Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social

21 days ago

The NYTimes today has a long interview with Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL.

Here he states, "Zionism is essential to the Jewish tradition," even though Zionism has not existed for most of Jewish history. Yes, there is a messianic yearning to return to the land, but that is not Zionism.

"Please define both. So Zionism is, simply put, the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancient homeland. That’s what it is. Zionism is essential to the Jewish tradition. The idea of Jews returning to Israel, we’ve been talking about it since Moses, literally. Political Zionism is newer, 125 years, but that notion of self-determination in the homeland doesn’t exclude Palestinians, doesn’t exclude any other group. It’s saying Jews have the right, this sort of liberation movement, to go back to where they’re from. Anti-Zionism is the belief that Jews do not have that right. It is an ideology which is committed to saying we will do what we can to prevent Jewish self-determination in their homeland. Anti-Zionism is an ideology of nihilism, Lulu, which would literally seek to not just delegitimize but eliminate the Jewish state. And that’s very problematic."

Melter of ICE @davidhalber.bsky.social

20 days ago

Jonathan Greenblatt is a disgraceful bigot.

And he does not care about antisemitism at all.

He only cares about Zionism, which is why he tries to conflate it with my religion.

He’s an evil person.

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