Zionism and racism

Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land of Israel or Zion (a synecdoche for the Land of Israel). Jewish people have historically understood themselves to be part of a nation distinct from the non-Jewish nations. Like most nations, offspring of members are likewise considered members. However, common ancestry is not required and new members are admitted based upon prescribed criteria. None of the criteria incl ...

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• Zionism and racism - History
• Zionism and racism - The demographic change
• Zionism and racism - Zionism and Israel
• Zionism and racism - Discrimination
• Zionism and racism - Viewed as anti-Semitism
• Zionism and racism - Soviet influence
• Zionism and racism - UN Resolution 3379

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Zionism and racism - The demographic change. Despite the history of violence against the Jews, there is no evidence of any interruption in the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel for more than three millennia. In addition to traditional religious Jewish communities known as the old yishuv, the second half of the 19th century saw a new kind of Jewish immigrant, the generally left-wing socialist who aimed to reclaim their land by working on it. Mikveh Israel was founded in 1870 by Alliance Israelite Univer ...

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Anti-Zionism is a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view. Anti-Zionist positions have in common some form of opposition to Zionism, but their diversity in terms of motivation and expression is so great that anti-Zionism cannot be seen as a single phenomenon. This article examines opposition to Zionism both historically and as it currently exists. Zionism is variously defined as a Jewish national liberation movement that holds that a Jewish nation has existed for thousands of ...

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• Anti-Zionism - Arab anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Islamist anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Western anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Soviet anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - International anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism

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Before the 1930s the majority of the world's Jews who were in a position to express an opinion could loosely be considered anti-Zionist, in the sense that they did not actively support the Zionist project for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine or elsewhere. Nevertheless, the use of the expression "anti-Zionism" to describe their attitudes needs to be heavily qualified. In the 19th and early 20th century, for example, Reform Jews of Germany used the word "Zionism" to refer to a political and social movement which encouraged th ...

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Before the 1930s the majority of the world's Jews who were in a position to express an opinion could loosely be considered anti-Zionist, in the sense that they did not actively support the Zionist project for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine or elsewhere. Nevertheless, the use of the expression "anti-Zionism" to describe their attitudes needs to be heavily qualified. In the 19th and early 20th century, for example, Reform Jews of Germany used the word "Zionism" to refer to a political and social movement which encouraged th ...

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Before the 1970s, serious criticism of Israel, let alone opposition to its existence, was almost unknown in the western countries, except to some extent in the Communist parties. Indeed there was an almost completely uncritical acceptance of Israel's projected image of itself as a nation of brave pioneers making the desert bloom. This was partly motivated by genuine admiration for the efforts of the pioneering Israelis, partly by a sense of guilt about the failure of the west to prevent the Holocaust or to take in the Jewish refugees of the ...

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Islamist narratives, originally more popular among the more conservative nations of Arabia itself but now fairly widespread, emphasize the idea of Palestine as Muslim land—land once ruled by Muslims and once having a Muslim majority—taken by a non-Muslim political power, and regard it as the duty of Muslims to retake this land. They also emphasize the suffering of the Palestinians, seeing it as Muslims' duty to aid them against what they consider to be their oppressors. In this narrative, the natural means of combating Zionism is cons ...

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At the time when the Zionist settlement of Palestine began, most of the Arab world was under the control either of the Ottoman Empire or of one or other of the European colonial powers. There was thus no official voice for the Arab peoples. Towards the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a few Arabs were willing to consider alliance with the Zionist movement; for instance, Emir Faisal, the son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who helped lead the Arab nationalist revolt against th ...

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Soviet Union supported establishment of the state of Israel in 1947. At that time Bolshevik idea of World Revolution was abandoned by Joseph Stalin in favour of military and political expansion. Israel was seen as a pro-Communist state attacked Arab monarchies established by England. The situation changed when Israel failed to become a Soviet satellite, instead opting for Capitalism and religious freedoms, although with strong social programs, protected economy and communal farming. Soviet Anti-Zionism started during the last years of ...

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Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Opposition to the policies of the current Israeli government, or advocacy of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are not synonymous with anti-Zionism. While "anti-Zionism" is not defined in modern dictionaries, its use dates back to at least 1902, and it was regularly used in the 1920s and 1930s in relation to events in the British Mandate of Palestine, when some Arab ...

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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on November 10, 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was revoked by Resolution 4686 on December 16, 1991, and is often referenced in debates of Zionism and racism. UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Background. The 1975 resolution was one of many incidents that reflect a long-standing UN condemnation of Zionism, which many find ironic and hypocritical, considering that it was 1947 UN P ...

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• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Background
• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - The resolution of 1975
• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - The Israeli response
• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Voting record
• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Aftermath

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Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to ram ...

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• Zionism - Zionism and the Arab Muslims
• Zionism - The struggle for Palestine
• Zionism - Zionism and Israel
• Zionism - Anti-Zionism and post-Zionism
• Zionism - Non-Jewish Zionism
• Zionism - Relevant articles
• Zionism - Types of Zionism
• Zionism - Zionist institutes and organization
• Zionism - History of Zionism and Israel
• Zionism - Notes

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Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century. It is therefore possible to speak of a history of anti-Zionism reaching back for more than a century. That history, however, embraces several different phenomena. Muslim ant-Zionism opposes the state of Israel as an intrusion into their domain. Some anti-Zionists, including many Palestinian and other Arab or Islamic militant groups, as well as the government of Iran, insist that the State of Israel is illegitimate and refuse to refer ...

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Among other world firsts, Bolsheviks should be credited with the world first massive Anti-Zionist act. Immediately after October Revolution Bolsheviks issued several “decrees” outlining their view on future Communist society: the Decree on Peace declaring immediate peace with Germany, the Decree on Power giving all authority to local and central Assemblies of Workers and Soldiers, and the Decree on Nationalities declaring all nationalities equal. They ware accompanied by specific instructions. The instruction to the Decree on Nationaliti ...

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In parallel with the rise of anti-Zionist sentiment in the west was increased hostility towards Israel at the international level. During the 1950s and 1960s Israel made great efforts to cultivate good relations with the newly independent states of Africa and Asia, and hostility to Israel was confined to the states of the Arab-Muslim world and the Communist bloc. But a combination of inter-related c ...

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Some commentators believe that criticisms of Israel and Zionism are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and attribute this to anti-Semitism. Some supporters of Zionism go so far as to say that all expressions of anti-Zionism qualify as anti-Semitism.[7] Critics of this view believe that associating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is intended to stifle debate, deflect attention from valid criticisms, and taint anyone opposed to Israeli actions and policies. Since the support and defense of Israel has become a central f ...

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Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Opposition to the policies of the current Israeli government, or advocacy of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are not synonymous with anti-Zionism. While "anti-Zionism" is not defined in modern dictionaries, its use dates back to at least 1902, and it was regularly used in the 1920s and 1930s in relation to events in the British Mandate of Palestine, when some Arab ...

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At the time when the Zionist settlement of Palestine began, most of the Arab world was under the control either of the Ottoman Empire or of one or other of the European colonial powers. There was thus no official voice for the Arab peoples. Towards the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a few Arabs were willing to consider alliance with the Zionist movement; for instance, Emir Faisal, the son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who helped lead the Arab nationalist revolt against th ...

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In addition to a conventional definition of anti-Semitism ("hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, political or economic discrimination"), the unabridged edition of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, originally published in 1961 and reprinted in 2002, gives a controversial second and third definition to anti-Semitism, defining the word as "opposition to Zionism" and "sympathy for the opponents of Israel". (The modern college editions based on Webster's Third all omit the second definition of "anti-Semitism.") The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination ...

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Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century. It is therefore possible to speak of a history of anti-Zionism reaching back for more than a century. That history, however, embraces several different phenomena. Some anti-Zionists, including many Palestinian and other Arab or Islamic militant groups, insist that the State of Israel is illegitimate and refuse to refer to it as "Israel", instead using the locution "the Zionist entity". In the West the term is confined to small groups ...

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