Word: zionists
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...praying for the souls of the martyrs who were killed today by the shells of the Zionist enemy...
...crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism was God's work because it reclaimed the land of Israel, even if many of its leaders were secular Jews. But if the Zionist state hands over land to the Palestinians, then, as some rabbis...
According to Rami R. Sarafa ’07, a former board member of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, a common misconception is that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are identical. Safara said it is possible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic...
...Germany, rather than Israel, is the preferred destination of Jews leaving the former Soviet territories today - a fact that has Zionist officials so steamed that they're calling on the Israeli government to pressure Germany to stop "enticing" Jews to settle there. The very fact that Jews leaving the former Soviet territories are being given a choice to go anywhere other than Israel appears to be unacceptable, since in the words of Jewish Agency chairman Sallai Merridor "this drastically effects immigration to Israel." Merridor appears oblivious to the irony in attacking Germany for making it easier for Jews to live...
...apply the same label to anyone who tells Uncle Adam that as a Jew he doesn't belong in France, or says the same thing to any of my relatives elsewhere in the Diaspora. "Go back to Israel" was a message I heard occasionally growing up, both from Zionist emissaries promoting immigration and from rightwing anti-Semites hostile to my anti-apartheid views, which they somehow mistook to be uniquely Jewish. Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses...