Propaganda works: Canadian Jews are overwhelmingly Zionist, but many don't want to admit it ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Propaganda works: Canadian Jews are overwhelmingly Zionist, but many don't want to admit it

A new poll of Canadian Jews by a group of left-wing Jewish organizations finds something curious and seemingly contradictory.

It showed that a huge majority of Canadian Jews - 94% - believe that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state.

That's pretty much the definition of Zionism.

But only 51% of them considered themselves Zionists. 27% said they did not consider themselves Zionist and the rest were not sure.

So 94% of Canadian Jews are Zionist - but nearly half of them don't admit it even to themselves.

I don't have the raw results of the poll, but the article indicates that older and more religious Jews are more likely to say they have an emotional connection to Israel so it is likely that most of the people who are Zionist but claim not to be are younger and more liberal.

The most likely reason is that anti-Zionist propaganda among the Left has been so effective that the word "Zionist" is now associated with evil, completely outside of its actual meaning. Repetition - the most effective form of brainwashing - mean that even people who support Israel as the Jewish state don't want to be associated with that term.

We need to take back the word "Zionist" from the haters. We need Jews to be proud to be Zionist. We need to show the world that, invariably, anti-Zionists are just antisemites in new clothing.