I beg to differ. If you’ve researched the origins of Zionism and its tenets you’ll know that from its inception Zionism was a colonial settler movement, with full intent to remove, BY ANY MEANS (my emphasis added) the current population of Palestine and make a homeland for the Jews which would have a Jewish majority. Documents from Israel’s own archives prove the planning, the terrorist attacks against the British to drive them out as well as robbing trains and other locations for money and weapons. They bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate HQ, killing Brits, Palestinians, and Jewish people. Using terrorism to achieve the political goal of controlling the Mandate. From 1947 onwards there were mass killings, sometimes just the males, sometimes entire villages were massacred. Ben Gurion didn’t try to hide these atrocities, he wanted the Palestinians to know what was being done in order to make their removal easier. In the end between 700,000 and 750,000 Palestinians were murdered or ethnically cleansed in order to create a country which preferences some of its citizens over others. Their basic laws state Israel is a Jewish state for the Jewish people, in spite of 20% of its citizens not being Jewish.
Most who oppose Zionism and the Israeli state have no antipathy towards Jewish people, many are Jewish, they have a strong aversion to injustice in the form of a brutal occupation, the theft of property and the death and displacement of people from their homes, the ongoing apartheid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Genocide is the highest crime with no justification under law. It doesn’t matter what religion the perpetrators are, it’s a crime, the highest crime. Wanting your own state, only for ppl of your religion, doesn’t give license to violate the Geneva Conventions, all international law, and basic human rights. That’s why ppl are opposed to Israel. If Jewish ppl wanted to live in Palestine, in peace with their neighbors they could and did (late 1800’s-1930’s). It was only when the Zionist agenda became known, that these emigres didn’t simply want to live in Palestine, they wanted absolute control of Palestine, and they wanted the Palestinians removed from their homes, villages, never to be allowed to return.
There are many good sources on Zionism. I’d suggest you start with the “new” Israeli historians. I think you’ll find that Zionism isn’t an innocent desire for peace.
I beg to differ. If you’ve researched the origins of Zionism and its tenets you’ll know that from its inception Zionism was a colonial settler movement, with full intent to remove, BY ANY MEANS (my emphasis added) the current population of Palestine and make a homeland for the Jews which would have a Jewish majority. Documents from Israel’s own archives prove the planning, the terrorist attacks against the British to drive them out as well as robbing trains and other locations for money and weapons. They bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate HQ, killing Brits, Palestinians, and Jewish people. Using terrorism to achieve the political goal of controlling the Mandate. From 1947 onwards there were mass killings, sometimes just the males, sometimes entire villages were massacred. Ben Gurion didn’t try to hide these atrocities, he wanted the Palestinians to know what was being done in order to make their removal easier. In the end between 700,000 and 750,000 Palestinians were murdered or ethnically cleansed in order to create a country which preferences some of its citizens over others. Their basic laws state Israel is a Jewish state for the Jewish people, in spite of 20% of its citizens not being Jewish.
Most who oppose Zionism and the Israeli state have no antipathy towards Jewish people, many are Jewish, they have a strong aversion to injustice in the form of a brutal occupation, the theft of property and the death and displacement of people from their homes, the ongoing apartheid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Genocide is the highest crime with no justification under law. It doesn’t matter what religion the perpetrators are, it’s a crime, the highest crime. Wanting your own state, only for ppl of your religion, doesn’t give license to violate the Geneva Conventions, all international law, and basic human rights. That’s why ppl are opposed to Israel. If Jewish ppl wanted to live in Palestine, in peace with their neighbors they could and did (late 1800’s-1930’s). It was only when the Zionist agenda became known, that these emigres didn’t simply want to live in Palestine, they wanted absolute control of Palestine, and they wanted the Palestinians removed from their homes, villages, never to be allowed to return.
There are many good sources on Zionism. I’d suggest you start with the “new” Israeli historians. I think you’ll find that Zionism isn’t an innocent desire for peace.