Nearly six decades after Israel occupied the West Bank in the aftermath of the , the territory is witnessing its largest civilian displacement since that war. According to reporting by Fatima AbdulKarim and Patrick Kingsley (Feb. 17, 2025), roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes following a weeks-long Israeli military operation across northern West Bank cities including Jenin, Tulkarem, and areas near Tubas. For Palestinians, this is not just a military episode. It is a historical echo. A Displacement Measured in Generations Many of those now displaced are descendants of refugees uprooted during the 1948 war — the event Palestinians call the Nakba . Entire neighborhoods known as “refugee camps” were originally built to house families expelled or forced to flee during Israel’s creation. Now, history is repeating itself. Residents describe soldiers using loudspeakers to order evacuations. Families left carrying whatever they could hold — bags, blankets, documents, c...
If you ever wanted to witness how confusion, opportunism, theology, nationalism, and bigotry collide in real time — you didn’t need a medieval church council. You only needed to tune into a meeting of the . There, amid political loyalists and pop-culture appointees, a spectacle unfolded: Zionism was denounced, antisemitic conspiracies were flirted with, and centuries-old theological errors were recycled as if they were fresh revelations. But the deeper issue is not one controversial appointee. The deeper issue is this: What precisely is Zionism? And how does it intersect — or collide — with antisemitism? Because in today’s discourse, the two are either falsely merged or lazily separated without thought. Let us disentangle them carefully. 1. What Is Zionism — Precisely? Zionism , in its original and political form, is a 19th-century nationalist movement. It emerged in Europe not from theology, but from crisis. The father of modern political Zionism, , was not respon...