Zionism is actually a glorious, sprawling, often utterly baffling tapestry woven from threads of idealism, desperation, kvetching, and an almost-pathological inability to agree on anything.
Fun read with lots of truth. I guess I was (past tense) an "Emergency Zionist." But, after Oct. 7, we no longer have "emergencies," because "emergency" status is now permanent. Therefore, I'm going to call myself an "Existential Zionist."
Wow! I had no idea Zionism was so subdivided. While Jabotinsky and Weizmann are mentioned I noticed food is also prominently described. In fact, I'm going to buy Bamba Puffs at the local Wal-Mart in curiosity.
"The original advocates saw the establishment of a Jewish state as a step towards redemption and the returning of the Messiah."
How could a messiah return if he was never there in the first place. Has more appeal to "messianic jews." An oxymoron if ever there was one.
"Revisionist Zionism . . . emphasized the need for a strong Jewish military and rejected compromise on territorial goals."
Underlying this statement is a very interesting ethical conundrum.
Jews claim the right to Israel on the basis that the land is their unceded, ancestral territory on which they have maintained a 3,500+ years of unbroken presence.
However, if they are willing to give up not just any portion of this land but its very centre after which they take their name, and not just the centre, but the heart of its heart, the ancient Old City, site of both their sacred Temples, by what right can they claim any of the remainder of the land?
As a Christian Zionist I must correct you on one point. We don't see God as distinctly the "Christian God". We believe there is only one God, the God who revealed himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel. We believe we are grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel through faith in Jesus as Messiah. A Jewish Messiah originally proclaimed by Jewish believers.
Felafel Palestinianism....the river to the sea of food supremacy....that the foods of Israel are uniquely and unquestionably Arab Palestinian and that Israel has no food other than gefilte fish it can claim so it stole their DELICIOUS and unique world renowned cuisine.
Demographic Palestinianism.... a)we'd been the majority for centuries. b)we pre date the Joshua Zionist invasion and gave the world the prophet Isa and Christianity.
Anti Genocide Palestinianism.....all Muslim and Christian Arab death is a product of Israeli genocide.
Queer Palestinianism....Queer and Palestinian freedom are one and the same. Queer Arabs who live in Israel suffer racism and apartheid. Queer liberation can only be achieved when there is a free Palestine. Queer Jews in Israel are complicit in the genocide. NO dancing on stolen land
I know why ultimately, it seemed that aliyah wasn't such a good choice for me in the seventies.
Today, the picture is a lot different. The Jewish Agency didn't give me one minute of uninterrupted interview. As I grew older, I realized that such experiences could have been objected to. Today, aliyah is better suited for younger people than myself.
Enough of your bullshit. "palestinianism" was invented in the 1960's by the KGB. Who the world calls "palestinians" are simply Arabs who are descendants of Arab conquerors or descendants of Arab migrants who came after the Jews started to build up British Mandatory Palestine. There is no indigenous "palestinian" food or culture. Gefilte fish has nothing to do with Middle Eastern Jews. There always has to be trolls injecting their irrelevant 2 cents.
Israel, the ultimate guarantor and bulwark against global Nazism, for both The Jewish People and for the whole World too.
The baskin and robins of Zionism Lmaoraotf
Some of these are pretty clearly tongue and cheek but I would say that at least 10 of them describe me.
Then there is oh eff we are Jews and they are coming for us .
Fun read with lots of truth. I guess I was (past tense) an "Emergency Zionist." But, after Oct. 7, we no longer have "emergencies," because "emergency" status is now permanent. Therefore, I'm going to call myself an "Existential Zionist."
It wasn't after October 7. It's been since 1948. But some didn't wake up to reality until October 7.
Imagine how the state would have been born had the Food Zionists been in charge of the Yishuv rather than the Labor Zionists.
…follicular Zionism…this was fun. Shabbat Shalom to all of us.
Wow! I had no idea Zionism was so subdivided. While Jabotinsky and Weizmann are mentioned I noticed food is also prominently described. In fact, I'm going to buy Bamba Puffs at the local Wal-Mart in curiosity.
Whoo knew?! (if ya kin boost it ta 57 we kin all git up ta speed an' play... ketchup!)
"The original advocates saw the establishment of a Jewish state as a step towards redemption and the returning of the Messiah."
How could a messiah return if he was never there in the first place. Has more appeal to "messianic jews." An oxymoron if ever there was one.
"Revisionist Zionism . . . emphasized the need for a strong Jewish military and rejected compromise on territorial goals."
Underlying this statement is a very interesting ethical conundrum.
Jews claim the right to Israel on the basis that the land is their unceded, ancestral territory on which they have maintained a 3,500+ years of unbroken presence.
However, if they are willing to give up not just any portion of this land but its very centre after which they take their name, and not just the centre, but the heart of its heart, the ancient Old City, site of both their sacred Temples, by what right can they claim any of the remainder of the land?
Uganda here we come?
Omg ..embarrassing. I belong to a lot of the superficial , culinary, media influenced forms of Zionism.
Very apt description !
As a Christian Zionist I must correct you on one point. We don't see God as distinctly the "Christian God". We believe there is only one God, the God who revealed himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel. We believe we are grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel through faith in Jesus as Messiah. A Jewish Messiah originally proclaimed by Jewish believers.
Felafel Palestinianism....the river to the sea of food supremacy....that the foods of Israel are uniquely and unquestionably Arab Palestinian and that Israel has no food other than gefilte fish it can claim so it stole their DELICIOUS and unique world renowned cuisine.
Demographic Palestinianism.... a)we'd been the majority for centuries. b)we pre date the Joshua Zionist invasion and gave the world the prophet Isa and Christianity.
Anti Genocide Palestinianism.....all Muslim and Christian Arab death is a product of Israeli genocide.
Queer Palestinianism....Queer and Palestinian freedom are one and the same. Queer Arabs who live in Israel suffer racism and apartheid. Queer liberation can only be achieved when there is a free Palestine. Queer Jews in Israel are complicit in the genocide. NO dancing on stolen land
I know why ultimately, it seemed that aliyah wasn't such a good choice for me in the seventies.
Today, the picture is a lot different. The Jewish Agency didn't give me one minute of uninterrupted interview. As I grew older, I realized that such experiences could have been objected to. Today, aliyah is better suited for younger people than myself.
Enough of your bullshit. "palestinianism" was invented in the 1960's by the KGB. Who the world calls "palestinians" are simply Arabs who are descendants of Arab conquerors or descendants of Arab migrants who came after the Jews started to build up British Mandatory Palestine. There is no indigenous "palestinian" food or culture. Gefilte fish has nothing to do with Middle Eastern Jews. There always has to be trolls injecting their irrelevant 2 cents.
I think Ryan was being ironic..
SATiRIC
I have had a lot of angry comments whenever I use a voice to satirize and mock Palestine Arab, leftist racism about Jews, about Israel.
Laura you and I are on the same team....I'm mocking "Palestine" Arab racism.