Friday, June 12, 2009

What exactly defines "zionist?" One thing a lot of anti-semetic jerks like to say is that they aren't "anti-Jew," they are "anti-Zionist." But what does that mean? Traditionally Zionism meant that you believed in a goal of a Jewish state to protect Jews from the sort of things that tend to happen to them in non-Jewish societies, like pogroms, Holocausts, the Dreyfuss Affair, the Leo Frank lynching, and general anti-Semetic hate.

So when someone says they aren't against Jews, just Zionists, what they really mean is that they are against any Jew who is proud of being Jewish and willing to defend both themself and their families and fellow religionists against aggressors. Anti-Zionism means the only Jews you like are the ones that dislike 90% of the Jews in the world. And therefor you are against 90% of the Jews in the world. It's hard to seperate anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism, because when it's all said and done, Zionism is the belief that Jews should be allowed to live in peace, and anti-Zionism is the belief that they should only live where they are told to, and they should not defend themselves against aggressors.

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