27 May 2026
https://resistanceisfertilepodcast.substack.com/p/is-judeophilia-a-problem-for-the

Co-hosts Indi and Benji are joined by travel writer Julian Sayarer to grab the
third rail of Left politics, the rarely discussed in polite company question of
Judeophilia.

In this live episode of the PsychLib series, co-hosts Benji and Indi welcome
Turkish-British travel writer Julian Sayarer for a frank, necessary conversation
about a concept rarely named in Western leftist spaces: Judeophilia - the
uncritical, often unconscious deference to Jewish identity that shapes discourse
on Palestine, Zionism, and anti-imperialism.

Julian draws on his experience as a journalist, cyclist, and author of 50 Miles
Wide to explore why the European-North American left, despite its self-professed
anti-racism, remains reluctant to name the organized Jewish community as the
primary vehicle for Zionism in Western politics. The discussion unpacks how the
anti-Semitism paradigm functions not as a shield against prejudice, but as a
political tool that protects Zionist legitimacy, suppresses accountability, and
centers Jewish feelings over Palestinian survival.

Key themes include: the overrepresentation of Jewish voices in progressive
media; the linguistic normalization of "Israel" as a proper name for genocide;
the Eurocentric 1940s framing that forces Palestinians to argue within a moral
universe not their own; and the material consequences of silence - from British
Jews volunteering for the IOF to the suppression of plain speech about Jewish
supremacy as a branch of whiteness.

This is not a conversation about Jewish people as individuals, but about power,
representation, and the psychological formations that allow a genocidal project
to retain consent in the West. As Julian argues: if we cannot name the
perpetrator, we cannot stop the crime.