What are the meanings and differences, if any, between Judaism, Zionism, and Semitism?
2007-01-07 15:52:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Judaism religious affiliation.
Zionism: The desire to make Israel a state.
Semitism: middle east racial orientaion
2007-01-07 15:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by copestir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism is a religon. Zionism is the belief in a Jewish state or country or nation. Semitism is a race of people in the Middle East, excluding Afrkianis and Persians.
2007-01-07 23:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is such a thing as anti-Semitism but not "Semitism."
The rest of your question has been clarified by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He stated:
". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitism, and ever will be so.
"Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.
"The ***** people, my friend, know what it is to suffer the torment of tyranny under rulers not of our choosing. Our brothers in Africa have begged, pleaded, requested--DEMANDED the recognition and realization of our inborn right to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our own country.
"How easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable right of all mankind, to understand and support the right of the Jewish People to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good will exult in the fulfillment of God's promise, that his People should return in joy to rebuild their plundered land.
"This is Zionism, nothing more, nothing less.
"And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is antisemitism."
2007-01-11 08:24:17 · answer #3 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word Semetic indicates a language form or language group pointing to the people of Zion that are Jews that still adhere to the religious customs and traditions. The Nation of Israel is multicultural and multi ethnic.
2007-01-08 00:00:18 · answer #4 · answered by Sassy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
judaism is the religion of jewish people. Zionism is a strong faith in judiasm and semitism is the same as zionism, but mostly only used as anti-semitism
2007-01-07 23:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by avirothfeld 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Zionists are the Shepherds that will lead the flock into the mouth and bowel of the "One True God" The rest are cool.
2007-01-07 23:56:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just check the definitions of those three words in a dictionary.
2007-01-07 23:56:51 · answer #7 · answered by Max 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All the same.
2007-01-07 23:53:42 · answer #8 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
Religion, ideology, and ethnicity... respectively.
2007-01-07 23:54:24 · answer #9 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
all are the same.
2007-01-07 23:54:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋