https://alethonews.com/2019/04/01/serious-question-what-is-zionism/
If Zionism was the political movement to establish a homeland for the
Jewish people in the Middle East, then surely it achieved its goal and
the term ceased to have meaning in terms of defining the objectives of a
political movement.
Alternatively, if Zionism then morphed into support for the continued
existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East, then the only point of
view what would not be Zionist would be the one that calls the Jewish
state illegitimate and calls for it to be dismantled. Yet there are few
political voices that call for such an approach, and governments that
have referred to the Jewish state as illegitimate have been demonized
for doing so. Clearly, such a view is regarded as a fringe one.
So, what is Zionism today? Is everybody who does not declare Israel
to be an illegitimate state that should be dismantled and the land given
back to its dispossessed people a Zionist? Would that not make nearly
everyone a Zionist? And, if so, does that not deprive the term of any
meaning whatsoever?
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