For decades, the Zionist project sold the world a carefully constructed image: that of a modern democracy, militarily invincible, morally superior, and destined for historical permanence. Today, that narrative is collapsing before the eyes of the world. But this crisis did not begin yesterday.

As the 78th anniversary of the Nakba approaches — the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, which saw the mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the destruction of entire villages, and the formal consolidation of a settler-colonial project over historic Palestine — it is impossible to separate the current crisis from its foundational roots.

What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a rupture with Israel’s history. It is the radical continuation of the very logic upon which it was founded.

What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a rupture with Israel’s history. It is the radical continuation of the very logic upon which it was founded.

What is in crisis is not merely Benjamin Netanyahu or an exceptionally brutal extremist government. What is collapsing is the Zionist project itself as a political structure built upon occupation, apartheid, ethno-religious supremacy, and permanent war.

Netanyahu did not create these contradictions. He merely accelerated, radicalised, and exposed them without disguise.

For years, sections of the Western political establishment sustained the fiction that Israel was a vibrant democracy temporarily hijacked by the far right. This narrative ignores a fundamental truth: no genuine democracy can be built upon the systematic denial of an indigenous........

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