History of Zionism
Zionism needs neither another pamphlet nor another apologia. Archives exist, United Nations resolutions exist, entire libraries cite one another without anyone drawing a clear genealogy from them. Almost everything written on the subject falls into two equally comfortable outs, institutional apologia, which treats every state decision as an inevitable response to a threat with no actors and no alternatives, and conspiratorial fabulation, which replaces political analysis with ethnic suspicion and ends up blaming an entire people for what a congress, an army and a handful of named men did. This series offers neither. There is no essence here that explains anything. There is a political project born in a hall in Basel in 1897, sustained afterward by concrete institutions, and today embodied in decisions signed by identifiable people, with a title, a name, a biography.
El Estado del Crimen is an eleven-episode documentary series. It covers the period from the first Zionist congress in Basel, in 1897, to the military campaign in Gaza that a growing number of genocide scholars already consider consummated. It is neither an exhaustive chronology nor an opinion essay. It is a dissection. Each episode examines one link in the chain that turned a minority political movement into an apparatus of occupation, war and diplomatic lobbying protected for decades by its Western allies.
The arc has a recognisable shape, even as each episode holds its own findings. It begins with the genealogy of a political idea and the internal currents that disputed it from day one. It continues with the moment that idea becomes mandate, mass migration and statehood, dragging with it a founding war whose numbers are still disputed eighty years later. It moves through decades of territorial expansion and military consolidation into the present, an apparatus combining administered colonisation, transnational lobbying, security alliances and diplomatic impunity built layer upon layer. It ends where every power structure that believes itself beyond question ends, at the question of who, from within and from without, dares to name it. No empire calls itself an empire. No system of impunity calls itself impune. This series calls them by name.
Episodes are published every Saturday from 1 August 2026. This space gathers the complete index and is updated with each new release. Readers can enter at any point, but the logic of the series is cumulative, what is understood in episode eleven depends on what was built in the first.
G.S.
The sources for this series are official documents, judicial and diplomatic archives, reports from international organisations, cross-checked academic research and, where relevant, Israeli and Jewish sources critical of Zionism, explicitly cited as such. Where a claim could not be independently verified, it is flagged as such. The genocide designation applied to the military campaign in Gaza is presented as a reasoned, sourced conclusion, not as a fact already settled in law by the International Court of Justice, which as of this publication has only ruled on provisional measures. The series began publishing on 1 August 2026, with one episode every Saturday.
