‘Peoplehood’ As Jewish Organizing Principle

By Charney V. Bromberg: Beginning a discussion

... Much has been written about "Post Zionism." It is essential to recognize that, over the past 60 years, the Zionist movement has accomplished what became its primary goal – the creation of a Jewish state; and today, Israel’s existence is not threatened militarily so much as it is by its own political choices. Moreover, Zionism’s secondary purpose – of bringing Diaspora Jewry to Israel – has pretty much run its course, providing a refuge for those who need it, but having failed to convince roughly half the global Jewish population ... that Jewish fulfillment is in Israel and in Israel alone.

But I do not believe that Zionism needs to be retired so much as it needs to be transformed. ...