Sometimes bright and well-intentioned people make monumental errors, with Communism being a recent example. It is becoming increasingly obvious to many that Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel (as it currently functions), as with Communism, is-was yet another “ism” which lured many bright and wonderful people into a gigantic fallacy. Jews, Israelis, and their sympathetic supporters in the US and all over the world are right in the sense that there are many people in the world that hold ‘antisemitic’ views. But 1) just because among people critical of Zionism one can find many falling for antisemitic fallacies, it does not alter the possibility that Zionism and the Israeli state as it currently functions may be a monumental error. And 2) killing people and having wars over intellectual errors and misunderstandings leading to antisemitism as happened with Hitler and countless wars between Zionists and neighbors is still a bad idea. We are looking to educate and cooperate to provide concrete solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on sound free market principles. Antisemitism and resulting Zionism, as well as Socialism-Communism are all intellectual errors to be overcome with sympathy, reason, and logic, not naive vilification. Whether a fellow homo sapiens grows up to become a member of Hamas or the Israeli Defense Forces just comes down to the complex ideas and circumstances that mold his mind. As the great economist Ludwig von Mises writes:

“It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.”

There is ultimately no one to “blame” for the immensely complex history and factors that are the root of our Jew-Gentile misunderstandings and emerging chaos. Mises again:

“Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers seeking out the guilty should we face the past. We seek truth, not guilt; we want to know how things came about to understand them, not to issue condemnations.”