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30. August 2017 - Ha'aretz, Gideon Levy:

Israel's Minister of Truth

Israel Justice Minister Shaked said the truth loud and clear: Zionism contradicts human rights, and thus is indeed an ultranationalist, colonialist and perhaps racist movement
Thank you, Ayelet Shaked, for telling the truth. Thank you for speaking honestly. The justice minister has proved once again that Israel’s extreme right is better than the deceivers of the center-left: It speaks honestly.
If in 1975, Chaim Herzog dramatically tore up a copy of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with racism, the justice minister has now admitted the truthfulness of the resolution (which was later revoked). Shaked said, loud and clear: Zionism contradicts human rights, and thus is indeed an ultranationalist, colonialist and perhaps even racist movement, as proponents of justice worldwide maintain.
Shaked prefers Zionism to human rights, the ultimate universal justice. She believes that we have a different kind of justice, superior to universal justice. Zionism above all. It’s been said before, in other languages and other nationalist movements.
Had Shaked not pitted these two principles against each other, we would have continued to believe what has been drilled into us since childhood: Zionism is a just, morally unflawed movement. It sanctifies equality and justice: Just look at our Declaration of Independence. We memorized “the only democracy in the Middle East,” “a land without a people for a people without a land,” “everyone is equal in the Jewish state”; we learned about the Arab Supreme Court justice and the Druze cabinet minister. What more could we ask? It’s so just, so equal, you could cry.
If this were all true, Shaked would have no reason to come to the defense of Zionism in the face of human rights. For Shaked and the right, the debate on human and civil rights is anti-Zionist, even anti-Semitic. It seeks to undermine and destroy the Jewish state.
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16. Juni 2017 - Ha'aretz, Yossi Klein:

Arab-Free Theocracy:
Veteran Settler Offers Rare Glimpse Into Religious-Zionist Vision for Israel

Daniella Weiss opens up to the Haaretz writer who called her movement more dangerous than Hezbollah
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24. Mai 2017 - Miko Peled:

The Emperor Visits the Provinces

Israel breathes a sigh of relief as trump leaves the region with no offer of a “deal” allowing it to continue to kill, displace, arrest and torture Palestinians take their land and water and give it to Jews. Trump’s visit to Jerusalem was like Cesar coming to visit the far away provinces.  Israel welcomed him with smiles, flags and a perfectly orchestrated military parade, while Palestinians signaled their feelings by staging an all-out general strike – the first all out strike that included 1948 Palestine in over twenty years.  The strike and protests, the significance of which likely went over Trumps head, was also an expression of solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners who at this point have gone without food for close to forty days.
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5. März 2017 - Jacobin, Jewish Voice for Peace:

The Uses and Abuses of Antisemitism

A conversation with Rebecca Vilkomerson,  Rabbi Brant Rosen, and  Jason Farbman
Campaigns to silence criticism of Israel don’t protect Jews — they endanger them.
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20. Dezember 2016 - New York Times, Omri Boehm:

Liberal Zionism in the Age of Trump

For weeks now, Jewish communities across America have been troubled by an awkward phenomenon. Donald J. Trump, a ruthless politician trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes, has been elected to become the next president, and he has appointed as his chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, a prominent figure of the “alt-right,” a movement that promotes white nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny. Though Bannon himself has expressed “zero tolerance” for such views, his past actions suggest otherwise; as the executive chairman of Breitbart News for the past four years, he provided the country’s most powerful media platform for the movement and its ideologies.
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23. Juli 2016 - American Herald Tribune, Ludwig Watzal:

How modern is Israel?
Zionism is primarily a Christian Protestant enterprise that has little to do with Judaism. This explains why US Christians are the most ardent Zionists and the most powerful supporters of Israel. The largest opposition to Zionism came initially from the rabbinical elite, which viewed it as heretical and an aberration of the Jewish faith. Zionism represents a break with Jewish tradition and historical continuity. Israel has to be seen in terms of European nationalism, colonial expansion, and geopolitical interests rather than as the divine fulfillment of biblical prophecies or even a culmination of Jewish history. The traditional Judaic yearning for "Return", which is a purely spiritual concept, was turned into a political cause by Christians in order to accelerate the coming of Christ and force the Jews to convert to Christianity. The influence of Christian Zionists plays a very important role up to the present day. These are only some of the most provocative conclusions of Yakov M. Rabkin's excellent analysis of modern day Israel.
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26. Januar 2016 - JewSchool, Eli Ungar-Sargon:

Top 5 Reasons Why I’m Not A Liberal Zionist

Eli Ungar-Sargon explains why he's not a Liberal Zionist.

  1. The Nakba is more than just a "Palestinian narrative"
  2. he Occupation is a symptom, not the disease
  3. Ethnonationalism is a problematic foundation upon which to build a multiethnic state
  4. The Palestinian right of return is a moral right
  5. ewish rights and Palestinian rights are not zero sum

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Dezember 2000 - International Socialist Review, Phil Gasper:

israel: Colonial-settler state
ZIONISM IS a political movement that originally emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to anti-Semitism, particularly in Eastern Europe. Capitalist development undermined the traditional commercial roles that many Jews had played in the old feudal economy. As the economic system moved into periodic crises, ruling groups in many countries would deflect mass anger at economic hardship and political repression by scapegoating Jews.
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UNO

10.11.1975: GA 3379 ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

16.12.1991: GA 46/86 REVOCATION