Survey: Canadian Jews are overwhelmingly Zionist - but many avoid that term. Only 1% are anti-Zionist. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, December 19, 2025

Survey: Canadian Jews are overwhelmingly Zionist - but many avoid that term. Only 1% are anti-Zionist.

Sociologist Robert Brym published in November 2024 that 94 per cent of Canadian Jews said they support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, but barely half said they called themselves Zionists.

Anti-Zionist groups, particularly Independent Jewish Voices, seized on the second statistic as proof that many Jews agree with them.

Brym therefore did a followup study to ask the "non-Zionists" why they don't use the term "Zionist."

As can be expected, the reason is because the word itself has become toxic and they don't want to be associated with it, thanks to years of anti-Zionist propaganda. "The follow-up finds evidence that refusal to label oneself a Zionist is largely due to the increasingly negative connotation of the word Zionism—what linguists call 'semantic drift.' "

But that doesn't mean they aren't Zionists in effect. 88% of the "non-Zionists" say that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state, which is pretty much the definition of Zionism.

Perhaps the most important finding was the answer to the question of whether they consider themselves anti-Zionist. Of all the Jews, only 1% identified that way; among those who refused to be labeled Zionist, only 4% identified as anti-Zionists.

This proves yet again that Jewish anti-Zionists are truly fringe.

Yet they receive essentially equivalent coverage as the Zionist Jewish supermajority, especially when news media cover anti-Israel protests, making them appear mainstream.

Jews aren't becoming anti-Israel. They are becoming more frightened of calling themselves pro-Israel.