/soy2/ - Soyjaks 2

I tell the person I am an anti-antizionist – because antizionism is a hate movement.

In my opinion, Jews should not be required to use a term that makes it appear that having an attachment to our indigenous land is somehow substantially different from being Jewish itself. It leads to conversations like when my best local friend asked me "are there Zionist temples and normal temples?". I was deeply upset but then I realized that we allow this when we agree to answer such pathologizing questions as "are you a Zionist" in the first place. When we do this, we agree to put Zionism on trial. We agree to make "non-Zionism" or even antizionism look like the norm or a valid option.

No other nationality has a term like Zionism. It is like a yellow star just for Jews. I mean it is fine to discuss amongst ourselves as a cherished part of who we are but it is nothing we should normalize non-Jews discussing in that way. Would a Greek person be asked if they believe if Greece has a right to exist? Would a Turkish person be asked this about Turkey?

If the maybe 15% of Jews who are non-Zionist or antizionist want to identify themselves, since they are the aberrant ones, I guess they can go ahead.

That way I can tell the antizionist Jews they are in a hate movement. And the non-Zionist ones they are cowards who do not know what happens when antizionism becomes mainstream in a society. Jews are stigmatized, oppressed, targeted as "Zionists", and ultimately have to run. We should not normalize this obnoxious litmus test.