Expression Quote by Yitzhak Shamir

The word 'Zionist' has become toxic. To some it means believing in Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. To others it represents…

— Layla Moran

“Zionism began as a European national movement but turned into a colonialist one once its leaders decided to implement their vision of national revival…

— Ilan Pappé

A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world,…

— Mahmoud Abbas

“Zionism is to the Jewish people what the liberation movements of Africa and Asia have been to their own people….”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“We spoke often of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, who argued that the future of the Jewish people depended on the…

— Shimon Peres

Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference…

— Lee Whitnum

“As Joseph Roth once wrote, “If there is one nation that is justified in seeing the ‘national question’ as essential to its survival, then…

— Roger Cohen

I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly…

— Judith Butler

“In Arab nations, many people opposed Zionism because they believed that the UN had no right to establish a Jewish state on what they…

— Phyllis Goldstein

As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to…

— Amira Hass

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

— Roseanne Barr

“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a…

— Christopher Hitchens