Hi Shay,
I'm Jewish. Many of my closest friends are Jewish. I love them all. My family is Jewish, I love them all too. My community is Jewish. Love them too. I love Judaism. I host shabbat dinners, celebrate Jewish holidays, sing Jewish prayers, study Torah & Talmud, and love Jewish culture, history and expression.
But I'm not a Zionist. I'm an anti-Zionist.
That's because Zionism was an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97% non-Jewish. What could possibly go wrong?
A short summary:
That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish.
palestinenexus.com/articles/… and
palestinenexus.com/articles/…
That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed. That's why, in the 1930s, Zionists expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business.
jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps…
That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
archive.org/details/birthofp…
That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity
archive.org/details/israelsb…
That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959.
palestinenexus.com/articles/…
That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank when it occupied those territories in 1967.
archive.org/details/1967isra…
That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them.
palestinenexus.com/articles/…
The Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority in a land of overwhelmingly Palestinians.
That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. That's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization (
@ICAHD in 2010,
@UNESCWA in 2017,
@YeshDin in 2020,
@AdalahCenter in 2020,
@btselem in 2021,
@hrw in 2021,
@fidh_en in 2021,
@alhaq_org in 2022,
@Addameer in 2022,
@AlMezanCenter in 2022,
@cacalqudsuni in 2022,
@AdvocacyJlac in 2022,
@miftahpal in 2022,
@ICJ_org in 2022,
@DAWNmenaorg in 2022,
@amnesty in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship. Israel chose apartheid and Jewish supremacy over democracy.
Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to
@amnesty ,
@hrw ,
@btselem ,
@MSF , IAGS,
@alhaq_org ,
@UNHumanRights ,
@UN_HRC ,
@pchrgaza ,
@AlMezanCenter ,
@WarOnWant ,
@PHRIsrael ,
@fidh_en , PHROC,
@LemkinInstitute ,
@theCCR ,
@ECCHRBerlin ,
@unitedforrights @JURDIasso ,
@TheElders ,
@Oxfam), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide.
So, please don't conflate Judaism -- that has existed for thousands of years -- with your modern, fascist anti-Jewish political ideology founded on the principles of forcible displacement & genocide.
Judaism will last as long as their are humans on the planet. Zionism is imploding in real time.