Zionism, to a significant extent, originated in Russia and adopted these anti-Jewish frameworks—where Jewishness is reduced to ethnicity rather than religion.
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This is an inversion of the truth. Jews always recognized themselves as a religious community; the anti-Semitic Soviets said they were an ethnicity.
Such blatant fabrications is part of the new Zionist Hashbara scheme.
Saying anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism had failed. So now the Zionists are trying to develop a new scheme: Anti-Zionism does not mean being agaisnt Zionism. Instead, it’s a movement invented by the Soviets to target Jews. They are really saying this.
Sounds like a plot from a C-List cold-war era movie. Or an old episode from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
To begin with, we opposed Zionism before the Soviets even existed. The Soviet state began with the “October” Revolution in November 1917 (October in the old Russian calendar), when the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd. The formal state known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established on December 30, 1922. We were against Zionism before 1900. We were already publishing anti-Zionist literature and warnings then.
The increase in anti-Semitism and the danger to Jews that Zionism would cause was a central theme of Bar Hedya O Chalom Herzl, the first book written in opposition to Zionism, by Rabbi Dov Berish Tursch, printed in Warsaw in 1900. Among other things, he cites a letter from the Chacham Bashi in Turkey warning that the Zionist project would arouse the Sultan’s ire against the entire Jewish population in the Holy Land.
Here is another example, from an Orthodox newspaper: “The Zionists have taken the holiness of our Holy Land and the love of Zion—the object of our nation’s yearning—and used them to deceive … to blind the eyes of the wise and to pervert the words of the righteous; to trick the rabbis and to mislead the pure and straight of heart.” (R. Yaakov Lifshitz, in Hapeles, 5661 [1901], p. 180.)
It wasn’t only the Orthodox who opposed Zionism. For example, The American Israelite (1/19/1902) called Zionism a “pernicious agitation” that would undermine the status of Jews in their countries of residence. Lucien Wolf, in The Jewish Quarterly Review (October 1904), wrote—correctly—that “the characteristic peril of Zionism is that it is the natural and abiding ally of anti-Semitism and its most powerful justification.” There were no Soviets then. Yet it was already understood that Zionism would endanger Jews. There were no conflicts with Palestinians then, yet anti-Zionist Jews already warned that Zionism would damage relations between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land.
Second, as I mentioned, the opposite of what this Zionist claims is true: Much of Zionism comes from Russian ideological frameworks hostile to Jews. For example: Jews always recognized themselves as just a religious community, connected only by the Torah and our common relationship to G-d, not a political people. But under Stalin, anti-Semitic Russian policy stopped recognizing Jews by their religion and instead classified them as an ethnicity (like Uzbek or Estonian), as reflected on Soviet identity cards and passports. Other religious groups—Christians and Muslims—did not have their religions converted into ethnicities. Thus, an Estonian who practiced Christianity was listed as Estonian, but an Estonian who practiced Judaism was listed as “Jew.”
Zionism, to a significant extent, originated in Russia and adopted these anti-Jewish frameworks—where Jewishness is reduced to ethnicity rather than religion.
Zionism is a hate movement against Judaism.
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