The Fathers of zionism never wanted a State of Israel. It's a construct, a bad interpretation

There are two things that comes to mind with this Balfour letter to Rothschild. It is written as if a father wrote to his teenage son to behave himself while being permitted something and the second is that the son really did not read the letter or did not get the message and acted as if ignoring it. If there is one thing neo-zionists did not do as soon as they got the OK from Balfour it was to show respect for the people who lived in Palestine at the time. Balfour who was a notorious anti-semite couldn’t careless in fact. The goal was to get rid of the Jews and used them in Palestine with the ensuing results we still have today.

So goes all sorts of disdain for ‘the other. Not only were the Palestinians treated as second-class citizens, the zionists had a profound contempt towards the people living in the area and with the help of the British asserted their presence like bad landlords evicting all the tenants in a building to take over the place for their own pleasure. As if the zionists owned the land. On top of that the zionists used the people who live there as cheap labour for their own advancement. Such a wonderful reading of the torah which is the same reading that is going on right now. It all started with Herbert Kitchener (who was a field marshall for the British army) had already established in 1874 the map that is still the one used today.

Yes after WWII many Jews knew they were unwanted in Europe and North America. Early in the XXth century it was suggested they go make their 'homeland' in Uganda, of all places! As if once again they could arrive in Uganda and not facing the same problem they created for themselves in Palestine! Of course most Jews in the world just fit into the fabric of the society they happen to live in whether in New York, London or Toronto. In Israel things are not made of a monolithic block. In fact people are fighting each other all the time, bickering about this and that. The Knesset is a perfect mirror of that. Within the ranks of the different Jewish people living in Israel there are factions and there are those who see themselves as superior to others Jews, let alone all others that are not Jews...

When we look at who was authorized to be considered as Jew and who could not from the early days on it was quite arbitrary and as such much questionable, not much better than say being a member of a golf course based on whatever known or unknown criteria. There were those idealists wanting to create a new kind of society with the kibbutz and those with big capital wanting to transform the space into an ideal capatalistic society. (How I stopped being a Jew, by Shlomo Sand, 2014)

The Arab world surrounding this enclave was not in any way helping the locals, the people living in Palestine at the time of this massive arrival of foreigners. In fact one could argue the the Arab world was quite complicit with the British at the time; specialists among others of colonization throughout the world.

The only way out of this situation is the dismantling of the State of Israel which should have never existed in the first place. If Jews want to live in what is known as Palestine they have to do it on equal terms with their neighbours like it's done anywhere else in the world (Hannah Arendt, 1946). The territory should be administered internationally during a transition period of perhaps decades, during which time terms and conditions of existence in Palestine are being implemented on the basis of equality of all the people who live on the land like anywhere else. No more walls, no more restrictions on travel, job opportunities, housing, etc. Anything else is doomed.

In his recent book, Daniel Boyarin (as Jew as you get) I am, needless to say by now, not only an anti-Zionist, opposed to the Jewish state or the state of the Jews, but opposed to all nation-states, that is, to states that are founded on the principle that they belong to one nation and that one nation belongs to a certain territory. That is why arguments that take the form “Well, everyone else has one, so if you’re against the Jews having a nation-state, you’re an anti-Semite” carry no water as far as I am concerned: I am against all nation-states. The tight association between the nation and the state is a relatively new and modern concept that makes it — perhaps — more dislodgeable than we imagine. (...) what is it that makes them Zionists at all? It is their commitment to an autonomous Jewish region within Palestine, not a state, and certainly not a state that covers or claims all of Palestine. I am not supporting even that vision, but I think seeing this point helps create a wedge between the nationalism I do espouse and the notion that nationalism must or certainly ought to implicate statist control of a particular territory. I do not here intend a defense of Zionism in any form; what I am trying to show is that even classical Zionism did not envision astate dominated by one ethnos, the Jews, nor certainly the ethnic cleansing that is being enacted right now, as I write.— The No-State Solution, Daniel Boyarin 2023 158p

As Jerusalem historian Dmitry Shumsky has demonstrated compellingly in his eyeopening recent book, Beyond the Nation-State (2018), neither Asher Ginzberg (Ahad Ha’am) nor even Theodor Herzl [or Leon Pinsker for that matter] had even dreamt of a Jewish state in the modern sense, opting instead, each in his separate fashion, for a Jewish autonomous region, with perhaps the vast majority of Jews in the world remaining outside that area, a sort of Gaeltacht, if you will. (Quoted by Daniel Boyarin)

That is to say not only what is going on in Palestine right now is a crime but it is also fabricated on totally false pretenses.

The myth of Palestine being a land without people has its correlate in the famous myth of the people without a land, the subject of Chapter 2. Were the Jews indeed the original inhabitants of Palestine who deserved to be supported in every way possible in their “return” to their “homeland”? The myth insists that the Jews who arrived in 1882 were the descendants of the Jews expelled by the Romans around 70 CE. The counterargument questions this genealogical connection. Quite a hefty scholarly effort has shown that the Jews of Roman Palestine remained on the land and were first converted to Christianity and then to Islam. Who these Jews were is still an open question—maybe the Khazars who converted to Judaism in the ninth century; or maybe the mixture of races across a millennium precludes any answer to such a question. More importantly, I argue in this chapter that in the pre-Zionist period the connection between the Jewish communities in the world and Palestine was religious and spiritual, not political. Associating the return of the Jews with statehood, before the emergence of Zionism, was a Christian project until the sixteenth century, and thereafter a specifically Protestant one (in particular an Anglican one) — Ilan Pappe in his preface to Ten Myths About Israel, 2017.