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What is Zionism-Israel Center?
Zionism & Israel Center is part of a network of Web sites supporting fair play for Israel by providing basic facts and informed opinion. Zionism & Israel Center is maintained by a group of volunteers, who subscribe to the following political principles:
The Jewish people have the right to a national home in Israel
Israel has the right to exist
Jewish nationalism is as legitimate as the nationalist movement of any other people.
Who we are?
Ami Isseroff D.Sc. is webmaster and chief editor of Zionism Israel Center. He is a software consultant and Web publicist who lives in Rehovot Israel. He is director of MidEastWeb for Coexistence, and editor of the Web Site Middle East - MidEastWeb
Wouter Brassé is a Dutch activist in environmental and human rights issues as well as a supporter of Israel. He lives in Sittard, Netherlands, and is webmaster of Israël-Palestina Info
Joseph M. Hochstein, a resident of Tel Aviv, is a former Washington correspondent and news executive. He was
managing editor of
Congressional Quarterly, Inc., and published The Jewish Week newspaper. He wrote The Jews' Secret Fleet, a
history of North American
volunteers in Aliyah Bet. He is an editor of
Middle East - MidEastWeb.
Ratna Pelle is a Dutch activist for human rights issues and Israel. Her commentaries about Middle East politics have been published in Dutch newspapers. She lives in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and is editor of the IMO Web Log.
We try to maintain the highest standards of academic and journalistic integrity in our work. If you find errors or omissions, please let us know. This policy applies to our opinions and comments as well as to historical articles. We will never disseminate as true information we know to be false, under the guise of "opinion" or as the attributed claims of others. See our Fairness and Accuracy Policy
These pages were created to explain Zionism and anti-Zionism, and to support the elementary proposition that the Jewish people have the same right to self-determination as the Czechs, Poles, Greeks, Americans, British, French, Armenians, Turks, Jordanians, Lebanese and any other group that chooses to develop its own national culture.
The Zionism pages are intended for use by citizens who want to know about Zionist ideas and history and the controversy surrounding Zionism, and by supporters of Zionism who want to know how to explain Zionism to others.
The major political propositions we defend in the Zionism pages are that the Jewish people have the right to a national home in Israel, that Israel has the right to exist, and that Jewish nationalism is as legitimate as the nationalist movement of any other people. These pages do not belong to any particular Zionist ideological stream. In these pages, we do not take any position about political issues within the Zionist movement, or favor any particular definition of Zionism or Zionist program over any other, as long as it is not a definition or program that excludes or delegitimizes others.
Every people has the right to live in freedom and develop its own culture, language and society. Jews are people like any other people. The Jewish people is a people like any other. The Jewish people, like all others, have the right to self-determination in their national home, where they can speak our own language and develop their own culture. Those are the basic ideas of Zionism.
These elementary propositions are grounded in common sense, decency, fair play and accepted concepts of human rights. They are under attack by an unholy coalition of medieval religious fanatic Jews, assimilationist Jews, Marxist ideologues, Islamists, Arab nationalist extremists, right-wing racists and anti-Semites.
To state the obvious, Jews are as good or as bad as anyone else. Anyone who believes differently is a racist.
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Sister sites http://zionism.netfirms.com Zionism Pages and Zionism On the Web
Wikipedia article about Zionism
- A comprehensive article including the history of Zionism as well as links to specific topics and articles about anti-Zionism.Zionism - Table of contents at the Jewish Virtual Library
Zionism - Definition and Brief History - A balanced article that covers the definitions and history of Zionism as well as opposition to Zionism and criticisms by Arabs, Jewish anti-Zionists.
Labor Zionism - Early History and Critique - Contribution of Labor Zionism to the creation of the Jewish state, and problems of Labor Zionism in a changing reality.
The US Library of congress has a comprehensive and balanced set of articles about Zionism:
Zionist Precursors - US Library of Congress
Political Zionism - US Library of Congress
Cultural Zionism - US Library of Congress
Labor Zionism - US Library of Congress
Revisionist Zionism - US Library of Congress
Jewish Agency Zionism pages - Links to basic information about Zionism from the Jewish Agency
Ambassador Herzog explains Zionism in the UN
Advocacy
Active Zionism - A Zionist advocacy site with many useful links
Realistic Religious Zionism - moderate religious Zionist Web site
ZioNation - Zionism-Israel Web Log Israel News Israel: like this, as if Christian Zionism Albert Einstein Bible Palestine Nakba 1948 Israel Independence - Birth of a Nation Six Day War War of Independence History of Zionism Zionism FAQ Zionism Israel Center Maps of Israel Jew Zionism and its Impact Israel Christian Zionism Site Map