Nadene Goldfoot
Jerusalem 1900Being a Zionist is nothing to be ashamed of, yet Zionism is being attacked right in Boston, Massachusetts. The BDSers are putting Jews on a list to be stopped. They are listing pro-Zionist groups in order to stop them.
In fact, one should be proud that you believe Jews deserve their ancient land of Israel once again. Jews had lived on the land as a country since the days of King Saul and lost it to the Romans in 70 CE.
Because of Judaism, Christianity and then Islam developed from it, though most will not admit it. Yet these are the very folks who are the most virulent anti-Semites, Muslims to be the last to join the "hatred for Jews" group. There have even been Jews who have been against Zionism. They didn't understand the connection.
Jews tolerated being attacked, beaten up physically and mentally for 2,000 years and our leaders saw what it was doing to the Jewish people. Enough! Isn't that a phrase used in one of our holidays? diy-ay-nu. Enough! Time to have a refuge for our people. And this coincided with the end of World War I.
They considered Africa as a refuge. They considered many other places, but we knew, our hearts belonged in Israel, and it was Israel that G-d told us to live in. What shocks me is that the most orthodox Jews of all weren't active Zionists. In reading the Torah, this is what its says. We are to live in Israel.
Now I see that Boston is on the warpath against Zionism. I bet they don't even know what the word means. It means: a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann. They labeled it as Jewish so that we had one place on earth where we couldn't be thrown out because we were Jewish. This was before the Holocaust.
Then the Holocaust has come and Israel is firm on the fact that it is indeed a Jewish state. In a world where there are 48 Muslim majority states, is that so shocking? A Palestine run by Abbas would be the 49th. Jews are trying to hold onto their one state made of the scraps from dividing their land again and again. The largest section the Jews have is the desert.
People should know that there never has been a country of Palestine with a head of state and all. Palestine was the name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael to erase its history and the name was of the Philistines, the greatest enemy of the Israelites.
On November 2, 1917, Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary, is the official statement called the Balfour Declaration. The White Paper stated that Britain stood by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which promised British support for the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine but also attempted to calm Palestinian Arab fears that their life or culture would be subordinated. The Arabs, however, didn't calm the Jewish fears. They attacked Jews as early as 1929. The Balfour document was approved by the governments and incorporated in the mandate in 1922.
At this time, Arabs referred to themselves as Syrian Arabs being so many came from Syria and had moved south into Palestine seeking work with the Jews who were building.
By 1918 after World War I, the Ottoman Empire, who had forcefully taken Palestine and held it for 400 years, lost it by being on the side of the Axis, countries such as Germany, who lost the war they had started. Palestine was the Roman name for Israel and Judah, and first they had occupied Jerusalem, then burned down the Temple and the city along with it. They used it as a source of money; they collected taxes from people who lived on the land. They remained in Turkey but sent their collectors there to collect money and police it.
Jerusalem 1900The land was thinly populated by Arabs and Jews. They were both labeled as Palestinians. Safed (Tzfat) was a major city besides Jerusalem where many Jews had never left. In fact, Jews were living in all part of Judah and Israel throughout the years in small numbers.
By 1849 Jerusalem had 7,120 Jews, 5,000 Arabs and 3,390 Christians. Jews were the largest populations in the years of 1949, 1853, 1857, 1862, 1864, 1866, 1869, 1874, 1882 and every year from then on. By 1944 there were 97,000 Jews, 30,000 Muslim Arabs, 29,400 Christians, totaling 157,000.
During the 1880s, there were years when Jewish population was greater than the Arab population. By 1881 Jews arrived from Europe's pogroms where Jews were attacked and killed. The need was great as the world was already very anti-Semitic because Jews didn't believe in Jesus like everyone else. That arrival was called the 1st Aliyah (going up). There would be 5 Aliote altogether.
By losing the land, it was in the hands of the Allies who had the right to do as they so decided. They decided to give the land back to the Jews who had been homeless for the past 2,000 years. The League of Nations gave the 30 year mandate to Britain to manage and gave them the direction to help the Jews to create their Jewish Homeland.
The Brits managed to give away most of the land to a Prince of Arabia who needed land, and he was given TransJordan. That was
Prince Abdullah. Now, the land allocated for Jews has been cut away to create "The West Bank." This is out of the original land of Israel and Judah-Judea and Samaria. To use the name, West Bank," which is the name Jordan gave it, is to erase its history of being part of the country of Israel, which was the southern end of Israel. It's a political ploy to erase history.
In June 1967, following the Six-Day War, Israel captured the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria, known as the West Bank of the Jordan River. The Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is one of the main issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and any future agreement will demand an innovative solution to the issue.
In May of 1967, three Arab countries, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, imposed an unlawful siege and blockade on Israel and amassed their armies in attack positions in order to destroy the state of Israel. As a result of the Arab aggression and within its right of self-defense, Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, as well as Judea and Samaria, in June 1967.
I feel that Israel has every right in the world to exist. They saw the land had become barren, nothing but swamps, mosquitoes and weeds, and it was time to act.
They went to the victors and spoke their piece as to why they needed the land for their people. They presented a great case, and in the end was left with scraps of the original, but took it.
Now, the great city of Boston, Massachusetts, city of Pilgrims originally, feels that Zionists are bad people because it is their fault that the Palestinian Arabs don't have the land. Do they realize how many times the Arabs were offered the land but refused it because they didn't want the Jews to have any of the land? They expected to take all of it. They were instigated to think like this by the Arab countries who were against the Jews. Look at their meeting in Kartoum, Africa in 1967: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. When the Palestinians decide differently, let me know. They haven't changed an iota.
A Mapping Project of sorts has created a map and address book of nearly 500 allegedly “pro-Zionist” organizations that Boston BDS believes should be dismantled because of their support of “local entities and networks that enact devastation” on Palestinians. We already know that the BDS groups are anti-Semitic groups. Greater Boston is home to the fourth-largest Jewish community in the country with 248,000 Jews. Of these, 190,600 are adults and 57,400 are children. The quarter-million Jews in Boston reside in approximately 123,400 households. This represents a population increase of approximately 4.6% since 2005. Now Boston is punishing Jews there for being Jewish.
Many of the groups mapped by the group have the word “Jewish,” “Israel” or “Zionist” in their names—like Jewish National Fund, Jewish Teen Foundation, Israel360 and Zionist Organization of America, but most do not.
Boston BDS also—ambitiously—aims to dismantle such “Zionist” offenders as Apple, Microsoft, Harvard Law School, Boston United Pentecostal Church, JP Morgan Chase, Cambridge Fire Department, Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, and Boston Herald, plus some 250 greater-Boston police departments.
If you're more of a Jew that doesn't care for your religion or history but feel you are Jewish when asked, are counted in this being a Zionist offender category no matter what you think about creating Israel again. They're no different in listing people in categories than Nazis were who included people with one Jewish grandparent as being Jewish.
Actually, being Jewish is more than what you believe about G-d. We Jews are closely related to each other, more like being Italian than being a Protestant or Catholic. We started as a family and have picked up people along the way, but most have become related, like so many of us are 30th cousins. We are a people, and as in Italians where there are differences, so we also have differences.
Jewish Voice For Peace is one of the worst groups. Even they blare out that they are against Zionism. If it wasn't for Zionism, they most likely couldn't say they were Jewish. I have found that extreme Orthodox group have been against Zionism in the beginning. Their rabbis could have been frightened of losing their fiefdoms. Since then many have moved to Israel.
Jews have suffered from anti-Semitism ever since the days of the Greeks and Romans. It's never stopped. Crusaders killed Jews along with the Arabs. Christianity has never provided any love for Jews without a devious reason like Luther had to convert us all. Just to be treated as human beings no different than the rest of the population never came. Jewish high school students couldn't join sororities and fraternities. Jews weren't hired by others for work. Jews were too smart, so there were limits as to how many could enter medical schools. They couldn't join clubs established for socializing for they didn't want to socialize with Jews. We didn't need to be of a different color to be isolated. We were discovered anyway.
The attacks against Zionism come when Israel is held to double standards that are not applied to any other nation such as what happens in the United Nations. Only Israel has been selected to be picked on and accused falsely.
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic when the Jewish people as a whole are held accountable for the actions or policies of the Israeli government. People do not understand government policies without education, especially Israel's evidently. Why some Jews live in Judea and Samaria is one example. Arabs had planned on taking all of Judea and Samaria as Palestine and that is not to be the case. Education can explain why.
Anti-Zionism typically results in discrimination, harassment, or violence against individual Jews. Zionists were tired of being 2nd class citizens of Europe and the Middle East. They wanted what every American citizen has; certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that meant that it was time to revive Israel for the Jewish people if that's what it took to be treated civilly. ”
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