In my writings the last few years I reduce Zionism down to two words: Fuck Antisemitism.
Itโs that simple.
Zionism was a response to European antisemitism when Theodor Herzl created it and itโs a response to global antisemitism today. It is a self-defense movement.
The antisemites started the fight, the Jewish people and their friends will finish it. โ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ธโ
Reducing Zionism to Israel's "right to exist" bolsters the most insidious delegitimization of Israel. Yet many Zionists continue arguing in those terms. Instead, Zionism should be understood through the long arc of Jewish history and its influence on the West.