zionism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 12 09:43:08 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>To single out the migration ideology of the Jews as uniquely racist is not
>anti-Israel but anti-Jewish. It is the specific end-product of that
>migration, the Israeli state that deserves the criticism, so casual attacks
>on "Zionism" rather than the Israeli state just melds anti-semitism into the
>criticism.

Kind of a fine distinction, no? The "migration ideology" assumes that because the putative ancestors of the Jews lived in that region millennia ago, then they had every right to "return," and thereby displace people who were already there. So someone born in Brooklyn has a "right" to a subsidized house, while someone born in Palestine is lucky to have a house at all. Isn't that a blood theory of real estate?

Doug



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