(JEWISH GROUP) Jews Are Becoming More, Not Less, Zionist

[Mosby]

Last week, at a Passover seder doubling as an anti-Israel protest, Naomi Klein called for an “exodus from Zionism.” The delight many take in passing around this Jew’s denunciation of Zionism reflects our topsy-turvy universe. A few, marginalized, anti-Zionist Jews snare massive headlines, as the overwhelming majority of pro-Israel Jews feel marginalized. Klein is wrong. On Oct. 7, many Jews experienced an exodus to Zionism, not from – abandoning their delusions that Jew-hatred had ended and Hamas was pragmatic.

Trying to reject “the false idol of Zionism,” Klein demonized the Middle East’s only feminist-friendly, LGBTQ+-welcoming, democratic state as a “militaristic ethnostate.” Profaning the holiness of the Passover seder, she proclaimed “tonight we say: It ends here.”

What she called “Our Judaism” is “internationalist,” cannot “be protected by” Israel’s “rampaging military,” and is “not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine,” because “in that chorus lies both our support and our collective liberation.”

Really?

Klein’s “Our Judaism” distorts Jewish history. Accusing Israel of “colonial land theft” negates Jews’ 3,500-year-old indigenous roots. Charging “ethnic cleansing” overlooks the U.N.’s 1947 partition plan and every other compromise Palestinians rejected. And crying “genocide” perverts theword’s meaning – eliminating another nation: the Palestinian population quintupled since 1948, and grew by 35% since 2009, when Klein first accused Israel of “genocide.”

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/371143/jews-are-becoming-more-not-less-zionist/