# An Israeli's Perspective on Zionism and Anti-Zionism

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120599706409550150
- Source account: [@umyaznemo](https://x.com/umyaznemo)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-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.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=13) 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 Israel.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=25) 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.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=38) Usually, when we talk about politics, we differentiate between right and left wing.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=43) I find it very misleading when discussing Israel-Palestine.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=48) It is more accurate to differentiate between Zionism and anti-Zionism.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=54) Political Zionism is an ideology and de facto solution to the so-called Jewish problem, starting in the late 19th century.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=64) It pursued the self-determination of Jews in the establishment of a Jewish nation in the state of Palestine.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=71) With prominent Western support, they implemented a state by colonization, occupation, apartheid, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and finally genocide of the native population.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=88) 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.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=101) Therefore, anti-Zionism is merely the opposition to Zionism, namely to its crimes of colonization, occupation, apartheid, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=113) Anti-Zionists, and Jews are included, support Palestinian justice and liberation.

[2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/y4FCCnh9LBIz/en/an-israeli-s-perspective-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism?t=127) Woo-hoo!