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Matt0794

The ignorance you spew is not surprising. Empirically, the claim that "most Bolsheviks were Zionists" does not hold up to historical scrutiny for several reasons:

Membership and Ideological Alignment: The Bolshevik Party, which led the Russian Revolution in 1917, consisted of a diverse group of revolutionaries from various ethnic and national backgrounds, including Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, and others. While Jews were indeed represented within the Bolshevik Party and played significant roles in the Russian Revolution and early Soviet government, they did not constitute the majority of the party's membership. The party was predominantly Slavic, reflecting the ethnic composition of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.

Divergent Goals: Bolshevism and Zionism pursued fundamentally different objectives. Bolsheviks sought to dismantle the capitalist system and establish a communist society based on the principles of Marxism-Leninism, which emphasized class struggle, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the abolition of national states in favor of a global communist society. Zionism, by contrast, was a nationalist movement focused on the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The primary aim of Zionism was not related to the global class struggle or the abolition of capitalism but rather to national self-determination and the end of Jewish diaspora through the creation of a Jewish state.

Historical Context: During the early years of the Soviet Union, the government's relationship with Zionism was complex. Initially, the Soviet Union supported Jewish national aspirations insofar as they aligned with its anti-imperialist agenda, even voting in favor of the partition of Palestine in 1947, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. However, this support was strategic rather than ideological. As the Cold War began and the Soviet Union's foreign policy interests evolved, it increasingly viewed Zionism and the State of Israel as aligned with Western imperialist powers, leading to a more antagonistic stance. Within the USSR, Zionist activities were suppressed, and Jewish cultural and religious expressions were discouraged, reflecting the broader Soviet policy against nationalism and religion.

In summary, while there were Jewish Bolsheviks and some of them might have sympathized with Zionist aspirations, the ideological foundations, objectives, and historical actions of Bolshevism and Zionism were markedly different. The claim that "most Bolsheviks were Zionists" is not supported by the empirical historical evidence regarding the composition of the Bolshevik movement or the ideological and political goals of Bolshevism and Zionism.

You should learn about history before making idiotic claims, "How is Israel a legitimate homeland? By what basis?"

1)Most of the Israeli land occupied by Jews today was purchased from the Ottoman Empire empire starting in the late 19th century. The land purchased was swampland and desert wasteland.

2)This land was skillfully reclaimed in effect a homesteading operation. Bought and paid for by the Jewish National Fund in the early twentieth century.

3) The British in 1920 legally mandated Palestine as a Jewish homeland and in fact the majority of Jews at tht time were not immigrants but Jews who's ancestrsal routes went back generations, the Ottoman Empire consensus records of 1896 show that that the majority of inhabitants in Jerusalem were Jewish.

4) THe UN in 1947 declared a two State solution that the Jews accepted and the Arabs did not and immediately attacked the legal State of Israel.