What has Zionism to do with socialism? Not one thing.

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You would think a set of principles for a political organization would define its chief political commitments.

And you would think a set of principles for a socialist organization would define its commitments as socialists.

As for these guys, the first is doubtless true but the second is not.

Several of their principles have nothing to do with socialism and exactly one represents, I think, an actual defense commitment to just one foreign nation, Israel.

They are flatly committed to the existence of Israel and the two-state solution.

Not a word about NATO or any other US commitments.

Not a word about any other country or people – the Palestinians apart – having a right to existence or their own national state.

They class anti-Zionism with “ideologies of oppression” like anti-Semitism, chauvinism, and racism.

Helen Thomas, I would guess, agreed with them on just about everything else.

But I would guess that one issue, Israel, is for them a deal-breaker.

My own view is that Zionism was a late-blooming form of Eurowhite colonialism, as its opponents nowadays insist.

But I don't actually have a problem with Eurowhite colonialism, per se, preferring to see things case-by-case.

And even so far as all colonies were conceived in sin, like those that eventually became the Jewish state in Palestine, they aquire legitimacy, over time.

Particularly since history, looked at as a affair of peoples rather than individuals, has no innocent victims and nobody guiltier than anyone else in the long, long run.

Absolutely not.

To speak with the vulgar, using this baloney morality lingo that everyone seems so much to love using when the subjects are colonialism, Eurowhites, and post-colonial outlooks like the UN's indigenism.