Correct. All Zionism is, is the belief that the Jews have a right to establish a national homeland.
You can't honestly say that you like Jews and then say that they have no right to a nation like any other people who have the will and resources to establish one.
An American, especially, who denies the right of another people to establish their independence and sovereignty is doubly fishy.
And, for the record, the Palestinians are not a people. The Arabs are a people. And the Arabs already have several independent, sovereign nations.
Exactly. And the origins of Zionism have roots in the Torah. Israel is as much a nation as it is a collective community of believers. Even the Neturei Karta, that cabal of twisted self-hating Jews acknowledge this - they just insist a Jewish State should not have been established without the aid of Divine Providence. But where anti-Zionism is offensive, in not that it denies Jewish rights to a sovereign nation; its that it posits the spectacle of non-Jews telling Jews what is near and dear to them. Zionism is not the philosophy of a 19th century movement; in truth it can be found in Judaism's prayer books. For instance, the Amidah, recited by pious Jews daily, speaks of a return to Zion and Jerusalem. The Jews know better than any one else the highest realization of Judaism is to reconstitute Israel in its homeland so the time-bound commandments can be fulfilled there as they can be fulfilled nowhere else. And only in an independent Israel can the nation become the holy kingdom of priests and the light to the nations God meant her to be. That is the essence of Zionism.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)