Are you responding to the essential point here --
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>as Jewish religion is the main component of Israeli colonialism
Actually, no. The Zionists, including Likud, were ansd are secular and pretty much atheistic. The Jewish content of Zionist ideology is pretty much expressly nationalistic going back to Herzl, and has a strong racial or volkisch compenent. Witness: a totally secular atheist Jew like myself has a Right of Return. A religious and observant convert whose conversion was not approved by the Orthodox Rabbinate, or indeed a Jew raised in an observant household but not born of a Jewish mother, does not."
Of course you are right on the facts. Yes, the early Zionists were secular and founded a secular state. And yes, the religious were late in getting involved in Zionism and the founding of the state. But don't you, in effect, concede a religious component when you use the word "völkisch"? By using it you are making an implicit analogy to another racial nationalism, Nazism, which had a partly secularized relationship to Christianity, just as Zionism has a secularized relationship to Judaism. Since Christianity is more universalistic than Judaism, the racial element in Nazism is more of an intrusion, just as the secularism is an intrusion into Zionism. But the inheritance of a sense of peoplehood from Judaism to Zionism seems pretty obvious. I haven't followed the discussion up to now closely enough to be sure that the person you respond to meant his/her statement in the way I'm understanding it, but surely the roots of Zionism in a mythological tradition are not unimportant.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema