The forgotten history of Jewish anti-Zionism — Palestine Nexus (Zachary Foster, 2025-05-13)

https://palestinenexus.com/articles/jewish-antizionism
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>> #Zionism was unpopular among most Jews for the first six decades of its Jewish existence, from the 1870s-1930s. It went mainstream in the 1940s with the annihilation of Europe’s Jews and the conversion of American and Arab Jews from non-Zionist to Zionist. For the next six decades, Zionism flourished, transforming the religious affiliation of Jewish institutions around the world from #Judaism to #Israelism. Over the past two decades, though, and especially the past two years, world Jewry has bifurcated: while Zionism has entrenched itself among Jews in Israel, it has retreated among Jews in the US, where 70% of Jews outside of Israel reside, and where support for Zionism is collapsing at its fastest rate in history. This is the story of the rise, fall and rise again of Jewish anti-Zionism…

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