The whole exercise of separating anti-zionism from anti-Jewish is ridiculous when you apply it to ISRAELIS. When attacked, THEY are not gonna ponder whether they are being attacked because they are Jewish or because they are Israelis.
WE -- wouldn't make that distinction either if ISIS came across our borders and attacked Jewish targets or Christian targets. Oh my -- did they do it because we're Americans? Or did they do it because we're Christians?
Zionism WAS an effort in nationalism. Today -- it's an EXCUSE to hate on Israelis or just any ole Jew..
So tell me.. If you are an Israeli Jew --- how could you love your country, but HATE Zionism --- if not for obscure Biblical justifications? (which a handful of Orthodox proclaim)
Or if you're an American (or Aussie) --- You can't be vehemently anti-Zionist and support Israels' Right to Exist. So on WHAT PLANET is being anti-Zionist NOT anti-Jewish if you deeply desire to see a forced Exodus of Jews from Israel?
OR -- if you are one of the regulars here that sling that Z-Word repeatedly -- don't be advertising how many Jew friends you have.. There's a difference between protesting and objecting to the POLICIES of the State of Israel and using the Z-word....
Zionism, just as Manifest Destiny, justified the dispossession of the native people. One can criticize Manifest Destiny (and what it did to the native americans) and not be anti-American.
Since when did Arab Muslim invaders become "natives" of the land they invaded? The natives were the Jews, who got invaded and attacked over and over, yet maintained a presence and kept coming back.
The natives never invaded. They are the people that always lived on the land. The native people that practiced earlier religions began practicing the religion of the various rulers. Why can't you understand that basic fact? The European Jews were Europeans.
Ha ha ha! Which history book are you reading? Israel was invaded AND COLONIZED by the Romans, Crusaders, Arab Muslims, Ottomans, etc. The European AND Middle Eastern Jews that kept coming back, were coming back to a land that had been their religious, spiritual, and ancestral holy land for 3000 years. Jews were finally able to re-establish a state on their holy land, which is what Zionism is. The antisemites who call themselves "antizionists" want the Jewish holy land to be ruled by Islamic nutjobs, who are not the "natives" and never have been.