Until recently, Mondoweiss blog allowed supporters of Israel to comment there. Now they are requiring registration and silently banning any dissenters. The range of opinion there now ranges from “Israel is the most evil country ever” to “Israel is evil, but not the most evil ever”. So if you like your Israel bashing without any inconvenient facts spoiling things, Mondoweiss is the place to be. Of course, like with most echo chambers, be prepared to embarrass yourself if you post anything you get from there elsewhere.

About the meanings people give the word “Zionism,” oh, yes, I know. You’re quite right. It is a subject about which I plan to write.

You should consider yourself lucky that Andrew Sullivan deigned to respond to you. I think at this point his political transformation from neocon to realist-appeaser is nearly complete; and of course a central marker for that transformation is his turnabout on Israel. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if he progresses further into the fevered swamps of anti-Zionist thinking and starts to actively advocate for the abandonment/dismantlement of Israel within the year, when it becomes clear that the Israelis will to survive is stronger than their desire to please Americans, Arabs, and Europeans. His line will be that it Israel has become an religious/apartheid/authoritarian state that can no longer be supported by anyone who buys into enlightenment values. And, unfortunately, it’s easy to see many American Democrats following suit.

One thing worth considering on your post above. You seem to use the word Zionist in its traditional sense as “the nationalism of the Jewish people”. But this is not how the word is heard today, not only on the left, but also in the political center. I think Zionism is more generally understood, at least by the “human rights” left, as, well, a form of Jewish exclusivity and racism. It ties into the “Jews are the chosen people and despise others” canard, as well as the notion that the Jews are not a people, just a religion. So when you accuse others of being anti-Zionist, the logical response of many reader will be “so what? Anti-Zionists are on the side of justice because Zionism is apartheid”.

It’s funny how the UN resolution of 1975 has effectively become true in the popular mind through a very effective propaganda campaign. No matter that the resolution was overturned… surely that was a manipulation of the Israel lobby.

That would work for me too, Jay.

I am not a regular reader of Commentary or even their blogs, but I assume that they pulled the piece because they didn’t want to give Weiss’s mendacious blog more publicity. This is just a guess, though.

Btw: I also don’t like the term “self hating Jew.” They are hardly Jewish and I prefer to call them antisemites no different from non-Jewish antisemites. Max Blumenthal seems to like an over-privileged and undernourished punk.

I wish I had been.

There is also in interesting bit on Sullivan who think that the US has become a “police State” under
Obama:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2009/07/on-tendencies-and-categories.html

Moonbat is too mild for good old Andrew.

As for “mondoweiss,” he is very hostile to Jews not just to Israel wanting all Jews to assimilate. He is the very embodiment of those old pre-Nazi German Jewish assimilationists with one exception, he knows very little about Judaism or Jewish history.