Non-Zionism
Non-Zionism is the political stance of people who neither support nor oppose Zionism.[1]
The trend began in the United States in the first few decades of the 20th century when "an increasingly large section of Americanized Jewish opinion began to shift away from anti-Zionism ... either to pro-Zionism or non-Zionism. ... The non-Zionists were willing to offer the diaspora Jews a Jewish homeland fiscal and diplomatic counsel, not for their own benefit or spiritual comfort but for those Jews who chose to reside there."[2]
Difference from anti-Zionists
Contemporary definitions
Non-position
Non-Zionism has also been defined in terms of a non-position on Zionism. Anthony Frosh has defined a non-Zionist Jew as a Jew "who does not have any particular political relationship (positive or negative) with the State of Israel, or at least little more of a relationship than they would have with some other 3rd party state."[4]
Haredi non-Zionism
Generally, those groups of
References
- ^ "FAQ on the Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism Divide". The Times of Israel. 7 February 2022.
The defining feature of non-Zionism is the lack of actively working to aid or harm the Jewish state.
- ^ Egal Feldman, Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America, University of Illinois Press, 2001, p.40.
- ^ Yoram Dinstein, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism and the United Nations in Israel's Yearbook of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, vol.17, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987, p.16.
- ^ Frosh, Anthony (August 30, 2009). "Non-Zionism: an Under-Recognised Non-Position". Galus Australis. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
Bibliography
- Gideon Shimoni, From Anglo Jewry, 1917–1937, Jewish Journal of Sociology, 28 (1986), pp.19–48
- Gideon Shimoni, The Non-Zionists in Anglo Jewry, 1937–1948.
- Stuart E. Knee, “Jewish Non-Zionism in America and Palestine Commitment 1917-1941,” Jewish Social Studies 39, no. 3 (1977): 209–26.
External links
- Bennett Muraskin, Anti-Zionism and Non-Zionism in Jewish Life—Past and Present,