Haaretz is the premier and oldest newspaper in Israel. Always Left-leaning, it has been for most of its existence been a left-wing mouthpiece.

While it has a zionist history, it’s roots are in secular socialism. The Israel of kibbutzim rather than the modern mostly capitalist technological powerhouse that characterizes modern Israel. The paper is dedicated to the destruction of Bibi Netanyahu, once and current Israeli Prime Minister. Despite his success in making peace with most of the Arab world, Haaretz is mostly concerned with placating the Palestinians than making peace with Israel’s military rivals.

On Sunday Haaretz published an opinion piece  that I found striking, reminding me that the transnational elite is at work everywhere with a common set of tactics.

Columnist Noa Landau wrote a screed against…Jews being Jews. Now Landau is not anti-Israel; she is just hates the Jewish religion. She is of Jewish descent herself so she isn’t anti-Semitic, but she shares the hatred of religion and belief in God that animates socialists.

There is nothing particularly shocking about that in itself, but in the way she expresses it is. She said the quiet part out loud: belief in God and a traditional religion is an obstacle to the radical reshaping of society that is required to implement the agenda of the transnationalists.

there almost aren’t any truly secular people in Israel. Surveys have shown that 80 percent of Israeli Jews believe in God. How can they not, with the indoctrination they get starting in kindergarten? Beyond the fact that there is no separation of state and religion in Israel, this is a country where secular female celebrities promote the keeping of Jewish “purity laws” prohibiting sex during a woman’s menstrual cycle. I have also not yet received a reasonable reply to the question of why totally secular people mutilate their newborn sons for religious reasons.

In a state where national identity is so tightly linked to a religious one, and religious identity to ethnicity, the entire national epistemology is a religious one. The philosopher Charles Taylor argued that the secular revolution involved the turning of religion from an organizing logic that totally regulated the premodern world, into one lifestyle out of many.

This means that modern epistemology is secular in principle. In Israel, where the national idea is itself a secular one, in many areas of life the immanent framework is actually religious in principle. All this was not caused by Avi Maoz. He only embodies the natural extension of the fact that every year, in the Israeli state school system, rabbis hand out the “beloved” Torah to ritually circumcised secular boys.

In such a state, no secular insurrection is possible, simply because there aren’t enough secular people.

It is that last sentence that is so striking to me, and the analysis itself reflects why the abandonment of God has been so crucial to the spread of socialism and transnationalism.

In order to create a transnational order it is vital to break down the particular; to the extent that a group has a common identity it is resistant to the transnational community being created.

The European Union is the microcosm of what the transnationalists are seeking to build. The EU is basically run by an unaccountable bureaucracy; while it will attend to some parochial economic interests, it works very hard to break down the national borders in the most important ways. What the World Economic Forum and its allies are promoting in an EU for the world.

That’s why Britain bailed. The Brits wanted to be British.

Landau’s argument is that Israel’s jewishness is an obstacle in the way that Britain’s Britishness has been. Actually, it is much worse, since religion is much less fluid than national identity, and Jewish religion is not universalist in the was that Christianity is. It is based upon blood ties and deeply rooted in a common history. It is that history, not a set of beliefs, that unites the Jews.

In this is a clue to how we fight the transnational elite. God and history are the antidote to the rootless cosmopolitanism of the World Economic Forum crowd. Christians will never have the same historical connections that Jews have, but Americans at least have a particular reverence for our shared history. It is almost a civil religion. Holding on to our religion and our history gives us a defense against transnationalists.

That is why we must fight against CRT and other attacks on our shared history. It is why we must defend our religious values even when under concerted attacks. Christians must remain Christians, Jews Jews, and Muslims Muslim. Perhaps a shared religious background would be stronger than a diverse one, but a shared belief in God unites us against the atheist Left.

The alternative to holding on to our history and values which are under such vicious attack is being even more vulnerable to the “secular insurrection” Landau and other transnationalists so deeply desire.