What the author identifies is what another author calls “Semanticide”, the murder of language. Jews, and especially Israel have watched semanticide slaughter terminology to their detriment for ages but most significantly since October 7.
Terms like “genocide” and “famine” have been warped into unrecognizable definitions in order to delegitimize Israel and paint targets on Jews.
That Jews themselves have fallen into this slanderous activity and for reasons suggested above, will not identify as Zionists, should come as no surprise. Jews suffer under the same miseducation as non-Jews and also lack any serious Jewish identity. The internet’s speed and ability to saturate the information highway has accelerated this trend. And face it, we will never out shout our enemies.
We must start reclaiming Jewish souls! A person who knows not of who they are and where they have been is not choosing AGAINST Zionism. A choice requires knowing one’s options. Rather they are riding the misinformation flow of our hateful enemies. Funding Jewish education, supporting Jewish learning at all levels. In essence suturing the wound of assimilation and proactively healing that wound is the only solution. There are working models, e.g. birthright, Chabad, but we must start younger with affordable Jewish day schools. Let’s hope we can stop the bleed soon or the future of US Jewry and the U.S.-Israel bond will face terminal consequences.
I love when I tell a fellow Jew that I’m a Zionist—and typically I get a response in one form or another criticizing the Israeli government/Netanyahu. The ignorance and/or cowardice is remarkable.
I was surprised to see that while 88% of Jews believe Israel has a right to exist, only a small fraction identify as Zionists. The survey should have asked the crucial follow-up: why? Why support a Jewish state but reject the name that defines that support? My guess is simple—Zionism has been demonized by anti-Semites, radical ideologues, and woke narratives, and many in the diaspora fear being labeled or attacked.
This fear reflects a deeper weakness. Unlike Israel, where citizens learn to defend themselves and build confidence, diaspora Jews often retreat when confronted. We have no Mayor Kahane today—no one with his courage and conviction to lead, to create a JDL-type organization, to inspire pride and strength in our community. What if self-defense were part of our schools? If Jews knew how to protect themselves, they would proudly say they’re Zionists, wear a Star of David necklace, and stand tall as Jews.
History shows the power of courage. Martin Luther King’s peaceful approach worked because they had numbers—but we don’t. In the diaspora, we need a bit more of a Malcolm X mindset: strong, confident, unapologetic, and ready to defend ourselves. Until then, our community struggles to claim its identity with pride.
Agree with you 100%. The other problem is Jewish leadership is stuck in the victimization mode. When you center your education around the Holocaust you imbue a mentality of helplessness in our youth. Yes, the horrors that have befallen us should be taught (the exiles, the pogroms, the Holocaust), but we need to teach our children about the times Jews fought back. Where are the stories about the 'tough' Jews who broke up Nazi Bund meetings in the US, or the stories about the Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis during WW2, or the stories about American Jews who enlisted to fight in WW2 over and above their percentage of the population. I have said it before; western Jewry keeps relying on the kindness of others which is insufficient. We do need a new Jewish leadership that will promote self defense, that will teach all Jews how to defend themselves, that will band together to confront the bully.
Got news for you, my boy—your thoughts are reciprocated. I agree with every word you said, 100%. Approximately a year and a half ago, I wrote to every major Jewish organization that sends me donation requests each week and asked a simple question: Why not institute self-defence programs as part of Jewish education? All yeshivas, Jewish schools, and education centers should require students to graduate only after they know how to defend themselves. Beyond that, these programs should be offered at shuls and synagogues for everyone—children, adults, the elderly—and should be completely FREE, funded from the donations these organizations have already collected.
I also emphasized the need for a modern equivalent of the JDL, so that when Jews demonstrate or confront threats, we have organized protection. Yet, the responses I received were either form letters asking for money or vague non-answers. This is exactly the problem: too much focus on victimization, the Holocaust, and past helplessness, and not nearly enough on cultivating strength, courage, and self-reliance in our community.
Until we teach and practice self-defence and stop relying solely on the kindness of others, Western Jewry will remain vulnerable. We need leadership that empowers Jews to stand up, band together, and confront bullies confidently.
Wow, I did the same thing. Wrote to my contacts at the AJC with specific ideas like using fund raising to create self-defense (Krav Maga and arms training) camps using form LEOs, IDF members and so on. I suggested hitting up the big pockets in the Jewish community like Kraft, Ellison, Ackman) to set up extensions of Israeli universities here in the US to give a safe place for Jewish students to get a real education not an indoctrination. I also said they need to be prepared to help our fellow Jews in Europe to either immigrate to Israel or be given asylum here in the US and to provide funds to squash the argument from those who would say they would be a burden on the economy. In essence the response was underwhelming and one of denial that anything, but their current approach would work. Maybe we need to find like-minded people and start lobbying ZOA to take charge and lead on these ideas. It is not going to come from the traditional organizations like the ADL or AJC. To be fair they have their place...the ADL does collect good statistics, and the AJC does some good outreach but it is too predictable and in today's environment not as effective as it was 40 years ago.
Neither the AJC nor the ADL are “wartime” organizations. While they both have done important work —notwithstanding that the ADL in particular continues to focus its extensive resources almost exclusively on the “White Christian Nationalist” variety of Jew-hatred, to the detrimental neglect of the other dominant strains—it is IMHO the grassroots organizations which need and deserve greater support in these precarious times. Some groups which I believe warrant greater financial support from those who can donate include StandWithUs; Students Supporting Israel; and the Institute for Black Solidarity With Israel. And certainly ZOA.
Agree with you totally. I target my donations to those organizations as well as AMCHA initiative which is fighting the Jew hatred in the universities, and also groups like Hillel and Bnai Brith who are the lifelines for our children.
Yes, I donate as well to AMCHA, which I think does a better job than the better-known ADL, researching and compiling targeted, DETAILED stats. I only donate to my alma mater’s Hillel chapter, as I’m disenchanted with the national organization after reading a disturbing critique in the December 2025 issue of Commentary. I think time has largely passed B’Nai B’Rith by, but it means well, and I donate to honor my parents, who were involved back in the 50’s-60’s.
A few other worthy, grassroots organizations: Israel on Campus Coalition; American s for Peace and Tolerance; AHA Foundation; CAMERA; Israel-American Council; Impact Forum Foundation.
I guess I’m just a cynical old bastard, but as far as I’m concerned, these large Jewish organizations have no real accountability. They answer to no one. You can’t correspond with the heads of them unless you’ve got pull — they don’t have time for you. They’ve only got time for your Visa card number.
When Trump talks about “the swamp” in politics, that’s exactly what I would call the large Jewish organizations — our own kosher swamp. Same insiders, same smearing, same backroom politics. Enormous amounts of money get collected, and I’d love to see exactly where it all goes — who knew who, who decided what, and how much actually reaches day-to-day problems.
What needs to be done is that these large organizations need to be overhauled, torn apart, just like the UN needs to be torn apart and rebuilt.
You are exactly right. And cowards like Chuck (Shomer of Israel) Schumer have allowed this to happen without comment. When was the last time Schumer or any Democrat other than John Fetterman (Who is of course not even Jewish) stood up and said "I am a Zionist because I support the right of Israel to exist and defend itself."?
His comment recently about Muslims in NYC wanting dogs outlawed was perfect:
"If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."
That's the kind of humor we had in NYC when I was growing up there in the 40's and 50's. I am sure Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were offended by Fine's "bon mot," but that makes it even more enjoyable.
Exactly and after October 7th when it became crystal clear that the Democrats were now the Party Of Islam, not one of the 30 Jewish Members of Congress had the guts to change sides and call out the twisted nature of their party as being anti- Israel and anti-Jewish. They all sold out. Every one of them.
Indeed, Particularly Charles Schumer who is not only the so called minority leader of the Senate but who claimed to his Jewish constituents some time in the (now distant) past that he was the "Shomer" (Guardian) of Israel. He sold out both Israel AND his Jewish constituents to the radical Islamists in the party.
Increasingly, to a dangerous degree, American youth are accepting a cultural environment that is unquestioning where “Palestinian nationalism” is concerned, but so suspicious of Jewish nationalism that there is a frightening lack of diversity among college faculty political viewpoints and a growing antipathy to free speech so intense that Bari Weiss was just canceled at UCLA.
There is a lot to ponder here, Rabbi Abraham. I am horrified to learn that 15% of Jews consider themselves ‘anti-Zionist’ and ‘non-Zionist’. The ‘none of these’ and ‘not sure’ folks might as well have said, ‘don’t care enough to decide’. You do not dwell on why ‘Zionist’ has become such a dirty word to some Jews, but the atrocities committed in the ‘disputed territories’ without punishment, Netanyahu’s refusal to step down, and the wishy-washy waffling on requiring Haredi youth to serve in the IDF, all of these things have certainly not helped. An Israeli-American told me this week that there are pogroms against ‘Palestinians’ happening every day in Judea and Samaria, with no attempt by the government to punish the perpetrators. Whether or not she exaggerates, even the Times of Israel reports enough incidents to turn one’s stomach. We in the Diaspora technically have no right to exert influence on the Israeli government, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. Since we are Jews, we have lots of opinions and they are dividing us to a frightening extent. This particular Jew is an ardent Zionist, even when the Israeli government makes bad decisions. The most dangerous difference between Zionists and all the other Jews seems to me to be the refusal to face up to what we learned on, and since October 7th. The Islamists want 1) to kill all of us and 2) to rule the world. They have lots of money and sizable voting blocks in the 1st world. This former peacenik has faced those ugly truths and doubled down on her Zionism.
Zionism is conflated with a personal desire to live in the State of Israel. Jews are well assimilated into American society and culture even with the roiling Jew Hate on the streets and university campuses and in Congress. Zionism has also been tied to Jewish communities Judea/Samaria. NYC asajews are lining up to see such propaganda films as "no other land"...with a Jewish Israeli filmmaker partnered with an Arab. And a film about a girl who died as a consequence of the Iran Hamas initiated war. To this date no film about the murder....the strangulation of the two Bibas brothers or their mother. That too would be Zionist. So the asajews have the myth of the so called Nakba, the "stealing of another people's land, and the alleged far right Netanyahu as reasons NOT to identify as Zionist. That the Zionist movement included people of every political and religious stripe means zero to them. Just as they are willingly so ignorant about Jewish history, the history of settler colonialism as a consequence of the Arab Muslim and later Ottoman conquests, and the Jewish movement to reclaim our land and rights. Heaven forbid they read a book on Jewish history when they can easily purchase or take a university course that uses Pappe and Khalidi as the ultimate word on "Palestine." Instead this is replaced with worship of the Diaspora as the legitimate place for Jews in the world. Not that "ethno national thing" as a minor asjew celebrity bleated at an awards ceremony.
It shouldn't be. It never was. American Zionists provided the funding and support that helped Israel be born and to survive. We have to reclaim the word from the Jew haters.
At this point there is no difference between the kapo and those who may or may have not been born of JEWISH mothers who support antisemites and go about hating on our beloved ISRAEL. ✨
Clearly they have no right at all to claim being JEWISH; they, the UnJEWs paradingbabout in schmatas - nazis in schmatas have shown themselves to be defined in every aspect of self-hatred and utter ignorance of our history are kapo.
To anyone in 99% of colleges these days Zionism = Colonialism and Colonialism is one of the Left's great sins along with "The Patriarchy," trans rights and racism.
We are allowing our enemies, the modern day Nazis to define and take away our terms. I am a proud Zionist. No Nazi Jew hater is going to stop me from embracing my support for Jewish Nationalism and my love for the state of Israel. We need to push back against this in the disapora and quickly. We need to explain to anyone who supports the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state in its ancestral homeland that they are a Zionist.
I'm not worried. The Muslims in the US will teach the Jews why Israel is important for them and why without the State of Israel there will be no place to go as we have witnessed only 90 years ago.
The Jewish Problem How to Solve It by Louis D. Brandeis
.. .And we Jews, by our own acts, give a like definition to the term Jew. When men and women of Jewish blood suffer because of that fact-and even if they suffer from quite different causes, our sympathy and our help goes out to them instinctively in whatever country they may live and without inquiring into the shades of their belief or unbelief. . .
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge. Every Irish American who contributed towards advancing home rule was a better man and a better American for the sacrifice he made. Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better man and a better American for doing so."
Oh! Before I forget, I recommend that every Jewish family in the US read the following book.
Bryan Mark Rigg
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers:
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Modern War Studies)
What the author identifies is what another author calls “Semanticide”, the murder of language. Jews, and especially Israel have watched semanticide slaughter terminology to their detriment for ages but most significantly since October 7.
Terms like “genocide” and “famine” have been warped into unrecognizable definitions in order to delegitimize Israel and paint targets on Jews.
That Jews themselves have fallen into this slanderous activity and for reasons suggested above, will not identify as Zionists, should come as no surprise. Jews suffer under the same miseducation as non-Jews and also lack any serious Jewish identity. The internet’s speed and ability to saturate the information highway has accelerated this trend. And face it, we will never out shout our enemies.
We must start reclaiming Jewish souls! A person who knows not of who they are and where they have been is not choosing AGAINST Zionism. A choice requires knowing one’s options. Rather they are riding the misinformation flow of our hateful enemies. Funding Jewish education, supporting Jewish learning at all levels. In essence suturing the wound of assimilation and proactively healing that wound is the only solution. There are working models, e.g. birthright, Chabad, but we must start younger with affordable Jewish day schools. Let’s hope we can stop the bleed soon or the future of US Jewry and the U.S.-Israel bond will face terminal consequences.
I love when I tell a fellow Jew that I’m a Zionist—and typically I get a response in one form or another criticizing the Israeli government/Netanyahu. The ignorance and/or cowardice is remarkable.
I was surprised to see that while 88% of Jews believe Israel has a right to exist, only a small fraction identify as Zionists. The survey should have asked the crucial follow-up: why? Why support a Jewish state but reject the name that defines that support? My guess is simple—Zionism has been demonized by anti-Semites, radical ideologues, and woke narratives, and many in the diaspora fear being labeled or attacked.
This fear reflects a deeper weakness. Unlike Israel, where citizens learn to defend themselves and build confidence, diaspora Jews often retreat when confronted. We have no Mayor Kahane today—no one with his courage and conviction to lead, to create a JDL-type organization, to inspire pride and strength in our community. What if self-defense were part of our schools? If Jews knew how to protect themselves, they would proudly say they’re Zionists, wear a Star of David necklace, and stand tall as Jews.
History shows the power of courage. Martin Luther King’s peaceful approach worked because they had numbers—but we don’t. In the diaspora, we need a bit more of a Malcolm X mindset: strong, confident, unapologetic, and ready to defend ourselves. Until then, our community struggles to claim its identity with pride.
Agree with you 100%. The other problem is Jewish leadership is stuck in the victimization mode. When you center your education around the Holocaust you imbue a mentality of helplessness in our youth. Yes, the horrors that have befallen us should be taught (the exiles, the pogroms, the Holocaust), but we need to teach our children about the times Jews fought back. Where are the stories about the 'tough' Jews who broke up Nazi Bund meetings in the US, or the stories about the Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis during WW2, or the stories about American Jews who enlisted to fight in WW2 over and above their percentage of the population. I have said it before; western Jewry keeps relying on the kindness of others which is insufficient. We do need a new Jewish leadership that will promote self defense, that will teach all Jews how to defend themselves, that will band together to confront the bully.
Got news for you, my boy—your thoughts are reciprocated. I agree with every word you said, 100%. Approximately a year and a half ago, I wrote to every major Jewish organization that sends me donation requests each week and asked a simple question: Why not institute self-defence programs as part of Jewish education? All yeshivas, Jewish schools, and education centers should require students to graduate only after they know how to defend themselves. Beyond that, these programs should be offered at shuls and synagogues for everyone—children, adults, the elderly—and should be completely FREE, funded from the donations these organizations have already collected.
I also emphasized the need for a modern equivalent of the JDL, so that when Jews demonstrate or confront threats, we have organized protection. Yet, the responses I received were either form letters asking for money or vague non-answers. This is exactly the problem: too much focus on victimization, the Holocaust, and past helplessness, and not nearly enough on cultivating strength, courage, and self-reliance in our community.
Until we teach and practice self-defence and stop relying solely on the kindness of others, Western Jewry will remain vulnerable. We need leadership that empowers Jews to stand up, band together, and confront bullies confidently.
Stay safe and keep up the good fight
papa j
Wow, I did the same thing. Wrote to my contacts at the AJC with specific ideas like using fund raising to create self-defense (Krav Maga and arms training) camps using form LEOs, IDF members and so on. I suggested hitting up the big pockets in the Jewish community like Kraft, Ellison, Ackman) to set up extensions of Israeli universities here in the US to give a safe place for Jewish students to get a real education not an indoctrination. I also said they need to be prepared to help our fellow Jews in Europe to either immigrate to Israel or be given asylum here in the US and to provide funds to squash the argument from those who would say they would be a burden on the economy. In essence the response was underwhelming and one of denial that anything, but their current approach would work. Maybe we need to find like-minded people and start lobbying ZOA to take charge and lead on these ideas. It is not going to come from the traditional organizations like the ADL or AJC. To be fair they have their place...the ADL does collect good statistics, and the AJC does some good outreach but it is too predictable and in today's environment not as effective as it was 40 years ago.
Spot on.
Neither the AJC nor the ADL are “wartime” organizations. While they both have done important work —notwithstanding that the ADL in particular continues to focus its extensive resources almost exclusively on the “White Christian Nationalist” variety of Jew-hatred, to the detrimental neglect of the other dominant strains—it is IMHO the grassroots organizations which need and deserve greater support in these precarious times. Some groups which I believe warrant greater financial support from those who can donate include StandWithUs; Students Supporting Israel; and the Institute for Black Solidarity With Israel. And certainly ZOA.
Agree with you totally. I target my donations to those organizations as well as AMCHA initiative which is fighting the Jew hatred in the universities, and also groups like Hillel and Bnai Brith who are the lifelines for our children.
Thanks.
Yes, I donate as well to AMCHA, which I think does a better job than the better-known ADL, researching and compiling targeted, DETAILED stats. I only donate to my alma mater’s Hillel chapter, as I’m disenchanted with the national organization after reading a disturbing critique in the December 2025 issue of Commentary. I think time has largely passed B’Nai B’Rith by, but it means well, and I donate to honor my parents, who were involved back in the 50’s-60’s.
A few other worthy, grassroots organizations: Israel on Campus Coalition; American s for Peace and Tolerance; AHA Foundation; CAMERA; Israel-American Council; Impact Forum Foundation.
Dear David,
I guess I’m just a cynical old bastard, but as far as I’m concerned, these large Jewish organizations have no real accountability. They answer to no one. You can’t correspond with the heads of them unless you’ve got pull — they don’t have time for you. They’ve only got time for your Visa card number.
When Trump talks about “the swamp” in politics, that’s exactly what I would call the large Jewish organizations — our own kosher swamp. Same insiders, same smearing, same backroom politics. Enormous amounts of money get collected, and I’d love to see exactly where it all goes — who knew who, who decided what, and how much actually reaches day-to-day problems.
What needs to be done is that these large organizations need to be overhauled, torn apart, just like the UN needs to be torn apart and rebuilt.
papa j
You are exactly right. And cowards like Chuck (Shomer of Israel) Schumer have allowed this to happen without comment. When was the last time Schumer or any Democrat other than John Fetterman (Who is of course not even Jewish) stood up and said "I am a Zionist because I support the right of Israel to exist and defend itself."?
Congressman Andy Fine does but he's a Republican.
His comment recently about Muslims in NYC wanting dogs outlawed was perfect:
"If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."
That's the kind of humor we had in NYC when I was growing up there in the 40's and 50's. I am sure Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were offended by Fine's "bon mot," but that makes it even more enjoyable.
Lots of Republicans have. Lots. Just no Democrats. Other than Fetterman and maybe Richie Torres.
Exactly and after October 7th when it became crystal clear that the Democrats were now the Party Of Islam, not one of the 30 Jewish Members of Congress had the guts to change sides and call out the twisted nature of their party as being anti- Israel and anti-Jewish. They all sold out. Every one of them.
Indeed, Particularly Charles Schumer who is not only the so called minority leader of the Senate but who claimed to his Jewish constituents some time in the (now distant) past that he was the "Shomer" (Guardian) of Israel. He sold out both Israel AND his Jewish constituents to the radical Islamists in the party.
I detest Schumer.
Increasingly, to a dangerous degree, American youth are accepting a cultural environment that is unquestioning where “Palestinian nationalism” is concerned, but so suspicious of Jewish nationalism that there is a frightening lack of diversity among college faculty political viewpoints and a growing antipathy to free speech so intense that Bari Weiss was just canceled at UCLA.
Little do the 88% know they are zionists already.
Important article. No good solutions. The Moslems, socialists, national socialists and "As a Jews" for Palestine have played this word so well.
The script needs to be flipped everyone should be a Zionist, it should be demanded why they are not?
“For the sake of Zion I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be silent.” - Isaiah 62:1
There is a lot to ponder here, Rabbi Abraham. I am horrified to learn that 15% of Jews consider themselves ‘anti-Zionist’ and ‘non-Zionist’. The ‘none of these’ and ‘not sure’ folks might as well have said, ‘don’t care enough to decide’. You do not dwell on why ‘Zionist’ has become such a dirty word to some Jews, but the atrocities committed in the ‘disputed territories’ without punishment, Netanyahu’s refusal to step down, and the wishy-washy waffling on requiring Haredi youth to serve in the IDF, all of these things have certainly not helped. An Israeli-American told me this week that there are pogroms against ‘Palestinians’ happening every day in Judea and Samaria, with no attempt by the government to punish the perpetrators. Whether or not she exaggerates, even the Times of Israel reports enough incidents to turn one’s stomach. We in the Diaspora technically have no right to exert influence on the Israeli government, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. Since we are Jews, we have lots of opinions and they are dividing us to a frightening extent. This particular Jew is an ardent Zionist, even when the Israeli government makes bad decisions. The most dangerous difference between Zionists and all the other Jews seems to me to be the refusal to face up to what we learned on, and since October 7th. The Islamists want 1) to kill all of us and 2) to rule the world. They have lots of money and sizable voting blocks in the 1st world. This former peacenik has faced those ugly truths and doubled down on her Zionism.
Zionism is conflated with a personal desire to live in the State of Israel. Jews are well assimilated into American society and culture even with the roiling Jew Hate on the streets and university campuses and in Congress. Zionism has also been tied to Jewish communities Judea/Samaria. NYC asajews are lining up to see such propaganda films as "no other land"...with a Jewish Israeli filmmaker partnered with an Arab. And a film about a girl who died as a consequence of the Iran Hamas initiated war. To this date no film about the murder....the strangulation of the two Bibas brothers or their mother. That too would be Zionist. So the asajews have the myth of the so called Nakba, the "stealing of another people's land, and the alleged far right Netanyahu as reasons NOT to identify as Zionist. That the Zionist movement included people of every political and religious stripe means zero to them. Just as they are willingly so ignorant about Jewish history, the history of settler colonialism as a consequence of the Arab Muslim and later Ottoman conquests, and the Jewish movement to reclaim our land and rights. Heaven forbid they read a book on Jewish history when they can easily purchase or take a university course that uses Pappe and Khalidi as the ultimate word on "Palestine." Instead this is replaced with worship of the Diaspora as the legitimate place for Jews in the world. Not that "ethno national thing" as a minor asjew celebrity bleated at an awards ceremony.
It shouldn't be. It never was. American Zionists provided the funding and support that helped Israel be born and to survive. We have to reclaim the word from the Jew haters.
At this point there is no difference between the kapo and those who may or may have not been born of JEWISH mothers who support antisemites and go about hating on our beloved ISRAEL. ✨
Clearly they have no right at all to claim being JEWISH; they, the UnJEWs paradingbabout in schmatas - nazis in schmatas have shown themselves to be defined in every aspect of self-hatred and utter ignorance of our history are kapo.
To be a JEW
is to be a proud ZIONIST!!!!!!!!
We have to live here!
To anyone in 99% of colleges these days Zionism = Colonialism and Colonialism is one of the Left's great sins along with "The Patriarchy," trans rights and racism.
We are allowing our enemies, the modern day Nazis to define and take away our terms. I am a proud Zionist. No Nazi Jew hater is going to stop me from embracing my support for Jewish Nationalism and my love for the state of Israel. We need to push back against this in the disapora and quickly. We need to explain to anyone who supports the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state in its ancestral homeland that they are a Zionist.
I'm not worried. The Muslims in the US will teach the Jews why Israel is important for them and why without the State of Israel there will be no place to go as we have witnessed only 90 years ago.
The Jewish Problem How to Solve It by Louis D. Brandeis
.. .And we Jews, by our own acts, give a like definition to the term Jew. When men and women of Jewish blood suffer because of that fact-and even if they suffer from quite different causes, our sympathy and our help goes out to them instinctively in whatever country they may live and without inquiring into the shades of their belief or unbelief. . .
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge. Every Irish American who contributed towards advancing home rule was a better man and a better American for the sacrifice he made. Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better man and a better American for doing so."
Oh! Before I forget, I recommend that every Jewish family in the US read the following book.
Bryan Mark Rigg
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers:
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Modern War Studies)
https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700613587/ref
That's funny, descriptive and edgy. I like that a lot.