Yes I know. But the request includes non Jewish zionists and excludes non-zionist jews.
I don't care if someone has irrenditialist views (Russian, Italian, Albanian whatever), but if their nationalist poison can't respect the westphalian sovereignty of their host, then they should fuck off and take it elsewhere.
While I agree with much of that, I take a different tack.
We don't have a written constitution in this country, we've tended to muddle through, amending common law as we go, recognising difference but accentuating commonality whenever we could, no revolutions here, no experiments with extremes and until recently it served us well.
Not so much now.
For many Jewish Brits their Jewishness is inextricably linked to Zionism, the support for a homeland for the Jewish people. This is perfectly understandable, I know Jewish folk who believe it's not possible to be Jewish and not unequivocally support a homeland, that's why we're seeing the rise of "unacceptable" Jews being thrown out of the Labour Party, Jews who recognise a competing claim to that homeland, and of course we've had the whole antisemitic smear shit that did for Corbyn.
So a dichotomy does exist for many Jewish Brits, but it rarely came to a head in the past because all parties chose for it not to, that was the British way. British bumbling along with as little fuss as possible was the envy of much of the world as they were convulsed with revolutions, strident nationalism, political violence or strait jacketed into ponderous constitutions written long ago.
But now we're in what side are you on country, no more muddle through, we have codified definitions of antisemitism now and lo and behold! Lots of lovely rational people find themselves on the wrong side of it. Really handy these codes if you're in the purge business, get one side to write em up and castigate all those who disagree.
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