Zionism is colonial expansionism, not an expression of Judaism.

Evidence

The more than half-century of genocidal violence that Zionists have brought to bear against Palestinians is the latest legacy of European colonialism, and Judaism is categorically exonerated from having had anything to do with that murderous ethnic cleansing. There were scores of distinguished rabbis, like Rabbi Elmer Berger (1908-96), who opposed Zionism and its claims to any Jewish justification of the colonial enterprise in Palestine. Millions of European Jews refused to have anything to do with Zionism. European colonialism was also, and in infinitely more institutional terms, informed by Christianity—and Islam, too, has had a major presence in many empires. If Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have a hand in colonial projects and empires, then colonialism and imperialism are predicated on an entirety different animus—economic, territorial, and military expansionism. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s material on how political/economic animus, not religion, drives imperial projects. — connects to: Zionism is settler-colonial nationalism, not national liberation. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 474; Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435; Zionism fuses religious and national identity so completely they are indistinguishable. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 483

Related

• Attributing terrorism to entire religions is wrong; colonialism’s animus is economic expansionism. (similarity 0.87)
• Zionism is settler-colonial nationalism, not national liberation. (similarity 0.86)
• Categorizing Zionism as settler-colonial fundamentally determines its legitimacy (similarity 0.84)
• Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism (similarity 0.83)
• Zionism alone sustained biblical justifications because of a real cultural tie to the land (similarity 0.83)
• Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel. (similarity 0.81)
• Palestinians perceived Zionism as settler-colonial displacement from its outset (similarity 0.81)
• Zionism is an extreme form of Western assimilation despite rejecting assimilationism (similarity 0.80)
• Israeli scholarship on religious politics omits settler colonialism as a frame (similarity 0.80)
• Zionism grew from Jewish religion, messianism, and persecution, not race. (similarity 0.80)
• Zionism adopted the Christian supersessionist view of history against the Jews themselves. (similarity 0.80)
• Biblical land-redemption ideology distinguishes Israeli settler colonialism from classic settler modes. (similarity 0.79)
• Secular settler-colonial projects increasingly need religious legitimation to sustain expansion. (similarity 0.79)
• Secularization is impossible inside a biblical-grounded settler project. (similarity 0.79)
• Neocon Zionism stems from imperial politics, not Jewish ethnic identity. (similarity 0.79)