The “anti-Zionist” narrative endures because it has not been deconstructed at its linguistic roots, and that process must begin within the Jewish community itself.
The problem with claiming that anti-Zionists deny the peoplehood of the Jewish people in favor of Judaism as a religion is that the vast majority of the left-wing anti-Zionists are not religious, or not of the Jewish religion. They may be religious in the sense that leftism is a religion or wokism is a religion.
Outstanding essay! Both the far right and far left are intent on erasing Jewish peoplehood. It is ironic that many conservative Christians support the nature of Jewish peoplehood more than progressive Jews and others who collaborate with the far left and fascists to erase our nationhood, peoplehood and history..
Yes. It’s really important to acknowledge that this is both right and left. The left’s effort to erase our peoplehood is being driven by academia (the lower schools, too). Unless academia is totally overhauled, they will continue to produce more antizionists.
I’m less certain what’s driving the hatred on the right, but it seems like there’s Groypers, Christian replacement theory, and classical blut and soil Neo-Nazism -distinct but overlapping. How to address those, I don’t know.
Linking Mansour’s piece about the horrendous EZra Klein podcast which touches on Edward Said killed Jewish liberal intellectualism in academia. This is the root which must be pulled up and the earth salted.
The anti-Zionist Jews are like the Wicked Son in the Haggadah insofar as they exclude themselves from Jewish peoplehood and therefore the appropriate answer to them is also that which follows in the Haggadah insofar If they had been in Egypt they would have been among those who were not redeemed.
Jewish anti-Zionism is often started by adolescence defiance and nurtured by misanthropic ignorance. When the you realise that if is very hard to reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into, you will slightly less outraged.
The self-hating, auto-antisemitic so called "Jews", will be the first ones to pay the price for their transgressions if and when Democracies, law and order collapse.
The problem with claiming that anti-Zionists deny the peoplehood of the Jewish people in favor of Judaism as a religion is that the vast majority of the left-wing anti-Zionists are not religious, or not of the Jewish religion. They may be religious in the sense that leftism is a religion or wokism is a religion.
Outstanding essay! Both the far right and far left are intent on erasing Jewish peoplehood. It is ironic that many conservative Christians support the nature of Jewish peoplehood more than progressive Jews and others who collaborate with the far left and fascists to erase our nationhood, peoplehood and history..
Yes. It’s really important to acknowledge that this is both right and left. The left’s effort to erase our peoplehood is being driven by academia (the lower schools, too). Unless academia is totally overhauled, they will continue to produce more antizionists.
I’m less certain what’s driving the hatred on the right, but it seems like there’s Groypers, Christian replacement theory, and classical blut and soil Neo-Nazism -distinct but overlapping. How to address those, I don’t know.
Linking Mansour’s piece about the horrendous EZra Klein podcast which touches on Edward Said killed Jewish liberal intellectualism in academia. This is the root which must be pulled up and the earth salted.
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Simple response from me. If YOU don't stand for what and who you are then who exactly will? That is THE fundamental choice.
The anti-Zionist Jews are like the Wicked Son in the Haggadah insofar as they exclude themselves from Jewish peoplehood and therefore the appropriate answer to them is also that which follows in the Haggadah insofar If they had been in Egypt they would have been among those who were not redeemed.
Jewish anti-Zionism is often started by adolescence defiance and nurtured by misanthropic ignorance. When the you realise that if is very hard to reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into, you will slightly less outraged.
The self-hating, auto-antisemitic so called "Jews", will be the first ones to pay the price for their transgressions if and when Democracies, law and order collapse.
You have to understand and be familiar either you heritage to be proud of it snd to defend it