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What Anti-Zionism Really Is
THE FREE PRESS ^ | 10.06.25 | Adam Louis-Klein

Posted on 10/07/2025 12:57:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

After October 7, friends called me ‘filthy Zionist.’ Longtime colleagues refused to work with me. This isn’t criticism of Israel. It’s about making Jews pariahs.

After three months in a remote Amazonian village with no internet or phone signal, I returned to a small Colombian town on October 9, 2023—still in the rainforest, but now with internet—and checked social media for the first time. The jungle was still in my ears—squawking macaws, torrential rain, the low hum of a generator—when my screen filled with ima…

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1875; antisemitism; antizionism; bloodlibel; rop
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1 posted on 10/07/2025 12:57:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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What Anti-Zionism Really Is

The spirit of antichrist, the energy source of the Left.

2 posted on 10/07/2025 1:01:29 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Back when the anti-Vietnam War crowd was doing their thing, it was cool to be Jewish.
What changed?


3 posted on 10/07/2025 1:03:25 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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The only definition for “Zionism” is the establishment of the Jews’ homeland in the land of Israel. No other definition.

I’ve pressed the left on what they believe “Zionism” to mean and never once have I gotten a coherent answer out of them.

Remember, Kurt Waldheim, during his tenure as secretary general of the UN, pushed through Resolution 3379 back in 1875, which stated “that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”, a false accusation that the left still pushes today.


4 posted on 10/07/2025 1:04:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Yep. Depends on who you ask.

‘Herzl’ Zionism is the attempt to replace the traditional religious definition of ‘who is a Jew’ with allegiance to a Westphalian nation-state. Big problem for both traditionalist and secular ethnics.


5 posted on 10/07/2025 1:16:56 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: Olog-hai

Yep. Depends on who you ask.

‘Herzl’ Zionism is the attempt to replace the traditional religious definition of ‘who is a Jew’ with allegiance to a Westphalian nation-state. Big problem for both traditionalist and secular ethnics.


6 posted on 10/07/2025 1:16:57 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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Never heard of that.


7 posted on 10/07/2025 1:18:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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A straightforward view of Zionism from a religious viewpoint from Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi:

https://youtu.be/nwTLMKoitPg?si=KYiv1zXm8g_XXtNW


8 posted on 10/07/2025 1:32:53 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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“Big problem for both traditionalist and secular ethnics.”

Weirdly, this problem mainly comes up from the anti-semitic neo-nazi right, and the islamo-facist left, not amongst 98% of aactual Jews.

Israel was a united Jewish nation state starting ~1000BC under King Saul, then King David who made the Jerusalem the capital. Zionism is no more than returning home from exile.


9 posted on 10/07/2025 1:35:31 PM PDT by Wayne07
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The Hareidim have a bizarre view of Zionism; they are against it. Pass.


10 posted on 10/07/2025 1:36:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Huge difference between anti-Zionists like Satmar and mainstream traditional Orthodoxy which is best described as non-Zionist. Rav Kook Religious Zionism is a modern innovation.


11 posted on 10/07/2025 1:49:39 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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Hmm?

The Hareidim are not mainstream Orthodoxy.

No “non-Zionist” ought to live in Israel. Period.

Opus?


12 posted on 10/07/2025 1:51:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I’ve been told that those who engaged in founding a jewish homeland are “zionists” but the orthodox believe that can happen only after the 2nd coming and the re-building of the temple on the mount.


13 posted on 10/07/2025 1:55:11 PM PDT by cabbagesNkings
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To: Olog-hai

Ever hear of Musta’arabim and the Old Yishuv? Or the religious observance level of the Jews financed by Montefiore-Rothschild-Touro before secular Jews flooded into the Holy Land?


14 posted on 10/07/2025 1:57:18 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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Zionism is the ‘sword and trowel’ to rebuild. As per Nehemiah
“When our enemies heard that we knew their scheme and that God had frustrated it, every one of us returned to his own work on the wall. 16 From that day on, half of my men did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers supported all the people of Judah, 17 who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried the loads worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.“


15 posted on 10/07/2025 2:23:41 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Olog-hai

One of Chevy Chase’s great lines on SNL’s Weekend Update was a fake quote from Sammy Davis, Jr. after that resolution passed: “What a breakthrough! Now I can hate myself.”


16 posted on 10/07/2025 4:27:10 PM PDT by FlatulusMaximus
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Relevance?


17 posted on 10/07/2025 4:43:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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The only definition for “Zionism” is the establishment of the Jews’ homeland in the land of Israel.

So Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. If Zionism is criticized, then the national libertation movements that are the basis of most of the developing world are also undermined. This fits in with the globalist imperative for a one world government - that is, a new universal Empire.

18 posted on 10/07/2025 5:43:31 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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One-world governments certainly require all to renounce their homelands. That is at the core of communism, per Engels:
What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?

The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property.

The Principles of Communism, #22
The biggest example of the compelled mingling that is going on today is the influx of illegal aliens that most of the part of the world commonly called “the West” is suffering from. This is happening to Israel as well, although they use the term “infiltrators” for the same problem.
19 posted on 10/07/2025 5:55:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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“What anti-Sionism really is”:

It’s just a shower.....


20 posted on 10/07/2025 6:08:35 PM PDT by Aeneas2112 (Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump)
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