The Semantic Misalignment of Power

Fascism as encephalopathy reveals itself semantically through deliberate misalignments and ambiguity. For example, words such as “Antisemitism” and “Terrorism” have been the core of Netanyahu’s cynical opportunism since his rise to prominence from the late 1970s onwards. His cynical opportunistic deployment of ambiguous semantics have eroded the analytical power of such terms whilst at the same time increasing its evocative, strategic impact. Today, a statement such as “X is anti-Semitic” can be publicly made without being called into question. The questioning itself risks becoming denounced as anti-Semitic. The same with the word “Terrorism”. Declaring a specific ac as an act of terrorism turns the questioning of that description into not merely an apology for terrorism but potentially itself an act of terrorism.

For a serious academic like I am trying to be, such deliberate semantic misalignment is unbearable. It invokes a deep sense of anger as politicians and journalists –  who, if I am completely honest, probably lack the intellectual power that I myself can muster with the help of aeverything I have read and everything I was taught – brazenly deploy these strategies as if they anticipate everyone else will simply swallow this. Since politicians and mainstream media mostly talk to each other, they might actually fall foul of “group think”. This probably explains why – even in the West – the majority of people condemn the genocide in Gaza and refuse to be gaslit into deceiving themselves that it is not a genocide. Even after the so-called ceasefire, the actions of the Zionist State, which include continued ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, unprovoked attacks on Lebanon, Syria and Iran, and brazen public tsatements of genocidal intent regarding the creation of Greater Israel, all add up that the Zionist State is indeed fully immersed in fascism. Fantasies about Greater Israel are exactly the same as those of expanding the Lebensraum of the Third Reich.

Whereas media are frantically trying to direct us to a muddling of reality in defence of the completion of the eradication of even the slightest aspirations to act in accordance with International Law, especially since the unprovoked attacks on Iran, only a handful of people – namely those who directly benefit from it and those extremists who are actively engaged in a global race war in defence of White Supremacism – actually accept their narratives. Three narratives are deliberately highlighted – in muddled forms so as to increase confusion – to diffuse a fourth and a fifth narrative, which are actually operating in perfect unison. Narrative #1: Iran is a nuclear threat that must be neutralized. This is blatantly wrong as the only nuclear power in the Middle East is Israel. Iran was attacked in July 2025 for the same reason, then too this narrative was proven as false. Narrative #2: The Iranian people are oppressed and need to be liberated. This is the same narrative as the one used to destroy Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia and Syria and false for two reasons: (a) the current government was elected and (b) bombing a country has never led to liberating its people from a dictatorship. We could also add that the narrative is extremely selective as many oppressed people in the world are not being liberated, primarily because their oppressors are supported by western powers. Narrative #3: Iran has oil. This one is not as prominent as the previous two, but just like with Venezuela, the dictator of the USA, Trump, has declared that oil is always an American interest. The immense disruptive effects on the world economy, of the joint Israeli-American attacks on Iran, does support the suspicion that the Netanyahu-Trump axis of fascism is indeed apocalyptic in nature. These narratives are stacked up in media reports on the “war with Iran”, which is a shameful hotchpotch of poor, propagandistic reporting and shameless cheerleading for crimes against international law committed in the name of “Western Values”. The fact that Ukraine has now opportunistically sided with the aggressors seems to have been gone under the radar. In doing so, the Ukrainian government have thereby justified the Russian aggression against them as prophylactically correct. Even if Iran had supported Russia with drones, this is just as much an act of self-defence as Russia bombing Brussels for the EU support to the Ukraine would have been.

Narratives #1, #2 and #3 can be understood from a relatively simple perspective that is close to the superficial analyses of media pundits and so called experts. There are two other narratives that seem to me much more convincing, especially because they could actually be one and the same. Narrative #4 is the story of Greater Israel, i.e. the ambitions of (Christian) Zionism to become the sole dominant power in the Middle East. Attacking Iran – never alone of course but with the help of the USA – is an act of destabilizing the region. The end game is not disarming Iran (Narrative #1) regime change (Narrative #2) or access to more oil (Narrative #3), but perpetual disruption so that Israel can focus on territorial expansion. The continued attacks on Lebanon and Syria are proof of that. The growing hostility by Israel towards Turkey suggests that the plan to take over Cyprus as part of Greater Israel has to be taken seriously. Narrative #5 is the one I have been developing throughout this blog. Greater Israel is not an interest of the MAGA movement, Indeed many young maggats are strongly opposed to “Israel First”. Why does Trump let Netanyahu humiliate him over and over again? Why do so many leading figures in American politics expose themselves ina  degrading exhibitionism of spinelessness and self loathing?

Narrative #5 is fully congruent with the thesis that fascism is an encephalopathy. But this is not to be understood as an individualized occurrence. It is the individuation of an epidemiological process that has a name: the Epstein Files. Wherever you look throughout world history: absolute power corrupts absolutely and the most depraved areas of corruption involve the violent sexual  exploitation of children. The version of this at the heart  of Narrative #5 has a name: The Epstein Files. Before the attacks on Iran, many leading figures in US politics, finance and business were at the verge of being exposed as either child molesters or their protectors. The media kept their focus mainly on the salacious details, thereby actively or passively participating in the cover up of the greater story of  perversion, corruption, bribery and blackmail. Even though Trump’s popularity before the attacks on Iran had plummeted, he still went ahead with significantly increasing the US debt. This completely irrational act is easily explained if one considers that Epstein was not simply recording the sexual perversions of powerful, old men for his own pleasure, but sharing this with intelligence agencies, the most commonly mentioned are Israel and Russia. It is so easy to understand Trump’s stupidity when one adds to it the suspicion that he has indeed molested children and these have indeed been recorded and some of these recordings are in the hands of Israeli (and not Russian!) intelligence services. One phone call to the White House would be enough to secure the unilateral American attacks on Iran.

Narratives #4 and #5 add up as they combine the fascist ideological insanity of the (Christian-) Zionist project with the fascist perversions of libidinal, brazen corruption, child molestation and other sadistic escapisms that point towards an encephalopathic state of mind. The impunity with which the Epstein Class has ascended to world domination cannot be understood without the Zionist Project. Not only has the Zionist project enabled a live laboratory for the research, development and testing of militarized security, including the training of militarized police, the Zionist revenge on the West might indeed turn out to be the corruption of democracy from within – but that libidinal desire is encephalopathic in itself. Furthermore, with its engagement in perpetual war in the building of Greater Israel, Zionism has enabled a perpetual flow of financial resources from the working classes of the West to the wealthy shareholders and asset managers of the military industrial complex. Warfare is the most efficient means to maximize the depletion of the common good. Hence, the Epstein Class consists of those ideologically persuaded by fascism, economically bribed by fascism and libidinally blackmailed by fascism.

The Epstein Class has succeeded in completely destroying International Law and has now entered into the End Game. Once again, we are asked to be prepared to die for the Epstein Class, for those people who molest children, destroy the common good, and have created an intolerable ideological mind-set that suggests that our existence is less important than their wealth and power.

As a final note, I want to make it clear that whereas Jeffrey Epstein and many involved in his schemes are Jewish, their Jewishness is not the cause of any of their evil actions. It is not a causal factor because Jewisness is an abstraction, not an actual force. The real causal factor is to be found within practices of Zionism. Practicing Zionism is an extension of the same energy that fuelled the Third Reich, which could be referred to as near-collapse-capitalism. As we have seen from Biden, Trump, Orban, and many other “World Leaders”, one does not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. Moreover, most Jewish people are not part of the Epstein Class and whereas perhaps by now, a larger section of the world’s Jewish people may have bought into the Zionist-fascist encephalopathy, this has nothing to do with being Jewish in itself, as Zionism would never have been successful, if it had not been closely aligned with the same White Supremacism and Christianity that invented Jewishness as an ethnic category through a reconfiguration of anti-Semitism as a specific expression of race theory.  Indeed, there is a contiunity between the Third Reich and the Zionist Project, but not one that suggests that the latter somehow protects “Jews” against the former. Instead, the Zionist Project unfolds as the great benficiary of the continuation of anti-Semitism at the heart of (Christian) Nationalism.