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WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT ZIONISM? CAN YOU DEFINE IT CORRECTLY?

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
14 min readOct 6, 2024

Zionism means different things to people, & they can’t all be right. There is a neutral & accepted definition, but those who hate Israel & Jews will continue to ignore it & distort history.

It seems like everyone in the world has an opinion on Zionism.

The problem is, nearly everything you hear in a politically charged environment is wrong.

In fact, a large part of what you hear is sheer racist revisionist history.

Zionism is the core belief of the Jewish people, and has affected the thinking of nearly all Jews, regardless of religiosity. It is central to our history and culture.

Zionism holds that the Jewish People are a religion, a culture, an ethnicity, and a nation; that’s what we mean when we say we are a “People.” The ancestral Jewish homeland is in modern day Israel. You don’t have to be religious at all to be a Jew or a Zionist. (In fact, you don’t even have to be a Jew. Winston Churchill and Joe Biden proudly called themselves Zionists while in office.)

The reason we know the objective definition is correct is because of unrefuted historical evidence of the Jewish…

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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