Zionism attempts to conflate race, religion and nationality into a political ideology that purports to represent all Jews, irrespective of their race, religion or nationality.
To penetrate this paradox, we must examine the strategic ambiguity of Jewish identity as defined by Zionist ideology.
According to Israel’s ‘Law of Return’, a Jew is someone who’s converted to Judaism or has a Jewish mother.
So in theory, anyone who is sufficiently pro-Israel can convert to Judaism, acquire Israeli citizenship, make Aliyah and ‘return’ to the Jewish state, where they can live in large, modern Jewish-only settlements built on illegally-occupied Palestinian land.
But the Palestinians, who are constantly being expelled from their land to make way for illegal Israeli settlements, are not allowed to return.
This is the situation that Zionist Israel seeks to normalise and legitimise.
By claiming to represent all Jews, the Zionist regime unfairly implicates all Jews in its crimes against the Palestinians. The list of Jewish luminaries who have opposed the Zionist agenda is a lengthy one and includes such eminent scholars and intellectuals as Albert Einstein, Hannah Arandt, Richard Falk, Ilan Pappe, Norman Finkelstein, John Mearsheimer and Jeffery Sachs to name just a few.
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