I can understand the defensiveness, but eventually you will have to step back and look at the bigger picture.

I agree, saying Zionism is antisemitic, aka, anti-Jewish, would be like saying Al Qaeda is anti-Islamist.

The real problem is the blowback it generates.

Humanity has gone from mostly tribal cultures to nation states of millions and now billions of people in what is the evolutionary eye blink of 3000 years.

Tribal cultures naturally operate organically, simply because they are small enough for the networking to be on a level where people are connected. If not, schisms form and they branch out in different directions.

Though the "Go forth and multiply" has reached the edge of the global petri dish, requiring ever more complex and institutionalized social structures, like government and banking, as well as ever more refined diplomatic skills, in dealing with other groups/tribes, nations.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Gods of power, love, nature, fertility, wars, etc.

In this state of mental evolution, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically the group/tribe as god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion. The chieftain.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, where there were more tools in the mental toolbox and they had to be integrated.

The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal.

Which was why the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus had such resonance across the Greek world. As metaphor for the coming of spring, after the cold stone gods of winter.

Though by the time Constantine co-opted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify and so it was the monotheism that served to validate the Empire, rule from above, while the origins and implications of the pantheistic elements were shrouded in the Trinity, with the Holy Ghost replacing the inconvenient element of the earth mother.

Making the Catholic Church the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, basically culture and civics, morality and law.

Creating a void where might has become right. Which totally breaks down those social bonds on which humanity depends. It becomes all about money and power. Where one's status is not a function of what one adds, like a tribal culture, but what one can extract. Which is necrotic and only sustainable as long as economic growth compounds.

The logical flaw with monotheism, as in the Catholic "all-knowing absolute," is that ideals/metaphors, are not absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

So for Judaism, the ideal is the tribe, for Catholicism it is authority, for Islam, it is law, for Protestantism it is community.

While that Jewish focus on the tribe, with the trials and tribulations of that late Bronze, Iron Age tribe, being bounced between the various Empires of the age, as the core totem, was very powerful in sustaining a sense of community during the Diaspora, trying to use it as the basis of reconstituting a modern nation is not without its pitfalls. 2000 years of too many shamans and no chieftains seems to have created a diplomacy deficiency. Cultural autism.

Now I realize your emotional attachments are probably creating an intellectual whiteout by this point, so I'm only making this argument because after the dust settles, Israel s going to find itself in a bit of a pickle and rather than retreating ever further into that cultural vortex, it might be wise to step back and try making sense of the larger reality.

Nodes and networks.