Discussion on Zionism and Anti-Zionism

I was born and raised in Israel to a Jewish Holocaust

surviving family. So my parents are

offsprings of post-traumatic immigrants

from Poland and Hungary.

And it was in that environment of post-trauma and victimhood

that I grew up, along with a mantra that we Jews have

no other safe place than Eretz Yisrael.

Zionism was not a word I pronounced,

nor I understood it, but it was like an oxygen that I

breathed, the ideology upon which I was

indoctrinated. Usually, when we talk about politics, we

differentiate between right and left wing.

I find it very misleading when discussing Israel-Palestine.

It is more accurate to differentiate between

Zionism and anti-Zionism.

Political Zionism is an ideology and de facto

solution to the so-called Jewish problem, starting in the

late nineteenth century. It pursued the self-determination of

Jews in the establishment of a Jewish nation in the state of Palestine.

With prominent Western support, they implemented a state by

colonization, occupation, apartheid, dispossession,

ethnic cleansing, and finally, genocide of the native

population.

So therefore, Zionism is not the ideology of the Jews'

right to self-determination in general, but the

implementation of that right in the form of a nation

state.

Therefore, anti-Zionism is merely the opposition to

Zionism, namely to its crimes of colonization,

occupation,

apartheid, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

Anti-Zionists and Jews are included, support

Palestinian justice and liberation.

Woo-hoo!