The moral force behind the Zionist movement is a sense of Jewish, and consequently Israeli, exceptionalism.

Evidence

Zionism’s destabilizing force: “Israeli Exceptionalism” reviewed (The Electronic Intifada)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Zionism faces serious challenges from two historical narratives. — David Ohana, David Maisel , The Origins of Israeli…, 23; Zionism perpetuates Jewish exceptionalism and tells a version of Jewish history disconnected from others. — Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US; The myth of Jewish exceptionalism obscures that Jews are not the only people with such claims. — What 2+ years of discourse has shown me about double … (+1 more)

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