Grant Arthur Gochin

European Lies: Colonial Hypocrisy vs Israel’s Survival

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Zionism asserts the Jewish people’s absolute right to self-determination, security, and sovereignty in their sole ancestral homeland. Born from exile, genocide, and centuries of lethal powerlessness, its sole objective remains the permanent cessation of Jewish murder.

Biblical and Archaeological Continuity

Zion appears 152 times in the Hebrew Bible as the geographic designation for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel. Psalms 137:1 records exile: “By the rivers of Babylon… we wept when we remembered Zion.” The Passover command “Next year in Jerusalem” is a political directive of return, not poetry. The Merneptah Stele (1208 BCE), Tel Dan Inscription (9th century BCE), and Dead Sea Scrolls confirm uninterrupted Jewish sovereignty and presence long before any Arab conquest. Genetic studies trace Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews to a shared Levantine origin. The colonial label is a deliberate lie.

The Holocaust Imperative

No Jewish state in the 1930s and 1940s meant no refuge. Britain’s 1939 White Paper capped immigration while Nazis industrialized murder. Six million died because Jews had no army, no ports, no borders. Zionism in 1948 ended that vulnerability. Calling defensive wars “genocide” is inversion: Israel exists to prevent the next Holocaust, not commit one. Ehud Olmert stated it plainly: Zionism turned a crushed people into masters of their destiny.

Binding International Law

The foundation of the Jewish state rests on binding international mandates and recognition:

Napoleon’s 1799 Acre proclamation restoring Jerusalem to the Jews.

Balfour Declaration 1917.

San Remo Resolution 1920 — international treaty.

League of Nations Mandate 1922.

UN Partition Plan 1947 — explicit recognition of Jewish statehood as reparative justice.

These documents remain in force. No UN resolution has ever revoked them.

Antizionism: Blind Hatred and Self-Subjugation

Babylonians, Canaanites, Philistines — museums only. Jews endure as a living nation with continuous claim. We are the indigenous people of Judea. Antizionism is not political criticism; it is blind hatred of Jews wearing a mask of human rights. It demands the one Jewish state disappear while every other nation keeps its right to exist. That is antisemitism in its purest form. Every nation that embraces antizionism calls for its own eventual dissolution. When the Jewish state falls, the precedent is set: no nation is safe from the same selective erasure.

Universal Self-Determination

Zionism is identical to every legitimate liberation struggle. Black Panthers demanded armed self-defense against murder. African nations saw Israel as the model: a tiny people who turned desert into a state against impossible odds. To champion African or Irish independence while opposing Jewish independence is raw hypocrisy. The principle is universal or it is nothing.

European Lies and The Tradition of Erasure

Sánchez’s venom fits a pattern. Europe lectures Israel on “colonialism” while clutching remnants of empires built on conquest. This dishonesty traces a straight line to Europe’s 2,000-year war on Jews: from Roman expulsion to medieval blood libels, Inquisition expulsions, to Dreyfus and the Holocaust. Sánchez’s nuclear lament revives that tradition — casual genocidal musing against the Jewish state, excused as “frustration.”

The Double Standard of Destruction:

In September 2025 Pedro Sánchez stated he regretted Spain possessed no nuclear weapons to stop Israel defending itself against Hamas — terrorists who embed in hospitals and schools. He brands Israel genocidal while demanding it fight with hands tied. The world must confront the double standard: Imagine if Netanyahu retorting, “Spain lacks nukes? Pity; we’d use them to end your African land grabs.” The world would erupt in sanctions, UN condemnations, and cries of “Zionist aggression.” But when Sánchez fantasizes bombing Tel Aviv to shield Hamas, it is deemed “diplomatic discourse.” UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer exposes this selective outrage at the Human Rights Council as pure, institutional Jew-hatred.

The Lie of Decolonization:

Europe holds Israel to a false standard while securing its own borders with force and retaining colonial vestiges:

France administers 13 overseas territories, spanning the Caribbean (Guadeloupe, Martinique), South America (French Guiana), and the Pacific (New Caledonia, French Polynesia). New Caledonia’s 2021 independence referendum failed; France clings on, suppressing Kanak self-determination under the same UN Charter it weaponizes against Israel. Paris extracts resources while locals protest inequality.

Spain grips four North African enclaves: Ceuta and Melilla, plus the Plazas de soberanía, territories Morocco brands as colonial relics. Madrid deploys razor wire and troops to repel migrants, mirroring the security it condemns in Israel. These footholds, seized in the 15th century, mirror the “settlements” Sánchez decries — yet he never suggests nuking Madrid for them.

Sánchez’s Self-Negation:

Apply Sánchez’s logic without exception:

  1. Reconquista: Arab-Berber conquest ruled Iberia 711–1492 (781 years). The Reconquista that reclaimed Spain for its prior inhabitants is, by Sánchez’s standard, colonization because it invalidated a long migratory occupation. If Israel’s return after 2,000 years of exile is illegitimate, Spain’s entire national existence is illegitimate. Sánchez is sawing off the branch on which his own country sits.
  2. Migrant Claims: Over 70,000 sub-Saharan Africans reaching Spanish soil since 2024 possess superior claims under Sánchez’s rationale that interim occupation creates permanent rights. Madrid must grant them sovereign statelets or admit the standard is fraudulent when applied to Jews.

Europe’s accusations collapse under their own weight. Israel reclaims indigenous soil per binding mandates; Europe hoards conquered peripheries. Anti-Zionism isn’t critique — it’s the old European urge to erase the Jew, now cloaked in postcolonial jargon. Israel endures as the antidote: a sovereign refuge where Jews dictate their fate, not Europe’s. No lie, no embargo, no nuclear daydream alters that truth.

About the Author
Grant Arthur Gochin is a diplomat, journalist, and wealth advisor focused on historical accountability, Jewish continuity, and recognition doctrine. He serves as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo and is the Emeritus Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs of the African Union, representing all fifty-five AU member states. He is also Emeritus Dean of the Los Angeles Consular Corps. Gochin is Advisor on Recognition Doctrine and Sovereignty to the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President, providing advisory guidance on international recognition, sovereignty theory, and comparative precedent relating to remedial self-determination. His philanthropic work in Togo led to his investiture as Chief of the Village of Babade. Over several decades, Gochin has documented and restored Jewish heritage in Lithuania, including leading the Maceva Project, which mapped and preserved dozens of abandoned and desecrated Jewish cemeteries. His work exposed state-sponsored Holocaust revisionism and contributed to international recognition of systematic manipulation of historical memory. Gochin is the author of *Malice, Murder and Manipulation* (2013), which traces the destruction of his family in Lithuania and examines postwar historical distortion. A consistent advocate against antisemitism, antizionism, and other forms of bigotry, he writes and speaks internationally on the political uses of history and the necessity of historical integrity for Jewish survival. His journalism confronts governmental misinformation and disinformation campaigns and maintains a firm position on Israel’s legitimacy and security grounded in historical evidence and collective survival. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner™ and wealth advisor based in California. He holds an MBA earned with academic distinction and leads Grant Arthur & Associates Wealth Services. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, son, and dog, Kelev. https://www.grantgochin.com
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