Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A close look at the cloak of Anti-Zionism


Is Anti-Zionism Hate? -Judea Pearl

Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation - a collective bonded by a common history - and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel.

Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other historically bonded collectives (e.g., French, Spanish, Palestinians), namely, the right to nationhood, self-determination and legitimate coexistence with other indigenous claimants.

Anti-Semitism rejects Jews as equal members of the human race; anti-Zionism rejects Israel as an equal member in the family of nations.

Are Jews a nation? The unshaken conviction in their eventual repatriation to the birthplace of their history has been the engine behind Jewish endurance and hopes [since] the Roman expulsion in AD 70.

Anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate to attack the most cherished symbol of Jewish identity.
[The writer is the father of murdered Daniel Pearl]
(Los Angeles Times)
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