anti-Zionism
Also known as antizionism
Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestine—a region partly coinciding with the biblical Land of Israel���was flawed or unjust in some way.
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- Anti-Zionism before 1948
- Early Jewish anti-Zionism
- In Europe
- Outside Europe
- Early non-Jewish Arab anti-Zionism
- Anti-Zionist reactions to the Balfour Declaration
- Religious anti-Zionism
- Anti-Zionism after World War II and the creation of Israel
- 1947–1948
- The Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
- Arab and Palestinian anti-Zionism
- "Zionism as racism" United Nations debate
- Islamic perspectives
- Left-wing politics
- Christian anti-Zionism
- Haredi Judaism
- Allegations of antisemitism
- Jewish right to a state
- Equating and correlating anti-Zionism with antisemitism
- View that the two are not interlinked
- Shifting positions on the Zionist / Anti-Zionist spectrum
- Far-right politics
- Conspiracy theories{{anchor|Anti-Zionist_conspiracy_theories}}
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestine—a region partly coinciding with the biblical Land of Israel���was flawed or unjust in some way.
Before World War II, opposition to Zionism was common among Jewish communities. Secular critics viewed Zionism as a form of nationalism inconsistent with Enlightenment universalism, while some Orthodox groups opposed it on theological grounds, regarding the establishment of a Jewish state as contingent upon the arrival of the Messiah. Support for Zionism increased during the 1930s as conditions for Jews rapidly deteriorated in Europe due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and Zionism began to prevail over opposition to it in the Jewish diaspora. With the Second World War, the sheer scale of the Holocaust was felt, and support for Zionism increased dramatically.