Actual Jewish people (like, famously, Sigmund Freud) reject(ed) zionism.
Interestingly this simple fact prompted fascists to call many Jews antisemites. It seems like 'antisemite!' is nothing more than the latest derogatory term for fans of fascism to describe people with empathy. In other words: for people who are 'leftist', 'dems' of 'woke'.
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Libraries have been filled with theories surrounding 'The Land Of Israel'. Was that an area named after some kind of king who once was called Jacob and later Israel? By the current standards of Christian Zionists someone who doesn't use his birth name Jacob but his later chosen name Israel is 'woke'.
Only really weird people believe that there was a clearly bordered nation called Israel, some 3,000 years ago. The concept of borders between nations wasn't invented yet in the Bronze Age. So, when fascists state that there was no state of Palestine, back in the day, they are not lying. There was, however, a 'Land of Palestine', just like there was a 'Land of Israel'. Respectively meaning: 'A swathe of land where mostly Palestinians live' and 'A swathe of land where mostly Israelites live'.
During the League of Nations mandate period (1920–1948) the term "Eretz Yisrael" or the "Land of Israel" was part of the official Hebrew name of Mandatory Palestine.
Official Hebrew documents used the Hebrew transliteration of the word "Palestine" פלשתינה (Palestina) followed always by the two initial letters of "Eretz Yisrael", א״י Aleph-Yod
Quoting some more:
The Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, who lived in the early first century C.E., occasionally uses the name Palestine when referring to the Land of Israel of his day. For example, he remarks that a considerable proportion of Palestinian Syria is occupied by the populous nation of the Jews.
Quoting some more:
The Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, who lived in the early first century C.E., occasionally uses the name Palestine when referring to the Land of Israel of his day. For example, he remarks that a considerable proportion of Palestinian Syria is occupied by the populous nation of the Jews.
Fun fact I learned from the same article: a rather famous Palestinian lived in or near modern day Tel Aviv, in the area known at the time as Land of the Philistines (also Filistines, Palestineans and a dozen other ways of spelling. Spelling didn't get standardized until the days of our grandparents). His name was Goliath.
The lady who captured Samson's heart, Delilah, lived in a city that recently has been thoroughly flattened by people who claim to have that right 'because our ancestors may have lived here 3,000 years ago': Gaza.
“..almost all the toponyms of the cities of Philistia: Gaza (Ghazzah), Askelon (‘Asqalan), Ashdod (Isdud), Tantur (Tantura), Gath (Jat), Ekron (‘Aqir) survived into the modern era and were preserved in the modern Palestinian Arabic names and were mostly depopulated by Israel in 1948.“
Despite a lot of propaganda, claiming to be 'the truth', the simple fact is that not every single piece of the puzzle is there: literally no one knows the details of the origin of (the names) Israel and Palestine.
These days more christians than jews call themselves 'zionists'. The religion that started to develop around 1880 and even developed its own language (vaguely resembling ancient Hebrew) seems particularly popular amongst evangelical protestants. Guess which famous group consisted of evangelical protestants: the nazis.
Not only protestans but also catholics and other christian groups thought Hitler was a swell guy. And Jews only had to convert to christianity to escape prosecution. Awfully nice, right?
Yes, Jews have every right to be angry that Hitler and his henchmen killed some 6 million Jews. But did you know they also killed 6 million people from other groups? Yes, God famously promised The Promised Land to the Jews. But also to the people of all other abrahamic religions. Of which Judaism, Christianity and Islam are merely the largest surviving. But also Samaritanism, Mandaeism, Rastafari and the rather new Chrislam religions are considered abrahamic.
Let me put it simple: if parents promise all their children their house, land and other belonings after their passing, should only the one called Israel get everything, including the right to kill his siblings?
But you know what? It doesn't matter who's 'right' or 'wrong', it's simply alway wrong to slaughter children. Even when you claim it was 'an accident due to a technical error'.
What do you think is a valid excuse for murdering thousands of children?