Israel The Nation What is Zionism?
• Zionism is the National Liberation movement of the Jewish People. • It is the modern expression of the ancient longing by the Jewish People to return to its land and live as a free people once again. • It is the desire to secure a modern state for the Jewish nation. It is the conviction that the Jewish people have the right to live in freedom and security in its homeland. • It is the determination to aid and encourage the return of any and all Jewishrefugees of the Diaspora who wish to return home. • It is the concern for the safety and security of that modern state, and the desire to see it strong enough to defend itself and the Jewish people as a whole from any present or future existential threat. (Retrieved from: The Center For Ethnic Jewish Studies) What is Anti-Semitism, and it is the same as anti-Zionism? Anti-Semitism is the denial to the Jewish people, their rights as equal citizens within a given community. Webster’s defines it this way: Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism \n, usu
