Great column by Juan. And this comment has some good points about the hypocrisies of French secularism. But a clarification is in order: being Zionist does not mean one is Islamophobic. Many of us are not. I write about the dangers of Islamophobia. For me Zionism is defense of the basic right of the Jewish people to a sovereign state with a Jewish identity in a portion of historic Palestine. That is the strict definition of political Zionism. The fact that some have distorted it beyond recognition doesn't mean that all Zionists should be lumped in with them. Plenty of us are very critical of the Israeli Occupation and defensive of the rights of Muslims. And that includes plenty of people in France.
Great column by Juan. And this comment has some good points about the hypocrisies of French secularism. But a clarification is in order: being Zionist does not mean one is Islamophobic. Many of us are not. I write about the dangers of Islamophobia. For me Zionism is defense of the basic right of the Jewish people to a sovereign state with a Jewish identity in a portion of historic Palestine. That is the strict definition of political Zionism. The fact that some have distorted it beyond recognition doesn't mean that all Zionists should be lumped in with them. Plenty of us are very critical of the Israeli Occupation and defensive of the rights of Muslims. And that includes plenty of people in France.