Zionism

</image> <label>Type</label> <label>Effects</label> <label>Source</label> <label>Cost to buy</label> <label>Cost to sell</label> </infobox>Zionism or Jewish Nationalism is a political ideology which says that Jewish people have a right to control part the holy land of Israel, which Jews are indigenous to. Supporters argue that this is a necessity to provide a safe areas for Jewish people to live and practice their religion in peace and safety (note that Zionism became popular after the Holocaust), critics argue that it's a violent ideology. Extremist critics, such as the Islamist Terror group Hamas, claim it is being used to justify a new apartheid and that it attempts to justify another form of nationalism and colonialism. Zionism is one of the most controversial areas in current politics (as the edit wars leveling wikipedia useless on the issue has proved), so take even what we write with a massive grain of salt. And read some books.

Types of Zionism

Green Zionism

Green Zionism is a synthesis of environmentalist and Zionist politics, arguing that Israel must be a clean and sustainable civilization. It has been influential in several Kibbutzim, who have made efforts to reduce impact on the environment.

Labor Zionism

Labor Zionism or Socialist Zionism combines Zionist and socialist politics. Some Labor Zionists argue that the creation of a socialist society that would correct the "inverted pyramid" of Jewish society. Jews were forced out of normal occupations by Gentile hostility and competition, using this dynamic to explain the relative predominance of Jewish professionals, rather than workers. Jewish society, he argued, would not be healthy until the inverted pyramid was righted, and a substantial number of Jews became workers and peasants again. This, he held, could only be accomplished by Jews in their own country. Labor Zionism has been hugely influential in the creation of the Kibbutzim and Moshavim.

Post-Zionism

Post-Zionism is a position that argues Israel has fulfilled its functions, but it raises further questions about Israel's future, such as:

• Is the state of Israel indeed a safe shelter for the Jewish nation?
• How does Israel keep its Jewish and Democratic character?
• Should all the blame for the continuation of the conflict fall on the Arab side?

Post-Zionists argue that Israel must serve a function as a democratic and egalitarian state in a region of brutal authoritarianism and inequality.

Criticism

Critics of Zionism are generally called Anti-Zionists, and criticisms can divided into 'good' and 'bad' criticisms. Good criticisms recognise that Jews and Zionists are different groups of people, and are thus not critical of Jewish people or Jewish religion. Bad criticism does not recognise that Jews and Zionists are different groups of people, and is often used as a cover for antisemitism. Bad criticism also fundamentally rejects Jews as a people, their history in Israel, and their ethnic or cultural connection to Israel. Criticism such as denying Zionism uniquely supporting other forms of statism like it falls into this category.

Here at libsoc-wiki, we stand with all Jews of the world against antisemitism from the left and right. Along with all other people against any form of bigotry.

Bad Criticism

Ilhan Omar declaring Zionism is fundamentally evil. This would be like saying Native Americans moving into their home is bad.

Mansour Abbas declaring Jews are an ethnic group with no connection to Israel.

Some people (including much of the modern Jewish community) argue that that, as Zionism is the idea Jews should establish communities inside Israel where most Jews are from (as it is an ethnoreligion and Arabs are from Arabia), and that ideology is separate from the modern Israeli state, declaring Zionism evil is an attack on the Jewish communities right to exist as an entity at all, separate from criticizing Israel.