Why is Zionist against democracy?
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| Today the so-called “Jewish, democratic state” is synonymous with daily brutality, land occupation, militarism, settlements, and dispossession. Though varying forms of Zionist thought exist – each… |
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| Advocates of the Zionist movement see it as an important effort to offer refuge to persecuted minorities and reestablish settlements in Israel. Critics, however, say it’s an extreme ideology … |
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| Zionism and Settler Colonialism. This illiberal and anti-democratic genesis of Zionism is intertwined with colonialism and imperialism. Zionism is not merely a discourse but also a set of institutions and practices. At the turn of the 19 th century “colonialism” was not yet an infamous word. Unlike today’s Zionists who seek to deny origins, early Zionists were happy to own it. |
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| Zionists’ fear of universal democracy, and their commitment to ethnic cleansing, was so strong that after the First World War, when the British – concerned with overextending themselves – wanted … |
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| The core of Zionism is settler-colonialism, not democracy. “Zionism has never been a movement for self-determination”. June 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm | Published in: Interviews, Israel, Middle East … |
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| The ideology of Zionism, which calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, has dictated Israeli politics for decades.But is it compatible with a democrati… |
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| The Jewish and Democratic State: Zionism is Not Racism. Written By: Dr. Amir Fuchs. In an op-ed in Haaretz, Attorney Amir Fuchs asserts that Israel is both the nation-state of the Jewish people and a democratic state, despite the confused Zionism of Mayor Shimon Gapso of Upper Nazareth. |
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| Our demand for a “state of all its citizens” has put the Palestinians in Israel at the heart of the direct confrontation with the Zionist enterprise and has forced the “Jewish state” to admit the primacy that it grants to Jewish-Zionist values over democratic values, and to recognixe the impossibility of coexistence between the two. |
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| Many Haredim see Zionism as another battle against forces within who are out to redefine and eradicate traditional Judaism. However, there is also an Halachic standpoint which makes the case against Zionism even if Israel would – hypothetically – have been a theocracy, where Israel would have been governed under strict Jewish laws. |
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