Zionism: A Prime Example of National Liberation as a Dead End
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More than 40,000 dead and counting, many among them children, whole districts razed, millions displaced, and the conflict spiralling into a wider war engulfing the Middle East – this is what Israel's "right to self-defence", invoked since Hamas' dramatic incursion of 7 October, has meant in practical terms. For many critics of Israel on both the right and left of capital, Zionism – the expression of a nationalist ideology and movement for the creation and preservation of a Jewish state – is to blame.
    • procapra@lemmy.mlOPM
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      2 months ago

      Well, it seems from the article the Damenites view it as a bit of both, considering how much they hammer in the following:

      It is in this context that Theodor Herzl, the “father of Zionism”, came to the conclusion that Jewish assimilation into European culture would not prevent anti-Semitism and the only solution was the establishment of an independent Jewish state in the region of historic Palestine (the “Holy Land” of Abrahamic faiths). Like other forms of nationalism, the Zionist movement also developed its right and left-wings, “reactionary” and “progressive” variants. If the “Revisionist Zionism” of Ze’ev Jabotinsky saw Jewish self-determination as an expansionist colonial project, the “Labour Zionism” of Dov Ber Borochov saw it as an act of national liberation on the way to socialist transformation.

      Of course, a rejection of natlib from them is unsurprising. The party to my understanding upholds an altered version of Rosa Luxemburgs stance.