Anti-Zionism Is Racism

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

Marcus Garvey, the great African-American nationalist who hailed from 
Jamaica, once wrote a text entitled "Black Zionism." As many a commentator 
has noted, and as was recently noted in an LBO discussion, the parallels 
between Jewish Zionism and Garvey's African-American Zionism/nationalism are 
remarkable.

I draw attention to this striking parallel because they point out that 
Zionism is simply one more species of nationalism, the national liberation 
ideology of the Jewish people. It has all of the political strengths and 
political weaknesses of every nationalist ideology.

That is why I found completely suspect the continual singling out of it by 
some here on LBO-Talk, as if its failings are somehow unique, with no 
parallels in African-American nationalism, in Irish nationalism, in South 
African nationalism, in Chinese nationalism, in Russian nationalism, in 
French nationalism, in Basque nationalism, in Quebecois nationalism and in 
Palestinian nationalism. If Zionism is racism, so is every nationalism. The 
singling out of Zionism alone as racist is the singling out of the 
nationalism of Jews, and a fairly transparent cover for anti-Semitism and 
racism, in the humble opinion of this goy.   

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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