Questions on Zionism
I have just recently found this place, and a quick look at some posts and flairs there are people who describe themselves as zionist leftists and there are posts decrying other leftists inability to understand/support zionism.
I think It is prudent to ask more jewish opinions before I take any stance on a jewish topic and calcify myself into it. a few questions based off reading, discusion etc. that id need to dispel some issues ive come up against if im to consider myself even neutral to the idea. I am asking these assuming there are peices to each question that i dont even know that i dont know.
- Is Zionism an ethnonationalist movement, if not what seperates the two?
Zionism as an idea seems to mean a lot of different things to different people, but largely from what I have read and understand its the reaction to historical and current discrimination that manifests as the need for the jewish peoples self-determination which translates itself into the need for a "Jewish state". Its my understanding that at its baseline its a desire for an jewish ethnostate, as the requirements for any ethnic people to retain total self-determination in a country is to restrict political power and rights from other ethnic groups in some way or over time you would have different ethnic groups in power again.
- What seperates this movement from colonialism?
Based off my understanding of zionism as a desire for a jewish state specifically in the lands of the Isreal of jewish history. to be more personal, It reads very similarly to colonizaton especially the history of liberia as the descendants of displaced and discriminated people returning to the lands of their forefathers and displacing the people who lived their currently. but while the situations echo eachother liberia is widely agreed to be colonisation while that label seem heavily argued on for Zionism. How is zionism seperate from colonialism?