I noticed that the term "Zionist" was being bandied about as if it were roughly on some sort of moral equivalence with "pedophile". What, I wondered, was this hateful ideology, this terrible thing to believe in?
It seems that the broad meaning is that (a) you think the Jews should have a homeland that (b) it should associated with lands that they have some historical claim to and (c) that its is right and proper to support and defend this state and wish it to prosper
Now, I'm sure there are more 'extreme' flavours, but I really couldn't understand what's so reprehensible about being a "Zionist". Applied to their own homelands, most people would not find these aims objectionable. I suppose it's the claim that the land was 'stolen' in some sense?
Perhaps people in the US would like to adopt the slogan "from the ocean to the ocean, the Navajo shall be free"?
At least the Jews have a more legitimate historical claim to the territory than "I went there in a dream on the back of a flying donkey and met some prophets".
I know, right? Pedophile is the best case scenario. Some say Nazi, Genocidal and even white supremacist (imagine that).
I am not saying that what Israel is doing right now is OK, but these "experts" may be the only source of information for the majority of students who have no idea about the history or the context, so why wouldn't they just take their words for it?
Even worse - Not that I'm an expert, but my impression is that most Jews are Zionists in one way or another, and so this worldview promoted by the "Experts" is like "we don't think all Jews are genocidal Nazi monsters, only the, say, 80% of them who are not vocal on campus colleges. But hey, we're NOT ANTISEMITES!".
I noticed that the term "Zionist" was being bandied about as if it were roughly on some sort of moral equivalence with "pedophile". What, I wondered, was this hateful ideology, this terrible thing to believe in?
It seems that the broad meaning is that (a) you think the Jews should have a homeland that (b) it should associated with lands that they have some historical claim to and (c) that its is right and proper to support and defend this state and wish it to prosper
Now, I'm sure there are more 'extreme' flavours, but I really couldn't understand what's so reprehensible about being a "Zionist". Applied to their own homelands, most people would not find these aims objectionable. I suppose it's the claim that the land was 'stolen' in some sense?
Perhaps people in the US would like to adopt the slogan "from the ocean to the ocean, the Navajo shall be free"?
At least the Jews have a more legitimate historical claim to the territory than "I went there in a dream on the back of a flying donkey and met some prophets".
I know, right? Pedophile is the best case scenario. Some say Nazi, Genocidal and even white supremacist (imagine that).
I am not saying that what Israel is doing right now is OK, but these "experts" may be the only source of information for the majority of students who have no idea about the history or the context, so why wouldn't they just take their words for it?
Even worse - Not that I'm an expert, but my impression is that most Jews are Zionists in one way or another, and so this worldview promoted by the "Experts" is like "we don't think all Jews are genocidal Nazi monsters, only the, say, 80% of them who are not vocal on campus colleges. But hey, we're NOT ANTISEMITES!".