Is Zionism a form of Racism?
147647
Zionism is not racism.  It is nothing more than the belief that the Jewish people should have a homeland in their ancient homeland.  A very noble cause (proud to be a Zionist).
83071
No, others are racist but for different reasons.  White history month?  What are we learning for the entire year?  Oh yeah, white history.  Funds like the United Negro one are for the descendants of slaves (face it, that's how most if not all  Africans got here) who were released with nothing.  They had to survive in a world where there were relatively few employers (they wouldn't hire blacks).
93583
There is no such thing as "reverse racism." Racism is simply racism, no matter which ethnic group is being treated unfairly. Similarly:\n\nThere is no such thing as "reverse bigotry." \nThere is no such thing as "reverse sexism."
634920
It is not just about Israel, but about everything that highlights their bruised pride and utterly humilliation. \n\nThe following quotes go a long way to explain the pathological hatred in arab (and several muslim non-arab) societies against everything they perceive (rightly so) as more advanced than their decadent lifesyle, largely dominated by a retarded system obsolete theocracies and dictatorships.\n\n"The Arab world is suffering a crisis of humiliation. Their armies are routed not only by Americans, but also by tiny, Jewish Israel; and as Arthur Koestler once remarked, the Arab world has not, in the last 500 years or so, produced much besides rugs, dirty postcards, elaborations on the belly-dance esthetic (and, of course, some innovative terrorist practices). They have no science to speak of, no art, hardly any industry save oil, very little literature, and portentous music which consists largely of lugubrious songs celebrating the slaughter of Jews"\n\n"Now that the Arabs have acquired national consciousness, and they compare their societies to other nations, these deficiencies become painfully evident, particularly to the upper-class Arab kids who attend foreign universities. There they learn about the accomplishments of Christians, Jews, (Freud, Einstein, for starters) and women. And yet, with the exception of Edward Said, there is scarcely a contemporary Arab name in the bunch. No wonder, then, that major recruitment to al-Qaeda's ranks takes place among Arab university students. And no wonder that suicide bombing becomes their tactic of choice: it is a last-ditch, desperate way of asserting at least one scrap of superiority—a spiritual superiority—over the materialistic, life-hugging, and ergo shameful West"\n\nRead it all:\n\nhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19107
102837
yes, but they refuse to acknowledge it. Their racism goes deeper than the institutionalized racism practiced in the United States, but it's probably not what most people consider racist. Most people think of active violence or open overt acts of agression or rejection as their mental image of racism; but that's not racism, it's prejudice. Mormons are racist and unapologetic about it. They'll tell you that there are tons of black members participating in their church. What they don't tell you is that there are very few black member in the united states, and taht within the US black member populations are-percentage based-mostly names on a roster...they don't go to church or participate in mormon practice. In the underdeveloped countries in africa and elsewhere, mormons have a growing population which seems to have more to do with American appeal than appeal to their theology. But mormons will insist they are not racist in spite of their teachings that skin color resulted from sin, and the fact that black mormons were denied leadership and other priveleges white members had until 1979, and the fact that mormons believe that when they go to heaven everyone will be white. This isn't the only form of descrimination within the Mormon church either. They also descriminate against women. Women still do not participate in any leadership that makes or changes church policy. They have gender roles; the woman is to be a homemaker and cook and raise the children; the man is to work and be in charge of the family...
88442
Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews.  Zionism is the belief that Jews should be allowed to have a homeland on the location of their ancient homeland.  Therefore, no Zionism is more like the polor-opposite of Anti-Semitism.
608012
I am puzzled by that myself.  I use to dabble in Communism and went to a lot of meetings set by various parties after experiencing alot of racism against me most of my life for being white as well as being lower middle class I though Communism could end racism and poverty.  Communists have alot of hate in there hearts, they certainly have an "us vs them" mentality.  They would say race does not exist, but then say "blacks need to preserve there identity"  It seemed like the white communist were self hating and wished to god they were born another race.  There is one communist group in USA that says whites cannot be proletarian, no matter how poor or homeless they are, this is not racism?\n\nThey can be pretty violent, whenever there is a protest against racism or globalization, you see them out there attacking police and those who do not agree with them, as well as graffiti, smashing windows, setting things on fire, throwing garbage everywhere, smoking weed in public.  How many BNP people do you see doing that?
937111
Zionism = Hope for peace in Israel.\nIsrael = world\nHope = me and you\nPeace = reunion\nI will never be tired of it. I love it running through my veins, my lungs gasp to inhale it, and I wait for it impatiently.
219808
I can honestly tell you that thet root of racism is directly related...at least in the U.S to series of events that most of us don't ralize are there because we don't MAKE THE TIME to inform ourselves. racism, war and poverty are a direct result of U.S interventions thru out the world in order to intimidate people w/ ideals that might pose a threat to THE U.S GOVERMENT...NOT THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S., BUT THE GOVERNMENT...this has been going on for at least the last 50 years. \nthe secret gov't spreads racism by means of terror.\nthis is a list of countries that the U.S has invaded since the 1950's  till today.\nIRAN, cambodia, VIETNAM, GUATEMALA, CHILE, EL SALVADOR, CUBA, EGYPT, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN,LAOS,PANAMA, BOLIVIA...the list goes on and on.\nthe U.S secret gov't is responsible for more than 5 millions of deaths and atrocities thru out this counries.\nRACISM exists because we allow the people that are supposed to represent us to do as they wILL. WE HAVE THE POWER TO END RACISM BUT WE CAN ONLY DO IT BY BECOMING CONSCIOUS AND CREATING SOLIDARITY THRU OUT THE WORLD.THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER, WE HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL. BUT WE MUST SPEAK OUT AND BECOME INVOLVED AND FIND DIFFERENT SOURCES OF ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION.
540889
i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
360656
To get this straight you need to disregard the Jewish version of history that has bombarded us for years. They portray themselves as innocent victims of Arab hostility and terror, when the truth is more nearly the exact opposite. In the early 1900s there were very few Jews in the area of Canaan, or Palestine, with perhaps 100 orthodox Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem and scattered numbers of Jews elsewhere in the region.  But to go to the very beginning one must look to Russia in the early 1880s during the time of the Pogroms in which mobs attacked Jews and Jewish businesses.  Out of all this persecution was born the idea of a return to the Jewish homeland, personified in the writings of Theodor Herzl and others.  Eventually came the Balfour Declaration out of England, which finally sponsored the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine (places like Ethiopia and Argentina had been considered by the British as possible sites for a new Jewish homeland).  Through the 1920s waves of Jewish immigrants began flocking to the region, and at some point the new arrivals, who initially began buying land from the indigenous Arabs, abandoned that practice and began resorting to outright theft. By the end of the Second World War the seeds of the conflict had been sown.  In the year 1948 alone, Zionists destroyed well over 400 Arab villages, driving away or killing the inhabitants and creating the first groups of Arab refugees.  This taking of Arab land and the massacres that took place was an act of genocide by the Jews directed against the Arab population, yet it is something that Jewish historians seem to have forgotten.  But it was this taking of land and the massacres of entire Arab villages by the Zionists that is the real basis for the conflict in the Middle East.  The Jews, who seem to have wiped their collective memory clean, claim to be themselves innocent victims of Arab attacks.  So today, when you see a suicide bomber blowing up in a Jewish city, it is a revenge for Jewish atrocities from 60 or 70 years ago, and NOT an unprovoked attack as the Jews claim.\n\nI have a complete list of the Arab towns and villages destroyed by the Jews in 1948, and it makes pretty harrowing reading.  These Jews are no innocent people.
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Antizionism is not anti Jewish or anti semetic.  It must be noted that Arabs and Jews are both semetic peoples.\n\nTrying to label one group of people is wrong.  There are zionist and antizionist Jews, and there are plenty of non Jews who support and are against zionism.\n\nAt the same time I am sure there are many Anti Jewish people who are antizionist, and there are many people who are Anti Arab who are pro zionist.\n\nNobody should paint a group of pepole with such a wide brush.  I do not agree with forcing the concept of a Jewish state in Palestine, eliminating most of the Arab Palestinian population, while importing Jews from all over the world.  These two acts consist of ethnic cleansing.\n\nThe fact is the state of Israel exists in Palestine.  If Germany had given the zionists land in Germany for a Jewish state, the world would be a much calmer place.  However we will have peace in Palestine one day when the Arab minority in Israel once again becomes the majority.  When this happens you will have Arabs and Jews living in peace, and laws that are fair to Palestinian refugees who will be able to return to their homes once again.\n\nThe key is to love your enemies, whether they be Jew, Arab, zionist or antizionist.
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The map of Israel/palestine say's it all :-\n\nhttp://zionismexplained.org/map/landmap1.jpg
1100476
Anti semite is a racist who hate jews ( like Hitler), an anti-zionist is someone whom opposes the expansionims ideology behind the conquest of all Palestinian land by the Israeli people..\n\nYou can be against expansion of israel land without being anti-semite, however it is unlikeli zionist will like you..\n\nsee the map of zionist expansionism..\nhttp://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/photos/maps/landloss.html\n\n\nin truth The promessed land of Israel, was probably so tiny, it is ridiculous it was a promesse in the first instance.. see what Israeli archeologist say about it..\n\n\nhttp://www.rense.com/general18/bible.htm
89269
No. It was more of a racial scapegoating. There was envy because the Jews prospered. There was antisemitism in Germany before the Nazis but Nazis gained and maintained their power by blaming the Jews and others for a lot of things.
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The map of Israel and Palestine says it all:-\n\nhttp://zionismexplained.org/map/landmap1.jpg
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Does this help?\n\n"Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel..."