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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sorry-mr-chomsky-i-no-longer-agree-my-journey-out-of-anti-zionism/
My Journey Out of Anti-Zionism
(Times of Israel) Kile Jones - I was once an anti-Zionist. During my time doing graduate work at Boston University, I had immersed myself in Marxist theory. Many of my professors taught from a Marxist or post-colonial perspective, which meant I became proficient in these ways of interpreting the world. With post-colonialism, it was oppressor vs. oppressed, colonizer vs. colonized, settler vs. native, and occupation vs. liberation. What I failed to see is how often these categories implode when applied to Jews and Israel. Not only can they transmit, and often create, antisemitism, but they usually render Jewish peoplehood and self-determination illegitimate. The gathering of exiled Jews to their homeland after facing persecution almost everywhere turns into "European colonization" and "settler colonialism" - translating their "return" to Israel into a foreign immigration. When you view Israel as a genocidal monolith, a bloodthirsty creation of Western interests, and not the formation of an indigenous people's right to political protection, you cannot view Jewish history, tradition, or statehood as natural or legitimate. I could no longer accept these tools, because they only lent themselves to seeing the Jewish relation to Israel as nefarious. Acting as if calling for the end of a country is normal "political critique" is absurd. Reading Jewish history made clear that Zionism was a necessary and reasonable project for the protection and flourishing of persecuted and stateless Jews spread throughout the world. The excusing of violence in the name of liberation and the repeated indictments and libels that were used against Jews was shocking to see overtly displayed by the "champions of minorities."