The Incompatibility of Judaism and Antizionism |
Zionism is the Jewish people’s absolute movement for self-determination, security, and sovereignty in their sole ancestral homeland. Born from millennia of exile, genocide, and centuries of lethal powerlessness, its sole objective remains the permanent cessation of Jewish murder. Far from the “colonial” slur European elites regurgitate, Zionism is an indigenous reclamation and a survival imperative. At its most basic core, Zionism means to stop murdering Jews, while antizionism means to continue to murder Jews.
Indigenous Roots: The Biblical Mandate
The Jewish tie to the Land of Israel is ancient, indigenous, and enduring. “Zion” appears 152 times in the Hebrew Bible as the geographic designation for Jerusalem and the land. Psalms 137:1 records the trauma of exile: “By the rivers of Babylon… we wept when we remembered Zion.” The Passover command “Next year in Jerusalem” is a political directive of return, not poetry.
Because the Land of Israel is the central stage of the biblical narrative, antizionism is a direct repudiation of the entire Bible. You cannot separate the people from the land without tearing the scriptures apart. Consequently, since the Bible forms the moral and historical bedrock of Western civilization, antizionism is a repudiation of the West itself. To oppose Israel’s existence is to dismantle the Judeo-Christian foundation upon which Western values rest.
It is impossible to be a Jew and an antizionist. To be a Jew is to carry the memory of Zion and the imperative of survival. A Jew who opposes the Jewish state is either historically illiterate or suicidally self-destructive, severing themselves from their own peoplehood and history.
The “Antizionist Jew” Does Not Exist
It is impossible to be a Jew and an antizionist. Judaism is not merely a religion of rituals; it is a collective destiny and a nationhood. As Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy argue, those who attempt to disentangle Judaism from Jewish nationalism are “Un-Jews”—they are undoing the very essence of Jewish peoplehood.
By repudiating Zionism, these individuals repudiate their own Jewishness.........