights» is pointless. 

We are in the midst of eschatological scenarios that have a very deep metaphysical background. The situation is becoming more and more alarming, going far beyond the usual banal explanations - the economy, the market, oil prices, the stock exchange, national interests, etc., which are becoming more and more contradictory and even absurd.

We live in very interesting times, but the price for the opportunity to live here is that some parts of our consciousness are simply blocked, paralyzed. If we go beyond hypnosis, fog, nonsense, absurdity and postmodern fragmentation of consciousness, we will see a very interesting and terrible picture of what is happening in the Middle East.