This recent piece on Zionism and the IHRA definition in the Guardian seems me to be completely undermined by the failure of the author to get one key fact about Zionism. The proposal to have two state solution in Israel/Palestine is an inherently Zionist idea since it includes the concept of a Jewish national state. The arguments then move to the very difficult issue of where the borders should be. Certainly, I think that among Labour supporters this is by far the most common form of Zionism.
Peter Beinart (the Guardian author) seems to assume that Zionism automatically means being hostile to a Palestinian state, a false assumption that to my mind undermines his whole argument.
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