I am not Jewish, but why can't there be a definite distinction worldwide, the difference between Judaism and

Question

Zionism, for they are totally different entities, leaving false impressions on many people.

Let's go back to the bottom line, I guess I should ask," What Biblical verse says that the Jews should have a " home" in the Middle-east, specifically in the Palestineian area?

Amongst any of the answerers thus far, I reiterate: "What's the Bible verse that promises the Jews a home {in the promised land}"?

Answer 1

"Cardinal Fang," perhaps unknowingly, refers to a miniscule group of Jew, who number about 20 in the whole world. The entire Jewish community, from the most religious to the least, has rejected the NK unambiguously.

All other Jews today recognize the extreme importance of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel.

Zionism is the realization of the national feelings of the Jewish People. The Arabs have 22 states; the Jews, one.

Answer 2

There is no distinction between Zionism and Judaism. Judaism is not simply a faith. It is a covenant between an ethnic group, their G-d (and his law), and a peace of land. It is part of the identity of the Jewish people to belong to the land of Israel. Therefore, religious Zionism cannot be differentiated from Zionism in general. It is inclusion in this covenant that makes one Jewish.

The modern political Zionism is a marriage of the Jewish religous belief that they belong to the land and the modern political aspirations of any nationality. If one agrees that any ethnic group is deserving of self determination inside a secure homeland, then one must recognize that Jews require such a homeland just at the Germans, Romanians, and even Kurds do. The religious bond to the land of Israel defines that homeland as necessarily being located in what is now Israel and no where else, much as the French define their nationhood much by their language.

The idea that Judaism can be separated from Zionism and Zionists criticized without criticizing the Jewish people or religion is one that is argued only by people who wish to use the separation to further their own political or racist goals. They wish to single out Jewish nationalism among all forms of nationalism for criticism they would not apply to any other group. The reason behind the special criticism is only anti-semitism. The separation is a fiction in the mind of racists.

Answer 3

It is not as simple as it sounds because Zionism has a proper place in the context of Judaism. The entirety of the Torah, the most Holy books of Judaism describe the first Jews delivery into the promised land. There is historical evidence of a Jewish kingdom in Israel that existed in biblical times. Even after the Babylonian exile, many Jews still felt it was their religious duty to return. Therefore the concept that the land now known as Israel belong to Jews is central core of Judaism. That said, if you fast forward to 1891, the beginning of the modern Zionist movement, you find people who were not very religious at all, whose motivations for forming a Jewish homeland were more for reasons of escaping antisemitism and religious freedom. There arguments however, were supported by many people whose feelings of Zionism stemmed from more traditional Jewish sources. Even today this is the case and there is a very wide range from people who have no religious connection to Judaism but support Zionism to people who have no support for political Zionism but believe G-d should give the Jews control of Israel, andeverything in between.

Answer 4

Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. The religion of the ancient Hebrews and their descendants the Jews, based, according to the Hebrew Bible, on a covenant between God and Abraham about 2000 BCE, and the renewal of the covenant with Moses about 1200 BCE
Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel[1]. Formally organized in the late 19th century, the movement was successful in establishing the State of Israel in 1948.
Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century.

Answer 5

The distinction is lost on purpose. Those that are anti-Jewish don't want to make their hate anymore complicated than it needs to be .......so they paint all with one brush.

Making this distinction is what learned people do and if they are reasonable they don' t hate either of the two entities.

It's an old song, spread hate- rally a population - take control and the universe is yours.

The main reasons that people don't know about the difference you speak of is a lack of education in world and social studies in the grade and high schools and is only taught in universities and colleges and then only in courses that make the knowledge relevant.

One reason for the problems in the world is not having the education to understand how the rest of the world works - leaving the population to the mercy of their leaders who can tell them anything they think will motivate them to whatever action they want. We have to start telling the people who run things to get the eduction system rolling in the proper direction so we can see other points of view without the biases of politics.

Answer 6

There is a distinction - many Jewish people are against Zionism because they believe it is against the Torah, which says that only God will redeem the Jews from exile and forbids Jews to strive for the reunion or possession Israel by any but spiritual means. Many also believe that such agressive nationalism hurts their religion and actually increases anti-semitism.

There are many Zionists (i.e. people who belive in the existence of a Jewish state stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterrenean) who are not Jewish, but support it because it furthers their political or religious aims (e.g. neo-conservatives, some evangelical Christians).

Answer 7

your asking a very direct question so I will give you a direct answer without stating my own personal religious or political beliefs.

Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:13
There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.


Exodus 32:13
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.' "


Exodus 33:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'

Joshua 24:3
But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the River and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants

Genesis 17:8
The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."


Exodus 6:4
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they lived as aliens


Exodus 13:11
"After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your forefathers



What I have shown you is simply a small sample one can find by typing the words Canaan or Abraham and land in biblical search engine.

There are many more where that came from, And I hope this answers your quesiton on the Biblical stance of the Israelites and there relation with the land of Canaan/Palistine/Israel or whatever you want to call it.

Answer 8

Because the media doesn/t know the difference themselves. They leap in to sell a story before the other guy. Taking time for research is not on their agenda.

Answer 9

Yes, there should be.

Judaism, itself, is not a particular good term (on its own). It refers to a religion (a belief system), a culture, and a race.

Zionism is a very SPECIFIC (political) belief. A sub-set of Jews are Zionists. And there are non-Jews who are Zionists, in that they subscribe to this very specific set of views.

Answer 10

It is a political party similar to the National Socialists.

"Obee One has taught you well!",
Darth Vader, The Empire Strkies Back
Act IV, Scene II