{"id":245057,"date":"2016-05-21T18:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-widening-cracks-in-zionism\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T18:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:29:43","slug":"the-widening-cracks-in-zionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-widening-cracks-in-zionism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Widening Cracks in Zionism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zionism has imposed an ideological orthodoxy that seeks to lock Jews \u2013 and Western politicians \u2013 into unquestioning support for whatever Israel does, but more people are beginning to break ranks, observers Lawrence Davidson.<\/p>\n

By Lawrence Davidson<\/p>\n

Ideological movements, be they religious or secular, are demanding and Procrustean movements. By ideological movements I mean those that demand of their adherents resolute belief in some \u201cdeep set of truths\u201d posited by a deity, by supposed immutable historical laws, or by some other equally unchallengeable source. Their followers, once initiated, or even just born into the fold, are expected to stay there and, as the saying goes, \u201ckeep the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, in cultural, political and religious terms, there are no eternal deep truths. History has an abrasive quality that erodes our beliefs in this god and that law. Though the process might take a longer or shorter time to manifest itself, yesterday\u2019s faith will at some point start to ring less true. At some point followers start to fall away.<\/p>\n

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