Is post-Zionism a form of anti-Zionism?
• They claimed that the Jews had never been a people until the Zionists muddled their thinking, and had no desire for nationhood. Post-Zionism turned out to be a peculiar form of anti-Zionism. In contrast with the anti-Zionism of an earlier era, the post-Zionists made their peace with Israel’s existence as a state. (It is hard to argue with success.) But they sought to undermine the state’s moral and philosophical foundations, to dismantle the Jewish identity of the state and reconfigure it as a state of “all its citizens. – Anita Shapira, in The Past is Not a Foreign Country, The New Republic • The distinction between “nation” and “State” – which the anti-Zionist likes to make against Israel (one of the oldest nations in the world) – is never used in criticism of any of the scores of newly created States whose national unity is far from evident.
