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I cannot stress how important this post is. If this place cared a damn about reality, this would be stuck up top.
The very idea that zionism has anything to do whatsoever with Judaism is ludicrous - the very nature of the ideologies are diametrically opposed.
BE SERIOUS!
I have been through this too many times and if I get banned for this, sobeit. The future of our world hangs in the balance.
The idea that Netanyahu speaks at all for the Jewish people, lies at the base of much confusion. For those who have read my posts, you should know that I am a Jew, but not a zionist. There are many like me the world over from the most religious to the most secular. Jews who stand against the zionist war project do so for many reasons, but the one main point we all share is that the zionists are actually the greatest danger to the Jewish people.
With that short introduction, allow me to introduce one of my favorite rabbis to explain from a pure and traditional Jewish perspective one of the most confused issues on our our planet. Over and over we see the biblical Jews from the biblical land of of Israel conflated with the modern zionist regime in Palestine who came from Europe, a different continent entirely, who stole the name 'Israel,' and who have used true Jewish suffering as a means to their end. I really hope that our gentile zionists here are paying attention.
Zionism may not be a religion itself or a subset of Judaism, but it's a political movement propogated largely by Jewish individuals, and likely supported by the vast majority of Jews, or at least not vehemently opposed by majority of Jews. They reap the benefits while the going is good. If things go sour they hopefully have an escape route, or others will ignore their complacency.
Lets not pretend it is not. Bibi is a prominent leader of the Jews. He speaks for more Jews than those orthos holding up the Anti-Israel signs.