[lbo-talk] Dealing with the 'new anti-semitism'

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 05:02:08 PDT 2006


On 9/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Leaving
> aside the right-wing manifestations of Zionism,
> Zionism in the most literal sense means a movement for
> a Jewish nation-state. Anybody who opposes such a
> movement among Jews, but has no problem with other
> self-defined national groups having their own
> respective nation-states, I would view as being
> anti-semitic.

I don't know anyone who thinks that every self-defined national group should have its own state. I'm not even sure that's possible, as a practical matter. It is not inherently anti-semitic to think that Jews belong in the category of self-defined national groups who aren't entitled to their own state.

I think also you'll find that a lot of us who oppose Zionism would equally oppose a Muslim or Christian or Scientologist state. It's more to do with nationalism being based upon a religion at all than with the fact that that religion is Judaism specifically.



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