Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is a opposition to Zionism, the movement that sought, as alive as ultimately succeeded in establishing a Jewish state in the region of Palestine. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, anti-Zionism evolved into opposition to the state together with its policies.

Anti-Zionism spans a range of political, social, as well as religious views. Prior to World War II, anti-Zionism was widespread among Jews for varying reasons. Orthodox Jews opposed Zionism on religious grounds and more secular Jews felt uncomfortable with the concepts that Jewish peoplehood was a national or ethnic identity. coming after or as a a object that is caused or exposed by something else of. the war and widespread understanding of the scale of the Holocaust, Jewish assist for Zionism grew, with Jewish anti-Zionist groups either disintegrating, or transforming into not or pro-Zionist organizations.

Non-Jewish anti-Zionism likewise spanned communal and religious groups, with the Arab population of Palestine largely opposed to what they considered the colonial dispossession of their homeland. Opposition to Zionism was, and maintained to be, widespread in the Arab world, particularly among Palestinians.

Anti-Zionist views are also expressed by some antisemites. The relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism is debated, with some academics and organizations that analyse antisemitism taking the image that anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic, while others reject any such linkage as unfounded and a method to stifle criticism of Israel and its policies, including in its occupation of the Palestinian West Bank.