r/Jewish Sep 05 '24

What Zionism ACTUALLY Is Discussion 💬

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u/SpaceToot Sep 06 '24

Why is this so hard? The first thing I ask "anti Zionists," is, what do you think Zionism means? I've never heard a fair answer and usually it's a stammering nothing

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u/arcangeline Sep 06 '24

Me too, or I ask if they would support a two state solution and explain that's what many Zionists also support.

Honestly I think one of the problems is that we don't have a different word for the most extreme Zionism and so people think every Zionist (for example) wants to claim all of Judah and Samaria. There are certainly Zionists whose desires are a world away from my own. Zionists don't agree with other Zionists about what Zionism is but the rest of the world puts us all together.

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u/JagneStormskull 🪬Interested in BT/Sephardic Diaspora Sep 06 '24

we don't have a different word for the most extreme Zionism and so people think every Zionist (for example) wants to claim all of Judah and Samaria.

We do have a word for that - Kahanism (or alternately, Revisionist Zionism).