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I don’t see that when reading the writings of most pioneering Zionists. Not saying there went some that thought like that, but the vast majority I’ve encountered while researching Zionism share roughly the same reasoning: tired of being hunted and having nowhere to run. Think about it, persecuted Christians have all of Europe and America to flee to, Muslims have all of the Middle East and parts of Africa to flee to, the Jews had nowhere to flee to. Frankly, being part of a group that is consistently hunted time and time again throughout history, being called parasites because they have no homeland, will do a number on one’s psychology. I’d wager that the vast majority of Zionists were not in fact fascists, but deeply scared people who saw safety in having a place to call their own.
Yeah, after they murdered all the natives and stole their land. Hmmmmmmm! Sounds familiar!
There's nothing magical about being Jewish that makes antisemitism inevitable. They aren't genetically predisposed to being persecuted or something.
This blood-and-soil concept that an ethnicity needs a "homeland" is both outdated and quite racist. In the modern age we should pursue multi-ethnic and multi-racial and multi-religious democracies, not apartheid ethnostates built on genocide and land theft and endless fucking war.
This is going nowhere. I'll end with this: Scared people are notoriously dangerous. I'm sure they were legitimately afraid of being persecuted, but fear certainly can motivate fascistic ideology and doesn't actually justify their ethnonationalism. What we see today, a genocidal ethnostate practicing apartheid and ethnic cleansing, is the inevitable result of all ethnonationalism. The only way this ever ends is if Israel becomes a democracy and allows Palestinians to vote, or if they kill and kill and kill until Israel is an island surrounded by a sea of irradiated glass. That's it.
Zionism is absolutely unsustainable and Hamas just proved it. Let's not keep the experiment going until it turns into WW3.