BTW Philip – of my respondents in the Master’s research study, only one stated that they were “anti-Zionist”.  The question was asked on a continuum and all the other respondents chose somewhere else on that continuum!!   I thought that was interesting – but it was in 2004 and a lot has happened since then.

I do have a supervisor lined up at UQ but I am not sure whether he is appropriate to this topic.   I am waiting for his return from overseas in April to decide.

We question was off topic because I had asked you on another article but you had seemed to have moved on…

The truth is this continuation of who or what or how many anti- non- Zionists are out there seems off… Considering we have had previous threads where one person considers himself a non-Zionist and another Zionist but both seem to be accused of anti- or non-. The polls seem a little ridiculous. Either the definitions are too broad or too narrow. Someone might non agree with the definition of a non-Zionist but may seem closer to that than anti- or Zionist and check that response… instead of putting I don’t know.

Everyone seem to be from Melbourne or Sydney but Perth people may know Geoff Solomon. He used to say that the 70 Rabbis being segregated and coming up with the exact Greek translation for the Septuagint is not a miracle. Having the 70 Rabbis in the same room and coming up with one translation would have been a real miracle.

Back to Fayyad’s proposal proposal. I read the bitter lemon essays. No one seemed to have a problem with the proposed imposed Shari’a laws. I notice he was never actually elected. More like an American educated stooge to impress the west. Is there support for him within the Palestinians? Does he or this proposal represent the Palestinians?

Philip

If we accept that Zionism-non-Zionism is a spectrum of belief, why do you assume that all people with this belief are young?

Some of the best research is done by people (of any gender affiliation) with substantial life experience….

Margot Salom did a recent Masters thesis in Queensland on Jewish peace activists, but didn’t specifically look at Jewish anti-Zionism. Similarly Barbara Bloch did her phd on a slightly related topic, and David Slucki is writing his phd on the Bund rather than anti-Zionism per se.

I think it would be great if a young phd student did some serious academic work in this area.

Philip

The irony of anti-Zionists is that they wouldn’t be able to march proudly if it weren’t for a strong Israel which protects their rights. Countries with large Jewish populations today don’t practice (physical) anti-Semitism because we have Israel at our backs.

Menachem Begin as PM once spoke in the Knesset, responding to an interjecting member of the Communist Party . He explained that he opposed a PLO state next to Israel because it would be a client of the USSR and “when the Soviets arrive, the Communists are the first ones to be arrested!”

Likewise, if Israel were to cease to exist (G-d forbid) the anti-Zionists would be the first ones thrown into the gulags by the Islamists.

http://www.bitterlemons.org/previous/bl070909ed35.html

Andrew and his team are very good at running surveys and interpreting them. Anyone less qualified should defer to their commentary rather than making their own inferences based on headline numbers.

The only way to find out if anti-Zionists are indeed a small, detested group, is to do further formal research. And, no, biased comments from people on here won’t cut it!

I know being human is no excuse, but this is as, they say, a curve ball which demands considerable thought. As you may realise, the goal postings are shifting every minute.

Seriously, as well, is the tone of your question meant to entrap me, or or are you generally interested?

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