ZIONISM JUDAISM

‘Let me be very clear. Their claims are a fiction and a willful distortion of a noble and integral part of Judaism…Zionism is the belief in Jewish self-determination in a land that has been at the centre of the Jewish world for more than 3,000 years. One can no more separate it (Zionism) from Judaism than separate the City of London from Great Britain.

www.telegraph.co.uk

The time has come to give the lie to a myth that has not only dominated recent headlines, but that has poisoned public discourse on anti-Semitism and Israel for decades.

It is astonishing to see figures on the hard Left of the British political spectrum presuming to define the relationship between Judaism and Zionism despite themselves being neither Jews nor Zionists. The likes of Ken Livingstone and Malia Boattia claim that Zionism is separate from Judaism as a faith; that it is purely political; that it is expansionist, colonialist and imperialist.

It is unclear why these people feel qualified to provide such an analysis of one of the axioms of Jewish belief. But let me be very clear. Their claims are a fiction. They are a wilful distortion of a noble and integral part of Judaism. Zionism is a belief in the right to Jewish self-determination in a land that has been at the centre of the Jewish world for more than 3,000 years. One can no more separate it from Judaism than separate the City of London from Great Britain.

If this inquiry turns out to be no more than a sticking plaster, designed to placate and diffuse until after the elections this week, the problem will surely get worse and not better. Jeremy Corbyn has stated that his party “will not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form,” and I very much hope that this inquiry will deliver on that pledge and be followed by decisive action. All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.

The last 10 days have lifted the lid on a challenging issue, but if anything, I feel optimistic about the way that this problem has been received. Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial “canary in the coal mine”, an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society. I draw a great deal of comfort from the very strong response that this sorry affair has elicited. There must be no corner of Britain today in which anti-Semitism can lurk.

8 thoughts on “From the horse’s mouth–UK’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis– ‘Zionism and Judaism are inseparable’”
  1. Hmmm

    Attempting to conflate a political ideology “zionism” with a religion “judaism” is the height of chutzpah. It also happens to be illegal for tax exempt religious organizations to use their pulpit to push politics on their parishioners.

    But if jews persist in their claims that “zionism and judaism” are inseparable, then the US government has no choice but to revoke the tax exempt status of the all Jewish non profits and register them as foreign agents working for Israel. Zionism is a political ideology which demands the creation of a Jewish only empire far larger than Israel is legally entitled to. It is also something that has only been in existence for the last 120 odd years.

    Jews are not special, they cannot have it both ways. If they persist in this claim that judaism is inseparable from zionism, so be it. But Jews must obey the law just like everyone else and thus surrender their tax exempt status as well register as foreign agents. No special treatment for Jews is outlined anywhere in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. Maybe that is why there are no Jewish signatories on either document………..

  2. Well, at least he admitted the undeniable truth that Zionism is Judaism, as making Aliyah is part of the Judaic religion, in that returning to the ‘holy land’ is required in that religion to make a Jew spiritually and physically whole, so they can label this Aliyah Zionism or any other name; as long as Judaism exists, so will making Aliyah.

    Judaism is all pretentious nonsense of course, there is no Jewish God, and the Jews are just a bunch of bullying, sadistic, selfish atheist nutcases with a massive nuclear arsenal threatening to attack the entire world with their ‘Samson Option’.

    The Israeli Jews and those Jews around the world working with them for political domination of the world are a clear and present danger to the physical survival of the entire planet, to all species of life on this planet, and they should be physically stopped right now, as they have made the threat on several occasions to use that Samson Option, and so their words must be taken literally, as they provenly have the nuclear weapons to launch such an attack against the rest of the world.

    It is nuclear blackmail to compel the other peoples of the world to do the bidding of the Jews above all else.

    Any other terrorists would be killed by military forces sent by the governments of the world, but these days, almost every government in the world is controlled by Jews, so no such military campaign gets launched.

    The peoples of the world must remove any corrupt and traitorous Israel-first governments from power, and new governments elected by them must send the combined government military forces of the rest of the world to remove this threat of the Samson Option once and for all.

    That slavish Western politicians continue to fawn at the feet of these sick-making Israeli Jewish demons and their peers in the rest of the world is a complete obscenity, especially whilst Jewish power in the world is growing exponentially now. We will see complete military dictatorship in the harshest possible terms inflicted over increasingly large areas of the world until the Jewish lust for world domination is stopped.

  3. Of course ” Zionism is Judaism “. Always was ,and always will be . Judaism central componet is material in promise, as the Jews exclusive God , Yahweh promised them land in Cannan to be extended into a huge swath of the Middle East ,and that all of the world ( Gentile ) will be cursed if not obedient to the instructions of the ” Chosen People ” of their exclusive ” God”.

    Everything is predicated on serving the Jews,abd their God…nobody elses God ,” Thou shall no other Gods but Yahweh “.

    That means EVERY Gentile religion , philosophy ,culture including the Trinity ,and Jesus Christ is OUT.

    You can jump ,grind your teeth ,shout, all you want,and that is Judaism plain .

    You can say they are not ” true Jews” ” your grafted in” ” Christ was a Jew” , ( they don’t think so ) ” God is in many temples ” or any other cute Liberal cliche ,or conservative appropriate bunkum you want it will not change Judaism on reality period !

  4. Hmmm

    I disagree with the notion that “zionism” is Judaism. The facts simply don’t back that up. No matter how long and loud the zionists wail on about it. In realtive terms “zionism” is a modern day political construct. Lest their be any doubts; being “jewish” is not a requirement to be a “zionist” And in point of fact there are millions of people who identify themselves with zionism and the state of Israel who are not Jewish.

  5. zionizm just another name for the violent, out of the closet, wing of judizm

  6. Hmmm

    Zionism and Judaism are separate and distinct. The former being defined as, and I quote here: “a nationalist and political movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Palestine, Canaan or the Holy Land)”. The latter being generally defined as, and again I quote: “Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion”. The Zionist movement is attempting to claim that criticism of a country, in this case Israel and its illegal occupation and theft of Palestine, equates to criticism of Judaism and is thus antisemitism.

    The world is objecting on legal, moral and ethical grounds to Israel’s ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and Apartheid it is committing against the Palestinian people as I write this. These attempts to conflate the 2 very clearly separate and distinct terms are thus being carried out for the sole purpose of eliminating public outcry, and silencing criticism by the world at large of these crimes. And thus are a blatant attempt to allow the perpetuation of a very real Holocaust being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people. Which in turn logically dictates, at least from a moral, if not legal perspective, makes those people supporting the suppression of these valid criticisms and objections, guilty of aiding and abetting Israel’s ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Your “rebuttal” to my original comment:
    “Dearbon
    You are on the wrong blog”

    First you spelled my name incorrectly, a slight I can only believe was intentional. Was there some point to that beyond being a ass? As to your assertion that I am on the wrong blog: surely you are not suggesting my views do not have equal standing, and thus I do not have the same right to be heard as the rest of the posters here.

    I am the first to admit I have a nasty habit of not proofing my comments before I hit post. Therefore,
    I did review this post. If it becomes riddled with grammatical errors, a third party is responsible.

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