I am a secular, socialist, anti-Zionist Jew. My family has been secular, socialist, and anti-Zionist for at least three generations. I was brought up with the belief that Zionism is the antithesis of all that is progressive in Judaism. As far as I am concerned the Zionist is the true Anti-Semite in that Zionism debases both the Jew and their brother and sister Semite the Arab. Israel is an abomination. It is a fascist, apartheid state. Hamas is the flip side of Israel. It is the fascist spawn of the Hitlerite Muslim Brotherhood. Israel and Hamas feed off each other and need each other to sustain their mutual racist hatred. A pox on both houses. It is the Jewish and Muslim people of Palestine who suffer at the hands of the religious ideologues and zealots in both camps. A secular, democratic, socialist Palestine of Jews and Arabs is the only viable solution to the Middle Eastern crisis.
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