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  • Saying something like “An estimated 80-90% of Jews in modern time are also Zionists” with stats to back it up is perfectly fine to say, but it’s also worth acknowledging the fact that “10-20% of Jews are not Zionists”.

    Yes that’s literally done by saying not 100% of Jews are Zionists but 80 to 90%. It’d be great if it was more. In fact most (especially European) Jews used to oppose Zionism until Zionist Jews worked together with the Nazis to literally kill off non-Zionist Jews and force the rest of them to become Zionists.

    And now we’re in the present where the equation has massively changed. And we’re not talking about 55 or 60%. We’re talking overwhelming majority numbers. 80 to 90%.

    To dismiss the beliefs of 12 million people because of a max 3 million people not sharing their view doesn’t make any sense. Why would the views of the overwhelming majority of a group not accurately represent them, but a small minority do? If this argument was about anything else but the percentage of Jews being Zionist, this wouldn’t even be a debate. It 90% of Christians supported Zionism then Zionist Christianity would be an accurate representation of Christianity.

    it’s still wrong imo to characterize all Jews as Zionists. Like another poster mentioned, there are still potentially millions of Jews who do not support Zionism, and/or who oppose Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.

    Why do you feel the need to stereotype all Jews, and all congregations as being the same?

    Why do you keep misrepresenting my argument which doesn’t state that all Jews are Zionist but the majority are? Why is it “antisemitic” to simply correct this notion?

    Because your argument is rooted in Liberal Zionism. I pick this battle because I actually support Palestine. Here’s a much longer format explanation if you still don’t get it after the articles.

    Jewish Exceptionalism, Liberal Zionism, Jewish Supremacy - How YOU Inadvertently Support Israel




  • Sure. I don’t disagree with that. But the question is: do these synagogues not accurately represent Judaism if the overwhelming majority of Synagogues and Jewish religious institutions are Zionist? Because the OOP says they’re not and I got banned only for correcting them that they are.

    Someone mentioned below the majority of Christians are Zionist I agree with them. Nobody has a problem pointing out that most Christians are Zionist. and most Christinian institutions are Zionist.

    But for some reason when you point out the same thing for Jews, somehow that’s wishing death upon all Jews. In that case why wouldn’t the same go for Zionist Christians being in danger if someone pointed out how deep the Zionist movement is within the (especially Evangelical) church?

    The crux of this comes back to the belief that Jews in the modern day are an oppressed minority at the cusp of being thrown into the ovens again. Luckily my favorite substack author has also addressed this https://tariqacknickulous.substack.com/p/privileged-reality-of-jewish-demographics

    At the heart of every argument within the spectrum of Zionism lies the uncritically accepted belief that Jews are an eternally oppressed people and that antisemitism is a constant, rampant threat. The charge of antisemitism often functions as a thought-terminating cliché, deployed not only by staunch Zionists but even by well-meaning individuals who identify as pro-Palestine. Yet few pause to critically examine this assumption. What is the actual reality of Jewish oppression today, and how does contemporary antisemitism compare to the narrative so widely accepted?

    By any objective measure, Jews are not a marginalized or oppressed group. Rather than facing structural or systemic oppression, they represent one of the most privileged demographics globally. The Jewish population is overwhelmingly concentrated in wealthy Western nations and their own ethnostate, societies that dominate the global imperial order. Within these power centers, Jewish communities consistently rank among the most affluent and highly educated groups, outperforming nearly all other demographics in measures of economic success and social mobility.

    “As anti-Semitic barriers quickly fell away after World War II, Jews rose to preeminence in the United States. According to Lipset and Raab, per capita Jewish income is almost double that of non-Jews; sixteen of the forty wealthiest Americans are Jews; 40 percent of American Nobel Prize winners in science and economics are Jewish, as are 20 percent of professors at major universities; and 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington. The list goes on. Far from constituting an obstacle to success, Jewish identity has become the crown of that success. Just as many Jews kept Israel at arm’s length when it constituted a liability and became born-again Zionists when it constituted an asset, so they kept their ethnic identity at arm’s length when it constituted a liability and became born-again Jews when it constituted an asset.” — Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000)



  • Because that’s how we people make the leap from “death to Zionists” to “death to Jews”.

    It isn’t. Your stance is how we get Zohran Mamdani condemning protests outside a Synagogue selling stolen Palestinian land. Pointing out the systemic Zionism in Jewish institutions doesn’t mean “wishing death upon all Jews.”

    You did just literally wish death upon 80-90% of Jews worldwide though. Doesn’t that make you the antisemite?

    https://ofpatmos.substack.com/p/fight-jewish-exceptionalism

    Anyone who holds Jewish exceptionalist sympathies is thus primed to be manipulated into liberal Zionist ideas & solutions, and primed to be sympathetic to Israelis when working towards the best outcomes for Palestinians is often going to require us to have much harder hearts. If one believes that there is something special about Jews in this way, then when the time comes to take coercive actions that are sure to harm Israeli Jews and hurt the feelings of their Jewish supporters abroad, we will not be able to count on their support.

    It’s easy to claim to support BDS when it’s not being done at scale yet, but will you be able to withstand the inevitable attempts at emotional manipulation if sanctions and blockades are ever truly imposed upon Israel? Will you falter when you hear about how much this is harming (gasp!) Jewish Israelis?

    When the time comes to evict the Israeli settlers from the West Bank, will you laugh in the face of those framing it as an ethnic cleansing of poor, vulnerable, innately oppressed Jews and a Second Holocaust?












  • It’s sad that so many people cannot be bothered to read any article but still decided to respond the same misinformation Correcting someone out that the vast majority of the in-group colonizing a country is supportive of the colonization makes you a Nazi now.

    The reason this is important is because you have people which say that protesting against colonization of Palestine next to synagogues which are selling Palestinian land is “antisemitic”.

    Because they have never been told that almost all Jewish institutions support Zionism because of people like you come out calling anyone who does a Nazi.

    Yes, Most Jews are in fact Zionists

    A fact that we must all contend with first and foremost is that Zionism is absolutely rampant among Jews worldwide. It is not just the official mandated ideology of almost all Jewish institutions and organizations, but also among Jewish communities and families.