Ah yes, I was wondering when Jews would be blamed...I guess everyone has their own definition of Zionist and Zionism? I saw in another post that Peter (around 30-33 AD) was a Zionist LOL...living IN Israel (Zionism was established by Theodore Herzl in 1897)! Saying that implies that the Jewish people do not have the right to self determination and in reality, IS anti-semitic. There are Torah observant Jews who are Zionists as well as Jews that are atheists and even Christians. Your blanket statements show ignorance. What is "the Yahweh"? You know King Soloman is an Old Testament Saint of The Church? Your 1 + 1 = 3 math is getting very tiresome...
What is anti-Zionism?
Anti-Zionism is a prejudice against the Jewish movement for self-determination and the right of the Jewish people to a homeland in the State of Israel. It may be motivated by or result in anti-Semitism, or it may create a climate in which anti-Semitism becomes more acceptable.
I think the essential trouble is that many people, in our modern world of unclear thought, use unclear language and undefined terms.
Chesterton would be classified by many as a Zionist - IF you take the definition you offer, which I think legitimate, as it is linked to the idea of the Jewish homeland.
Some have a narrower meaning, applying it to a small number of families of incredibly wealthy Jews who use their wealth to dominate world business and politics. However, by now enough of those plutocrats are non-Jewish that the old stereotype is much harder to apply, AND the concern of the plutocrats for the Jewish homeland is much more incidental, making that usage less legitimate. The Holocaust changed so much, and ended so many old stereotypes.
The word "antisemite" is mostly used illegitimately, and does not mean what it says. Jews are not the only Semitic people, which makes its usage one of "bait and switch". At any rate, most people do NOT mean to refer to non-Jewish Semites when they use the word, making its usage inaccurate at best. Speaking impersonally, not directing anything at anyone here, saying "anti-Jew" would be straightforward. But "intellectuals" DO love to muddle issues; those that coin such terms - for nefarious purposes, and the rest (when a word is introduced) - to show off their use of foreign languages and make themselves sound more sophisticated than they really are (vanity). But when a word achieves popular coinage (in our time through control of centralized media and education, rather than by conscious popular agreement) people just use the word without thinking, because that is how they were taught to speak. No ill intent, just no thought or concern about what words mean. But since we want to be wise as serpents, as we discover such truths, we should stop using the wrong words.
Since our Lord was a Jew, being an anti-Jew Christian is something of a contradiction in terms. And while we are under no special obligation to the Jewish state of Israel, as some Protestants would have us think that we are, the Church being the new Israel, it seems equally wrong to be opposed to the Jews having their own homeland. It would be like wishing for a homeless man to remain homeless, writ large on the scale of a whole people.
