Iran's Antisemitic Slave Morality

1 Tammuz 5785 (June 27 2025)

Whether the work of Friedrich Nietzsche inspired the Nazi movement or whether the Nazis simply corrupted his work, is a controversial question among historians, philosophy nerds, other experts and laymen alike who study these topics. The Nazis no doubt referenced and embraced a politically actionable version of Nietzschian concepts (with Ubermensch being the most famous example), but there are some very obvious defences against these charges. While the Nazis may have borrowed individual concepts from Nietzsche, they clearly weren’t applying his ideas properly because, for one thing, Nietzsche declared himself an anti-antisemite.

But Nietzsche’s famous disgust for antisemites wasn’t born out of love for Jews, since he had plenty of criticisms towards Jews. He admired some intellectual and culturally significant German Jews, yes, but he did still fundamentally view Jews and Judaism as a corruptive force. In Nietzsche’s view, the Jews uprooted Europe’s old aristocratic moral code where to be good was to be great and replaced it with a priestly class: first by inventing and spreading Christianity in ancient times, and again by inventing quasi-Christian humanistic theories of morality as the Christian order of Europe began to fall apart during the Enlightenment period. Regardless of the name slapped on the philosophy, the underlying theme is that to be good is to be meek, pathetic, lowly, or in a word: Jewish. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

This is what Nietzsche termed as “slave morality,” which he viewed as a total inversion of what it actually means to be good. In Nietzsche’s view, the good man is the great man: the aristocrat who conquers new lands, spreads his seed throughout, rules them until his death, and holds his place in the history books. To say otherwise is just cope - a petty way for slaves and other losers to excuse their unwillingness to achieve their own freedom or die trying. 

Nietzsche hated the world he believed Jews created, but he didn’t hate Jews personally for it. Putting a dead Jew on a stick, casting him as the mortal enemy of Judaism, and then getting all the enemies of the Jews to swear allegiance to a moral code that places being a weak and cowardly Jew preaching peace and love as the highest moral good was quite the con, and Neitzache couldn’t help but admire it a bit. 

Herein lies why Nietzsche hated antisemites. Not only does their slave morality drive them to deranged levels of hatred unbecoming of any civilized person, but the moral paradigm they’re using to come to this hateful conclusion about Jews was itself invented by Jews. 

This also makes it difficult to blankly state that Nietzsche’s hatred for antisemitism would’ve led him to oppose the Nazis. Hitler was no Christian, and he was very consciously trying to overthrow what he viewed as a Jewish moral order that was sucking Europeans of their racial vitality, and more specifically Aryans. Free of Jewish morality, the Nazis set in motion the most deadly and destructive war in human history, sending armies to murder and rape all across Eastern Europe and subjecting their conquered territories to an era of ruthless tyranny never before seen on the continent. I’m not sure if Nietzsche would have supported someone as psychotic (and quite frankly pedestrian) as Hitler, but I don’t think it’s as much of a bastardization as Nietzsche’s defenders would lead you to believe. Perhaps Jewish morality is a good thing after all? 

Although I’m not a Nietzschian and don’t largely agree with his assessment of Abrahamic religion (whether it be Judaism or Christianity), I still think there’s something to say for the rejection of slave morality. Of course, the Nazis were far from the only movement which sought to revitalize youthful vitality amid the challenges of modernity, nor was their ultimately suicidal attempt at it a representative sample. This type of thought was generally in vogue throughout the Victorian Era and later the Progressive Era. All sorts of beliefs and institutions from the YMCA to the American National Park system to the Scramble for Africa to all the late 19th century US Presidents having beards to basically the entire progressive movement of the early 20th century was in part motivated by these types of beliefs. If you attended an American Jewish summer camp, there’s a very good chance that the people who founded it thought that urban life was turning your great grandfathers into pathetic sissies.

Many early Zionists were also contending with these issues, particularly Max Nordau, the Zionist who came up with Muscular Judaism and the idea of the ‘New Jew.’ These Zionists largely took the Nietzschian criticism of Jews to heart, believing that 2,000 years of living as a stateless merchant/middlemen class in the diaspora had reduced the Jewish people to a degenerate state, with the shtetl being the ultimate embodiment of this humiliation. There, weak and defenseless second-class citizens living in poor, filthy, overcrowded villages under the rule of a (possibly senile) Rabbi live and die in anonymity, occasionally at the hands of the occasional marauding band of pogromists who will never be brought to justice. They didn’t sympathize with these Jews, but rather viewed them with disgust, which is why you’ll occasionally see antisemites quote their writings, and accuse Zionism of being antisemitic.

Shtetl life

Regardless of whether their hatred for Shtetl life can be characterized as antisemitic, the only thing separating Zionists from total vindication was that they weren’t insistent enough. Shtetl life in the early 1900s was already totally dysfunctional and on its deathbed, but I don’t think even the most alarmist Zionists imagined that militarized German death squads would march across Eastern Europe and entirely exterminate Shtetl life, leaving the little that survived to be assimilated into Soviet communist culture. 

The Zionists, however, achieved their goals beyond their own wildest dreams. Not only was a Jewish state created, but it created a culture of warriors who have become the dominant military power in the Middle East, though repeatedly humiliating and instilling fear in its enemies as it expanded its own wealth and glory. They successfully liberated the Jew from the caricature of the Jew, the pathetic slave whose meek and cowardly demeanor elicited disgust from a similarly enslaved public.

The antisemite continues to be a slave however. In pursuit of destroying the warrior nation of the New Jew, the once powerful and glorious nation of Iran has turned itself into a giant Shtetl. The Iranian people are defenseless second-class citizens in their own country, and despite showing the bluster of warriors, their leadership consists of senile Mullahs who believe in magic, spy squirrels and have spent their entire lives in academies, rising through the ranks by showing off their Talmudic bookishness and academic fluency rather than achieving any real-world accomplishments such as winning a war or increasing the country’s GDP, which now by some measures sits below Iraq’s on a per capita basis. The most noble thing a person can do under the twisted value system of this antisemitic regime is not invent a new technology or advance humanity in some other way, but get blown up by Israel. What motivated them to create a society like this? A book that was intentionally plagiarized from the Torah for the purpose of marketing itself to Jews.

An Illustration of Qassem Soleimani being embraced after death by the grandson of Muhammed.

In other words, this is a government that is totally enslaved to Jews not because any real live Jews enslaved them, but because they have chosen to psychologically enslave themselves to the archetype of the Jew. They have created a society of inverted morality where, much like the Shtetl, being constantly humiliated, living in poverty, and losing all your dignity is good because it exposes the moral depravity of the Jew for rejecting this way of life. Also like the Shtetl, this method of organizing society falls apart immediately when confronted with even the slightest bit of force. 

We are not Nazis coming to exterminate the Iranians nor are we communists coming to them with a new form of enslavement. We are coming to defend ourselves from a fanatical regime which has chosen, entirely on their own accord, to take on the posture of a rebellious slave toward their Jewish masters. However, unlike previous states which have taken up this role (and there are many), this time Jews are not also slaves. For the first time in thousands of years, Jews are the real masters of our own destiny.

So inasmuch as Iran wants to take on the role of an uncooperative slave to Israel, Israel will put them in their place. Israel never asked for a slave, and it is entirely up to the Iranian people if they want to revel in poverty and misery under antisemitic hypnosis, or if they want to liberate themselves and reestablish themselves as the proud, dignified nation they’ve been since well before the Biblical Israel even existed. 

- Beau Chasse