To me this is just more obvious evidence that Zionism was an intellectual error which is precisely what most Jews thought when first presented with the ideas in the late 1800s. Chaim Weizmann lamented how "assimilated Jews" were "dead against Zionism" and identified Zionism (correctly IMHO) as "a primitive tribalism":
"For assimilated Jews...They looked upon it...as a primitive tribalism. They felt themselves...called upon to "rescue" Judaism from Zionism...these people are dead against Zionism...Zionism is not meant for those people who have cut themselves adrift from Jewry..."
Of course! That rapidly increasing number of very well educated cosmopolitan "assimilated Jews" spread all over Europe-USA in the lat 1800s just wanted to be fellow human beings or equal world citizens free of ancient tribalisms-mysticisms-identities. Unfortunately, for very understandable reasons-factors for which nobody is to blame and are ultimately rooted in economic ignorance, like a rocket that is just about to reach orbit but runs out of fuel and comes crashing down to earth, Zionism would inadvertently pull 'Jewish Identity' and all of Western Civilization back to an increasingly ethnocentric identity-worldview with disastrous consequences. The Zionist Jews began to tie their “identity” to a massive error and eventually reach the stage where we are today, where saying that Zionism and the resulting Israeli state as it currently functions has been a massive error, essentially what most Jews in the late 1800s were wisely saying, is seen by many Jews today as antisemitic. CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt has mentioned that "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism". Like a young ideologue who is persuaded by Marx’s "Communist Manifesto" and sees businessmen as sinister capitalists to be killed, as Israeli author of the excellent book 'The Invention of the Jewish People', Shlomo Sand, notices: "Zionism has become…. a sort of Stalinism" which seeks to make it a ‘hate crime’ to criticize or want to replace the current Israeli-Zionist state, and thus imprison, beat and ultimately kill those who disagree with Zionist mythology. Very importantly! This should NOT be seen as the “fault” of the fellow homo sapiens who have absorbed a 'Zionist identity'. The Bolshevik hordes and their intellectuals and politicians which brought about so much tyranny, like the witch burners, were just executing the myths that polluted their minds. Just like the obvious desire of some businessmen to pay employees less in order to make large profits is all Communists needed to see to justify their ideology and kill the businessmen-capitalists, similarly, the Zionists can easily find “anti-Semites” and people who erroneously accuse Jews of ‘plotting’ capitalism or communism or killing Jesus and all that nonsense to justify their Zionism. Again, there is no one to blame here, we just have 'identities' evolving and reacting to each other in various ways. Sadly, these 'identities' currently lack the intellectual tools to really solve this mess and are about to destroy humanity. Again, no one is to blame.
This isn't "more obvious evidence that Zionism was an intellectual error." It's more obvious evidence that antisemitic regimes and terrorist groups want to murder Jews. And further more obvious evidence that Zionism has created a powerful military shield to prevent further efforts to exterminate the Jewish people. I'm sorry that you have so blinded yourself to the obvious evidence of genocidal antisemitism throughout history and today. The ones to blame are the people who want to murder Jews and destroy the state of Israel.
To me this is just more obvious evidence that Zionism was an intellectual error which is precisely what most Jews thought when first presented with the ideas in the late 1800s. Chaim Weizmann lamented how "assimilated Jews" were "dead against Zionism" and identified Zionism (correctly IMHO) as "a primitive tribalism":
"For assimilated Jews...They looked upon it...as a primitive tribalism. They felt themselves...called upon to "rescue" Judaism from Zionism...these people are dead against Zionism...Zionism is not meant for those people who have cut themselves adrift from Jewry..."
Of course! That rapidly increasing number of very well educated cosmopolitan "assimilated Jews" spread all over Europe-USA in the lat 1800s just wanted to be fellow human beings or equal world citizens free of ancient tribalisms-mysticisms-identities. Unfortunately, for very understandable reasons-factors for which nobody is to blame and are ultimately rooted in economic ignorance, like a rocket that is just about to reach orbit but runs out of fuel and comes crashing down to earth, Zionism would inadvertently pull 'Jewish Identity' and all of Western Civilization back to an increasingly ethnocentric identity-worldview with disastrous consequences. The Zionist Jews began to tie their “identity” to a massive error and eventually reach the stage where we are today, where saying that Zionism and the resulting Israeli state as it currently functions has been a massive error, essentially what most Jews in the late 1800s were wisely saying, is seen by many Jews today as antisemitic. CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt has mentioned that "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism". Like a young ideologue who is persuaded by Marx’s "Communist Manifesto" and sees businessmen as sinister capitalists to be killed, as Israeli author of the excellent book 'The Invention of the Jewish People', Shlomo Sand, notices: "Zionism has become…. a sort of Stalinism" which seeks to make it a ‘hate crime’ to criticize or want to replace the current Israeli-Zionist state, and thus imprison, beat and ultimately kill those who disagree with Zionist mythology. Very importantly! This should NOT be seen as the “fault” of the fellow homo sapiens who have absorbed a 'Zionist identity'. The Bolshevik hordes and their intellectuals and politicians which brought about so much tyranny, like the witch burners, were just executing the myths that polluted their minds. Just like the obvious desire of some businessmen to pay employees less in order to make large profits is all Communists needed to see to justify their ideology and kill the businessmen-capitalists, similarly, the Zionists can easily find “anti-Semites” and people who erroneously accuse Jews of ‘plotting’ capitalism or communism or killing Jesus and all that nonsense to justify their Zionism. Again, there is no one to blame here, we just have 'identities' evolving and reacting to each other in various ways. Sadly, these 'identities' currently lack the intellectual tools to really solve this mess and are about to destroy humanity. Again, no one is to blame.
This isn't "more obvious evidence that Zionism was an intellectual error." It's more obvious evidence that antisemitic regimes and terrorist groups want to murder Jews. And further more obvious evidence that Zionism has created a powerful military shield to prevent further efforts to exterminate the Jewish people. I'm sorry that you have so blinded yourself to the obvious evidence of genocidal antisemitism throughout history and today. The ones to blame are the people who want to murder Jews and destroy the state of Israel.