Critics of Zionist values are not anti-Semitic

June 28, 2024

Moshe Feiglin is quoted as saying “but the land of Israel belongs only to the people of Israel because God gave it to us”. Generations of those like myself who had a Christian education have been brought up on this, the flight from Egypt, the crossing of the Jordan and the subsequent domination or elimination of the existing peoples living in Canaan. How young David, later to become king, and Jesus’ purported ancestor, was a hero for killing a man who opposed the brutal takeover of land described in the Book of Joshua. Now a modern Israeli leader channels a quote from the Book of Samuel about slaying the Amalekites. The exceptionalism of the Zionist Jewish people as “the chosen people” is clearly reflected by Mr Feiglin.

And all in the name of the same God, but one whose characteristics, although remodelled in the New Testament, still have their duality retained by those Christians continuing to revere the Old Testament, which contains the Torah.

So now we have the modern Jewish state, presumably acting as the epitome of Jewish values, demonstrating what those values mean in practice in Palestine, northeast and southwest.

Critics of those Zionist values are not anti-Semitic.