"The problem is that Israel has a large secular population that is unfortunately outweighed by religious fanatics on both sides"
This is an egregious lie! The largest dissident population in #Israel is, by far, #frum ("ultra-orthodox") Jews, who are regularly trampled and beaten by IDF in al-Quds/Jerusalem for protesting with their Palestinian comrades. The largest frum dynasty in the US (and perhaps the world), Satmar, is extremely anti-Zionist. Even the most complicit frum dynasties like #Chabad-Lubavitch (which is absolutely complicit in Zionism & whose corrupt false messiah Rebbe Schneerson claimed that G-d would hand Netanyahu the scepter to inaugurate the messianic age) officially recognize that Zionism is forbidden by #Torah.
#Jews are not a nation, but a religion. Even the narrative of #EretzIsrael ("The Land of Israel") is a Zionist fabrication (see: Shlomo Sand "The Invention of the Land of Israel & The Invention of the Jewish People); it is the Holy Land, not our homeland. The Hebrew word in Torah for nation is "goyim". None of this was controversial before 1948.
Religious Zionists like Ben-Gvir are as religious as Donald Trump, and most of their distinguishing narratives — such as Jews being "G-d's chosen people" or a Jewish duty to build the Third Temple — are derived from evangelical Christianity, not Judaism (see: Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro's definitive "The Empty Wagon", which demonstrates that Religious Zionists have more in common with Jews for Jesus than Judaism).
Religious Zionism, while finding a timid quasi-justification in the works of the widely belaugured Rav Kook, emerged as a reaction to the liberal anti-Zionism of the likes of Martin Buber that was growing in popularity and international influence in the 60s, when secular ultranationalists of predominantly Irgun & Lehi lineage found justification for their #fascist politics in the works of #JDL founder Meir Kahane, an undercover FBI agent from New York City.
Zionism is a political ideology that promotes sinat chinam (baseless hatred), achieves its goals through shfichus damim (bloodshed) and is a explicit affront to the Three Oaths to which #Jews are bound. Its a secular movement grounded in liberal theories of the nationhood (goyim) and a hatred of yiddishkeit (even banning Yiddish in "Israel"'s early years). Judaism is an exhilic religion that prohibits hatred and demands peace.
Conflating Judaism and Zionism is #antisemitism — dont do it!
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