Yeah, I have actually heard about the ‘humanitarian’ faction that had existed prior to the establishment of the colonial state of Israel. They have advocated for either Zionist settlers living along side the Palestinian native population, or they believed in a peaceful method in getting the Palestinian people to leave their land. However, Theodor Herzl, the self-proclaimed father of Zionism, famously spoke out against the said ‘humanitarian faction’. For example, an essay written by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, disciple of Herzl, called “Iron Wall” has this excerpt:
"It is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for convertin Palestine from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. (...) This is equally true of the Arabs. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling prairies. (...) Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has th slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs of Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of Palestine into the Land of Israel."
Basically saying that no one is ever willingly displaced from their home, especially not an entire population of a people.
https://tikvahfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jabotinsky-Iron-Wall.pdf if you want the source.
Looking back on the ‘humanitarian’ Zionists from a modern perspective, its safe to say that it probably wasn’t much more than wishful thinking, or, may I be so bold to say, perhaps a way to justify ethnic cleansing. It’s clear that you couldn’t establish “Israel”, a Jewish majority state that is mostly comprised of European settlers, without, well, not being humanitarian.
Considering how heavily the IDF relies on internet nerds to fall for their thirst traps, there’s a high possibility that this isn’t even a joke. Either way, someone needs to keep an eye on the prof, that’s for sure
Just checking out the introduction of the Jewish prophets article, I can tell it’s gonna be a good read, and I’ll definitely look more into it. I knew that “Israel” didn’t see anti-colonial and anti-Zionist Jews too fondly before, especially after seeing the video of cops brutalizing Orthodox Jews demonstrating against the genocide. However, I didn’t know about too much of the details, so this will definitely help with that.
A small correction I’d like to make in your statement, however, is that there isn’t such a thing as a “humanitarian Zionist”, since it calls for the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their native land. Which, now that I think about it, I should probably write the definition of Zionism in the rules. Both because Zionists tend to bemoan about how it’s supposedly just an insult (it is in a sense but it’s much more than that), and Anti-Zionists might sometimes get confused on what it means.
