Today's Zionism is on a mad dash toward a messianic colonialist project

It's too bad the Palestinians don't appreciate the difference between being fatally shot by a left-wing Zionist soldier and by a right-wing settler soldier. The left must talk about 1948, and not just by acknowledging the expulsion and dispossession

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Today's Zionism is on a mad dash toward a messianic colonialist project

It's too bad the Palestinians don't appreciate the difference between being fatally shot by a left-wing Zionist soldier and by a right-wing settler soldier. The left must talk about 1948, and not just by acknowledging the expulsion and dispossession

Hanin Majadli

12:43 AM • March 27 2026 IST

In a Facebook post that went viral, Prof. Haim Weiss published a kind of defense of the Zionist left – himself included – against the critique of the anti-Zionist left. He thereby created a tempest in a teapot among the left on social media.

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