What does it mean to be Zionist ?

Question

Are all people who support Big state of Israel Zionists ? Or there are other terms to be one ?

Answer 1

Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, advocated, from its inception, tangible as well as spiritual aims. Jews of all persuasions, left and right, religious and secular, joined to form the Zionist movement and worked together toward these goals. Disagreements led to rifts, but ultimately, the common goal of a Jewish state in its ancient homeland was attained. The term “Zionism” was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum.

Answer 2

Yes. In the Arab world the term is synonymous with jews but in North America it is not since the vast majority of zionists are fundamentalist Christians like George Bush or Bill Clinton. The original zionists - those who created and guided the movement - are long gone; today it simply means anyone who supports "Israel's right to exist" ; ie. the zionist occupation of Palestine. I do not.

Answer 3

To support or believe in:

the zionist movement

the protocols of elders of zion

talmud

All three are satanic in nature.

My 2 cents.

Answer 4

Zionists support Israel. Period.

As Ms. Miche eloquently put it "it's a done deal."

So to be anti-zionist means you are for the destruction of Israel.

I don't like that second group of people very much.  They make it hard to live peacefully.

Answer 5

Well Zionism is a racial colonial ideology.

Nothing in the Zionist ideology is good for humanity at large. As a native Palestinian how can I understand the Zionist ideology which call for the end of my identity as native born in the holy land.

To me it is a colonial ideology that used the Jews and none Jews to create a colony by all means.

colonial Zionism could not produce a constitution to govern the country for the last 60 years. What will they say in a racial constitution. Zionism is like a bad dream and the only way out of that bad dream is to wake-up and to forget about it. Peace is the missing link in the Zionist dream.

Answer 6

As a Jewish studies specialist, I have thought about this issue for a long time.

A Zionist is a person consciously or unconsciously loyal to the Zionist virtual colonial motherland, which I call Judonia.

I explain my thesis in gory detail in http://members.aol.com/ThorsProvoni/Judo... or http://members.aol.com/ThorsProvoni/Judo...

Unfortunately the document is approximately 150 pages long.

Israel Shamir has summarized the concept of Judonia in a much shorter blog entry: http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-no... .

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/05/fight-... contains the key sections of Judonia Rising.

Answer 7

The first requirement is blatant racism and the willingness to expel the native inhabitants of a once-peaceful land by any means whatsoever including liquidation. The second requirement is the ability to reverse both logic and facts; i.e. truth. The third requirement is a willingness to devastate the world using the world's sixth largest nuclear stockpile if zionist "security" is breached.

Basically,to be a zionist you must first get a divorce from the human race.

Answer 8

In 1975, the  UN General Assembly adopted a  resolution slandering Zionism by equating it with racism. In his spirited response to the resolution, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog noted the irony of the timing, the vote coming exactly 37 years after Kristallnacht.

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, which holds that Jews, like any other nation, are entitled to a homeland.

History has demonstrated the need to ensure Jewish security through a national homeland. Zionism recognizes that Jewishness is defined by shared origin, religion, culture and history.

The realization of the Zionist dream is exemplified by more than four million Jews, from more than 100 countries, including dark-skinned Jews from Ethiopia, Yemen and India, who are Israeli citizens. Approximately 1,000,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, Baha'is, Circassians and other ethnic groups also are represented in Israel's population.

Many Christians have traditionally supported the goals and ideals of Zionism. Israel's open and democratic character and its scrupulous protection of the religious and political rights of Christians and Muslims rebut the charge of exclusivity.

The Arab states define citizenship strictly by native parentage. It is almost impossible to become a naturalized citizen in many Arab states, especially Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Several Arab nations have laws that facilitate the naturalization of foreign Arabs, with the specific exception of Palestinians. Jordan, on the other hand, instituted its own "law of return" in 1954, according citizenship to all former residents of Palestine, except for Jews.

The presence of thousands of black Jews in Israel is the best refutation of the calumny against Zionism. In a series of historic airlifts, labeled Moses (1984), Joshua (1985) and Solomon (1991), Israel rescued almost 42,000 members of the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community.

To single out Jewish self-determination for condemnation is itself a form of racism. "A world that closed its doors to Jews who sought escape from Hitler's ovens lacks the moral standing to complain about Israel's giving preference to Jews," wrote noted civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Martin Luther King responded: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism."

The 1975 UN resolution was part of the Soviet-Arab Cold War anti-Israel campaign. Almost all the former non-Arab supporters of the resolution have apologized and changed their positions. When the General Assembly voted to repeal the resolution in 1991, only some Arab and Muslim states, as well as Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam were opposed.

Answer 9

A Zionist is essentially someone who believes in the idea of a homeland for Jews. It's not necessarily the same as supporting Israel, since Zionism existed before the Partition of Palestine, and also because some supporters of Israel (and Israelis) consider the idea of Israel as "only for Jews" racist.

Answer 10

It is an offensive term used to describe brutal and cruel killers.

Answer 11

A Zionist is a supporter of Jewish state, e.g., Israel's right to exist as an independent state.

Had the Arab governments accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan of British Palestine, the Palestinian Arabs would have had their own state since then.