Zionism

Chomsky on Zionism

My own views, for example, are regularly condemned as 'militant anti-Zionism' by people who are well aware of those views, clearly and repeatedly expressed: that Israel within its internationally recognised borders should be accorded the rights of any state in the international system, no more, no less, and that discriminatory institutional structures that in law and practice assign a special status to one category of citizens (Jews, Whites, Christians, etc.), granting them rights denied others, should be dismantled. I will not enter here into the question of what should properly be called 'Zionism' -- but merely note what follows from designation of these views as "militant anti-Zionism:" Zionism is the doctrine that Israel must be accorded rights beyond those of any other state; it must maintain control of occupied territories, thus barring any meaningful form of self-determination for Palestinians; and it must remain a state based on the principle of discrimination against non-Jewish citizens.